375 research outputs found
The Wallace Edwin Armstrong Papers in the National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia (Ms 6507)
Binge flying: Behavioural addiction and climate change
Recent popular press suggests that âbinge flyingâ constitutes a new site of behavioural addiction. We theoretically appraise and empirically support this proposition through interviews with consumers in Norway and the United Kingdom conducted in 2009. Consistent findings from across two national contexts evidence a growing negative discourse towards frequent short-haul tourist air travel and illustrate strategies of guilt suppression and denial used to span a cognitive dissonance between the short-term personal benefits of tourism and the air travelâs associated long-term consequences for climate change. Tensions between tourism consumption and changing social norms towards acceptable flying practice exemplify how this social group is beginning to (re)frame what constitutes âexcessiveâ holiday flying, despite concomitantly continuing their own frequent air travels
Nature tourism and Irish film
This article provides a historical overview and reading of seminal Irish film from the perspective of nature tourism. Within Irish cultural studies, tourism is frequently equated with an overly romantic image of the island, which has been used to sell the country abroad. However, using notions like the tourist gaze and taking on board influential debates around space/place, one can posit a more progressive environmental vision of nature and landscape in our readings of film
"Driven to distraction?" Children's experiences of car travel
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in volume, 4, issue 1, pages 59-76 in Mobilities 2009. Copyright @ 2009 Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450100802657962.Cars have become increasingly significant features in the lives of many children and adults in the UK and elsewhere. Whilst there is a growing body of research considering how adults experience automobility, that is the increasingly central role of cars within societies, there has been little equivalent research exploring children's perspectives. Drawing upon a variety of methods including personal diaries, photographs, inâdepth interviews and surveys amongst schools within Buckinghamshire and North London, the paper contributes to filling this gap in existing research through exploring how cars are not only journey spaces for children, but are also sites for play, relaxation, homework, companionship, technology and the consumption of commodities. Using a Foucauldian analysis of power, insights into wider familial processes relating to mobility are provided by exploring how cars are sites of conflicting power relations between parents and children. The paper also explores how children's everyday experiences of cars were framed by wider sets of power relations, including car corporations which design and manufacture these spaces, and the role of capital which commodifies everyday activities in cars. In doing so, the paper challenges existing research on automobility for only focusing upon adults' experiences of cars and begins to theorise a more inclusive account of automobility which incorporates children and young people
âManic mumsâ and âdistant dadsâ? Gendered geographies of care and the journey to school
This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Health & Place. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. Copyright @ 2011 Elsevier B.V.Research in the geographies of care has identified the central role of mothers in caring for children, although much less explored are the experiences of men who also participate in care. Drawing upon research conducted in the UK with children and their families, this paper contributes to existing debates in the geographies of care by exploring a relatively new space of caring, namely the escort of primary school children to and from school and other settings. The paper explores mothersâ and fathersâ involvement in escorting children, the extent and nature of participation and also how distinct gendered forms of caring practices are established. In doing so, the paper also considers the importance of place and local cultures of parenting which inform these gendered carescapes
Third World gap year projects: Youth transitions and the mediation of risk
This is the post-print version of the final published article. The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 Pion.In recent years in the UK there has been a great expansion in the number of young people travelling to Third World countries between school and university in order to participate as volunteers on structured gap year projects. Travel to such places is commonly perceived as âriskyâ, and takes young people outside the protective cocoon of UK health and safety legislation. One of the functions played by the providers of gap year projects is to mediate risk. On the basis of analysis of promotional literature, interviews with organisers of gap year projects, and focus groups of returned volunteers, in this paper I argue that the various strategies of risk mediation undertaken by gap year providers serve to reconcile modernising tendencies in UK society toward risk control and structure with postmodern inclinations towards individualisation and uncertainty
Elementary Forms of the Metaphorical Life : Tropes at Work in Durkheimâs Theory of the Religious
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Deliberative research for deliberative policy making: creating and recreating evidence in transport policy
The MicroJy and NanoJy Radio Sky: Source Population and Multi-wavelength Properties
I present simple but robust estimates of the types of sources making up the
faint, sub-microJy radio sky. These include, not surprisingly, star-forming
galaxies and radio-quiet AGN but also two "new" populations, that is low radio
power ellipticals and dwarf galaxies, the latter likely constituting the most
numerous component of the radio sky. I then estimate for the first time the
X-ray, optical, and mid-infrared fluxes these objects are likely to have, which
are very important for source identification and the synergy between the
upcoming SKA and its various pathfinders with future missions in other bands.
On large areas of the sky the SKA, and any other radio telescope producing
surveys down to at least the microJy level, will go deeper than all currently
planned (and past) sky surveys, with the possible exception of the optical ones
from PAN-STARRS and the LSST. SPICA, JWST, and in particular the Extremely
Large Telescopes (ELTs) will be a match to the next generation radio telescopes
but only on small areas and above ~ 0.1 - 1 microJy (at 1.4 GHz), while even
IXO will only be able to detect a small (tiny) fraction of the microJy (nanoJy)
population in the X-rays. On the other hand, most sources from currently
planned all-sky surveys, with the likely exception of the optical ones, will
have a radio counterpart within the reach of the SKA. JWST and the ELTs might
turn out to be the main, or perhaps even the only, facilities capable of
securing optical counterparts and especially redshifts of microJy radio
sources. Because of their sensitivity, the SKA and its pathfinders will have a
huge impact on a number of topics in extragalactic astronomy including
star-formation in galaxies and its co-evolution with supermassive black holes,
radio-loudness and radio-quietness in AGN, dwarf galaxies, and the main
contributors to the radio background.[ABRIDGED]Comment: 18 pages, 5 color figures, accepted for publication in the Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societ
The Temporal Politics of Anthropogenic Earthquakes: Acceleration, Anticipation, and Energy Extraction in Iceland
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