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Traiyimbat olkainbala wei ov dum tings | trying out all kinds of ways of doing things: co-creative multisensory methods in collaborative research Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Ngalakgan Country, Margaret Duncan, Rhonda Duncan, Lillian Tait
ABSTRACT In this paper, we invite you on a recuperative story-finding journey across the Roper Region of the Northern Territory, Australia. The stories we are tracking are scattered across Ngalakgan Country, embedded in places, actions, memories and song. Engaging with these stories in a recuperative mode requires diverse methods that help us respond to our entanglements and responsibilities as part
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Red coats and wild birds: how military ornithologists and migrant birds shaped empire Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Mark R. Welford
(2021). Red coats and wild birds: how military ornithologists and migrant birds shaped empire. Social & Cultural Geography. Ahead of Print.
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‘When housing is provided, but you have only the closet’. Sexual orientation and family housing support in Athens, Greece Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou
ABSTRACT This article explores the impact of sexual orientation on the housing practices of individuals self-identified as LGB+ in Athens, Greece. In Greece, welfare state was always inadequate to cover people’s social needs. On the contrary, the family proved to be resilient as a welfare agent covering also the housing needs of its members by employing related strategies. The support comes ‘with strings
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Communicative patterns and social networks between scientists and technicians in a culture of care: discussing morality across a hierarchy of occupational spaces Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-04-06 Nathalie Nuyts, Carrie Friese
ABSTRACT Communication between scientists and animal technicians is considered important for creating a ‘culture of care’ in facilities that use animals in scientific research. For example, the Brown report, which investigated alleged failures of animal care at Imperial College London, noted the physical and social separation between animal technicians and scientists as a problem that delimited a culture
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Climate change, COVID-19, and the co-production of injustices: a feminist reading of overlapping crises Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Farhana Sultana
ABSTRACT The overlapping global socio-ecological crises of climate change and COVID-19 pandemic have simultaneously dominated discussions since 2020. The connections between them expose underbellies of structural inequities and systemic marginalizations across scales and sites. While ongoing climate change amplifies, compounds, and creates new forms of injustices and stresses, all of which are interlinked
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‘To us it’s still Boundary Park’: fan discourses on the corporate (re)naming of football stadia Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-04-04 Leah Gillooly, Dominic Medway, Gary Warnaby, Stuart Roper
ABSTRACT This paper explores how the corporate (re)naming of football stadia and their urban environs is negotiated through fans’ toponymic discourses and associated commemoration. Critical toponymy research emphasises oppositional toponymic tensions between sovereign authorities and citizens, which can result in competing inscriptions of space. Adopting a quasi-ethnographic approach, we reveal a more
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Repertoires of ‘migrant names’: an inquiry into mundane identity production Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Aija Lulle
ABSTRACT This paper examines how, when and where personal names are produced as ‘migrant names’. Drawing on 21 interviews with young Irish and Latvian migrants in the UK, I demonstrate how mundane stories, linguistic details, and repertoires about migrant names are embodied, mobile, relational, and produce everyday social distinctions. Empirical analysis unpacks changes in naming stories throughout
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Understanding ‘faith’ in faith-based organizations: refugee resettlement work as religious practice Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Emily Frazier
ABSTRACT The Trump administration has consistently opposed refugee resettlement, slashing national admission ceilings and undermining the long-running U.S. resettlement programme. While these changes have been broadly supported by conservative, evangelical voters, other evangelicals have publicly challenged the administration’s decisions. This dissent is also evident in the expanding involvement of
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‘I wouldn’t trade this country of ours for anything’: place, identity and men’s stories of the 2016 M7.8 Kaikōura/Waiau earthquake Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Ashleigh Rushton, Suzanne Phibbs, Christine Kenney, Cheryl Anderson
ABSTRACT There is an emerging area of research that examines men’s personal disaster accounts, including how gender identities and sets of understandings about masculinities shape response and recovery. This paper adds to the literature through providing a geographic enquiry into men’s sense of place and identifying the impacts of the Kaikōura/Waiau (7.8 Mw) earthquake sequence on rural men. Face-to-face
