Forest bathing as a mindful tourism practice

Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 2(2), С. 100028 - 100028

Опубликована: Авг. 12, 2021

In the troubled times in which we currently live, tourism industry has called into question a need for more responsible social practices and mindful utilisation of natural environments. The Japanese practice shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, not only become new wellness trend, but also great potential deeply immersive tourist experiences. While there is wealth studies examining positive effects bathing focussing principally on its medical benefits, this qualitative study extends these debates through documenting lived experiences bathers. so doing suggests latent to offer profoundly experience, aims situate prominently within discourse.

Язык: Английский

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The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID‐19

Geographical Research, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 60(1), С. 6 - 17

Опубликована: Авг. 19, 2021

Abstract The ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic strains conventional temporal imaginaries through which emergencies are typically understood and governed. Rather than a transparent linear temporality, smooth transition across the series event/disruption–response–post‐event recovery, moves in fits starts, blurring boundary between normalcy emergency. This distended temporality brings into sharp relief other slow such as racism, poverty, biodiversity loss, climate change, inflect how is known governed an In this article, we reflect on responses two settler colonial societies—Australia United States—to consider distinct styles of each context resonate dissonate racially uneven distribution futurity that structures liberal order. case, event has indeed opened window reveals multiple emergencies; yet these revelation not leading to meaningful changes address underlying forms structural violence. Australia States, see specific emergencies—human‐induced change anti‐Black violence White supremacist societies, respectively—become intensified order recalibrates itself response COVID‐19.

Язык: Английский

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Studying pauses and pulses in human mobility and their environmental impacts

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 3(3), С. 157 - 159

Опубликована: Март 15, 2022

Язык: Английский

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Urban public health emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 1: Social and spatial inequalities in the COVID-city

Urban Studies, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 60(8), С. 1329 - 1345

Опубликована: Май 31, 2023

COVID-19 has had unprecedented impacts on urban life a global scale, representing the worst pandemic in living memory. In this introduction to first of two parts Special Issue public health emergencies, we suggest that outbreak, and associated attempts manage pandemic, reproduced ultimately exacerbated social spatial divides striate contemporary city. Here, draw evidence from papers Part 1 summarise uneven geographies evident at inter- intra-urban level, emphasising particular vulnerabilities risks borne by racialised workers who found it difficult practise distancing either their home or working life. Considering interplay environmental, biological factors conspired create hotspots infection, way these are connected capitalism underpins development, suggests reflection emergencies city is not just essential policy perspective but helps enrich theoretical debates nature urbanisation its 'planetary' guise.

Язык: Английский

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Attentive Observation: Walking, Listening, Staying Put

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 114(7), С. 1386 - 1404

Опубликована: Июнь 21, 2024

In this article I suggest that a renewed emphasis on "attentive observation," as both form of radical empiricism and source imaginative insight, might contribute towards building more nuanced conception fieldwork is better attuned to the multisensory multispecies textures material geographies. focus interactions with nature, landscape, nonhuman others in an urban context but my argument has wider connotations for concerns embodied methodologies, critical phenomenology, slower forms research.

Язык: Английский

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The plane: Materiality, air, and environmental-health “heterotopia”

Cogent Arts and Humanities, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 12(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 20, 2025

Язык: Английский

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‘COVID waste’ and social media as method: an archaeology of personal protective equipment and its contribution to policy

Antiquity, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 95(380), С. 435 - 449

Опубликована: Март 16, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a viral archive—an archaeological record of history in the making. One aspect this archive increased environmental pollution, not least through discarded facemasks and gloves that characterise pandemic. This article—directed specifically at archaeologists—argues an perspective on ‘COVID waste’ using social media analysis can help to highlight by giving waste status material working with other disciplines, archaeologists contribute sustainable, policy-led solutions combat pollution.

Язык: Английский

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Border hotels: Spaces of detention and quarantine

Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 41(6), С. 1049 - 1078

Опубликована: Апрель 12, 2023

‘Border hotels’ have come to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as spaces of detention and quarantine. Despite longer history using hotels for immigrant detention, efforts contain outbreaks led proliferation used border governance. Ad hoc quarantine facilities been set up around world acting choke points mobility. The use sites has also gained significant attention, with related restrictions impacting on access services detained refugees asylum seekers. Inhumane conditions mobilisations against these recently received substantial media coverage. This symposium initiates a discussion about ‘border hotels’, closely engaging developments. Contributors document shifting infrastructures border, explore how are experienced resisted. They draw attention divergent experiences immobility, belonging, exclusion, intersections In exploring different - controversial aspects this theorises modalities governance implemented through hotels. Following in footsteps ‘hotel geopolitics’ agenda (Fregonese Ramadan 2015) it illustrates become integrated into regimes. doing so, contributes debates material infrastructural dimensions bordering practices specifically literature carceral geographies, polymorphic politics

Язык: Английский

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Protected Areas and Tourism in the New Normal: An Analysis of Temporal and Scalar Tensions of Sustainable Tourism Governance in the Finnish Arctic

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

This chapter critically evaluates dominant sustainable tourism governance ideals in the context of pandemic-induced growth protected areas. We particularly focus on Nordics, especially Finland, where free access to nature plays a culturally significant role area use. In more detail, investigates temporal and scalar complexities tensions related prevalent tourism-conservation areas, suggesting that short-term, on-site management strategies alleviate crowding may compromise broader sustainability objectives long-term. highlights challenges balancing conservation economic benefits, emphasising growing importance accounting for climate change resilience Arctic. The concludes with call reassessing practices' scale temporality ensure amidst emerging challenges.

Язык: Английский

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An antidote to “armageddon and potential doom”: accounts of canine-human companionship during Covid-19

Qualitative Research in Psychology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 25

Опубликована: Июнь 9, 2024

Though the anthropause of Covid-19 was peculiarly human-centric, it also brought into sharp relief our more-than-human world. Canine-human companionship can support human mental and physical wellbeing in 'normal' times, but this article explores pandemic as a unique context for animal/human relations. I interrogate component Dog Talking Walking Project online survey (n = 673), subsequent interviews 41). A novel two-step qualitative data analysis comprised, firstly, examining participants' written accounts about how Covid catalysed canine companionship, descriptions closeness attenuated losses. Secondly, explore key interview themes: 'closeness' companionship; dogs 'mediator' families; 'moderator' impacts pandemic. The offers an important counter to speciesism anthropocentrism embedded recollections times. Methodologically, suggest that surveys alongside traditional yield richer understandings relationships.

Язык: Английский

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