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AbstractGender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) comes with many physical, psychological, and social changes that are often considered in isolation. This research uses a socioecological lens with a sample of 15 Australian transfeminine individuals to investigate the changes experienced during GAHT. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2022, with verbatim transcripts analysed using deductive thematic analysis with Bronfenbrenner’s Socioecological Model (SEM) as a framework. Analyses revealed two themes intersecting multiple levels of the SEM. Theme 1 contained two sub-themes and broadly encapsulated how interactions with others influenced GAHT experiences. Sub-theme 1 spoke to how stigma creates positive or negative experiences (through the macrosystem, the exosystem, and proximal processes), while sub-theme 2 described how GAHT causes internal changes that promoted stronger interpersonal relationships (person and proximal processes). Theme 2 described how changes occurred over time, with some changes being temporary, and others being delayed (person and time). These themes highlight the interconnected nature of the physical, psychological, and social changes and experiences that can occur during GAHT. Best-practice care for trans people undergoing GAHT needs to be multi-faceted and holistic in order to embed support across different SEM components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to global estimates, there are 10 million people with disability who are displaced representing diverse ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Little is known about the refugee experiences of people with disability and their family members or the journeys they have undertaken to seek refuge. This paper explores the drivers and destinations underpinning the refugee journeys made by people with disability and family members fleeing wars in Syria and Iraq, to settle in Australia. Indepth life history interviews were conducted in Arabic with two men with disability and two mothers with sons with disability to understand their refugee journeys. Results are grouped under three journey-related themes developed from seminal work by BenEzer and Zetter: ‘Why’ (Drivers and Temporal Characteristics) participants fled their country of origin, ‘How’ (the Process and Content of the Journey), including the dangers they faced while leaving, their experiences arriving at and living in the transit country, and ‘Where’ participants travelled from their country of origin to (Destinations and Temporal Characteristics). This study demonstrates that the refugee journeys made by people with disability and family members from Syrian and Iraqi backgrounds are complex and multi-dimensional, with the overlay of disability central to their journey experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines, from a historical and contemporary perspective, the processes of valorizing diaspora gardening as local heritage in two significant “gardener villages”: Polikraishte and Draganovo (within the municipality of Gorna Oryahovitsa). Based on field studies conducted in Bulgaria and Hungary, the research describes journeys to and from ancestral places, emphasizing their significance and functions in constructing local heritage. The text explores interpretations of diaspora gardening within the settlement’s history. In the study, the valorization of gardening as local heritage in Bulgaria is considered a means of establishing connections between the two countries and an integral part of constructing the cultural memory and identity of the Bulgarian community in Hungary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie was one of the founders of British historical economics. He was an important figure in the history of economic thought of the nineteenth century, as he contributed to the critique of Ricardian political economy while at the same time being one of the founders of the British historical school. Cliffe Leslie was influenced by classical economists, such as Adam Smith and J. S. Mill, in calling for a historically and institutionally informed political economy. This article attempts to delineate the evolution of his economic thought by presenting the first phase of his intellectual development, which is marked by his frequent journeys in continental Europe. This phase, which is characterized by his applied political economy, is of considerable importance for understanding the emergence of British historical economics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Refugees with disability and their families are increasingly resettled in Australia but remain an under-researched group. As such, this study aimed to understand experiences of disability for humanitarian migrants who support a family member with a disability. Interviews took place with 10 family members from Iraqi and Syrian refugee backgrounds living in Australia, whose children or siblings had disability. BenEzer and Zetter's conceptualisation of the refugee journey was used to analyse four themes of these families' experience: (1) Temporal Characteristics: (2) Drivers and Destinations; (3) Process/Content of the Journey; and (4) Characteristics of People. Supporting a person or persons with disability was a defining feature of the participants' journeys across all themes, with stigma and difficulties in accessing disability support being consistent throughout. The journeys were multifaceted and ongoing, particularly in response to gaps in Australian disability support, and demonstrated the agency and advocacy that families utilised to support the best lives of those they love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article thinks through the imagined impact of railway collapse in George Chesney’s short story ‘The Battle of Dorking’ (1871). By interrogating the representation of railway infrastructure and mobilities in the first example of invasion-scare fiction, it reads a conflation between nation, empire, and railway network, materially and symbolically. Noting the dependence on railway networks for national and imperial organization by the later decades of the nineteenth century, this reading shows that the invasion anxiety that surfaced in these decades unsettled presumptions around railway superiority and highlighted the political nature of railway construction, operation, and organization.

