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From Theatre to Transformation: Learning, Action, and Diffusion for SDG2 in Cambodia
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The arts are envisioned as able to help address the longstanding ‘implementation gap’ between research and realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For SDG2 (Zero Hunger), Forum Theatre offers a participatory alternative to top‐down interventions, yet its impacts have not been evaluated using rigorous, mixed‐methods that are ...
Brian R. Cook +6 more
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Book Review: Understanding Families over Time: Research and Policy
Anthropology & Aging, 2019 This book comprises a series of essays reviewing family relationships in the UK. The focus is on how parents, grandparents, and children connect. The essays address the ways in which external factors, such as economics and politics, affect these ...
Richard Zimmer
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British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract Existing circular economy (CE) research has primarily explored capabilities for the principle of closing resource loops (recycle and recover) in limited institutional contexts. However, little is known about the capabilities for the principle of slowing resource loops (reduce and reuse), despite its alignment towards achieving net zero ...
Savu Rovanto, Yuan Virtanen
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The 2024 UK general election saw candidates make frequent rhetorical references to parents and grandparents. But what are the political functions and implications of such references? Drawing together recent research in political psychology and sociology, this article interprets such references as attempts to articulate ‘vicarious identities ...
Joseph Haigh
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Family histories and the demography of grandparenthood
Demographic Research, 2018 Background: Grandparenthood is an important phase of life for many individuals, and the grandparent role has consequences on younger generations and grandparents themselves.
Bruno Arpino, Jordi Gumà, Albert Julià
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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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Abuelas, abuelos y padres varones en el cuidado de la infancia [PDF]
, 2014 During the last years, fathers have become more involved on childcare in Spain. The aim of this article is to know whether this increasing involvement of the fathers replaces the care provided by the grandparents or, on the contrary, there is a ...
Meil, Gerardo, Rogero-García, Jesús
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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Mind the gap: grandparents raising grandchildren [PDF]
The population of grandparents raising their grandchildren is rising. These families face unique pressures, such as finding appropriate and affordable housing. In Boston, one housing community meets their needs.
Kristin Kanders
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'Descended from immigrants and revolutionists': how family immigration history shapes representation in Congress [PDF]
, 2019 Does recent immigrant lineage influence the legislative behavior of members of Congress on immigration policy? We examine the relationship between the immigrant background of legislators (i.e., their generational distance from immigration) and ...
Feigenbaum, James +2 more
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