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Spiritual homes on the move: narratives of migrations from Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Sergei Shubin, Marjory Harper
ABSTRACT This paper explores the process of the creation of home as a constellation of faith and migration. Building on discussions in geography and anthropology describing home as being in-between mobile and fixed, a hybrid entity-in-construction, the paper challenges the antimonies between place-based or placeless, real or imagined homes common in migration research. Building on the analysis of historical
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Time-space practices of care after a family death in urban Senegal Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-03-26 Sophie Bowlby, Ruth Evans, Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Joséphine Wouango
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to studies of care practices and care ethics beyond the Minority world by analysing informal caringscapes after a family death in urban Senegal. Based on the findings of a qualitative study in the cities of Dakar and Kaolack, we explore exchanges of care by the living for the living in the period immediately following the death, and changes in these care practices over
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A good life? A good death? Reconciling care and harm in animal research Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Emma Roe, Beth Greenhough
ABSTRACT Laboratory animal science represents a challenging and controversial form of human-animal relations because its practice involves the deliberate and inadvertent harming and killing of animals. Consequently, animal research has formed the focus of intense ethical concern and regulation within the UK, in order to minimize the suffering and pain experienced by those animals whose living bodies
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Producing (extra)ordinary death on the farm: unruly encounters and contaminated calves Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Gretchen Sneegas
ABSTRACT In 2010, twenty-eight bovines on a Pennsylvania beef farm were exposed to a hydraulic fracturing wastewater leak on their grazing pasture. Over the following year, eleven out of seventeen calves born to the exposed animals died. The farmers framed the deaths as outside normal deathly production on the farm, while state institutions claimed the deaths resulted from the farmers’ negligence,
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The intimate geopolitics of charitable knitting: how crafting makes bodies Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Laura Shipp
ABSTRACT Feminist geopolitics has long been interested in deconstructing the assumptions of its masculinist counterpart, complicating notions of where geopolitics takes place and the agents and actions it involves. The geographies of making have similarly been interested in taken-for-granted processes, bodies and materialities, and the ways that they are implicated in wider cultural and political processes
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Absorbents, practices, and infrastructures: Changing socio-material landscapes of menstrual waste in Lilongwe, Malawi Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 Cecilia Alda-Vidal, Alison L. Browne
ABSTRACT In contexts of limited access to urban infrastructures and restrictive cultural norms, managing menstrual waste has important sustainability implications and complicates the menstrual experiences of women. However menstrual waste management has remained largely under-researched. To address this research and policy-practice gap we combine postcolonial and African feminist scholarship with social
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Solidarity and collective forms of social reproduction: the social and political legacy of Syntagma Square, Athens Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Dimitris Pettas, Maria Daskalaki
ABSTRACT The latest encampments in public spaces, such as Occupy Wall Street, Taksim Square and Syntagma Square, have highlighted the significance of public space in shaping social, economic and political struggles around the world. In this paper, drawing on a qualitative study of Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece, we confirm that spontaneous, self-organised movements, such as the Aganaktismenoi (Indignant)
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Curating and re-curating the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 Audrey Reeves
(2021). Curating and re-curating the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq. Social & Cultural Geography. Ahead of Print.
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A global history of anti-apartheid: ‘forward to freedom’ in South Africa Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Gavin Brown
(2021). A global history of anti-apartheid: ‘forward to freedom’ in South Africa. Social & Cultural Geography. Ahead of Print.
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Traces of J.B. Jackson: the man who taught us to see everyday America Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Adam A. Payne
(2021). Traces of J.B. Jackson: the man who taught us to see everyday America. Social & Cultural Geography. Ahead of Print.
