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How Does Work Shape Informal Cities? The Critical Design of Cities and Housing in Brazilian Slums
, 2016 This essay is conceived as a reaction to the past conference Shaping Cities of the Urban Age at the 2016 Venice Biennale, Reporting from the Front.
Chagas Cavalcanti, A.R. (author)
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Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
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What do brokers provide for urban slums?
Rapid urbanisation in developing countries has often resulted in slums with minimal public goods provision, where the poor rely on clientelist networks to provide for their basic needs.
Shami, Mahvish
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how media usage trends of Roma people intersect with urban peripherality and structural inequalities. The study designed as a two‐stage comparative ethnographic field study and conducted in 2016 and 2025 on a Roma community living in Izmir Province of Türkiye, focuses on the ongoing deprivations of the Roma population in ...
Mehmet Işık, Şakir Eşitti
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Challenges to Achieving Surgical Equity in Slums
International Journal of Public HealthThere is a critical lack of surgical data on individuals who live in urban slums, which hampers the allocation of healthcare resources and the provision of preventative measures.
Rahul M. Jindal +3 more
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study presents the history of poverty research in Hungary from the socialism of the 1960s to the post of regime‐change period, up to 2010. The decline of social research during the socialist period had a significant impact on the development of poverty research.
Ibolya Czibere
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BMJ OpenObjective The study examines the geographic accessibility of Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care (CEmONC) among women residing in the slums of Dakar.Design The study is a cross-sectional geographic analysis of caesarean care utilisation in health ...
Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi +9 more
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Journal of Internal Medicine, EarlyView.Abstract Dengue is the most rapidly expanding mosquito‐borne viral disease worldwide. The worst year on record was 2024, with over 100 countries reporting 14.4 million cases and over 11,000 deaths. Since then, and up to August 2026, another 7.4 million cases and over 5000 deaths have been reported.
Jan C. Semenza
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Diet, Fruit and Vegetable Intake, and Nutritional Status in Fiji: A Scoping Review
Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increasing fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake is essential for transitioning toward healthier, more sustainable diets. To design effective intervention programmes to promote F&V intake, it is crucial to understand intake levels and dietary patterns across different demographic groups as well as populations' nutritional status.
Fusta Azupogo +3 more
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Indian Journal of Community MedicineBackground: The NFHS-5 found that 35.5% (Urban areas-30%) of children under five years were stunted and 32.1% were overweight (1). ICDS being a centrally sponsored scheme, is functioning nationwide in tribal, rural and urban slums; with a potential to ...
Mayuri Raul
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