By Levi Gahman, University of the West Indies and University of Liverpool and Gabrielle Thongs, University of the West Indies … More
Author: RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications
What waiting bodies can tell us about Singapore’s maids
By Kellynn Wee, National University of Singapore, Singapore Maid agencies frequently hit the headlines in Singapore for the most appalling … More
Planet of the fixers?
By Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland Maintenance and repair are on the agenda. In October 2018, The Economist declared … More
Taiwan Tea: Ongoing Struggles over Food Nationalism
By Po-Yi Hung and Yu-Hsiu Lien, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Local tea in Taiwan – whether traditional high mountain oolong, … More
Maybe we should all be preparing for the zombie apocalypse
by Kezia Barker, Birkbeck, University of London, UK The zombie apocalypse has become a kitsch and playful marketing tool that … More
Who dies young in a rich city? Increasingly the homeless
By Nicola Brimblecombe, Mark Green and Danny Dorling Cover Photo: Five people sleeping rough outside the School of Geography and … More
4 new features to the journals: explained
By Phil Emmerson, RGS-IBG Readers of the RGS-IBG journals may have noticed a couple of changes over the last few … More
How will China power its global urban expansion?
By Joe Williams, Durham University, UK and Caitlin Robinson, Newcastle University, UK In June 2019, a tribunal in Kenya halted … More
How you feel in the gym matters. It’s a matter of social justice.
We are bombarded with messages to ‘move more.’ Physical activity is good for us, we’re told. In the right doses, yes, meeting minimum levels of activity reduces our risk of chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes, some cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and depression, plus it helps with stress and our general quality of life.
It seems often forgotten, however, that ‘moving more’ usually means going somewhere. For many of us, that place is the gym. And gyms can be more, or less, inviting.
Comparing artificial lighting in rural UK and India.
By Robert Shaw (Newcastle University, UK) and Ankit Kumar (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL) Public lighting is widely understood as … More
