This article examines the ways in which Fflur Dafydd's 2008 novel Twenty Thousand Saints negotiat... more This article examines the ways in which Fflur Dafydd's 2008 novel Twenty Thousand Saints negotiates notions of the island space in a post-devolution Welsh context. It argues that the novel is a rich site in the analysis of the literary dimension of what Baldacchino describes as the "island-mainland […] dialectic" (Baldacchino, 2006, p. 10). Set on Bardsey, a real small island off the coast of north Wales, the novel employs a multiple-character narrative to explore and critique the various ways in which Bardsey has been constructed in the Welsh cultural imagination. In particular, the novel explores the idea of the island as a queer space. It does so in a way that posits Bardsey in dialectical relation to an ongoing, politically dynamic Welsh mainland. The article suggests that the novel can be read as a mainland appropriation of the island in the post-devolution era. Yet this is simultaneously an enabling imaginative act that confirms the power of literature to create new imaginative geographies.
This themed section of Literary Geographies emerged from a Social and Cultural Geography group sp... more This themed section of Literary Geographies emerged from a Social and Cultural Geography group sponsored session at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society (including the Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference. The session invited papers that investigated the ways in which geographies of fiction co-produce the real and imagined places around us. It invited scholars to explore the complex relations which produce the 'geography of fiction' (Piatti & Hurni 2011:218), specifically the ways through which page and place are co-produced in reading and writing practice. In using the term 'geography of fiction', Barbara Piatti and Lorenz Hurni write in the tradition of Franco Moretti (1998); they are interested in how we cartographically produce the imagined world of fictional texts. Here we use 'geography of fiction' to initiate a different journey into the fields of literary geography and literary studies. Our journey is less concerned with cartographically rendering the fictional world and more interested in examining how the real and imagined come together and brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk
Over recent years literary geography has adopted a relational approach to its subject matter. Thi... more Over recent years literary geography has adopted a relational approach to its subject matter. This article continues this move, suggesting that assemblage theory can help develop the sub-discipline in two interrelated ways. Firstly, at a project level, assemblage theory enables literary geographers to identify all components that have agency and influence on fiction (including authors, translators, publishers, readers, places, etc.). As part of this first argument, the article develops Hones' concept of reading fiction as a 'spatial event' (Hones 2008, 2014). This article interacts with Hones' textual 'happening' to emphasise the valency of fiction on 'extra-textual' geographies. It offers a short case study from the work of novelist Tessa Hadley to illustrate this valency. Secondly, at the sub-disciplinary level, the article argues that assemblage theory may offer a common ground which allows scholars from both literary and geographical positions to ...
Literary geography is now a remarkably mobile interdiscipline. W hile celebrating the advances in... more Literary geography is now a remarkably mobile interdiscipline. W hile celebrating the advances in understanding enabled by such intellectual and methodological agility, this Thinking Space paper argues that we ought, at the same time, to keep in mind Edward Said’s observations on the matter of ‘traveling theory’, and to employ a critical reflexivity when applying abstract theories across heterogeneous spaces and contexts. It argues that the national scale deserves further attention as a material and imaginative locus of human, spatial and literary interactivity.
e a d vis e d t o c o n s ul t t h e p u blis h e r's v e r sio n if yo u wi s h t o cit e t hi s... more e a d vis e d t o c o n s ul t t h e p u blis h e r's v e r sio n if yo u wi s h t o cit e t hi s p a p er. Thi s v e r sio n is b ei n g m a d e a v ail a bl e in a c c o r d a n c e wit h p u blis h e r p olici e s. S e e h t t p://o r c a. cf. a c. u k/ p olici e s. h t ml fo r u s a g e p olici e s. Co py ri g h t a n d m o r al ri g h t s fo r p u blic a tio n s m a d e a v ail a bl e in ORCA a r e r e t ai n e d by t h e c o py ri g h t h ol d e r s. This is a pre-copy-editing, author produced PDF of an article accepted following peer review for publication in Tourism Geographies.
