The Coffee Cup Revolution: Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, Oct 16th 11am-2pm For the uninitiated, there’s a term in Vancouver English for those who earn a living by sorting through the trash and collecting the valuable recyclables. They’re called binners and the expression was coined by Vancouver journalist Bob Sarti in the mid-1990s. I remember hearing about
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Micro, small and medium enterprises, or MSMEs, are backbones of the economy in both wealthy and low and middle income countries (LMICs). The agri-food sector in particular is of fundamental importance in terms of livelihoods, food-security and meeting growing domestic and international demand for food, including value-added comestibles. If one includes informal enterprises and activities,
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After serving on the board of the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective for three years, I decided it was time to step down and make room for new voices. Being part of this 45 year old organization has been a privilege and I will continue to support it and encourage you to do the same. My
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It was a pleasure being approached by design writer Anne Quito in April to provide media commentary on the ostensible banning of street food in Bangkok because of my work in this area over the years. As a result, the following article was published by Quartz on April 24th 2017 and can be viewed here.
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English follows… Ma nouvelle publication avec Narumol Nirathron – “La vente dans l’espace public : le cas de Bangkok” publication In F. Zogning et. al. (eds) L’économie informelle, l’entrepreneuriat et l’emploi – Publié par JFD Éditions à Montréal en avril 2017 suite au Colloque sur l’économie informelle à l’ACFAS en mai 2016. Ce texte est
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I’m pleased to announce that my chapter comparing women’s access to public space for their livelihoods in Thailand, the Philippines and India in a collection entitled Women, Law and Culture: Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict is available for ordering in advance of the March 2017 publication date by Palgrave-MacMillan. Thanks to our editor, the amazing The Honourable
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Thanks to Carlin Carr of WIEGO for offering to interview me for the WIEGO Blog. The following Q and A was published in September. The English version is available here with Spanish available here. Photo courtesy of WIEGO.
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This invited blog entry was posted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday, August 22nd as a result of my participation as a WIEGO resource person for Asia-Pacific Social Protection Week earlier the same month. The full text is available here. Salamat Po for the warm welcome back to Manila after many years away! (Photo
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Thanks to Professor Malinda Smith of the University of Alberta for inviting me to contribute to the AlbertaPoliBlog. I’m happy the entry came out last week inspired by my recent trip to India for WIEGO. And thanks to the Honourable Jocelynne Annette Scutt for her “concrete canopy” metaphor, which I have referenced. The full text
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I’m delighted to have been invited to speak at the European Institute of Asian Studies in Brussels on Wednesday, January 27th. The topic of my presentation was “Women’s Access to Public Space in Asia: India, Thailand and the Philippines in Comparative Perspective” based on a recent draft book chapter based on many years of past work. Merci
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