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Little Fires Everywhere is a novel written by contemporary writer Celeste Ng in 2017. The novel portrays a stubborn and sensitive, brave and bold little girl--Izzy. She has been living in a repressed physical space for a long time, suffering from the control and contempt of family members as well as the isolation and ostracism of teachers and classmates in the social space, which eventually led to the alienation of her psychological space. Later, in the process of communicating with her tenant, Izzy's shriveled heart is ignited. She sees different lifestyles, captures the meaning of life, and begins to defend freedom and seek her true self in an extremely rebellious way. Finally, she achieves transformation and growth in psychological space and achieves self-redemption in a rigid world. This paper employs spatial criticism theory to analyze the existential predicament Izzy confronts in various spaces and her resistance from three dimensions: the mundane physical space, the oppressive social space, and the estranged psychological space. The aim is to illuminate to readers that only through persistent rebellion can individuals shatter the constraints of space and attain true freedom in the face of repression and injustice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Monumental rock-cut tombs decorated with wall paintings or reliefs were rare in New Kingdom colonial Nubia. Exceptions include the 18th Dynasty tombs of Djehutyhotep (Debeira) and Hekanefer (Miam), and the 20th Dynasty tomb of Pennut (Aniba). The three tombs present typical Egyptian artistic representations and inscriptions, which include tomb owners and their families, but also those living under their direct control. This paper compares the artistic and architectural features of these decorated, monumental rock-cut tombs in light of the archaeological record of the regions in which they were located in order to contextualize art within its social setting in colonized Nubia. More than expressing cultural and religious affiliations in the colony, art seems to have been essentially used as a tool to enforce hierarchization and power, and to define the borders of the uppermost elite social spaces in New Kingdom colonial Nubia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Across the academic landscape, scientific organizations host conferences that enable researchers to come together to foster learning, stimulate innovation, and promote change. Within the diverse field of kinesiology, conferences can help develop and disseminate knowledge on a range of issues such as athlete development and coach education. The purpose of the present article is to discuss the possibilities of thinking beyond conventional conferencing formats by creating dynamic social learning spaces that promote networking, critical thinking, and reflexivity. The theory underpinning social learning spaces is explained, followed by a narrative chronology of the three phases of evolution of the blue room group, an interdisciplinary collaboration of youth sport scholars who aim to foster innovation across subdisciplines of kinesiology. An interpretative summary of the blue room group as a social learning space is presented, in accordance with the principles of caring to make a difference, engaging uncertainty, and paying attention. The perceived benefits of kinesiology, as well as the challenges and limitations of the blue room, are discussed based on the authors' experiences operating within a continuously evolving and shifting social learning space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic affected worldwide communities and public social spaces. Mandatory at-home isolation for 2 years, followed by libraries reopening after demanded security adjustments, changed Brazilian public libraries' workplace dynamics, which now rely mainly on labor and engagement via social networks. Remarkably, a hybrid quality emerged and became the norm in everyday professional practices, generating a new ethos in the epistemic construction of the field of public librarianship. In this chapter, the authors aim to review the concept of the public library and its workplace dynamics after the changes triggered by a new post-pandemic environment, searching for answers to the following question: Have Brazilian public libraries become more or less inhabited as the result of the pandemic crisis? Applying a social and descriptive approach to examine the idea that bonding relationships with public social spaces contribute to building groups' and communities' identity, enhancing their history, relations, and memory, the authors debate if public libraries are anthropological inhabited places or non-places, proposing a perspective that connects the public library to the development of the individual and helps to understand space-time appropriation, focusing on identity construction. Exploring this framework, the authors identify the need to review the concept of the public library to represent its contemporaneous aspects of time, space, and collectivity and to include the many creative, affective, and symbolic dimensions embodied by all the individuals the library serves, based on the new experiences driven by disuse or resumption of use due to the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This qualitative study was conducted in Uttar Pradesh state, India to explore how interrelated socio-economic position and spatial characteristics of four diverse villages may have influenced equity in coverage of community-based maternal and newborn health (MNH) services. We conducted social mapping and three focus group discussions in each village, among women of lower and higher socio-economic position who recently gave birth, and with community health workers (n = 134). Data were analysed in NVivo 11.0 using thematic framework analysis. The extent of socio-economic hierarchies and spatial disparateness within the village, combined with distance to larger centers, together shaped villages’ level of socio-spatial remoteness. Disadvantaged socio-economic groups expressed being more often spatially isolated, with less access to infrastructure, resources or services, which was heightened if the village was physically distant from larger centers. In more socio-spatially remote villages, inequities in coverage of MNH services that disadvantaged lower socio-economic position groups were compounded as these groups more often experienced ASHA vacancies, as well as greater distance to and poorer perceived quality of health services nearest the village. The results inform a conceptual framework of ‘socio-spatial remoteness’ that can guide public health research and programmes to more comprehensively address health inequities within India and beyond.

