IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2023-10-07 DOI: 10.1111/area.12904

Sarah Marie Hall

{"title":"Oral Histories and Futures: Researching crises across the life-course and the life-course of crises","authors":"Sarah Marie Hall","doi":"10.1111/area.12904","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12904","url":null,"abstract":"This paper showcases Oral Histories and Futures interviews as an approach and series of innovations for researching crises with qualitative methods. It presents new possibilities for methodological innovations to embrace the multi-directional and longitudinal temporalities of crises across the life-course and the life-course of crises. As an exciting avenue for methodological enhancement, I build on and bring together techniques across Oral Histories and creative biographical interviewing. Developed as part of a recent study exploring reproduction, economic crisis and the life-course, with this approach I aimed to elicit people's experiences and opinions about their pasts, present and futures by innovating with traditional qualitative methodologies. I outline five areas of innovation—and associated observations, opportunities and obstacles—including a focus on younger generations, on the future, the inclusion of reflexive activities, interviewing in the midst of crises, and remote interviewing. Conclusions highlight what can be learned from an Oral Histories and Futures approach for thinking about socio-temporal horizons.","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12904","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135254743","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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Refiguring habits of subjectivity, communication, and space in online video calls 重塑在线视频通话中的主体性、交流和空间习惯

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2023-10-07 DOI: 10.1111/area.12903

Lucy Koh, Andrew Lapworth

{"title":"Refiguring habits of subjectivity, communication, and space in online video calls","authors":"Lucy Koh, Andrew Lapworth","doi":"10.1111/area.12903","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12903","url":null,"abstract":"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought profound change to many areas of our lives, and perhaps most of all in terms of how we communicate. A testament to our vital need for social connection, millions of people have sought to shed the physical constraints of isolation and restricted mobility by using online video calling to reaffirm relations with friends, colleagues and wider communities. Drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews with users of online video call platforms, this paper explores the social and subjective impacts of video calling, and how they are transforming habitual modes of relating to ourselves and others. The paper argues that grasping the impact of such technological encounters requires new modes of thinking attuned to the less conscious and more material processes though which technologies come to shape how we think and behave. In theorising these unconscious and non-representational potentials, the paper engages with Félix Ravaisson's innovative theorisation of habit. In contrast to those thinkers who would reduce habit to the unthinking and automatic repetition of the same, we explore how Ravaisson's theorisation of habit offers a dynamic ontology for understanding how bodies change and how change comes to be registered in bodies through encounters with technology. We argue that this conceptualisation of habit opens a powerful way of thinking about how the repeated use of online video calls has become bound with the production of new habits of attention, transforming the embodied ways in which we perceive and relate to our own subjectivities, other people, and the spaces in which we live and work.","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12903","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135253578","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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Towards a critical-conceptual analysis of ‘research culture’ 对 "研究文化 "进行批判性概念分析

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI: 10.1111/area.12905

Felicity Callard

{"title":"Towards a critical-conceptual analysis of ‘research culture’","authors":"Felicity Callard","doi":"10.1111/area.12905","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12905","url":null,"abstract":"Universities and policymakers increasingly use ‘research culture’ and ‘research environment’ to govern as well as describe research. Both terms help frame who is considered a research actor; how researchers interact with the contexts in which they make knowledge; and what is considered malleable when attempting to improve how research is done. There are very few conceptual-critical analyses of either term, even as each is a complex abstraction with rich and contested histories and usage. I explore both, largely using the example of the United Kingdom (where improving ‘research culture’ is currently prioritised by many funders, and will be assessed by the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2028). Research culture has a close relationship with the concept organisational culture, which emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s and prioritised particular – frequently psychological – constructs that focused on the norms, values, and attitudes of an organisation. ‘Research labour’ – the labour relations that underpin how people work together and shape organisational norms, values, and relational dependencies – tends to drop from view. Geographers have much to offer these debates, given how extensively the discipline has contributed to what culture and environment might mean. Institutional, national, and sectoral policies concerning research culture and environment significantly shape how knowledge-making is understood and intervened on. The processes that ‘research culture’ and ‘research environment’ authorise and foreclose require greater examination.","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12905","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135743650","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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The spatial development of peripheralisation: The case of smart city projects in Romania 周边化的空间发展：罗马尼亚智慧城市项目案例