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What’s in a name? Children of migrants, national belonging and the politics of naming Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Marco Antonsich
ABSTRACT As Western societies experience a ‘transition to diversity’ spurred by international migration, an enduring question is how this transition impacts on the nation and its symbolic borders. The article addresses this question by adopting an original analytical lens, what I call the ‘politics of naming’, i.e. the agonistic tensions around naming practices between the majority society and children
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A personal geography of care and disability Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Carey-Ann Morrison
ABSTRACT This research focuses on the bodies, feelings, spaces and places of care and disability. It is informed by feminist geography, and geographies of embodiment and emotion. Using autobiography as a method of inquiry I share my experience of caring for my young disabled son in relation to the disability needs assessment in Aotearoa New Zealand. I argue that embodiment and emotions are often not
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A personal geography of care and disability Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Carey-Ann Morrison
ABSTRACT This research focuses on the bodies, feelings, spaces and places of care and disability. It is informed by feminist geography, and geographies of embodiment and emotion. Using autobiography as a method of inquiry I share my experience of caring for my young disabled son in relation to the disability needs assessment in Aotearoa New Zealand. I argue that embodiment and emotions are often not
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Dwelling on-the-move together in Sweden: sharing exclusive housing in times of marketization Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Karin Grundström
ABSTRACT For almost a century, Swedes living in shared housing have resided in ‘kollektivhus’, a form of co-housing that support sharing reproductive work. However, during the past decade, new forms of exclusive shared housing have emerged on the Swedish housing market. In contrast to international trends of vulnerable singles being forced to share housing, this Swedish example shows that also financially
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Extinctionscapes: Spatializing the commodification of animal lives and afterlives in conservation landscapes Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 Brock Bersaglio, Jared Margulies
ABSTRACT This article advances a more-than-human perspective on geographies of death and dying, engaging with extinctionscapes as spaces where the memorialization of nonhuman life generates affective and commodifiable experiences with species loss in conservation landscapes. Bringing geographical concepts, such as absence-presence, into conversation with recent literature on lively commodities, we
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Dawn of the lively dead: Living queerly with rot in the sustainable city Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Mariya Shcheglovitova
ABSTRACT This paper presents stories of living with dead trees in Baltimore, MD, USA to explore where, how, and with whom tree remains become lively through art, farming, and sustainability practices. These stories serve as a lens into the diverse ways practitioners produce knowledge about death, healing, disease, and decay as they encounter and transform dead nonhuman bodies. I find that practitioners
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Whiteness in transit: the racialized geographies of international volunteering Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-12-09 Jacob Henry
ABSTRACT Studying the ways whiteness contorts across geographies is important to understanding the weaknesses of racial paradigms that enable domination and dispossession. This paper analyzes how whiteness is discursively revised and re-affirmed in contemporary spaces of transit by studying the online personal blogs of white Americans who volunteered as classroom teachers in Namibia. It reviews how
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Care, chaos and cosmos: territorial refrains of refugee belonging Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Ryan Frazer
ABSTRACT Where do refugees belong? Who is responsible for the safety, welfare and happiness of migrants seeking refuge? And what constitutes a ‘right and proper’ response to refugee migration? In this paper, I explore one civic organization’s approach to answering these questions. LocalHouse is a volunteer organisation that provides support to refugees arriving in Wattle City, Australia. The aim, for
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‘It died once at playgroup, I didn’t know what to do’: towards vital, vibrant, material geographies of the mobile phone in austerity Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Sarah Marie Hall
ABSTRACT Geographers have long considered mobile phones to be ubiquitous instruments and agents of globalisation, migration, commodification, and technologies for fieldwork. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research with families and communities in Greater Manchester, amidst nearly a decade of austerity cuts in the UK, this paper makes the case for revitalising, repoliticising and rematerialising
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‘It became an anchor for stuff I really want to keep’: the stabilising weight of self-storage when moving home and away Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Jennifer Owen
ABSTRACT The process and stresses of moving home are a common experience in our lives, and few find sorting and packing household possessions easy. When moves are temporary, uncertain or contingent on other factors it can be particularly difficult to know what to take with us, so renting a self-storage unit allows for movement and mobility without the need to reduce the material convoy or make premature
