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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Rurality"”.
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Exploring Youth-TEK Linkages in the New Rurality
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is an adaptive system of knowledge maintained through cultural transmission among and between generations. TEK adaptations can be important for enabling communities to respond to socio-ecological change. Currently, emphasis has been given to the …
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The revitalisation of the Hebden Bridge district: greentrified Pennine rurality
… evokes significant socio-cultural meanings of rurality. With this purpose in mind, three key conceptual standpoints are established to frame the research. First, gentrification is viewed as a dynamic process of change involving distinct and differing phases of transformation. Second, …
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Understanding Place and Rurality in Engineering Education through Pathways and Engagement
… I aim to shed light on the intersection of rurality and STEM education. By focusing on concepts of place and geographical influences on education, I hope to provide a new lens for how inequities in STEM education might be further addressed while providing practical insights for structural …
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Structural Explanations, Need, Or Rurality: Predicting Availability Of Domestic Violence Emergency Services
… of domestic violence vary by the degree of rurality of the county? (2) Are measures of social disorganization (poverty, racial heterogeneity, and residential stability) at the county level correlated with the availability of victim services for urban and rural counties? (3) Are measures of …
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Rurality and the people-centric approach to public service delivery in the digital age–a study of South African rurality as a proxy for low- and middle-income country contexts
… Understanding the intricate relationship between rurality, ICT expansion, and service delivery in low- and middle-income settings is imperative for tailoring technology-driven strategies to rural areas within the constraints of limited resources. While some e-service delivery initiatives have …
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The production of rurality : social and spatial transformations in the Tamil countryside 1915-65
This dissertation advances a critique of the "planetary urbanization" thesis inspired by Henri Lefebvre's writings on capitalist urbanization. Theoretically, it argues that Lefebvrian scholars tend to conflate two distinct meanings of urbanization: a) urbanization understood simply as the …
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‘Return to roots’: an examination of the re-presentations of rurality within post-apocalyptic survival video games
Post-apocalyptic survival (PAS) themed video games provide a virtual world that re-presents the realities of current society. Current studies have examined the existence of game culture (Aldred & Greenspan, 2011; Atkins, 2006; Kücklich, 2006), but limited analysis has focused on how these cultures …
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Livelihoods, capabilities and insurgent citizenship in and around a rainforest metropolis : from violent urbanism to a new rurality?
Latin America is one of the most unequal and violent regions in the world. This unevenly affects the poor, who bear a disproportionate share of social pathologies including violence, poor health and inadequate access to healthcare and social rights. This uneven distribution of injustices has been …
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Travel Distance, Rurality and Area Socioeconomic Position As Predictors of Screening Colonoscopy Use Among Patients Who Get Access to Primary Care Practitioners
… colonoscopy-trained and untrained PCPs for the rurality and area SES.</p> <p><strong>Data Analysis:</strong> ARC GIS software was used to calculate distance between patients' zip code centroids and the endoscopy center where their PCP performed colonoscopy. Distance is analyzed as a continuous …
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Racial/Ethnic and Rural Differences in Alcohol Use, Care, and Related Outcomes among VA Patients Living with HIV
… groups (Aim 1), patterns of alcohol use across rurality (Aim 2), and the receipt of alcohol related care across both rurality and race/ethnicity (Aims 3a and 3b). In Aim 1, we found that PLWH from all racial/ethnic groups have increased mortality risk at higher-risk, relative to lower-risk …
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Territory, Settlement, Household: A Project of Rural China
… and research by design, the thesis explores ‘rurality’ as a spatial question at the levels of territory, settlement and household. In the studies, the case study method, fieldwork and drawing play essential roles. Based on the understanding of rurality as an elastic form of association in both …
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Understanding the Professional Lives of Female Teachers in Rural Sub-Saharan African Schools: A Capability Perspective
… the intersection of professional values with rurality and gender. - teachers do not necessarily perceive rurality in negative terms, but rather the "conditions of support" associated with rurality. This defines a further dimension to teacher agency and has implications for re-examining the …
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Women as Fish: Physical Movement and Social Mobility in Contemporary Vietnam
<p>This dissertation examines the changing rurality and the profound social stratification in contemporary Vietnam through the lens of rural-to-rural female migration. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic research in a rural offshore fishing community in northern Vietnam called Hải Thành. …
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Queering and Intersectionalizing Health Services Research: Structural Influences on Minoritized Sexual and Gender Populations’ Mammogram Usage
… and races and ethnicities and marginalized by rurality. Using 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data, this research is among the first to explore the relationship between mammogram usage and the intersections of sexual orientation, gender identity, rurality, race and …
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Measuring Accessibility to Primary Health Care Across the Urban-rural Continuum in the Province of Alberta
… as a dichotomous variable, while many degrees of rurality exist. While many studies attempted to include a distance decay function to address local travel patterns, it is usually arbitrary and may not exactly reflect the reality. This project is an attempt to improve the current methodology and …
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Challenges and opportunities for socially just food systems in rural Scotland: an ethnographic exploration into how rurality shapes responses to and lived experiences of food insecurity among parents and carers in north-east Scotland.
… This thesis explores the nexus between rurality, community food provision, and the experiences of low-income parents with young children in relation to three core notions of the human right to food – access, adequacy, and social acceptability. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic …
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Model Villages
… study investigates the utopian visions of ideal rurality underlying these projects and how they are realised in practice. It examines how model villages function as arenas of social, economic, and spatial change, shaped by varying ideological and political frameworks. Central to this analysis are …
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Participatory Mapping of Health Indicators and Services as a Tool for Anticipatory Co Planning: Finding the local vioce in the rural context
… literature, how rural dwellers experience rurality in terms of places and space, and how this may in turn affect health and interactions with co-production, remians underrepresented in health policy planning.
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