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Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Lucas Belury
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Heavily tattooed women’s emotional and embodied geographies of (non-) belonging in Wollongong, Australia Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Gordon Waitt
This article addresses embodied geographies of (non-) belonging for six heavily tattooed white women in Wollongong, Australia, as part of a larger project on tattooed bodies. The article employs th...
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Gender, violence and power in Indonesia Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Muhammad Misbah
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The feminist killjoy handbook: the radical potential of getting in the way Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Araby Smyth
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Nordic utopias and dystopias from Aniara to Allatta! Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Anna Nygren
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Gendered fortunes: divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Devran Koray Öcal, Nurhayat Şanlı
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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War, women, and power: from violence to mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Farhan Ahmad, Niqash Ahmed
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Exploring the use of geographic methods to understand sexual- and gender-based violence: a scoping review Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Madeleine D. Sheppard-Perkins, Tomoko McGaughey, Paul A. Peters, Francine E. Darroch
Geographic methods of inquiry are being increasingly employed to discern and visualize geographical patterns associated with increased risk of sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV). As such, thi...
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Paying lip service to gender inequality – EU rural development policy in Sweden Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Katarina Pettersson, Helene Ahl, Karin Berglund, Malin Tillmar
While research has pointed to the lack of gender mainstreaming in rural and agricultural policy, how rural policy determines what is seen as problems of gender inequality in the first place and how...
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How couples negotiate livelihoods in a Danish island setting: the role of history, geography and gender relations Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Helene Pristed Nielsen
Finding a way to make a living may be difficult if one lives in a small island with few possibilities for regular full-time jobs. Focusing on how co-habiting couples negotiate their livelihood opti...
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Remembering the Mun: engendering local geographies of resistance to the Pak Mun Dam Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Akarath Soukhaphon, Ian G. Baird
The Pak Mun Dam remains one of north-eastern Thailand’s most disputed infrastructure projects. Local livelihoods, particularly those of women, have been negatively impacted, leading many to partici...
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Spatial practices of care among women facing housing precarity: a study in greater Lisbon during the pandemic Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Joana Pestana Lages
COVID-19 made visible the care world. Care includes everything we do to sustain, preserve, and repair our world so that we may live in it as well as possible. This paper addresses carework spatiall...
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Hiding in plain sight: massive gender displays and the ambivalent reproduction of gender status Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Stefania Matei, Cosima Rughinis
This paper uses the method of concerned photography to examine the reproduction and disruption of gender status through urbanscapes comprising statues, outdoor advertisements, mural artworks, and o...
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Corporeo-cartographies of homelessness: women’s embodied experiences of homelessness and urban space Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Katharina Schmidt
From invisibility to putting ‘them’ on the map – women experiencing homelessness and their bodies have been researched and discussed in many different ways as a particular socio-spatial instance of...
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Rearranging care while cycling under the Covid-19 pandemic in Quito, Ecuador Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Julie Gamble
In spring 2020, the municipal government in Quito, Ecuador added cycling lanes as a healthy urban mobility option due to the spike of deaths at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. This infrastructu...
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‘Their opinion counts as far as you let it’- understanding queer migration in Minas Gerais, Brazil Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Fernanda Fortes de Lena
The literature regarding the life course and queer migration has shown that many gay men and lesbians seek large cities to live their lives away from the prying eyes of their families and build the...
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Almost 30 years later, silence is still here with us: introduction of the themed issue Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Cesare Di Feliciantonio, Valerie De Craene
Since the milestone publication of Mapping Desire in 1995, geographies of sexualities have found increasing legitimacy and visibility through, among others, publications, conferences and the succes...
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Mothers, wives, friends: women’s role in London squatting struggles since 1969 Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Madeline Routon
Squatting has long been a crucial form of direct action in housing struggles across the globe, in which women have always played an important part. However, despite recent calls to inflect housing ...
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Extending the ethnographic toolbox: photovoice and everyday experiences of marginalised groups Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Sofie Mortensen, François Questiaux
This paper explores how photovoice can be used to understand the everyday life experiences of marginalised groups. We ask what kind of knowledge photovoice elicits and how this contributes to other...
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Sharing domestic space in home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland: intimacy, boundaries and identity work Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Paula Merikoski, Camilla Nordberg
In Finland, a grassroots initiative for accommodating asylum-seeking migrants in local homes took off in 2015. This hospitable initiative is about offering asylum seekers the chance to live with lo...
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Neither Black nor Queer: evangelicalism and groundless theology in Brazil Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Andrea S. Allen
This article illuminates the ramifications of what I call ‘groundless theology’ for Afro-Brazilian LGBTQ evangelicals. Based on ethnographic research at an igreja evangélica inclusiva (inclusive ev...
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The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Carole Ammann
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Gendered livelihood impacts and responses to an invasive, transboundary weed in a rural Ethiopian community Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Maria Elisa Christie, Daniel Sumner, Lidya A. Chala, Wondi Mersie
Gender as unequal power relations intersects with global environmental change threatening agriculture-based livelihoods, including land degradation, increasing climate variability, and invasive ali...
