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“I am going to break this logic of fear!”: Activism and subversive care at the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 141-150, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Based on ethnographic work conducted between 2015 and 2022 at the periphery of Fortaleza, in Northeast Brazil, this article analyzes the work of community activists as a form of subversive care. Women activists, many of whom work for the local public clinics, as social workers with local NGOs, or as schoolteachers, challenge dominant ...
Luminiţa‐Anda Mandache
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Variation of non‐structural carbohydrates across the fast–slow continuum in Amazon Forest canopy trees

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 341-355, February 2022., 2022
A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article. Abstract Tropical tree species span a range of life‐history strategies within a fast–slow continuum. The position of a species within this continuum is thought to reflect a negative relationship between growth and storage, with fast‐growing species allocating ...
Caroline Signori‐Müller   +19 more
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Making Friends, Building Roads: Chinese Entrepreneurship and the Search for Reliability in Angola

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 343-354, June 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT Based on fieldwork conducted in 2013–2014 with a provincial‐level Chinese state‐owned construction firm in Luanda, this article examines how Chinese businesses attempted to expand in the aftermath of a booming period of Angolan postwar reconstruction. Chinese entrepreneurs found that business could only be done with the help of local mediators
Cheryl Mei‐ting Schmitz
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Development of the Fearless, Tearless Transition model of care for adolescents with an intellectual disability and/or autism spectrum disorder with mental health comorbidities

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 63, Issue 5, Page 560-565, May 2021., 2021
Aim First, to understand the barriers to achieving effective transition and the supports required from the perspective of parents and carers, adolescents with intellectual disability and/or autism spectrum disorder and co‐existing mental health disorders (often termed ‘dual disability’), and those who provide services to this group.
Evelyn Culnane   +9 more
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Treatment complexity and caregiver burden are linked in owners of dogs with allergic/atopic dermatitis

open access: yesVeterinary Dermatology, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 192-e50, April 2021., 2021
Background Skin disease severity and treatment plan complexity are both related to owner experience of caregiver burden; however, to date they have not been examined simultaneously in owners of dogs with atopic or other chronic allergic dermatitis. Hypotheses/Objectives We expected to replicate and extend previous work by showing that caregiver burden ...
Mary Beth Spitznagel   +3 more
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The relationship between different social expenditure schemes and poverty, inequality and economic growth

open access: yesInternational Social Security Review, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 101-123, April/June 2020., 2020
Abstract In this article, we study how social expenditure is related to poverty, income inequality and GDP growth. Our main contribution is to disentangle these relationships by the following social expenditure schemes: 1) “old age and survivors”, 2) “incapacity”, 3) “health”, 4) “family”, 5) “unemployment and active labour market policies” and 6 ...
Emile Cammeraat
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the Emotional Regime of the Vargas Era: Feminist Struggles, Catholic Reaction and Stories of Relational Rupture in Letters to President Getúlio Vargas (1930–1945)

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 477-486, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This article discusses the intense struggles over family laws and policies in the early‐twentieth century, culminating with the establishment of the Estado Novo dictatorship of 1937–1945. It then analyses letters from ordinary citizens who ask President Getúlio for help in the aftermath of separation from a spouse or consensual partner.
Sueann Caulfield
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Do public works programmes foster climate resilience? Conceptual framework and review of empirical evidence

open access: yesInternational Social Security Review, Volume 78, Issue 2-3, Page 145-171, April-September 2025.
Abstract Public works programmes (PWPs) are pervasively used to tackle poverty and unemployment, and to build infrastructure and skills in low‐ and middle‐income countries. While their impacts on poverty, food security and labour outcomes have been widely documented, there is little research focusing on the role of PWPs in supporting household climate ...
Francesco Burchi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

For an Anarchist Decolonial Agenda: New Perspectives on Anarchism, Marronage, and Indigeneity from Brazil/Pindorama

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 56, Issue 6, Page 2112-2135, November 2024.
Abstract This paper proposes new perspectives on anarchism, indigeneity, and Afro‐descendent struggles, by discussing the case of Brazilian anarchists’ commitment to luta afroindígena. They mean by this term the intersection of indigenous and Afro‐descendant resistances for the recognition of land, against the violence of states, agribusiness, and ...
Federico Ferretti
wiley   +1 more source

O Quadro de Raciocínio Clínico Bobath: Uma abordagem de ciência de sistemas para a complexidade das condições do neurodesenvolvimento, incluindo a paralisia cerebral

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 66, Issue 8, Page e102-e111, August 2024.
Esta revisão descreve um modelo de prática pediátrica recomendada do Bobath, o Quadro de Raciocínio Clínico Bobath (QRCB), e explica como esse conhecimento contribui para a área de habilitação em distúrbios pediátricos. A ciência de sistemas proporciona uma nova maneira de concetualizar a paralisia cerebral como uma condição complexa.
Margaret J. Mayston   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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