The Environment as an Umbrella Concept Paul Warde, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin, The Environment: A History of the Idea (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2018), 244 pp. RISTO-MATTI MATERO University of Jyväskylä Less
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The Environment as an Umbrella Concept; From Word to Historical Concept
Risto-Matti Matero and Juan Alejandro Pautasso
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 130–139 (10 total)
Andrew Alan Johnson
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Aug 2017
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- 414–416 (2 total)
Anna-Leena Toivanen and Joanna E. Taylor
—her French pen pal Marie, who was supposed to be there for her at Orly airport, never showed up—turns this part of the novel into a narrative of urban survival of a migrant newcomer. Paris is portrayed as a hostile and absurd environment, and the narrative
Park Spaces and the User Experience
Reconsidering the Body in Park Analysis Tools
Eric A. Stone and Jennifer D. Roberts
environment elements within community (e.g., neighborhoods), organization (e.g., schools), and policy (e.g., urban planning policies) domains can strongly influence physical activity behavior. Therefore, parks and greenspaces within each of these domains are
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Work after precarity
Anthropologies of labor and wageless life
Rebecca Prentice
Campbell, Stephen. 2018. Border capitalism, disrupted: Precarity and struggle in a Southeast Asian industrial zone . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Howard, Penny McCall. 2017. Environment, labour and capitalism at sea: “Working the
The Double Force of Vulnerability
Ethnography and Environmental Justice
Grant M. Gutierrez, Dana E. Powell, and T. L. Pendergrast
vulnerability in ways that make life precarious and produce conditions for solidarity and collective action. While vulnerability seems to contour contemporary environments worldwide, conditions of mortal risk are familiar for humans and our nonhuman
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- 66–86 (21 total)
International learning experiences at home in Japan
The challenges and benefits of taking English-medium courses for Japanese students
Yukiko Ishikura
changing environment’ ( Knight 2008: 4 ). In Japan, the government has played a significant role in the internationalisation of universities since 1983 when it began its first project, the ‘100,000 International Students Plan’, which was followed by the
In Learning and Teaching
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- 42–61 (20 total)
Mimesis and Conspiracy
Bureaucracy, New Media and the Infrastructural Forms of Doubt
Michael Vine and Matthew Carey
capricious, convulsive and unyielding environment. As a long-term statistical abstraction, however, the underlying process of climate change is a good example of what Timothy Morton (2013) calls a ‘hyperobject’, an object or event so massively and complexly
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- 47–64 (18 total)
Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi
, Relocating Materiality . Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 351, 2019. Kregg Hetherington (ed.), Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 312, 2019. The edited volume is dead, long live the edited
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- 110–116 (7 total)
Katharina Seebaß
questions of how individual and social situations and living environments contribute to the explanation of individual subjective heat stress, and which determinants lead to an unequal distribution of heat stress. It is assumed that individuals experience
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- 137–161 (25 total)