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Anthropological Engagements with Global Health

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2022
Epidemic infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, Ebola, and more recently COVID-19, have persistent and devastating impacts in human populations across the globe.
Priscilla Medeiros, Allyson Oliphant, Steven Farrow, Priyanka Gill   +3 more
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Toward a Broader View of Health in the Anthropocene: The COVID-19 Syndemic and the Clash of Cosmographies in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2023
The continual expansion of developmental frontiers has impacted dramatically upon Indigenous health in Brazil. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in Mato Grosso do Sul, its Indigenous populations were already living in circumstances of environmental ...
Raquel Dias-Scopel, Daniel Scopel, Esther Jean Langdon   +2 more
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Violence against female sex workers in Karnataka state, south India: impact on health, and reductions in violence following an intervention program. [PDF]

, 2010
: BACKGROUND: Violence against female sex workers (FSWs) can impede HIV prevention efforts and contravenes their human rights. We developed a multi-layered violence intervention targeting policy makers, secondary stakeholders (police, lawyers, media ...
Isac Shajy, Moses Stephen, John Anthony, Wheeler, T, Blanchard, James F, Tisha Wheeler, Bhattacharjee, Parinita, Gurnani Vandana, Ramakrishnan Aparajita, Beattie, Tara SH, Janet Bradley, Gurnani, V, Ramesh BM, HL Mohan, James F Blanchard, Ramesh, BM, Anthony, J, Vandana Gurnani, Bhattacharjee, P, Stephen Moses, Bhattacharjee Parinita, Blanchard James F, Isac, S, Isac, Shajy, Mohan, HL, Bradley, Janet, Ramakrishnan, Aparajita, Gurnani, Vandana, Aparajita Ramakrishnan, BM Ramesh, Bradley Janet, Mohan, H, Tara SH Beattie, Moses, S, Ramesh, B, Wheeler, Tisha, Wheeler Tisha, Beattie, TSh, Shajy Isac, Ramakrishnan, A, Anthony, John, Beattie Tara SH, Bradley, J, Anthony John, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Blanchard, JF, Moses, Stephen, Mohan HL   +47 more
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The transformative potential of gender justice in the land restitution programme in Colombia

Deusto Journal of Human Rights, 2017
This paper studies the existence of elements of gender justice in the ongoing land restitution process in Colombia, in order to analyse the potential of the Land Restitution Programme to contribute to the elimination of structural violence against women ...
Anne Kathrin von Au
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Welcome to Canada: Why Are Family Emergency Shelters ‘Home’ for Recent Newcomers?

Societies, 2020
Although Canada is recognized internationally as a leader in immigration policy, supports are not responsive to the traumatic experiences of many newcomers. Many mothers and children arriving in Canada are at elevated risk of homelessness.
Katrina Milaney, Rosaele Tremblay, Sean Bristowe, Kaylee Ramage   +3 more
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The Role of Psychopathy and Exposure to Violence in Rape Myth Acceptance [PDF]

, 2014
The main aim of the present study was to specify and test a structural model to examine the relationships between four psychopathy dimensions (Interpersonal Manipulation, Callous Affect, Erratic Lifestyle and Antisocial Behaviour), childhood exposure to ...
Dhingra, Katie, Meller-Prunska, Aleksandra, Meller-Prunska, Alexandra, Kola, Susanna, Dhingra, K, Debowska, Agata, Boduszek, D, Debowska, A, Kola, S, Boduszek, Daniel, Meller-Prunska, A, Kola, Susanna; id_orcid   +11 more
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Disability, Climate Change, and Environmental Violence: The Politics of Invisibility and the Horizon of Hope

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2020
This article brings disability theory and activism into conversation with environmental justice, a conversation that has often been stymied by a fundamental difference in approaching disability.
Julia Watts Belser
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Peace, violence & social distance: Ethnography of an elite school in India

Cogent Education, 2023
The article attempts to understand the concept of peace through the prism of social realities. The central argument deconstructs violence and peace as a variable of social distance.
Ashmeet Kaur
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Exploring structural violence in the context of disability and poverty in Zimbabwe

African Journal of Disability, 2017
Background: While it is widely assumed that disability, poverty and health are closely linked, research falls short of fully understanding the link. One approach to analysing the links between disability and poverty is through the concept of structural ...
Jennifer T. Muderedzi, Arne H. Eide, Stine H. Braathen, Babill Stray-Pedersen   +3 more
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Violence Research from North Africa to South Asia: A Historical and Structural Overview [PDF]

, 2011
Wilke B, Hippler J, Zakria Zakar M. Violence Research from North Africa to South Asia: A Historical and Structural Overview. International Journal of Conflict and Violence.
Jochen Hippler, Zakria Zakar, Muhammad, Boris Wilke, Wilke, Boris, Hippler, Jochen, Zakar, Muhammad Zakria, Muhammad Zakria Zakar   +6 more
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