The Power of Stigma: Encounters with ‘Street Children’ and ‘Restavecs’
We rarely speak about class inequalities, external domination or dependence; this language is unfashionable – and is often dismissed...
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We rarely speak about class inequalities, external domination or dependence; this language is unfashionable – and is often dismissed...
In the rush to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) commitments to halve extreme poverty by 2015, ‘conditional cash transfers’...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Economic crises have a series of impacts on society and security, depending on their severity, and on people's capacities to cope with...
Published by: IDS
How does violence affect the everyday lives of citizens in the global South? Researching this theme under the aegis of the Violence, Participation and Citizenship group of the Citizenship DRC coordinated by IDS, we generated some answers, but also more questions, which this paper starts to explore.
Published by: IDS
The Violence, Participation and Citizenship (VPC) group of the Development Research Centre (DRC) on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability undertook projects in four countries to explore violence and citizenship.
Published by: IDS
This Research Summary highlights how Working Paper 297 explores the reality of life in two such 'garrison' communities through frank and shocking interviews. The stories demonstrate the importance of social conditioning, prejudice and expectations, how inequalities accentuate each other, and the complex non-violent and violent methods which are used by groups and individuals as they try to build alternative lives.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Published as an IDS Bulletin, this article reflects on an innovative methodology adopted to capture the experience of living with violence in communities in Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico and Nigeria
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Report on a pilot study in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya and Zambia, January-March 2009
How have people and communities experienced recent global economic shocks? In early 2009, the Social Impacts of Crisis project started work in 12 community 'listening posts' in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Yemen and Zambia to answer this question.
Published by: IDS
This IDS Bulletin reflects, as the first in the 40th anniversary volume, on some of the core areas of research and policy advocacy that are central to IDS’ work: inequalities, poverty, power, social protection, transformational education, HIV/AIDS, gender and climate change.