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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

open access: yesJournal 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

Household savings and residential mobility in informal settlements [PDF]

open access: yes
Strategies to help the one billion people worldwide who live in informal settlements have mainly focused on slum upgrading, sites and services programs, and tenure security.
Lall, Somik V.   +2 more
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Slum gentrification

open access: yes, 2018
This chapter makes a strong and very convincing case for slum gentrification. It is defined as a process of capital or material investment in poor and informal built environments, which can be associated with a new (or renewed) interest in the cultures ...
Ascensão, Eduardo
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Social‐Symbolic Work of Engaging Heterogeneous Communities: Participation Work and Entangled Effects on Organizations and Communities

open access: yesJournal 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Education Outcomes & Child’s Work: A Case Study of Children in Slum

open access: yes, 2016
This study attempts to map two of the most vital social processes among children in the contexts of Slum. The two social processes being working and Learning; without violating the legislative frameworks on child labour, children working inside the ...
Kameshwara, K., Shukla, T.
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Diet, Fruit and Vegetable Intake, and Nutritional Status in Fiji: A Scoping Review

open access: yesMaternal &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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesRegulation &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

Slum Planning Schemes

open access: yes, 2011
Public agencies and NGOs in India have been pursuing slum-improvement projects since a long time, often with remarkable success. However, though political resolve, finances and basic institutional capacity are not a constraint today, scaling-up has ...
Bimal Patel   +3 more
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Temporary Digital Enclaves: Temporary Linguistic Online Gambling Workers and a Collaborative Digital Community in the Philippines

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Urban enclave scholarship has focused on ethnic enclaves as territorial formations produced by long‐term settlements and low‐wage migrant workers. This article critiques these presumptions by examining how Taiwanese temporary migrant workers in the online gambling industry in Metro Manila, the Philippines, produce a digital enclave organized ...
Zih‐Lun Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Population Changes and Spatial Segregation Dynamics in Southern European Urban Areas: The Case of Messina

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT European countries have experienced significant transformations in their urban populations, with a resurgence of the residential segregation challenges. Yet, empirical analyses focusing on spatial dynamics within urban areas and between the main urban places, along with the changes in demographic profiles of populations, remain rare. The study
Francesca Bitonti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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