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Caring for the river‐border: Struggles and opportunities along the Salween River‐border Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Vanessa Lamb
Geographers have shown how borders rely on the enactment of state power and violence to reinforce territorial integrity and sovereign authority, or even perpetuate the destruction of nature. Moving away from an emphasis on violence, in this paper, I take an approach to borders and bordering that emphasises the opportunities of the border when it is also a river to understand borders as a resource and
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Media narratives of industrial plant closures in Ontario, Canada, from 2000 to 2019 Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Jesse Sutton, Godwin Arku
Since the 1970s, a defining feature of advanced economies has been industrial plant closures, stemming from the broader process of economic restructuring. Plant closures have been extensively covered by the media due to their adverse effects on localities. However, no media analysis of closures has been conducted in the plant closure literature. In addition to providing a wealth of information, such
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Delayed notes: Responding to two unsettling street encounters in Santiago Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Soledad Martínez
A common fieldwork recommendation is to keep a notebook and to write descriptions and reflections in it as soon as possible after each spell of participant observation. The idea is that we should record the details of the situations we encounter while they are still fresh in our memory. But sometimes, when faced with challenging situations, this may not be the best time to write. In this short article
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Uneven geographies of power in UK higher education's conjunctural crisis: A response to Gandy Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Julie Cupples
This article constitutes a response to Matthew Gandy’s article ‘Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo‐liberal academy in the form of a conjunctural analysis’. It discusses the UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) open‐access proposal for book publications in the context of broader and chilling attacks on academic freedom driven in large part by the current government and supported by
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Rewilding, gender and the transformation of the Côa Valley Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Nadia Bartolini, Bárbara Carvalho, Sarah May
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Sharing fieldnotes: Collaborative learning at the summer music festival Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Eveleigh Buck‐Matthews
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Negotiating the insider–outsider dilemma in urban research: Experiences of a graduate student returning home for fieldwork Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Elmond Bandauko
African doctoral students studying abroad and returning to their home countries for fieldwork face multiple and complex challenges. This paper reflexively addresses the question of positionality from the experiences of conducting research on urban governance and the spatial politics of street traders in Harare, Zimbabwe. The paper discusses dilemmas associated with navigating insider and outsider identities
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Counting in qualitative fieldwork: Notes from a large urban park Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Jack Layton
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Landings: The moor and the ecological therapeutic practice of Richard Skelton Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 James Ingham
Richard Skelton's 2009 recording, Landings, is recognised as being intimately connected with landscape and the experience of place. This paper explores the use of therapeutic practice within the creation of the recording of Landings. Building on the work of cultural geographers who have emphasised the cultural and symbolic significance of landscape, as well as incorporating the work of geographers
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Against book enclosures: Moving towards more diverse, humane and accessible book publishing Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Simon P. J. Batterbury, Andrea E. Pia, Gerda Wielander, Nicholas Loubere
Matthew Gandy's Commentary in Area (2023) criticised the decision of the national funder UKRI to mandate that all books resulting from the research that it funds must be published open access (OA) from 2024. This raises many issues of importance to geographers. We argue that scholars in the discipline need to fight for affordable and ethically produced OA books, not ‘legacy’ modes of publishing. In
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Field notes and Polaroids: Engaging with Black lives in West London Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Nathaniel Télémaque
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The significance of sketching: Drawing a streetscape in a Nairobi neighbourhood Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Tatiana A. Thieme
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Losing the notebook: An evolving study of the life of a Berlin Square Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Julia Dzun
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Walking-with/worlding-with in a global pandemic: A story of mothering in motion Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Louise C. Platt
This paper addresses how walking-with an infant makes mothering worlds legible. Employing the active verb ‘worlding’, it illustrates how walking-with contributes to the emergent, embodied and relational nature of mothering as a story in motion and how we make sense of becoming a mother. The walking in this study takes place in and through (sub)urban landscapes, and how we negotiate our maternal bodies
