Well-being, context, and everyday activities in space and time
Accessibility ; Hong Kong ; Location ; Neighbourhood ; Participation ; Social capital ; Social geography ; Urban area ; Well-being
This article analyzes how well-being is associated with geographical context, social contacts, and life circumstances in Hong Kong. First, it finds that life satisfaction is associated more strongly with geographical context than is momentary well
-being. Second, it confirms positive relations between social contacts and experienced well-being but extend earlier research by showing that these relations stretch across multiple timescales and depend to some extent on the duration of an activity
Are creative workers happier in Chinese cities? The influence of work, lifestyle, and amenities on urban well-being
China ; Creative class ; Creative industry ; Local amenities ; Service ; Social geography ; Urban economy ; Way of life ; Well-being ; Workplace
This article examines whether creative workers are happier in Chinese cities and the influence of work, lifestyle, and amenities on urban well-being. The results indicate that they are are indeed happier in post-Socialist, or service-sector oriented
governments and planners regarding the importance of public facilities for social interaction of various segments of the population to support individual well-being and neighborhood livability.
. Latent class membership can be explained by household and personal time-use characteristics as well as characteristics of the residential environment, and satisfaction with local facilities. The findings could provide useful information for local
Catastrophe ; Community ; Indonesia ; Migration ; Mobility ; Social geography ; Sumatera ; Tsunami ; Vulnerability ; Well-being
statistical analyses has the potential to provide new insights into vulnerability, mobility, and impacts of major disasters on population well-being. The comparison reveals that migration after a disaster is less selective overall than migration in other
to the clustering mode of production in the regional context. Third, the paper contributes to give a more accurate theoretic basis to the regional cluster policy and to help policy-makers in choosing the right policy for increasing the well-being of depressed
This paper explores turtle conservation in Odisha, India, to map the complicated ways in which animal well-being is pursued in the contemporary world. Using insights from Foucault’s work on biopolitics, it offers an account of conservation
the study area as well as evaluate potential scenarios that could improve the CKD healthcare service in the area. Therefore, the study attempts to identify a suitable method of remotely identifying potential locations that can be suitable for providing
locations among the available health centres within the state that would help reduce accessibility issues relating to the number of CKD patients that are being treated within the state.
the best ecological conditions for arable cultivation, viticulture, fruit production, cultivation of meadows and pasture, just to mention a few. A capability assessment using GIS is being carried out for the total area of the Eger region. The database used
to optimise land use according to the capability map. Alterations since the change of the regime in 1989 have been determined and analysed from the aspect of suitability, as well. - (AM)
–North. Services and social conditions are strongly related to overall quality of life. It is also found that, across cities, quality of life is positively and significantly related to subjective well-being.
This article addresses the questioning of the human being in post-humanism in congruence with Martin Heidegger’s thinking and ends up with two discoveries: first, that the characteristic of Dasein, as the being of the questioning, already carries
the same implications as the post-human figure, and second, that questioning in this sense is indicative of the effort of realizing anew scientific space for conceptualizing the human being as non-substantialist. Conceived of in this way, however, post
Being recognised and becoming known : encounters between people with and without intellectual disability in the public realm
This article offers the concepts of ‘being recognised’ and ‘becoming known’ to describe encounters which are neither passive presence in the community nor the fully fledged relationships of community participation. Rather, these concepts can be used
This paper explores how the problem of sustainability in the childcare sector is being addressed through a neoliberal development rationale. Focusing on the Irish childcare sector and the childcare funding programme introduced in 2006
, it illustrates how a particular entrepreneurial subjectivity has been mobilised to remedy the perceived problems of private sector childcare. After I outline the contours of this subjectivity, the final section of the paper will examine how it is being realised
This article draws upon qualitative research with young Sikh men growing up in urban Scotland to explore the complex strategies enacted by these young men in responding to being placed in the position of the stranger. The strategies employed
men’s strategies for managing being cast as strangers and demonstrates the agency and creativity of the young men in doing so.
is being instigated by leadership that is intent on rejecting their institutional power to ‘keep the peace’ within the Church. Thirdly, political progressivism was being fostered within the Church by two different types of branching out from the Church