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- Kim, Kyungmee
(författare)
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Concurrent Challenges of Conflict and Climate Change in Myanmar
- 2024
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Ingår i: Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. - 1526-0054 .- 2471-8831.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The relationship between climate change and violent conflict is complicated. Existing studies suggest that climate change increases armed conflict through indirect pathways, including detriment to livelihoods, displacement, migration, and existing conflict dynamics. The exact nature of this interaction depends on each country’s political, socio-economic, and military contexts. Violent conflict, however, increases vulnerability to climate change by aggravating societal vulnerability and making populations more vulnerable to weather shocks. This suggests a plausible feedback loop of violence and vulnerability, worsened by climate change. Myanmar provides an illustration of the concurrent challenges of climate change and violence exacerbating societal vulnerability with potentially consequential security outcomes.
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| 9402. |
- Kim, Myung Ja, et al.
(författare)
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Effects of Value-Belief-Norm Theory, ESG, and AI on Space Tourist Behavior for Sustainability With Three Types of Space Tourism
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Travel Research. - : Sage Publications. - 0047-2875 .- 1552-6763. ; 63:6, s. 1395-1410
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since reusable launch vehicles have revolutionized access to space, space tourism has received enormous policy and research attention. However, such growth is occurring within a wider context of concerns over climate change, emissions, and space debris. Although the space industries have enormous environmental impacts, few studies have been undertaken on the sustainability of space tourism. Therefore, we aim to create and assess an extended value-beliefs-norms theory with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, trust in artificial intelligence (AI), and the benefits of AI, in comparing three types of space tourism (Earth, suborbital, and orbital). To achieve the goals, multi-method analyses of 1,000 respondents were applied, including partial least squares-structural equation modeling, multi-group analysis, fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis, and deep learning. Results revealed that the extended value-belief-norm model well explains space tourist behavior, ESG also has significant roles on the research model, and the three types have unique characteristics.
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- Kimari, Wangui, et al.
(författare)
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Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations : Centering Race within the Contemporary Large-Scale Infrastructures of East Africa
- 2020
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Ingår i: Antipode. - : Wiley. - 0066-4812 .- 1467-8330. ; 3:52, s. 1-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we combine infrastructure studies and black radical traditions to foreground how imperial remains deeply inform the logics that bring forth contemporary large-scale infrastructures in Africa. The objective, prompted by the ongoing avid promotion of such architectures on the continent, is to contribute to an analysis that centres race in these projects. Our argument is that these initiatives have to be understood in relation to inherited material and discursive scaffoldings that remain from the colonial period, through what we refer to as imperial remains and imperial invitations. These remains and invitations demonstrate how recent mega infrastructures inhere, in their planning, financing and implementation, a colonial racialism, despite rhetorical claims to the opposite. Empirically, we draw, principally, on China built and financed infrastructure projects from Kenya, and theoretically upon black radical traditions in order to foreground a longer genealogy of black pathologizing and resistance to it on the continent.
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- Kimari, Wangui, et al.
(författare)
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The invisible labor of the “New Angola” : Kilamba’s domestic workers
- 2022
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Ingår i: Urban geography. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0272-3638 .- 1938-2847. ; , s. 1-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Kilamba, the first of the new centralities in Angola, is increasingly visible in recent urban scholarship about Luanda, further establishing it as the symbol of both this “new” post-war city and the “New Angola.” Within local discourses of progress, its emergence from within “petro-urbanism,” and its size and modern aesthetics are emphasized, while little attention has been directed towards understanding the actual contributions of its workers, particularly the women who spend a significant part of their day cleaning Kilamba’s apartments. In this paper, we combine a social reproduction framework with infrastructure studies to trace the labor of Kilamba’s female domestic workers, in order to demonstrate how their everyday practices uphold the status and materiality of this centrality, even as their work is invisibilized. In doing so, we understand their commentaries about this space, often refracted through descriptions of their homes, as critiques of the infrastructural priorities of the “New Angola.”
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| 9405. |
- King, Russell
(författare)
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Conclusions : Exploring the multiple complexities of the return migration-psychosocial wellbeing nexus
- 2017
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Ingår i: Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing. - : Routledge. - 9781138677500 - 9781315619613 ; , s. 257-273
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores some of the complex socio-cultural, emotional, ideological and political ramifications of the nexus between return migration and psychosocial wellbeing. it challenges the prevalent assumption in the literature that return migration is some kind of 'natural' conclusion to the migratory process in which the return 'home' closes the cycle of the migration trajectory. A more mobile, transnational conceptualisation of migration sees return as part of an ongoing itinerary rather than a permanent resettlement back in the country of origin. The book considers Jean-Pierre Cassarino's (2004) landmark paper on retheorising return migration. It prioritises the emotional experiences of return migration as a challenge to the conventional framing of the migrant as homo economicus. The book problematises the forced vs voluntary dichotomy in return migration through looking at the vulnerable wellbeing outcomes of those who are 'forced' to return to Afghanistan.
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- King, Russell, et al.
