Friendship and Diversity
Class, Ethnicity and Social Relationships in the City
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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in profound and far-reaching impacts on maternal and newborn care and outcomes. As part of the ASPIRE COVID-19 project, we describe processes and outcome measures relating to...
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Open AccessAdolescent sexual and reproductive health for all in sub-Saharan Africa: a spotlight on inequalities
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Open AccessInequalities in early marriage, childbearing and sexual debut among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) is a major public health concern in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, inequalities in ASRH have received less attention than many other public health priority ...
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Open AccessTrends in adolescent first births in sub-Saharan Africa: a tale of increasing inequity?
Single aggregate figures for adolescent pregnancy may fail to demonstrate particular population groups where rates are very high, or where progress has been slow. In addition, most indicators fail to separate ...
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Open AccessTrends in adolescent first births in five countries in Latin America and the Caribbean: disaggregated data from demographic and health surveys
Adolescents in the Latin American and Caribbean region continue to experience poor reproductive health outcomes, including high rates of first birth before the age of 20 years. Aggregate national level data fa...
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Why Study Friendships and Diversity? Orientations and Introduction to the Study
This chapter introduces the research. First we consider the concept of friendship and the rationale for the development of a .
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Back at School: Research Methods, Design and Reflexive Dramaturgy
This chapter describes the three schools and the three Year 4 classrooms (for 8/9 year olds) which were the focus of our research, as well as the rationale, design and methodology of the project. We draw on Go...
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Children’s Agency and Adult Intervention: Children’s Friendships Through Adult Eyes
This chapter explores adult—both educational staff and parents—management of children’s friendships, and school policy and practices on friendship. There are two main foci here; the first is on the teacher pra...
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Antagonisms, Ambivalences and Association: Parents’ Friendships and Strategies for Managing Difference in Everyday Life
In this chapter we build on adult friendship relations with a particular emphasis on the attitudes of the parent participants to diversity. We note that homophily is an easy description of the adult friendship...
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Encounter, Conviviality and the City: New Directions in Theorising Interaction Across Difference
In this chapter we discuss our chosen geographies, revisiting both the super-diversity and gentrification debates. The chapter develops a nuanced account of different formations of gentrification and addresses...
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The Children’s Friendships: Difference, Commonality and Proximity
In this chapter, we focus on the children’s friendships. We introduce the three classrooms, their class teachers and the children themselves. Drawing on the children’s pictures and interviews, we develop a car...
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Extended Social and Spatial Encounters in Primary School Worlds
Drawing on geographies of education, this chapter explores the nature of the school world and its connective environs (school, locality, home space) that make/shape social and spatial friendship networks which...
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Conclusion: Understanding Friendship and Diversity
In our concluding chapter we suggest that our data, collected in geographies with intense ethnic and economic diversity, show that despite friendships being non-institutionalised social relationships, there is...
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Open AccessThe causes of maternal mortality in adolescents in low and middle income countries: a systematic review of the literature
While the main causes of maternal mortality in low and middle income countries are well understood, less is known about whether patterns for causes of maternal deaths among adolescents are the same as for olde...
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Open AccessMap** adolescent first births within three east African countries using data from Demographic and Health Surveys: exploring geospatial methods to inform policy
Early adolescent pregnancy presents a major barrier to the health and wellbeing of young women and their children. Previous studies suggest geographic heterogeneity in adolescent births, with clear “hot spots”...
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Open AccessThe impact of armed conflict on adolescent transitions: a systematic review of quantitative research on age of sexual debut, first marriage and first birth in young women under the age of 20 years
Young women in conflict-affected regions are at risk of a number of adverse outcomes as a result of violence, economic deterioration and the breakdown of community structures and services. This paper presents ...
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Open AccessThe geography of maternal and newborn health: the state of the art
As the deadline for the millennium development goals approaches, it has become clear that the goals linked to maternal and newborn health are the least likely to be achieved by 2015. It is therefore critical t...