This study explores the process of social capital development and the influence of space that leads to the formation of different types of social capital among mega sport event volunteers. A qualitative approach was utilized to ensure the collection of in-depth data on participants' subjective volunteering experience and its relation to the creation of social capital. Findings revealed the development of social capital by the volunteers both in and out of event venues, which are defined as event related and peripheral spaces. The process of developing network through bridging was attributed to the proclivity of peripheral spaces to provide proximity and composition necessary to build and enrich interactions, while bonding was the primary mechanism to associate with others on event-related places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Focusing on the concept of social space in the writings of three sociologists, Georg Simmel, Robert E. Park, and Erving Goffman, this article examines the classic theoretical formulations of social spaces in the tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology. For Simmel and the Chicago School, the foundation of social spaces lies in the social interactions among actors, and social entities and structures emerge from these interaction processes. This theoretical tradition emphasizes the interdependence of physical space and social space, highlighting two featured assumptions about social space: endogeneity and temporality. It also focuses on the relationship between spaces and human emotions.

This paper explores tool-using activities undertaken in and around the earliest known evidence of post-built structures in Britain. Microwear results associated with at least three structures identified at the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, North Yorkshire, are examined as a means of identifying activity zones associated with the diverse stone tools used to process a variety of materials (e.g. wood, bone, antler, plant, hide, meat, fish). With 341 lithic artefacts analysed, this research represents the first microwear study focused on the post-built structures at Star Carr. A combination of spatial and microwear data has provided different scales of interpretation: from individual tool use to patterns of activity across the three structures. Different types of tool use observed have aided interpretations of possible activity areas where objects were produced and materials were processed. Zones of activity within one of the structures suggest that the working of some materials was more spatially restricted than others; even where there are high densities of flint deposition, spatial patterns in tool-using activity were observed. From this, it is interpreted that social norms and behaviours influenced the spatial organisation of different spaces. Our results demonstrate the importance of combining microwear analysis with GIS to explore function and variability in the use of Mesolithic structures—providing new insights into their role as social spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This medievalist perspective reflects on the paradoxical relationship between Modernity and the Middle Ages, based on the author’s research into temporalities in the central Middle Ages. When dealing with modernity, she argues, medievalists encounter an ‘already here’-feeling on two instances: the medieval roots of everything modern, and the dynamics of historical development, typically attributed to modernity. This particularly concerns dealings with the future: While the idea of an open, malleable future may in fact be the characteristic feature of modernity, both ‘temporal consciousness’ and the shaping of the future are also characteristics of medieval temporalities. More precisely, different concepts of time can be distinguished among different social groups and spaces. Although they all ultimately operated within the framework of providential history, the future was conceived in very different ways and as something that could be planned. Medieval temporalities provide examples of alternative, non-linear concepts of time. However, we can only recognise and utilise the alterity of such concepts if we retain the concept of ‘modernity’, against which we can delineate the differences. Therefore, ‘the modern’ and ‘the medieval’ can only be thought of reciprocally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An emerging body of literature has demonstrated that in various Asian cities, young people, who are educated and middle-class are reconstructing the norms of intimacy in the face of the globalization of media and rapid urbanization. Drawing on findings from an ethnographic study conducted among 72 middle-class 15--19-yearolds living in Dhaka, Bangladesh, this article asks: how are middle-class young people in Dhaka (re)constructing the norms of premarital relationships? This article provides important insights about the emerging social norms and spaces urban middle-class young people are co-constructing in Bangladesh and highlights the importance of reconceptualizing young people's roles in constructing norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emotions are physiological, cognitive and behavioral reactions that allow us to adapt to our environment. The increase in the complexity of the social structure during our development as a species modified