por me ter acolhido na sua sala e pelo apoio prestado. Às crianças do 4º ano 2 da Escola EB1/PE d... more por me ter acolhido na sua sala e pelo apoio prestado. Às crianças do 4º ano 2 da Escola EB1/PE do Galeão, pela partilha de conhecimentos e por estreitarem laços que irão perdurar. Às colegas de curso com quem trabalhei, principalmente, à Paula Alves e à Tatiana Camacho, pela entreajuda e ânimo constantes. À Andreia Garcês, porque em tantos momentos partilhou angústias e alegrias, pelo companheirismo, apoio, confiança e amizade. À Maribel Mendes, porque na sua ausência está sempre bem perto. Ao Bruno Marques, pelo carinho e compreensão constantes, a minha eterna gratidão. Aos meus sobrinhos, porque me transportam para outro mundo, onde existe amor, alegria e imaginação. Às minhas irmãs, minhas professoras da vida, porque sempre me abriram o caminho… Aos meus pais, por todo o amor e porque sem eles nada seria possível. Obrigada. O relatório de estágio de mestrado foi elaborado para a obtenção do grau de mestre em Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. Reflete as experiências e vivências do desenrolar da intervenção pedagógica com um grupo de crianças do 4º ano de escolaridade da Escola Básica do 1º Ciclo com Pré-Escolar (EB1/PE) do Galeão. O corpus teórico deste trabalho foca a sua atenção numa atitude docente reflexiva e investigativa aliada à construção da identidade profissional. Salienta-se, também, todo o trajeto metodológico, norteado pela investigação-ação, que procurou orientar a praxis. Neste relatório expõe-se informações relativas aos contextos e caraterísticas das crianças, de onde se parte para a apresentação do percurso de ação pedagógica, centralizada no trabalho cooperativo e preocupada com a diferenciação pedagógica, com vista a responder às questões investigativas, que formaram a essência deste estudo. Palavras-chave: intervenção pedagógica, 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, investigação-ação, cooperação, diferenciação pedagógica, identidade.
This paper explores what happens to the identity of self when entering a place of protest, and wh... more This paper explores what happens to the identity of self when entering a place of protest, and what happens to it on leaving. In short, it explores the relations between identities of self and place. Acknowledging the presence of a multiplicity of identities in relation to both notions, it examines the ways in which aspects of the self influence place, and conversely, how aspects of place influence the self. By using empirical examples from Environmental Direct Action, the paper follows Casey in arguing for the co-constitution of self-and place-identities. It offers two notions: the spatial division of self-identity, and the rhizomatic self, to further understanding of how the where effects whom we are.
Over recent years social scientists have acknowledged the agency and affect of non human entities... more Over recent years social scientists have acknowledged the agency and affect of non human entities and processes on human life. In a sense, this is an increasingly sophisticated and nuanced exploration of a process that human geographers have built their discipline upon: the influence of ‘place’ on the human condition. This paper seeks to frame these explorations by introducing the notion of ‘place salience’. ‘Place salience’ indicates the precarious yet fundamental relations between human beings and their more than human geographies. This conceptualisation celebrates a flat ontology and considers the non-human as crucial part of the complexity that governs these relations. The paper draws on empirical examples from humans with Tourette syndrome - individuals that can be framed as humans with a heightened sensitivity to illustrate the ways in which the different aspects of place (material, social, and particularly the non human) become salient for different people at different times....
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2013
ABSTRACT Geography emphasises the spatial influence on human identity; however, this influence is... more ABSTRACT Geography emphasises the spatial influence on human identity; however, this influence is often seen as exclusively terrestrial in nature. This paper focuses on a group of individuals for whom geographical identity is both terrestrial and littoral in constitution. It introduces how surfers’ identities are not only defined by the terrestrial co-ingredience of the shores that support their surfing activity, but also by the littoral space of the surf zone itself. However, due to advances in transport, communication and surf forecasting, surfers are increasingly global in their search for waves. The paper goes on to demonstrate the effect of this mobility on surfer identity. It outlines how mobility dislocates surfer identity from its ‘surf-shore’ moorings and produces in its place a routed but rootless ‘trans-local’ surf identity. The paper examines the tensions and contradictions that arise between these spatially divided surfing practices before commenting on how surfers’ shared affiliation to the littoral zone may offer the potential to reconcile them.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2011
The individual has been cast as both the source of and solution to many contemporary environmenta... more The individual has been cast as both the source of and solution to many contemporary environmental problems. Although some individuals may display concern for the environment, actions are undertaken within a societal context that is often ambivalent to environmental issues. To 'become green', therefore, individuals have to negotiate a range of trade-offs between their environmental aspirations and the realities of life in a developed, consumer-based society. This paper draws on extensive field work at one site at which individuals have explicitly sought to manage these trade-offs-the Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales, UK. It argues that two distinct strategies are adopted to manage the tensions involved in becoming green: a 'strategy of segregation'-where professional practices are separated from personal actions to establish balance, if not consistency, in everyday life; and a 'strategy of alignment'-where (unsuccessful) attempts are made to unify personal and professional practices in line with environmental ideals. This paper outlines how the inability of these strategies to fully reconcile the tensions involved in becoming green has led to a 'politics of pragmatism' within environmental practice. It argues that this politics offers a way forward for contemporary environmentalism, both within 'ecotopian' spaces such as the Centre for Alternative Technology, but also in more mainstream spaces where the majority live their lives. key words environmentalism sustainability individual identity Centre for Alternative Technology practice citizen-consumer
