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Overlapping Organizations and Political Crises in South America
In this chapter, we introduce the cases to be analysed in South America. Relevant cases of analysis comprehend the response of regional organizations...
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Advocacy in Inclusive Humanitarian Action
Disability Advocacy and Activism in humanitarian action is both a voice and a mechanism steering disability-informed and disability-mainstreamed...
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Studying Men and Masculinities in Global Crises: Critical Reflections on COVID-19 ‘Lockdown Masculinities’ in Uganda
Emerging public discourses around the COVID-19 crisis have characterised this pandemic as unprecedented and disruptive. How exactly do such global...
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Young People’s Voice and Power in Democracy: Supporting Through Action
This chapter introduces the relationship between voice, power, and action for young people in contemporary democracies. It draws on research with...
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COVID-19 and the Environmental Crises: Knowledge, Social Order and Transformative Change
In this chapter, we critically analyse how the pandemic caused prior assumptions across both spatial and temporal boundaries to become questioned and...
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Resilience: A Universal Answer to the Crises of Our Time?
In the face of manifold crisis bundles and bundled crises, the question of preventive ‘protective factors’ that enables societies to cope with...
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Charitable Giving in Times of Covid-19: Do Crises Forward the Better or the Worse in Individuals?
Why did some individuals react to the Covid-19 crisis in a prosocial manner, whereas others withdrew from society? To shed light onto this question,...
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Water Crises in the Appalachian Mountain Region
This region has two different sections of a set of water problems in states that follow to a large degree the Appalachian Mountains: an inland...
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Land-Related Conflicts and the Nature of Government Responses in Africa: The Case of Farmer-Herder Crises in Nigeria
This article makes a case for state complicity in land-related conflicts, particularly as it concerns governments’ responses to farmer-herder crises...
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Population anxieties in constituting Nordic welfare state futures: affective biopolitics in the age of environmental crises
Declining fertility rates across world have generated deep concern among different stakeholders. In 2019, Finland’s fertility rate was at an...
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Comparing Social Policy Responses Between Separate Crises: Taking the Case of Indonesia
This article draws on an institutional approach to compare social policy responses and changes between the Asian Financial Crisis and the current...
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Social Networks and Action Space in Cities
This chapter builds on Jacobs’s insights into social networks as a cohesive force in cities. It introduces social-network concepts into...
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Water Crises in the South and Southcentral Regions
States in the Southcentral region included here are Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama. The Mississippi embayment aquifer is...
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What Lies Behind the Acute Crises: The Social and Infrasystems Links with Disasters in Brazil
In recent years, Brazilian municipalities have had to deal with increasing numbers of crises, such as disasters. Infrastructural systems...
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Troubles in Action Theory
Classical sociological action theory is characterised by a number of axiomatic assumptions that do not necessarily match the empirical reality of...
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Filling the Void: The Reactionary Response to Neoliberalism and Its Crises
This chapter is an examination of the elements of the recent reactionary/right-wing resurgence that is taking place on a global scale. The elements...
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Sustainability of the “Community Action for Health” Project
This chapter aims to assess the sustainability of the “Community Action for Health” project by expanding on the continuity of project activities,...
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The Thau Fisheries Local Action Group
The Thau Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG) is the case of focus in this chapter. After introducing the FLAG and identifying the local actor...
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A New Normal or Business-as-Usual? Lessons for COVID-19 from Financial Crises in East and Southeast Asia
Crises and dislocations home in on social, economic, and political weaknesses that are often sidestepped or pushed to the backburner in the interests...
