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This book provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts of the slums of Dhaka city and will appeal to the fields of Public Health, Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies, Urban Studies, Development Studies, Social Sciences, urban health and poverty-related work.
Sommario
Chapter 1: The Tyranny of Poverty & Health; Chapter 2: Tyranny of Everyday Life for Young women and their families in Slums; Chapter 3: Life on the Margins; Chapter 4: Social Position, Relationships & Strategies to Survive in 2002; Chapter 5: Relationships, Networks & Survival during Covid 19, 2020 and After; Chapter 6: Police, Gang fights & Insecurity in 2002; Chapter 7: 2020 to 2022: Arrests, Cycle of Resistance & Discrimination; Chapter 8: Battered Bodies, Minds and Hearts in 2002; Chapter 9: Health is a battlefield: 2020-2022; Chapter 10: Displaced Lives: Eviction and Instability in 2002; Chapter 11: What lies ahead in 2022? Chapter 12: Dead End
Info autore
Sabina Faiz Rashid is Professor and Mushtaque Chowdhury Chair in Health and Poverty of BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh, The position was endowed by the founder of BRAC, the Late Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. She was former Dean of BRAC School (2013-2023). Her research and teaching focuses on urban informal settlement communities, adolescents, and marginalised groups, including refugee populations and sexual minorities in Bangladesh.
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This book provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts of the slums of Dhaka city and will appeal to the fields of Public Health, Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies, Urban Studies, Development Studies, Social Sciences, urban health and poverty-related work.
