Theorising about human occupation

Theorising pathways to sustainability

Using a Pathways approach, controversies over environmental and natural resource management are viewed as expressions of alternative, or competing, pathways to sustainability. This supports deeper understanding of the underlying causes of natural resource management controversies. The framework is composed of two elements: the STEPS (Social, Technological, and Environmental Pathways to Sustaina...

Theorising visual management

Visual management is much used in practice, particularly in association with process improvement initiatives in diverse areas such as production and healthcare. The practitioner literature abounds with suggested best practice. However, there is little attempt to theorise about why the design and use of visual devices for such process improvement works in practice. Within this paper we describe ...

What the Language You Tweet Says About Your Occupation

Many aspects of people’s lives are proven to be deeply connected to their jobs. In this paper, we first investigate the distinct characteristics of major occupation categories based on tweets. From multiple social media platforms, we gather several types of user information. From users’ LinkedIn webpages, we learn their proficiencies. To overcome the ambiguity of self-reported information, a so...

WhyWe’re Still Arguing About the Pleistocene Occupation of the Americas

Although empirical issues surround the when, how, and who questions of New World colonization, much of current debate hinges on theoretical problems because it has become clear that our understanding of NewWorld colonization is not resolute. In fact, the central issues of debate have remained essentially unchanged for the last eighty years. The now classic and probably incorrect story of NewWor...

Theorising democracy geographically