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Intolerable intersectional burdens: a COVID-19 research agenda for social and cultural geographies Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Avril Maddrell
ABSTRACT This commentary outlines key social and cultural geographies highlighted by the current Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which evidence important opportunities for geographers to contribute to i) understandings of life and death during the pandemic; ii) associated policy developments; and iii) new theoretical insights. The pandemic has surfaced previously obscured or ignored deathscapes
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Thick skins in place, thick skins out of place: re-placing homeless bodies in spaces of care Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-10-17 Panos Bourlessas
ABSTRACT The ‘homeless body’ has been largely constructed in scholarship as a ‘discursive body’ while it has been inadequately grounded in empirical space. Drawing from ethnographic research, this article attempts a twofold, gradual re-placement: a conceptual replacement of the ‘discursive homeless body’ as material bodies, which shape homeless subjectivities; and a spatial re-placement of these bodies
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‘I felt trapped’: young women’s experiences of shared housing in austerity Britain Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-10-03 Iliana Ortega-Alcázar, Eleanor Wilkinson
ABSTRACT In Britain, the number of young single people living in shared accommodation is on the rise. While sharing may be positive when voluntarily chosen, those who are forced to share accommodation may have far more negative experiences. This paper examines how recent changes to the Shared Accommodation Rate of housing welfare have resulted in people having to share accommodation until the age of
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The temporalities of supported decision-making by people with cognitive disability Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-10-03 Ilan Wiesel, Elizabeth Smith, Christine Bigby, Shih-Ning Then, Jacinta Douglas, Terry Carney
ABSTRACT In many societies, people with cognitive disability have been presumed to lack reasoned decision-making capacity. Consequently, substituted decision-making laws and practices have traditionally authorised some people such as parents, guardians or medical professionals, to make decisions on their behalf. Several countries are now moving towards an alternative supported decision-making paradigm
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Musical orientation in virtual space: videogame score and the spatiality of musical style and topic Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-09-19 Philip Kirby
ABSTRACT Digital geographies and musical geographies are proliferating. This article considers a topic at the intersection of both: videogame music. It argues that, through attention to such music, geographical approaches to videogames, and to music, can be radically expanded. Specifically, it argues that instrumental score, increasingly employed in major videogame franchises, should be subject to
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Filmic geographies: audio-visual, embodied-material Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-09-19 Marion Ernwein
ABSTRACT Although conventionally described as a ‘visual’ method, film-making is also increasingly used within research on embodiment. However, much remains to be said about the ability of filmic methods to enhance researchers’ capacity to think and research through the body. Drawing on my experience of making four research films, in this paper, I attempt to advance this agenda in three steps. First
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Subaltern geographies Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Federico Ferretti
(2020). Subaltern geographies. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 21, No. 9, pp. 1338-1340.
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Touring and obscuring: how sensual, embodied and haptic gay touristic practices construct the geopolitics of pinkwashing Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Gilly Hartal
ABSTRACT Gay tourism is commonly studied through pride events in cities. Rethinking the role gay men’s bodies and politics play in the context of tourism to Israeli heritage sites, this paper contributes to debates on geopolitics and geographies of sexualities and the embodied approach to tourism. Analyzing daytrips through the Occupied Palestinian Territories, I argue that sensual, embodied and haptic
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Intimate architectures: a cultural geography of doors Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Edward Brookes
ABSTRACT This article seeks to contribute to geography’s continued interest in architecture through a focus on the ‘intimate architectural space’ of the door. Its aims are threefold; the first section seeks to extend knowledge of the door within geographic literature as it becomes a key site in which ‘events are gathered’ and through which politics can be encountered; the second section takes a ‘minor
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‘Without cleanliness we can’t lead the life, no?’ Cleanliness practices, (in)accessible infrastructures, social (im)mobility and (un)sustainable consumption in Mysore, India Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Tullia Jack, Manisha Anantharaman, Alison L Browne
ABSTRACT As India, a country with a complex relationship with cleanliness, modernizes rapidly, urban infrastructures are increasing even faster than the growing population. This paper explores the relationships between access to infrastructures, social mobility and resource consumption in everyday lives through the case of cleanliness in Mysore, Southern India. We draw on interviews with 28 Mysoreans
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Wentworth: the beautiful game and the making of place Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Lené Le Roux
(2020). Wentworth: the beautiful game and the making of place. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 21, No. 8, pp. 1174-1175.
