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Rising Strong: Cultivating Resilience in Edible City Entrepreneurship. Insights Into the Landscape of Urban Food Initiatives

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel, Stephanie Ligan, Alice Bischof, Edi Emilov Ivanov, Laura Martinez‐Izquierdo, Sara Noémie Plassnig, Marisa Pettit   +6 more
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Expanding the youth discourse: everyday precarity through a young South Korean woman’s autoethnography

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
This study expands the youth discourse in South Korea through an autoethnographic account. The concept of precarity is explored through multifaceted attributes such as subjective feelings, subjectification, and daily practices.
Hyeran Jeong
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Market and Nonmarket Strategies in Focus: How Entrepreneurs Tackling the Grand Challenge of Waste Management Navigate Institutional and Market Adversity in Ghana

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Waste management remains a critical grand challenge in African countries. While entrepreneurship has been a viable strategy for addressing this challenge, it is fraught with constraints. This study investigates the strategies orchestrated by entrepreneurs to navigate adversity in Waste management and ensure the social and economic viability of
Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, Abiodun Samuel Adegbile, Augustine Awuah Peprah, Bede Akorige Atarah   +3 more
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Connection men, pushers and migrant trajectories: examining the dynamics of the migration industry in Ghana and along routes into Europe and the Gulf States [PDF]

, 2019
This paper examines the inner workings and operational logic of the array of individuals, agencies, state and non-state actors, institutions and social networks that collectively make up the migration industry in Ghana.
Awumbila, Mariama, Deshingkar, Priya, Kandilige, Leander, Nikoi, Ebenezer, Teye, Joseph   +4 more
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Hyper-precarious lives : Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North [PDF]

, 2014
This paper unpacks the contested inter-connections between neoliberal work and welfare regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers.
Allamby L, Anderson B, Anderson B, Anderson B, Andrees B, Bales K, Bales K, Barbier J-C, Bigo D, Bloch A, Bloch A, Bloch A, Bosniak L, Breman J, Breman J, Burnett J, Butler J, Butler J, Castles S, Clark N, Cohen R, Community Links &, Cranford CJ, Crawley H, Doeringer P, Dorre K, Dwyer P, Düll N, Ehrenreich B, European Commission, Flynn D, Fudge J, Geddes A, Giddens A, Gordolan L, Hannerz U, Harrod J, Hodkinson S, Hondagneu-Sotelo P, Hurstfield J, ILO, Isin E, Jayaweera H, Kagan C, Keeley SJ, Lalani M, Law I, Lewis H, Lewis H, Marfleet P, Martin A, McLaughlin J, Morgan J, Morgan J, Oxfam and Kalayaan, O’Neill J, Pai HH, Parker D, Parreñas R, Rapport N, Refugee Action, Rodgers G, Sassen S, Scott S, Scullion L, Sengenberger W, Skřivánková K, Smart K, Smith P, Solidar, Standing G, Valentine R, Vosko L, Wilkinson M, Wills J   +74 more
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Supporting the Shift: Professional Development for Alternative Grading Practices

New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alternative grading (e.g., contract grading, ungrading, specifications grading) practices have emerged as a promising approach to enhance student success, improve students’ sense of belonging, and make higher education more accessible. This study explores the challenges faced by community college faculty when implementing alternative grading ...
Breana Bayraktar, J. Indigo Eriksen
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting landscapes: from coalface to quick sand? Teaching geography, earth and environmental sciences in UK higher education [PDF]

, 2016
In this paper we examine contemporary academic working lives, with particular reference to teaching-only and teaching-focused academics. We argue that intensification in the neoliberal university has significantly shifted the structure of academic ...
Angervall, Bauder, Bearman, Cashmore, Castree, Chappell, Dowling, Ellis, Gill, Hall, Hellsten, HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency), House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, Kahn, Locke, Maddrell, May, Ní Laoire, Park, Peters, Posecznick, Probert, Purcell, Rossi, Shelton, Sidaway, Sidaway, Wainwright   +27 more
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A Gateway to the Future or a Mind Trapped in Anxiety? The Transformative Power of Career Resources

The Career Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the indirect impact of employment anxiety on university students’ perceptions of decent work through the serial mediating roles of motivational and environmental career resources. Data were collected from 458 university students in Türkiye using validated scales.
Emre Emrullah Boğazlıyan, Ahmet Ayaz
wiley   +1 more source

Opposing book bans: a resilient and subversive information practice

Information Research: An International Electronic Journal
Introduction. In this paper, we discuss the concepts of censorship, resilience and information precarity. We explain the framework of information precarity and emphasise the agentic responses of marginalised communities, then show that book bans ...
Shannon M. Oltmann, Fatima Espinoza Vasquez   +1 more
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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