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I reflect on the methodological challenges of undertaking oral history research that attempts to address issues of security and violence that occurred in the past. When such issues become entangled with individual (and group) senses of identity and autobiography, there are challenges to do with nostalgia, forgetting and non‐disclosure. I draw on current research into post‐colonial identities in Tanzania.
The new flood risk policy discussion in England has started to redefine national policy regarding flood and coastal risk management. The key issue in the new policy agenda is to encourage the responsibilities of local authorities in flood risk management, which involve defining local strategies to manage local risks. This downscaling process in flood risk management has a series of consequences in...
Seeking to stir the pot a bit, we've identified an old(er) urban phenomenon: SOUPies. This is a preliminary paper. It does not cover everything from soup to nuts, but it does at least provide a taste – a soupçon, if you will – of why this heretofore unidentified urban phenomenon ought to take its place in any menu of geographical concepts.
This paper draws on fieldwork with a befriending scheme that pairs refugees, asylum seekers and local residents in the north east of England. It explores the ways in which a ‘quiet politics’ of encounter, embedded in intimate relationships, is caught up in and productive of complex inter‐scale geographies, highlighting the ebbs and flows across security and insecurity. Critically, it foregrounds the...
Though research on Israel/Palestine often privileges the macro‐geopolitical perspective, a growing body of work has begun to catalogue the ways in which the violence of occupation is carried out through intimate spaces and practices. However, often missing from such accounts is an understanding of intimacy as a counter‐veiling political force. Looking at the ‘Love Under Apartheid’ project in Palestine,...
From conventional social scientific interview material, we have developed a testimonial play that focuses on the intimate violence of a state‐regulated temporary worker programme in Canada. Taking the play to the Philippines has raised questions about the contextuality of interpretation. How easily do our scholarly narratives travel between global north and south? How might we use our research to...
This article proposes the use of National Farm Survey (NFS) data and maps as a resource to support interviews with farmers and their families, across a wide range of geographical topics. The paper explores the origins of the NFS and evaluates its use as a reconstructive tool. Drawing directly on its use in recent empirical research into family farm succession as an example, the paper details the methodology,...
In this paper I examine Judith Butler's ethic of cohabitation as a means of thinking intimacy‐geopolitics. Butler's ethic of cohabitation begins with an inability to choose in advance who we inhabit the earth with. Conceptually this idea is linked with the precariousness of life: a subject's life is always in the hands of others, both known and unknown. As such, cohabitation is always an intimate...
This paper explores what the framing of intimacy‐geopolitics as interwoven strands of a single structure means for gendered violence. It considers some longstanding and newer forms of violence that work through intimacy, and draws attention to the messy relation with resistance.
Geographers have demonstrated how discourses and practices of security are unevenly experienced and mapped onto space, often paradoxically creating insecurities in people's lives. Yet, all too often, the fluid nature of power is difficult to articulate; the intimate is either eclipsed or treated as a passive victim of national and global processes. To draw attention to these erasures, feminist geographers...
The identification of, and advocacy for bridging, a divide between economic and development geography has been a focus of considerable recent attention. Yet the practical challenges and opportunities involved in crossing sub‐disciplinary boundaries, particularly at postgraduate level, are rarely examined. The processes which together shape various stages of postgraduate training and research are reflected...
Historical land‐tenure regimes and associated land‐use practices can have cumulative and persistent long‐term (centuries) effects on land cover in human‐modified landscapes. Thus, identifying areas historically preferred for specific land uses is important to prioritise sites for payments for environmental services (PES) programmes. We use historical studies spanning the 16th to 20th centuries, 1907...
In this paper, I argue that frontiers are dilemmas composed of multiple dualities, be they exclusive and inclusive powers, connected space and national periphery, or modernity and primitiveness. These dilemmas, in consequence, become the mechanism to create a leeway for the state to ‘tailor’ different meanings of frontier to meet the contingent market demands. I use tea production on China's southwest...
Promoting a fish as a flagship species (i.e. a charismatic animal that promotes awareness) is a management tool to improve the effectiveness of conservation measures. However, to be successful this approach requires strong stakeholder support. To investigate the feasibility of the flagship species approach and degree of stakeholder support in India, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with forest...
Ten years ago, the decision was taken to close Brunel University's Department of Geography and Earth Sciences and its undergraduate programmes. Since this time, most of the human geographers have remained at Brunel, but now work from beyond the boundaries of conventional academic Geography. In this paper we argue that this situation, which is not uncommon for geographers in the UK and elsewhere, has...
The town of Predeal is the highest altitude urban settlement in the Romanian Carpathians (975–1060 m) and is a famous regional skiing resort. Recent urban extension of the settlement on to areas previously covered by landslides represents a key issue and potential hazard for future urban development. In order to provide data for the urban planning process, a landslide susceptibility assessment was...
During the Cambodian genocide, between 1975 and 1979, approximately 200 security centres were established by the Khmer Rouge. One of these prisons, designated by the code‐name S‐21, was responsible primarily for the punishment of individuals ‘guilty’ of committing state crimes. During their detainment at S‐21 prisoners were documented, photographed, interrogated and tortured before ultimately being...
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