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- Drummond, John Amin, et al.
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COVID-19 Interventions in an informal settlement : A spatial analysis of accessibility in Kibera, Kenya
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Transport Geography. - : Elsevier BV. - 0966-6923 .- 1873-1236. ; 113
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper introduces a methodology to explore pedestrian accessibility in informal settlements. This methodology is applied to pandemic intervention sites in Nairobi's Kibera area for 3.5 months (14 April to 31 July 2020) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Freely available transportation network data and open-source GIS software are utilised. Isochrones, areas of equal travel time, are calculated to assess pedestrian accessibility (walk times) from 30,231 Kibera structures to 138 COVID-19 stationary intervention sites. These sites aid in virus control, resource distribution, and COVID-related medical support. Travel times are determined considering different terrain slopes. Unequal access to intervention sites is observed due to indirect routes. Shortest walks (up to 21.5 min) are to handwashing and food distribution points, while longer walks (up to 61.5 min) are to interventions with fewer sites or localised clustering, such as baby product distribution. This simple accessibility analysis helps identify service gaps during crises, aiding planning authorities and communities. Our methodology offers insight into travel patterns in slums and has wider applicability to assess the relationships between transport infrastructure provision and resilience in informal settlements.
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- Hjertman, Martina
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Afloat and Aflame. Deconstructing the Long 19th century Port City Gothenburg through Newspaper Archaeology
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In line with the international historical-archaeological discipline, this study aims to increase knowledge of marginalising processes and disenfranchised groups in the past and to contribute to the recognised Swedish need to augment the know-how of researching people ‘of little note’ in urban environments. The study aspires a theoretically engaged empirical alternative for developing new knowledge about urban places which are not possible to excavate or where archaeological data is insufficient, while evincing how digitized historical newspapers can step in as a multifaceted historical- archaeological source. By merging historical archaeology with digital history, the study has fashioned a newspaper archaeology, encompassing text-cavation and critical discourse analysis, and applied it to the empirical case, and fringe settlements of the port city Gothenburg, through local newspapers during the long 19th century. The suburbs have been hot topics discussed in, and by newspapers, and furthermore floating (signifiers), variously charged with meaning dependent on situation, correspondent, and text genre. By employing the concept of worldmaking, the study has recognised how inclusion and exclusion of people and spaces through text, encompasses international images, local events, notions of space and architecture, as well as actors − including newspapers and newspaper genres. The concepts of counter-voice and counter-narrative have acknowledged opposing perspectives which have shed light on inequal societal structures and grand narratives and displayed how people ‘of little note’ already from the late 1700s, took part in and reacted to what was printed, and negotiated values. Of the empirical chapters, chapter 6 demonstrates how the name Majorna was geographically floating, but the debate from the 1840s about the suburb Majorna’s integration with the city, anchored the name to a designated space, as well as ushered in a new sense of identity and attempts to fill this location with social meaning. Chapter 7 shows how from around the 1830s, newspaper genres and engaged citizens created in-groups and out-groups through the broadcasting of a mix of internationally spread notions of mariners and workers and bourgeois ideals, and how the space of the port district Majorna from the 1840s, intensifying from the 1860s, was intimately associated with deviant behaviour. Chapter 8 establishes how print representations of urban fires in the fringe had their own worldmaking effects on the creation of communities that bridged geographical and social borders and widened the urban landscape. Chapter 9 evinces how the genre of urban travelogues created othering and typecast representations of the suburb’s built environment and populace, by using internationally known tropes, sensual qualities, semiophores, characters, and narrative techniques, but also was complex and played a less-known role in upholding an informal donation culture. Newspapers as source may carry the only remaining information on erased landscapes, materialities, and social practices and newspaper archaeology can present us with voices from those ‘of little note’ and lesser means. The study demonstrates how newspapers are worldmakers and vehicles in the making of social and spatial inclusion and exclusion, with possibilities of steering debates and halting or accelerating urban change. Consequently, newspapers are not only a pertinent historical-archaeological source, but also affected the very society we study through the newspapers’ contents.
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- Hval, Niclas, 1974
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Kort krönika om sju mord : A Brief History of Seven Killings
- 2018
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Ingår i: Alberg Bonniers förlag. - Stockholm : Albert Bonniers förlag. - 9789100163464
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Översättning av den språkligt mångfacetterade, karaktärsrika, röstrika och omfångsrika jamaicansk-amerikanska romanen A Brief History of Seven Killings av Marlon James.
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- Hörnqvist, Magnus, et al.
