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View article: Strategic Tradeoffs Between Humans and AI in Multi-Agent Bargaining
Strategic Tradeoffs Between Humans and AI in Multi-Agent Bargaining Open
As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in collaborative human activities such as business negotiations and group coordination, it becomes critical to evaluate both the performance gains they can achieve and how they inte…
View article: ‘It can Feel Like They've Forgotten you’: Enhancing Older Adult Participation in Urban Regeneration
‘It can Feel Like They've Forgotten you’: Enhancing Older Adult Participation in Urban Regeneration Open
We present two innovative and impactful interdisciplinary participatory projects highlighting interconnected older adult meanings in relation to UK town centre spaces. We argue older people occupy paradoxical positions within urban policie…
View article: <i>Água negra</i> (black water) and overwhelming details: For <i>more-than</i>-nexus approaches to global water–energy–food challenges
<i>Água negra</i> (black water) and overwhelming details: For <i>more-than</i>-nexus approaches to global water–energy–food challenges Open
This paper advances multidisciplinary research, policy, education and activisms which cohere around the concept of the ‘water–energy–food (W–E–F) nexus’ via an evidence-led critique of normative forms of nexus-thinking which draws upon res…
View article: The Production and Consumption of Social Media
The Production and Consumption of Social Media Open
We model social media as collections of users producing and consuming content.Users value consuming content, but doing so uses up their scarce attention, and hence they prefer content produced by more able users.Users also value receiving …
View article: Introduction: Austerity across Europe: lived experiences of economic crises
Introduction: Austerity across Europe: lived experiences of economic crises Open
With this introductory chapter we explore the multitude of ways in which austerity and\neconomic crises are experienced in everyday life across Europe. The aim of the collection is\nto connect and place into conversation emerging, cutting-…
View article: Austerity Across Europe
Austerity Across Europe Open
Cyprus belongs to the group of countries which were hardest hit by the economic recession in Europe. Real GDP sunk by almost 10%, resulting in a large increase in unemployment, wage cuts, reduced household consumption and a rise in poverty…
View article: Geographies of food beyond food: transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil
Geographies of food beyond food: transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil Open
Engaging contemporary forms of nexus-thinking with interdisciplinary food scholarship and childhood and youth studies, this paper explores the social, cultural and political implications of young people’s entangled connections with – and b…
View article: Spaces of interdisciplinary in/congruity: the coming together of engineers and social scientists in planning for sustainable urban environments
Spaces of interdisciplinary in/congruity: the coming together of engineers and social scientists in planning for sustainable urban environments Open
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View article: A Place for Me? Older people and the future Northampton town centre
A Place for Me? Older people and the future Northampton town centre Open
Research conducted by the University of Northampton in partnership with Age UK Northamptonshire, which asks for the views of older people and their experience of using Northampton town centre, was published on Friday 31st January 2020.
