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

Journal 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, Luuk van Kempen, Emmanuel Hakizimana, Constantianus J. M. Koenraadt   +3 more
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Structural Embeddedness in Transnational Social Fields: Personal Networks, International (Im)Mobilities, and the Migratory Capital Paradox

Social 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, Ignacio Fradejas‐García, Miranda J. Lubbers, José Luis Molina   +3 more
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Post-Saddam Shiism and the end of the holy geography regret syndrome in Shiism [PDF]

Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2020
Religious systems spread across geographical contexts and thus form their own historical and geographical formations. The existing understanding and analysis of Shiite formulation is mainly concentrated on its time and historical developments.
J. Rahmani
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Travelling models of participation: Global ideas and local translations of water management in Namibia

International 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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Energy and Economy: Recognizing High-Energy Modernity as a Historical Period [PDF]

, 2016
This introduction to Economic Anthropology’s special issue on “Energy and Economy” argues that we might find inspiration for a much more engaged and public anthropology in an unlikely place—19th century evolutionist thought.
Berman, Block, Bourdieu, Boyer, Boyer, Catton, Fox, Graeber, Hall, Isenhour, Isenhour, Jakob, Latour, Love, McCright, Mitchell, Murphy, Nader, Oreskes, Ortner, Prieto, Stern, Tainter, Tainter, Tsing, Tyfield, Wilhite, Wilhite, Wolf   +28 more
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Beadwork and the Plasticity of Disability: (Un)Making Bodily Difference, Gender and Apprenticeship in Kinshasa, DR Congo

Societies, 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, Eric Metho Nkayilu, Patrick Devlieger   +2 more
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Negotiating Organizational Access as a Multifaceted Process: Comparative Research Experiences With Three Advocacy NGOs in Kenya

International 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, Maaike Matelski, Emmanuel Kumi   +2 more
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Immanent Anthropology: A Comparative Study of 'Process' in Contemporary France [PDF]

, 2014
This paper presents a comparative critique of the ‘processual temporalities’ which infuse both social-scientific theorizing and selected Western cultural practices.
Adam, Agamben, Agamben, Agamben, Anderson, Arendt, Arendt, Arendt, Asad, Barnes, Beistegui, Berger, Blackwell, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Braudel, Braun, Certeau, Davidson, Deleuze, Deleuze, Deleuze, Fabian, Fabre, Feenberg, Feenberg, Foucault, Foucault, Gell, Giddens, Grimanelli, Grimanelli, Gupta, Gurvitch, Hardt, Heidegger, Helmreich, Henare, Hodges, Hodges, Hodges, Hodges, Husserl, Jameson, Jameson, Koltunow, Koselleck, Landecker, Landecker, Latour, Le Goff, Leblanc, Lyman, Merleau-Ponty, Morson, Munn, Nora, Osborne, Passerin d'Entrèves, Pickering, Pickering, Rescher, Richards, Rose, Schutz, Serres, Smith, Thompson, Turetzky, Turner, Viveiros de Castro, White, Whitehead, Wolf   +74 more
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"Ontological Choreography" as an Ethnographic Tool

Swiss 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 , Nolwenn Bühler, Yv E. Nay, Kathrin Zehnder   +3 more
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Prostitution and Deservingness in Times of Pandemic: State (Non) Protection of Sex Workers in Spain

Social 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, Ángeles Arjona Garrido   +1 more
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