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Reassembling care in pandemic Mexico City Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Julie-Anne Boudreau, Kelly Giovanna Muñoz
This paper contributes to the debate on the Caring city by analyzing how the local and national states managed the pandemic in Mexico City and the lived and material effects on women. Based on a se...
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Gender and appropriation of public space in Harare’s contested central city area Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Elmond Bandauko, Bipasha Baruah, Godwin Arku
Street trading is a highly gendered form of economic activity practiced by the urban poor in most global south cities. Drawing from focus group discussions and in-depth interviews, this paper exami...
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The gendered body during Covid-19: views from Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan - Introduction to themed section Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Rachel Wood, Hannah McCann
The collection of papers we have put together for this special themed section originally emerged from a desire to explore how the rapid and wholescale transformation of everyday spaces brought abou...
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Revolutionary debtscapes: domestic territories of contestation in Tunisia Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Lana Salman
How are poor women politicized in the post-revolution city? I highlight women’s everyday experiences of homemaking, where the intimacy of the home shaped through debt becomes a terrain of politiciz...
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Introduction for themed issue (Introduction) Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, Carl Bonner-Thompson
In this introduction to the themed section, we begin to explore how queer and precarity might be used to analyse how vulnerabilities are constituted across diverse spaces. We situate the contents o...
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Gendering the BRI: a viewpoint Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Md Azmeary Ferdoush
Our central purpose in this viewpoint is to briefly overview the existing literature on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and argue both how pivotal it is in underlining the experiences of local c...
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Gendered experiences during COVID-19 in Turkey and the meaning of home Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Pınar Melis Yelsalı Parmaksız
This work aims to uncover the changing meaning of home by focusing on gender-based experiences of staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. The findings show that the meaning of home ...
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(Re)making live-in or live-out choice: the lived experience of Filipina migrant domestic workers in Macao Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Bei Ju, Xiao Yang, X. H. Pu, T. L. Sandel
Migrant domestic workers’ (MDWs) out-of-home flexibility and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic open up opportunities to examine the intrinsic reasons driving their decision-making in live-in/live...
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Story-listening as methodology: a feminist case for unheard stories Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Arielle Frenette
In light of the ongoing practice of non-Indigenous researchers conducting studies on Indigenous lands, new opportunities are needed for creative alternatives to fieldwork, along with an honest conv...
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Women in ‘New Nepal’ through the lens of classed, ethnic, and gendered peripheries Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Nurul Hayati, Wulan Ayu Indriyani
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Female ex-combatant, empowerment, and reintegration: Gendered inequalities in Liberia and Nepal Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Lulu Yuliani, Wulan Ayu Indriyani
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Islamic Feminism: Discourse on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Islam Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Mahmud Yunus Mustofa, Firmanda Taufiq
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2024)
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A Space of Their Own: Women, Writing and Place 1850–1950 Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Pengfei Zhang
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Queer space making across greater Los Angeles: reimagining urban autonomy through collective care Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Jessennya Hernandez
This paper analyzes the lives of whom I call poli-creatives and how they reimagine space making and urban autonomy across greater Los Angeles through a queer and feminist praxis of collective care....
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Puzzle pieces that don’t quite fit: lesbian and bisexual women in Cuban LGBT public spaces Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Evie Browne
While research on Cuba may present a story of increasing tolerance for LGBT people, this article’s gendered analysis highlights the fractured nature of the ‘community’, revealing social exclusion b...
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Radio Activism: Breaking the Silence and Empowering Women Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Chaitanya Shinkhede
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Anika Kabani
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Gender, place and culture: a journal of feminist geography annual international conference award for new and emerging scholars, 2024 Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Lena Grip
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Vol. 30, No. 11, 2023)
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Call for dissertation précis Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Lena Grip
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Vol. 30, No. 11, 2023)
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National affects: the everyday atmospheres of being political Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Gözde Cöbek
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2024)
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Emotions and gendered experiences of livelihood migration: memos from Nicaragua and Guatemala Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Claudia Radel, Lindsey Carte, Richard L. Johnson, Birgit Schmook
Abstract With increasingly difficult conditions for smallholder agricultural production, labor migration is an essential component of livelihoods for many rural families in the Global South. This migration is gendered and is often normalized as part of households’ livelihood portfolios. Yet it also can reproduce livelihood precarity and help maintain underlying structural inequalities. The role of
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Everyday gendered Islamophobia: exploring ordinary attitudes toward Muslim women in Southern France Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Félicien Faury
Abstract Scholars have emphasized how Islamophobia is a gendered phenomenon that affects Muslim women’s lives in Western countries. Nevertheless, research has most often focused on public debates on Islam within the mainstream media or on the effects of State laws and public policies such as veil bans. Much less attention has been paid to how gendered Islamophobia is produced and practiced by ordinary