This paper explores the consequences of mobility for those engaged in longdistance, high-speed tr... more This paper explores the consequences of mobility for those engaged in longdistance, high-speed travel. It reclaims the notion of jet lag and repositions it as the broader phenomenon of 'travel disorientation' which involves geographical dislocation, circadian disruption, psychological disorientation and cultural displacement. It is through this temporary disorientation that long-haul travellers experience heightened awareness to difference, increased capacity to witness and an inability to control physical and affective capabilities. The paper identifies the need to explore these provisional worlds of experience and to this end introduces the notion of 'the state' as a way to conceptualise the conditions that join us to and define our relations with the world.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to the debate over the potential of film as a pedagogical aid. It... more ABSTRACT This study contributes to the debate over the potential of film as a pedagogical aid. It argues that integrating film production into the assessment of undergraduate modules secures advantages for student learning: students connect their ideas more explicitly to “real world” examples; new voices and understandings are introduced to communication, and broader skills in storyboarding, narration and digital technologies are developed. The use of film also emphasizes the need for a holistic marking strategy to capture the creativity encouraged by this medium. The study suggests that integrating film into assessment offers a “eureka” moment in the student learning experience.
Film as a tool for learning offers considerable opportunity for enhancing student understanding. ... more Film as a tool for learning offers considerable opportunity for enhancing student understanding. This paper reflects on the experiences of a project that required students to make a short film demonstrating their practical understanding of qualitative methods. In the psychogeographical tradition, students were asked to ‘drift’ across the urban environment and record their own experiences of the places encountered. The
The Wiley-Blackwell companion to cultural geography, edited by Nuala C. Johnson, Richard H. Schei... more The Wiley-Blackwell companion to cultural geography, edited by Nuala C. Johnson, Richard H. Schein and Jamie Winders, West Sussex, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2013, xiv + 554 pp., US$195.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-47065559-7 Wiley-Blackwell's Companions series spans human geography, offering "authoritative" syntheses of research in a dozen fields from economics to tourism to environmental geographies. The Companion to Cultural Geography occupies a central site in this landscape, and aims to give an "up-to-date and substantive analysis" of theoretical and empirical matters of concern that make up contemporary (Anglophone) cultural geography. Consequently, it acts both as a valuable introduction to the field and a snapshot of the state of cultural geography. The Companion's chapters are divided into an introduction, a series of six "theoretical dispatches," and four thematic sections: Foundations, Landscapes, Nature/Cultures, and Circulations/Networks/Fixities. These move from cultural geography's core concepts to its new directions and developments. Interestingly, the editors feel that there is little need for an introduction to cultural geography. Whereas the first edition (Duncan et al. 2004) featured three introductory chapters detailing the multiple lineages of cultural geography, this collection consciously looks to the future. In the spirit of much of the work included in the volume, the editors try to hold on to, rather than reduce, the pluralism of contemporary cultural geography. The book's 41 essays fulfill its aim of combining substantive analysis and authoritative overview with a view to the future. They cover a broad range of theoretical and empirical work, and chapters on objects, the body, animal geographies, and the Anthropocene capture an increased focus on materiality, embodiment, and more-than-human geographies since the previous edition. Many of these essays will be invaluable to researchers and students, not least for their extensive bibliographies, but some merit particular mention. These include those that engage with emerging areas of empirical focus and social change--for example, Matthew Sparks' essay considers how cultural geography can contribute to understanding, and learn from, global Occupy activism. Others make creative use of the book's essay format. Among these are Caitlin DeSilvey's "geobiography" of granite bookends, which is used to structure an introduction to cultural geographic discussions of materiality and "potent objects." Ian Cook leads a band of 11 authors in a blog-developed tour of the geographies of food that engages with its subject and its reader. It is a contribution that opens up the performative aspects of food and the performance of cultural geography itself, and that extends beyond the book to encompass 40,000 words of ideas and debate (http://foodculturalgeographies. …
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Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2013
It has become commonplace to describe new social movements as ‘rhizomic’ in form, yet the full im... more It has become commonplace to describe new social movements as ‘rhizomic’ in form, yet the full implications of this metaphor are rarely teased out, and the corollary that other political organisations are arborescent in form has been largely neglected in social science research. In this paper we employ Deleuze and Guattari's concept of rhizomic and arborescent assemblages to theorise a transition in the practice of political representation, drawing on an empirical study of British rural politics. We outline the principles of arborescent political assemblages, associated with traditional forms of political organisation, and the principles of rhizomic politics, associated with new social movements and protest activity. However, we proceed to argue that the binary opposition of arborescent and rhizomic forms of political assemblage is misleading, and contend that the spatial strategies associated with the state as an arborescent machine are critical to understanding both the lines ...
