Abstract This article explores the ways in which discussions of social capital have emerged within World Bank, and how they interacted both with project practices larger debates institution. These are understood as a 'battlefield knowledge', whose form outcomes structured but not determined by political economy Bank. Understanding this way has implications for research on development discourses produced enacted, well more specific place studies. The concludes reflection these future...

The customer or user's role in the new product development process is limited nonexistent many high technology firms, despite evidence that suggests customers are frequently an excellent source for ideas with great market potential. This article examines implementation of Lead User method gathering from leading edge by IT firm had not previously done much research during their efforts. case study follows decision-makers through process, where end result generation a number useful concepts....

Abstract Culture has received increasing attention in critical development studies, though the notion that there are important cultural differences within and between organizations less consideration. This paper elaborates elements of a framework for studying organizational culture multi‐agency projects. It draws on selected writings anthropology theory suggests these two bodies literature can be usefully brought together, as well insights from ongoing fieldwork Bangladesh, Burkina Faso...

Abstract: This paper throws down a challenge to radical geography and invites selection of leading geographers respond. It proposes that or critical cannot escape normative foundations in terms some conception the human good flourishing, this is not necessarily at odds with descriptive explanatory aims social science. Various attempts define justify thought without such are shown be deficient, incapable distinguishing oppression from well‐being. Objections project will subjective,...

Studies have investigated planning skill development using the Tower of London (TOL). Reports conflict regarding maturational trajectories and associations with IQ, other executive functions, impulsivity. A convenience sample 9- to 20-year-olds completed TOL measures. accuracy improved until ages 15–17. Digit span backwards (DSB), response inhibition, IQ were correlated performance. DSB contributed above beyond age IQ. Inhibitory control both modulation times across problems. Self-reported...

Recent geographical work has pointed to the complex and negotiated nature, spatiality, of intergenerational relations. In this paper, we draw on research with young Scottish Christians their guardians explore influence intergenerationality religious identities, beliefs practices. Our interest is ask what these recent developments in way approach geographies youth age can tell us about changing religion vice versa. Much previous assumed a process simple transmission, static notion that...

This article explores and extends the geographies of postsecular theory. Despite growing claims secularization, religion continues to be a highly public rapidly diversifying issue, interest geographers. We identify spatial elements theory, consider how approaches, particularly feminist work, that emphasize lived embodiment might provide an alternative existing analyses. Increasingly present in recent geographical work on religion, these approaches challenge discursive, political, social...

Within the context of global capitalism and late liberalism, social political implications waiting have attracted particular attention from geographers. States other powerful institutions can now maintain control over potentially unruly populations through technocratic management that appears at first glance to be ethically neutral. Wait lists rooms mask inequalities justify denial rights, new spaces indefinite like detention centers clandestine prisons emerged as important state-sanctioned...

Abstract Based upon qualitative research in Glasgow, Scotland, this article examines transformations religious identity and practices of young socially economically included Christians, aged 16–27. The authors argue that people's religiosity has been shaped by large-scale social trends the West, including secularisation pluralisation. They these influences have promoted a de-emphasises propositional belief systems favour what they call 'performance Christianity', which highlights action...

Purpose This study aims to enhance the understanding of impulse buying in grocery stores, where such purchases are pervasive and consumers face greater decision fatigue diminished willpower than more frequently examined retail environments. The intent is demonstrate influence variables known affect other environments on shopping behavior, identify profile segments that vary along those constructs reveal how segment characteristics help explain differences. Design/methodology/approach A...

Abstract The care crisis in the United States predates current administration, but there are early signals that US government is going to roll back recent policies expand caregiving support a wider range of people who provide dependent care. In this short commentary, I hope illustrate how new attacks on Medicare, housing support, food assistance and other supports for basic needs families layered upon stubbornly persistent misrepresentation family community really happens States. long...

The World Bank's recent concern for ‘empowerment’ grows out of longer standing discussions participation, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society. While commitments to empowerment enter Bank texts with relative ease, their practice within Bank-funded projects is far more contingent, the meanings they assume become much diverse. This paper considers relationship between such development practices which emerge, using an analysis ‘organisational cultures’ many on it depends in...

I examine the enmeshment of transnationally networked religious organizations in predominantly Quechua communities southern Andes Peru. aim specifically to understand multiple ways which transnational contribute construction development epistemologies, or socioeconomics truths. Peru has been undergoing a transformation similar rest Latin America, with Evangelical and other non-Catholic faiths now well established rural highlands. Drawing on fieldwork conducted Provincias Altas Cusco, Peru,...

Abstract In the United States, more than 5.4 million children and adolescents under age 18 provide care for family members who are aging or have chronic illness, disability, other health conditions that require assistance. this policy report, we describe youth’s family, highlight increasing prevalence, global challenges, uneven successes of measurement categorization. We briefly summarize research on how caregiving affects academic, social, emotional well‐being. Next, present novel, emerging...

This partnership-based study identified how many middle and high school students take care of parents, siblings, grandparents at home, via student surveys across Rhode Island public schools (N = 48,508; 46% White non-Latinx; 21% Latinx; 47% girls). Further, we investigated students’ caregiving for family related to their engagement, belonging, emotional well-being. A sizable proportion reported caring part (29%) or most the day (7%). Girls Black, Asian, Latinx, Native, multiracial youth were...

In this second report, I consider the relationship between emotion and morality from a geographical perspective. Though traditional contemporary engagements in moral philosophy psychology offer diverse range of theories approaches to emotions morality, few these explicitly or incorporate role space. embodiment relationality as one means through which become collective institutionalized, with focus on emotional geographies care. conclude by reflecting political conflictive but insightful...

This paper offers important insights into the contemporary nature of youth transitions and ways in which religious affiliation engagement with international volunteering influences interplays negotiations life course. Situated within interdisciplinary debates about transitions, as well discussions relational geographies age, religion voluntarism, we demonstrate multiple relationalities that are at play young volunteers negotiate transition to adulthood. We focus on religious, vocational aged...

The 20 years since geography’s ‘moral turn’ have generated a robust field of scholarship around diverse ethical engagements. However, as geographers continue to build articulate claims care and justice in beyond the academy, role ‘the moral’ has often been resigned margins our theories empirical work. In my third final progress report on geography ethics, I suggest that new approaches toward moral geographies economies are already signaling directions for next turn. Some these use more...

In the United States, it is estimated that more than 5.4 million children and adolescents under age 18 provide care for adult family members who are aging or have a chronic illness, disability, other health conditions require assistance. However, little known about how providing to during childhood adolescence impacts youth development. We examined whether caregiving as associated with emotional challenges, peer difficulties, course grades, physical risk behaviors. A large, diverse sample of...