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The ‘More Than Maps’ framework for building research capacity among young people in coastal climate change adaptation Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Sien van der Plank, Kwasi Appeaning Addo, Romario Anderson, Bryan Boruff, Eleanor Bruce, Kishna Chambers, John Duncan, Kevin Davies, Damoi Escoffery, Yanna Fidai, Darren Fletcher, Sharyn Hickey, Philip-Neri Jayson-Quashigah, Ava Maxam, Natasha Pauli, Marie Schlenker, Winnie Naa Adjorkor Sowah, Jadu Dash
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Qualitative longitudinal methodologies for crisis times: Against crisis exceptionalism and ‘helicopter’ research Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Katherine Brickell, Sabina Lawreniuk, Lauren McCarthy
In this introduction to the collection of papers ‘Qualitative Longitudinal Methodologies for Crisis Times’, we argue that two main characteristics or ‘qualities’ of qualitative longitudinal methodologies (QLMs) can be identified for researching crisis. The first is that QLMs can function to repudiate crisis exceptionalism. The papers denounce the discrete and time-limited, instead impressing the ongoingness
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Gendering fieldwork: Who buys the coffee? Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Ashleigh Rushton
The examination of gender in fieldwork highlights a need to provide attention to possible problematic instances that may arise between women interviewers and men participants. Qualitative research identifies that women interviewing men find themselves continually navigating power imbalances while attempting to negotiate safe environments for themselves. Gender in fieldwork predominately focuses on
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Fieldnotes as never really ‘raw’ data: Analysing the social life of public space on London's South Bank Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Alasdair Jones
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The production of ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ on BBC Radio 4: A popular geopolitical analysis Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Alice Watson
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Voice notes in the car: capturing immediate emotions from fieldwork with Sri Lankan refugees Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Charishma Ratnam
As researchers, we are trained to publish the most polished versions of our core findings. Yet, what is hidden away when we do so are the raw and sometimes messy accounts of what we see, feel, hear, and experience during fieldwork. Integrating fieldwork challenges into research outputs is still uncommon in human geography. In this paper, I present an excerpt of field notes from research that examined
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From fieldwork to frames: Insights from an auto-ethnographic comic on the French-Italian border of Ventimiglia Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Silvia Aru
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Crossing riverborderscapes and a view from in-between: Passenger ferries in South West England Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Eva McGrath, Richard Yarwood, Nichola Harmer
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The role of the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group in shaping an evolving field over time Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Andrew Power
The Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group of the Royal Geographical Association-Institute of British Geographers is perhaps the major professional organisation for health and medical geographers working in the UK. This paper reviews the organisational history and operation of the group, and its forerunners, and its role in shaping the development of the geographies of health and wellbeing
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The institutionalisation of urban community gardens in Cape Town, South Africa Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Tinashe P. Kanosvamhira
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COVID-19 crisis, Romanian Roma migrant women, and the temporary geographies of lockdown in the Spanish home Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Adriana Cioran Jupîneanţ, Remus Creţan, Sorina Voiculescu, Claudia Doiciar
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‘Finprint’ technopolitics and the corporatisation of global food governance Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Sarah J. Martin, Charles Mather
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Geography's lens, landscape architecture, and the green recovery Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Carl A. Smith
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Care and the academy: Navigating fieldwork, funding and care responsibilities Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Rosie Cox, Jessica Hope, Katy Jenkins, Charlotte Ray
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Refiguring habits of subjectivity, communication, and space in online video calls Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Lucy Koh, Andrew Lapworth
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Oral Histories and Futures: Researching crises across the life-course and the life-course of crises Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Sarah Marie Hall
This paper showcases Oral Histories and Futures interviews as an approach and series of innovations for researching crises with qualitative methods. It presents new possibilities for methodological innovations to embrace the multi-directional and longitudinal temporalities of crises across the life-course and the life-course of crises. As an exciting avenue for methodological enhancement, I build on
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Towards a critical-conceptual analysis of ‘research culture’ Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Felicity Callard
Universities and policymakers increasingly use ‘research culture’ and ‘research environment’ to govern as well as describe research. Both terms help frame who is considered a research actor; how researchers interact with the contexts in which they make knowledge; and what is considered malleable when attempting to improve how research is done. There are very few conceptual-critical analyses of either
