A qualitative exploration of systemic training and practice for Muslim community leaders as part of an innovative project in an inner‐city area

Surveys using clinical-type interviews have documented a high rate of depression among working-class women, and this is discussed in the light of a recent survey in an inner-city area. While women with caseness of depression contacting a psychiatrist did not differ in number of core depressive symptoms from those who did, they did in certain characteristics that would make them worrying for a general practitioner to deal with. It is concluded that there is a considerable overlap in the severity of depressive conditions between those seen by psychiatrists and those defined as cases in population surveys; any differences that do exist may relate more to the way symptoms are expressed than to the severity of the depressive disorder as such.

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Relationship between pulmonary function and indoor air pollution from coal combustion among adult residents in an inner-city area of southwest China

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research ◽

10.1590/1414-431x20144084 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 47 (11) ◽

pp. 982-989 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Y. Jie ◽

H. Houjin ◽

M. Xun ◽

L. Kebin ◽

Y. Xuesong ◽

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Keyword(s):

Air Pollution ◽

Pulmonary Function ◽

Inner City ◽

Indoor Air ◽

Coal Combustion ◽

Indoor Air Pollution ◽

Southwest China ◽

City Area

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Mixed Land Use and Living Environment in the Inner-City Area

Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan ◽

10.11361/journalcpij.49.903 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 903-908

Author(s):

Takahiro Suezawa ◽

Yoko Hatori ◽

Takashi Yamada ◽

Tatsuya Kishimoto

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Inner City ◽

Living Environment ◽

City Area ◽

Mixed Land Use

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Entrepreneurial Needs for Outer Urban Co-Working Hubs

Anywhere Working and the Future of Work - Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-4159-3.ch008 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 190-219

Author(s):

Emsie Arnoldi ◽

Vanessa Cooper ◽

Cathy Greenfield ◽

Rachelle Bosua ◽

Huck Ying Ch'ng

Keyword(s):

Inner City ◽

Activity Theory ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

Flexible Work ◽

City Area ◽

Fast Growing ◽

Work Arrangements ◽

Urban City ◽

Coworking Spaces

Workspaces and workplaces have changed significantly over the last decade. Facilitated by networking and collaboration tools, there has been a steady concentration of inner-city coworking spaces providing many opportunities for new flexible work arrangements. Driven by sustainability and creative entrepreneurship, coworking spaces are ideal hosting and meeting places to connect creative minds. Despite the growth in inner city coworking spaces, little is known of entrepreneurial needs for coworking models in outer urban city areas, particularly areas that experience rapid population growth. The authors conducted an exploratory study to identify entrepreneurs' coworking needs in a fast-growing outer urban city area in Melbourne, Australia. Drawing on activity theory (AT) as a lens to analyse the data, the study confirms that entrepreneurs in fast-growing outer urban areas have unique coworking needs compared to those in inner-city areas. The study identifies three key requirements that an outer urban coworking model needs to address to support a growing cohort of outer-urban anywhere workers.

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Communal Mobilization and Riots in Western Uttar Pradesh

Everyday Communalism ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199466290.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 222-272

Author(s):

Sudha Pai ◽

Sajjan Kumar

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

Uttar Pradesh ◽

Community Leaders ◽

Muslim Community ◽

Muslim Majority ◽

Local Leaders

This chapter based on fieldwork in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts describes the communal incidents from 2011 onwards and the riots in September 2013. Contrasting narratives emerged from discussions with community leaders in Muzaffarnagar town and selected Jat-dominated and Muslim-majority villages forming the epicentre of the riots, which indicate high levels of aggression, a pogrom and Muslim exodus in some villages. The fieldwork revealed the deeply implicating role of political parties: local BJP leaders were aware of and in some cases involved in the rioting; SP leaders remained largely silent hoping to gain Muslim support in the 2014 elections. As the BSP’s support base and cadre straddles the Hindu, that is, Dalit and Muslim community, local leaders found it difficult to deal with the rioters. These developments indicate the successful creation in these districts particularly in the sample villages, of a system of institutionalized everyday communalism, visible two years after the riots.

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