Seasonal climate change and the indoor city worker

Hitchings, Russell

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00380.x

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“…Other work has explored the role of habit and routine in structuring daily practice such as the use of indoor and outdoor spaces among office workers (Hitchings 2010a(Hitchings , 2010b. Alongside this work on habit and routine is growing attention to rhythm (McCormack 2002;Edensor and Holloway 2008;Edensor 2010).…”

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Habit, Memory, and the Persistence of Socialist-Era Street Names in Postsocialist Bucharest, Romania

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Young

2014

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Habit, memory, and the persistence of socialist-era street names in post-socialist Bucharest, Romania. Abstract:The critical study of toponymy has paid considerable attention to the renaming of urban places following revolutionary political change. Such renaming is intended to institutionalize a new political agenda through shaping the meanings in everyday practices and landscapes.Renaming, however, may not always be successful and this article examines this issue with reference to a market in Bucharest, Romania. Originally named Piaţa Moghioroş during the socialist era to commemorate a leading Communist Party activist, the market was renamed in the post-socialist period. Yet, more than two decades on, the original name remains in widespread everyday use. Using a mixed-method approach we seek to advance the critical toponymies literature by exploring the persistence of the socialist-era name within everyday practice. Although many authors have highlighted the issue of popular resistance to an unpopular renaming we find little evidence of conscious resistance, and instead we explore the importance of habit within everyday practices as an explanation, drawing on an understanding of habit derived from socio-cognitive psychology. This perspective proposes that habits are stable and hard to break if the broader context in which they are situated is stable and we suggest that this explanation, rather than popular contestation, has more to offer in understanding the persistence of the toponym Piaţa Moghioroş. We thus highlight the importance of considering how the "users" of place names react to the changes of such names and create their own meanings in relation to them in ways unintended by elites.

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Habit, Memory, and the Persistence of Socialist-Era Street Names in Postsocialist Bucharest, Romania

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Young

2014

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…They hurried from the car or the tube to the foyer, limiting outdoor time to a minimum so as to enjoy thermal comfort as much as possible. Because this European study group from a developed country is used to live in sanitised environments, they declared to hardly notice the changing seasons and weather patterns [22]. Results have shown there was also indifference to the challenges posed by wider climatic warming.…”

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Climate change in the Pacific: Tuvalu case-study

Madaleno¹

2011

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The Tuvalu Group is made of nine small low-lying coral atoll and reef islands, located in the South Pacific, about 1,100 km north of Fiji. With a total area of 26km 2 , it has about 11,000 residents and it is the first nation on Earth to see the rising sun every single day. The people of Tuvalu are mostly of Polynesian origin, their culture and physical type being quite homogeneous. During the month of February 2010, the Portuguese Tropical Research Institute conducted a scientific mission to the atoll of Funafuti, so as to develop an ethno-geographic study. The main objective of the project was to evaluate the Pacific people's awareness to climate change. Results have shown that about two thirds of the remote islanders do not fear the rising sea levels and trust that Divine Providence will bet on their survival. The small population of fishermen and breadfruit, taro, pulaka and coconut subsistence farmers lack economies of scale because of their remoteness yet persevere with a tranquil, slow-paced existence in a vulnerable and isolated environment where they lack resources for adequate development.

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“…They suggest new justifications for the enduring human fear that climate may not perform the way we want it to. Even if our material dependencies on physical climate are now more varied than in previous eras -and for many in the more industrialised nations probably also more tenuous (see Hitchings 2010) -no-one fully escapes the quotidian encounter with the weather (Horn 2007). The English, for example, continue to use talk about the weather as a surrogate for conversation (Fox 2005), even as the idea of climate change adds new reasons for complaining, praising or worrying about the weather.…”

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‘Telling a different tale’: literary, historical and meteorological readings of a Norfolk heatwave

Hulme

2012

Climatic Change

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Articulated initially by physical scientists, the idea of anthropogenic global climate change has been subject to increasingly diverse examinations in recent years. The idea has been appropriated by economists, worked with by engineers and, more recently, scrutinised by social scientists and humanities scholars. Underlying these examinations are different, yet rarely exposed, presumptions about what kind of 'thing' climate is: a physical abstraction, a statistical construct, an imaginative idea. If the ontological status of climate is rarely made explicit it becomes difficult to know whether the different epistemologies used to reveal climates -and their changing properties -are appropriate. This study offers one way in which the different worlds inhabited by the idea of climate may be revealed. It does so by examining a heatwave: a powerful meteorological phenomenon one would think and one which scientific accounts of climate change tell us will become more frequent in the future. The heatwave in question occurred in July 1900 in the county of Norfolk, England. This heatwave inhabits three very different worlds: the imaginative world of L P Hartley in his novel The Go Between; the historical world of late Victorian Norfolk; and the digital world of the climate sciences. The traces of the heatwave left in these different worlds are varied and access to them is uneven. Constructing an adequate interpretation of this singular climatic event and its meaning is challenging. The study suggests that grasping the idea of climate may be harder than we think. Climates may be ineffable. Yet the approach to the study of climate illustrated here opens up new ways of thinking about the meaning and significance of climate change.As a liberating power with its own laws [the heat] was outside my experience … In the heat the senses, the mind, the heart, the body, all told a different tale. One felt another person, one was another person.

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Seasonal climate change and the indoor city worker

Cited by 33 publications

References 68 publications

Habit, Memory, and the Persistence of Socialist-Era Street Names in Postsocialist Bucharest, Romania

Habit, Memory, and the Persistence of Socialist-Era Street Names in Postsocialist Bucharest, Romania

Climate change in the Pacific: Tuvalu case-study

‘Telling a different tale’: literary, historical and meteorological readings of a Norfolk heatwave

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