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Socioeconomic drivers of wild meat consumption in the city of Iquitos, Peru
Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 5, October 2025.Abstract Wild meat represents a vital source of micro‐ and macronutrients for forest‐dwelling people; however, city dwellers with access to animal protein from different animals may also consume large amounts of wild meat as part of their customs and traditions, to diversify their diets, to maintain connections to their rural kin, and to access meat ...
Fiorella Briceño Huerta +3 more
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the sociohistorical construction of civilian unpreparedness as a public policy issue in Los Angeles, arguing that it emerged not as a neutral response to escalating urban risks, but as a mechanism through which actors negotiated power dynamics amid urban transformations between 1940 and 1980.
Piero Tellerías Melgarejo
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 339-352, June 2025.Abstract In this article I evoke key elements of my Italian grandmother's life—her knitwear workshop, her practice as a tailor, and her sensorial engagements with bodies and dress—and interweave them with reflections from my fieldwork in Milan, Italy.
Cristina Moretti
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Construyendo rehabilitación comunitaria en grandes ciudades
Revista Chilena de Terapia Ocupacional, 2003 Este documento muestra el desarrollo dentro de las políticas de salud pública para la ciudad de Bogotá de la estrategia de rehabilitación comunitaria, entendida esta como el conjunto de acciones o intervenciones que buscan el desarrollo social de las personas con discapacidad y su reconocimiento como ciudadanos; a través de la oportuna entrega de ...
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT This article analyzes the different expressions of authenticity, fidelity, and genuineness surrounding the Mexican culinary scene in New York. On the one hand, self‐identified Mexicans express sensory and memory nostalgia during the production and consumption of foods they recognize as their own.
Axel G. Elías Jiménez
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Local lobbying in single‐party authoritarian systems: Do institutions matter?
Review of Policy Research, Volume 41, Issue 6, Page 921-940, November 2024.Abstract Lobbying, and its role in the policy process, has been extensively studied in democratic states, but much less is known about similar practices in authoritarian political systems. Although a few studies have identified lobbying in China, most have focused on big businesses and national policy making, and some have argued that it is unaffected ...
Hua Wang, Jane Duckett
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Potholes, 311 reports, and a theory of heterogeneous resident demand for city services
Policy Studies Journal, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 647-669, August 2024.Abstract Understanding the needs of residents is vital in public administration and management, as this helps officials when making choices on policies and service distribution. Increasingly, cities rely on 311 systems to elicit information from residents on emergent needs in particular policy areas (e.g., road quality, pest control).
Scott J. Cook +2 more
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Internal Colonialism as Socio‐Ecological Fix: The Case of New Clark City in the Philippines
Antipode, Volume 56, Issue 4, Page 1233-1263, July 2024.Abstract We study the emergence of New Clark City, Philippines, which is part of the country's development programme “Build‐Build‐Build”. Triangulating data from field observations, interviews, and documents, we analyse the social, economic, and ecological consequences of this “city of the future”. The city enables capital to be fixed into space, which
Lauren Crabb +2 more
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Peace &Change, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 223-241, July 2024.Abstract Analyzing how transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms address the role of economic and political elites in contexts of widespread violence is crucial for understanding their possible transformative impact. The type of challenges faced by TJ instruments when trying to deal with economic elites involved in human rights violations also reflects the ...
Rosario Figari Layús
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Evaluating ecosystem protection and fragmentation of the world's major mountain regions
Conservation Biology, Volume 38, Issue 3, June 2024.Abstract Conserving mountains is important for protecting biodiversity because they have high beta diversity and endemicity, facilitate species movement, and provide numerous ecosystem benefits for people. Mountains are often thought to have lower levels of human modification and contain more protected area than surrounding lowlands.
David M. Theobald +5 more
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