Silver linings around dark clouds: Tourism, Covid-19 and a return to traditional values, villages and the vanua [0.03%]
风雨过后见彩虹：新冠疫情下旅游业的回归趋势——从城市到乡村，从现代化到传统价值观
Apisalome Movono,Regina Scheyvens,Sophie Auckram
Apisalome Movono
The global pandemic has adversely affected tourism globally, particularly in small island states heavily dependent on tourism. The closure of borders to regular flights for over a year in places such as Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands and Vanuatu...
Occupational health and safety of merchant seafarers from Kiribati and Tuvalu [0.03%]
基里巴斯和图瓦卢商船海员的职业健康与安全状况研究
Maria Borovnik
Maria Borovnik
Intensifying international competition in the shipping industry in response to global pressures makes seafarers' jobs increasingly difficult. Challenging conditions in ship employment are problematic, particularly in a development context w...
Maylee Thavat
Maylee Thavat
Fair-trade and organic products are often sold at price premiums justified by smaller production volumes that are associated with greater social and environmental responsibility. The consumption of these products confers on the consumer a g...
A new inequality? Privatisation, urban bias, migration and medical tourism [0.03%]
不平等的新来源？ privatization、城市偏向、人口迁移和医疗旅游
John Connell
John Connell
Access to health care in developing countries, the main destinations of medical tourists, is notoriously uneven, and often becoming more so. Medical tourism, urban bias and privatisation have combined to exacerbate this trend. This is exemp...
Shifting subjects of health-care: placing "medical tourism" in the context of Malaysian domestic health-care reform [0.03%]
马来西亚国内医疗保健改革背景下的医疗旅游课题变迁
Meghann Ormond
Meghann Ormond
"Medical tourism" has frequently been held to unsettle naturalised relationships between the state and its citizenry. Yet in casting "medical tourism" as either an outside "innovation" or "invasion," scholars have often ignored the role tha...
Assessing women's understandings of health in rural Papua New Guinea: implications for health policy and practice [0.03%]
评估巴布亚新几内亚农村地区女性的健康观念：对卫生政策和实务的启示
Rachael Hinton,Jaya Earnest
Rachael Hinton
In Papua New Guinea (PNG), women's health is addressed by applying biomedical solutions which often ignore the complexity of women's histories, cultural contexts and lived experiences. The objective of this study was to examine adult and ol...
Gordon A Carmichael
Gordon A Carmichael
The project Thai Health-Risk Transition: A National Cohort Study seeks to better understand the health implications of modernisation and globalisation forces impacting on Thailand. As part of its "look-back" component this paper seeks, usin...
Composite farming systems in an era of change: Nagaland, Northeast India [0.03%]
变革时代下的综合农业体系——印度东北部奈尼利亚州案例研究
Malcolm Cairns,Harold Brookfield
Malcolm Cairns
Composite farming systems, first clearly identified by Rambo, are those in which radically different technologies are found together in a single farming complex. Data from diaries kept by groups of farming families in two Angami Naga villag...
Carol Harrington
Carol Harrington
This paper argues that international security forces in Timor Leste depend upon civilian partners in HIV/AIDs "knowledge networks" to monitor prostitutes' disease status. These networks produce mobile expertise, techniques of government and...
Torika Bolatagici
Torika Bolatagici
Fijian bodies have become a valuable commodity in the economy of war. Remittances from workers overseas are Fiji's largest income – exceeding that of tourism and sugar export. This essay examines historical and contemporary representations...