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Reclaiming space: enacting citizenship through embodied protest during the British suffragette movement Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Kerry McInerney
Abstract The British suffragettes are remembered for their dramatic and visually striking protests, such as their act of chaining themselves to public railings. However, this paper argues that the suffragettes’ protests were embodied acts of citizenship that disrupted the existing political order and laid claim to full participation in the Edwardian polis. Drawing on Jacques Rancière’s work, this paper
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North-to-North queer migrations: privileged subjectivities and belonging in Iceland Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Linda Sólveigar- og Guðmundsdóttir
Abstract This paper argues for a rethinking of the ambivalences of privileged subjectivity and feelings of belonging when it comes to North-to-North mobility of queer populations. A sense of belonging is determined by sociocultural and socioeconomic factors, as well as one’s social locations, such as race, ethnicity, gender, language, and nationality. The paper examines how these contested categories
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A family perspective on daily (im)mobilities and gender-disability intersectionality in Sweden Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Emma Landby
Abstract Women usually have more complex mobilities than men do, not least if having young children in need of mobility provision. Moreover, travelling can be more challenging if having a disability, and parents of disabled children usually face many constraints in relation to everyday mobility, which implies that mothers of disabled children might experience gender-disability intersectionality in
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Experiencing Amsterdam’s Red Light District as a female resident: normalization, alliances and diversion Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Astrid Mörk, Amanda Brandellero
Abstract Every year, Amsterdam’s de Wallen neighbourhood attracts high numbers of tourists looking to experience a unique Red Light District (RLD). Yet de Wallen is a multi-use area, that combines sexualised consumption and leisure practices, with everyday residential urban functions and public spaces. This study investigated how female residents of this neighbourhood experience its sexualised nature
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Digesting how the gender of household heads determines housing location choices in Sub-Saharan African cities: a review Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Moses Batanda Mubiru, Said Nuhu, Wilbard Kombe, Tatu Mtwangi Limbumba
Abstract Our study reviews critical social science and policy literature on human settlement research. It examines how the gender of household heads determines housing location preferences in Sub-Saharan African cities. Five themes are obtained from the review: circumstances under which household headships emerge, household fundamental gender roles, interaction with the local property market, power
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Correction Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Ethnographies of animal violence and an impure ethics of care Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Carley MacKay
At the intersection of ethics of care and animal geographies scholarship are important discussions about human-animal power dynamics, violence, and what it means to understand and care for animals ...
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Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Rosie Nelson
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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European women’s gaze on both Ottoman Istanbul and the(ir) other Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Bengi Su Ertürkmen-Aksoy
Abstract In 1869, the year the Suez Canal was completed, visits to Egypt and, therefore voyages to the Orient were increased. Crowned royals such as Prince and Princess of Wales, French Empress, Prince of Prussia, Austrian Emperor, Prince and Princess of Holland, and Duke of Aosta went on these voyages, which included cities like Alexandria, Cairo, Istanbul, and Athens. What makes these crowned royal’s
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Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Sirisha C. Naidu
Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Vol. 30, No. 10, 2023)
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Women and climate change in Vanuatu, Pacific Islands Region Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Margaret Alston, Sascha Fuller, Nikita Kwarney
Abstract While world leaders met in Egypt in 2022 for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP 27) and danced around the need for critical global action on climate change, ni-Vanuatu (Vanuatu’s citizens) were dealing with its realities. Continuing sea level rises, more intense and frequent cyclones, flooding and landslides are regular occurrences
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Migration in the margins: border bureaucracy and barriers to migrants’ rights during Programa Frontera Sur Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Alicia Danze
Abstract U.S. support for border enforcement in Mexico has been ongoing for decades, but in 2014, after the arrival of unprecedented numbers of Central American minors and families to the U.S., even greater pressure was placed on Mexico to seal its border with Guatemala. This paper explores the resulting tensions between Mexican border enforcement policies outlined under Programa Frontera Sur, intended
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Food security and knowledge politics in rural Oaxaca Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Fiona Gladstone
Abstract This study uses an embodied political ecology framework to evaluate the structural, discursive, and visceral effects of government food assistance policy in an agrarian community in southern Mexico. During the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), the government’s efforts to resolve the growing double-burden of under- and over-nutrition included the expansion of food
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Precarity and patriarchal bargain: women’s experiences in post-disaster recovery housing after the 2011 Van earthquake Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Mehmet Şeremet, Voon Chin Phua, Emine Cihangir, Ezgi Bayram-Öz, Ramazan Okudum, Faruk Alaeddinoğlu
Abstract In this paper, we frame women’s experiences in post-disaster recovery housing to highlight the differential distribution of their vulnerabilities. While studies have reported women’s resilience in their new residence, their social vulnerability is often exacerbated in post-disaster recovery housing as they disproportionately shoulder the familial responsibilities with limited resources. We
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Til death do us part? End-of-life care for ageing Western husbands in Thailand Gender, Place & Culture (IF 1.463) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Kwanchanok Jaisuekun, Sirijit Sunanta
Abstract After a few decades of large-scale transnational marriages and migration of Thai women to countries in the Global North, the phenomenon has matured and Western-Thai married couples have aged, particularly the men who tend to be older than their Thai wives. This article examines the understudied topic of Western man – Thai woman couples in their old age, focusing on those who decide to spend