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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

Lonely, harassed and abandoned in society: the lived experiences of Iranian homeless youth. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Psychol, 2022
Johari F   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

LGBT Homeless Youth in Boston MA: Experiences Regarding Resources and Potential Barriers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
LGBT youth are at an escalated risk of leaving home, mental health concerns, victimization, substance abuse, and risky sexual behavior. However, research shows a lack of LGBT-specific resources. This raises concern as LGBT youth comprise 20 to 40 percent
Connery, Brittney
core   +1 more source

THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Investments in large‐scale climate infrastructures are central to emerging forms of climate urbanism. In Jakarta, flood protection infrastructures seek to protect the city from devastating flood events in anticipation of future catastrophes.
Sophie Webber, Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
wiley   +1 more source

Post-housing first outcomes amongst a cohort of formerly homeless youth in Aotearoa New Zealand. [PDF]

open access: yesJ R Soc N Z, 2023
Fraser B   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A critical discourse analysis of past and present policy representations of youth homelessness in Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Despite the heightened policy attention youth homelessness has received over recent decades, it remains an ongoing critical issue within Australia. Previous research suggests that the way policies represent a problem can influence how the problem is ...
Kuskoff, Ella
core  

STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Commoning requires repair. Where capitalist logics of accumulation, enclosure and exclusion produce abandoned space through the city, urban commoners remake that space to serve the needs of inhabitants. Without hiding the paradoxes and risks of repair, based on years‐long ethnography in the Liberated Spaces in Naples, Italy, we demonstrate how
Martina Locorotondo, Adam Fishwick
wiley   +1 more source

Preventing, Reducing and Ending LGBTQ2S Youth Homelessness: The Need for Targeted Strategies

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2016
Gender non-conforming and sexual minority youth are overrepresented in the homeless youth population and are frequently discriminated against in shelters and youth serving organizations.
Alex Abramovich
doaj   +1 more source

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