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'Change4Life for your kids': embodied collectives and public health pedagogy (2011)
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Evans, B., Colls, R., & Horschelmann, K. (2011). 'Change4Life for your kids': embodied collectives and public health pedagogy. Sport, Education and Society, 16(3), 323-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.565964

Recent work in human geography has begun to explore the fluidity of bodily boundaries and to foreground the connectedness of bodies to other bodies/objects/places. Across multiple subdisciplinary areas, including health, children's and feminist geogr... Read More about 'Change4Life for your kids': embodied collectives and public health pedagogy.

Mass wasting triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake is greater than orogenic growth (2011)
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Parker, R. N., Densmore, A. L., Rosser, N. J., de Michele, M., Li, Y., Huang, R., Whadcoat, S., & Petley, D. N. (2011). Mass wasting triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake is greater than orogenic growth. Nature Geoscience, 4(7), 449-452. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1154

Shallow earthquakes are the primary driver of rock uplift in mountain ranges1. However, large shallow earthquakes also trigger widespread, coseismic landslides that cause significant but spatially heterogeneous erosion2, 3, 4. The interplay between r... Read More about Mass wasting triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake is greater than orogenic growth.

Respect and responsibility: Teaching citizenship in South African high schools (2011)
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Hammett, D., & Staeheli, L. (2011). Respect and responsibility: Teaching citizenship in South African high schools. International Journal of Educational Development, 31(3), 269-276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2010.06.011

Respect is a core concept in citizenship debates. South African high school educators often draw upon respect as a key value within citizenship education. Their teaching of this value is often conflated with promotion of the practice of responsible c... Read More about Respect and responsibility: Teaching citizenship in South African high schools.

A labour of Sisyphus? Public policy and health inequalities research from the Black and Acheson Reports to the Marmot Review (2011)
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Bambra, C., Smith, K., Garthwaite, K., Joyce, K., & Hunter, D. (2011). A labour of Sisyphus? Public policy and health inequalities research from the Black and Acheson Reports to the Marmot Review. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 65(5), 399-406. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2010.111195

Objectives: To explore similarities and differences in policy content and the political context of the three main English government reports on health inequalities: the Black Report (1980), the Acheson Enquiry (1998), and the Marmot Review (2010). Me... Read More about A labour of Sisyphus? Public policy and health inequalities research from the Black and Acheson Reports to the Marmot Review.

Performativity, corporeality and the politics of ship disposal (2011)
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Gregson, N. (2011). Performativity, corporeality and the politics of ship disposal. Journal of Cultural Economy, 4(2), 137-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2011.563067

This paper provides a posthumanist performative reading of spaces of disposal as sites of economic activity. Its empirical focus is ship breaking, as practices and political techniques. Drawing on the work of Donald Mackenzie, Karen Barad and Jane Be... Read More about Performativity, corporeality and the politics of ship disposal.

Implications of climate change in the twenty-first century for simulated magnitude and frequency of bed-material transport in tributaries of the Saint-Lawrence River (2011)
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Verhaar, P., Biron, P., Ferguson, R., & Hoey, T. (2011). Implications of climate change in the twenty-first century for simulated magnitude and frequency of bed-material transport in tributaries of the Saint-Lawrence River. Hydrological Processes, 25(10), 1558-1573. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.7918

More frequent extreme flood events are likely to occur in many areas in the twenty-first century due to climate change. The impacts of these changes on sediment transport are examined at the event scale using a 1D morphodynamic model (SEDROUT4-M) for... Read More about Implications of climate change in the twenty-first century for simulated magnitude and frequency of bed-material transport in tributaries of the Saint-Lawrence River.

Collective resources or local social inequalities? Examining the social determinants of mental health in rural areas (2011)
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Riva, M., Bambra, C., Curtis, S., & Gauvin, L. (2011). Collective resources or local social inequalities? Examining the social determinants of mental health in rural areas. European Journal of Public Health, 21(2), 197-203. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckq064

Background: In England, although some studies report better health among rural populations, few have examined social inequalities in health within rural areas and how they compare to inequalities observed in urban settings. The objectives of this stu... Read More about Collective resources or local social inequalities? Examining the social determinants of mental health in rural areas.

Crackpots and Basket-cases: A history of therapeutic work and occupation (2011)
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Laws, J. (2011). Crackpots and Basket-cases: A history of therapeutic work and occupation. History of the Human Sciences, 24(2), 65-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111399677

Despite the long history of beliefs about the therapeutic properties of work for people with mental ill health, rarely has therapeutic work itself been a focus for historical analysis. In this article, the development of a therapeutic work ethic (181... Read More about Crackpots and Basket-cases: A history of therapeutic work and occupation.

