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ABSTRACT For over 30 years, the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua bordering Texas and New Mexico has experienced and witnessed multiple forms of violence across its rural and urban regions. Communities are besieged with cartel and gender‐based violence and the saturation of international corporations that pay less than livable wages for workers in ...
Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla +1 more
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Neonatal Health Within War Contexts: Insights From the Colombian Experience, 1998–2007
ABSTRACT The Colombian Armed Conflict intensified 1998–2002, with its urban dynamics continuing to influence neonatal health through 2007. Using data from the National Centre of Historic Memory and Civil Registration and Vital Statistics, this study examines the effects of regional violence on neonatal health outcomes.
Harold Mera León +1 more
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Abstract Much anthropological scholarship on war—particularly “civil war”—focuses on violence perpetrated between organized political groups within the confines of a national space. In contrast, this article examines how “internal armed conflict” manifests across international borders, irrupting as interpersonal violence in spaces that are supposedly ...
Alana Ackerman
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Embodied Thermal Insecurity and Counter‐Hegemonic Heat Mapping
Abstract Lived experiences with urban heat are often rendered invisible, shrouded under the cloak of neoliberal resilience discourse and sanitised heat mapping and messaging. This is particularly tragic for disadvantaged at‐risk populations in white, settler colonial contexts where heat tolerance is worn as a badge of honour.
Petra Tschakert, Krishna Karthikeyan
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Abstract This paper explores selective aspects of the historical processes of organization of the kichwa peasantry in the Andes of Ecuador. Based on the analysis of two representative cases of confrontation between peasants and landowners over access to land in the province of Chimborazo, it discusses the relevance of the concept of “gamonalismo” as ...
Víctor Bretón
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Abstract Travesti and transfeminine migrants across urban Amazonian Peru uniquely refashion their sense of social relatedness in the city apart from the kinship ties of their rural home communities because of experiences of violence and banishment in their youth.
Justin Perez
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Violencia urbana y el derecho a la ciudad: análisis del caso Medellín
El conflicto armado urbano en Medellín se enmarca de manera diferenciada en el conflicto colombiano de las últimas décadas, tanto en su naturaleza como en sus dinámicas y transformación.
Mariana Duque Díez
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The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India
Abstract The turn of the 21st century has witnessed a rising trend of migration from the African continent to cities across India. Accompanying such flows have been racial tensions and policing spectacles, including incidents of violence, vandalism, and evictions against African migrants and their pathologization as “illegal.” These subtle yet ...
Bani Gill
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Desnacionalización, Regímenes Visuales y Resistencia: Gitanos Americanos en Ciudad de México
RESUMEN La idea de que el carácter de los roma es exterior al flujo de la dinámica de los procesos históricos es un organicismo alienante en México y América Latina, pues los regímenes visuales han reproducido estereotipos culturales y raciales excluyentes sobre ellos.
DAVID LAGUNAS
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Formas contemporâneas de negociação com a depredação
No conjunto das ações que definem a dimensão do político, do ato de decifrar, interpretar e controlar o fenômeno da violência urbana, pretende-se encaminhar o modo de fazer contemporâneo, que podemos chamar de negociação com a depredação escolar.
Hélio Iveson Passos Medrado
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