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Three participatory geographers: reflections on positionality and working with participants in researching religions, spiritualities, and faith Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-09-03 S. Denning, R. Scriven, R Slatter
ABSTRACT This paper advances the geographies of religion, spirituality and faith’s limited attention to positionality by discussing the critical issues raised when using participatory approaches. Reflecting on three cases of participatory research, we foreground the dynamics of being a researcher with faith when working with participants from faith communities. Advocating participatory approaches as
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When ‘cultures of care’ meet: entanglements and accountabilities at the intersection of animal research and patient involvement in the UK Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-09-03 Richard Gorman, Gail Davies
ABSTRACT A good culture of care, empowering individuals within organisations to care and reflecting wider social expectations about care, is now a well-documented aspiration in managing practices of laboratory animal research and establishing priorities for patient and public health. However, there is little attention to how different institutional cultures of care interact and what happens to the
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Geographies of food beyond food: transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-08-27 Cristiana Zara, Benjamin Coles, Sophie Hadfield-Hill, John Horton, Peter Kraftl
ABSTRACT Engaging contemporary forms of nexus-thinking with interdisciplinary food scholarship and childhood and youth studies, this paper explores the social, cultural and political implications of young people’s entangled connections with – and beyond – food. The paper draws on a large-scale research project investigating young Brazilians’ relationships with and understandings of the water-energy-food
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Review of songs from Sweden: shaping pop culture in a globalized music industry Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-08-18 Johan Jansson
(2020). Review of songs from Sweden: shaping pop culture in a globalized music industry. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 21, Special Issue: Living Protocols, pp. 1037-1038.
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Thinking with new materialism about ‘safe-un-safe’ campus space for LGBTTIQA+ students Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-08-18 Louisa Allen, John Fenaughty, Lucy Cowie
ABSTRACT Some LGBTTIQA+ students maintain campus is a safe space despite also detailing significant discriminatory practices they have witnessed or experienced there. This article explores this paradox drawing insights from new materialism and geographical research. Predominantly theoretical in orientation, it takes the notion of ‘dwelling with’ from Noora Pyyry’s posthuman work in geography and thinks
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Tasting as a social practice: a methodological experiment in making taste public Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-08-14 Peter Jackson, David Evans, Mónica Truninger, João Baptista, Nádia Carvalho Nunes
ABSTRACT Based on fieldwork in the UK and Portugal, this paper considers the relationships between cultural analyses of taste and the embodied activity of tasting. As part of a wider project on the multiple ontologies of ‘freshness’, the paper conceptualises taste as an emergent effect of tasting practices. Drawing on evidence from a series of ‘tasting events’ (where research participants were recorded
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Urban trauma in the ruins of industrial culture: Miners’ Welfares of the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-08-14 Jay Emery
ABSTRACT The focus of this paper is bodily-material dynamics of urban trauma in ruins of Miners’ Welfare institutions in the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK. Emergent geographical work on urban trauma has explored how attritional ‘slow’ violence enacts in space and time, emphasising the complexities of spatiotemporal processes of collective trauma. Processual theorisations in urban trauma literature
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Sexualities and gendered intersectionalities Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Gavin Brown, Avril Maddrell
(2020). Sexualities and gendered intersectionalities. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 21, Virtual Special Issue on Sexualities and Gendered Intersectionalities, pp. 141-149.
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Sexualities and gendered intersectionalities Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Gavin Brown, Avril Maddrell
(2021). Sexualities and gendered intersectionalities. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 141-149.
