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Comment: Consumerism’s Forgotten Man [PDF]
, 1972 This comment will analyze the Home Solicitation Sales Act in terms of the special needs of the low income consumer and will suggest an additional statutory approach to protect consumers of lower economic ...
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Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
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Tracking the Evolution of the Companionate Marriage Ideal in Early Modern Comedies [PDF]
, 2018 This thesis examines the socially constructed ideal of companionate marriage in Elizabethan and Jacobean England through four dramas by Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton. It probes the question of
Pierce, Madison L
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Pursuing the American Dream: Homeownership and the Role of Federal Housing Policy [PDF]
, 2002 Homeownership has always been a strong component of housing and housing policy in the United States. Owning a home is considered an important social and economic indicator, as well as a symbol of having a stake in society and contributing to the ...
Michael Collins
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Through a comparison of adolescent experience in Manggarai, eastern Indonesia, and amongst children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia, this article argues for the value of attending to the spatiality of adolescence as a period of transition. Biocultural development expands both adolescents’ concrete experiences of mobility and their sense of the ...
Catherine Allerton
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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"Wild birds are our gold": What livelihood implications does it hold for local communities in Chemba district, Tanzania? [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Makupa E +3 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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The determinants of smallholder farmers inclusion / Exclusion in modern agro-food supply chains : A case of the tomato sub-sector in Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces in South Africa [PDF]
, 2008 This paper discusses the effects of markets restructuring on small-scale farmers in South Africa by analysing the determinants of small-scale farmers¿ market choices in the tomato sector in two Provinces.
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