This dissertation is an inquiry into the naturalization of war. It examines forms of life in a rural borderland that is also a battlefield through an ethnographic exploration of the intertwining of war and everyday living on Lebanon's southern border with Israel. Life in these p…
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Background: Recent efforts in International Health focus on increasing access to health services. These efforts contrast with a situation where resources for health are starting to grow at a slower rate, and more efficient use of existing resources is needed. One potential confl…
This study examines the effect of the policies of the government on peasant land tenure during the mid-nineteenth century. According to the literature on rural Egypt, the government harshly exploited the peasants while paying virtually no attention to their welfare. The result o…
Problem: Maternal mortality in Ethiopia remains high, with 676 women dying per 100,000 live births. Infant mortality (68 deaths per 1,000 live births) is also high. The Ethiopian Government has committed significant resources to improving these outcomes, including training and d…
Background: Reproductive intentions are widely used to predict future contraceptive demand and estimate levels of unintended pregnancy; however limited longitudinal data exist linking intentions and outcomes. Aims: The aims of this research are to (1) explore the relationship be…
This study links rural electrification and the transition to modern energy services with poverty reduction and rural development in Ethiopia. Benefits of rural electrification in reducing poverty and accelerating rural development in low-income developing countries have been ins…
Inadequate health care infrastructures and lack of qualified and trained health care professionals are barriers against timely and prompt access to health care services in the rural communities of Akwa Ibom State. The absence of immediate health care services, coupled with the l…
Rural households in the West African Sahel have developed livelihood systems that allow them to survive in one of the most challenging social-ecological systems on Earth. These households have experienced environmental shocks including droughts, floods, and extreme heat for hund…
Human obesity has become a global phenomenon. The main goal of this study was to investigate the differences in food consumption and physical activity among high school age youth in two diverse geographical locations (urban and rural areas) and the relationship of some of the fa…
Several factors influence the health status and outcomes of any nation's population. Remarkable disparity also exists between the industrialized nations and the developing countries in terms of the health status and outcomes of their populations. The literature review indicates …
This dissertation examines how rural public health became politically vital at key moments of national transition from the time of the Netherlands Indies colony in the 1930s to the present post-Suharto moment in Indonesia, bringing about complex changes in local forms of knowled…
The debate on rural transformation dates back to the school of neo-classical political economy. Its modern version has focused on the role of agriculture in economic development in the 1960s and 1970s, and has then moved on to local livelihoods and micro-economics in the 1980s. …
South Asia has the largest concentration of the world’s poor, with over half a billion people surviving on less than a dollar a day. One of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) aims to halve the proportion of the world’s people whose income is less than one dollar a day and th…
This dissertation examines the effects of three major development initiatives in rural Bangladesh on marital sorting and female empowerment. The first chapter documents that a family planning and health services program intended to empower women through fertility control led to …
Lack of quality drinking water has been identified as a major health and economic problem in many developing countries for more than two decades. This problem particularly affects the rural communities of these developing countries. To confront this, the World Bank has attempted…
Whatever way it is defined, power is a factor that influences the lives of all people. In studying power and powerlessness in Appalachia, John Gaventa observed that the feeling of powerlessness comes about as a response to the perceived experience of defeat. He found that belief…
This dissertation examines the role of urbanism as a pervasive cultural ideology of place in rural Malay kampung (villages). The ethnographic portrait drawn here is based on over two years of fieldwork in the mid-1990s, the majority of which was conducted in the kampung of Sunga…
This thesis examines landlord politics in the rural Pakistani Punjab and contributes to the literature on the state and criminalised politics in South Asia as well as to broader debates on factionalism and violence, class formation, proletarianization and bonded labour. The thes…