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, 2016 Despite the rise of the ‘cinematic city’ as an acknowledged paradigm in film and urban studies, ‘cinematic slums’ have remained severely under-researched, even though near to one billion people – almost one third of the global urban population – call slums their home. Accordingly, the author asks how this hard and unyielding way of
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
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Poverty in Indian cities during the reforms era [PDF]
This paper seeks to understand temporal changes in poverty and well-being in Indian cities during the era of economic reforms. The evidence on improvements in well being is mixed.
Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, S. Chandrasekhar
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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Financial inclusion and expenditure patterns: Insights from slum households in Bangladesh
Cogent Economics & FinanceVulnerable households often tend to decrease their human capital expenditures, like education and training, to maintain food and non-food (clothing and housing) expenditures when any income shock occurs.
MD Abdul Bari +4 more
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NOCTURNAL INFORMALITY: Rethinking the Temporal Politics of Urban Informality
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban informality has long been theorized as a spatial condition of urban life—an expression of negotiation, improvisation, and survival within the uneven terrains of legality and governance. Yet this emphasis on space has obscured the temporalities through which informality is lived, governed, and contested. This essay develops the concept of
Elmond Bandauko
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Study Of Menstrual Pattern and Menstrual Hygiene Practices Among Adolescent Girls
National Journal of Community Medicine, 2016 Background: Menstrual hygiene and management will directly contribute to MDG-2 and MDG-3. This study was conducted to know the awareness about menstruation before menarche and the source of information; to compare menstrual pattern and menstrual hygiene
Hemlata G Rokade, Anjali P Kumavat
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GOVERNING INFORMALITY: Eviction, Recognition, and Legal Ambiguity in Kampung Akuarium, Jakarta
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Informal settlements in Jakarta have long been governed through cycles of tolerance, eviction, and selective recognition. Rather than resulting from the absence of planning, informality is often produced through spatial regulations, legal ambiguity, and political intervention.
EKA PERMANASARI +2 more
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Exposing the inequalities faced by Mumbai’s ‘informal’ residents
Urban Transcripts, 2020 Throughout the world, public health measures of maintaining proper hygiene, physical distancing and self-isolation have been implemented to contain the corona virus.
Sima Bhattarai
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From Slum Tourism to Slum Tourists
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2015 Slum tourism is a growing topic in international tourism scholarship. Mainstream scholarship in slum tourism is dominated by research which investigates urban slums as destinations for international travellers mainly from the global North. Minimal acknowledgement is given to the role of these areas as potential source regions for tourism.
Christian M. Rogerson +1 more
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