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Farmers' participation in civic agriculture: The effect of social embeddedness

2014

This work investigates how farmers??? attitudes influence their decision to participate in some particular forms of civic agriculture, namely farmers' markets (conventional or organic), solidarity purchase groups, direct selling and box schemes. It also explores whether social embeddedness-related attitudes occur with different intensities within the various types of civic agriculture. To this end, a survey was carried out among farmers participating in civic agriculture in Sicily (Italy). Empirical results confirm the role of social embeddedness whereby personal relations between farmers and consumers are emphasised: a greater presence of community relations fosters a greater role of socia…

Editorial: Crises and Recoveries

2018

Report on adult educators’ competence training for the development of immigrant and asylum seeker digital entrepreneurship (EDUAIM)

2020

Chances and challenges of African entrepreneurial activity in times of crisis

2020

This special issue looks in new ways at the relationship between small-scale entrepreneurship, economic (and political) crisis, and the outcomes of neoliberal market economy in African countries. I...

Pirates or entrepreneurs? Informal music distributors and the Nigerian recording industry crisis

2020

This paper is based on field research in Lagos and seeks to examine a group of actors that is often neglected in the literature as well as in local discourses. I refer to these actors as informal m...

Enfermeiras e profissionais durante a epidemia de gripe de 1918: Análise através da imprensa española

2018

espanolObjetivo: La epidemia de gripe de 1918 se considera una de las mas letales de la historia de la humanidad, ocasionando una alta morbilidad y mortalidad que quedo reflejada en la prensa espanola. Por ello, pretendemos abordar los acontecimientos relativos a la epidemia en relacion con los profesionales de Enfermeria desde la perspectiva periodistica. Material y metodo: A partir de diez cabeceras de periodicos espanoles se ha procedido a la extraccion de las informaciones relativas a profesionales de Enfermeria, desde el 1 de enero de 1918 hasta el 31 de diciembre de 1920, procediendo a su organizacion y caracterizacion tematica. Resultados: Se obtuvieron un total de 555 unidades de an…

Police violence in West Africa : Perpetrators' and ethnographers' dilemmas

2012

This article explores the use of violence by police officers and gendarmes in Ghana and Niger. We analyse how popular discourses, legal and organizational conditions frame the police use of violence. Acts of violence by police are situated in this inconsistent framework and can be seen as legal and appropriate, despicable and brutal, or as useful and morally legitimate. Thus, every time the police use violence, they face a major dilemma: legally and morally justified violence can be a source of long-term legitimacy; but because of multiple possible readings of a certain situation (according to different, conflicting moral and legal discourses), the very same action has potentially delegiti…

Factorial Invariance of the Scale Beliefs About Children’s Adjustment in Same-Sex Families in Spanish, Chilean, and Hispanic University Students

2017

This study examines the factorial invariance of the Scale on Beliefs About Children’s Adjustment in Same-Sex Families (SBCASSF) across countries in three samples: Chilean, Spanish, and Hispanic university students. The scale analyzes attitudes toward the consequences of the rearing and education of children by parents with a homosexual sexual orientation. The instrument consists of two subscales: Individual Opposition and Normative Opposition. The Spanish sample is composed of 199 university students, the Chilean sample is made up of 279 students, and the Hispanic sample consists of 114 students. The results provide empirical evidence for the reliability of the SBCASSF in the samples from …

The Romanian Migrants in Spain. An Exceptional Migratory Flow

2011

Abstract The Romanian population is the most important foreign population in Spain. Romanian migrants are characterized by their large number (about 800.000 residents and 268.000 contract workers) and their rapid growth. The economic and labour motivation for migration determines their geographical distribution, with high numbers of Romanian migrants in cities and in areas of agricultural, industrial and tourist industries. However, a high proportion of Romanian migrants also live in small towns and rural areas. Most of them were already illegal migrants when Romania entered the EU and they became EU citizens. From January 1st 2009, these once illegal migrants now have full freedom of emplo…

Exploring Beyond the River and Inside the Valleys: Settlement Development and Cultural Landscape of the Araxes River Basin Through Time

2020

Geographical landmarks, especially rivers, have always played an important role in forming or hampering interplay between societies. In some cases, they act as a “communication route” and in some o...