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Dying Unneeded: The Cultural Context of the Russian Mortality Crisis
In the early 1990s, Russia experienced one of the most extreme increases in mortality in modern history. Men's life expectancy dropped by six years; women's life expectancy dropped by three. Middle-aged men living in Moscow were particularly at risk of dying early deaths. While the early 1990s represent the apex of mortality, the crisis continues. Drawing on fieldwork in the capital city during…
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The Impact of Global Drug Policy on Women Shifting the Needle
The international strategy of criminalising the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and use of certain psychoactive substances has failed to achieve a ‘drug free world’. Examining the impact of drug criminalisation and enforcement on a previously overlooked demographic, this edited collection argues that women are negatively and disproportionately affected by this flawed policy approach.
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Better Than Welfare? : Work and livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after …
The end of the very long-standing Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme in 2015 marked a critical juncture in Australian Indigenous policy history. For more than 30 years, CDEP had been among the biggest and most influential programs in the Indigenous affairs portfolio, employing many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. More recently, it had also become …
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- Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 36
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Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman Myths and Misconceptions about Traffic…
Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman is a go-to text for readers who seek a comprehensive overview of the meaning of ’human trafficking’ and current debates and perspectives on the issue. It presents a more nuanced understanding of human trafficking and its victims by examining - and challenging - the conventional assumptions that sit at the heart of mainstream approaches to the topic. A p…
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Queer in Africa LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship, and Activism
African sexualities are dynamic, multi-faceted and resilient. However, people with non-heterosexual sexualities and gender variant identities are often involved in struggles for survival, self-definition, and erotic rights. Queer in Africa forms an entry point for understanding the vulnerabilities of queer Africans as shaped by social, cultural and political processes, aiming to provide innovat…
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Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements Confronting Privileges
Examining the ways in which feminist and queer activists confront privilege through the use of intersectionality, this edited collection presents empirical case studies from around the world to consider how intersectionality has been taken up (or indeed contested) by activists in order to expose and resist privilege.The volume sets out three key ways in which intersectionality operates within f…
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Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory Contested Sites
Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist and queer theorists. Intersecting the domains of women’s studies, sexuality, gender and transgender studies, Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory provides a critical analysis of key texts and theories, engaging in a dialogue with promi…
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Civil Society and Gender Relations in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes; New T…
Is civil society’s influence favorable to the evolvement of democratic structures and democratic gender relations?
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Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory
Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory offers a wide ranging fusion of queer theory with anthropological theory, shifting away from the discussion of gender categories and identities that have often constituted a central concern of queer theory and instead exploring the queer elements of contexts in which they are not normally apparent. Engaging with a number of apparently 'non-sexual' to…
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New Horizons For a Data-Driven Economy: a Roadmap For Usage and Exploitation …
Information Storage and Retrieval; Innovation/Technology Management; Computer Applications; Computers and Society; Big data
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