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{"title":"The mental wellbeing of young farmers in Ireland and the UK: driving factors, help-seeking, and support","authors":"David Christian Rose, Fergal Bradley, Deirdre O’Connor, Jilly Hall, Rosie Morrison, Martin Mulkerrins, Caroline Nye, Tomás Russell","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2023.2274004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2274004","url":null,"abstract":"Whilst research attention on the mental wellbeing of farmers is growing, there are few studies focused on young farmers. Our research set out to better understand the factors affecting young farmer mental wellbeing and help-seeking behaviour. We draw insights from a combined study in Ireland and the UK, supplemented by separate studies by the same author team in both places. Through the use of young farmer interviews and surveys, as well as interviews of those who support young farmers with their mental wellbeing, we identify a mixed picture of mental wellbeing and a plethora of factors affecting it. Though many of these factors have been identified in the wider literature, the impact of socialisation and time off the farm, and sexism/misogyny affecting young female farmers, were specifically identified in our study. In some cases, young farmers were considered to be better at speaking about mental wellbeing than their older counterparts, but our study indicated that some people in this demographic fail to seek assistance because of stigma, stoicism, and possible lack of confidentiality. Improving the accessibility of mental wellbeing services, as well as normalising conversations on the subject and providing support in informal social settings, were identified as key recommendations.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135372071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Paul Bishop: recalling an academic life","authors":"Chris Philo, John Briggs","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2023.2273562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2273562","url":null,"abstract":"The rationale for this theme section of the journal on Paul Bishop, eminent physical geographer, earth scientist and researcher of human-environment relations, is explained. Paul Bishop (1949–2022), a long-time Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow, was – indeed, still very much is – a major figure at the cutting-edge of research, scholarship, education and applications in the fields indicated. His academic work has been global in its focus – spanning four continents (Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe), including a substantial body of inquiries centred in Scotland – and has encompassed the time-spans of planetary history (and the geotectonics of long-term landscape change), human history (and the dynamics of environmental influence on human settlement, resource use and cultural practice) and human life-spans (including the histories and heritages of locality). Paul died, too soon, early in 2022. An event to commemorate his academic life and work was held in September 2022, and several contributions to that event have now been written through in substantially revised form for the present theme section. The current piece introduces this theme section, providing a sketch of Paul’s biography, including notes on his time in Glasgow, and cross-referencing with the articles that follow. Appended is also a near-comprehensive bibliography of Paul’s published outputs.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135016621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beautiful impossibility: a fifty-year retrospective on <i>Social Justice and the City</i> and David Harvey’s – and geography’s – journey into Marxism","authors":"Don Mitchell","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2023.2266439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2266439","url":null,"abstract":"This brief paper introduces a double symposium: five authors reflecting on Social Justice and the City after fifty years, and two critically examining the recently published David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to his Thought (together with a response from the authors of that book). It offers a synopsis of the two symposia and focuses on one or two key points arising from each contribution in order to put them into conversation with each other. Along the way it indicates a few of the key reasons why, collectively, the authors in these symposia find Social Justice to be so worthy of continued close scrutiny, even after all these years, and why David Harvey is destined to become a ‘must read’. It reflects on how academic geography’s journey towards the ‘beautiful impossibility’ of a thorough, compelling, geographical analyses of the capitalist totality – the beautiful impossibility David Harvey has been aiming at for these fifty years – is just getting going.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136212192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Response: the critic, the geographical imagination and the world","authors":"Noel Castree, Greig Charnock, Brett Christophers","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2023.2262434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2262434","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis commentary responds to the several points made by Kanishka Goonewardena and Neil Gray in their extended reviews of our book David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to His Thought. We address three general points, then a set of more specific objections and concerns expressed by the two authors. Overarching themes are the relationship between Marxist thinking and the world it seeks to understand; the relationship between acts of analysis and evaluation; and the forms of geographical knowledge that can both help and hinder a critique of capitalism as an ‘imperial’ mode of living. We’re grateful to Goonewardena and Gray for their careful evaluations of our book and the work of the remarkable man the book focuses on.KEYWORDS: CapitalismDavid Harveygeographical imaginationcritique","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135597601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relaunching the Marion Newbigin Prize","authors":"Chris Philo, Martin D. Hurst, Emma Laurie, Rhian Thomas","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2023.2257643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2257643","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"David Harvey, geography and Marxism <b>David Harvey: a critical introduction to his thought</b> , by Noel Castree, Greig Charnock and Brett Christophers, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2023, 261 pp + xvi., ISBN 978-0-367-13697-0 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-367-13698-7 (paper).","authors":"Kanishka Goonewardena","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2023.2260824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2260824","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis essay engages with David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to his Thought by Noel Castree, Greig Charnock and Brett Christophers (CCC), the most panoramic, rigorous and insightful study of the leading Marxist geographer of the last half century. After underlining the impressive qualities of this book that make it an immensely rewarding reading for both experts and newcomers in the field of critical geography, the reading of David Harvey offered here deals in detail with