the emotional requirements necessary to favor the survival of the individual and the group. Responses to the demands of the environment were more flexible and controlled to face dangers that were not immediate but were projected into the future and needed to be foreseen and addressed in the present. Once the current structure of our brain was shaped, neural plasticity allowed for an appropriate adjustment of the subject's behaviors, cognitions and emotions to an ever-changing physical and social environment. However, the digital world poses a new evolutionary challenge, because it has modified the time and space parameters of social interactions. This could be a new requirement of the environment, necessary for our evolution as a species. Being optimistic, we can think that we will manage to adapt, but it will be necessary to protect ourselves into the future and see what changes we must make in the present. These changes must start with an adequate knowledge of the process of the construction of emotions in the natural world, to be able to replicate it with guarantees in the digital world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the protest movements of education workers in Brazil, highlighting the importance of these initiatives for improving the educational system. Despite being often marginalized by stereotypes that aim to maintain the neoliberal status quo, these movements play a crucial role in the fight for rights and better working conditions. The research focuses on the origins of associations and trade unionism, with a concise analysis of the National Confederation of Education Workers (CNTE) and the National Confederation of Workers in Educational Establishments (CONTEE). To provide a comprehensive view, we use the Geographic Information System (GIS) QGIS to cartographically represent the presence and activities of these entities, overcoming the limitations of traditional hegemonic representations. Data collection was carried out using microdata from the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE), documentary analysis of the entities' statutes, and review of theses, dissertations and academic articles, highlighting the need for on-site research on CONTEE. The manuscript also addresses the historical context of the birth of associations and unions, from the end of the 19th century, through the civil-military dictatorship, until the achievement of rights established by the 1988 Constitution. The analysis reveals how resistance during the dictatorial regime was fundamental for the redemocratization and consolidation of trade unions. By exploring the relationship between Geography and trade union movements, this work highlights the social construction of space and its implications for power dynamics and class relations in the educational system. The interaction between geography and history is emphasized, providing a deeper understanding of the processes of organization and action of education workers and their impacts on the social and educational space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Having adequate housing is a basic requirement for social integration. However, residential exclusion is a permanent risk in our society for many groups and with very heterogeneous social profiles. The Observatory of Social Exclusion of the University of Murcia has developed its own methodology in the five recounts-survey carried out in the municipalities of Cartagena and Murcia in recent years. This paper presents this methodology, providing the social profile of the 824 people in residential exclusion, captured in the recounts-survey carried out in February 2023 in Murcia. It also offers the results of graduating the situation of the people surveyed, adopting a multidimensional approach, into four social spaces: Inclusion, Vulnerability, Moderate Exclusion and Severe Exclusion. The principal component analysis carried out confirms that in the processes of residential exclusion the accumulated risks in the dimensions of income and socio-family relations are determinant, adding in the Spanish population the health dimension and in foreigners the education dimension, showing significant differences according to nationality, although not of gender. These results are complemented by the proposals of the professionals involved in social intervention with this group, who participated in the discussion groups and interviews carried out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the trajectories of care and attention during pregnancy, childbirth and post-partum that the shipibo-konibo women of the self-proclaimed Shipibo-konibo Community of Cashahuacra go through. This community was formed almost 15 years ago when a group of families from this amazonian indigenous people from Ucayali settled in the Cashahuacra ravine (Santa Eulalia District, Huarochirí province). More than detailing the practices and knowledge of these trajectories, I emphasize how this social space under construction, which is this indigenous community located in a marginal urban area, characterized by poverty and constant mobility, leaves its mark on the formation of these trajectories. In these, the knowledge and practices of the Shipibo-konibo culture are current but without rejecting those coming from institutional medicine against which there is a critical and pragmatic view in accordance with what it means for a shipibo-konibo woman to be a mother in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers the importance of leaders being securely attached. A securely attached leader can establish relationships with self, others, and the world in a safe and trusting way. This plays an important role in supporting the development of a secure working environment for the teams with which they are working. When a leader builds up a relationship with a team, based on secure attachments, there is space for social and emotional balance. This evokes curiosity, an eagerness to learn, and the urge to explore. Leaders who themselves have experienced (elements) of unsafe attachment may encounter challenges in being