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The spatial development of peripheralisation: The case of smart city projects in Romania Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Alexandru Dragan, Remus Creţan, Raluca Denisa Bulzan
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Place(making) for conservation activism: Materiality, non-human agency, ethics, and interaction in Indianapolis, IN Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Ben Lockwood, Drew Heiderscheidt
In 2016 and 2017, local environmentalists in downtown Indianapolis organised for the conservation of an urban greenspace known as Crown Hill Woods. The woods was sold by Crown Hill Cemetery and its planned removal set off a struggle over the meaning of the woods that revealed elements of placemaking and place attachments. This article uses a case study of a conservation conflict to analyse the language
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Decolonising ecological research: A generative discussion between Global North geographers and Global South field ecologists Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Bruno Eleres Soares, Ana Clara Sampaio Franco, Juliana S. Leal, Romullo Guimarães de Sá Ferreira Lima, Kate Baker, Mark Griffiths
In this article we draw on recent debates in ecology and human geography on the project of decolonising academic practice. Our objective is to address two key questions via a generative discussion across disciplines: what can ecologists learn from ongoing debates in human geography? And how might those learnings translate back into geographical praxis? We make the central argument that vibrant debates
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Loitering with (research) intent: Remote ethnographies in the immigration tribunal Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Jo Hynes
Court ethnographies have commonly relied on the physical presence of the ethnographers. This paper explores the opportunities and the challenges of conducting court ethnographies without this physical presence. Specifically, it examines what it means to conduct remote ethnographies of legal processes where neither the ethnographer nor the other hearing participants are physically co-present. The sudden
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Interaction between islands and special economic zones: Spatial processes of containment and exclusion Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su
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‘Somewhere old, somewhere new, somewhere green’: An exploration of health enabling places from the perspective of people ageing-in-place in Ireland during COVID-19 Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Viveka Guzman, Ronan Foley, Frank Doyle, Maria Pertl
Drawing on conceptual and empirical work in geographies of ageing and environmental gerontology, this study's aim is to explore the generation and maintenance of enabling places from the perspective of older community dwellers in the context of COVID-19. Findings are drawn from a qualitative thematic analysis of written submissions (n = 17), narrative interviews (n = 44) and go-along interviews (n = 5)
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‘Being’ and ‘doing’ well in the moment: Theoretical and relational contributions of health geography to living well with dementia Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Meghánn Catherine Ward, Christine Milligan, Emma Elizabeth Rose, Mary Elliott
Over the past two decades, advancements have been made towards de-medicalising the term ‘dementia’, attending to in-the-moment lived experiences of people with the condition, and exploring the connections between dementia and place, relations, activities, and well-being. In the same timeframe, a range of prominent researchers within health geography have proposed new renegotiations of well-being that
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Autonomy and control in the (home) office: Finance professionals' attitudes toward working from home in Canada as a result of COVID-19 lockdowns Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Daniel Cockayne, Christina Treleaven
This paper explores the shift to working from home among finance professionals in Canada as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We present the results of a survey that invited quantitative and qualitative responses about attitudes toward working from home, the overlap between paid and unpaid (i.e., childcare and other caregiving) work in the home, changing relationships with employers, and preferences
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‘Like every other day’: Writing temporalities of banal exploitation among precarious migrant workers Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Sallie Yea
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Fast, slow, ongoing: Female academics' experiences of time and change during COVID-19 Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Kate Carruthers Thomas
This paper reports on an investigation into female academics' experiences of living and working through the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (UK). A diary, diary-interview method (DDIM) was used to gather qualitative data from 25 participants about their lives during the period March 2020–September 2021 and diary and interview data have since been curated and published in an open access digital
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Neighbourhood regeneration through a longitudinal lens: Exploring crisis temporalities in Bristol, UK Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Julie MacLeavy
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Converging old and new carbon frontiers in northern Australia Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Timothy Neale, Kari Dahlgren, Kirsty Howey, Matthew Kearnes
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Crisis temporalities and ongoing capabilities in the lives of young people growing up on the streets of African cities: An ethnographic longitudinal perspective Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Lorraine van Blerk, Janine Hunter, Wayne Shand
