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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
wiley   +1 more source

Sport in a Credit Crunched Consumer Culture [PDF]

This brief rapid response article suggests a few ways in which modern competitive sport and large-scale sport events have developed in line with the logic of (late) capitalist modernity.
John D. Horne
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Playing the System: Electoral Bias in the 2024 UK General Election

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 65-73, January/March 2025.
Abstract The UK's 2024 general election was the least proportional of modern times. Labour's substantial parliamentary majority rested on the smallest ever winning party vote share. The Conservatives, meanwhile, suffered one of their worst ever results.
Charles Pattie, David Cutts
wiley   +1 more source

From the manager's point of view: work intensification, posthuman ethnography, and healthcare in England Du point de vue des managers : intensification du travail, ethnographie post‐humaine et soins de santé en Angleterre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a hospital in Greater Manchester, England in 2016–17, we describe how a set of national health priorities were translated into work for hospital managers and clinicians during a period of significant organizational pressure.
Adam Brisley, Simon Bailey, Thomas Blakeman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The scenicness of historic buildings rivals that of natural features: evidence from crowdsourced photographs of English urban areas. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Sherborne S, Malthouse E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Training the ear, or: On learning to hear the alexandrin [PDF]

, 2014
Nowell Smith, David
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125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello, Mark D. Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

How have urban housing preferences developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic? A case study of Vienna. [PDF]

PLoS One
Braesemann F, Kluge J, Lorenz H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Towards an anthropology of acquisition: ‘How did you get that?’ Vers une anthropologie de l'acquisition : « Où as‐tu trouvé ça ? »

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
wiley   +1 more source