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Agricultural Turns, Geographical Turns: Retrospect and Prospect. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
It is accepted that British rural geography has actively engaged with the ‘cultural turn’, leading to a resurgence of research within the sub-discipline. However, a reading of recent reviews suggests that the cultural turn has largely, if not completely,
Arensberg   +133 more
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Transforming Agricultural Water Management Through the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Trends, Opportunities, Barriers and Solutions

open access: yesIrrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural water management (AWM) is increasingly transitioning towards transformative thinking, where interconnected sectors, including water, energy and food, are managed holistically. Trends point towards cross‐sectoral and harmonised strategies to optimise water use efficiency and productivity, integrate renewable energy, promote ...
Luxon Nhamo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Always Be Prepared: Lessons Learned From Risk‐Coping Strategies of Thai Households in the Wake of Two Major Economic Crises

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aimed to comparatively examine the function of three risk‐coping strategies, namely savings, borrowings, and work‐hour adjustments, during two major economic crises in Thailand. Using the Socioeconomic Survey (SES) collected by the National Statistical Office (NSO) in Thailand, we examined data from the 1998 financial crisis and the
Aeggarchat Sirisankanan, Papar Kananurak
wiley   +1 more source

'Go on, just try some!': Meat and meaning-making among South Indian Christians [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 31(1), 36-55, 2008 [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00856400701874700.No abstract ...
Staples, J
core   +1 more source

Housing Security, Relative Deprivation, and Subjective Well‐Being: Empirical Evidence Derived From CFPS Data

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The housing issue significantly influences individuals' well‐being. As a crucial mechanism for alleviating the housing issue, the housing security system has garnered increasing attention regarding its impact on residents' happiness. Utilizing data from the China Household Tracking Survey (CFPS), this paper seeks to thoroughly investigate the ...
Lingzhen Yao, Bei Qiao, Yuhan Hu
wiley   +1 more source

Food justice: cultivating the field

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2018
This article provides an evidence-based review of the growing field of food justice, which seeks to understand how inequalities of race, class and gender are reproduced and contested within food systems. Analyzing a database of peer-reviewed articles and
Charlotte Glennie, Alison Hope Alkon
doaj   +1 more source

The Protective Paradox: Can School Connectedness Buffer Socioeconomic Disparities in Adolescent Mental Health?

open access: yesJournal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Socioeconomic status (SES) is a well‐established factor influencing adolescents’ mental health, as young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to experience stress, anxiety, and poorer overall wellbeing. One factor that may help protect students from these negative outcomes is school connectedness which is the ...
Esther Ariyo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turning Down Mum's Cooking: The Ethics of Dietary Difference within Families

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although food ethicists have called for greater attention to the relational context of eating for over a decade, the context of ‘eating with family’ remains largely ignored. But the family is both a morally specific relational context and one within which many people do most of their eating.
Megan A. Dean
wiley   +1 more source

Commensality as community rebuilding: A qualitative study of physician shared meals in a hospital setting

open access: yesJournal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Modern healthcare environments increasingly limit opportunities for physicians to build collegial relationships, contributing to feelings of isolation and disconnection. Commensality has been proposed as a way to restore relational infrastructure within clinical settings.
Zarqum Masood   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An ethnography of a neighbourhood café: informality, table arrangements and background noise [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Café society is something that many of us as customers and/or social theorists take for granted. Cafés are places where we are not simply served hot beverages but are also in some way partaking of a specific form of public life.
Buckner, K., Laurier, E., Whyte, A.
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