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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Recife (Brazil)"”.
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Land titling as women's empowerment: critical observations from Recife Brazil
… to examine the Ponte do Maduro Project, in Recife, Brazil, where a strong landless women’s movement gained legal recognition for the community and is engaged in co-constructing and carrying out their own titling process. Interviews with women in Ponte do Maduro reveal the complexities, …
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Maids and mistresses in Recife (Brazil): An analysis of linkages between the formal and informal economy
In Brazil, domestic service absorbs a significant number of workers, mostly women. Not only do domestic servants represent a considerable contingent of the working women in Brazil, but they also make it easier for skilled females (their mistresses) to participate in the labor market, mostly in the …
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A folk theory of personality types: Gods and their symbolic representation by members of Sango cult in Recife, Brazil
… between January 1976, when I arrived in Recife and made my first contacts with the people of the Sango cult, and the time when I finally formulated the area of inquiry with which this dissertation deals (they lasted from January to June of 1976, and from July to September of 1977, …
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‘Over, under and through the walls’: The dynamics of public security, police-community relations and the limits of managerialism in crime control in Recife, Brazil
This dissertation contributes to Brazilian public security studies from the perspective of critical criminology. It examines public experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in one Brazilian city: Recife. Between 1982 and 2007, Recife had …