able to offer psychological security, not just for themselves, but also in relationship to their team members. The authors look briefly at the current era of transition in the world and its impact on leadership in organizations. They focus on theories around attachment and examine some issues around insecure attachment and leadership. They conclude by offering several concrete interventions, which can be deployed by TA facilitators, to help leaders develop a more secure base in themselves and thus offer a secure-based relationship to their teams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public urban spaces are vital settings for fostering social interaction among people. However, understanding how spatial layouts can promote positive social behaviors remains a critical and debated challenge for urban designers and planners aiming to create socially sustainable environments. Space syntax, a well-established theory and research method, explores the influence of spatial configurations on social aspects. Despite its significant contributions, there is a lack of comprehensive systematic reviews evaluating its effectiveness in enhancing social interaction within urban public spaces. This study aims to identify the existing scientific gaps in the domain of space syntax studies, with a primary focus on sociability in public urban spaces. Following the PRISMA framework, a thorough literature search was conducted in the Scopus database, yielding 1107 relevant articles. After applying screening and eligibility criteria, 26 articles were selected for in-depth review. This review adopted a novel approach to synthesizing and analyzing the findings for identifying underexplored scientific gaps. The findings suggested a wide variety of research gaps to address, encompassing evidence, knowledge, practical, methodological, empirical, theoretical, and target populations to provide a thorough overview of the current state of knowledge in this field. In conclusion, by exploring the interplay between space syntax and design elements such as the urban infrastructure, landscaping, and microclimate in these areas, future research can bridge this gap, particularly when considering a cross-cultural lens. This study underscores the importance of space syntax in promoting social interaction in urban public spaces, offering a robust foundation for future research and practical applications to create more socially engaging environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Modern contemporary societies are immersed in a process of losing their communitarian categories of self-understanding. In this context, there has been an increasing cultural deployment of the use of categories of individual psychology to explain numerous situations of social reality (psychologization). Here, we will study this cultural extension of the psychological in one of its most representative expressions, self-help literature. Through a mixed discourse analysis (quantitative-qualitative), we will verify the basic elements of this psychotherapeutic culture, as expressed in the world of self-help. We will also see what conception of health emerges from this literature, as well as the implications of this conception. Finally, we will emphasize the wide extension (micro-spaces of everyday life) and malleability of psychotherapeutic categories in their cultural use, as well as the risks of emotional or psychological retranslation of issues with clear social or even political roots, such as family, educational or work relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text discusses two books, "Hunting Game" by Louisa Lombard and "Mobility, Mobilisation, and Counter/Insurgency" by Olufemi Agbiboa, which provide insights into contemporary conflict and violence in Africa. Lombard's book explores the role of hunting and raiding in the formation of political power in the Central African Republic, challenging traditional notions of statehood and sovereignty. Agbiboa's book focuses on the importance of mobility and infrastructure in conflict dynamics, using the case of Boko Haram in Nigeria to illustrate how movement and familiarity can shape insurgency. Both books offer valuable perspectives on the complexities of conflict and the role of mobility in shaping power dynamics. [Extracted from the article]

This paper explores disabled people's experiences of 'everyday' hate within and around their home. The characteristics of the home make it a particularly interesting site of analysis, as many of the features offer protections and risks simultaneously. Moreover, the home is a particularly important space within our everyday lives, particularly for disabled people who may encounter marginalization within other social spaces. In this article, I consider how encounters within the home shape the way in which the space is made, and how disabled people are able to be within them. I explore the home as a space where persistent and repeated violence can occur, which in turn, shapes how bodies come to occupy (or not), their homes and to what meanings the home takes on. In an attempt to explore this, I offer different conceptualizations of the home as a site of refuge, control and containment, avoidance, and resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How does the precarity of creative work iterate with the precarity of creative spaces? In answer, we examine Covid-19 pandemic experiences of workers across diverse creative sectors in Sydney, Australia, drawing upon qualitative mapping research. Our findings highlight divergent experiences of precarity before and during the pandemic: many suffered, others adapted, some even thrived, depending upon the nature of their work, access to socialisation and networking opportunities, plus whether livelihood precariousness was worsened and overlaid with additional geographic factors, including venue loss, tenure vulnerability, housing insecurity, and access to production spaces. Using conceptual insights from labour and feminist geography, we argue that for the creative sectors to flourish and support diverse, well-remunerated