Introduction: writing creatively – process, practice, and product

For most academic geographers writing remains the primary means through which we communicate our work. Typically, of course, in monographs and journal articles, but with ongoing creative efforts to engage geographical audiences through practices beyond academic publishing – something cultural geographies in practice has long featured – that writing sees a myriad of expressions.1 Nevertheles…

Geographies of poetry/poetries of geography

This contribution is a reflection on the process of becoming a poet as a geographer. It charts my journey into the world of poetry and reflects on the cross-overs between academic geography and poetic practice in the past. It considers the way in which geography and poetry can inform each other in the practice of writing creatively, and tentatively suggests how this engagement might influence m…

Opening Ungava to industry:a decentring approach to indigenous history in sub…

This article examines the period leading up to the establishment of the Schefferville iron mine in subarctic Québec, Canada, with a focus on the years 1937–54. The beginning of iron ore mining at Schefferville was a decisive moment in the growth of the modern Québec state, opening the way for the industrial exploitation of the province’s natural resources – mineral and otherwise – in …

Ontology and indigeneity: on the political ontology of heterogeneous assemblages

The first challenge faced by a project that seeks to bring concerns with ontology and indigeneity into a conversation is to sort out the various (and possibly divergent) projects that are being mobilized when the former term is used, not the least because what do we mean by ontology impinges upon how we can conceive indigeneity. In this article I play a counterpoint between two ‘ontological�…

Undoing ‘marginality’: The islands of the Mahakam Delta, East Kalimantan …

The islands in the delta of the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan have for a very long time been of little interest to anybody. It was a hostile environment for human settlement, exploitable resources were limited and nobody could think of options for alternative forms of land use. The area was classified as ‘marginal or empty land’. Things started to change dramatically in the 1990’…

Middle Alternatives Revisited: How the neither/nor Response Acts as a Way of …

A persistent problem in the design of bipolar attitude questions is whether or not to include a middle response alternative. On the one hand, it is reasonable to assume that people might hold opinions which are ‘neutral’ with regard to issues of public controversy. On the other, question designers suspect that offering a mid-point may attract respondents with no opinion, or those who lean t…

Choosing the Number of Categories in Agree–Disagree Scales

Although agree–disagree (AD) rating scales suffer from acquiescence response bias, entail enhanced cognitive burden, and yield data of lower quality, these scales remain popular with researchers due to practical considerations (e.g., ease of item preparation, speed of administration, and reduced administration costs). This article shows that if researchers want to useADscales, they should off…

Response Error in Earnings: An Analysis of the Survey of Income and Program P…

This article examines the problem of response error in survey earnings data. Comparing workers’ earnings reports in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to their detailed W-2 earnings records from the Social Security Administration, we employ ordinary least squares (OLS) and quantile regression models to assess the effects of earnings determinants and d…

Investigating Response Errors in Survey Data

This special issue of Sociological Methods & Research contributes to recent trends in studies that exploit the availability of multiple measures in sample surveys in order to detect the level and patterning to measurement errors. Articles in this volume focus on topics in one of (or some combination of) the three areas: (1) those that develop and test theoretical hypotheses regarding the behavi…

Italian Sociologists’ Approach to Qualitative Interviews

It is common to come across interviews, both transcribed and recorded, that were conducted according to remarkably different strategies that seem to contrast with the recommendations and indications of a large part of the literature on this subject. To understand the reasons behind these different strategies, I will present the outcomes of a study carried out among Italian sociologists who base…

Matrix Assisted Structural Hypothesis Construction: Further Explorations

In January 2011 (BMS issue 109), this journal published our article on a new process for developing a structural hypothesis, using a matrix approach and multi-dimensional data analysis techniques (Cohen and Tresser, 2011). The present article continues to develop the matrix assisted hypothesis construction method (matrix method for short) and offers directions for research utilizing this approa…

Reliability of Self-reports of Financial Data in Surveys: Results From the He…

This article reports an investigation of errors of measurement in self-reports of financial data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), one of the major social science data resources available to those who study the demography and economics of aging. Results indicate significantly lower levels of reporting reliability of the composite variables in the HRS relative to those found for ‘‘su…

