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Navigating health system constraints and risks for childbirth care in rural Guinea: the role of women’s agency

open access: yesCritical Public Health
Women with reproductive desires and needs face various health system constraints in the Global South. Certain biomedical practices, such as C-section, are also perceived by women as risky.
Bienvenu Salim Camara   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

RIGHT TO THE CAMPSITE: How Dutch Caravan Dwellers Continue their Struggle for Inclusion

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past decade, a growing housing and urban studies literature has engaged with the Lefebvrian concept of the ‘right to the city’. Central to this are rights, laws and grassroots demands. Emerging literature has also focused on the practical side of the right to the city as a set of actions to undo exclusion and dispossession.
Dominic Teodorescu
wiley   +1 more source

STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
wiley   +1 more source

Skoleledernes dilemma – skolevegring i møte med fellesskolen. Et bakkebyråkratiperspektiv på skolefravær i ungdomsskolen

open access: yesNorsk Sosiologisk Tidsskrift
I denne artikkelen undersøker vi hvordan skoleledere i ungdomsskolen forstår og håndterer skolefravær. Basert på teorien om bakkebyråkrati indikerer vår analyse at fraværet først fortolkes av skolelederne som et individuelt problem hos eleven, og som ...
Anne Hege Strand, Marianne Svarstad
doaj   +1 more source

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