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Discounted Deaths: The Eruption of COVID-19 in the Geriatric System of the Community of Madrid. [PDF]
Med Anthropol Q, 2022 Abstract In this article, we explore a new category of analysis that we have called “discounted deaths,” with which we seek to examine forms of dying occurring outside the scope of the triple meaning of the term “to count”—i.e., deaths that did not count, deaths that were not counted, and deaths for which there was no account.
Rubio-Mengual I, Villar Baile Á.
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Caatinga diaspores: Descriptive overview of dispersal units of seasonally dry tropical forests and woodlands. [PDF]
EcologyAbstract Dispersal unit characteristics provide crucial insights into species ecology and are essential for the conservation and restoration of ecosystems. The Caatinga, the largest ecosystem of seasonally dry tropical forests and woodlands in South America, remains underrepresented in terms of dispersal unit data, which are often scattered across the ...
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Area, 2023 Desde un análisis crítico, en este artículo abordamos un corpus secundario que se refirió a la historia centenaria de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, evitando la denominación Belle époque.
Nathalie Goldwaser Yankelevich +1 more
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 30, Issue 6, Page 2130-2154, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The Buckets Revolution is a local non‐governmental organization arisen from an initiative implemented in a favela, a marginalized community in the South of Brazil, led and conducted by its women to resist their condition of intersected subordinations and address the socioenvironmental problems caused by the lack of public care.
Renata Guimarães Reynaldo +4 more
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Khalifa versus Prometheus: Green ethics and the struggle for contemporary sustainable urbanism
Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 102-114, Spring 2023., 2023 Abstract In the last decades, contemporary urbanism in the global South has meant large urban transformations, tall architecture landmarks, and fierce city competition. However, cities and their planners are now confronting an ethical dilemma: how to grow and compete while caring for the disastrous impacts on Earth and human health caused by the mass ...
Agatino Rizzo, Attilio Petruccioli
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Percepción y legitimación frente a las desigualdades socioecológicas en Chile contemporáneo
Latin American Research Review, 2020 This article analyzes the perceptions about and legitimation of inequalities in the case of Chile, focusing on the socioecological dimension. It shows the results of a four-year qualitative study carried out in five cases of territories with high levels ...
Mayarí Castillo +2 more
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EVASION: Prison Escapes and the Predicament of Incarceration in Rio de Janeiro
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 36-59, February 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article examines Brazil's project of incarceration through the figure of evasion (evasão)—the act of escaping prison custody, often temporarily. Evasion traces a path across the borders of captivity and freedom, as people routinely flee confinement, only to return of their own accord.
DAVID C. THOMPSON
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The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence
American Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 4, Page 734-750, December 2022., 2022 Abstract In the early 1990s, while I was conducting an ethnographic study in a psychosocial rehabilitation center in Barcelona for people suffering from psychosis, a patient and informant gave me four letters that he had supposedly sent to various recipients.
Ángel Martínez‐Hernáez
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A terra como arquitetura na construção de possibilidades
arq.urb, 2021 Nos últimos anos, a produção de arquitetura com terra tem crescido no Brasil, no entanto, ela é estigmatizada e perseguida pela Arquitetura do Mercado aqui denominada de Arquitetura da Polícia.
Cláudio Silveira Amaral +2 more
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Cuerpos de cobre: Extractivismo en Chuquicamata, Chile
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 200-218, June 2021., 2021 Resumen ¿Qué extraen y qué producen los extractivismos? El presente artículo intenta responder a esta pregunta analizando críticamente, la relación entre cuerpos, trabajo y mi‐nería principalmente bajo el modelo neoliberal chileno, en la mina estatal de cobre a tajo abierto más grande del planeta: Chuquicamata.
Marina Weinberg
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