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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract A surge in the number of shopping malls across many African cities reflects capital's responses to the continent's growing middle class and deepening neoliberal globalization. This article develops an analysis of the transcalar nature of these urban investments using the case of the West Hills Mall (WHM) in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (
Rosina Sheburah Essien +5 more
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Commentary: Sport activities for children and adolescents: the position of the European Academy of Paediatrics and the European Confederation of Primary Care Paediatricians 2023-part 1: pre-participation physical evaluation in young athletes. [PDF]
Front PediatrAkkuş A.
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The social life of money for children
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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The role of flow experience and psychological commitment in recreation specialization and life satisfaction: evidence from Chinese marathon participants. [PDF]
Front PsycholXu J, Tian H.
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MEASURING USE VALUE FROM RECREATION PARTICIPATION [PDF]
Recreation demand studies have traditionally utilized a two-step valuation method, estimating condtional recreation participation probabilities and then intensity of use decisions.
Whitehead, John C.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
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From Availability to Meaningful Access: Poverty, Disability, and Public Parks as Infrastructure for Chronic Disease Prevention. [PDF]
Dela J Public HealthObrusnikova I, Firkin CJ, Suminski RR.
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Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Ron Clarke argued that crime prevention must be tailored to the specific situations in which crime occurs. Central to this principle are the characteristics of places: the access, responsibility, and guardianship features of a place shape who is present, for what purpose, and under whose supervision and, therefore, whether ...
Eon Kim, Kate Bowers, Shane D. Johnson
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