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Using photovoice to understand community perceptions of firearm risks and protective factors among Asian Americans

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study used photovoice methodology to explore Asian Americans' perspectives on the root causes and protective factors of firearm violence in their communities. Photovoice provided a participatory platform for community members to document lived experiences and identify priorities for change.
Tsu‐Yin Wu, Szu‐Hsien Chen, Xining Yang, Ken Resnicow, Hsing‐Fang Hsieh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese, Chiara Fiscone, Ashraf Kagee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the determinants of women’s empowerment in agricultural index in Bangladesh: application of the structural equation modeling approach

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The study investigates the determinants of women’s empowerment utilizing data from the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey 2018, specifically through the construction of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index. Using structural equation modeling,
Paresh Kumar Sarma, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Ismat Ara Begum, Dilshad Zahan Ethen, Farzana Yeasmin, Lin Crase, Andrew M. McKenzie   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Education for women's empowerment or schooling for women's subordination?

, 1998
This article is concerned with identifying the main elements in a programme of education for women's empowerment, by contrasting such education with its opposite: schooling for subordination.
Hlupekile Longwe, Sara
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Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham, Jesica Siham Fernández   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Práticas de empoderamento feminino na América Latina

Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2016
Through a brief presentation of the debates regarding the concept of women’s empowerment and the insertion of the term in the perspective of gender studies, this article presents a bibliographical review of the women’s empowerment practices in Latin ...
Paloma Abelin Saldanha Marinho, Hebe Signorini Gonçalves   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transitioning to nonpunitive school policies for addressing student substance use: Qualitative interviews with key school administrators

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent policy change in Massachusetts encourages schools to limit their use of exclusionary discipline to “extraordinary circumstances,” but little work has explored the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to nonpunitive practices after student substance use infractions in schools.
Kristina Conroy, M. Grace Albright, Kendall B. Roberts, Meghan A. Costello, Anthony J. Jannetti, Alexis R. Wing, Randi M. Schuster   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of women’s empowerment in food security in Walmara district, Ethiopia

Discover Food
This paper examines the drivers of rural women’s empowerment in food security in Walmara District, Ethiopia. We used a quantitative method to study it.
Abdisa Olkeba, Paulos Gutema, Degefa Tolossa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Women’s Empowerment and Women’s Health in sub Saharan Africa

Scientific African
The paper analyses the association between women’s empowerment and health in sub-Saharan Africa. Existing literature suggests that women’s empowerment influences reproductive health outcomes like fertility, birth interval and contraceptive use.
Taka A, Tandrayen-Ragoobur V
doaj   +1 more source

Women's Empowerment in Indonesia: Evaluation of Papua women's empowerment [PDF]

, 2015
This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the women's empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in October 2013 that ...
Lombardini, Simone, Caeyers, Bet
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