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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
doaj  

How Violence Shapes Place: The Rise of Neo‐Authoritarianism in the Global Value Chain and the Emergence of an ‘Infernal Place’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
wiley   +1 more source

Apartheid Baltimore Style: The Residential Segregation Ordinances of 1910-1913 [PDF]

, 1983
On May 15, 1911, Baltimore Mayor J. Barry Mahool signed into law an ordinance for “preserving the peace, preventing conflict and ill feeling between the white and colored races in Baltimore City.” This ordinance provided for the use of separate blocks by
Power, Garrett
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Social‐Symbolic Work of Engaging Heterogeneous Communities: Participation Work and Entangled Effects on Organizations and Communities

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Community participation is recognized as a crucial yet problematic element for addressing many issues in social development. Generating participation, however, is particularly challenging due to existing inequalities within heterogeneous communities, making it difficult for organizations to engage marginalized groups while letting go of their ...
Trish Ruebottom, Suhaib Riaz, Israr Qureshi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shelter Development Through Cooperatives: A Strategy for Poverty Alleviation and Slum Improvement for Asia and the Pacific Region [PDF]

, 2002
The research traces the flow of humanity from the urban areas to the cities thus creating severe economic and social problems in the cities thus leading to homelessness; lack of sanitation; health hazards; crimes; vandalism; drugs; children wandering ...
M. L. Khurana
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Diet, Fruit and Vegetable Intake, and Nutritional Status in Fiji: A Scoping Review

Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasing fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake is essential for transitioning toward healthier, more sustainable diets. To design effective intervention programmes to promote F&V intake, it is crucial to understand intake levels and dietary patterns across different demographic groups as well as populations' nutritional status.
Fusta Azupogo, Sonja Y. Hess, Anasaini Moala Silatolu, Deanna K. Olney   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rationalization of corruption allows individuals to detach from moral imperatives, enabling them to perceive unethical or unlawful actions as acceptable or justifiable. Closely linked to the concept of moral disengagement, rationalization involves cognitive distortions that frame inhumane or immoral behavior as neither wrong nor ...
Caio César Coelho Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

Informal Housing, Inadequate Property Rights: Understanding the Needs of India's Informal Housing Dwellers [PDF]

, 2016
In India, as in many other developing countries, urban population growth and the shortage of planned affordable housing have led to 26–37 million households (33–47 percent of the urban population) living in informal housing (slums and unauthorised ...
Ashish Karamchandani, Subhash Chennuri, Vikram Jain   +2 more
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How Do Ideas Get in the Way of Policy Change? A Comparative Study of Homelessness Policy in Toronto and Montréal, Canada

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While structural factors such as the allocation of resources and responsibilities have traditionally been seen as the key determinants of policy change and stability, the ideas of the people responsible for managing these resources can be just as consequential, especially in value‐laden policy areas such as combating homelessness.
Nienke Boesveldt
wiley   +1 more source

Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
wiley   +1 more source