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The policy adjacent: How affordable housing generates policy feedback among neighboring residents
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract While scholars have documented feedback effects among a policy's direct winners and losers, less is known about whether such effects can occur among the indirectly affected—“the policy adjacent.” Using 458 geocoded housing developments built between two nearly identical statewide ballot propositions funding affordable housing in California, we
Michael Hankinson +2 more
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Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Community Ethics Advisory Board (CEAB) on the Thailand–Burma border as a locally led ethics advisory mechanism that complements formal and institutionalised ethics systems within and beyond the region. CEAB was created to enable community members to provide guidance on research proposals and activities in their areas,
Naw May Lyar Soe +3 more
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
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Cervical Cancer Screening Among Homeless Women of New York City Shelters. [PDF]
Matern Child Health J, 2016 Asgary R +6 more
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of sustained demographic contraction across the Asia‐Pacific, the developmental state (DS) paradigm, long premised on growth, faces profound challenges. While existing research on shrinking regions focuses on urban planning, little attention has been paid to how the state restructures its spatial power under contraction ...
Li Mingfeng
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