(författare)
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Eurocity London : a qualitative comparison of graduate migration from Germany, Italy and Latvia
- 2016
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Ingår i: Comparative Migration Studies. - : Springer. - 2214-8590 .- 2214-594X. ; 4:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper compares the motivations and characteristics of the recent migration to London of young-adult graduates from Germany, Italy and Latvia. Conceptually the paper links three domains: the theory of core–periphery structures within Europe; the notion of London as both a global city and a ‘Eurocity’; and the trope of ‘crisis’. The dataset analysed consists of 95 in-depth biographical interviews and the paper’s main objective is to tease out the narrative similarities and differences between the three groups interviewed. Each of the three nationalities represents a different geo-economic positioning within Europe. German graduates move from one economically prosperous country to another; they traverse shallow economic and cultural boundaries. Italian graduates migrate from a relatively peripheral Southern European country where, especially in Southern Italy, employment and career prospects have long been difficult, and have become more so in the wake of the financial crisis. They find employment opportunities in London which are unavailable to them in Italy. Latvian graduates are from a different European periphery, the Eastern one, post-socialist and post-Soviet. Like the Italians, their moves are economically driven whereas, for the Germans, migration is more related to lifestyle and life-stage. For all three groups, the chance to live in a large, multicultural, cosmopolitan city is a great attraction. And for all groups, thoughts about the future are marked by uncertainty and ambiguity.
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| 9407. |
- King, Russell, et al.
(författare)
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From peripheral region to escalator region in Europe : Young Baltic graduates in London
- 2018
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Ingår i: European Urban and Regional Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 0969-7764 .- 1461-7145. ; 25:3, s. 284-299
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines recent migration from three little-studied European Union (EU) countries, the Baltic states, focusing on early-career graduates who move to London. It looks at how these young migrants explain the reasons for their move, their work and living experiences in London, and their plans for the future, based on 78 interviews with individual migrants. A key objective of this paper is to rejuvenate the core-periphery structural framework through the theoretical lens of London as an escalator' region for career development. We add a necessary nuance on how the time dimension is crucial in understanding how an escalator region functions - both in terms of macro-events such as EU enlargement or economic crisis, and for life-course events such as career advancement or family formation. Our findings indicate that these educated young adults from the EU's north-eastern periphery migrate for a combination of economic, career, lifestyle and personal-development reasons. They are ambivalent about their futures and when, and whether, they will return-migrate.
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- Kingsepp, Eva, 1961-
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Ghosts, Extraterrestrials, and (Re-)enchantment : Possibilities and Challenges in Post-secular Tourism
- 2023
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Ingår i: Folklore, People, and Places. - London : Routledge. - 9781003374138 ; , s. 186-198
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Paranormal phenomena and the occult are today common in mainstream Western popular culture, which is in several countries also reflected in national tourism. This is not really the case in Sweden, whose official self-image is built on modernity, secularism, and rationalism. Still, on a folk level there are signs of what is often called the post-secular, a spiritually informed worldview characterised by openness towards the otherworldly, indicating a cultural reaction akin to a re-enchantment of the world. This chapter discusses the use of the paranormal in Swedish regional tourism, with the province Värmland as a case study. A working hypothesis is that the tourism industry may sanction certain aspects of the paranormal, such as ghosts, through their objectification of them, while others, for example UFOs, are not considered suitable, despite their presence in mainstream popular culture. Still, it seems that Swedish paranormal tourism has a long way to go before reaching the levels of, for example, the United Kingdom or the United States.
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- Kinuya Gitau, James, et al.
(författare)
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Understanding users' needs is important for the adoption of cleaner biomass cook stoves
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- elwood is the main source of cooking and heating energy for households in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Unfortunately, most of these households use inefficient biomass cook stoves, leading to consumption of more fuel and exposure to indoor air pollutants and associate health problems which disproportionately affect women and children. However, adoption of cleaner biomass cook stoves has remained low which could be associated to low understanding of users' needs and preferences among other factors. This study examined the performance and use of efficient gasifier cook stoves in the mid-lowlands, highlands and coastal regions of Kenya. Gasifier stoves that produce char (charcoal when used fuel or biochar when used for soil amendment) while cooking were issued to 150 households for free and their performance in fuel use and household air pollution in real life assessed among 50% of the households using participatory cooking tests. Further uptake surveys were carried out after 2–3 months about one year after gasifier cook stoves were issued. The gasifier performs better than three-stone open fire as it reduces fuel use by 51% and 28% when char is considered as fuel and biochar for soil amendment respectively. The new stove reduces concentration of PM2.5 and CO by 90% and 73% respectively. The results showed that after 2-3 months, 86%, 96% and 100% (average 94%) of households were using the stove though at varying frequencies of 4, 9 and 7 (average 7) times per week in Embu, Kwale and Siaya respectively. The use of the new stove was alongside their traditional stoves a common practice known as stove stacking. The gasifier was mainly used to cook foods that required a short cooking time and many preferred to use it to cook dinner. After about one year, 38%, 100 % and 88% (average 75%) of households were using it 3, 2 and 5 (average 3) times per week in Embu, Kwale and Siaya respectively while stove stacking. The surveys showed that the users liked the gasifier because it saves fuel, produce char used as charcoal providing fuel for other purposes such as ironing clothes and heating space, cook well and burn longer with less smoke and is easy to harvest and cool the char produced. However, despite the positive characteristics the users found it difficult to light from the top, chop wood into required sizes and reload the stove when fuel charred before the food got ready. To meet their cooking and heating needs, households continued to use the traditional three-stone and added the new stove. Users’ needs and preferences need to be understood and considered in the development of cleaner cooking biomass stoves for enhanced adoption and realization of the associated benefits
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