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Where's the beef? The feminisation of weight‐loss dieting in Britain and Scandinavia c.1890–1925
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Representations of the slim body have traditionally been at the centre of scholarly interest in dieting culture, whereas food often remains a shadowy presence compared with more persistent themes of body discipline, slenderness and anti‐fat messages.
Emma Hilborn
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The Recreational Pursuits And Expressed Interests Of Selected Adult Negroes In Austin, Texas [PDF]
, 1963 The growing importance of recreation in the united states is due to a number of factors, chief of which is the tremendous increase in leisure time.
Wilson, James Robert
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BEYOND ‘BAD DENSITY’ AND TERRITORIAL STIGMA: An Infrastructure Access Lens on Suburban Exclusion
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Segregation and social exclusion in postwar suburban housing estates are typically addressed as problems of residential location. For decades, postwar suburbs in all corners of the world have been targeted as designated sites of punitive urban intervention, grounded in territorial stigma and normative notions of density.
André Klaassen, Greet De Block
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Second-best tax policy in a growing economy with externalities [PDF]
This paper investigates the exploitation of environmental resources in a growing economy within a second-best scal policy framework. Agents derive utility from two types of consumption goods one which relies on an environmental input and one which does ...
Cassou, Steven P. +3 more
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, 1969 Recreation is esape from compulsion to work for a living, and leisure is the free time when we don\u27t have to do anything at all. Recreation is non-compulsive activity or non-activity; leisure is the time we have for it.
Kennedy, Barbara
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract The article addresses the role that communities played in managing the social and health crisis generated by the Covid‐19 pandemic in two Chilean cities. Chile is an interesting case study owing to its intense and prolonged confinement measures, which focused heavily on individuals and households.
Francisco Letelier Troncoso +3 more
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LIBERTOPIA: An Intellectual Stroll in Berlin's Tempelhof Park
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, an old airport turned into a public park, stands as a unique urban space. What it is about this simple and massive open space in the heart of a large city that makes it a near‐utopian formation? This essay attempts to explore the meaning of this sociospatial entity, framing it in terms of a ‘libertopia’, to serve as ...
Asef Bayat
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In search of a "vocabulary for recreation": Leisure-time physical activity among humanitarian migrants in regional Australia. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Reis AC +3 more
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Variations in leisure activity preferences based on ethnicity of urban park users / Amelia Ahmad [PDF]
, 2016 Urban parks provide excellent setting for urbanites to pursue leisure time activities. In an ethnically diverse country as Malaysia, park designers, planners and managers are presented with challenges to ensure the promotion of equal access as well as to
Ahmad, Amelia
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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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