and satisfying work, there must also be discussions of the post-pandemic geography of creative work. Space and social relations within and beyond the work sphere are co-constitutive of precarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In December 2022, the dynamic zero-COVID control policy came to an end, marking the conclusion of a three-year pandemic that affected 1.4 billion Chinese people. The pandemic and related policies created a unique, temporary, and historic social ecosystem where walking became more crucial than ever before. The pandemic not only severely restricted people's movement in public spaces but also exposed the longstanding contradictions between human bodies, modern mobility, and urban space. Over the three years of the pandemic, walking became an aesthetic survival attempt by Chinese people to cope with their limited freedoms under the pandemic. As the pandemic stagnated and worsened over time, walking-dominant activities gradually became a widespread social phenomenon that encouraged urban residents to participate in rebuilding society across various fields such as politics, art, nature, etc. The development of walking as an artistic form during this period represents a new aesthetic strategy and political awakening while reflecting humans' need to reconnect with land, social space, and their own bodies. This paper reviews how walking art has evolved historically through three periods – before, during, and after the pandemic – aiming to highlight both the public value of walking art and challenges within China's social ecosystem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The maker movement propagated throughout educational spaces alongside promises that technological and design literacies could be harnessed to shape equitable social futures. However, researchers have highlighted the ways makerspaces can reinforce hierarchies of race, gender, and class. This paper builds on research that seeks to support girls' making through broader sociopolitical and ethical commitments. We consider what an everyday pedagogy of feminist abolition looked like in a makerspace, with a focus on how educators responded to emergent social needs within and across gender lines. Our data sources (extensive field notes, audio–video recordings, photographs, and student interviews) are drawn from Hubspace, a 6‐week summer program serving Black, Latine/x, and South Asian middle school youth and grounded in expansive forms of storytelling, coding, engineering, music, writing, and art. In closely analyzing routine forms of educator reflection alongside the design decisions, pedagogical moves and forms of student sense‐making they supported, we found that student and educator sociopolitical learning emerged together to build what became possible in the culture of the space over time. Across three cases, we show how such pedagogies offered lived models and creative languages for practicing restorative and just social relationships. Each of the cases tell the story of different moments when gender became important to the ways participants were working to recognize and desettle received terms of thought and generate alternate forms of thinking, living, and relating, or the making of new stories and worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of religion and politics has struggled to find concepts, methods, and approaches that advance productive comparisons of phenomena across different religious practices and traditions. Consequently, scholars who seek to understand the impact of religious practice on political outcomes across religious traditions encounter challenges in aggregating findings and advancing scholarly inquiry. A reconsideration of the role of houses of worship as an intermediary variable connecting religious practice to political outcomes yields a potentially fruitful avenue for comparative investigation. While social processes that take place within worship spaces are frequently presumed in the mechanisms linking religious variables to political outcomes, these worship spaces are generally undertheorized and overlooked within the study of religion and politics. A body of scholarship has substantiated the significance of congregational variation within the study of Christianity, yet the most commonly cited quantitative literature on religion and political participation omits discussion of this level of variation. Drawing on the shared conceptual space across worship domains from several religious traditions, this article examines houses of worship as an organizational concept that can be employed productively for theoretical and empirical analyses of religion and politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a sociological perspective on understanding rights in China, examining the interplay between multiple myths of rights, rights abuses, and the politics of rights within various social and physical spaces. It highlights competing myths of rights held by the state, ordinary citizens, rights activists, and legal professionals. The article examines how rights abuses contribute to rights consciousness and mobilization across different human rights domains in a repressive political context. By analyzing the politics of rights in interconnected spaces, such as the street, the legal system, the global arena, and cyberspace, it emphasizes the importance of continuous engagement between domestic and overseas actors in shaping China's human rights future. The article encourages social science researchers to thoroughly examine the myths, abuses, and politics of rights before making normative judgments about China's human rights conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social media spaces nowadays have millions of users around the world and have become essential tools for analysis at different levels and in different fields, including education. With several open-source options for a social media platform, it is difficult to choose one for an academic environment. Therefore, this study was conducted to analyse open-source social media of an educational nature, making a comparison of some functionalities. For this purpose, a broad search for opensource social networks for academic purposes was conducted, using selection criteria. Subsequently, a mixed methodological approach with an explanatory scope was used in an analysis of the 10 selected open-source social networks, in which 25 functionalities were analysed. The functionalities were those that generated the most interest and knowledge in the academic community. The functionalities were established as variables and grouped into six categories to facilitate the comparison of the social networks, which is an additional result for this study. Finally, considering the results of the comparison of the different functionalities, the network that was found to be the most advisable was HumHub. