A5033432479- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Marine and fisheries research
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Food Supply Chain Traceability
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Smart Agriculture and AI
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Rural development and sustainability
Cardiff University
2012-2022
Aberystwyth University
2010-2012
V. B. Sochava Institute of Geography
2011
University of Hull
2005-2008
There is a need to identify key existing and emerging issues relevant digitalisation in agricultural production that would benefit from stronger evidence base help steer policy formulation. To address this, prioritisation exercise was undertaken priority research questions concerning digital agriculture the UK, but with view also informing international contexts. The uses an established effective participatory methodology for capturing ordering wide range of views. method involves...
This paper investigates how recreational anglers make sense of, and engage with, fish behaviour over space time. Drawing on fieldwork conducted around rivers in Yorkshire, UK, it explores differently categorise differentiate between through their fishing practices. Deleuze Guattari's notion of becoming-animal, attentive to Haraway's concerns for “beings-in-encounter”, the examines angling as a transformative practice whereby adapt coconstitutive encounters. While often attempt ‘think like...
This paper extends recent work that has called for greater attention to be paid nonhuman difference. The burgeoning animal geographies literature been very successful in dissecting the concept of 'nature' and examining myriad ways which human lives are intertwined. However, its focus is more often on collectivities, such as species herds, than individual animals. Through brief case study an octopus Deep, aquarium Kingston-upon-Hull, UK, draws develops recently promoted notions responsible...
This paper investigates the controversy around scallop dredging in Cardigan Bay, Wales. The area’s fishery was relatively small until 1980s but has seen dramatic increases catches past five years. Concerns have been raised about effect of increasing fishing effort, especially for its potential impacts on Bay’s population bottlenose dolphins, which were basis designation as a Special Area Conservation. I show that is not merely human management an endangered fish stock, also involves actions...
In this paper, we examine the multiple spatialities of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certifications. The MSC uses its ecolabelling scheme to promote sustainable fisheries management; logo may be used on products certified fisheries. certification process involves definition a 'fishery'. This designation boundaries around particular location. While these suggest exclusivity for each fishery, regional spaces are also entwined in MSC's network, whereby they viewed relationally. utility areal...
This paper explores the potential for less anthropocentric approaches to researching human-nonhuman relations through visual ethnography, critically examining conceptualization of nonhuman animals as participants. Arguing that method in animal studies has developed more slowly than theory, it proposes a way foregrounding animals’ behavior and actions “social” research. Questioning meaning “participation,” this challenges underlying assumptions ethnography. The presents comparison used...
This article examines two examples of environmental governance led by non-governmental organizations (NGOs): forestry certification the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and fishery Marine (MSC). We use interviews with a range actors in each network UK USA to examine how FSC MSC both space science similar (but not identical) ways. Drawing on diverse literature from geography, technology studies political science, we show certifications are spatialized differently land (forests) water (ocean...
This paper examines how freshwater anglers in northern England ‘read’ rivers as landscapes and work with them relationally, through various sorts of embodied knowledge-practices, part their angling activity: processes that they call ‘watercraft’. We focus specifically on water an environment encounter a different world: unlike land air, is not everyday medium which humans (as terrestrial animals) live breathe.We use this example environmental engagement to go beyond visual landscapes, show...
While welcoming the intervention of Winder and Le Heron (2006) as opening up a space for critical – practical engagement with ‘Blue Economy’ thinking, their employment assemblage approaches could be extended. Doing so might produce different conceptualization Blue Economy, while concurrently establishing new challenges blue economic practices. In this commentary, I focus on three key areas: (1) ontological separation land sea ‘marine space’; (2) ‘liveliness’ oceans; (3) possibilities Economy...
Insects are increasingly promoted as a sustainable and nutritious source of protein, with ‘edible insect’ sectors emerging in many countries not traditionally associated their consumption. A number studies have examined the attitudes potential consumers to eating insects but understandings practices farmers largely been ignored. This article expands nature-society scholarship’s engagement edible insect sector by investigating how make sense responsibilities through everyday practices....
Abstract Rural areas have long been spaces of technological experimentation, development and resistance. In the UK, this is especially true in post‐second world war era productivist food regimes, characterised by moves to intensification. The technologies that developed variously aimed increase yields, automate previously manual tasks, create new forms life. This review focuses on relationships between agricultural rural lives. While there has considerable media emphasis material...
Abstract This paper positions the recent emergence of robotic or automatic milking systems (AMS) in relation to discourses surrounding longer history technologies UK and elsewhere. The mechanization has been associated with sets hopes anxieties which permeated transition from hand increasingly automated forms milking. affected relationships between humans cows on dairy farms, producing different modes cow human agency subjectivity. In this paper, drawing empirical evidence a research project...
Abstract While insects are eaten by around two billion people globally, they a relatively new addition to the UK’s culinary landscape. A domestic production sector has begun emerge supply this appetite for insects. Social scientists have been quick explore consumer attitudes “edible insects” but insect farmers thus far largely ignored. This paper addresses gap drawing on interviews with current and recent edible their understandings of, approaches to, death, something about which all...
This paper studies how anglers in northern England invoke models of equilibrium and ‘the balance nature’ making sense the water environments where they regularly fish, use these as norms or ideals when designing environmental management, alongside an emphasis on natural agency unpredictability. Like other publics, are shown to be a heterogeneous group think about nature their ‘lay ecologies’ reflect problematic way which is normalised science policy more generally, showing similarities with...
We use a qualitative study of recreational anglers in northern England to explore constructions ‘the public’ environmental management. examine good and bad constructs show how they emphasise knowledge over practice. argue for more differentiated view the public through ‘environmental engagement’ which will appreciate fully ways both ‘specialised publics’ ‘performative are imagined enacted. demonstrate these play out attending discursive material ‘hands-on’ practices management link different...
The ongoing conceptualisation of oceans and the hydrosphere by Peters Steinberg is to be welcomed. They continue challenge geography’s historical tendency focus on from terrestrial spaces, exploring how exceed their material, discursive imagined boundaries along with liquid form. This short commentary responds specifically assertion that ‘The ocean fish’. Using example Atlantic salmon, it questions directionality at heart Steinberg’s paper. It focuses particularly complex spatialities...