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Unjust Conditions: Women’s Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs

July 10

Author: Tara Cookson, Director, Ladysmith Ventures Unjust Conditions: Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs, follows the...

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Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South: A transformative knowledge network (GenUrb)

February 27

PI: Linda Peake, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada Situated within the dynamic early 21st century context of urbanization, the GenUrb project...

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Middle Class Identities and Job Instability: explorations on class identifications of temporary state workers

September 11

Santiago García Martín, Social Sciences PhD. Candidate, Centro de Investigaciones Sociohistóricas, Instituto de Investigación en Humanidades y...

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Evaluating the Role of Landscape and Urban Planning in the Prevention and Mitigation of Domestic Violence

May 23

Jennifer Porter, University of Washington In this project, I explore how anti-violence organizing can be sustained inter-generationally through...

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The governance of informality through slum policies in South Africa and Brazil

April 18

Zora Kovacic, Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona The project analyses slum upgrading policies from the...

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Viviendo del rebusque: studying how law affects the working poor in Bogotá-Colombia

May 6

Laura Porras, University of Ottowa My doctoral dissertation focuses on describing, understanding, analyzing and evaluating how both State and...

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A Contínua Luta: Research on politics against the State as a killing system

August 19

 Antonádia Borges, University of Brasilia, Department of Anthropology Privilege in countries like Brazil and South Africa (where I do research)...

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Regulation by ambiguity: The spatial politics of a Paraguayan frontier economy

August 19

Jennifer Tucker, University of California at Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning Since the 1980s, extra-legal networks of custom...

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The Deliciousness of Agency: Trout Farming in Guatemala

February 23

Sunni Wissmer - University of Washington, Engineers Without Borders Engineers Without Borders University of Washington Student Chapter is a part...

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