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a contribution to ongoing discussions about the implications of social presence for online instruction technology, this study evaluated the reliability and validity of a composite social presence construct in online computer science programmes using archival data from the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP) Data Buddies Survey. Questions from the survey were aligned to three interdependent subconstructs of social presence proposed by Kreijns et al (2021). Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was used to analyse the relationships between the subconstructs. Cronbach's alpha was used to evaluate the internal consistency and reliability of the subconstructs of social presence, sociability, and social space, as well as the composite construct of social presence. The findings indicate that the social presence construct and its subconstructs are internally consistent and highly reliable, aligned with the CERP survey. Results indicated that the subconstructs are interrelated indicators of the perception of social presence in online computer science programmes. This study contributes to the literature concerning measuring social presence in online learning by providing a reliable and valid construct that can be used to assess the construct using different permutations of analysis on the CERP dataset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social circus refers to programs that use circus arts to facilitate social intervention with people experiencing marginalization. Although some programs focus specifically on youth, little is known about how they are impacted by their participation. We examined the experiences of youth participating in a four-day social circus event. Four themes were identified that characterized participants' experiences: (a) creating a safe social space; (b) enriching your self-understanding; (c) bolstering your expressive capacities; and (d) experiencing the world around you. This research highlights how social circus activities can create safe and enriching social spaces that are adapted to the experiences of youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is well documented that gay people adopt behavioural strategies to navigate the heteronormative expectations and norms of social space. These practices are likely to be particularly pronounced in socially conservative countries which have seen less progress for LGBTQ+ rights. This study examines how two gay men (Rui and Kenni) stylistically negotiate their sexual identities in a socially conservative country – Singapore – by analyzing the variation in two phonetic variables that have been linked to gender and sexuality: Pitch and /s/. We show that both speakers style-shift across queer-friendly and heteronormative environments though the rate and degree of shifting is influenced both by the situated social meanings of the features and the interactional context. Concluding, we argue that research should consider how minoritised individuals are required to style-shift in order to adhere to the hegemonic norms and expectations of society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article demonstrates how narrative sensemaking involves mapping social spaces onto physical structures with which they correspond image-schematically, focusing on the spatiotemporal coordinates of lines and circles as organizing principles of the storyworld in Rose Macaulay's 1923 novel Told by an Idiot. This essayistic novel follows the Garden family from the late Victorian through the Georgian periods, reflecting on the interrelated patterns of circular stasis and linear progress that govern both generational dynamics within the family and their political, social and cultural backdrop. A key scene takes place on the "Inner Circle," later the Circle Line, where two teenaged Gardens, Imogen and Tony, aimlessly ride the trains all day as they go round and round the looped track. The novel sets this pattern of circularity, repetition and stasis against that of the linear "Twopenny Tube," now the modern Central Line, a route mainly used by commuters travelling to the city centre from outlying districts. I argue that Macaulay's storyworld unites these two image-schematic structures of urban movement just as the model of history adumbrated in the text likewise involves a tentative union of stasis and progress. Macaulay thus establishes an isomorphic relationship between the spatiotemporal structure of Underground image schemas and the settings through which the novel's characters move physically, socially, and historically. Reading fiction in this way, I propose, helps to uncover the role that spatiotemporality and isomorphic relationships play in patterning storyworlds, as the structures of the environments through which characters travel and within which events unfold are revealed as "significant forms" that figure in the encoding and decoding of narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Neighbourhood social cohesion has emerged as a prominent concern in urban governance worldwide. As the primary domain of residents' daily activities, the community life circle contributes to neighbourly interaction and social cohesion. This study investigates the role of space use within