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, 2009 OBJECTIVES: The study seeks to improve understanding of maternity health seeking behaviors in resource-deprived urban settings. The objective of this paper is to identify the factors which influence the choice of place of delivery among the urban poor ...
Ziraba, Abdhallah +4 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Participation is a topic that has been widely debated in urban studies. Despite this, we argue in this paper that policies and academic work on mobility planning have paid little attention to the meanings attached to participation and its role in mobility justice.
Aline Fernandes Barata, Sue Brownill
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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Patterns of tobacco use across rural, urban, and urban-slum populations in a North Indian community
Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2010 Background: Tobacco is the leading cause of mortality globally and in India. The magnitude and the pattern of tobacco consumption are likely to be influenced by the geographical setting and with rapid urbanization in India there is a need to study this ...
Gupta Vivek, Yadav Kapil, Anand K
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Core City Slums and Vulnerability: A Theoretical and Analytical Approach [PDF]
, 2018 Cities the magnet of hope are pulling people into themselves without preparing for them this influx leads to overconcentration of people in the already blighted cities centers this creates new problems or aggravates the existing ones which makes
Oyeniyi S. O
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Foctors that prevent children from gaining access to schooling : a study of Delhi Slum households [PDF]
This paper examines the factors that prevent slum children aged 5 to 14 from gaining access to schooling in light of the worsening urban poverty and sizable increase in rural-to-urban migration.
Tsujita, Yuko
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Looking beyond the visible: contesting environmental agendas for Mumbai slums [PDF]
, 2009 This is Ch 9 from Furniss, P. and Wilson G. (eds) Environment, Development and Sustainability: Perspectives and Cases from Around the World, p86-96.Slums are the most immediate, visible symbols of poverty and environmental degra-dation intertwined in ...
Abbott, Dina
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Water is essential for human life, yet governments frequently leave vulnerable citizens to rely on informal channels for access. What can motivate governments to provide public services such as water to citizens trapped in informality?
Nikhar Gaikwad, Anjali Thomas
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Assessing texture pattern in slum across scales: an unsupervised approach [PDF]
, 2005 According to the Global Report on Human Settlements (United Nations, 2003), almost 1 billion people (32% of the world ’s population) live in squatter settlements or slums.
Sobreira, F., Barros Filho, M.
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