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SUBSTITUTING FOR THE STATE: The Sovereignty Impacts of Diverse Citizens’ Off‐grid Infrastructure Strategies in South Africa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In South Africa, citizens in both low‐ and high‐income areas are increasingly providing their own services to mitigate the unreliability, unaffordability and inaccessibility of state services. This article examines diverse case studies across socio‐economic and residential typologies to explore shifts in service provision responsibilities from
Fiona Anciano, Charlotte Lemanski, Christina Culwick Fatti, Margot Rubin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Applying a participatory system dynamics approach to childhood overweight and obesity in the local context: reflections from the LIKE project. [PDF]

Health Res Policy Syst
Luna Pinzon A, Stronks K, Verhoeff A, Vaandrager D, den Hertog K, Waterlander W.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

THE ‘OTHERS’ OF TENT CITIES: Reconstruction of Social Order Through Emotions

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Following the earthquakes in Türkiye on 6 February 2023, survivors continued their daily lives in tent cities, which emerged as a new heterotopic space where the boundaries between public and private spheres became intertwined. The transition from one's own ‘castle’ to a communal living space filled with uncertainties has heightened the ...
Handan Akyigit, Sinem Yildirimalp, Hatice Turut, Fatma Zehra Tocoglu, Buşra Yigit   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Community strengthening through citizen monitoring of water quality: A systematic review". [PDF]

PLoS One
Dominguez-Rendón E, Villada-Canela M, Muñoz-Pizza DM.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

SCORING HIGH, PAYING UP, GATING IN: Middle‐class Formation and Asset Inequalities under Digital Capitalism in South Africa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how modern class dynamics become intertwined with automated classifications and data‐driven regimes of value creation under digital capitalism by demonstrating how housing markets shape asset inequalities and middle‐class formation in South Africa.
Julien Migozzi
wiley   +1 more source

Essential public health functions for primary health care resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean: a regional assessment. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Am
Houghton N, Báscolo E, Jarboe R, Fitzgerald J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

REPRESENTING POLLUTION AT THE AGRARIAN–URBAN FRONTIER: Participatory Documentary Film‐Making in Bar Elias, Lebanon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender, Hanna Baumann, Joana Dabaj   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

'Making little ethical decisions all the time': examining an ethical framework for consumer and community involvement in research, a co-produced ethnographic study. [PDF]

BMC Med Ethics
Cox R, Molineux M, Kendall M, Miller E, Tanner B.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

HOUSING QUESTION OLD AND NEW: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In a context of unprecedented urbanization, nineteenth‐century European cities faced the ‘housing question’, i.e. precarious housing standards and affordability problems. While existing research has well described these historical housing problems in single‐city studies or in national urbanization histories, to our knowledge, there are hardly ...
Sebastian Kohl, Florian Müller, Ria Wilken   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patient and public involvement and engagement to improve impact on antimicrobial resistance. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Scott-Dearing E, Carter V, Corley M, Mathew P, Darzi A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source