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Many disciplines consider the oeuvre of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös as belonging to their field of expertise. His scholarly achievements are indeed related to linguistics, oriental studies, Tibetology, Indology as well as the history of religion, and Buddhism. Csoma de Kőrös’s interest in the original homeland of Hungarians was aroused by the articles of Ézsaiás Budai, György Pray and the lectures of Professor Blumenbach from the University of Göttingen. He mastered the Tibetan language and, using Tibetan literature hitherto unknown to European scholars, as well as his personal travel experience, he wrote a dissertation entitled “Land Survey of Tibet in Accordance with Tibetan Sources.” The paper contains important data on the characteristics of the Tibetan provinces discussing their economy and environment, as well as their mineral resources, rivers, lakes, and glaciers. Alexander Csoma de Kőrös had a significant intellectual influence on Hungarian geographers. Lajos Lóczy, Ervin Baktay, Jenő Cholnoky, László Kádár and Dénes Balázs all greatly valued his work. The Hungarian Geographical Society immortalized its memory with a laudatory medal. His statue was erected in the garden of the Hungarian Geographical Museum in 1984.

The article discusses the transportation of cocaine in Brazil, both for the external and internal markets. Criminal factions such as the PCC and CV have expanded their activities in border regions with producing and transit countries. Brazil has become one of the main importers and exporters of cocaine, and different criminal actors are involved in this illicit trade. The text highlights the importance of the concept of "navigation" to understand the practices and knowledge of the transporters. The Port of Santos is an important point in this route, being used as a crossing or suffocation point for the merchandise. Brazilian factions are increasingly present in ports and airports, reconfiguring global value chains. The expansion of factions occurs through relationships with local actors and networks of work and protection. The circulation of drugs involves politicians, state agents, inspectors, and port workers who engage in illicit activities. Brazil has become an important logistical hub in the cocaine value chain, with infrastructure such as the Port of Santos being used to channel large quantities of drugs. [Extracted from the article]

In earlier publications I have argued that ancient Javanese poets imagined the world to be one marked by distinctions between a social world consisting of palace (kaḍatwan) and countryside (thāni-ḍusun) and a wilderness of seashores and forested mountains (pasir-wukir). The social world was characterized by the presence of an effective royal authority; the wilderness by its absence. A distinction was also drawn between this world inhabited by human beings and a world in which gods, ancestral spirits, and other divine beings dwelt (kedewatan). Journeys through these landscapes are an enduring interest in the narrative literature in the literary tradition of ancient Java and Bali. Margaret V. Fletcher (1990, 2002, 2021), Tony Day (1994), Helen Creese (1998), Raechelle Rubinstein (2000), and Peter Worsley (2012b, et al. 2013) have argued that the accounts of journeys in epic kakawin and other related works are not just tales of travel between one physical place and another. Rather, they are accounts of other kinds of journeys: the “journeys” which poets seeking inspiration make or which ascetics seeking apotheosis with their iṣṭadewata undertake or those on which young men and women transitioning from childhood to adulthood embark. In this essay, I make some preliminary observations about passages describing journeys in the natural world in a diverse selection of works authored between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries in Java and Bali and discuss aspects of the metaphorical referencing of these descriptions.

