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View article: Development as (In)Justice: The Case of Namibia
Development as (In)Justice: The Case of Namibia Open
This article critically examines the ongoing legacy of colonial land dispossession and its impacts on marginalized communities to reveal the limitations to achieving restorative justice. We focus on the unequal (re)distribution of land, th…
View article: Socio-Demographic Risk Factors Associated with Diabetic Foot Ulcer in India: A Case Control Study
Socio-Demographic Risk Factors Associated with Diabetic Foot Ulcer in India: A Case Control Study Open
A BSTRACT Background: Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are a devastating complication of diabetes mellitus, having a significant impact on the quality of life of patients and indeed putting an enormous burden on health care systems, especially i…
View article: End-to-End Robotic Process Automation in Oracle On-Premise Environments: UiPath RPA for ERP, EBS, PeopleSoft, and HCM in Construction Materials Manufacturing
End-to-End Robotic Process Automation in Oracle On-Premise Environments: UiPath RPA for ERP, EBS, PeopleSoft, and HCM in Construction Materials Manufacturing Open
Oracle’s on-premise applications ERP, EBS, PeopleSoft and HCM are fundamental in the business operations of the construction materials manufacturing industry and they are relied upon heavily. Nevertheless, manual data entry, fractional wor…
View article: Sensing the past along Britain’s A roads
Sensing the past along Britain’s A roads Open
This paper seeks to explore the particular characteristics of British A-roads by focusing upon a motoring journey from Slough to Torquay. This trip was undertaken as part of an extended motoring adventure by two Indian tourists in 1955, an…
View article: Custodians of a resort island: standing by between oblivion and restoration
Custodians of a resort island: standing by between oblivion and restoration Open
This paper explores the experiences of three Bangladeshi migrant workers who are the sole inhabitants and custodians of a former Maldivian island resort. We show how they currently remain in a state of indeterminate standby as the future o…
View article: Challenging Global Development
Challenging Global Development Open
This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty and inequalities…
View article: Rethinking Development and Decolonising Development Studies
Rethinking Development and Decolonising Development Studies Open
The COVID-19 pandemic, which led to almost seven million deaths (WHO in Statistics on COVID-19 , 2022), revealed the world to be even more complex and unequal than previously thought. It brought to the fore the need to rethink the ‘fault l…
View article: Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives
Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives Open
Large‐scale disasters are frequently portrayed as temporally bounded, linear events after which survivors are encouraged to ‘move on’ as quickly as possible. In this paper, we explore how understandings of disaster mobilities and temporali…
View article: Storying <i>Pandemia</i> Collectively: Sharing Plural Experiences of Interruption, Dislocation, Care, and Connection
Storying <i>Pandemia</i> Collectively: Sharing Plural Experiences of Interruption, Dislocation, Care, and Connection Open
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of academic geographers got together across borders to share our varied experiences. In this paper we illustrate how this storying of pandemia helped us critically and collaboratively…
View article: Seafarers, the mission and the archive: Affective, embodied and sensory traces of sea-mobilities in Melbourne, Australia
Seafarers, the mission and the archive: Affective, embodied and sensory traces of sea-mobilities in Melbourne, Australia Open
The Mission to Seafarers, founded in 1856, is an international organisation that offers support to the seafaring community. Recently, at its mission in Melbourne, Australia, a century’s worth of records were discovered, concealed in boxes …
View article: Multiplicities of sandscapes and granular geographies
Multiplicities of sandscapes and granular geographies Open
This commentary on William Jamieson’s article, ‘For Granular Geography’, which illuminates the granular relations of sand as it is transformed by capitalist urbanism, suggests that understanding what might constitute granular geographies r…
View article: Spatial and temporal ways of knowing sea level rise: Bringing together multiple perspectives
Spatial and temporal ways of knowing sea level rise: Bringing together multiple perspectives Open
Sea level rise presents risks to ecosystems, populations, and infrastructure in low‐lying areas. This article considers diverse ways of knowing, understanding, and experiencing these risks. It explores differences and connections between k…
View article: COVID-19 and the case for global development
COVID-19 and the case for global development Open