This paper explores the potential of the written word to evoke emotional engagement with place. T... more This paper explores the potential of the written word to evoke emotional engagement with place. Through focussing on the relational sensibilities created through the act of surfing, the paper seeks to explore how these emotions are articulated by surfers in order to share their feelings with others. In doing so it draws attention to the 'intersubjective space' (after Thrift, 1996) between writer and reader and its potential to overcome the paradox of representation. In this space the written word has the potential to combine with readers' own experiences, however indirect or tangential, to create a currency of communicated lived experience. In this space, knowledge of surfing is co-created by writer and reader (or by surfer and non-surfer) and becomes freighted with empathic resonance. In order to explore whether the potential of this space can be realised, the paper presents examples of surf writing which seek to communicate the relational sensibility of surfing and asks the reader: can 'only a surfer know the feeling'?
... Davidson, J. and Milligan, C. 2004. Editorial embodying emotion sensing space: Introducing em... more ... Davidson, J. and Milligan, C. 2004. Editorial embodying emotion sensing space: Introducing emotional geographies. Social and Cultural Geography , 5(4): 523532. ... View all references,Qvortrup 199450. Qvortrup, J. 1994. Childhood matters. ...
This article examines the ways in which Fflur Dafydd's 2008 novel Twenty Thousand Saints negotiat... more This article examines the ways in which Fflur Dafydd's 2008 novel Twenty Thousand Saints negotiates notions of the island space in a post-devolution Welsh context. It argues that the novel is a rich site in the analysis of the literary dimension of what Baldacchino describes as the "island-mainland […] dialectic" (Baldacchino, 2006, p. 10). Set on Bardsey, a real small island off the coast of north Wales, the novel employs a multiple-character narrative to explore and critique the various ways in which Bardsey has been constructed in the Welsh cultural imagination. In particular, the novel explores the idea of the island as a queer space. It does so in a way that posits Bardsey in dialectical relation to an ongoing, politically dynamic Welsh mainland. The article suggests that the novel can be read as a mainland appropriation of the island in the post-devolution era. Yet this is simultaneously an enabling imaginative act that confirms the power of literature to create new imaginative geographies.
This themed section of Literary Geographies emerged from a Social and Cultural Geography group sp... more This themed section of Literary Geographies emerged from a Social and Cultural Geography group sponsored session at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society (including the Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference. The session invited papers that investigated the ways in which geographies of fiction co-produce the real and imagined places around us. It invited scholars to explore the complex relations which produce the 'geography of fiction' (Piatti & Hurni 2011:218), specifically the ways through which page and place are co-produced in reading and writing practice. In using the term 'geography of fiction', Barbara Piatti and Lorenz Hurni write in the tradition of Franco Moretti (1998); they are interested in how we cartographically produce the imagined world of fictional texts. Here we use 'geography of fiction' to initiate a different journey into the fields of literary geography and literary studies. Our journey is less concerned with cartographically rendering the fictional world and more interested in examining how the real and imagined come together and brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk
Over recent years literary geography has adopted a relational approach to its subject matter. Thi... more Over recent years literary geography has adopted a relational approach to its subject matter. This article continues this move, suggesting that assemblage theory can help develop the sub-discipline in two interrelated ways. Firstly, at a project level, assemblage theory enables literary geographers to identify all components that have agency and influence on fiction (including authors, translators, publishers, readers, places, etc.). As part of this first argument, the article develops Hones' concept of reading fiction as a 'spatial event' (Hones 2008, 2014). This article interacts with Hones' textual 'happening' to emphasise the valency of fiction on 'extra-textual' geographies. It offers a short case study from the work of novelist Tessa Hadley to illustrate this valency. Secondly, at the sub-disciplinary level, the article argues that assemblage theory may offer a common ground which allows scholars from both literary and geographical positions to ...
