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Thinking urban informality through southern theory
, 2020 This article investigates urban informality via the lens of southern theory and sets out a postcolonial conceptual framework for researching and theorizing the urban.
Palat Narayanan, Nipesh
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Place‐based initiatives (PBIs) aim to address complex and intersecting forms of disadvantage shaped by health, social care, employment and geographical inequities. While PBIs offer integrated and community‐centred responses, limited evidence makes it difficult to understand the policy conditions that support their development and ...
Kanchan Marcus, Carmen Huckel Schneider
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Sustainability: Science, Practice, & PolicyE-waste management in the Global South relies heavily on the informal sector. The associated workforce, vast in number, faces exposure to harmful substances and often represents society’s most vulnerable segments.
Nicolás Labra Cataldo +2 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Algorithmic platforms are reshaping how people work and how human activity is rendered intelligible within data‐intensive systems. This paper argues that Heidegger's philosophy of technology, specifically Ge‐stell (enframing) and Poiesis (bringing‐forth), offers information science a conceptual vocabulary for understanding both algorithmic ...
Fred Fonseca
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WorldBy 2050, it is estimated that approximately 200 million people will be displaced due to the impacts of climate change. Vulnerability to climate change is shaped not only by environmental factors but fundamentally by systemic power relations and ...
Susana Herrero Olarte +1 more
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L’informalité comme une ressource urbaine ? Le cas des favelas de Rio de Janeiro
EchoGéo, 2017 This article analyzes the role played by urban informality in the process of the configuration and access to urban resources. In the case of the favelas of Rio, informality may allow access to special areas of the city, which is not possible through the ...
Rafael Soares Gonçalves
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DIVERSITY OF ETHNICITY AND STATE INVOLVEMENT ON URBAN INFORMALITY IN BEIRUT [PDF]
Urban informality has become the dominant feature of urban growth on Beirut City and its periphery. Beirut context, as the rest of Lebanese cities, sheds light on a new era of controversy on urban informality.
Ahmed M. SOLIMAN
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Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.Abstract Energy scarcity remains a persistent challenge in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), where limited access to reliable, affordable, and clean energy constrains socioeconomic development. Biomass resources, including agricultural residues, forest waste, and waste from other biological sources, are widely available, but their use for modern energy ...
Joseph O. Dirisu +2 more
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Living in the Intra-Urban Confines of Lima: A Precariousness of Geopolitical Origin
Revista INVI, 2021 Confines, defined as spaces of blurry boundaries and powers interpenetration, are most traditionally studied in geopolitics contexts at the national level.
Alexis Sierra, Victor Gheno
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