COVID-19 accentuates the case for a global, rather than an international, development paradigm. The novel disease is a prime example of a development challenge for all countries, through the failure of public health as a global public good…
View article: COVID-19 and the case for global development
COVID-19 and the case for global development Open
COVID-19 accentuates the case for a global, rather than an international, development paradigm. The novel disease is a prime example of a development challenge for all countries, through the failure of public health as a global public good…
View article: Becoming an island: Making connections and places through waste mobilities
Becoming an island: Making connections and places through waste mobilities Open
Islands, long portrayed in the Western imaginary as remote, static, and bounded entities, have increasingly come to be viewed as places constantly in the making: as connected sites formed by complex and shifting relations and assemblages o…
View article: Commentary
Commentary Open
This chapter focuses on two areas in which history can make a contribution, conceptually and methodologically, to understanding constructions of time and the past in development policy. First, it explores the problematic way in which the d…
View article: Bordering: Creating, contesting and resisting practice
Bordering: Creating, contesting and resisting practice Open
Materially and symbolically manifest, borders are shaped by history, politics and power. This second special issue of a two-part series brings together an international collective of authors who presented their papers at a conference on Te…
View article: Between the land and the sea: Refugee experiences of the lighthouse as a real and symbolic border
Between the land and the sea: Refugee experiences of the lighthouse as a real and symbolic border Open
In the context of the refugee crisis, seascapes are taking on new dimensions with borders shifting from the shoreline to being redrawn in the water itself. As such, refugees are now crossing waters that have become extended sovereign borde…
View article: International Volunteerism and Capacity Development in Nonprofit Organizations of the Global South
International Volunteerism and Capacity Development in Nonprofit Organizations of the Global South Open
Although international volunteerism has been a part of official development assistance for decades, the capacity development (CD) impacts of such programs in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in the Global South have received scant attention.…
View article: Raising Awareness of Environmental Change in the Maldives
Raising Awareness of Environmental Change in the Maldives Open
Island communities in the Maldives are experiencing environmental change on a daily basis due to coastal erosion, the accumulation of waste at sea and on beaches, and the rapid expansion of the built environment. Researchers from the Unive…
View article: Re-articulating labour in global production networks: The case of street traders in Barcelona
Re-articulating labour in global production networks: The case of street traders in Barcelona Open
The global production network approach constitutes a relational theorising of production processes, incorporating firm and non-firm actors, including the state, civil society and labour. Despite renewed attention to labour, global producti…
View article: Everyday life and environmental change
Everyday life and environmental change Open
This paper explores how daily changes in the physical environment intersect and connect with people's everyday lives, routines and practices in the Maldives. Day‐to‐day life is often regarded as mundane and ordinary, and therefore not part…
View article: Bordering: Creating, contesting and resisting practice
Bordering: Creating, contesting and resisting practice Open
Materially and symbolically manifest, borders are shaped by history, politics and power. This first special issue of a two-part series brings together an international collective of authors who presented their papers at a conference on Tec…
View article: Consuming colonial imaginaries and forging postcolonial networks: on the road with Indian travellers in the 1950s
Consuming colonial imaginaries and forging postcolonial networks: on the road with Indian travellers in the 1950s Open
Drawing on an extended road trip from England to India undertaken by two Indian travellers in the 1950s, this paper challenges the dominant travel stories and Eurocentric academic accounts that persistently privilege western tourists. Focu…
View article: Contestation over an island imaginary landscape: The management and maintenance of touristic nature
Contestation over an island imaginary landscape: The management and maintenance of touristic nature Open
This article demonstrates how maintaining high-end tourism in luxury resorts requires recreating a tourist imaginary of pristine, isolated and unpeopled island landscapes, thus necessitating the ceaseless manipulation and management of spa…