This article argues that the concept of 'cosmologies of destinations' is a useful theoretical tool to provide an emic understanding of the social and moral meanings of migrants' journeys. By this concept, I refer to the hierarchical representations of the world that orient migration journeys. Drawing from my multi-sited ethnography with Eritreans at home and abroad, I illustrate how migration destinations were mapped by my informants along an implicit but widely shared normative and moral scale, with different levels of perceived safety, individual freedom, social recognition and economic achievements. After charting the theoretical field concerning social imaginaries and cultures of migration, I show the importance of symbolic and moral structures for understanding my informants' mobility choices at different stages of their migration process. I conclude by highlighting the potential of this concept to study the interplay of mobility and immobility, particularly in the framework of increasing constraints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects on the power of poetry to reframe the concepts of home, arrival and belonging, each of which is important in understanding the relationship between migration and culture. It traces the journey of a collective poem – 'Grapes in My Father's Yard' – that was created during the Material Stories of Migration project in Sheffield in 2015; was performed at Migration Matters Festival and has since been shared in multiple digital and material formats between 2015 and 2022. The text's trajectory demonstrates poetry's capacity to transgress structural and grammatical norms and capture that which is absent, ambiguous and elusive in the idea of 'home'. The poem intertwines different languages and flows between them, enacting the give and take of linguistic and cultural translation. This article draws on follow-up interviews and ongoing discussion with project participants and creative facilitators to explore how the 'storying' of migrant lives is an ongoing creative process that poetry can illuminate. 'Grapes in My Father's Yard' articulates how post-arrival life for migrants is not a linear, forward-moving process but a kind of re-dwelling in lost homes and landscapes, the beginning of a micro-bordering which continues for years. The poem calls on us to read between the lines and to seek out the silences, as much as it asks us to listen to the words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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"Prosody" is my narrative and poetic reflection on the importance of genuine relationship to understanding another's experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper proposes a new approach to universal access based on the premise that humans have the universal capacity to engage emotionally with a story, whatever their ability. Our approach is to present the "story" of museum resources and knowledge as a journey, and then represent this journey physically as a smart map. The key research question is to assess the extent to which our "story" to journey to smart map' (SJSM) approach provides emotional engagement as part of the museum experience. This approach is applied through the creation of a smart map for blind and partially sighted (BPS) visitors. Made in partnership with Titanic Belfast, a world-leading tourist attraction, the interactive map tells the story of Titanic's maiden voyage. The smart map uses low-cost technologies such as laser-cut map features and software-controlled multi-function buttons for the audio description (AD). The AD is enhanced with background effects, dramatized personal stories and the ship's last messages. The results of a reception study show that the approach enabled BPS participants to experience significant emotional engagement with museum resources. The smart model also gave BPS users a level of control over the AD which gave them a greater sense of empowerment and independence, which is particularly important for BPS visitors with varying sight conditions. We conclude that our SJSM approach has considerable potential as an approach to universal access, and to increase emotional engagement with museum collections. We also propose several developments which could further extend the approach and its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Antislavery actors evoke the history of the transatlantic slave trade in campaigns to mobilise action to address the suffering experienced by contemporary migrants described as 'victims of trafficking'. That framing has been picked up by state actors who present measures to supress unauthorised migration per se as necessary to protect migrants from a 'modern-day slave trade'. Yet the parallel between trafficking and the slave trade is undermined by the fact that people who today