A5084648678- Urban Planning and Governance
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Geography Education and Pedagogy
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Australian History and Society
- Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies
- Photography and Visual Culture
- African history and culture analysis
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Iron and Steelmaking Processes
- Regional Development and Policy
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis
- Emotional Labor in Professions
- Regional resilience and development
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
University of Edinburgh
2010-2025
Universities UK
2011
In this paper we explore what assemblage thinking offers social-spatial theory by asking questions or problems responds to opens up. Used variously as a concept, ethos and descriptor, can be placed within the context of recent ‘relational turn’ in human geography. context, argue that four things contemporary that, when taken together, provide an alternative response problematic ‘relational’ thought: experimental realism orientated processes composition; theorization world relations which...
This paper examines how race might be understood differently when social interaction is taken as the starting point of analysis. I argue that dominant modes theorising a biological construct or epistemological marker remain insufficient for understanding multiple, contingent, and devious ways in which takes form in, gives shape to, encounters. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork Keighley—a former mill town northern England—the assembles narrative fragments reconstruct encounters with...
By approaching the road as a contact zone, I develop novel insights into turbulent multiculture of northern mill town in England. Through montage encounters with taxis and ‘flash’ cars on streets Keighley, West Yorkshire, illustrate how social differentiation is performed human difference sorted judged through assemblages flesh, metal, road. recent debates construction race, arguing for perspective that foregrounds what race does interaction. And so offer reconsideration technology at work...
Abstract In this perspective paper, we explore the role virtual field trips (VFTs) may play in creating a more resilient, sustainable and equitable education for Geography students higher as move away from pandemic but into financially precarious environment. While in‐person are fundamental part of (and allied subjects) education, there is growing recognition equality, diversity, inclusivity (EDI) barriers presented by fieldwork, environmental financial costs trips, vulnerability to...
In response to the commentaries on Anderson et al. (2012), authors’ short raises questions about, first, status of materialism and realism in current debates around relations relationality and, second, implications understanding assemblage as a particular kind ethos for politics assemblage-based thinking.
This essay works with afterimages of the steel industry to explore material legacies and many afterlives industrial remains in Dortmund. Inspired both by Walter Benjamin’s writings on capitalist modernity Arcades Project, produced Haiko Hebig, article gathers fragmented encounters an account that evokes materiality, textures, co-habitations, memories Dortmund’s postindustrial landscape.
At one level, this paper centres on the closure of a steel plant in Germany, and then reprieve another UK expansion third China, but at level changing geography production can be seen as symptomatic symbolizing profound changes global manufacturing economy. The closures Dortmund (permanently) Redcar/south Teesside (temporarily) both reflected growing international – not to say restructuring industry strategies that steel-producing companies adopted face markets patterns trade. To extent,...
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Additional informationNotes on contributorsDan SwantonHe is also an editor for City.
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Additional informationNotes on contributorsDan SwantonHe is also an editor for City.
Abstract This article develops how urban encounters have been theorized and mobilized across the social sciences to emphasize ordinary unspectacular ways in which people live together cities response widespread talk of a crisis multiculturalism. Situated contact zone between science disciplines arts practice, argues for performative more political theorizations spaces encounter. Focusing on photographer Mahtab Hussain’s project You Get Me? (2017), examines photographic portraits offer one...
Reading Deleuze and Race has been both energizing frustrating. In many ways reviewing this book resonated with my experiences of reading his frequent collaborator Guattari, tryi...
In this article, we examine the outbursts of a white passenger on London tram, antagonizing others through swearing, nationalist, racist and anti-immigrant talk responses carriage members to her confrontational talk. Our analysis uses video recording event made by that circulated widely social news media. We document multiple forms response, including video-witnessing itself. describe how trouble-making antagonizes other passengers in order produce opponents. addition, track carriage,...