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Despite increased recognition of the need to explore the ways in which non‐humans are entangled with the social world, the practicalities of how to use research methods to engage with non‐human actors are often overlooked. This paper explores methodologies for researching with and writing about the non‐human and contributes to literature focusing on the co‐fabricated nature of research. Drawing on...
The Wilderness Act of 1964 defines American wilderness as “untrammeled” and remains the guiding law in wilderness management despite harsh critiques of the concept in the intervening 50 years. In the North Bay region of California, the “untrammeled” designation is part of a matrix of protected lands that makes its way into the daily lives of local residents. Using three such cases, a Visions of the...
Connectivity is a central concept in contemporary geographies of nature, but the concept is often understood and utilised in plural ways. This is problematic because of the separation, rather than the confusion, of these different approaches. While the various understandings of connectivity are rarely considered as working together, the connections between them have significant implications. This...
In times of climate change and global ecosystem degradation, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are both showcases and indicators for global social‐ecological dynamics. Resilience is among the most prominent concepts to assess and improve communities’ capacity to adapt to environmental changes, described as adaptability. But how environmental pressures are perceived, and how this perception translates...
Speirs Locks is being re‐constructed as a new cultural quarter in Glasgow North, with urban boosters envisioning the unlikely, rundown and de‐populated light industrial estate as a key site in the city's ongoing cultural regeneration strategy. Yet this creative place‐making initiative, I argue, masks a post‐political conjuncture based on urban speculation, displacement and the foreclosure of dissent...
The late modern change in young people's community life has meant moving from traditional, place‐based communities towards more fluid and situational contexts of belonging. These youth‐initiated attachments often build on amiable relationships that fall under the umbrella of “friendship”. This paper analyses Finnish early youths’ friendship narratives that were produced by sequential participatory...
I offer an American perspective on the poor quality of US Human Geography textbooks. I give several examples and link bad textbooks to geographic ignorance and anti‐intellectualism in the USA. I note differences between textbook and academic writing, and between British and American textbooks. I conclude with my own modest attempts to address this issue.
In their production and their role in academic life, textbooks lie at the intersection of a number of “regimes of visibility” (and invisibility). In this contribution I reflect on my own experience of textbook authorship to highlight some of these regimes: first, the processes through which textbooks are published; second, the mechanisms of monitoring and measuring of academic production; third, disciplinary...
The purpose of this paper is to critically explore language learning and cultural fluency as a research methodology. Deploying an auto‐ethnographic approach, I scrutinise my programme of language learning and forays into the cultural to highlight how knowledge of the cultural contexts of a language, and not just the language itself, have provided nuanced insights into Polish cultural memory and identity...
Explorations of the benefits for businesses in terms of customer experience or improvements in staff wellbeing from installing and retro‐fitting green infrastructure (GI) in a European city context have been lacking. This paper reports on a two‐year longitudinal mixed methods study in a district of central London evaluating the changes resulting from the installation of a mixture of greening schemes...
Textbooks are a repository for canonical material that serve as important guides for students as they embark on their journey of learning and discovery. In a discipline as varied as Geography, it is often challenging for authors to decide what to include. We negotiate these concerns as editors of a textbook for a course on Changing Landscapes of Singapore, which is taught primarily to non‐Geography...
Writing on a subject as all‐encompassing as globalisation from “down here” (Oceania) in a way that is relevant “up there” (Anglo‐America), while retaining the “Antipodean” perspectives we seek to represent and embody, presents significant tensions. How does a textbook on globalisation written from our viewpoint negotiate the very system it aims to critique? We reflect on writing Geographies of globalization...
It seems with the ever more complex instituting of aggressive neoliberal renewal policies comes an intensified effort to use the language of consensus and civic unity. The post‐political debate frames this discussion, and it is from this perspective that we propose a fuller consideration of urban renewal policy, and how these forces are embedded within the narrowing of what has been called the “properly...
Empirical work on household consumption informed by theories of social practice has grown exponentially in the last few years. This is partly due to conceptual developments positing practices as being comprised of materials, meanings and skills. Such formulations are readily applied to empirical investigations. As the aim of a growing body of empirical work with theories of social practice is to present...
This paper examines the problems of locating political subjectivity in the midst of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games of 2014 and takes as its starting point Rancière's contention that politics cannot be defined on the basis of any pre‐existing subject. The Commonwealth Games, as both policy vehicle and a form of knowing the world, constructs subjects through the invocation of “legacy”. This involves...
How can we write textbooks to reach audiences beyond a single discipline? This is an increasingly important question as higher education curricula around the world are being re‐worked to create more opportunities for student learning across disciplines on topics that are of pressing planetary relevance. It is also an important question for those of us who write and teach as geographers in contexts...
The extent of urban areas is rapidly expanding across the globe, both horizontally and vertically. While natural and social scientists have examined the impacts of this urbanisation on earth system and social processes, to date researchers have largely overlooked how in turn earth system processes can act on this urban fabric to produce hybrid landforms. Unique pseudokarst landforms are found within...
We consider Geography textbooks in the context of discussions of canonicity, disciplinary histories and genre. Our paper, an introduction to the set that follows, presents an argument about the importance of textbooks and the shifting relationship of Geography at different levels (school and university) to disciplinary history in the context of changes in the modes of publication. The papers that...
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