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Haunted Care: Engaging Health Hauntology to Understand Health Citizenship in Evolving Welfare States

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies a hauntological framework to explore how health citizenship in the UK is shaped by the spectral presence of neoliberal policies, particularly through increased use of Public‐Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
Anna Horton
wiley   +1 more source

Researching Rupture: Engaged and Ethical Research on Extreme Nature–Society Disruption

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Global escalation in social and environmental disruption raises crucial methodological and ethical questions for researchers working in impacted communities. Interpretive social science and humanities research can make visible the experiences of those living through socio‐ecological “rupture”.
Sango Mahanty   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic Adaptation Through Ethnic Business: Chinese Migrant Ethnoburb Formation in Nishi‐Kawaguchi, Japan

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how Nishi‐Kawaguchi Chinatown, a Chinese ethnic enclave in suburban Tokyo, functions as a ‘socioeconomic emergency elevator’ for Chinese migrants. The enclave serves a dual purpose: offering refuge from social exclusion and facilitating upward socioeconomic mobility.
Hiroya Takamatsu
wiley   +1 more source

Circular Carescapes in South Korea: The Migration–Care–Policy Circuit Developed During Urbanisation and Globalisation

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how outsourcing household care in modern South Korea has shaped gendered migration from both rural areas and abroad. To clarify the interplay between macro‐level power and individual lives—an aspect often treated piecemeal in earlier research—it introduces the concept of circular carescapes. This notion captures the looping
Junyoung Park, HaeRan Shin
wiley   +1 more source

The Covid‐19 Pandemic and Pre‐Existing Migration Infrastructures: Differentiated Impacts on Nepali Migrants in Japan

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic disproportionately affected international migrants worldwide. However, not all international migrants were uniformly impacted. While much of the literature has focused on the pandemic's effects on migrants relative to citizens, the impacts faced by different groups of migrants remain less understood.
Ramesh Sunam   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intensifying translocal precarity: The impact of COVID‐19 on smallholder farmers' commodity production and social reproduction in Cambodia

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Our paper argues that COVID‐19 deepened the translocal precarity of smallholder households, who already had to struggle with volatile commodity production and uncertain labour migration. Through the lens of translocal precarity, it reveals how the pandemic played out within a broader conjuncture of agrarian transformation, defined by ...
Rosa Yi, W. Nathan Green
wiley   +1 more source

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