Literary geography is now a remarkably mobile interdiscipline. W hile celebrating the advances in... more Literary geography is now a remarkably mobile interdiscipline. W hile celebrating the advances in understanding enabled by such intellectual and methodological agility, this Thinking Space paper argues that we ought, at the same time, to keep in mind Edward Said’s observations on the matter of ‘traveling theory’, and to employ a critical reflexivity when applying abstract theories across heterogeneous spaces and contexts. It argues that the national scale deserves further attention as a material and imaginative locus of human, spatial and literary interactivity.
e a d vis e d t o c o n s ul t t h e p u blis h e r's v e r sio n if yo u wi s h t o cit e t hi s... more e a d vis e d t o c o n s ul t t h e p u blis h e r's v e r sio n if yo u wi s h t o cit e t hi s p a p er. Thi s v e r sio n is b ei n g m a d e a v ail a bl e in a c c o r d a n c e wit h p u blis h e r p olici e s. S e e h t t p://o r c a. cf. a c. u k/ p olici e s. h t ml fo r u s a g e p olici e s. Co py ri g h t a n d m o r al ri g h t s fo r p u blic a tio n s m a d e a v ail a bl e in ORCA a r e r e t ai n e d by t h e c o py ri g h t h ol d e r s. This is a pre-copy-editing, author produced PDF of an article accepted following peer review for publication in Tourism Geographies.
por me ter acolhido na sua sala e pelo apoio prestado. Às crianças do 4º ano 2 da Escola EB1/PE d... more por me ter acolhido na sua sala e pelo apoio prestado. Às crianças do 4º ano 2 da Escola EB1/PE do Galeão, pela partilha de conhecimentos e por estreitarem laços que irão perdurar. Às colegas de curso com quem trabalhei, principalmente, à Paula Alves e à Tatiana Camacho, pela entreajuda e ânimo constantes. À Andreia Garcês, porque em tantos momentos partilhou angústias e alegrias, pelo companheirismo, apoio, confiança e amizade. À Maribel Mendes, porque na sua ausência está sempre bem perto. Ao Bruno Marques, pelo carinho e compreensão constantes, a minha eterna gratidão. Aos meus sobrinhos, porque me transportam para outro mundo, onde existe amor, alegria e imaginação. Às minhas irmãs, minhas professoras da vida, porque sempre me abriram o caminho… Aos meus pais, por todo o amor e porque sem eles nada seria possível. Obrigada. O relatório de estágio de mestrado foi elaborado para a obtenção do grau de mestre em Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. Reflete as experiências e vivências do desenrolar da intervenção pedagógica com um grupo de crianças do 4º ano de escolaridade da Escola Básica do 1º Ciclo com Pré-Escolar (EB1/PE) do Galeão. O corpus teórico deste trabalho foca a sua atenção numa atitude docente reflexiva e investigativa aliada à construção da identidade profissional. Salienta-se, também, todo o trajeto metodológico, norteado pela investigação-ação, que procurou orientar a praxis. Neste relatório expõe-se informações relativas aos contextos e caraterísticas das crianças, de onde se parte para a apresentação do percurso de ação pedagógica, centralizada no trabalho cooperativo e preocupada com a diferenciação pedagógica, com vista a responder às questões investigativas, que formaram a essência deste estudo. Palavras-chave: intervenção pedagógica, 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, investigação-ação, cooperação, diferenciação pedagógica, identidade.
This paper explores what happens to the identity of self when entering a place of protest, and wh... more This paper explores what happens to the identity of self when entering a place of protest, and what happens to it on leaving. In short, it explores the relations between identities of self and place. Acknowledging the presence of a multiplicity of identities in relation to both notions, it examines the ways in which aspects of the self influence place, and conversely, how aspects of place influence the self. By using empirical examples from Environmental Direct Action, the paper follows Casey in arguing for the co-constitution of self-and place-identities. It offers two notions: the spatial division of self-identity, and the rhizomatic self, to further understanding of how the where effects whom we are.
