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The study of life course has become a central feature of geographical and other social science approaches to youth and migration. It has offered scholars possibilities to explore the timing of events, experiences of time and in the context of migration, the opportunity to analyse mobility patterns in relation to life stages and transitions. Yet, despite this emphasis, much life-course research rests on a limited understanding of time characterised as a linear or even static entity that regulates life in a way that occludes the complex directionality and rhythms of time. In this paper we seek to push beyond these limitations of life course research by developing broader theoretical understandings of time in migration. In particular, we develop a Heideggerian analysis of the migration stories of western English teachers in South Korea, an example of migration as part of a youth–adult transition. Our analysis reveals that the mobilities of English teachers need to be understood in much more complex and relational ways and we draw attention to their more-than-subjective temporalities, questions of attunement to being (affect) and temporal openness in migration. Through this discussion the paper highlights three key areas for further development of scholarly understandings of time in migration: the situatedness of migrants, the holistic character of migration as a happening in the world, and the eventfulness of migration, always characterised by an openness of possibility for emergent spatio-temporal differentiation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With patients' increasing online access to medical information traditionally contained within healthcare institutions, researchers have argued that the spaces of medicine are increasingly becoming blurred, allowing patients to sidestep their doctors and challenge their prior information dominance. In this context, Sweden has recently been spotlighted as it allows its inhabitants to continually access medical record content online. Based on an interview study on Swedish doctors' clinical experiences of the patient-accessible online health record, this paper expands on the theme of emergent medical information spaces accessible to laypersons online by arguing that this not only may challenge the traditional spaces of medicine but can impose on its temporal orders too. We detail doctors' attitudes toward the patient-accessible online health record, patients as continually updated record readers, and how this may transform clinical work rhythms and affect doctors' perceptions of the boundary between front- and backstage spaces. We moreover show how doctors can avoid "inappropriate intrusion" into the record by delaying patient access, but also that doctors can experience patients opposing to adapt to doctors' preferred pace and instead attempting to control the clinical rhythm. By intertwining clinical rhythms with doctors' front- and backstage, this paper contributes with an extended analysis of the emergent spaces of online medical information, adding a temporal layer. The paper furthermore enlarges the existing sociological body on historical developments of medical records and adds a piece to the so-far piecemeal social science literature on how online records may affect the medical profession. • Providing patients' easy and swift access to record information online may impact doctors' clinical tempo. • Patients accessing record information online can challenge doctors' boundaries between front- and backstage regions. • Doctors may view patients swiftly accessing record information as being empowered, amending temporal information asymmetries. • Doctors wish controlling patients' access to record information for professional reasons and to shield patients. • Patients sometimes manage to access parts of the record doctors are yet unaware of. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: To answer the question “How to be an Ecological Economist”, we must start by defining the field of Ecological Economics. Mainstream Economics altogether lacks the concepts required to deal adequately with nature, justice and time. It was the absence of these three concepts in this otherwise great social science that led to the establishment of Ecological Economics. The interest in nature, justice and time is its defining characteristic. The main thesis of this paper is that our field is a fragile institution and that the professional existence of an ecological economist is no less fragile. However, this very fragility also represents freedom, scope for free thinking, conceptualising and research. Nevertheless, to be able to really use and in turn enjoy the full scope of this freedom, an ecological economist needs certain specific characteristics, in particular what is termed in the German philosophical tradition “Urteilskraft” and in English “power of judgement”. A description of these characteristics is developed in this paper, providing an answer to the question “How to be an ecological economist?” [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The analysis of space and the use of geographic information systems (GIS) have long been important to natural resource applications. More recently, social scientists have been exploring ways to integrate spatial concepts with social science data related to natural resources for theoretical, practical, and methodological reasons. This trend is particularly evident with research in park and protected area (PPA) management and outdoor recreation. The purpose of this paper is to present an updated review of how space has been incorporated into PPA research, integrate concepts and methods, identify gaps, and propose future directions for research. Overall, this review suggests that the incorporation of spatially-related social science data is advancing the field PPA research in an effective and viable way. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: This paper analyzes the issue of time for the infant. Present seems to be what matters for the infant, who is unable to do without. The position of withdrawal from the present time is understood as an important way for the psychological development, and as defence mechanism if sustained, thus impending on development. The assessment of social withdrawal trough the alarm distress baby (adbb) scale is presented. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]