The aim of this article is to analyse contemporary feminist comics by the Swedish artists Åsa Grennvall/Schagerström, Lotta Sjöberg and Sara Granér in relation ongoing movement called craftivism, as defined Betsy Greer her fellow crafters. argues that embroidered can be regarded since, although similar drawings, they are all sewn needle thread, often thematise topics connected craftivism’s idea...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, celebrities occupied a highly contested space within popular and political imaginary. Whilst mass suffering unleashed by pandemic led some to herald death of celebrity culture, many also took part in fundraising initiatives, public health campaigns philanthropic ventures, with taking on status ‘national treasure’. This article examines two such figures who gain...

poverty is the most serious threat to natural resources and the environment and most of the poor are rural-based who engage in various agricultural activities. land is a critical asset for the rural poor and lacking means to appropriately intensify agriculture which compels the poor to either overuse or misuse this natural resource base to meet basic needs. this study presents empirical relatio...

There is limited literature review and analysis of poverty in Afghanistan, particularly the an urban area. Therefore, due to information on extent Mazar-i-Sharif city especially at micro/household level, this paper will provide such a more current one. To conduct study, actual data 1060 households Mazar-i-Sharif, obtained from strictly random process, used applied “Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT)”...

The consumption of digital games has become increasingly gamblified (Gainsbury et al, 2015; Zanescu 2020) in recent years. Due to the changes media landscape such as development new forms gambling via Internet and mobile phones, consumers can now play gamble real-time from almost any location (Newall 2019; King 2010; Griffiths & Parke, 2010). growing intersections between games, gambling, pract...

This paper examines the relationship between growth and poverty in Iran during the first five-year plan. In other words, effort has been made to show whether economic growth in Iran helped poor people or not. For this purpose the concept of pro poor growth has been analyzed with application to the economy of Iran, both in urban and rural areas and in the country as a whole. We use an indicator ...