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2023-09-30 DOI: 10.1111/area.12902

Alexandru Dragan, Remus Creţan, Raluca Denisa Bulzan

{"title":"The spatial development of peripheralisation: The case of smart city projects in Romania","authors":"Alexandru Dragan, Remus Creţan, Raluca Denisa Bulzan","doi":"10.1111/area.12902","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12902","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the uneven territorial growth of the smart city phenomenon and how the national and local spatial politics of urban smart projects work out in practice. While in previous decades the concept of smart city referred mainly to the digital and technological realm as an indicator of the performance of cities, today it is taking on a broader range of meanings, so as to also cover such areas as governance, environment, housing and people. However, the critical literature on smart cities highlights two potential disadvantages: firstly, that urban planners who decide to pursue a smart city vision run the risk of creating a kind of power and control over residents; and secondly that there appears to be an incompatibility between smart cities and the informal. Moreover, the spatial and the critical dimensions of the governance of urban smart projects are still insufficiently researched. By using a comparative and developmental quantitative methodology for the urban smart projects of Romania and taking the city of Timisoara as a case study, this study highlights the fact that large cities are not always the best represented; our findings show that peripheral small cities and towns may enjoy a more balanced distribution of smart projects. Furthermore, our evaluation of the spatial distribution (centre–periphery) of smart city projects in Timişoara—a European Capital of Culture in 2023—reveals a higher level of investment in smart projects in its urban periphery. By presenting new critical understandings of the spatial interrelationships of smart city development, the study contributes to the geography of smart cities.","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12902","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136278210","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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Place(making) for conservation activism: Materiality, non-human agency, ethics, and interaction in Indianapolis, IN 保护行动主义的场所(制作):物质性、非人类代理、伦理和互动，印第安纳州印第安纳波利斯

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.1111/area.12908

Ben Lockwood, Drew Heiderscheidt

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Decolonising ecological research: A generative discussion between Global North geographers and Global South field ecologists 非殖民化生态研究:全球北方地理学家与全球南方野外生态学家之间的生成性讨论

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2023-09-11 DOI: 10.1111/area.12901

Bruno Eleres Soares, Ana Clara Sampaio Franco, Juliana S. Leal, Romullo Guimarães de Sá Ferreira Lima, Kate Baker, Mark Griffiths

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Loitering with (research) intent: Remote ethnographies in the immigration tribunal 带着（研究）意图闲逛：移民法庭中的远程民族志

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2023-08-24 DOI: 10.1111/area.12896

Jo Hynes

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Interaction between islands and special economic zones: Spatial processes of containment and exclusion 岛屿与经济特区之间的相互作用:遏制与排斥的空间过程

IF 2.2 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2023-08-19 DOI: 10.1111/area.12900

Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su

{"title":"Interaction between islands and special economic zones: Spatial processes of containment and exclusion","authors":"Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su","doi":"10.1111/area.12900","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12900","url":null,"abstract":"Despite considerable research into special economic zones (SEZs) and Island Studies, islands and SEZs are rarely considered together. Islands and SEZs are, however, closely associated, in part due to the attractiveness of island characteristics (remoteness, boundedness, isolation) for exclusive economic processes. Many prominent SEZs are located on small islands, and many island economies function similarly to SEZs. Defining SEZs as ‘bounded spaces of economic and regulatory exception’, this paper considers deregulated industrial zones and exclusively branded smart cities and eco-cities, as well as island SEZs designed for external benefit and for local benefit. The study shows that spatial processes of containment and exclusion are supported by islands and are especially useful for crafting SEZs, which may specialise in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, gaming, port services and high-end tourism. Nevertheless, SEZ processes often create negative social, economic and environmental impacts. Island SEZs developed for external interest often seek to contain harm within islands or to exclude unfavourable factors, resulting in a spatial mismatch of harms and benefits. Island SEZs developed for local interest struggle to externalise harms, creating problems for island populations. The paper argues for the value of understanding islands and SEZs together, without exceptionalising them.","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"55 4","pages":"541-549"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83806301","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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‘Being’ and ‘doing’ well in the moment: Theoretical and relational contributions of health geography to living well with dementia 当下的 "存在 "与 "做好"：健康地理学对痴呆症患者健康生活的理论和关系贡献