Law, Development and Innovation

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Handbook of LGBT Elders: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Principles, Practic…

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Homicide Data Sources: An Interdisciplinary Overview for Researchers

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SpringerBriefs in Criminology

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Inhibition of influenza virus replication by constrained peptides targeting n…

Background: Because of high mutation rates, new drugresistant viruses are rapidly evolving, thus making the necessary control of influenza virus infection difficult.Methods: We screened a constrained cysteine-rich peptide library mimicking m-conotoxins from Conus geographus and a proline-rich peptide library mimicking lebocin 1 and 2 from Bombyx mori by using influenza virus RNA polymerase (…

You Say You Want a Revolution: the Arab Spring, Norm Diffusion, and the Human…

Abstract We discuss how the Arab Spring is a reflection of the resiliency of the human rights regime. In order to accomplish this, we explore the extent to which the Arab Spring represents norm diffusion among Middle East and North Africa (MENA) states. Specifically, we examine the cases of Tunisia, Egypt, and Bahrain and consider how economic and demographic changes created space for human r…

Retrieving the Differences: the Distinctiveness of the Welfare Aspect of Huma…

Abstract Recently, the idea that all rights are positive and costly has come to prominence in international human rights law. This has been taken to imply that there are no reasons to object to providing economic, social, and cultural rights with the same level of protection than civil and political rights. The present contribution aims to reject this undifferentiated view. It argues that eve…

Ageing with Dignity: Old-Age Pension Schemes from the Perspective of the Righ…

Abstract The ‘dignity and worth of the human person’ emphasised in international human rights instruments resonate strongly in relation to the world’s ageing population, which is projected to be the fastest growing population group in the world and often among the most vulnerable. While elderly persons as a group are heterogeneous and their socio-economic life situation varies significa…

A good life : human rights and encounters with modernity

This is a book about hope, the hope that we have ways to live together in a rapidly changing world which will enable us to ‘live a good life in the modern world’. It goes beyond hope and suggests how we may do this. The how is a critical question at a time when rapid change is impacting on all societies. What will be the human outcomes of political turmoil in the Middle East and elsewhere?…

The social control of cities? : a comparative perspective

In the past three decades there have been dramatic changes in the fortunes of cities and regions, in beliefs about the role of markets and states in society, and in the theories used by social scientists to account for these changes. Many of the cities experiencing crisis in the 1970s have undergone revitalization, while others have continued to decline. In Europe and North America new pol…

Cities and visitors : regulating people, markets, and city space

This book had its genesis in a research collective, the International Tourism Research Group (ITRG), funded by the Council for European Studies. Although tourism had become an increasingly important sector of the global economy and shaper of cities, scholarship had yet to treat it with the seriousness accorded to other urban topics. Our aim was to place tourism within a theoretical perspective …

Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

The contributors to this volume make a crucial and forceful point. There are numerous theories and methodologies that can be used to yield research findings about the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to make a positive difference in people’s lives. Whether the findings in any particular research project actually contribute in this way depends on multiple factors,…

Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

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Kalimantan’s biodiversity:developing accounting models to prevent its econo…

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore the current and historical state of accounting for biodiversity in Kalimantan (Borneo). It is also to evaluate various models for stand-alone biodiversity reporting in the context of the work undertaken in Kalimantan by the United Nations Collaborative Program on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in Developing Countries (…

Essentials of Social Research

Essentials of Social Research is a short basic primer on social research methodology that will provide straightforward, clear answers to the key questions in research methods, such as: What are the components of scientific analysis? What is grounded theory? What constitutes a causal explanation? How believable are particular research findings? As an introductory primer, the book covers types of…

Promoting Social Dialogue in European Organizations : Human Resources Managem…

Disseminating cutting edge theories and empirical research in the field of industrial relations and conflict management, from an interdisciplinary approach, and firmly based in theories on human ehaviour in relation to work and organizations. Formally the series will publish monographs and contributed or edited volumes from leading psychology scholars. Specifically, the series integrates theori…

Sociocultural Systems: Principles of Structure and Change

A preface generally tells the story of how a book came into being. This particular book is rooted in my previous work in macrosociology: notably, two earlier books in which I summarize the work of the big four in nineteenth-century sociology—Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, and Weber—and of contemporary theorists who write in the tradition of these founders. In writing these books, I not only lear…

