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‘Grabbing Our Land Deprives Us of Our Future’: Struggles Against State‐Led Land Dispossession, Demands for Justice and Citizenship in Dakar's Urban Outskirts

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
wiley   +1 more source

Lactase persistence genotypes and malaria susceptibility in Fulani of Mali

Malaria Journal, 2011
Background Fulani are a widely spread African ethnic group characterized by lower susceptibility to Plasmodium falciparum, clinical malaria morbidity and higher rate of lactase persistence compared to sympatric tribes.
Dolo Amagana, Troye-Blomberg Marita, Maiga Bakary, Israelsson Elisabeth, Järvelä Irma, Lokki A, Doumbo Ogobara K, Meri Seppo, Holmberg Ville   +8 more
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Between Dispossession and Inclusion: Land Injustice and Project‐Based Citizenship in the Bagré Irrigation Scheme (Burkina Faso)

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large‐scale irrigation schemes are central to agrarian transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa, yet their political implications are often reduced to questions of land redistribution or agrarian differentiation. Although existing scholarship has documented how irrigation restructures agrarian relations and generates dispossession, less attention ...
William's Daré
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Differences in Fcgamma receptor IIa genotypes and IgG subclass pattern of anti-malarial antibodies between sympatric ethnic groups in Mali

Malaria Journal, 2008
Background The Ig Fc receptor family is an important link between the humoral and cellular immune systems. The association of a dimorphism in amino acid 131 (R/H) of the FcγRIIa with malaria severity, the R-allele being associated with a milder disease ...
Dolo Amagana, Iriemenam Nnaemeka C, Lysén Anna, Maiga Bakary, Vafa Manijeh, Israelsson Elisabeth, Doumbo Ogobara K, Troye-Blomberg Marita, Berzins Klavs   +8 more
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Tending to the Particular: Navigating Tensions Around Principles of Alternativity Through an Ethics of Care

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Alternative organizations must continuously address conflicts that emerge regarding diverging prioritizations and interpretations of autonomy, solidarity, and responsibility. We explore how tensions around alternative moral principles can be navigated through relational processes that attune to others' needs, emotions, and concerns.
Jonas Friedrich, Christina Lüthy
wiley   +1 more source

Educational Attainment and Early Marriage Practice: A Study of Hausa/Fulani Settlers in Southwest, Nigeria

Educational Process: International Journal
Background/purpose. The study explores how educational attainment among migrant communities in Lagos and Oyo states shapes perceptions and practices of early marriage.
Omolola Silva Asagba , Moses Metumara Duruji , Felix C. Chidozie, Goddy Uwa Osimen   +3 more
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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
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War, Gender, and Family Dynamics: A Couple Analysis

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract A growing demographic literature outlines how war exposure has long‐lasting and far‐reaching impacts on individuals. Yet the nascent literature leaves questions of whether and how the war exposures of key relatives, such as spouses, affect individuals.
Yingyi Lin, Emily Smith‐Greenaway
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Changes in the levels of cytokines, chemokines and malaria-specific antibodies in response to Plasmodium falciparum infection in children living in sympatry in Mali

Malaria Journal, 2012
Background The Fulani are known to be less susceptible to Plasmodium falciparum malaria as reflected by lower parasitaemia and fewer clinical symptoms than other sympatric ethnic groups.
Boström Stéphanie, Giusti Pablo, Arama Charles, Persson Jan-Olov, Dara Victor, Traore Boubacar, Dolo Amagana, Doumbo Ogobara, Troye-Blomberg Marita   +8 more
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
wiley   +1 more source