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- Translation in cross-cultural research: an example from Bolivia
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Translation raises ethical and epistemological dilemmas inherent in cross-cultural research. The process of communicating research participants’ words in a different language and context may impose another conceptual scheme on their thoughts. This may rei ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences
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At first glance it would appear that despite women's vital participation in peace-making processes, they are for the most part marginalised or belittled. However, moving away from the idea of women as outsiders and/or victims, we find evidence of their in ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
- Female Well-Being: Toward A Global Theory of Social Change
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Author: Mancini Billson, Janet and Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (eds.) Publisher: Lon ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:48
- Whose Development? An Ethnography of Aid
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Author: Crewe, Emma and Elizabeth Harrison Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 13:31
- The Human Rights Watch Global Report on Women's Human Rights
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Author: Human Rights Watch Issue: Volume 7, N ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:54
- Social and Gender Analysis in Natural Resource Management: Learning Studies and Lessons from Asia
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Author: Vernooy, Ronnie (ed.) Publisher: New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, CA, London: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 13:18
- No visible difference: a women's empowerment process in a Cambodian NGO
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The lives of female Cambodian NGO staff are characterised by the contradictions of apparent freedom and multiple invisible constraints on their behaviour and choices. An empowerment process facilitated by an expatriate did not produce the expected respo ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-05 16:00
- Time poverty, gender and well-being: lessons from the Kyrgyz Swiss Swedish Health Programme
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Time poverty methodologies are a response to the failure of income-based measures of poverty to reflect gendered aspects of well-being. However, national time use surveys normally fail to examine issues around women and men's qualitative evaluation of t ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-02-25 16:08
- Inequality, environmental injustice, and racism in Brazil: beyond the question of colour
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Starting from an analysis of social and environmental injustice, the author argues that the concept of environmental racism is integral to the hegemonic model of capitalist development. She reveals how the financial mega-conglomerates, helped by the media ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-13 19:06
- Population policy and reproductive choice in South Asia
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In September 1992 a workshop was held in Oxford, bringing together activists, researchers and academics with the joint aims of sharing diverse perspectives on South Asia's population policies as well as revising a research proposal on all aspects of women ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
