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TL;DR: This paper relaxes some of the distributional assumptions made in HCW and shows that the HCW method works for a much wider range of data generating processes, and derives the asymptotic distribution of HCW’s average treatment effect estimator which facilitates inference.

98 citations


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01 Aug 2017-Geoforum
TL;DR: This article explored the campaigning culinary documentary (CCD) as an emerging format within food television and explored the ways in which CCDs narrated issues of responsibilization, whether these target consumers/viewers, the food industry, or the state.

18 citations


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TL;DR: It is demonstrated finally that, as a privatised, feminised and trivialised form of medicine, cosmetic surgery will always fail to deliver in this respect.
Abstract: This paper addresses the growing phenomenon of cosmetic surgery tourism through a focus on the development of this industry in South Korea. Unlike many discussions of this topic, the paper decentres dominant narratives based on west-goes-east or north-goes-south journeys. Instead, we look at regional flows by exploring the experiences of Chinese patients travelling to South Korea in search of facial cosmetic surgery – procedures often referred to as the ‘Korean Look’ and associated with exported Korean popular culture. We focus on the contested understandings of the motives for and outcomes of this surgery between Korean surgeons and Chinese patients, documenting one example of the cultural investments and (mis)understandings that can impact on the experiences of medical tourists as they travel across national borders in search of treatment. We situate the development of cosmetic surgery tourism in Korea in the context of a discourse we call ‘medical nationalism’, showing how surgeons in particular reproduce this discourse in terms of pride in their contribution to the economic and reputational success of South Korea on a world stage. However, we demonstrate finally that, as a privatised, feminised and trivialised form of medicine, cosmetic surgery will always fail to deliver in this respect.

17 citations



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02 Mar 2017
TL;DR: The Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, 1994 turned out, sometimes incongruously, to be a rather queer time and place as mentioned in this paper, though my recollections of it are patchy at best, and I want to use this essay to reflect on that time and time, on the life of a paper from that meeting, my paper, which started life as 'Fucking Geography' and the on-going trouble of talking about fucking in geography, a trouble that that paper sought to confront, but which it also fell foul of.
Abstract: The Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, 1994 turned out, sometimes incongruously, to be a rather queer time and place. Though my recollections of it are patchy at best, I want to use this essay to reflect on that time and place, on the life of a paper from that meeting – my paper, which started life as ‘Fucking Geography’ – and the on-going trouble of talking about fucking in geography, a trouble that that paper sought to confront, but which it also fell foul of. Let me start with the story…Getting to go to the AAG in San Francisco was an amazing opportunity, and lots of UK geographers made the trip. The AAG is one of those astounding academic mega-events: held in swanky hotels, attracting hundreds upon hundreds of people, most of them presenting and listening to short papers in countless parallel streams for days on end. It’s overwhelming, giving a sense of the sheer bulk of the discipline and something of its diversity – or, at least, the version of diversity manifest in a US, mainstream academic context. It’s a fascinating occasion to ponder what geography looks like, and – or so it seemed to me and my contemporaries, all postgrads or very junior faculty – a golden opportunity to push at the boundaries of the discipline.

9 citations


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David Bell1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on this lineage of work alongside research into the formation of intentional communities in rural settings and the body of writing on representations of rural landscapes and country life, and analyse two representations: The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2004) and Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995).
Abstract: The concept of therapeutic landscapes has been used to explore diverse spaces and places of healing or wellness, from hospitals to gardens, libraries to smoking areas. A central strand of this work considers rural and/or natural landscapes as affording particular healing experiences. In this paper, I draw on this lineage of work alongside research into the formation of intentional communities in rural settings and the body of writing on representations of rural landscapes and country life. The two representations I analyse are films: The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2004) and Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995). In the former, an apparent settler village in rural Pennsylvania is revealed, in the film’s denouement, as an intentional community built as a retreat from the violence of contemporary urban life, guarded by Elders and a shared mythology about border-policing creatures. In Safe, the health hazards of modern suburban living, which lead the central character to develop multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), can only be escaped by a similar retreat to a wilderness commune in the American desert. In both films, the spaces of rural life are constructed as therapeutic landscapes through their nostalgic, anti-modern withdrawal, and their protective boundary keeping.

5 citations