are described as 'trafficked', as much as those described as 'smuggled', actively wish to travel and do so in the hope that by moving, they will secure greater freedoms. This article therefore asks whether there are similarities between the journeys of contemporary unauthorised migrants and those of enslaved people who fled from slavery in the Atlantic World, and if so, why. Bringing data from historical sources on slave flight into dialogue with data on the journeys of contemporary sub-Saharan African migrants to Europe and Brazil, it identifies a number of experiential parallels, and argues that for those concerned with migrants' rights, enslaved people's fugitivity potentially offers a more fruitful point of historical comparison than does the slave trade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2019 Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference took as its theme the subject of 'dirt', and inspired this paper which examines the 'journeys into dirt' by explorer figures in Patrick White's 1957 novel Voss and Robyn Davidson's 1980 memoir Tracks. Drawing on theory of dirt developed by material ecocritic Helen Sullivan and by philosopher Olli Lagerspetz we demonstrate that the narratives of their travels show them engaged in transformative encounters with the Australian desert. In doing so we challenge Tom Lynch's reading of the two texts as 'traversals' which portray the desert as 'alien, hostile and undifferentiated void'. Using Keith Garebian's distinction between 'desert' and 'garden' we examine how these explorers find and respond to 'the garden in the desert'. Davidson couches her memoir as an exploration narrative and treats the desert as a 'lived space' which she 'writes home'; having learned how to 'be' in it, and so to 'recover' the garden in the desert. Like her, Voss and his companions experience the desert as beautiful and inspirational, even, at times, nurturant and sustaining. Since Voss's orientation is spiritual and transcendent, however, White's treatment of the desert shows conceptual and corporeal boundaries between human and environment shifting and fading in their interaction with it. In both texts episodes occur of immersion in dirt – dust in Tracks and mud in Voss – which serve to illustrate and to emphasise the interconnectedness we humans have with the essential, elemental environment of dirt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author analyses the allegories of journeys in the sacramental plays by Lope de Vega. As starting point, the great step forward of the project of complete edition of Calderón de la Barca’s works is used, which has provided the scholars not only with critical texts, but also with a great amount of studies on topics and themes. The author establishes three categories that shape the allegorical possibilities and different elements are studied, because they will have an effect in the development of the subsequent theatrical formula. For instance, the author examines the use of microstructures, the splendour in the performance, the creation of allegories to check their viability. This creates the necessity of reinforcing the project of edition of the sacramental plays by Lope in order to conceive a more accurate idea of this author and period.

The 2019 Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference took as its theme the subject of ‘dirt’, and inspired this paper which examines the ‘journeys into dirt’ by explorer figures in Patrick White’s 1957 novel Voss and Robyn Davidson’s 1980 memoir Tracks. Drawing on theory of dirt developed by material ecocritic Helen Sullivan and by philosopher Olli Lagerspetz we demonstrate that the narratives of their travels show them engaged in transformative encounters with the Australian desert. In doing so we challenge Tom Lynch’s reading of the two texts as ‘traversals’ which portray the desert as ‘alien, hostile and undifferentiated void’. Using Keith Garebian’s distinction between ‘desert’ and ‘garden’ we examine how these explorers find and respond to ‘the garden in the desert’. Davidson couches her memoir as an exploration narrative and treats the desert as a ‘lived space’ which she ‘writes home’; having learned how to ‘be’ in it, and so to ‘recover’ the garden in the desert. Like her, Voss and his companions experience the desert as beautiful and inspirational, even, at times, nurturant and sustaining. Since Voss’s orientation is spiritual and transcendent, however, White’s treatment of the desert shows conceptual and corporeal boundaries between human and environment shifting and fading in their interaction with it. In both texts episodes occur of immersion in dirt – dust in Tracks and mud in Voss – which serve to illustrate and to emphasise the interconnectedness we humans have with the essential, elemental environment of dirt.

