Negotiating multiple positionalities in the interview setting : researching across gender and generational boundaries
Gender ; Geographer ; Identity ; Masculinity ; Positionality ; Research ; Social geography ; Woman
This article explores the multiple positionalities that were negotiated during qualitative interviews conducted with older British men who are grandfathers, by a young female early career researcher. Including reflections on personal research
experiences, this research outlines the need for explicit critical attention by geographers to the influence of the fluid intersectional identities of the researcher and researched on research experiences in the field and research outcomes.
Researching sensitive topics in African cities : reflections on alcohol research in Cape Town
Alcoholism ; Cape Town ; Living conditions ; Living standard ; Research technique ; Sensitivity analysis ; South Africa ; Town ; Western Cape
A significant gap in the ethics of researching sensitive topics is identified. To begin filling this gap, reflections on experiences researching the lived experience and policy engagement with alcohol in Cape Town are presented. The international
literature on sensitive topics was applied and adapted to the South African context. The challenges which arose during fieldwork and the strategies developed to mitigate them are examined, mindful of the need for particular attentiveness to research methods
Getting beyond the “God Trick” : toward service research
Activism ; Empowerment ; Epistemology ; Feminism ; Geographic research ; Public geography ; Research ; Social geography ; Subjectivity ; Woman
Recent calls for more discussion about “public geographies” highlight the need to understand the epistemologies and methodologies that shape the production of public geographic knowledge. Feminist theory and participatory and activist research
methodologies have been used to provide a framework for undertaking the work of the public through research and practice. While engaging in our own public geographies, however, we realized some epistemological and methodological tensions in these frameworks
. In this article we draw on Haraway’s (1988) critique of the “god trick” to interrogate theseframeworks and propose new ways of positioning ourselves within the research context, which we call “service” research.
Strategies for Enhancing Landscape Architecture Research
ECLAS ; Education ; Higher education ; Knowledge ; Landscape ; Landscape architecture ; Research ; Research technique ; doctoral programmes ; research strategies
universitaire, comme l'évaluation de la recherche.#Landscape architects have always felt that they benefit, in practice and education, from fundamental and applied research. The results of recent surveys among landscape architecture educators now make
it possible to conduct a substantive discussion about the connections between research on the one hand and teaching and practice on the other. Such connections, it seems, are still weak. To develop these connections and be able to define landscape architecture
as a discipline that relies on its own body of knowledge, it is important to build a common framework of theory and methods, and to start developing specific standards for academic quality assurance, such as the evaluation of research. Strategies to put
these objectives into practice include organising conferences, colloquia and seminars on research and research methodologies, and developing network activities for academic exchange, including links with research communities outside landscape architecture.
The AA. summarize the framework for soil salinization research in China over the past 70 years, assess the weaknesses of existing research in both a domestic and international context, highlight the trends and key findings of global research about
saline soils over the past 30 years, and propose six major fields and directions for future research on saline soil.
Making their own futures? Research change and diversity amongst contemporary British human geographers
Geographer ; Geographic research ; Higher education ; Human geography ; Inter-disciplinary approach ; Knowledge ; Research ; United Kingdom
The paper discusses a survey of British academic human geographers enquiring about change and diversification within personal research activities, their nature, motivations and impacts. The findings highlight the range of motivations underpinning
research change, its impacts and mediation through the institutional context of British human geography. It concludes that despite a more prescriptive institutional context geographers have a degree of autonomy, albeit somewhat fettered, to shape their own
In this paper, the A. discusses an action-based predominantly quantitative research project that aimed to investigate the diverse impacts of sustainable agriculture on small-scale farmers in the Philippines. The study, one of the largest ever
undertaken on organic rice production, is designed, not merely to describe, but to perform organic agriculture differently. While most quantitative, and indeed much qualitative, research ignores its performativity, this research is intended to enact a reality
Same disease—different research strategies : Bananas and Black Sigatoka in Brazil and Colombia
Agricultural product ; Agricultural production ; Banana ; Brazil ; Colombia ; Epidemic ; Health ; Innovation ; Nordeste ; Research ; Research and development ; Role of the State ; Technology
Using the cases of Brazil and Colombia, this paper examines different agricultural research responses to the Black Sigatoka disease. Brazil opted to replace susceptible varieties with resistant ones, whereas in Colombia chemical control by private
actors dominated. We argue that these different responses result from at least three interrelated factors. First, producer type—smallholder farmers or larger export-oriented plantations—influences the setting of crop protection research priorities. Second
, a central, state-led role versus a private sector response influences the size and time perspective of research activities. Third, domestic markets with multiple crop varieties versus Cavendish-only export markets leads to differences in control practices