three searching questions broached by CCC. How are we to comprehend Harvey’s incomparable contribution to geography and the consequent common sense in his discipline of not only his work but also Marxism? How could we make sense of Harvey’s original contribution to Marxism as a pioneer of radical geographical thought and his resultant reputation among the foremost Marxist critics of our time? How should we then assess the political significance of Harvey’s increasingly influential profile as a public intellectual beyond the confines of academic discourse? These and adjacent questions are addressed with close intellectual-biographical reference to Harvey’s own oeuvre, in order to highlight the most distinctive features of Harvey as a Marxist among other Marxists. Following a brief critique of the brief critique of Harvey penned by CCC, the essay concludes with the suggestion that the true potential of Harvey’s Marxism—his project to spatialise Marxism—lies in his revealingly unfinished and on-going appropriation of two indispensable and related philosophical concepts of Marxism: dialectics and totality.KEYWORDS: CapitalismMarxismgeographydialecticstotality","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135536891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"David Harvey: the power of abstraction <b>David Harvey: a critical introduction to his thought</b> , by Noel Castree, Greig Charnock and Brett Christophers, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2023, 261 pp + xvi, £120.00, ISBN 978-0-367-13697-0 (hardback), £19.99, ISBN 978-0-367-13698-7 (paperback), £17.99, ISBN 9780429028120 (eBook).","authors":"Neil Gray","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2023.2259359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2259359","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 It should be noted that Marx himself never used the term historical materialist, preferring instead ‘practical materialist’ or ‘communist materialist’, suggesting not a presupposed or teleological conception of history but a “practical mode of intervention into history” (Tomba, Citation2013, p. viii).2 See John Chiaradia, ‘Amadeo Bordiga and the myth of Antonio Gramsci’, for a substantive (though notably unpublished) critique of Gramsci’s Soviet Bolshevism in the 1920s. Available at libcom.org: https://files.libcom.org/files/Chiaradia-Bordiga-Gramsci.pdf.3 Letters from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher. Marx to Ruge, Kreuznach, September 1843. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/letters/43_09.htm.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135926496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impacts of COVID-19 on digitalisation and social capital in crofting communities in Scotland","authors":"Christina Noble, Leanne Townsend, Mags Currie, Claire Hardy, Dominic Duckett","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2023.2259866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2259866","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIncreasing digitalisation and access to communication technologies has arguably never been more important to rural communities than during the COVID-19 pandemic. Digitalisation assumes a distinct character when looked at through a rural lens, reliable and accessible digital tools and infrastructure having marked implications for the future of rural communities. This was especially pertinent during COVID-19 lockdowns, when in rural (as well as urban) communities there was a push to host local activities and services online. Using reflections from both in-person and online research engagements with a crofting community in the North West Highlands of Scotland, this paper reflects on how the use of digital tools can support the development of different types of social capital. Successful rural digitalisation has the potential to benefit rural crofting communities in multiple ways: e.g. by supporting rural repopulation efforts, enabling access to new digital markets to sell produce, and supporting active participation in local decision-making through online meetings. Several barriers to realising digital benefits still exist in rural regions with specific digitalisation needs and challenges. The paper reflects on empirical findings and considers the future sustainability of rural crofting communities in the post-COVID, digital age.KEYWORDS: COVID-19crofting communitydigitalisationrural Scotlandsocial sapital AcknowledgmentsWe would like to thank all of the participants who took part in our research engagements with specific thanks to the community in North West Highlands for their hospitality and willingness to take part in our research during COVID-19. Thanks are extended to the current Scottish Government’s Strategic Research Programme 2022–2027 and project JHI-E2-2: Rural Communities, which has allowed the lead author to revisit the community and write up the findings presented in this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 This order was effective from 23 March 2020 in a televised address from Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister for Scotland https://spice-spotlight.scot/2022/12/16/timeline-of-coronavirus-COVID-19-19-in-scotland/.2 DESIRA (Digitisation: Economic and Social Impacts in Rural Areas) is a Horizon 2020 project (2019–2023) coordinated by the University of Pisa which involves 25 partner organisations (research institutes, NGOs and SMEs) in a multi-actor and inter-disciplinary Consortium.3 DESIRA used the terminology ‘Living Labs’ to denote each case study in order to highlight the interactive and participatory nature of our research engagements. The researchers used the term ‘case study’ with our research participants for ease.4 Highland Community Broadband (HCB) had begun the process of bringing high-speed broadband to the wider community in 2017, yet for many residents interviewed, the installation did not happen until early pre-pandemic 2020 and was even ongoing in some case","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136373980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social Justice and the City: some observations from ‘the periphery’","authors":"J. Doherty","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2023.2238702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2238702","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This commentary seeks to explain the indifferent reaction to Social Justice and The City (SJTC) among the radical/Marxist denizens of the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) campus in the mid-1970s. It explores what was considered useful about the book, but also why, in part because of its European and North American focus and emphasis upon the revolutionary potential of the city rather than the countryside, it arguably did not resonate as much as it might have done. When later rethinking the contribution made by SJTC, Harvey himself offers important reformulations reflecting something of the kinds of radical/Marxist ideas already present in earlier years on the UDSM campus.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41732196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measuring nocturnal near-surface urban heat island intensity in the small, mid-latitude city of Inverness, Scotland","authors":"George F. Gunn","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2023.2242819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2242819","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44927558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}