the community life circle in promoting social cohesion in Chongqing, China. Through an in-depth activity diary survey and structural equation model analysis, we empirically examine the interplay between community space use, neighbourly interaction, and social cohesion. Our findings suggest that the 15 min community life circle plays a crucial role in residents' daily lives, particularly among senior residents. However, the contribution of community space use to social cohesion is fully mediated by neighbourly interaction. Furthermore, not all patterns of community space use contribute to social cohesion equally; space use engaged with diverse companions on workdays significantly enhances neighbourly interaction and social cohesion. The study enriches the existing literature by deepening our understanding of the role of the community life circle in fostering socially cohesive and sustainable neighbourhoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the increasing online exposure of urban public spaces, the new concept of "internet-famous sites" has emerged in China. Social media users are the main contributors to this new phenomenon. To fully understand social media users' preferences in such kinds of public spaces, this article took 27 typical riverfront internet-famous sites (RIFSs) in Changsha City (China) as an example. Through social media platform selection, keyword research, text and image data extraction, visual and emotional symbol coding, and manual calculations of coding frequency, this study investigated social media users' perception of RIFSs, especially on visual and emotional preferences. The online images and review comments were extracted from the popular Chinese social media platform "Xiaohongshu". We found that (1) the popularity of each RIFS had a significant head effect and there were far more positive emotions than neutral and negative emotions in review comments. (2) RIFSs in Changsha were divided into five categories: commercial RIFSs, art exhibition RIFSs, historical and cultural RIFSs, ecological recreational RIFSs, and uncultivated RIFSs. Social media users had different visual focuses on each kind of RIFS. (3) Social media users provided specific reasons for their emotional preferences towards different types of RIFSs. This study can provide a new perspective on improving waterfront vitality and offer a targeted and attractive method for waterfront regeneration that is different from traditional methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyse recent tendencies in contemporary Romanian poetry from a geofeminist perspective. This specific form of feminism emerged within humanistic geography and socio-spatial theories as a response towards the "masculinist particularism" (Michèle Le Doeuff) of western geography as an academic discipline. By denouncing the postulated exhaustive nature of geographical knowledge, geofeminism's programme is to rearticulate the traditional social space from the perspective of a cartography produced by flexible gender relations and performances. For its geopolitical position within the globalising phenomenon powered by uneven influences, the Romanian literary scene appears to be urging to consolidate the post-communist void regarding feminist theory through manifestotexts and queer poetry. I rely my study specifically on poetic works from the frACTalia publishing house, due to their affirmed left-wing feminist consciousness. By following the factors involved in producing a space for the post-socialist Romanian queer experience, I undertake an analysis of the specific methods through which geofeminism is rendered in accordance with the need of a new poetic vocabulary and praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2019, in Romania, there has been an active debate about the limits of theatre expression in the Eastern European cultural space. It is acknowledged that documentary and political theatre have a strong influence on the cultural scene in Eastern Europe, especially after the emergence and appreciation of new techniques such as Verbatim or Devised Theatre among theatre makers. Notwithstanding the fact that these forms of theatre, which have an extremely strong social and critical voice, have appeared in the European space for decades and have started to become more and more widespread, in 2018, in Cluj-Napoca, the premiere of the performance Eu sunt! Și?, directed by Loran Betty, for which I wrote the text. This performance was performed for a year all around Romania, and in 2019 it was proposed for censorship and amendment by the Romanian Orthodox Church. This was one of the first cases of its kind after the exit from the Romanian communist regime, one of the first, or even the first, to be fined by the National Council for Combating Discrimination in Romania, for discriminating against people of faith. Therefore, it is important to understand the context in which this event occurred, as well as the history of performances with similar concerns after Communism, and of course, the opinion of the authors of this performance. In addition to all this, we will also analyze performances that addressed similar themes in the Romanian space and discuss the limits and freedoms of theatre in the Romanian cultural space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The number of craft breweries on the American landscape has grown exponentially over the past several decades. The literature on craft beer and beer tourism has grown accordingly. Yet, visitors' experience of the craft brewery taproom remains an under-examined aspect of this literature. O'Dell (2005) proposed the idea of examining the landscapes of experiences, or experiencescapes, including the physical and social spaces that allow for the co-creation of experiences. The concept has increasingly been used to examine culinary, gastronomic, and wine tourism experiences. Thus, this exploratory study begins to address the gap in the craft beer and beer tourism literature by reconstructing the experiencescape of craft brewery taprooms from visitor narratives in online travel