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Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
wiley   +1 more source

The Serious Leisure Perspective: Long Distance Runners Experience Scale (LDRES)

Herkes için Spor ve Rekreasyon Dergisi
Abstract: The recent increase in nature-based research demonstrates the potential ad-ditional benefits of participating in the event compared to urban areas in this context. However, there is a lack of quantitative measurement tools that explore the meanings of the lived experiences of those who participate in nature-based activities.
Özge Yavaş, Gökhan Karaboğa
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
wiley   +1 more source

BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying the Factors Influencing the Presence and Participation of Women in Urban Space from View of Right to the City

تحقيقات جغرافيايی, 2018
One of the dimensions of democracy is the homological, responsive and welcoming spaces. Power in space includes a variety of features and different aspects.
Maryam farahzad, mojtaba Rafieian, saeid kamyab, Abbas arghan   +3 more
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Taxation and Excess Burden: A Life-Cycle Perspective [PDF]

A lifetime perspective is appropriate in assessing the welfare implications of government tax policies. Although a number of attempts have been made to ex- amine the excess burden of taxation in life-cycle models, these have tended to ignore the role of ...
E. John Driffill, Harvey S. Rosen
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'Working out’ identity: distance runners and the management of disrupted identity [PDF]

, 2007
This article contributes fresh perspectives to the empirical literature on the sociology of the body, and of leisure and identity, by analysing the impact of long-term injury on the identities of two amateur but serious middle/long-distance runners ...
Allen Collinson J., Allen Collinson J., Allen Collinson J., Arthurs J., Becker G., Bendelow G., Blumer H., Brewer B., Coffey A., Dant T., Day Sclater S., Denison J., Denzin N. K., Ellis C., Ellis C., Frank A., Goffman E., Goffman E., Goffman E., Greenhalgh S., Grosz E. A., Hammersley M., Jacquelyn Allen Collinson, Jenkins R., John Hockey, Johnston L. H., Kotarba J. A., Krizek R. L., Leedy M. G., Lofland J., McCall G. J., Mead G. H., Nixon H. L., Ogles B. M., Pearce L., Perinbanayagam R. S., Petrie G., Pike E. C. J., Prus R., Reed‐Danahay D. E., Safai P., Shilling C., Smith J., Smith J., Smith S. L., Snow D. A., Sparkes A. C., Sparkes A. C., Sparkes A. C., Sparkes A. C., Stanley L., Stone G. P., Stryker S., Tedlock B., Tomlinson A., Tsang T., Tulle E., Williams S. J., Yair G., Young K., Young K.   +60 more
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira, Isabela Corby, Juliana Góes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chair-based yoga programme for older adults with multimorbidity: RCT with embedded economic and process evaluations

Health Technology Assessment
Background Older adults with multimorbidity experience impaired health-related quality of life and treatment burden. Yoga has the potential to improve several aspects of health and well-being.
Garry Alan Tew, Laura Wiley, Lesley Ward, Jessica Grace Hugill-Jones, Camila Sofia Maturana, Caroline Marie Fairhurst, Kerry Jane Bell, Laura Bissell, Alison Booth, Jenny Howsam, Valerie Mount, Tim Rapley, Sarah Jane Ronaldson, Fiona Rose, David John Torgerson, David Yates, Catherine Elizabeth Hewitt   +16 more
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