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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring patient and provider perspectives on outpatient care and the family practice model at a university hospital in Ghana. [PDF]

PLoS One
Diji AK, Ayisi-Boateng NK, Asare H, Antwi G, Opoku DA, Oduro EKN, Konadu E, Abruquah NA, Oppong-Kyekyeku E, Addae M, Mfum-Mensah E, Baku AA.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley   +1 more source

Obesity Awareness and Sensitization in Schools for Improving Weight Control and Reducing Obesity Stigma in Students: A Pilot Study. [PDF]

Cureus
Saxena I, Kumar M, Shukla A, Aishwarya R, Arvind A, Sen A, Kannoujia BL.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

The association between bullying victimization and suicidal ideation among students in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Bezie AE, Yohannes L, Yirdaw AA, Sergindo MT, Begena BB, Keleb A.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Political vs. expert: the impact of influencer type on vaccination willingness. [PDF]

Front Public Health
He J, Hu J, Li Y, Luo Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Negative Nickname

The ASHA Leader, 2016
openaire   +2 more sources

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source