Account of the Hindu Muslim riots in Dhārāvi, Bombay during December 1992-January 1993
Review: "A study of local-level social and political organizations during the early years of military rule and of the protest between 1983-86. The author points to the presence (or absence) of a strong Communist party nucleus and a historical tradition (pre-1973) of political in…
This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women#x92;s use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women#x92;s use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
Based on a year's research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously in…
This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women's use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
Urbanization and slums: infectious diseases in the built environment ; pr…
by Nicholson, Anna, Ogawa, V. Ayano, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.)., Forum on Microbial Threats, Urbanization and Slums: New Transmission Pathways of Infectious Diseases in the Built Environment (Workshop), Washington, DC), Mundaca Shah, Cecilia
"The urban built environment is a prime setting for microbial transmission, because just as cities serve as hubs for migration and international travel, components of the urban built environment serve as hubs that drive the transmission of infectious disease pathogens. The risk …