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\"Even before 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis. Since then it has reached new heights. Loneliness assumes many forms, from enduring physical isolation to feeling rejected because of difference, and it can have devastating consequences for our physical and mental health. As the founder of Project UnLonely, Jeremy Nobel unpacks our personal and national experience of loneliness to discover its roots and take steps to find comfort and connection. Dr. Nobel leverages many voices, from pioneering researchers, to leaders in business, education, the arts, and health care, to the lived experience of lonely people of every age, background, and circumstance. He discovers that the pandemic isolated us in ways that were not only physical, and that, at its core, a true sense of loneliness results from a disconnection to the self. He clarifies how meaningful reconnection can be nourished and sustained. And he reveals that an important component of the healing process is engaging in creativity. Make things! Supportive, clear-eyed, and comforting, this is the book we will take into our new normal and rely on for years to come\"-- Provided by publisher.

Inadequate public transportation was recognized as a barrier to social participation, especially for older adults in rural communities and with mobility issues. Older adults will not benefit from opportunities to engage with their community and maintain social networks if they are unable to access them. The purpose of this scoping review was to make recommendations for further research and to summarize areas for improvement identified in the literature that will aid in the development of public transportation initiatives that can better address social isolation for older adults (≥ 55 years of age). Nineteen articles met the inclusion criteria, identifying themes of access to rural public transportation, issues with public transportation, and mobility. In practice, older adults need to prepare for driving cessation and mobility transitions; sound policy requires input to tailor transportation initiatives to an aging population, and future research should explore older adults’ transportation needs and potential solutions in urban and rural communities.

This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship.

\"Skalde writes her thoughts on pieces of paper, making new discoveries and revelations, and finding scraps with which to understand her limited world. Her mother Edith tells her little, preferring the solitude of her room. Their house is full of silence, and secrets. Skalde has only ever known life in the territory, a terrain of farms and forest cut off from the rest of the world. They are isolated further, as decades since Edith's arrival in the territory she is still viewed as an outsider by their remaining neighbors. A heavy fog hangs over the territory, Skalde has never seen blue in the sky her entire childhood-- but one day the fog dissipates, and is replaced by an oppressive, perpetual heat. The territory dries out, and its people become increasingly erratic, and desperate. When Skalde finds a girl called Meisis in the forest, Skalde instantly feels she must care for her and brings her in. They form a family unit, in spite of Skalde's increasing frustrations and anger with Edith and the urgent need to keep Meisis hidden. Meisis's presence means there has been a serious breach in security for the territory, and once discovered, Meisis will be blamed for other, more deadly anomalies.\"-- Provided by publisher

Cabin fever occurs at sea, on land, in the air, in space. Principally, it occurs in our minds. This book examines 'cabin fever' in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the greatest confinement of people to their homes in history. It provides a timely account of the threat of cabin fever during lockdown.

Exploring the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditations Part personal memoir, part philosophical reflection and written in the midst of the pandemic in 2021, The World Is Gone employs the Robinson Crusoe fable to launch an existential investigation of the effects of extreme isolation, profound boredom, nightly insomnia.

The associations between adolescents' screen use and socioemotional well-being have been long contested. Advancing the presently discrepant literature base requires researchers to consider nuances by assessing how associations vary across specific forms of digital media use and in the context of social isolation and demographic characteristics. This cross-sectional study of Canadian youth (Mage = 14.2 years, n = 946, 60.15% female) examined the links between time spent on different digital activities, mental health symptoms, and experiences of social isolation as a complex system of interdependent constructs via psychometric network analysis. Models were constructed for the full sample and subgroups based on age, gender, and subjective socioeconomic status. The results indicated that the strongest associations emerged between mental health and feelings of social isolation across network models. Nonetheless, youth who spent more time watching TV/movies/videos/live streams and searching the internet reported higher feelings of social isolation, while gaming was related to less irritability, nervousness, and loneliness. Higher social media use for connecting with others was associated with lower feelings of social isolation but worse mood and more irritability. Some associations differed between models across preadolescents (ages 9-12) and adolescents (ages 13-18), highlighting developmental differences. These findings suggest a need to examine the contexts of media use and point to the importance of helping youth establish healthy digital media use patterns by encouraging activities that bolster social connections and balancing them with offline experiences. Les associations entre l'utilisation des écrans par les adolescents et le bien-être socio-émotionnel ont longtemps été controversées. Afin d'aller au-delà des divergences dans la recherche publiée, les chercheurs doivent tenir compte des nuances en évaluant la manière dont les associations varient en fonction des formes spécifiques d'utilisation des médias numériques et dans le contexte de l'isolement social et des caractéristiques démographiques. Cette étude transversale menée auprès de jeunes Canadiens (âge M = 14,2 ans, n = 946, 60,15 % de femmes) visait à examiner les liens entre le temps consacré à différentes activités numériques, les symptômes de santé mentale et l'isolement social en tant que système complexe de constructions interdépendantes par l'intermédiaire d'une analyse psychométrique en réseaux. Des modèles ont été construits pour l'ensemble de l'échantillon et pour des sous-groupes en fonction de l'âge, du sexe et du statut socioéconomique subjectif. Les résultats font apparaître les associations les plus solides plus entre la santé mentale et le sentiment d'isolement social à travers les modèles de réseaux. Toutefois, les jeunes qui passaient plus de temps à regarder la télévision, des films, des vidéos et (ou) des flux en direct et à naviguer sur Internet faisaient état d'un sentiment d'isolement social accru; ceux qui jouaient à des jeux vidéo de leur côté disaient ressentir moins d'irritabilité, de nervosité et de solitude. Si l'utilisation plus constante des médias sociaux pour entrer en contact avec d'autres personnes était associée à un sentiment d'isolement social, elle était cependant rattachée à une humeur détériorée et à une plus grande irritabilité. Certaines associations variaient entre les modèles selon l'âge des sujets (préadolescents, 9 à 12 ans, ou adolescents, 13 à 18 ans), ce qui a permis de mettre en évidence certains aspects du développement. Ces résultats soulignent la nécessité d'examiner les contextes d'utilisation des médias ainsi que l'importance d'aider les jeunes à établir de saines habitudes d'utilisation des médias numériques en encourageant les activités qui renforcent les rapports sociaux et favorisent les expériences hors ligne. Public Significance Statement Young people may feel socially isolated or experience mental health challenges when they use technology. This study showed that these effects are small and depend on the kinds of activities that youth do on screens. The relationships between using media, mental health symptoms, and social isolation are also slightly different for preteens compared to teens.

