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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"economic marginalization"”.
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC MARGINALIZATION, GENDER INEQUALITY, AND OTHER EXOGENOUS FACTORS OF SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION ON FEMALE PROPERTY CRIME OFFENDING ACROSS US CITIES: A RACIALLY AND ETHNICALLY DISAGGREGATED ANALYSIS
… the influence of race and gender specific economic disadvantage, gender inequality, and other social disadvantage indicators on female non-violent and violent property crime offending. This dissertation found that economic marginality, gender inequality, and exogenous factors of social …
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Savage rulers: state-sponsored mass killing during civil war
… government’s rival states, severe political and economic marginalization, and history of intense armed conflict are likely to trigger extensive mass killing, whereas rebels’ exploitation of lootable resources is likely to restrain extensive mass killing. I verify my theoretical argument by …
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Design for More Equitable Neighborhood Adaptation: Climate Resiliency and Public Space Planning in U.S. Border Colonias
… environmental harms and the political and economic marginalization of communities cannot be easily disentangled in today’s world. Consequently, this thesis reexamines the relationships between planners, designers, and communities in response to environmental challenges that marginalized …
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Irrigators' Vulnerability to Drought in the Flathead River Basin, Montana
… arrangements affecting water management and the economic marginalization of the agriculturalist lifestyle have led to drought vulnerabilities for some irrigators in the basin. These findings illustrate how the political economy of irrigation and agriculture are contributing to drought impacts and …
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Irrigators' Vulnerability to Drought in the Flathead River Basin, Montana
… arrangements affecting water management and the economic marginalization of the agriculturalist lifestyle have led to drought vulnerabilities for some irrigators in the basin. These findings illustrate how the political economy of irrigation and agriculture are contributing to drought impacts and …
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Space wars in Bogotá : the recovery of public space and its impact on street vendors
… fiscal decentralization, and (3) the political-economic marginalization of traditionally obstructive Bogotá vendor unions. Field work was carried out in metropolitan Bogotá to determine the impact of the public space recuperation on vendors who were relocated by the Mayor's Office of Bogotá. …
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Women's work and household income: evidence from Bangkok's urban fringe
… research asks whether the patterns of women's economic contribution and marginalization that previously have been identified apply to the emerging metropolitan fringe areas. I argue that women in metropolitan fringe communities are more marginalized than men in terms of type of employment, …
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The Economics of Violence and Development in Post-Conflict Societies
Despite a wealth of research on how socio-economic factors such as underdevelopment or inequality influence armed conflict, existing research has paid little attention to how micro-dynamics relating to armed violence and socio-economic factors affect post-conflict societies. This thesis builds on …
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A critical Moroccan chronology: the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan since 1946
… in the region’s socio-political, cultural, and economic marginalization and a disregard by scholars for seminal figures such as Ahmed Amrani, Saâd Ben Cheffaj, Meriam Maziane, Mekki Megara, and Mohamed Sarghini. I assert that rather than replicate colonial artistic styles, they were engaged in …
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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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Bargaining in a Labor Regime: Plantation Life and the Politics of Development in Sri Lanka
… to histories of dislocation and ethnic marginalization. Based on ethnographic observations, detailed life histories, and collaborative dialogue, it explores how Malaiyaha Tamils reconstitute what it means to be a political minority in an insecure Sri Lankan economy and state by 1) …