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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
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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
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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 +3 more
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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
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Book review: electronic dreams. how 1980s Britain learned to love the computer by Tom Lean [PDF]
, 2016 In Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer, Tom Lean offers a new study of the history of personal computing by deftly tracing links between users, emerging technologies, makers and the wider context of government thinking and ...
Webster, Peter
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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 +9 more
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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
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A multi-layered approach to surfacing and analysing organisational narratives : increasing representational authenticity [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents an integrated, multi-layered approach to narrative inquiry, elucidating the evolving story of organisational culture through its members and their physical, textual, linguistic and visual dialogue.
Eaves, Sally, Walton, John
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The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli +2 more
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Review of: James M. Wilce. Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated Death of Lament. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell [PDF]
, 2010 This is a postprint (accepted manuscript) version of the article published in Ethos 38(3):1-3.
Lindholm, Charles, Liu, Lucia Huwy-Min
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