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A Welcome Abuse : Notes on Finding Community Through the Battered Book
The book-body and the flesh-body live in tangent. Or such should be the case, if we allow the book to live with us and not under glass, in plastic sleeves, in a safe, under lock and key in a climate-controlled, neutrally lit niche. If we welcome damaged goods into our home and release them into the homes of others. We can learn a lot about ourselves and our fellow readers by considering a storyâs casings: patience, for one thing. That community extends beyond the immediate and into the virtual, for another. That we all want to be roughed up. For what is an untouched book but an unlived life
A Welcome Abuse : Notes on Finding Community Through the Battered Book
The book-body and the flesh-body live in tangent. Or such should be the case, if we allow the book to live with us and not under glass, in plastic sleeves, in a safe, under lock and key in a climate-controlled, neutrally lit niche. If we welcome damaged goods into our home and release them into the homes of others. We can learn a lot about ourselves and our fellow readers by considering a storyâs casings: patience, for one thing. That community extends beyond the immediate and into the virtual, for another. That we all want to be roughed up. For what is an untouched book but an unlived life
Living for the weekend: youth identities in northeast England
Consumption and consumerism are now accepted as key contexts for the construction of youth identities in de-industrialized Britain. This article uses empirical evidence from interviews with young people to suggest that claims of `new community' are overstated, traditional forms of friendship are receding, and increasingly atomized and instrumental youth identities are now being culturally constituted and reproduced by the pressures and anxieties created by enforced adaptation to consumer capitalism. Analysis of the data opens up the possibility of a critical rather than a celebratory exploration of the wider theoretical implications of this process
Non-discriminatory language in a university context : a case study at Queen Mary, University of London
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Physical Therapistsʌ Perception of Spirituality and Patient Care: Beliefs, Practices, and Perceived Barriers
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Presenting rurality: the Land Settlement Association in interwar England
This paper explores how past notions of idyllic rural dwelling were mobilised and enacted during the implementation of the UK Land Settlement Association (LSA) scheme established in 1934. The LSA was a UK Government programme set up to resettle unemployed workers from depressed industrial urban areas to the countryside. Between 1934 and 1939, 1,100 smallholdings were established within 20 settlements across the country. These smallholdings were run as cooperatives, but many failed when relocated families complained of long hours, low pay and isolation. Recruitment to the scheme ceased at the outbreak of World War II, with the settlements being fully dissolved and privatised in 1983. By drawing on a unique archive housed in the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL), analysis centres on how the LSA represented and promoted rural living to settlers and the wider public. The paper illuminates three overlapping but distinct elements to this project: the production of physical space as a setting that has been designed to bring about particular forms of behaviour and community cohesion; notions of labour, independence of spirit and reconnecting with the land; and building the physiques of men through hard work, fresh air and good food, thus improving the national stock. The findings demonstrate the power of the rural idyll in producing particular forms of sociality, belonging and masculinity, with many of the ideas that undergirded the LSA continuing to resonate today
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A systematic review of methods for nexus assessment
The water-energy-food (WEF) nexus is rapidly expanding in scholarly literature and policy settings as
a novel way to address complex resource and development challenges. The nexus approach aims to
identify tradeoffs and synergies of water, energy, and food systems, internalize social and
environmental impacts, and guide development of cross-sectoral policies. However, while the WEF
nexus offers a promising conceptual approach, the use of WEF nexus methods to systematically
evaluate water, energy, and food interlinkages or support development of socially and
politically-relevant resource policies has been limited.
This paper reviews WEF nexus methods to provide a knowledge base of existing approaches and
promote further development of analytical methods that align with nexus thinking. The systematic
review of 245 journal articles and book chapters reveals that (a) use of specific and reproducible
methods for nexus assessment is uncommon (less than one-third); (b) nexus methods frequently fall
short of capturing interactions among water, energy, and foodâthe very linkages they conceptually
purport to address; (c) assessments strongly favor quantitative approaches (nearly three-quarters); (d)
use of social science methods is limited (approximately one-quarter); and (e) many nexus methods
are confined to disciplinary silosâonly about one-quarter combine methods from diverse disciplines
and less than one-fifth utilize both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
To help overcome these limitations, we derive four key features of nexus analytical tools and
methodsâinnovation, context, collaboration, and implementationâfrom the literature that reflect
WEF nexus thinking. By evaluating existing nexus analytical approaches based on these features, we
highlight 18 studies that demonstrate promising advances to guide future research. This paper finds
that to address complex resource and development challenges, mixed-methods and transdisciplinary
approaches are needed that incorporate social and political dimensions of water, energy, and food;
utilize multiple and interdisciplinary approaches; and engage stakeholders and decision-makers.Open Access Article.
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