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Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
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Evaluation of Olyset insecticide-treated nets distributed seven years previously in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2004
BACKGROUND\ud \ud Insecticide-treated nets represent currently a key malaria control strategy, but low insecticide re-treatment rates remain problematic. Olyset nets are currently one of two long-lasting insecticidal nets recommended by WHO.
Lengeler, Christian, Godfrey Mubyazi, Duchon, Stéphane, Talbert, Alison, Adriana Tami, Christian Lengeler, Tami, Adriana; id_orcid, Mubyazi, Godfrey, Hassan Mshinda, Tami, Adriana, Stéphane Duchon, Mshinda, Hassan, Alison Talbert, Duchon Stéphane, Talbert Alison, Lengeler Christian, Mshinda Hassan, Tami Adriana, Mubyazi Godfrey   +18 more
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Internet use and adolescent development: A conceptual model integrating behavioral and contextual theories

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the digital era, adolescent development is deeply embedded in the cyber environment. Despite ongoing debate on the benefits and/or risks that Internet use brings to adolescents in empirical studies, conceptual and theoretical discussion on the influences of the intensity and modalities of Internet use is peripheral.
Linxiao Zhang, Lin Fang, Faye Mishna, Liangqi Shen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

NAVIGATING CLIMATE CHALLENGES: STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Health Problems of Civilization
This paper delves into six critical pathways to effectively address the climate crisis: (1) reinventing food systems, (2) preparing for population shifts, (3) upholding human rights, (4) investing in clean energy, (5) educating for a climate-conscious ...
Krzysztof Goniewicz, Amir Khorram-Manesh, Frederick Burkle   +2 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Pension Systems after the Storm: France and the United Kingdom in a Comparative Analysis [PDF]

The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012
All pension systems have been affected by the financial and economic crisis, although in different ways. This paper analyses the effects of the crisis on pension systems and the resulting responses and changes, and offers a theoretical interpretation of ...
Christine Lagoutte, Anne Reimat
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Inequalities in purchase of mosquito nets and willingness to pay for insecticide-treated nets in Nigeria: Challenges for malaria control interventions [PDF]

, 2004
Objective: To explore the equity implications of insecticide-treated nets (ITN) distribution programmes that are based on user charges. Methods: A questionnaire was used to collect information on previous purchase of untreated nets and hypothetical ...
Hanson, K, Hanson, Kara, Fox-Rushby, Julia, Fox-Rushby Julia, Fox-Rushby, J, Julia Fox-Rushby, Onwujekwe, Obinna, Kara Hanson, Hanson Kara, Onwujekwe Obinna, Obinna Onwujekwe, Onwujekwe, O   +11 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

A Cidadania e a Construção dos Espaços Públicos

Desenvolvimento em Questão, 2003
The present article approaches the citizenship under the angle of the construction of the public spaces, tendsas sociological reference the alarming given badges of the social and material inequalities of the contemporary context, identifying the main ...
Darcísio Corrêa
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