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‘I like to dance with the flowers!’: Exploring the possibilities for biodiverse futures in an urban forest school

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the ways in which ‘forest school’, an educational approach where children engage in creative and play based activities in a ‘natural’ environment, can contribute towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15) by promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems and by helping address biodiversity loss. Drawing on data
Hannah Hogarth
wiley   +1 more source

‘We Teach Kids About It So They Don't Get Addicted’: Gender, Porn and Sex Education in New Zealand

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research sought to explore young people's and teachers' understandings of porn. Drawing on a qualitative content analysis of small focus group interview data with 106 young people aged 12–16 years old and semi‐structured interviews with six teachers in Aotearoa, New Zealand, I examine their perceptions of porn and the place of porn in sex
Claire Meehan
wiley   +1 more source

West(ern urbanism): A part of social fantasy space [PDF]

open access: yesSAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal, 2011
New Belgrade represents one of the most intensively built and criticized settlements of the socialist Yugoslavia. Its contemporary criticism is shaped, like most of Serbian architectural historiography, by a belief in the clear distinction between selfness and otherness, contemporariness and out-datedness. The question of a contemporary approach is set,
openaire   +1 more source

The language of scripted places

open access: yesLandscape Review, 1996
The languages of the entertainment industry and of psychoanalysis arc combined with insights on social systems from Deleuze and Guattari to re-think the dynamics of urban landscapes.
Pamela Burton, Richard Hertz
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The Politics of (E)valuation in Community Projects: Creating a Living Impact Methodology to Pluralize Accountability and Center Lived Experience

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasingly, community‐based organizations (CBOs) that have a social impact are required to evidence their impact through accountability and evaluation methods that are complex and inappropriate for their specific context. In response to this challenge, we offer a participatory approach to social return on investment (SROI), which builds on a
Rebecca Warren   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embedded Pesticide Use: Exploring the Pesticide‐Land Nexus

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, global land grabs, farmland financialization and land‐based food sovereignty movements have returned the land question to the heart of agrarian studies. Meanwhile, abiding interest in pesticides has been reanimated in the face of changes in production, regulation and knowledge of toxicity.
Julie Guthman, Marion Werner
wiley   +1 more source

Seven Decades of Demographic Trends at the Hugo Awards From 1953 to 2023: How the Award Recipients Reflect Actual and Aspirational Demographic Trends in Society

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses the demographic trends at the Hugo Awards, with a focus on the authors' genders, languages, nationalities, and uses of pseudonyms. This research uses publicly available information published by the World Science Fiction Society and the Hugo Awards to determine demographic trends in nominated and winning authors for the Best
Grace Boglev
wiley   +1 more source

Atlas Unplugged: Re‐Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s dystopian work of fiction, became a cornerstone of libertarian philosophy and its influence continues as an articulation of contemporary capitalism. In introducing this Special Issue, we revisit its core assumptions and contradictions in order to reimagine capitalism and reflect on the potential of management studies
Rick Delbridge   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE CITY TOPOS AS A SUBJECT IN THE GENRE OF URBAN FANTASY

open access: yesBulletin of Toraighyrov University. Philology series
This article is devoted to the study of the urban fantasy genre, in which the city acts not merely as a backdrop but as an active subject of the narrative, influencing the plot and character development. The central hypothesis of this work is that the city’s subject nature is a key genre-defining identifier in the studied genre.
null C. K. Baran   +3 more
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Dominance and Prestige Motivations to Lead in Adolescence

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Dual strategy frameworks of motivation to lead differentiate Dominance motivations, which leverage fear and control to gain power and status, from Prestige motivations, which rely on respect and trust. Substantial research on these motivational pathways has been conducted in adults, but no empirical research studies them earlier ...
Jennifer L. Tackett   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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