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Where next for managed retreat: Bringing in history, community and under-researched places Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Gerald Taylor Aiken, Leslie Mabon
Managed retreat—the purposive and coordinated movement of people away from climate risks—has risen in importance, discussion and urgency in recent years. As climate threats increase in size and scope, both scholarly and policy responses are likely to take increasing interest in this deeply geographic phenomenon. This is an important juncture to take stock, and reflect on what Geography can offer both
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Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Diego Astorga de Ita
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Privacy challenges in geodata and open data Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Reka Solymosi, David Buil-Gil, Vania Ceccato, Eon Kim, Ulf Jansson
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A critical view on the role of scale and instrumental imaginaries within community sustainability transitions research Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Benedikt Schmid, Gerald Taylor Aiken
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‘I guess I really survived many crises’: On the benefits of longitudinal ethnographic research Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Cesare Di Feliciantonio
Building on my ongoing ethnographic research with people living with HIV in different European countries, the paper focuses on RD, a Catalan man I have interviewed three times since 2014. In RD's life narrative, ‘crisis’ is a recurring theme including both the most blatant forms, like the severe housing crisis in Spain that followed the global financial crisis, and the most ordinary ones like domestic
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Doing feminist longitudinal research across the COVID-19 crisis: Unheard impacts on researchers and garment workers in Cambodia Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Katherine Brickell, Theavy Chhom, Sabina Lawreniuk, Lauren McCarthy, Reach Mony, Hengvotey So
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‘Fixing’ destitute children: The relational geography of an early twentieth century children's home through its archives Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Meghan Cope
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Reconciling impact and participation: Reflections on collaborating with specialist organisations for PhD research Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Sylvia Hayes, Chris Manktelow
Recent debates within Geography have discussed the benefits of collaborating with non-academic partners in research (e.g. Campbell & Vanderhoven, 2016, Knowledge that matters: Realising the potential of Co-production. Manchester, UK: N8 Research Partnership; Holt et al., 2019, Area, 51, 390). We discuss these debates in relation to two key concepts in Geography: Impact and Participation. In this article
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Preparing surfaces for shredding: Skateboarding, repair, and care across scales Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Duncan McDuie-Ra, Jason Campbell
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Free speech or obedient speech? Revisiting liberal speech norms in ‘closed contexts’ Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Natalie Koch
Qualitative researchers can usually discern the difference between obedient speech and fearless, critical, or oppositional speech. Yet the context in which speech acts are performed is necessarily uneven, such that the same people who might speak freely in one place are often quick to engage in obedient speech in another. Speech acts also depend on the speaker's positionality, meaning that some speakers
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Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo-liberal academy Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Matthew Gandy
In April 2022 UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) announced that all books must be open access from January 2024 onwards. If the UKRI proposals are formalised as part of the next REF (Research Excellence Framework) exercise, this will have damaging consequences for geography and other disciplines. In this commentary I argue that this is an ill-considered proposal that is already disrupting academic book
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Blurring boundaries: Researching self-tracking and body size through auto-netnography Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Olivia Fletcher
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A canal, urban sprawl and wetland loss: The case of Kozhikode, India, from colonialism to climate change era Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Anjana Bhagyanathan, Deepak Dhayanithy
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Working with the spoken word: A candid conference conversation and some original ideas Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Russell Hitchings, Alan Latham
This paper introduces the collection of nine short articles that make up the inaugural special section of the journal on ‘thinking with methods’. It begins by outlining why a fuller conversation about different ways of handling talk in human geography might be worthwhile. Then it describes a series of conference sessions in which a small group of researchers in this field came together to consider
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‘I believe in building people up’: A call for attention to asset-based community development in geographical framings of poverty in the global North Area (IF 2.057) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Stephanie Denning
This paper calls for human geographers examining poverty in the global North to attend more to asset-based community development (ABCD) poverty interventions in order to complement geographers' current foci on how people experience and respond to poverty. ABCD is a community movement that originated in the USA that emphasises principles of focusing on gifts and assets rather than deficits, and on relationships