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Latin American Research ReviewHow do mothers deal with chronic violence and the constant presence of guns in their neighborhoods? How do they build situated meaning and discursive practices out of their experiences and relationships with armed actors?
Verónica Zubillaga, Rebecca Hanson
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Letting People in: Redefining Collaboration in Wildland–Urban Interface Governance
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Intensifying wildfire regimes and expanding human settlements into wilderness areas have heightened concerns about the wildland–urban interface (WUI) due to the associated increase in fire risk. However, the WUI presents broader social‐ecological challenges that go beyond wildfire risk and remain understudied.
Clara Mosso +5 more
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Construyendo ciudades inseguras: temor y violencia en Argentina
EURE (Santiago) - Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano Regionales, 2001 El incremento del crimen, la sensación de inseguridad y el desarrollo de los proyectos urbanos privados son características centrales de las principales ciudades argentinas durante los años 90s.
Lucía Dammert
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Cahiers des Amériques LatinesThe term “colectivo” has arguably become one of the most widely deployed, and fraught, words in the Chávez era. Nominally used to refer to a particular subset of pro-government supporters –namely, para-state groups who employ armed violence to enforce ...
Alejandro Velasco
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Māori women and intimate partner violence: Some sociocultural influences
, 2011 Intimate partner violence (IPV) has recently been acknowledged as a worldwide phenomenon, with approximately one in four intimate relationships containing some form of violence.
Li, Wendy Wen +7 more
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From Insight to Theory: Advancing Sentiment Evaluation for Diaspora Development Projects
New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of “sentiment evaluation,” drawing on a mid‐term evaluation by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) of its program supporting Somali diaspora activism in Somaliland. Conducted in 2014, the evaluation revealed that “sentiment,” the emotional, identity‐based attachment linking diaspora actors to their homeland ...
Valeria Saggiomo +1 more
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Cidades, Comunidades e TerritórioIn this article, we address the current context of the City of Rio de Janeiro, intensely marked by violent and lethal sociability. We activate an analytical triangulation that includes the situation of necropolitics and brutalism that characterizes Rio's
Ivaldo de Lima
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Migration, violence and welfare programmes in rural Colombia [PDF]
This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence. By matching detailed retrospective data on violence levels in Colombian rural municipalities with a household survey collected for the ...
Alice Mesnard
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, 2016 The worrisome panorama of increasing homicide rates in Venezuela requires to review critically the different theoretical approaches that explain the roots of violent crime in Latin American urban conglomerates.
Tremaria Adan, Stiven
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor +3 more
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