View article: For diffident geographies and modest activisms: Questioning the ANYTHING‐BUT‐GENTLE academy
For diffident geographies and modest activisms: Questioning the ANYTHING‐BUT‐GENTLE academy Open
This commentary interleaves autoethnographic reflections and qualitative data to develop two critical reflections on ‘gentleness’ in contemporary spaces of academia and activism. First, somewhat autoethnographically, I question how normati…
View article: Associative Political Obligations and the Distributive Objection
Associative Political Obligations and the Distributive Objection Open
In this article we assess the distributive objection to the claim that we have associative political obligations. We deploy three kinds of strategy in our response: avoidance, mitigation and confrontation. Avoidance and mitigation are acco…
View article: Youth Growing Up in Families Experiencing Parental Substance Use Disorders and Homelessness: A High-Risk Population
Youth Growing Up in Families Experiencing Parental Substance Use Disorders and Homelessness: A High-Risk Population Open
Objectives: We sought to understand the stressors, the parent-child relationship and family processes, and experiences with services among families experiencing parental substance use disorders (SUDs) and homelessness. Methods: We conducte…
View article: (Re)thinking (re)connection: Young people, “natures” and the water–energy–food nexus in São Paulo State, Brazil
(Re)thinking (re)connection: Young people, “natures” and the water–energy–food nexus in São Paulo State, Brazil Open
This paper critically analyses pervasive contemporary discourses that call for children and young people to be “reconnected” with nature and natural resources. Simultaneously, it reflects on emerging forms of nexus thinking and policy that…
View article: Neon bright:<i>Cool Places</i>, youth cultures and hopeful political-theoretical futures
Neon bright:<i>Cool Places</i>, youth cultures and hopeful political-theoretical futures Open
This article provides a reflection on Skelton and Valentine's (1998) book 'Cool Places'. The articles focuses upon the excitement, vitality and sense of challenge that the book first afforded when the two authors first encountered it. From…
View article: “The show must go on!” Fieldwork, mental health and wellbeing in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
“The show must go on!” Fieldwork, mental health and wellbeing in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Open
Fieldwork is central to the identity, culture and history of academic Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences ( GEES ). However, in this paper we recognise that, for many academic staff, fieldtrips can be a profoundly challenging “orde…
View article: Rats, assorted shit and ‘racist groundwater’: Towards extra-sectional understandings of childhoods and social-material processes
Rats, assorted shit and ‘racist groundwater’: Towards extra-sectional understandings of childhoods and social-material processes Open
Reflecting on a study of children’s outdoor play in a ‘white, working class estate’ in east London, this paper argues that social-material processes that are characteristically massy, indivisible, unseen, fluid and noxious have, problemati…
View article: Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments: New Urbanisms, New Citizens
Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments: New Urbanisms, New Citizens Open
Urban living has dramatically changed over the past generation, refashioning children’s relationships with the towns and cities in which they live, and the modes of living within them. Focusing on the global shift in urban planning towards…
View article: Three playgrounds: Researching the multiple geographies of children’s outdoor play
Three playgrounds: Researching the multiple geographies of children’s outdoor play Open
This paper argues for more careful, combinative approaches to children’s outdoor play that can better apprehend the social-material, political and spatial constitution of children’s play with/in diverse urban communities. Much extant schol…
View article: The Causes of Peer Effects in Production: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments
The Causes of Peer Effects in Production: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments Open
Workers respond to the output choices of their peers.What explains this well documented phenomenon of peer effects?Do workers value equity, fear punishment from equity-minded peers, or does output from peers teach them about employers' exp…
View article: The Effects of Representational Math in a Montessori Classroom
The Effects of Representational Math in a Montessori Classroom Open
This Action Research Study is designed to evaluate the effect of integrating representational math in the Montessori classroom during mathematical instruction and practice. In comparative studies, Montessori students have generally out-per…
View article: Owning, Using and Renting: Some Simple Economics of the "Sharing Economy"
Owning, Using and Renting: Some Simple Economics of the "Sharing Economy" Open
New Internet-based markets enable consumer/owners to rent out their durable goods when not using them.Such markets are modeled to determine ownership, rental rates, quantities, and surplus generated.Both the short run, before consumers can…
View article: Session B-1: Messing with the “Rise of the West”
Session B-1: Messing with the “Rise of the West” Open
This session will present strategies and lesson plans for World History teachers who want their students to learn how to interrogate the idea that modern European hegemony began in 1492. Was the Renaissance the Renaissance? Does modernity …
View article: Development of a STEM Summer Program for Underrepresented High School Students – A Success Story
Development of a STEM Summer Program for Underrepresented High School Students – A Success Story Open
Research shows that fewer students, and particularly minority and low-income students, enterand persist in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs in the UnitedStates than in other programs. This is often attributed to a …
View article: Children <i>Living with</i> ‘Sustainable’ Urban Architectures
Children <i>Living with</i> ‘Sustainable’ Urban Architectures Open
This paper considers the everyday geographies of children living in new large-scale urban developments in which multiple forms of ‘sustainable’ urban architecture are characteristic features. We argue that children’s experiences of living …