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Performing resistance ? Re-reading practices of urban cycling on London's South Bank
Cycling ; Daily life ; England ; London ; Mobility ; Neighbourhood ; Public space ; Redevelopment ; United Kingdom ; Urban area ; Urban practice ; Urban regeneration
The paper focuses on the urban cycling practices of bike trails and BMX in order to illustrate that these practices are perhaps not as resistant as previous accounts have argued. Using ethnographic methods, it discusses the practice and reception

An experimental study of the influence of traditional slash-and-burn practices on soil erosion
Agricultural practice ; Agropedology ; Erosion rate ; Galicia ; Rill wash ; Soil erosion ; Soil properties ; Spain

Stages on journeys : some remarks about human geography and psychotherapic practice
Communication ; Feminism ; Human geography ; Inter-disciplinary approach ; Practice of geography ; Psychotherapy ; Societal relations

Wittgenstein and social practices

Wittgenstein and social practices
Cultural geography ; Cultural studies ; Epistemology ; Philosophy ; Social geography ; Social practice ; Theory

The modern planner as a seducer

Ideology ; Planning ; Security ; Social practice ; Welfare state ; Well-being
The A. scrutinizes the form of planning practice that has developed within the welfare state and emphasizes two different aspects of this practice, the ethical and pragmatic aspects. The usual form of action can be characterized as a certain form

Administrative practices in Russia's housing allowance programme
. The results of a first-time assessment of the practices of local housing allowances offices are reported here. Overall, its performance is adequate but highly variable and improvements are clearly needed.

Caring for workers' dependents. Gender, class and local state practice in Melbourne
Focusing on child-care provision, but with some reference also to services for aged dependents, the paper describes the community-service practice of two Melbourne municipalities and the class and gender biases they incorporate.

Religious practices and biotic conservation in Nigeria : conflict or compromise?
Behaviour ; Cultural geography ; Nigeria ; Religion ; Religious practice ; Value system

Between food and flesh : how animals are made to matter (and not matter) within food consumption practices
Behaviour ; Consumption ; Food consumption ; Social practice

Bunkerology - a case study in the theory and practice of urban exploration
The paper reviews existing academic interpretations of urban exploration and argues that focus on identifying the emancipatory dimension of this practice has failed to account for the orientation evident in the study of accounts of exploration

Resources and practices in A level geography education in Jamaica and England
In this paper it is argued that the very low pass rates experienced by students taking the A level geography examination in Jamaica are due to poor school-level resources and practices. Differences between provisions in Jamaica and England

This paper examines the philosophical, theoretical and practical problems involved in bridging the gap between studies of geomorphological processes and explanations of landscape development. It argues that process geomorphology is essentially
reductionist and discusses the practical and logical limitations of such an approach to science. It suggests that landscapes are emergent phenomena and, by drawing from the philosophical and practical lessons derived from the physics of non-linear systems

Practicing historical geography

Practicing historical geography
Epistemology ; Historical geography ; Methodology ; Practice of geography ; Research

The spatial imaginary of national practices: dwelling-domesticating/being-exterminating
The A. offers a critique of the differentiation into two kinds of nationalism (Western and Eastern), by examining various practices of dealing with otherness in the process of nation building (in Lebanon and Australia). The practices of nation

The status and extent of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) practice in South Africa 1996-2003
The paper provides insights into the profile of the emerging Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) system in South Africa by highlighting legislative and policy provisions that implicitly facilitated practice. South Africa provides a rich variety
of SEA practice that could provide solutions to the challenge of tailoring SEA to developing country contexts. - (AJC)

From polygons to politics : everyday practice and environmental governance in Veracruz, Mexico
The research reveals how state strategies to govern resources and reaorder space were thwarted by the everyday practices of both farmers and state actors. Using a case study of a historic coffee-producing region,it presents ethnographic data
to demonstrate how government attempts to control the environement are bound together in mutually constitutive processes of transformation with actual places, peoples and practices.

Production effects of improved management practices in East African cattle grazing systems
Cattle productivity is low in East African cattle grazing systems, and uncontrolled communal grazing is a major reason. Four low-cost, improved management practices are evaluated for a representative livestock village herd in two rainfall regions
in Tanzania. The four practices are a restricted breeding season, shorter weaning periods for calves, supplemental feeding of weaner calves and a sales policy of unproductive cows. (L'A.).

Shopping, space, and practice

Shopping, space, and practice
Activity space ; Behaviour ; Consumption ; England ; Retail trade ; Shopping behaviour ; United Kingdom ; Urban practice
The AA. address questions of shopping as practised and its relation to shopping space. They argue that modes of shopping, which comprise distinctive sets of shopping practices involving relations to goods, relations of looking, the place of shopping

Bangkok : place, practice and representation
Bangkok ; Daily life ; Inner city ; Large city ; Slum ; Thailand ; Urban geography ; Urban practice ; Urban settlement ; Urban society ; Urban structure
The book is divided into two parts. 1- Krung to global city : the dynamics of transformation ; 2- Making Bangkok : studies in place, practice and representation. The work is an in-depth study of the institutions and the people who shaped the Thai

Europe's Others? Forestry policy and practices in colonial and postcolonial India

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