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No. 06: The Urban Food System of Nairobi, Kenya [PDF]
, 2017 Nairobi is a city of stark contrasts. Nearly half a million of its three million residents live in abject poverty in some of Africa’s largest slums, yet the Kenyan capital is also an international and regional hub.
Brown, Andrea +4 more
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Can we 'WaSH' infectious diseases out of slums?
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020 The world is becoming increasingly urban and most of this growth is taking place in urban slums of the developing world (Prasad et al., 2016; Turley et al., 2013). The current (2019) global population stands at 7.7 billion with approximately one billion (
Allen G P Ross +4 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how socio‐political constructions of rental markets create housing vulnerabilities for subaltern renters. Going beyond the typical focus on occupancy claims in slums, I study rent and racialization in Indian cities through the experiences of Northeastern migrant women living in Bengaluru.
Meghna Mohandas
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SPATIAL DIMENSION OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION. AN IMPERIAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE RELATIONSHIP OF HOUSING AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN THE SLUMS OF DHAKA CITY [PDF]
Slums are perceived to be heavily populated urban areas characterized by inadequate access to safe water, hygienic sanitation, urban roads, legitimate power supply, poor structural quality of housing and insecure residential status. From that perspective,
Golam MOINUDDIN, Halima BEGUM
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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Governance in the gullies : democratic responsiveness and leadership in Delhi's slums [PDF]
The authors use detailed ethnographic evidence to design and interpret a broad representative survey of 800 households in Delhi's slums, examining the processes by which residents gain access to formal government and develop their own informal modes of ...
Jha, Saumitra +2 more
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Slums from Space - 15 Years of Slum Mapping Using Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing, 2016 The body of scientific literature on slum mapping employing remote sensing methods has increased since the availability of more very-high-resolution (VHR) sensors.
M. Kuffer, K. Pfeffer, R. Sliuzas
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Discover Social Science and HealthIntroduction Poor living conditions and poverty in urban slums mean that informal health providers (IHPs) often dominate health service provision in such settings.
Benard Okechi +5 more
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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2014 BACKGROUND: cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death in the world. Over 80% of CVD related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
ladys Mugure +3 more
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