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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Economic lives"”.
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Social capital and role of stokvels in the economic lives of poor people in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
… focus is on the role of social capital and the economic impact on the lives of stokvel members. The study investigates how social capital is developed and deployed by members of stokvels. The economic benefits of stokvels to members are also interrogated. The researcher used a qualitative …
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Ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and Chippewa in Twentieth Century Montana
… examines the unique aspects of their social and economic lives as landless Indian people. This paper concludes with an examination of the ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and Chippewa, which was based upon patterns of merger between discrete multi-ethnic groups.
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Ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and Chippewa in Twentieth Century Montana
… examines the unique aspects of their social and economic lives as landless Indian people. This paper concludes with an examination of the ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and Chippewa, which was based upon patterns of merger between discrete multi-ethnic groups.
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"it's Only Fellow Refugees Who Assist:" Social Capital, Social Institutions, And Self-Reliance In Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Studies have increasingly examined the economic lives of refugees, revealing a wide range of economic activity in displacement. Seeking to promote a neoliberal ethos of self-reliance, policymakers have focused on the role of employment on individual life trajectories. Yet, research also suggests …
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Yardbirds
… as central to individuals’ cultural and economic lives. <em>Yardbirds</em> engages death and deterioration—themes abundantly apparent in Arkansas communities—through a cyclical mindset: what is here today, I hope to show, is only a condition for tomorrow’s many choices. By recognizing the …
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PRIVATISATION, RURAL RAILWAYS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
… development and sustainability of the social and economic lives of a community and that this interrelationship is currently threatened by rail privatisation and the associated risks of line closures or service cutbacks. To test this proposition a thorough investigation into the theory and practice …
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American Women's Intellectual History in the Revolutionary and New Republican Era: Charting a Shift in Feminist Theory
… arguments about women's and men's education and economic lives to demonstrate the existence of large discrepancies between their roles in the last half of the eighteenthcentury in addition to the large differences which the authors of prescriptive literature described.</p> <p>My basic premise is …
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Gypsies in Early Modern Scotland, c.1570-c.1700
… by the Reformed Kirk. The second section, ‘Gypsy Lives’, examines the social ties forged between Gypsies and non-Gypsies during the seventeenth century, the impact of Atlantic imperialism and nascent racial discourses upon Gypsies following Charles II’s Restoration of 1660, and concludes with a …
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Re-situating and shifting cultural identity in contemporary Namibia: the experience of rural-urban migrants in Katutura (Windhoek)
… an investigation of their social, cultural and economic lives, I show how these young people invoke their Owambo-ness, but how they also transcend their ethnic identifications through engaging in an emerging Namibian youth culture, which cuts across rural-urban, ethnic, and socio-economic …
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Free Women and the Making of Colonial Jamaican Economy and Society 1760-1834
This study considers the social and economic lives of free women in Jamaica from 1760 to 1834. Throughout the period studied Jamaica was Britain’s most important imperial holding. The colony’s slave economy, driven by the labour of hundreds of thousands of enslaved men and women, generated …
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Gender practices and the business-household nexus: Women’s entrepreneurship in São Paulo, Brazil
… create, maintain, and transform the social and economic lives of Brazilian women entrepreneurs, families and household members. Through an innovative 2-stage data collection process, this qualitative study was conducted in São Paulo between 2016 and 2017, interviewing women entrepreneurs and …
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Migration, development and social change in a 21st century North Indian hill village
… types of movement tie in with the changing socio-economic lives of the villagers. This explorative study focuses on the patterns, causes and effects of migration on rural lives past and present, and on the multiple interrelated social changes, which are part of these migratory processes. The …
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The Social Economy of Buying, Selling, Trading, and Consuming Drugs: A Comparison of Individual and Sub Cultural Strategies Among Methamphetamine Users and Dealers in Two Cities
… I describe how the social identities and economic lives of participants in various sites have influenced the buying, selling, and consumption of drugs. Comparative analyses of the meanings and practices of research subjects, including mixed income gay, straight and bisexual users in New …
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Boomtown wives: a novel and, The stage and backdrop: essay on the history of the Hopetoun-Ravensthorpe region, A great madness: essay on the social effects of WA's 21st century resources boom
… demand for Australian commodities shapes the lives of a boomtown's residents. While this is a story with its micro focus on the personal, its broader focus is on a time of historic change, both national and international. The current mining boom, while documented in the media, is yet to …
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From ‘did it work?’ to ‘what did it do?’: Rethinking financial literacy education impact through the narratives of fisherwomen on the Amazonian coast of Brazil.
… the world’s most biodiverse regions, their daily economic lives remain largely under‑examined within broader development discourses. The savings clubs, each comprising up to 25 women meeting regularly to save, share resources, and engage in guided discussions, provided a fertile setting to explore …