Converging citizens? Nanotechnology and the political imaginary of public engagement in Brazil and the United Kingdom. (2011)
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Macnaghten, P., & Guivant, J. (2011). Converging citizens? Nanotechnology and the political imaginary of public engagement in Brazil and the United Kingdom. Public Understanding of Science, 20(2), 207-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662510379084

This paper offers a comparative analysis of two public engagement exercises, conducted concurrently in the UK and Brazil. Following an account of how public engagement is situated in the political imaginary of the UK and Brazil, we set out a theoreti... Read More about Converging citizens? Nanotechnology and the political imaginary of public engagement in Brazil and the United Kingdom..

Beyond Imaginary Geographies? Critique, Co-optation and Imagination in the Aftermath of the War on Terror (2011)
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Closs Stephens, A. (2011). Beyond Imaginary Geographies? Critique, Co-optation and Imagination in the Aftermath of the War on Terror. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 29(2), 254-267. https://doi.org/10.1068/d6109

This paper considers the question of what it might mean to resist the ‘imaginative geographies’ of the War on Terror through a reading of the bestselling novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Reading this novel against the claim that we... Read More about Beyond Imaginary Geographies? Critique, Co-optation and Imagination in the Aftermath of the War on Terror.

NICE guidance on long-term sickness and incapacity (2011)
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Gabbay, M., Taylor, L., Sheppard, L., Hillage, J., Bambra, C., Ford, F., …Kelly, M. (2011). NICE guidance on long-term sickness and incapacity. British Journal of General Practice, 61(584), e118-124. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp11x561221

Long-term sickness absence and incapacity benefits (disability pension) rates have increased across industrialised countries. Effective measures are needed to support return to work. The recommendations of this guidance were informed by the most appr... Read More about NICE guidance on long-term sickness and incapacity.

Evidence for bias in C and N concentrations and δ13C composition of terrestrial and aquatic organic materials due to pre-analysis acid preparation methods (2011)
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Brodie, C., Leng, M., Casford, J., Kendrick, C., Lloyd, J., Zong, Y., & Bird, M. (2011). Evidence for bias in C and N concentrations and δ13C composition of terrestrial and aquatic organic materials due to pre-analysis acid preparation methods. Chemical Geology, 282(3-4), 67-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.01.007

Interaction between subsurface ocean waters and calving of Jakobshavn Isbræ during the Late Holocene (2011)
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Andresen, C., McCarthy, D., Dylmer, C., Seidenkrantz, M., Kuijpers, A., & Lloyd, J. (2011). Interaction between subsurface ocean waters and calving of Jakobshavn Isbræ during the Late Holocene. Holocene, 21(2), 211-224. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683610378877

A marine sediment core from Vaigat in Disko Bugt, West Greenland, has been analysed in terms of lithology, dinoflagellate cysts and foraminifera in order to evaluate the influence of oceanographic variability on West Greenland glacier stability. The... Read More about Interaction between subsurface ocean waters and calving of Jakobshavn Isbræ during the Late Holocene.

Assembling the evidence jigsaw: insights from a systematic review of UK studies of individual-focused return to work initiatives for disabled and long-term ill people (2011)
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Clayton, S., Bambra, C., Gosling, R., Povall, S., Misso, K., & Whitehead, M. (2011). Assembling the evidence jigsaw: insights from a systematic review of UK studies of individual-focused return to work initiatives for disabled and long-term ill people. BMC Public Health, 11, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-170

Background: Employment rates of long-term ill and disabled people in the UK are low and 2.63 million are on disability-related state benefits. Since the mid-1990 s, UK governments have experimented with a range of active labour market policies aimed... Read More about Assembling the evidence jigsaw: insights from a systematic review of UK studies of individual-focused return to work initiatives for disabled and long-term ill people.

Linking Environmental Régimes, Space and Time: Interpretations of Structural and Functional Connectivity (2011)
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Wainwright, J., Turnbull, L., Ibrahim, T., Lexartza-Artza, I., Thomton, S., & Brazier, R. (2011). Linking Environmental Régimes, Space and Time: Interpretations of Structural and Functional Connectivity. Geomorphology, 126(3-4), 387-404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.07.027

Connectivity as a concept has been increasingly part of discussions or explanations in hydrology, geomorphology and ecology. We address recent critiques of this approach by demonstrating how a refinement which distinguishes structural connectivity fr... Read More about Linking Environmental Régimes, Space and Time: Interpretations of Structural and Functional Connectivity.