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20 March 2011
Published by: Earthscan
This book, based on anthropological fieldwork in the UK, India and South Africa, explores people's understandings of their illness, risk, compensation and regulation, contrasting these personal and community narratives with formal medical and legal understandings.
11 February 2010
This article examines Griqua women's association with houses in historic, economic, and ritual contexts during the twentieth century....
10 February 2010
This special section of the European Journal of Development Research focuses on the relationship between science, technology and...
1 January 2010
Published by: Zed Books
Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa and Nigeria.
1 July 2009
24 June 2009
Published by: IDS
This paper examines asbestos issues, mobilisation and citizenship in India. It shows how asbestos has been considered as a tool for Indian economic growth and modernisation and explores the scientific debates around its ‘safe’ use.
1 January 2009
1 January 2009
Published by: STEPS Centre
This paper examines some of the many ways in which the peri-urban has been theorised, considering, in particular, the implications for a...
1 January 2009
Published by: STEPS Centre
This paper explores what ‘mainstream' Centres of Excellence might mean for developing countries and poor people. It examines how...
1 April 2008
Published by: IDS
This paper explores people's experience of asbestos-related diseases in relation to medicine, identity and gender. The paper adopts a comparative approach, examining the experiences of impoverished former asbestos mine workers in South Africa and working class factory workers and laggers in the United Kingdom (UK).