‘O Effeminacy! Effeminacy!’ War, masculinity and the myth of liberal peace

Abstract This article challenges a received wisdom in the liberal peace thesis, namely that the roots of the conjunction of liberalism and peace can be traced back to the idea of an essentially pacific commercial civil society in the 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment. The article instead shows that the Scottish Enlightenment was committed to the idea of military virtue. Textual analysis …

Modeling Employee Social Responsibility as an Antecedent to Competitiveness O…

Abstract. The study explained a model of employee social responsibility (ESR) as an antecedent to corporate competitiveness. It hypothesizes that ESR has significant effect on employee competitiveness (EC). Questionnaires were administered to a sample of 700 employees selected from a population of 5,595 from 20 classified hotels in the coastal region of Kenya using proportionate and systematic…

The Cultivation of a Prosocial Value Orientation Through Community Service: A…

Community service is widely regarded as a fundamental experience in preparation for good citizenship, but it remains unclear whether common variants of service are consequential for civic outcomes. This study examines changes in the relative importance assigned to prosocial and egoistic values associated with service through different types of organizations, service prompted by external contin…

Social Work in the Engaged University

This article identifies the importance of educating social work studetits and enlisting social work faculty to embrace the university-commutiity engagement arena as a critical subñeld of commutiity practice. Through the letis of social work knowledge, values, atid skills, the authors present three case studies of social workers who are working in the university-community field. The authors off…

Who Can Buy Happiness? Personality Traits Moderate the Effects of Stable Inco…

Abstract. The present research tested whether the Big Five personality dimensions—extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience—moderate the effects of income on life satisfaction. The authors analyzed data from three large-sample, nationally representative, longitudinal studies: the British Household Panel Survey, the German Socio-Economic Panel S…

When to Use Your Head and When to Use Your Heart: The Differential Value of P…

Abstract. Four studies explored whether perspective-taking and empathy would be differentially effective in mixed-motive competitions depending on whether the critical skills for success were more cognitively or emotionally based. Study 1 demonstrated that individual differences in perspective-taking, but not empathy, predicted increased distributive and integrative performance in a multiple-r…

When Feeling Bad Can Be Good: Mixed Emotions Benefit Physical Health Across A…

Abstract. Traditional models of emotion–health interactions have emphasized the deleterious effects of negative emotions on physical health. More recently, researchers have turned to potential benefits of positive emotions on physical health as well. Both lines of research, though, neglect the complex interplay between positive and negative emotions and how this interplay affects physical we…

When Do We Ostracize?

Abstract. Ostracism is a common, yet painful social experience. Given the harmful consequences of ostracism, why would groups ostracize their members? Previous research suggests that ostracism is a form of social control used to influence those group members perceived as burdensome. The authors propose that individuals will ostracize a group member only when it is justified (i.e., the member s…

Washing One’s Hands After Failure Enhances Optimism but Hampers Future Perf…

Abstract. Previous studies showed that washing one’s hand not only removes dirt from the body, it also weakens one’s guilt after immoral behavior, makes moral judgment of others’ misdeeds less severe, reduces post-decisional dissonance effects, and can help wash off bad luck. The present study broadens this scope by investigating the psychological impact of physical cleansing in a perfor…

Tribal Resistance Movements and the Politics of Development- Induced Displace…

Abstract. The article is a study of two tribal movements based on development-induced displacements in contemporary Orissa. In fact, all the two micro-movement studies are resistance movements against mining based heavy metal industries, e.g. against the Utkal Alumina International Ltd. (UAIL) at Kashipur and against the Vedanta Aluminium Ltd. (VAL) at Lanjigarh. Based on both primary and …

The Use of Visual and Verbal Means of Communication Across Psychological Dist…

Abstract. The current study investigated the effect of distance on medium preferences in interpersonal communication. Five experiments showed that people’s preference for using pictures (vs. words) is increasingly higher when communicating with temporally, socially, or geographically proximal (vs. distal) others. In contrast, preference for words is increasingly higher when communicating wit…