Over recent years social scientists have acknowledged the agency and affect of non human entities... more Over recent years social scientists have acknowledged the agency and affect of non human entities and processes on human life. In a sense, this is an increasingly sophisticated and nuanced exploration of a process that human geographers have built their discipline upon: the influence of ‘place’ on the human condition. This paper seeks to frame these explorations by introducing the notion of ‘place salience’. ‘Place salience’ indicates the precarious yet fundamental relations between human beings and their more than human geographies. This conceptualisation celebrates a flat ontology and considers the non-human as crucial part of the complexity that governs these relations. The paper draws on empirical examples from humans with Tourette syndrome - individuals that can be framed as humans with a heightened sensitivity to illustrate the ways in which the different aspects of place (material, social, and particularly the non human) become salient for different people at different times....
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2013
ABSTRACT Geography emphasises the spatial influence on human identity; however, this influence is... more ABSTRACT Geography emphasises the spatial influence on human identity; however, this influence is often seen as exclusively terrestrial in nature. This paper focuses on a group of individuals for whom geographical identity is both terrestrial and littoral in constitution. It introduces how surfers’ identities are not only defined by the terrestrial co-ingredience of the shores that support their surfing activity, but also by the littoral space of the surf zone itself. However, due to advances in transport, communication and surf forecasting, surfers are increasingly global in their search for waves. The paper goes on to demonstrate the effect of this mobility on surfer identity. It outlines how mobility dislocates surfer identity from its ‘surf-shore’ moorings and produces in its place a routed but rootless ‘trans-local’ surf identity. The paper examines the tensions and contradictions that arise between these spatially divided surfing practices before commenting on how surfers’ shared affiliation to the littoral zone may offer the potential to reconcile them.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2011
The individual has been cast as both the source of and solution to many contemporary environmenta... more The individual has been cast as both the source of and solution to many contemporary environmental problems. Although some individuals may display concern for the environment, actions are undertaken within a societal context that is often ambivalent to environmental issues. To 'become green', therefore, individuals have to negotiate a range of trade-offs between their environmental aspirations and the realities of life in a developed, consumer-based society. This paper draws on extensive field work at one site at which individuals have explicitly sought to manage these trade-offs-the Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales, UK. It argues that two distinct strategies are adopted to manage the tensions involved in becoming green: a 'strategy of segregation'-where professional practices are separated from personal actions to establish balance, if not consistency, in everyday life; and a 'strategy of alignment'-where (unsuccessful) attempts are made to unify personal and professional practices in line with environmental ideals. This paper outlines how the inability of these strategies to fully reconcile the tensions involved in becoming green has led to a 'politics of pragmatism' within environmental practice. It argues that this politics offers a way forward for contemporary environmentalism, both within 'ecotopian' spaces such as the Centre for Alternative Technology, but also in more mainstream spaces where the majority live their lives. key words environmentalism sustainability individual identity Centre for Alternative Technology practice citizen-consumer
This paper explores the consequences of mobility for those engaged in longdistance, high-speed tr... more This paper explores the consequences of mobility for those engaged in longdistance, high-speed travel. It reclaims the notion of jet lag and repositions it as the broader phenomenon of 'travel disorientation' which involves geographical dislocation, circadian disruption, psychological disorientation and cultural displacement. It is through this temporary disorientation that long-haul travellers experience heightened awareness to difference, increased capacity to witness and an inability to control physical and affective capabilities. The paper identifies the need to explore these provisional worlds of experience and to this end introduces the notion of 'the state' as a way to conceptualise the conditions that join us to and define our relations with the world.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to the debate over the potential of film as a pedagogical aid. It... more ABSTRACT This study contributes to the debate over the potential of film as a pedagogical aid. It argues that integrating film production into the assessment of undergraduate modules secures advantages for student learning: students connect their ideas more explicitly to “real world” examples; new voices and understandings are introduced to communication, and broader skills in storyboarding, narration and digital technologies are developed. The use of film also emphasizes the need for a holistic marking strategy to capture the creativity encouraged by this medium. The study suggests that integrating film into assessment offers a “eureka” moment in the student learning experience.
