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Local resource mobilization for malaria vector control among Rwandan rice farmers: a pilot study into the role of community ownership

open access: yesJournal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2023
Background Evidence suggests a vicious cycle between rice cultivation and malaria control in Rwanda. Rice fields offer an attractive breeding ground for malaria vectors, which increases the disease burden in rice farming communities, and, consequently ...
Alexis Rulisa   +3 more
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Structural Embeddedness in Transnational Social Fields: Personal Networks, International (Im)Mobilities, and the Migratory Capital Paradox

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2021
In this article we focus on individuals’ structural embeddedness in transnational social fields (TSFs) and examine how this is related to patterns of international mobility.
Renáta Hosnedlová   +3 more
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Negotiating Organizational Access as a Multifaceted Process: Comparative Research Experiences With Three Advocacy NGOs in Kenya

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021
Although research with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) has become an established practice, the process and politics of gaining access to such organizations often remains implicit in methodological literature on qualitative research.
Tara Saharan   +2 more
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Travelling models of participation: Global ideas and local translations of water management in Namibia

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2016
In recent decades, water management in Namibia has profoundly changed. Beginning in the 1990s the Namibian state has incrementally turned ownership of and the responsibility for its rural water supply to local user groups.
Michael Schnegg, Theresa Linke
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Prostitution and Deservingness in Times of Pandemic: State (Non) Protection of Sex Workers in Spain

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2022
During the COVID-19 health crisis, the Spanish Government launched a series of urgent measures to protect the population from its economic effects. At first, it seemed that sex workers would have access to this protection, given that, technically, their ...
Estefanía Acién González   +1 more
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Beadwork and the Plasticity of Disability: (Un)Making Bodily Difference, Gender and Apprenticeship in Kinshasa, DR Congo

open access: yesSocieties, 2016
Plastic beads have recently become of importance in the lives of women with disabilities in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo).
Jori De Coster   +2 more
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"Ontological Choreography" as an Ethnographic Tool

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2015
In this article the term "ontological choreography", coined by Charis Thompson, is used as a heuristic analytical device to grasp the different realities of reproductive technologies.
Willemijn de Jong   +3 more
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Cross-cutting Ties and Coexistence: Intermarriage, Land Rentals and Changing Land Use Patterns among Maasai and Kikuyu of Maiella and Enoosupukia, Lake Naivasha Basin, Kenya

open access: yesRural Landscapes: Society Environment History, 2015
This paper explores the value of cross-cutting ties and conflicting loyalties for the peaceful management of conflicts and the emergence of collective action across previously violently contested community boundaries in two communities in the Lake ...
Eric Mutisya Kioko, Michael Bollig
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The Politics of Breathing Troubles in COVID-19: Pandemic Inequalities and the Right to Breathe across India and Germany

open access: yesMedicine Anthropology Theory, 2022
‘Breathing trouble’ refers both to a biopolitical process and a metaphor for the current global condition. This Position Piece draws inspiration from the ‘universal right to breathe’ frame suggested by Joseph-Achille Mbembe (2021a) to discuss pandemic ...
Nasima Selim
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