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Gender in the Climate-Conflict Nexus: “Forgotten” Variables, Alternative Securities, and Hidden Power Dimensions

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2021
The literature on the security implications of climate change, and in particular on potential climate-conflict linkages, is burgeoning. Up until now, gender considerations have only played a marginal role in this research area.
Tobias Ide   +3 more
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Increasing the Diversity of the Teacher Workforce: Socio-Political Challenges to Reducing Inequalities in Access to Teacher Education Programs

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2021
Cross-border migration leads to a diversification of societies, which is reflected in the education system, where classrooms are composed of students with heterogeneous cultural, linguistic, socio-economic characteristics. However, this diversity is only
Ineke M. Pit-ten Cate   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Schooled for Servitude: The Education of African Children in British Colonies, 1910–1990

open access: yesGenealogy, 2019
Our paper examines the education of African children in countries that were colonized by Britain, including Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. We show how education plays an important role in shaping and transforming cultures and societies.
Mark Malisa, Thelma Quardey Missedja
doaj   +1 more source

The Application of Human Capital Theory and Educational Signalling Theory to Explain Parental Influences on the Chinese Population’s Social Mobility Opportunities

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
Existing studies argue life chances are, in part, vertically reproduced. Such a statement is applicable to the Chinese contexts as, but not limited to, parental hukou status, to some extent, determines the life chances their children receive.
Jason Hung, Mark Ramsden
doaj   +1 more source

Land reform, accumulation and social reproduction: The South African experience in global and historical perspective

open access: yesInkanyiso, 2019
The reality of capitalist economy, its inherent dynamics and contradictions, must be understood as central to policy debates about land reform in South Africa today. Progressive land reform should strive to promote ‘accumulation’ from below’, through the
Ben Cousins
doaj   +1 more source

Dinámica de casa y reproducción social en la hidalguía gallega durante el siglo XVIII

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie IV, Historia Moderna, 2004
Durante el siglo XVIII, el estamento nobiliario gallego —y dentro de éste, principalmente la hidalguía— ha alcanzado el cénit de su capacidad para controlar una parte considerable de los resortes políticos y económicos del antiguo reino de Galicia; y de ...
Antonio Presedo Garazo
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
According to Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction, children from middle class families are advantaged in gaining educational credentials due to their possession of cultural capital.
Sullivan, Alice
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Herança e gênero entre agricultores familiares Inheritance and Gender Identity Among Brazilian Farming Families

open access: yesRevista Estudos Feministas, 2001
Entender as lógicas de transmissão do patrimônio familiar, particularmente no caso da terra, levando-se conta as diferenças de gênero, exige identificar os distintos papéis reservados ao homem e à mulher na dinâmica de reprodução social. A compreensão de
MARIA JOSÉ CARNEIRO
doaj   +1 more source

“My Family’s Weight on My Shoulders”: Experiences of Jewish Immigrant Women from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Toronto

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2019
In dominant western society, we tend to interpret the experiences of immigrant women as emancipation and liberation, rather than as the complex experiences of subjects acting within several hegemonic systems.
Marina Morgenshtern
doaj   +1 more source

Generational Inversions: \u27Working\u27 for Social Reproduction amid HIV in Swaziland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
How do people envision social reproduction when regular modes of generational succession and continuity are disrupted in the context of HIV/AIDS? How and where can scholars identify local ideas for restoring intergenerational practices of obligation and ...
Golomski, Casey
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