Journeys of refugees and other migrants are typically represented as linear movements between two places with the academic and policy gaze directed primarily towards the places people leave and what is assumed to be their final destination. This linear representation presupposes that people have a specific country in mind when they depart and that everything 'in-between' is simply a 'stepping stone'. This article explores the journeys of Syrians, Nigerians and Afghans drawing on empirical data gathered in Turkey, Greece and Italy during 2015. Our evidence suggests that, even for those who eventually arrived in Europe, the places to which people initially travelled were often destination rather than 'transit countries'. It was only when life became untenable and a decision was made to move that these places took on a state of 'in-betweenness', most commonly as part of a personal narrative mobilised by respondents to make sense of the broader arc of their life experiences. Failure to understand, or even ask questions about, the multiple meanings which places have for people at different points in both their phsycial and metaphorical (life) journeys, undermines conceptual and empirical analysis of migrant journeys and plays into anti-immigrant discourses prevalent across much of the Global North. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The complexities of the creative sector are well rehearsed both within and beyond tourism. In tourism, creativity manifests in a range of ways and tends to be regarded as something that the commercial sector indulges, through film and apps to enable virtual visiting. Customers, tourists, have their ideas – and to a degree feeling of experiences, sites, staged events, framed, even shaped, by the touristic creative sector. These interventions play a valuable role to get closer to the in vivo experience. This commentary reflects upon the range of work that has been undertaken in the last twenty years to explore creativity in tourism as the creativity of tourists and how this constitutes their expectations and experiences remains central to tourist studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article discusses the lives of Carlota Joaquina of Spain and of Maria Leopoldina of Austria, from the standpoint of the culture of the journey and the approach of connected histories. With the epistolary genre as its source, it analyzes, on the one hand, their nature as princesses who were transatlantic travelers, and on the other, the ways in which their interlinked courses illustrate the reshaping of the links between the worlds which lived in a period of profound changes on a global scale. The experiences of the two monarchs reveal the impact of revolutionary, Euro-American events and the strategies which the threatened monarchies of the Old World employed to confront those dramatic changes.

Although better known as activist, Tenzin Tsundue is also a prominent Tibetan English poet. As part of a generation of Tibetans born in the exile chosen by their parents, Tsundue considers Tibetan his mother tongue but feels most comfortable writing in English. Hybrid in many ways, his poetry returns constantly to a, sometimes literal sometimes literary, journey of return to the ancestral homeland. For the second generation of Tibetans born in exile the journey "back" to the imaginary homeland is certainly one of discovery, but it is also one that never finds what it expects. Thus, the aim of this essay is to explore how the hope of return to Tibet is expressed in Tsundue's poetry through unconventional and circular journeys of discovery.

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This article highlights a gendered and forced mobility which has been under-recognised in the literature on mobility. It explores the hidden relocations of women (often with children) due to intimate partner abuse; presenting findings from mixed methods research on women's journeys to escape domestic violence, including analysis of over 80 journey segments made by 20 women within England and Wales, and from abroad. Focusing on means of transport, the research found that under a third of journey segments were made by public transport, and these tended to be longer distances; that journeys by disabled women were more likely to be by private transport, and that journeys from rural areas were more likely to be with the assistance of others. Thematic analysis of interviews at different stages of women's journeys is used to explore their experiences of different means of transport in terms of degrees of control and agency, in terms of losing or retaining personal possessions on the move; and in highlighting the role of others' assistance in compounding or counteracting the implications of abuse. Women's domestic violence journeys are thereby contextualised within wider mobilities research, uncovering the inequalities and implications of this hidden internal displacement in the UK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Mainstream research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender Los Angeles (LA) has ignored Latinx queer communities until recently, and lesbian Latinas, particularly those who are migrants and/or refugees, have been especially marginalized. Building on scholarship and creative work by Chicana, Latina, women of color feminist, queer of color, and queer migration activists and scholars, this essay contributes to research on Mexican, Central American, and Latina lesbians in LA. In her research on sexually non-conforming Latinas, Katie L. Acosta argues that to better understand Latinas' sexualities in all their complexities, future scholarly work should address the pleasures and desires of Latina lesbians, as well as the quality and stability of the relationships they nurture in the borderlands. Building on queer migration research and using what Nan Alamilla Boyd and Horacio Roque Ramírez call "queer oral history," this article focuses on two everyday lesbians in LA whose stories add depth to our understandings of LA queer history and to the lives of queer migrants in the city. The