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Reimagining Rural Spaces: Cultural Practices and Aesthetic Design for Active Ageing in Northern Thai Community

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of rural aesthetics and cultural practises in promoting active ageing amongst older adults in Baan Pong Nuea Village, Northern Thailand. Addressing a critical gap in the literature, it examines how the residential environment influences elderly well‐being in a rural context.
Alisa Nutley
wiley   +1 more source

Maps and Diaspora: Affect, Agency and Epistolary Praxis

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Following discussions, interactions and reflections during the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) conference ‘Map Room Conversations’ sessions, this paper examines maps and diaspora through an affective lens. By utilising an auto‐ethnographic epistolary praxis of letter writing and employing the therapeutic prompt, ‘What came up for ...
Rohini Rai, Iqbal Singh
wiley   +1 more source

Children's Agency in Finding Happiness in the ‘Happiest Country in the World’: A Collaborative Drawing and Storytelling Case Study

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case study explores what kinds of everyday ideas a small group of Finnish children have about happiness and unhappiness, and how these ideas relate to narrated practices and actions aimed at finding happiness. We conducted collaborative drawing and storytelling workshops with 10–12‐year‐old Finnish children (N = 8).
Jennifer De Paola, Eemeli J. Hakoköngäs, Jari Martikainen, Iida Pyy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment and support of the digitalization of businesses in Europe during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic

Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020–2021 has created an unprecedented incentive to digitize firms. This paper aims to explore how European companies may have responded to COVID‐19 through digitalization. An online survey of experts from 22 European countries showed that software technologies supporting online meetings, remote working and e‐commerce ...
Wojciech Dyba, Eleonora Di Maria
wiley   +1 more source

Children's Constructive Play as Materialised Memory Practice

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how memory becomes entangled with materials in children's constructive play. Using visual ethnography, elicitation interviews and Visual Network Analysis with a 15‐year‐old Mongolian child living in Finland, the findings reveal that memory is not a fixed recollection of the past but a relational, non‐linear process enacted ...
Sinyoung Kim, Kristiina Kumpulainen
wiley   +1 more source

A more‐than‐human political ecology of Indonesian songbird trade

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Since its inception, conservation science has considered wildlife trade a problem. In focusing on conservation outcomes, conservationists almost completely ignore the welfare of traded animals and plants and the harms they endure. We developed a political ecology approach that incorporates the interconnectedness of people with animals and ...
Sicily Fiennes, Novi Hardianto, Silvi Dwi Anasari, Luthfiyyah Damani, Jero Haryono, Tom Jackson, Asri A. Dwiyahreni, Christopher Birchall, George Holmes, Christopher Hassall   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Collective Nostalgia on Architectural Characteristics of Shrine Buildings

Journal of Studies in Science and Engineering
Nostalgia, in psychology, is an emotional state, while socially and culturally, it embodies a society's collective memory and heritage. In architecture, nostalgia refers to the emotional and cultural bond people have with the past, expressed through ...
Armange Ismael Barakat, Alan Faraydoon Ali   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Landscapes and Sublime Memories: Revisiting Liang Xiaosheng's "A Land of Wonder and Mystery" [PDF]

, 2014
This essay suggests memory studies, ecocriticism, and trauma studies as new avenues for the study of rusticated youth narratives. Towards reaching this goal, I first introduce a meditation on memory by Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), especially his sketch of ...
Scruggs, BM
core   +2 more sources

Fifty years of Yang-Mills Theories: a phenomenological point of view

, 2004
On the occasion of the celebration of the first half-century of Yang--Mills theories, I am contributing a personal recollection of how the subject, in its early times, confronted physical reality, that is, its "phenomenology".
De Rujula, Alvaro
core   +1 more source

Unfixing Place: Time and Value in the Anthropology of Food

Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although many anthropologists have engaged with the political and economic work of “place” in qualifying and working with food, time has rarely featured substantively in the economic and political life of the comestible. Gathering themes from my ethnographic research in Northern Italy and excavation time in anthropological scholarship on food,
Janita Van Dyk
wiley   +1 more source