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PERSPECTIVES ON URBAN LONELINESS: City Paths Toward (Un)common Lifeworlds

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban loneliness can manifest in various ways, and social connection is not always the solution. While some people find peace in spending time alone in public places, finding solitude can be challenging. Through the lens of social infrastructure and third places, I examine how dining establishments in Basel, Switzerland, influence the ...
Nina Goldman
wiley   +1 more source

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

The philosophical significance of binary categories in Habermas’s discourse ethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The philosophical programme associated with the discourse ethics of Jürgen Habermas has been widely discussed in the literature. The fact that Habermas has devoted a considerable part of his work to the elaboration of this philosophical programme ...
Susen, Simon
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Capital and the Family

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
wiley   +1 more source

Women's experiences of increasing subjective well-being in CFS/ME through leisure-based arts and crafts activities: A qualitative study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright © 2008 Informa Plc.Purpose. To understand the meanings of art-making among a group of women living with the occupational constraints and ...
Prior, S, Reynolds, F, Vivat, B
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Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of existential dimensions in the context of the presence of older patients at team meetings—In the light of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty's philosophy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2015
The aim of the present study is to explore interpersonal dimensions of the presence of older patients at team meetings. The theoretical foundation of the study is grounded in caring science and lifeworld phenomenology.
Elisabeth Lindberg   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The creativity of ‘unspecialisation': a contemplative direction for integrative scholarly practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Within the context of health and social care education, attempts to define 'scholarship' have increasingly transcended traditional academic conceptions of the term.
Galvin, Kathleen Theresa, Todres, Les
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Researcher Positionality and Relational Power: Playing With ‘Researching Up’ and ‘Researching Down’ in Critical Reflexivity

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper draws on the concepts of ‘researching up’ and ‘researching down’, often used to distinguish between relative ‘power over’ or ‘power under’ interlocutors. It suggests that by mobilising these concepts through feminist geography as a relational analytic rather than oppositional categories, we can generate new insights into our ...
Jennifer C. Langill
wiley   +1 more source

Form and content in utopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
A critique of Habermas is theory of the three worlds as a foundation for criticism and social ...
Kolb, David
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