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“Everything Is Just Done Away With Now”: Contentious Practices of Scalar Brokerage Motivated by Narratives of Welfare Nostalgia in Postcolonial Rotterdam

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT According to anthropological theories of brokerage, brokers build bridges, close gaps, make connections, and construct shared norms. In this article, I argue that such structural‐functionalist approaches to brokerage do not prove adequate in addressing unsettled and unsettling scale‐making practices of refugee‐led support initiatives in ...
Lieke van der Veer
wiley   +1 more source

Outsmarting sanctions

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
wiley   +1 more source

Triple crisis among refugee youth resettled in high-income countries

open access: bronze
Nhial T. Tutlam   +3 more
openalex   +2 more sources

“A Place Where Freedom Means Something”: James Baldwin's Global Maroon Geographies

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite his vocal support for the Algerian revolution, Palestinian liberation, and the South African anti‐apartheid struggle, James Baldwin has continued to be regarded as a thinker whose work predominantly revolved around themes of civil rights, cross‐racial dialogue, and integration.
Ida Danewid
wiley   +1 more source

Paediatric Primary Care Across Europe: A Survey of 42 Countries

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim This study provides an updated overview of primary care for children and adolescents across Europe, investigating how systems are evolving and identifying progress and persistent gaps in healthcare models, workforce challenges and digital health integration.
Nora Karara   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crisis, adaptation and recovery: A phase‐based exploration of Austrian non‐profit organizations during COVID‐19

open access: yesAnnals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic has severely impacted the external environment of social service non‐profit organizations (NPOs), resulting in diverse management challenges. Our study investigates how social service NPOs in Austria experienced these challenges and how they developed internal coping mechanisms.
Birgit Grüb‐Martin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Mobility Politics of Hong Kong's High‐Speed Rail

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human geography scholarship has revealed how powerful and marginalised actors alike may use (im)mobility to exert authority, and it has recognised the ability of infrastructure to either consolidate or undermine state power. This paper uses new evidence to demonstrate how Hong Kong's express rail link (XRL) to Mainland China was implicated in ...
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto
wiley   +1 more source

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