reviews for microbreweries and taproom breweries in Houston, Texas (USA). The study employs thematic narrative analysis to identify the components of the physical and social environments of the brewery taproom that comprise the experiencescape and contribute to positive, memorable experiences. Findings indicate that consuming the craft beer product is only one part of the taproom experiencescape; breweries must consider the taproom experience holistically. Opportunities exist to facilitate a more conscious experiencescape design to engage visitors' senses for more immersive and memorable experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a critical discourse analysis of groups on the free speech social media platform Gab that were intended to be LGBTQ+-friendly but became spaces of queerphobia. Results indicate that Gab users deployed discourses of difference to situate the platform as heteronormative and to denigrate the LGBTQ+ community. In particular, discourses utilized in the name of free speech were used to establish LGBTQ+ individuals as abominations, undergird hegemonic masculinity, and marginalize queer folk by reducing them to sex acts and sex organs. This study provides a better understanding of the (in)efficacy of "free speech" as a content moderation policy and unpacks how anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech spreads in digital spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay challenges the Western-centric assumptions of psychotherapy by examining diverse healing practices across cultures, including Yolmo spirit callings, Tamang healing, and Chinese medicine. These traditions demonstrate the integration of art, drama, and philosophy into healing, emphasizing sensory engagement and the individual's socio-cultural context, unlike the predominantly individualistic focus of psychodynamic models. This essay argues for a more inclusive definition of psychotherapy that incorporates diverse cultural approaches and recognises the influence of social space and power relations on healing. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Chinese migration in Jamaica, the essay highlights the complex interplay of self and identity in mental health across cultures. To achieve true inclusivity, psychotherapy must integrate intercultural perspectives and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on the contributions presented in the special issue "God's Influencers: How Social Media Users Shape Religion and Pious Self-Fashioning", this introduction explores resonances and dissonances between the six articles: First, I reconsider the online/offline connection in relation to the religious actors examined. Then, I articulate a post techno-utopian vision of religion online, identifying digital media as a social space where inequalities, prejudices and power structures offline can be both reinforced and challenged. Third, I shed light on the subjective turn in the way online religious actors understand and impart "authenticity", a heatedly debated concept in the context of both religion and social media. Fourth, I present some of the communicative strategies that the religious social media users examined in this special issue employ. And, finally, I conclude by sketching future research directions in the study of how social media users shape religion and pious self-fashioning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rooted in African postcolonial pragmatics, this research pays particular attention to the strategic use of code-switching and other linguistic strategies for relationship maintenance in instant messaging communities that constitute translanguaging spaces. To this end, by means of a quantitative and computer-mediated communication discourse analysis, we examine the naturally-occurring interactions, on WhatsApp, of a group of 74 former university classmates who studied Spanish Philology in the mid-2000s at a Cameroonian university. The close observation of the group's interactional strategies for relationship maintenance shows that members construct their online famille – their new social space for self-presentation – by means of (1) sociolinguistic and pragmatic norms drawn from indigenisation; (2) kinship terms as forms of address, in English and Spanish in texts mainly in French; and (3) the inclusion of religious terms as a politeness strategy. The use of Spanish as the tie-sign of the group is not as relevant as initially expected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Markets have always been a place for social movements or have been affected by them. In the current era, when two digital changes and the networking of communications have affected the social interactions of human societies, new markets have been built after the old markets, which have brought to the fore the characteristics of the old markets, similar or different from it. A strike as one of the functions or malfunctions of the market, as it has been the focus of researchers in traditional markets, is a phenomenon that requires new studies to understand it on the basis of new markets. Since online stores on the platform of social media can be seen as a manifestation of these markets, the present research was conducted with the aim of knowing one aspect of the forced strike process of online stores caused by social movements, on the platform of social media. Methods: data collection was done by the method of library studies and data analysis was done with a descriptive analytical approach through the application of message market theory in the research literature. Results: From the results of this research, we can count some cases, including the expression of the special capacity of this space in providing multiple social roles in a market to the members of the movement. Conclusion: The consequence of the formation of the special capacity of the social media space is to reduce the costs of protest movements in bringing online stores to strike and increase the coefficient of their protest on the platform of social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]