Representation of, and service to, “underrepresented” “disadvantaged” groups often denote goals sought by leisure researchers practitioners. The motivations behind these are varied, harkening themes of social justice equity. As a potential counternarrative to motivations, the writer Teju Cole, posited “White-Savior Industrial Complex.” While originally positioned in context Western humanitarian...

The rise of the Brazilian soybean complex simultaneously tells two important stories. The first story is the classic rise of an industry due to natural resource abundance (the Cerrado) and strategic investments in agricultural technology (low-latitude soybeans). Brazil is now the second leading producer of the fastest growing broad-acre crop in the world, has unparalleled arable land reserves, ...

Process control should aim at not only ensuring that controlled variables to best follow their set points, but also requiring the optimal control for the operation of the whole plant to make the operational indices (e.g. quality, efficiency and consumptions during the production phase) into their targeted ranges. It also requires that operational indices for quality and efficiency should be enh...

In this narrative account of sleeplessness, I draw on Ball’s (2002, 2012) poststructural conceptualization quilts as social texts to explore the practice quilting a method arts-based storytelling. Through process quilting, story my experience resisting Sleep Industrial Complex. biocultural arena sleep and critique biomedical construction sleeplessness insomnia. argue that medicalization works s...

Many farmers in the developing world have limited access to agricultural technologies and markets. Mobile phone-enabled services that offer price information and market linkages could contribute towards bridging this gap by reducing uncertainty about expected profits, information asymmetries and market inefficiencies. This article uses the example of the price information and marketing service ...

The volume of wastewater generated by domestic, industrial, and commercial sources has increased with population, urbanization, improved living conditions, and economic development. The productive use of wastewater has also increased, as millions of small-scale farmers in urban and periurban areas of developing countries depend on wastewater or wastewater-polluted water sources to irrigate high...