This article is a review of the ways in which human geography has engaged with film and video. Beginning look at history cinematic analysis within discipline, paper outlines different possible uses for digital video, focusing on its merits as multisensory ethnographic method. The encourages geographers to make move from production, citing examples successful recent projects have done so, endorsing further integration video into fieldwork an increase publication create what we might call...

Urban exploration is a practice of researching, rediscovering and physically exploring temporary, obsolete, abandoned, derelict infrastructural areas within built environments without permission to do so. Drawing from four years ethnographic research with group urban explorers in the United Kingdom who undertook increasingly brazen forays into off‐limits architecture, this paper argues that while can be connected earlier forms critical spatial engagement, movement also speaks current...

The world of late seems oversaturated with stories about drones. These suddenly pervasive machines straddle a divide in geography, being simultaneously an important tool for proximal sensing physical geography and technology military origins that human geographers have critically engaged. This paper, collaboration between geographer, is exploration the epistemological nexus critical drone methodology offers discipline, which we suggest provides new opportunity collaborative human/physical...

This paper discusses the role of encounters with past in practice urban exploration through ethnographic research undertaken communities explorers. Urban is an activity intimately connected places that have largely reached end their capitalist use-life. In this I argue enticingly complicates understandings by unveiling unexpected material traces and immaterial affordances build resilient personal attachments where ‘present’ tangibly intersects ‘past’. process exposes possibilities for a...

Abstract This article is about urban exploration, a cultural practice of exploring derelict, closed and normally inaccessible built environments. The is, in sense, an experiment research, learning representation as much the way information presented it topic itself. It consists two parts. first component video that can be viewed online at http://vimeo.com/5366045 [Correction added on 13 October 2010 after publication 3 2010: URL has been corrected]. second this document, annotated script...

Shannon Lee Dawdy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xv and 195 pp., photos, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $82.50 cloth (ISBN 9780226351056), $27.50 paper (ISBN...

Prepping is a practice of anticipating and adaptating to impending conditions calamity, ranging from low-level crises extinction-level events. The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, which preppers consider 'mid-level' event, many them were well-prepared for, makes clear that scholarly attention prepper's motivations methods both timely valuable. Drawing three-year ethnographic research project with preppers, this paper traces the activity single bunker builder who has constructed technically...

As cities around the world are tunnelled and hollowed to new depths, geographers giving increasing attention infrastructure in context of verticality, often framed through urban planning or geopolitics. This paper responds calls from geography wider geohumanities for ethnographic aesthetic consideration vertical infrastructures by reflecting on London’s sewer system as a site embodied engagement creative imagination. Once venerated press public engineering, medical triumphs, sewers thought...

Recent scholarship has drawn attention to a ubiquitous 20th-century political space that was long overlooked – the bunker. This body of work draws on variety theoretical influences and explores multiple historical contexts, yet most remains wedded late Paul Virilio's influential 1970s study Nazi Atlantic Wall. Enlightening as his 'Bunker Archeology' is, theorization constrained contemporary debates around function, materiality temporality Here, we seek counter this set limitations in three...

The extent of urban areas is rapidly expanding across the globe, both horizontally and vertically. While natural social scientists have examined impacts this urbanisation on earth system processes, to date researchers largely overlooked how in turn processes can act fabric produce hybrid landforms. Unique pseudokarst landforms are found within fabric, including stalactites sinkholes. Additionally, chronic acute degradation buildings form rubble dust that, if left situ, will be shaped by...

Abstract | This short experimental essay reflects upon our video Points of Presence. In producing the we used unmanned aerial drones to visually and vertically examine undersea fibre-optic cables North Atlantic. We reflect how drone’s flying technologies allow pilots creatively engage with atmospheric element. argue that optical object-avoidance share similarities mammalian senses. concluding, information infrastructures each other as complex imperfect systems designed extend human body...

Most of the world’s major cities are now undergirded by complicated subterranean infrastructures; buried communication networks, water and waste management systems, storage vaults, transportation corridors, even underground housing. In past, only states, backed tax revenue, could afford to undertake boring excavation required build such spaces. Today however, private sector seeks profit from building, maintaining, owning urban undergrounds. this article, we traverse five assets in...

This article is an autoethnographic account of the authors’ trespassing in abandoned Maze Prison Northern Ireland. For three decades before its closure 2000, was site intense political struggle. The ruins – a space once built to let no one out that now allows exist state limbo, between conflicting narratives prison’s troubled past, and uncertain future. We present brief historical Maze, explain our unconventional choice ‘research method’, introducing Foucault’s notion heterotopia. suggest...

In this paper we share insights from four participatory video workshops held in C ambodia as part of a three‐year project on domestic violence and legal reform under the ESRC / DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research scheme. The politics that emerged organised partnership with ambodian gender‐oriented non‐governmental organisation ( NGO ) an independent translator/co‐facilitator forms crux our discussion. We define ‘participatory partnership’ multi‐layered power relations between...

The waterways of London are an essential component the city, with River Thames playing a prominent role in heritage, history and identity place. upcoming 2012 Olympics highlighting Lea Valley east as another important part London's waterscape, expanding global presence 'water city'. As Creative Campus Initiative, we undertook project based on broad themes water, that would give voice to changes taking result is Olympic Waterscape, 20-minute film comprising both 'expert' interview material...