IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-03-31 DOI: 10.1111/area.12935

Rebekka Kanesu

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The decolonial pedagogies of colonial violence: Curricular decolonisation in the (geo)sciences 殖民暴力的非殖民化教学法：地理科学课程的非殖民化

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1111/area.12941

Julie Cupples

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Gender, caste, and street vending in India: Towards an intersectional geography 印度的性别、种姓和街头小贩：走向交叉地理学

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-03-23 DOI: 10.1111/area.12939

Saanchi Saxena

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A generational perspective on rural livelihood change 从一代人的角度看农村生计的变化

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-03-21 DOI: 10.1111/area.12937

Jessica N. Clendenning

{"title":"A generational perspective on rural livelihood change","authors":"Jessica N. Clendenning","doi":"10.1111/area.12937","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12937","url":null,"abstract":"As rural places and people are increasingly intertwined between cities, markets and mobility, broader perspectives are needed to examine the multiple changes occurring between rural and urban spaces, and between families and generations. This article discusses how a generational perspective can study ‘more-than-rural’ change in a contemporaneous manner. Drawing on field examples from a village on Flores Island, Indonesia, I show how intergenerational views, gathered through household surveys and in-depth interviews, gave further depth to younger generations' changing relationships to land. Why, despite greater numbers of young people leaving the village for greater work and study opportunities elsewhere, were many parents sure their children would return one day? Using intergenerational and life-course views to answer this question revealed how many villagers encountered livelihood limitations elsewhere. Furthermore, I show how generational data give fuller explanations to household dynamics, such as how age and gender play a role in the pursuit of migration between family members, and how rural land and households are managed over time and space. I conclude by discussing the strengths and challenges of building a generational perspective to study ‘more-than-rural’ livelihood change.","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12937","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140222078","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}

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Caring for the river-border: Struggles and opportunities along the Salween River-border 关爱河流边界：萨尔温江边境的斗争与机遇

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-03-16 DOI: 10.1111/area.12933

Vanessa Lamb

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Media narratives of industrial plant closures in Ontario, Canada, from 2000 to 2019 2000 年至 2019 年加拿大安大略省工业工厂关闭的媒体报道

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1111/area.12938

Jesse Sutton, Godwin Arku

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Delayed notes: Responding to two unsettling street encounters in Santiago 延迟说明：应对圣地亚哥两次令人不安的街头邂逅

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1111/area.12932

Soledad Martínez

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Sharing fieldnotes: Collaborative learning at the summer music festival 分享现场笔记：夏季音乐节上的协作学习

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1111/area.12930

Eveleigh Buck-Matthews

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Negotiating the insider–outsider dilemma in urban research: Experiences of a graduate student returning home for fieldwork 谈判城市研究中的 "局内人-局外人 "困境：一位回国进行实地考察的研究生的经历

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.1111/area.12931

Elmond Bandauko

{"title":"Negotiating the insider–outsider dilemma in urban research: Experiences of a graduate student returning home for fieldwork","authors":"Elmond Bandauko","doi":"10.1111/area.12931","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12931","url":null,"abstract":"African doctoral students studying abroad and returning to their home countries for fieldwork face multiple and complex challenges. This paper reflexively addresses the question of positionality from the experiences of conducting research on urban governance and the spatial politics of street traders in Harare, Zimbabwe. The paper discusses dilemmas associated with navigating insider and outsider identities, showcasing how these categories continually shift while conducting research on street traders within a distinct socio-cultural and political context. Moreover, the author's background as a former street trader, now pursuing a PhD at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, adds a layer of complexity to the situation, offering valuable insights into how these ‘multiple’ positionalities can either facilitate or hinder data collection. The paper underscores the nuanced experiences of the researcher in the field, shedding light on the potential challenges, pitfalls and opportunities inherent in grappling with one's positionality. By foregrounding these complexities, the paper contributes to our understanding of the positionalities of researchers in the social sciences and adds to the growing body of literature on methodologies for conducting urban studies, particularly with vulnerable populations.","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140413714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Counting in qualitative fieldwork: Notes from a large urban park 定性实地工作中的计数：一个大型城市公园的笔记

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1111/area.12926

Jack Layton

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