Film as a tool for learning offers considerable opportunity for enhancing student understanding. ... more Film as a tool for learning offers considerable opportunity for enhancing student understanding. This paper reflects on the experiences of a project that required students to make a short film demonstrating their practical understanding of qualitative methods. In the psychogeographical tradition, students were asked to ‘drift’ across the urban environment and record their own experiences of the places encountered. The
The Wiley-Blackwell companion to cultural geography, edited by Nuala C. Johnson, Richard H. Schei... more The Wiley-Blackwell companion to cultural geography, edited by Nuala C. Johnson, Richard H. Schein and Jamie Winders, West Sussex, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2013, xiv + 554 pp., US$195.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-47065559-7 Wiley-Blackwell's Companions series spans human geography, offering "authoritative" syntheses of research in a dozen fields from economics to tourism to environmental geographies. The Companion to Cultural Geography occupies a central site in this landscape, and aims to give an "up-to-date and substantive analysis" of theoretical and empirical matters of concern that make up contemporary (Anglophone) cultural geography. Consequently, it acts both as a valuable introduction to the field and a snapshot of the state of cultural geography. The Companion's chapters are divided into an introduction, a series of six "theoretical dispatches," and four thematic sections: Foundations, Landscapes, Nature/Cultures, and Circulations/Networks/Fixities. These move from cultural geography's core concepts to its new directions and developments. Interestingly, the editors feel that there is little need for an introduction to cultural geography. Whereas the first edition (Duncan et al. 2004) featured three introductory chapters detailing the multiple lineages of cultural geography, this collection consciously looks to the future. In the spirit of much of the work included in the volume, the editors try to hold on to, rather than reduce, the pluralism of contemporary cultural geography. The book's 41 essays fulfill its aim of combining substantive analysis and authoritative overview with a view to the future. They cover a broad range of theoretical and empirical work, and chapters on objects, the body, animal geographies, and the Anthropocene capture an increased focus on materiality, embodiment, and more-than-human geographies since the previous edition. Many of these essays will be invaluable to researchers and students, not least for their extensive bibliographies, but some merit particular mention. These include those that engage with emerging areas of empirical focus and social change--for example, Matthew Sparks' essay considers how cultural geography can contribute to understanding, and learn from, global Occupy activism. Others make creative use of the book's essay format. Among these are Caitlin DeSilvey's "geobiography" of granite bookends, which is used to structure an introduction to cultural geographic discussions of materiality and "potent objects." Ian Cook leads a band of 11 authors in a blog-developed tour of the geographies of food that engages with its subject and its reader. It is a contribution that opens up the performative aspects of food and the performance of cultural geography itself, and that extends beyond the book to encompass 40,000 words of ideas and debate (http://foodculturalgeographies. …
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It has become commonplace to describe new social movements as ‘rhizomic’ in form, yet the full im... more It has become commonplace to describe new social movements as ‘rhizomic’ in form, yet the full implications of this metaphor are rarely teased out, and the corollary that other political organisations are arborescent in form has been largely neglected in social science research. In this paper we employ Deleuze and Guattari's concept of rhizomic and arborescent assemblages to theorise a transition in the practice of political representation, drawing on an empirical study of British rural politics. We outline the principles of arborescent political assemblages, associated with traditional forms of political organisation, and the principles of rhizomic politics, associated with new social movements and protest activity. However, we proceed to argue that the binary opposition of arborescent and rhizomic forms of political assemblage is misleading, and contend that the spatial strategies associated with the state as an arborescent machine are critical to understanding both the lines ...
This paper explores the potential of the written word to evoke emotional engagement with place. T... more This paper explores the potential of the written word to evoke emotional engagement with place. Through focussing on the relational sensibilities created through the act of surfing, the paper seeks to explore how these emotions are articulated by surfers in order to share their feelings with others. In doing so it draws attention to the 'intersubjective space' (after Thrift, 1996) between writer and reader and its potential to overcome the paradox of representation. In this space the written word has the potential to combine with readers' own experiences, however indirect or tangential, to create a currency of communicated lived experience. In this space, knowledge of surfing is co-created by writer and reader (or by surfer and non-surfer) and becomes freighted with empathic resonance. In order to explore whether the potential of this space can be realised, the paper presents examples of surf writing which seek to communicate the relational sensibility of surfing and asks the reader: can 'only a surfer know the feeling'?
... Davidson, J. and Milligan, C. 2004. Editorial embodying emotion sensing space: Introducing em... more ... Davidson, J. and Milligan, C. 2004. Editorial embodying emotion sensing space: Introducing emotional geographies. Social and Cultural Geography , 5(4): 523532. ... View all references,Qvortrup 199450. Qvortrup, J. 1994. Childhood matters. ...
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