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En öppen stad, en ej befästad
- 2005
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Ingår i: Fronesis. - 1404-2614. ; :18, s. 8-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vår tid är urbanitetens epok. Människor vill komma till staden. Utflyttningen från landsbygd till stad tycks vara en social omvandlingsprocess utan ände. I dagens Sverige bor 84 procent av befolkningen i städer. På tvåhundra år har förhållandet mellan stad och landsbygd nästan vänts i sin motsats. Någon gång under 1930-talets början passerade antalet stadsboende landsbygdens befolkning. Det som hände i Sverige för 70 år sedan händer i dag på global nivå. Under 2005 beräknas antalet människor som bor i en stad någonstans i världen passera det antal som bor på landsbygden. Och det är inte i Nord som den största tillväxten av stadsbefolkningar sker, utan i Syd. Bilden av Syd som det rurala, jordbrukshushållande och efterblivna – i kontrast till bilden av Nord som det urbana, industriella och i utveckling stadda – känns allt mer förfelad. Det är i Syd som de verkligt stora städerna formligen exploderar fram. Men denna omkastning innebär inte en utvecklingsväg som följer det sätt på vilket storstäder i Nord växte fram. Det paradoxala för storstäderna i Syd är att det inte alltid är industrialiseringen som driver fram urbaniseringen. Stor- eller megastäderna i Syd närs av en bräcklig informell sektor. Denna utveckling av en "informaliserad" sektor på arbetsmarknaden – med lågbetalda och osäkra tjänstearbeten – är inte något som enbart sker i Syd. Det som tycks karaktärisera västvärldens metropoler är just framväxten av denna typ av arbeten, samtidigt som industrijobben är på tillbakagång. Samtidigt blir storstäderna allt viktigare för de globala ekonomiska flödena – och självmedvetenheten om detta faktum hos städernas makthavare växer i samma utsträckning. Städer konkurrerar med andra städer om att attrahera kapital och arbetskraft. Staden blir ett varumärke som ska säljas in på städernas marknad, med hjälp av stadsmiljöer som passar en framväxande kreativ klass.
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- Onjala, J., et al.
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Risk perception, choice of drinking water and water treatment: evidence from Kenyan towns
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. - : IWA Publishing. - 2043-9083 .- 2408-9362. ; 4:2, s. 268-280
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study used household survey data from four Kenyan towns to examine the effect of households' characteristics and risk perceptions on their decision to treat/filter water as well as on their choice of main drinking water source. Because the two decisions may be jointly made by the household, a seemingly unrelated bivariate probit model was estimated. It turned out that treating non-piped water and using piped water as a main drinking water source were substitutes. The evidence supports the finding that perceived risks significantly correlate with a household's decision to treat non-piped water before drinking it. The study also found that higher connection fees reduced the likelihood of households connecting to the piped network. Because the current connection fee acts as a cost hurdle which deters households from getting a connection, the study recommends a system where households pay the connection fee in instalments, through a prepaid water scheme or through a subsidy scheme.
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- Pathak, Ashish, 1973-, et al.
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Unintentional Poisoning and Bites during Childhood in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
- 2019
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Ingår i: Indian Pediatrics. - : Springer. - 0019-6061 .- 0974-7559. ; 56:4, s. 329-330
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The prevalence of poisoning and bites was 0.76% (48/6308) and 1.24% (78/6308), respectively in a community-based survey in Ujjain district, Madhya Pradesh. Household cleansing agents and medicines, and-dog bite and bee-sting were the most common poisons and bites, respectively. Most parents (59%) reported lack of appropriate first-aid knowledge. Educational interventions and implementing the medicine take-back program are suggested.
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- Teodorescu, Dominic
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The Modern Mahala : Making and Living in Romania’s Postsocialist Slum
- 2018
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Ingår i: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863. ; 59:3-4, s. 436-461
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Almost 30 years have passed since state-socialism came to an end and several scholars sought to establish how the Romanian housing market has unfolded within a changing economic context and a strongly altered welfare system. This paper considers the most disadvantaged postsocialist groups in Romanian society and aims to advance our understanding of the housing situation in newly concentrated poor urban spaces. In developing such analysis, this article draws on local insights from Ferentari, a neighborhood in Bucharest where most residents I spoke saw a gradual degradation of their dwelling and living environment and do not expect any improvement soon. Not surprisingly, a strong indifference towards present-day politics and a potentially better and more inclusive space has colonized most minds. By studying their housing conditions and socioeconomic situation this article aims to illuminate the sudden emergence and diverse character of Romania’s underprivileged neighborhoods: the modern mahalas.
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