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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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Long-term impacts of tropical storms and earthquakes on human population growth in Haiti and the Dominican Republic [PDF]
, 2011 Since the 18th century, Haiti and the Dominican Republic have experienced similar natural forces, including earthquakes and tropical storms. These countries are two of the most prone of all Latin American and Caribbean countries to natural hazards events,
Christian D. Klose, Christian Webersik
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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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Translating Caribbean thresholds of pain from without: Hispaniola out of bounds, Hispaniola unbound?
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2019 This paper focuses on The Farming of Bones, a fictitious testimonio in which Haitian author Edwidge Danticat relates the 1937 genocide perpetrated against Haitians along the River Massacre in Hispaniola and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a ...
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert
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Global Inequality of Opportunity in Education Decreased During the 20th Century
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We document changes in global inequality of opportunity in education for women and men born between 1941 and 1983, using individual‐level census and survey data on 46.7 million individuals from 95 countries, representing all major regions of the world.
Michael Grätz +2 more
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Novitates CaribaeaAn aerial census of the American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) was conducted during February 20–27, 2024, in Haiti. Nineteen wetland sites were surveyed by fixed-wing aircraft over 4 days.
Joel Timyan +2 more
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Nuevo registro de localidad para Osteopilus vastus (Anura: Hylidae) en la República Dominicana
Novitates Caribaea, 2012 Se registra una nueva localidad para la rana arborícola gigante de La Hispaniola Osteopilus vastus (Cope, 1871) en Baní, provincia Peravia, República Dominicana.
Cristian Marte Pimentel
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Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This empirical study examines the impact of green finance on economic growth and renewable energy in a group of 76 developing nations in 2010–2019. Results from a cointegration analysis, vector error correction model, and Granger causality test confirm a cointegrating relationship between green finance, renewable energy, economic growth, and ...
Xuan‐Hoa Nghiem +2 more
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Ciencia y Sociedad, 2004 El presente trabajo resume y actualiza el conocimiento de la biodiversidad de los equinodermos recientes de la Isla Hispaniola, ofreciendo una lista con 154 especies, divididas en 23 especiees de crinoidea, 33 de asteroidea, 30 de ophiuroidea, 51 de ...
Alejandro Herrera Moreno +1 more
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