Under which conditions do technology intermediaries enhance firms' innovation speed? The Case of Belgium's collective research centres
This research studies a specific type of technology intermediary, namely the collective research centres in Belgium, and assesses the conditions under which member firms working with these intermediaries experience acceleration additionality
. It is found that absorptive capacity of the member firm and the intensity of interaction are important drivers of innovation speed. Absorptive capacity at technology intermediary level is not found to affect member firm innovation speed. The research has
Community participatory appraisal in migration research : connecting neoliberalism, rural restructuring and mobility
This article uses participatory appraisal (PA) in migration studies by presenting illustrative examples of how this approach enriches research conducted in Veracruz, Mexico, on neoliberalism, agrarian transformation and migration. It demonstrates
that it facilitates fruitful contrast of community typologies and that it includes underrepresented and marginalised voices such as those of children and youths who are often silent in migration research. It concludes that this approach allows nuanced understandings
Performative research for a climate politics of hope : rethinking geographic scale, “impact” scale, and markets
Australia ; Climatic change ; Energy ; Impact ; Market ; New South Wales ; Renewable energy ; Research ; Scale ; Sustainable development
insights from the academic literature and research into grassroots renewable energy initiatives in Newcastle, New South Wales, to show how scale and markets can be rethought, thereby making it possible to detect some of the ways that grassroots re-newable
Academic research strengths and multinational firms’ foreign RandD location decisions : evidence from RandD investments in European regions
Direct investment ; Europe ; European Union ; Foreign investment ; Graduates ; Location ; Multinational firm ; Patent ; Research ; Research and development ; Scientific publication
through which academic research attracts foreign RandD is the supply of PhD graduates.
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[b2] Inst. for Environmental and Sustainability , Joint Research Centre (JRC) - European Commission, Ispra, Italie
The past, present, and future of geodemographic research in the United States and United Kingdom
Cluster ; Comparative study ; Demography ; Geographic research ; Research ; Scientific publication ; Typology ; United Kingdom ; United States of America
from their diverging histories, variable data economies, and availability of academic or free classifications. Finally, current methodological research is reviewed, linking this discussion prospectively to the changing spatial data economy in both
to resist or sustain momentum could have been strategically motivated. The paper recommends that further practice and methodological research should focus on the challenges of teasing out social appraisals on momentum in the deliberative planning context.
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[b1] Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) Research Group, School of Environmental Sciences, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, Royaume-Uni
[b2] Governance of Complex Systems (GOCS) research group, Dept. of Public Administration, Erasmus Univ., Rotterdam, Pays-Bas
Identity ; Narrative ; Research ; Societal relations ; Space ; United States of America ; Vietnam ; War
to debates surrounding the socio-spatial production of multiple and overlapping fields, describes the audiences engaged with and implicated in research, and contributes to understandings of ethical research engagement with postconflict field sites.
Producer services ; Research ; Theory ; Urban hierarchy ; Urban network ; World city
Dans ce numéro spécial consacré à l'étude des réseaux urbains mondiaux, on trouvera les articles suivants :1-Introduction: The interlocking network model for studying urban networks: out-line, potential, critiques, and ways forward ; 2-A research
odyssey: from interlocking network model to extraordinary cities ; 3-Network or hierarchical relations? A plea for redirecting attention to the control functions of global cities4-World city network research at a theoretical impasse: On the need to re
André Guilcher’s major doctoral thesis examined the geomorphology of southern Brittany. Research for his minor thesis, on rural settlement in a northwestern part of the peninsula, was facilitated by his knowledge of Breton. After high school
he built up an influential research unit focusing on marine geography. Scientific expeditions took him to coastal and marine locations across the globe. Despite emphasizing physical geography in research, he believed in the unity of the discipline
in watershed hydrology, they evaluate each approach, with regard to their respective data requirements, assumptions, and associated uncertainties. Next, they discuss factors that researchers must consider in deciding upon a particular methodological approach
, then conclude with a discussion of future research needs. The AA. underscore the need for expanded meteorological, hydrological, and glaciological monitoring networks in glacierized watersheds worldwide, for more comprehensive assessment of uncertainty
and for better integration of research with the specific needs of watershed stakeholder.
Ethnology ; Governmentality ; Ideology ; Political geography ; Power ; Research ; Role of the State ; Vietnam ; Village
This A. examines statemaking in the Northwest highlands and micropolitical relations between agencies and villages. He explores his access to and denial from village field sites to position the researcher amidst the same power relations under study
generative practices. Demarcation, for example, is a state tactic that produces multiple ethnic, sovereign, and spatial boundaries—ideological forms that pose hazards for researchers and subaltern subjects alike.