The Sweet Taste of Success: The Presence of Glucose in the Oral Cavity Modera…

Abstract. According to the resource-depletion model, self-control is a limited resource that is depleted after a period of exertion. Evidence consistent with this model indicates that self-control relies on glucose metabolism and glucose supplementation to depleted individuals replenishes self-control resources. In five experiments, we tested an alternative hypothesis that glucose in the oral …

The Prospective Effect of Life Satisfaction on Life Events

Abstract. Life satisfaction (LS) is prospectively associated with the occurrence of several major events in work and family life. Analyzing longitudinal data from three nationally representative panel studies (Ns between 2,321 and 18,692), the authors found that higher LS is associated with a higher likelihood of marriage and childbirth, and with a lower likelihood of marital separation, job l…

The Burden of Being ‘‘Employable’’: Underpaid and Unpaid Work and Wom…

Abstract. In the study presented here, we examined factors that shape women’s employability and their impact on women’s subjective health and well-being in four British Columbian communities. Although the economic contexts of the urban, rural, remote, and reserve communities were diverse, they intersected with gender roles and cultural norms to provide a picture of women’s employabil…

Testosterone’s Negative Relationship With Empathic Accuracy and Perceived L…

Abstract. Two studies examine the relationship between naturally occurring levels of circulating testosterone and empathic accuracy. In Study 1, the authors find that higher endogenous levels of testosterone are negatively related to the accuracy with which people infer the thoughts and feelings of others. In Study 2, the authors use 360 data collected in the field to show that individuals wit…

Swaraj as Blossoming: Compassion, Confrontation and a New Art of Integration

Abstract. The article seeks a new way of co-walking with Gandhi and his epochal Hind Swaraj. It seeks to reconstitute and realize Swaraj not only as self-rule but also as blossoming of self, other and the world. An uncritical and mechanical rendering of Swaraj as self-rule does not address the problem that self-rule is not always accompanied by visions and practices of co-determination, co…

Succeeding in the Face of Stereotype Threat: The Adaptive Role of Engagement …

Abstract. Two experiments examined Engagement Regulation, the systematic increase or decrease of self-esteem engagement in a domain following positive or negative outcomes, respectively. We hypothesized that, under threat, more positive outcomes increase engagement, and greater engagement augments the influence of subsequent outcomes on self-esteem and performance. Female participants complete…

Spiritual Liberals and Religious Conservatives

Abstract. While church and state are officially separated in many Western nations, there is nonetheless a great deal of overlap between the religious beliefs and political orientations of individual citizens. Religious individuals tend to be more conservative, placing a greater emphasis on order, obedience, and tradition. While many religious movements emphasize conservative values, there also…

Skewed Sex Ratio and Migrant Brides in Haryana: Reflections from the Field

Abstract. A significant social consequence of the prevailing skewed sex ratio in some of the prosperous regions of India is a shortage of marriageable women which is resulting in the ‘import’ of brides from relatively poorer regions. In the northern state of Haryana, which has one of the lowest female to male sex ratios, a substantial number of men have acquired poor women as brides fr…

Searching for the Limits and Explanations of the Nonselective Superiority Bias

Abstract. Three experiments were conducted to test the robustness and explanations of the Nonselective Superiority Bias (NSSB), whereby any randomly selected item from a positive category is rated more favorably when compared with a cohesive group of other exemplars from the same category. Having participants rank order all exemplars prior to making a direct comparative rating did not reduce t…

Reservation and Women’s Political Freedom: Candidates’ Experience from Th…

Abstract. Based on the capability approach, this article tries to see the implications of reservation policy on the political freedom of women in Kerala. Using a primary survey of candidates in a recent panchayat election in Malappuram district of Kerala it establishes the role of reservation in bringing many educated young women into local politics and decision-making bodies. It also refl…

Person and Thing Orientations: Psychological Correlates and Predictive Utility

Abstract. Individuals differ in their orientation toward the people and things in their environment. This has consequences for important life choices. The authors review 15 studies on Person and Thing Orientations (PO-TO) using data from 7,450 participants to establish the nature of the constructs, their external correlates, and their predictive utility. These findings suggest that these two o…