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Gendered Attitudes or Structural Barriers? Men Front Line Workers' Perspectives on What Keeps Men out of Paid Care Work in Australia

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender segregation in paid care work offers a critical lens for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in contemporary societies. While much research has explained men's absence from paid care through cultural and identity‐based accounts, less has been done to examine the structural mechanisms that sustain the feminisation of care ...
Steven Roberts   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Producing Fraud at the Welfare‐Migration Nexus: Migrant Families and Children's Social Care

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the production of ‘fraud’ at the interface between welfare and migration regimes. Taking the welfare micropublic of children's social care in the UK as a case study, we focus on encounters between migrant families subject to the ‘no recourse to public funds’ immigration condition and London local authorities.
Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen
wiley   +1 more source

Ecoparadigm

open access: yesAnd, 2021
Nell'emergenza sociale, climatica ed ecologica che il mondo sta affrontando, è fondamentale sostenere una ristrutturazione profonda del modo in cui si propone la ricerca e l’insegnamento delle discipline del progetto.
Anna Codemo   +3 more
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

open access: yesAsia 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
wiley   +1 more source

Ecologization Is Not a Metaphor: Museums in the Web of Life

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents and critiques emerging accounts of museum “ecologization”. Drawing on political ecology, materialist theory, and contemporary museum practice, we challenge dominant frameworks of ecological modernization and advocate for a more critical understanding of museums in the web of life.
Colin Sterling   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collaboration between the Public and Private Sectors for Urban Development

open access: yes, 2010
Chapter 9 in Ooi, G.L and Yuen, B., Eds., (2010), World Cities: Achieving Liveability and Vibrancy, World Scientific, Singapore. pp. 173-192.
PHANG, Sock-Yong
core   +1 more source

The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research report 22: liveability in NDC areas: findings from six case studies

open access: yes, 2004
New Deal for Communities (NDC) is a key programme in the Government's strategy to tackle multiple deprivation by giving some of the poorest communities in the UK the resources to tackle their problems in an intensive and co-ordinated way.
Shaw, Keith
core  

Liveability in Western Sydney: Comparative Analysis of 14 Liveability Indicators for Local Government Areas in the WestInvest Program and the Greater Sydney Region

open access: yes, 2022
In September 2021, the NSW Government announced the $5 billion WestInvest Program, designed to fund transformational infrastructure projects that support community amenity and liveability.
Perrone, Lisa (R20696)   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Between Steel and Skin: Corporeal Colonization of Women Workers and Gendered Organizations in Heavy Industry

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “I felt as if my body was being occupied by the factory.” The words of one woman working in Turkey's heavy industry were repeated in many accounts, capturing how industrial infrastructures calibrated to male norms press directly into women's bodies.
Esra Kasap   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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