Talja Blokland aimed to develop ‘a modest theory of community’ (p. 11), yet she has delivered much more in Community as Urban Practice. Building on her past conceptual contributions, she provides a...

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Community as urban practice

Is it research or just walking? Framing walking research methods as “non-scientific”

Walking is a practice that often centers humans as moving and experiencing subjects. Whether on solitary rambles or in collective social and political engagements, people are central to understandi...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10778004211042356

The Forest That Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site

The commonly adopted approach to leisure studies emphasizes the impact of leisure time on health, well-being and the work-life balance in isolation from/without considering the external conditions of a more or less sustainable society. It focuses on what factors influence leisure time and the consequences of leisure activities on other areas of individual or group life. However, given the growing popularity and presence of new information and communication technologies and related algorithms (algorithmic automation), it is worth considering the area of overlapping dynamic relationships between the technological dimension and leisure time/activities. Hence, this chapter aims to signal (initiate) the impact of new technologies on the daily practices of leisure time in developed capitalist societies in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 3. To this end, a social welfare perspective has been used, combining sociological studies of welfare with welfare economics, and a psychological approach emphasizing the subjective dimension of the phenomenon (positive psychology). Such an approach aims to answer the main research question, namely how algorithms based on new technologies change the subjective perception of leisure time and the daily practices implemented within its framework (e.g. work and formal non-work regimes).

Algorithmic Automation of Leisure from a Sustainable Development Perspective

How to park a car? Immobility and the temporal organization of parking practices

This article demonstrates what may be gained from combining the walk-along method with the global positioning system (GPS) and geographical information system (GIS) when exploring the social and ph...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1525822X20905257

Using GPS and GIS to Enrich the Walk-along Method:

Metody mobilne i wizualne w praktyce badawczej. Zastosowanie fotospaceru w socjologicznych badaniach map mentalnych i zachowań terytorialnych ludzi

Praxeological turn in social research resulted in many examples of empirical studies using the concept of social practice. They are mostly case studies of a single or clearly defined practices, suc...

Social Practice Research in Practice. Some Methodological Challenges in Applying Practice-Based Approach to the Urban Research.

W stronę ontologii pola badań jakościowych

Due to the profound changes in the daily temporal structures that have taken place in Polish society since the 1990s, everyday life of a large number of its members takes the form of time scarcity or time abundance. For many people living in these new temporal conditions, which are associated with, on the one hand, a chronic lack of time, and on the other hand with an overwhelming weight of its excess, practicing so-called “free” time becomes a challenge. The article examines the problematic status of leisure, drawing on the experiences of people living under the conditions of time scarcity and time abundance. The main part of the article presents an empirical reconstruction of social practices related to the domain of free time in a situation of its shortage and excess. It is preceded by a description of the general characteristics of the new temporal conditions which call into question the notion of free time as an obvious attribute of everyday life.

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Natalia Martini

Papers

Using GPS and GIS to Enrich the Walk-along Method:

Metody mobilne i wizualne w praktyce badawczej. Zastosowanie fotospaceru w socjologicznych badaniach map mentalnych i zachowań terytorialnych ludzi

Social Practice Research in Practice. Some Methodological Challenges in Applying Practice-Based Approach to the Urban Research.

W stronę ontologii pola badań jakościowych

Praktykowanie czasu wolnego w sytuacji niedoboru i nadmiaru