Who cares in Nicaragua? A care regime in an exclusionary social policy context [0.03%]
尼加拉瓜谁在关心照顾?一种排除性社会政策背景下的照料制度
Juliana Martínez Franzoni,Koen Voorend
Juliana Martínez Franzoni
In Latin American countries with historically strong social policy regimes (such as those in the Southern Cone), neoliberal policies are usually blamed for the increased burden of female unpaid work. However, studying the Nicaraguan care re...
A widening gap? The political and social organization of childcare in Argentina [0.03%]
越拉越大?阿根廷儿童保育的政治和社会组织
Eleonor Faur
Eleonor Faur
This article examines how social policies and programmes implemented in Argentina shape the political and social organization of childcare. The author seeks to analyse how welfare institutions are currently responding to emerging needs, and...
Harsh choices: Chinese women's paid work and unpaid care responsibilities under economic reform [0.03%]
严酷的选择:经济改革下的中国女性在有偿劳动和无偿照料工作中的困境
Sarah Cook,Xiao-yuan Dong
Sarah Cook
China's economic reforms over the past three decades have dramatically changed the mechanisms for allocating goods and labour in both market and non-market spheres. This article examines the social and economic trends that intensify the pre...
Debbie Budlender,Francie Lund
Debbie Budlender
This article draws together unusual characteristics of the legacy of apartheid in South Africa: the state-orchestrated destruction of family life, high rates of unemployment and a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The disruption of family life h...
The good, the bad and the confusing: the political economy of social care expansion in South Korea [0.03%]
好坏与迷惑:韩国社会看护扩张的政治经济学
Ito Peng
Ito Peng
Recent social policy reforms in South Korea indicate a progressive shift by a conservative government to modify the familialistic male breadwinner model that informs its welfare regime. The Korean government has demonstrated support for wom...
Abortion law reforms in Colombia and Nicaragua: issue networks and opportunity contexts [0.03%]
哥伦比亚和尼加拉瓜的堕胎法律改革:问题网络与机会背景
Camilla Reuterswärd,Pär Zetterberg,Suruchi Thapar-Björkert et al.
Camilla Reuterswärd et al.
This article analyses two instances of abortion law reform in Latin America. In 2006, after a decades-long impasse, the highly controversial issue of abortion came to dominate the political agenda when Colombia liberalized its abortion law ...
Navigating the AIDS industry: being poor and positive in Tanzania [0.03%]
坦桑尼亚艾滋病产业的幸存者:贫穷与艾滋病毒感染者面临的挑战
Jelke Boesten
Jelke Boesten
This article shows how poor people living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania navigate a myriad of actors, agencies and organizations to obtain the aid they need to survive. It focuses on community-based organizations which establish networks of care...
Climate change, conflict and development in Sudan: global neo-Malthusian narratives and local power struggles [0.03%]
气候变化、冲突与苏丹的发展:全球新马尔萨斯主义叙事与当地权力斗争
Harry Verhoeven
Harry Verhoeven
Dystopian accounts of climate change posit that it will lead to more conflict, causing state failure and mass population movements. Yet these narratives are both theoretically and empirically problematic: the conflict–environment hypothesi...
Arindam Banerjee
Arindam Banerjee
Critical changes are underway in the domain of grain utilization. With the large-scale diversion of corn for the manufacture of ethanol, the bulk of it in the USA, there has been a transformation of the food–feed competition that emerged i...
Between affiliation and autonomy: navigating pathways of women's empowerment and gender justice in rural Bangladesh [0.03%]
从附属到自主:农村孟加拉国女性赋权和性别正义的实现路径研究
Naila Kabeer
Naila Kabeer
Inasmuch as women's subordinate status is a product of the patriarchal structures of constraint that prevail in specific contexts, pathways of women's empowerment are likely to be "path dependent." They will be shaped by women's struggles t...