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International human rights standards versus cultural practices: a case against harmful cultural practices in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific reference to FGM
One of the major limitations of the cultural relativist contention is its property to rank group rights above and beyond individual rights. This...
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Management Practices, Pay, and Pay Inequality
We use rich Portuguese data to analyse the relationship between the use of different management practices and worker pay in a large representative...
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Best Practices
From the case studies of San Francisco, Singapore, Massachusetts, Scotland, Canada, Denmark, the Murray-Darling River Basin, and the Rhine River...
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Categorising and cohabiting: practices as the site of biosocial becoming
In this article we argue that social practices, which consist of sayings and doings that extend across space and time, generate and sustain...
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Exploring Talent Management Practices and Corporate Social Responsibility in Finnish Companies
The contemporary work landscape is characterized by rapid change and many evolving challenges. Therefore, companies are in increasing need for...
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Farm households’ adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices: empirical evidence from Seychelles
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can improve the resilience of farming systems in the face of climate-related shocks, providing a win–win for food...
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Improper Sanitation Practices
Poor sanitation is a global problem. According to a report jointly published by the World Health Organization and UNICEF in 2020, over half of the...
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Urban Scenes as Community Practices
In this chapter, a new praxeological, relational and cultural approach to the analysis of communal phenomena in contemporary cities is developed and...
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Culinary practices of the Bidayuhs in Sarawak, Malaysia: a qualitative study
The Bidayuh cuisines and culinary practices epitomize an inherent part of the cultural profile of the Sarawak community. This indigenous group...
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Best Practices and Conclusion
This chapter provides a series of best practices for promoting Blue-Green infrastructure (BGI) practices to manage stormwater runoff and improve...
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Values-based Self-care: What We Learn from Racialized Activists’ Care Practices
To promote change, activists must first confront the suffering of their communities, but this process can weigh heavily on activists and contribute...
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Water in Yorùbá (Southwest Nigeria) religious belief and practices
Among the Yorùbá, one of the three largest ethnic groups primarily based in southwest Nigeria, water holds several meanings which are usually...
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Theorizing Socio-Spatial Practices
This chapter elaborates on the theoretical foundation of the book, an adaptation of Martina Löw's spatial theory in the context of a refugee camp....
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Practices and informal institutions governing artisanal gillnet fisheries in Western Ghana
Understanding the informal institutions arising from cultural norms, taboos, and beliefs can improve conservation efforts and resource management in...
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Evaluation Practices of Doctoral Examination Committees: Boundary-Work Under Pressure
The doctorate forms the basis for academic careers and the regeneration of academia, and has increasingly become important for other sectors of...
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Perceptions and practices of indigenous soil conservation measures in beas valley, Himachal Pradesh, India
This study delves into the perceptions and practices of indigenous soil conservation measures in the erosion-prone Upper Beas Valley of Kullu,...
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The Role of Maternal Care Services on Feeding Practices Among Under Five Children in India, Nepal and Bangladesh
BackgroundIn South Asia, one in two children under the age of five are stunted or wasted due to malnutrition, which affects one in three children...
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Performance and the Conjunction of Better Management Practices and Non-Union Workplace Representation
Using data from the European Company Survey for a cluster of nations possessing a common system of workplace representation, we consider two factors...
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Re-Thinking Demographic Engineering Practices: New Insights from the Case of the Indian Emergency State (1975–77)
In this article, I claim that demographic engineering scholarship cannot adequately explain the production of demographic engineering practices...
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Public preferences for international law compliance: Respecting legal obligations or conforming to common practices?
Despite significant debate about the ability of international law to constrain state behavior, recent research points to domestic mechanisms that...
