IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2022-11-10 DOI: 10.1111/area.12855

Liling Xu

引用次数: 1

Prospecting digital urban futures in practice 在实践中探寻数字城市的未来

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2022-11-09 DOI: 10.1111/area.12853

Si Jie Ivin Yeo

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引用次数: 0

Co-producing impact-in-process with participatory audio-visual research 与参与式视听研究共同产生影响

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2022-11-07 DOI: 10.1111/area.12851

Sonja Marzi

引用次数: 2

Intimate extraction: Geological matter, extractive afterlives, and the denial of a Black sense of place in Southern Louisiana 私密的提取:地质问题，提取的来生，以及对南路易斯安那州黑人地方意识的否认

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/area.12847

Manannan Donoghoe

引用次数: 0

Platforms and/as urban communication: Mediums, content, context 平台和/作为城市传播：媒介、内容、背景

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/area.12849

Agnieszka Leszczynski

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引用次数: 1

Agreeing about smartphones: Making opinions in online focus groups 就智能手机达成一致：在在线焦点小组中发表意见

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/area.12850

Russell Hitchings

引用次数: 1

Making wardrobe space: The sustainable potential of minimalist-inspired fashion challenges 打造衣橱空间：极简主义风格时尚挑战的可持续潜力

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/area.12848

Amber Martin-Woodhead

{"title":"Making wardrobe space: The sustainable potential of minimalist-inspired fashion challenges","authors":"Amber Martin-Woodhead","doi":"10.1111/area.12848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12848","url":null,"abstract":"Minimalist fashion has become a key element of the wider minimalist movement that promotes reducing one's wardrobe space to a bare minimum of essential items (or a ‘capsule wardrobe’) with few, quality items that coordinate. Minimalist-inspired ‘fashion challenges’, in which participants are challenged to only wear a certain number of garments over a certain time period, have also gained increasing momentum, particularly in the USA and the UK. This study considers ‘Project 333’ (in which participants must only wear 33 items of clothes over a three-month period), and the ‘Six Items Challenge’ (which requires participants to only wear six garments over 6 weeks), to explore their potential to encourage sustainable fashion (non-)consumption. This is achieved via an analysis of 20 blog posts of individuals reflecting on their own participation in the two challenges and an auto-ethnography of my own participation in the Six Items Challenge. The research reveals that while just over half of participants mentioned sustainability as a motivation or outcome of their participation in a fashion challenge, the challenges' focus on garment reduction, re-use, repair, and not shopping while partaking in them, renders them sustainability driven in practice. Almost all challenges also mentioned personal benefits of conducting a fashion challenge (such as money and time saved plus greater fashion creativity), which could be seen as a helpful way in which to encourage their uptake. However, the paper also considers the idealisation of ‘perfect’ minimalist wardrobe spaces and subsequent fashioned identities and issues regarding who has the pecuniary means to embrace the quality over quantity narrative of the challenges. The paper therefore concludes that fashion challenges do have the potential to encourage more sustainable fashion practices, but they simultaneously raise tensions regarding idealised minimalist fashioned identities.","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"55 2","pages":"274-283"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12848","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50144893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Bach on the harbourfront: Geographies of the Toronto music garden 巴赫在海滨：多伦多音乐花园的地理位置

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2022-10-22 DOI: 10.1111/area.12843

Robert Kruse

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引用次数: 0

Emancipatory archival methods: Exploring the historical geographies of disability 解放档案方法：探索残疾的历史地理

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2022-10-22 DOI: 10.1111/area.12844

Laura Crawford

引用次数: 0

Remote graphic elicitation: A critical reflection on the emotional affordance and disruption management in caregiver research 远程图形启发：护理者研究中情感可供性和干扰管理的批判性反思

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2022-10-22 DOI: 10.1111/area.12846

Thomas A. Lowe, Tess Osborne, Sarah Bell

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引用次数: 1

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