On how much one can take: relocating exploitation and exclusion within the broader framework of allostatic load theory

Simandan, Dragos

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.08.009

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“…The allostatic load perspective implicates specific physiological processes that reflect individuals' exposures and experiences within those broader geographical scales. This theoretical integration of allostatic load and geographical theory marks an initial step toward Simandan's (2010) recent call for allostatic load research that would unify explanation across geographical scales, ranging from the body to the global political economy. Moreover, this combined perspective stretches the understanding of a riskscape to encompass a broader range of processes.…”

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“…Although women report more stressors and higher perceived stress, no study has examined the relationship between stressors, gender, and AL. Further, we know little about how stressors and gender shape AL within an environmental riskscape— such as an area with substantial environmental health risks or poor neighborhood conditions (Morello-Frosch and Shenassa, 2006; Simandan, 2010). Thus, this study is one of the first to assess the relationship between stressors, gender, and AL in the context of an environmental riskscape.…”

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Allostatic load in an environmental riskscape: The role of stressors and gender

Mair

Cutchin²,

Peek

2011

Health & Place

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Stressors are theorized to be associated with higher allostatic load (AL), a concept of physiological wear measured as a composite of physical biomarkers. Risk of high AL may vary by gender and may be intensified in places with significant environmental risks, otherwise known as ‘environmental riskscapes’. Yet, no study has examined the relationship between stressors, gender, and allostatic load in an environmental riskscape. Using primary data collected in a sample (N=1072) exposed to various environmental and social stressors, we find that long-term residence in Texas City (more than 30 years), residential proximity to petrochemical plants, perceived poor neighborhood conditions, and daily hassles are associated with higher allostatic load components. Variation in AL differs by gender and the types of biomarkers examined. Gender moderates the effect of length of residence in Texas City on cardiovascular health risk. We discuss our findings in light of current research on stressors, gender, allostatic load, and double jeopardy within environmental riskscapes.

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Allostatic load in an environmental riskscape: The role of stressors and gender

Mair

Cutchin²,

Peek

2011

Health & Place

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“…While its findings may hold for Western culture, would it not be outrageous to overgeneralise and wrongly imply (cf. Harvey 2010; Simandan 2010) that the lack of happiness of a person suffering from hunger in sub‐Saharan Africa derives merely from a negative emotional attitude?…”

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On time, place and happiness

Simandan

2011

New Zealand Geographer

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This paper crosses the borders of human geography to bring back two related bodies of work from experimental psychology that investigate, in an unusual and refreshingly precise way, long‐standing human geographical concerns with temporality, place and subject formations, meaning‐making and well‐being. It is argued that the traffic of ideas and empirical findings between human geography and experimental psychology can be mutually profitable if, and only to the extent that, it encompasses a sustained epistemological, methodological and political critique of the disciplinary practices that have yielded those ideas and findings.

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“…Yet, years after taking all my degrees in geography and becoming employed as a university teacher of geography, my earlier love of psychology re‐entered my life with a vengeance, leading to a sustained research programme situated at the intersection of these two disciplines. Indeed, ‘On time, place and happiness’ should be seen and grasped in the broader context of my recent work on evolutionary reasoning (Simandan 2007), exceptional human performance (Simandan 2008), hot cognition (Simandan 2009a), intelligence (Simandan 2009b), allostatic load (Simandan 2010a), learning environments (Simandan 2011b) and wisdom (Simandan 2011c). The purpose of writing that paper was to open up a dialogue between geographers and psychologists on a problematic of mutual interest, namely the structuring of the subjective experience of time and place as a key determinant of well‐being.…”

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“…Thus, the Comment reviews work in psychology that identifies five subtypes of implicit memory: conditioning, priming, habituation, sensitisation and procedural memory. As I have recently published a paper on allostatic load (Simandan 2010a), I have been sensitised to see the world through the eyes of a medical geographer and therefore, would add immunological memory as yet another subtype of implicit memory. Every given place is a complex ecology of humans, benign life forms and pathogens.…”

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