The questions of when and how humans reached Sahul, the Pleistocene continent of Australia and New Guinea, has remained a central issue of Australian archaeology since its development as an academic discipline in the mid-twentieth century. Modelling this event has persistently appealed to minimal assumptions–the simplest watercraft, the shortest routes, the smallest viable colonising groups. This paper argues that Australian archaeology can no longer ignore the way our understanding of this initial colonisation is being reshaped by current genomic research. It reviews this evidence and concludes that a colonising wave of hundreds or perhaps low thousands of people was involved. If correct, it suggests that we need to rethink our models, modify or discard the minimalist assumptions that have so far driven them and consider how this different paradigm affects our understanding of early settlement in Sahul. La question de savoir quand et comment les hommes ont atteint Sahul, le continent pléistocène regroupant l’Australie et la Nouvelle-Guinée, persiste comme une problématique centrale de l’archéologie australienne depuis son essor en tant que discipline universitaire au milieu du vingtième siècle. La modélisation de cet événement s’est appuyée de façon récurrente sur des présupposés minimalistes, impliquant les moyens de navigation les plus simples, les routes les plus courtes, les groupes de colonisation viable les plus restreints. Ce papier soutient que l’archéologie australienne ne peut plus ignorer combien notre compréhension de ce peuplement initial se trouve aujourd’hui redéfinie par la recherche génomique en cours. Il passe en revue les données et conclue que plusieurs centaines ou quelques milliers de personnes ont participé à cette vague de peuplement. Si cette hypothèse est correcte, elle implique que nous repensions nos modèles, que nous modifiions ou abandonnions les présupposés minimalistes qui ont jusqu’à présent défini ceux-ci et que nous analysions comment ce nouveau paradigme influence notre compréhension du premier peuplement de Sahul.

This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture and its accredited researcher, the Participant Observer. Buzard reads the great nineteenth-century novels of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and others as \"metropolitan autoethnographies\" that began to exercise and test the ethnographic imagination decades in advance of formal modern ethnography--and that did so while focusing on Western European rather than on distant Oriental subjects. Disorienting Fictionshows how English Victorian novels appropriated and anglicized an autoethnographic mode of fiction developed early in the nineteenth century by the Irish authors of theNational Taleand, most influentially, by Walter Scott. Buzard demonstrates that whereas the fiction of these non-English British subjects devoted itself to describing and defending (but also inventing) the cultural autonomy of peripheral regions, the English novels that followed them worked to imagine limited and mappable versions of English or British culture in reaction against the potential evacuation of cultural distinctiveness threatened by Britain's own commercial and imperial expansion. These latter novels attempted to forestall the self-incurred liabilities of a nation whose unprecedented reach and power tempted it to universalize and export its own customs, to treat them as simply equivalent to a globally applicable civilization. For many Victorian novelists, a nation facing the prospect of being able to go and to exercise its influence just about anywhere in the world also faced the danger of turning itself into a cultural nowhere. The complex autoethnographic work of nineteenth-century British novels was thus a labor to disorient or de-globalize British national imaginings, and novelists mobilized and freighted with new significance some basic elements of prose narrative in their efforts to write British culture into being. Sure to provoke debate, this book offers a commanding reassessment of a major moment in the history of British literature.