narratives of Luna and Dulce, migrant lesbians from Mexico and Guatemala, respectively, provide a context for better understanding diverse experiences of migrant Latina lesbians in LA. Situating their lives within ongoing research on lesbian Latinas, this essay focuses on three themes—migration, leisure spaces, and family—to explore how these inform the women's everyday choices and shape their practices of freedom. Their stories and perspectives have been instrumental in enabling me to develop an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that I call "finding sequins in the rubble," through which we can recognize and understand how queer Latinx communities engage in processes of queer-world making and radical possibility through everyday acts of resilience and self-care in the midst of familial, institutional, and state violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Following hospital discharge, stroke survivors may experience a decline in mobility, outings, and community participation. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between demographic and clinical measures, and the level of participation by community-dwelling stroke survivors. Methods: A prospective, multicenter, observational study was conducted. Participants were 83 community-dwelling stroke survivors with participation goals who were undergoing post-inpatient rehabilitation in Australia. Predictors collected at baseline, early after hospital discharge were demographic (age, gender, living situation, home access) and clinical measures (walking capacity, driving status, baseline outings). The outcome of interest was community participation 6 months later, measured over 7 days as number of outings (collected in a self-report diary). An outing was any excursion beyond the perimeter of the participants' dwelling into a public street. Results: Number of outings 6 months after admission to the study (mean 8.5/week, SD 5.3) was predicted by number of outings at baseline, walking capacity, and age. Driving status did not predict number of outings. Conclusion: The strongest predictors of community participation were the number of outings early post-inpatient rehabilitation, walking capacity, and age. The only significant modifiable predictor was walking capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than just content transfer is needed, as Paulo Freire argues, autonomy is needed, our students need to face their learning process with a mediating teacher. Possible solution to this problem, the projects, interdisciplinary journeys help in the integral development of knowledge, through the resolution of real problem situations, enriching the learning, the technological resources combined with these, brings the student closer to the teacher, leading to meaningful learning. It is the function of the school, to generate learning, as well as the competences and skills necessary for living in society. Environmental Education is paramount in schools, it is through it that our students develop a social engagement with actions and attitudes that aim to guarantee the quality of life of our future generations. To this end, the research problem in this article focuses on answering how workshops, interdisciplinary days and technology contribute to the formation of meaningful learning in environmental education. The general objective being to carry out studies on interdisciplinary projects, workshops, the use of technology in education and their contributions to learning, developing critical awareness in elementary school students, adopting a respectful and appreciative attitude on environmental issues. The methodology of this article was developed through bibliographic research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper engages with bus journeys to school, a familiar part of daily life for children living in rural areas, where journeys tend to be longer. Although they have a central role in the school day for many children, journeys by bus from home receive little attention from policy makers, researchers and school leaders. With changing patterns of school provision in rural areas, generally involving school closure or 'consolidation', the associated journeys to school are changing too. In addition to facilitating access to education, the transport used to get to school impacts on children, their families, communities and environments. The longstanding, knotty problems of the provision, running and experience of school buses are not well understood. Bus journeys to school lie in the shadows of schooling and in the spaces between government departments, research disciplines and between children, their families and schools and so receive little attention. In this neglected space of bus journeys to school, there are implications for rural children, schooling, communities and socially just and sustainable futures. Complex problems need new and different research engagements in the search for solutions. It is argued here that the processes involved in vital materialist approaches to enquiry such as assemblage, where both human and non-human actants are understood to have agency, offer different ways of working. Assemblage approaches to enquiry have the potential to offer new insights for those looking to improve bus journeys to school for the wellbeing of children and the planet as they offer an opportunity for producing knowledge differently. The paper presents a worked example of the use of an assemblage approach to a rural community case study. It is argued that an assemblage approach to the enquiry, offered a process with which to surface and work on a key emerging issue for the young people in the case study; that of their bus journeys to school. • The majority of home to secondary school journeys in rural places take place on buses. • Little is known about journeys to school by bus and the impact of these journeys. • Journeys to school in rural places are changing due to changes in school provision. • Working with vital material assemblages is a way to research these complex issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]