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2023-08-11 DOI: 10.1111/area.12899

Meghánn Catherine Ward, Christine Milligan, Emma Elizabeth Rose, Mary Elliott

{"title":"‘Being’ and ‘doing’ well in the moment: Theoretical and relational contributions of health geography to living well with dementia","authors":"Meghánn Catherine Ward, Christine Milligan, Emma Elizabeth Rose, Mary Elliott","doi":"10.1111/area.12899","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12899","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past two decades, advancements have been made towards de-medicalising the term ‘dementia’, attending to in-the-moment lived experiences of people with the condition, and exploring the connections between dementia and place, relations, activities, and well-being. In the same timeframe, a range of prominent researchers within health geography have proposed new renegotiations of well-being that consider it as something relational, process-oriented, and emergent. Although these progressions in both dementia studies and health geography are ontologically aligned, the two lines of enquiry have only recently started to see crossover, pioneered by geographers seeking to better understand what it means to ‘live well with dementia in the moment’. In this theoretically driven paper, I celebrate these contributions to dementia and well-being studies through a timely review of the literature that informed the theoretical underpinnings of my own doctoral studies. Through the literature, I consider how a relational well-being lens can make supportive and empowering in-the-moment contributions to people living with dementia, who seek ways of ‘being well’ and ‘doing well’. As part of a special edition of Area, this paper takes us from the early inputs of health geographers to dementia and relational well-being knowledge, through to present-day literature and the future of dementia research framed around the in-the-moment movement. The contents of this paper ultimately support the importance of pushing the theoretical and conceptual boundaries of dementia research and well-being studies, to subsequently broaden our understandings of dementia and provide a new well-being lens that better captures the perspectives of those living with it.","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12899","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89769893","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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‘Somewhere old, somewhere new, somewhere green’: An exploration of health enabling places from the perspective of people ageing-in-place in Ireland during COVID-19 老地方、新地方、绿色地方"：在 COVID-19 会议期间，从爱尔兰就地养老者的角度探讨有利于健康的场所

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2023-08-11 DOI: 10.1111/area.12898

Viveka Guzman, Ronan Foley, Frank Doyle, Maria Pertl

{"title":"‘Somewhere old, somewhere new, somewhere green’: An exploration of health enabling places from the perspective of people ageing-in-place in Ireland during COVID-19","authors":"Viveka Guzman, Ronan Foley, Frank Doyle, Maria Pertl","doi":"10.1111/area.12898","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12898","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on conceptual and empirical work in geographies of ageing and environmental gerontology, this study's aim is to explore the generation and maintenance of enabling places from the perspective of older community dwellers in the context of COVID-19. Findings are drawn from a qualitative thematic analysis of written submissions (n = 17), narrative interviews (n = 44) and go-along interviews (n = 5) with people ageing-in-place in Irish communities during the pandemic. The mean age of participants was 74.9 (SD = 7; range 65–96), 53% were female, 46% lived alone, and 86% lived in areas with high urban influence. Our results indicate that the COVID-19 public health restrictions curtailed participants' usual activities and influenced how they related to their homes, and a variety of public spaces where they had previously pursued valued activities. Transitions in their everyday geographies led to a wide array of affective and embodied experiences, and participants described diverse material and social emplaced-resources as enabling or hindering their health and well-being during COVID-19. Our core findings are summarised across three themes: (1) somewhere old, relates to emplacement in familiar places and the role of familiarity with place resources; (2) somewhere new, comprises the emergence of digital spaces and possible pathways to build place insideness; and (3) somewhere green, describes the negotiation and (re)turn to natural and outdoor environments during the pandemic. Results from this study contribute to identify the pathways through which enabling places for diverse older people may be generated and/or maintained, and provide evidence to support the development of enabling environments during times of social upheaval and beyond.","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12898","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89777418","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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