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Economic Anthropology in View of the Global Financial Crisis
Economic anthropology is the study of how individuals and communities understand and engage with economic life, broadly conceived. This chapter...
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Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: Chinese Migrants in Ghana
While the migration of Chinese people to Africa dates back to the 1960s, it has increased significantly in the last two decades. Despite growing...
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The Dollar Cycle of International Development, 1973–2017
Since the 1970s, develo** countries across the world have collectively experienced a series of economic upswings and downturns. Existing theories...
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Access to Affordable, Safe Water Supply in Urban Kenya: A Macro Analysis
This chapter will give a statistical analysis of the coverage of people with access to safe water in urban Kenya and Nairobi with the help of data...
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Reclaiming and Transforming Cities During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: American and Global Examples
In addition to the tragic loss of millions of lives worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemicCOVID-19 pandemic also had other unintended and unexpected...
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Economic Anthropology in View of the Global Financial Crisis
Economic anthropology is the study of how individuals and communities understand and engage with economic life, broadly conceived. This chapter...
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Financial Inclusion Trajectories: Geographical Dispersion, Convergence, and Development Implications
The profound attempts to promote financial inclusion (FI) need more scrutiny for better policy insights. This paper, therefore, assesses the nature...
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Being Global and Being Regional: Refugee Entrepreneurship in Regional Australia
Branka Krivokapic-skoko, Katherine Wilson and Jock Collins in this chapter illustrate the way refugees engage in entrepreneurship to overcome...
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Traditional Water Supply Systems and the Sponge City Concept Toward Diminishing Environmental Marginalization in Kirtipur Municipality, Nepal
Water supply is increasingly under huge pressure largely because of human activities, changing lifestyles, population growth, and development...
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Vietnam’s Global Market Integration During the Covidian Era: An Exploratory Analysis of the Pandemic’s Marginalising Effects on the Rural Poor
Extreme poverty has worsened since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. This global crisis—the scale of individual and collective effects of...
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Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: a global comparison
In recent decades more than one hundred countries have enfranchised their diasporas, allowing emigrants to vote from abroad. However, this widespread...
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Cacao and Violence: Consequences of Money in Colonial Guatemala
This article investigates the meeting of two monetized economies and how producing a “commodity money” nurtured forms of violence. This case presents...
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Urban qualities and residents’ strategies in compact global south cities: the case of Havana
Research and policy argue for more compact cities to respond to sustainable development challenges. However, what actually needs to be made more...
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The Entangled Islands: The Influence of Space–Place Relations in Global Meanings and Visions of Healthy Food
This chapter summarises the diverse country-based contributions in the book. In what will follow, we discuss various perspectives on what constitutes...
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Big Data won’t feed the world: global agribusiness, digital imperialism, and the contested promises of a new Green Revolution
In the face of looming environmental crises and a swelling global population, Big Data’s acolytes envision a “digital revolution” as a solution for...
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Towards a Global Digital Constitutionalism: A Radical New Agenda for UN75
Twenty years after the WSIS, even as multi-stakeholder governance models in the domain have been stripped of any claim to their democratic potential,...
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Gendered Migration in the Global South: An Intersectional Perspective on Inequality
The links between gender and migration are well understood, as the result of extensive research on the highly gendered nature of migration drivers,...
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Guidelines for Water-Sensitive Informal Settlement Upgrading in the Global South
In the context of global warming, poverty, and inequality, informal settlements in the Global South present a unique challenge. Transforming informal...
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Festival of Death: Global Stock Markets During the Pandemic
A stylized fact during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a total disconnect between the movements of indicators in the Main Street and in the Wall...
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A Mechanism Approach for Money
Money, a central topic for classical sociologists, has been rediscovered in recent times. The chapter briefly introduces the concept of money found...