Kathleen McAfee
Kathleen McAfee
Commodification and transnational trading of ecosystem services is the most ambitious iteration yet of the strategy of ‘selling nature to save it’. The World Bank and UN agencies contend that global carbon markets can slow climate change ...
What's nature got to do with it? A situated historical perspective on socio-natural commodities [0.03%]
有什么关系呢？关于社会自然商品的历史情境视角
Nancy Lee Peluso
Nancy Lee Peluso
Nature(s) have been commodified since the early days of capitalism, but through processes and socio-natural relationships mediated by their times, histories and localities. While the conditions under which nature's commodities are being tra...
Grassroots development and upwards accountabilities: tensions in the reconstruction of Aceh's fishing industry [0.03%]
重建亚齐渔业产业中的草根发展与向上问责间的矛盾冲突
Rowan Dixon,Andrew McGregor
Rowan Dixon
This article explores the tensions between aid funding and grassroots development goals in the context of post-disaster fisheries reconstruction in Aceh, Indonesia. We argue that both short- and long-term grassroots goals are distorted by u...
Christophe Z Guilmoto,Qiang Ren
Christophe Z Guilmoto
This article examines the relationship between birth masculinity and socio-economic levels in China. Both 2000 and 2005 data suggest the presence of a non-linear relationship between the sex ratio at birth and socio-economic status, with a ...
The politics of assessment: water and sanitation MDGs in the Middle East [0.03%]
评估的政治：中东地区水和环境卫生领域的千年发展目标
Neda Zawahri,Jeannie Sowers,Erika Weinthal
Neda Zawahri
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is generally considered to be making adequate progress towards meeting Target 10 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which calls for halving the proportion of the population with inadequate ac...
Qualitative life course methodologies: critical reflections from development studies [0.03%]
生命历程研究的定性方法论：来自发展研究领域的反思
Catherine Locke,Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
Catherine Locke
This article reflects on two experiences of applying qualitative life course research in development studies. The first methodology centred on the elicited narratives of older people in Buenos Aires exploring their lifetime relations with t...
Nicola Yeates
Nicola Yeates
This article critically examines the contours of ‘care transnationalization’ as an ongoing social process and a field of enquiry. Care transnationalization scholarship combines structural understandings of global power relations with an e...
Putting two and two together? Early childhood education, mothers’ employment and care service expansion in Chile and Mexico [0.03%]
二加二等于几？智利和墨西哥的学前教育、母亲就业及照料服务扩张的关系探究
Silke Staab,Roberto Gerhard
Silke Staab
In recent years, several middle-income countries, including Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, have increased the availability of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. These developments have received little scholarly attention so far...
Stratified familialism: the care regime in India through the lens of childcare [0.03%]
分层家庭主义：透过育儿制度看印度照料体制
Rajni Palriwala,N Neetha
Rajni Palriwala
This article explores the political and social economy of care in India through a focus on childcare practices, from the viewpoint of the care giver — a perspective frequently ignored or touched on only generally in earlier discussions on ...
Fernando Filgueira,Magdalena Gutiérrez,Jorge Papadópulos
Fernando Filgueira
This article claims that welfare states modelled on a contributory basis and with a system of entitlements that assumes stable two-parent families, a traditional breadwinner model, full formal employment and a relatively young age structure...