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‘I wouldn’t take the risk of the attention, you know? Just a lone girl biking’: examining the gendered and classed embodied experiences of cycling Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-08-10 Léa Ravensbergen
ABSTRACT This paper frames the embodied experience of bicycling using theories of performativity and materiality. In doing so, the paper provides insights into embodied processes that regulate the gendered and classed cycling body across age. Drawing from interviews completed with newcomers to Toronto enrolled in a bicycle mentorship program, this paper highlights how context-specific social norms
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Gender, spatiality and motherhood: intergenerational change in Greek-Cypriot migrant families in the UK Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-08-06 Gina Kallis, R. Yarwood, N. Tyrrell
ABSTRACT There is growing interest in geography in the intersections of age, family and the lifecourse with migration. This paper furthers this work by focusing on the themes of intergenerational relationships and transmission within migrant families that have three generations. Using a case study of Greek-Cypriot families living in the UK, specifically the paper explores the experiences of second-generation
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The production of urban commons through alternative food practices Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-07-21 Lana Slavuj Borčić
ABSTRACT This paper analyses creation of commons in the urban context from the perspective of alternative food networks. I explore how buying groups produce commons in the urban fabric through their decisions and practices relating to the distribution of organic food. Participatory action research and semi-structured interviews with members of buying groups (GSRs) in Croatia are used to examine the
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On the margins: young men’s mundane experiences of austerity in English coastal towns Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-07-19 Linda McDowell, Carl Bonner-Thompson, Anna Harris
ABSTRACT This paper explores the everyday experiences of young white working-class men living in coastal towns badly affected by austerity programmes implemented in the UK since 2010. The lives and aspirations of marginal young men seldom feature in studies of the effects of economic crisis and austerity. These men are positioned at the intersection of several rhetorical constructions with contradictory
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‘My room is the kitchen’: lived experience of home-making, home-unmaking and emerging housing strategies of disadvantaged urban youth in austerity Ireland Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-06-19 Sander van Lanen
ABSTRACT The current Irish housing crisis shows that the 2008 financial crash lingers on in everyday lives and spaces. As especially poorer populations became increasingly excluded from affordable housing under austerity, it is increasingly felt as a ‘personal crisis’. This paper explores the impacts of austerity on home-(un)making to reveal home as a place where austerity becomes ‘lived’ and ‘felt’
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‘Diversity tourists’? Tracing whiteness through affective encounters with diversity in a gentrifying district in Copenhagen Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-06-19 Linda Lapiņa
ABSTRACT This article develops the diversity tourist as an analytical figure to explore how middle-class whiteness emerges through encounters with racialized diversity in gentrifying urban space. Drawing on interviews with white middle-class Danish residents in Copenhagen’s Nordvest district, I examine how whiteness takes shape through affective ambivalence and negotiations of proximity and distance
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Publisher’s note Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-06-10
(2020). Publisher’s note. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 21, Geographies of Islamophobia, pp. 507-507.
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The Alchemy of Meth: a decomposition Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-06-08 Meredian Alam
(2020). The Alchemy of Meth: a decomposition. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 890-891.
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Discardscapes of fashion: commodity biography, patch geographies, and preconsumer garment waste in Cambodia Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Philip Crang, Katherine Brickell, Laurie Parsons, Nithya Natarajan, Thomas Cristofoletti, Naomi Graham
ABSTRACT This paper advances existing research on both the geographies of fashion and the geographies of waste, utilising their shared interests in commodity biography. Empirically, it documents the use of textile waste from export-oriented garment factories in the peri-urban areas of Phnom Penh, Cambodia as fuel for nearby brick-kilns supplying the city’s booming construction sector. Interviews and
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Learning to labor in high-technology: experiences of overwork in university internships at digital media firms in North America Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Daniel Cockayne
ABSTRACT Long working hours have become a normal and expected characteristic of employment in many sectors in the Global North. In this paper I examine subjective and affective experiences of overwork that define students’ discussions of internships pursued as mandatary aspects of cooperative undergraduate degree programmes. I interviewed current and former students at the University of Waterloo who
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Everyday rhythms and aircraft noise in New York City Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.514) Pub Date : 2020-06-03 Yvonne Rinkart
ABSTRACT This article argues for the inclusion of aircraft noise in considerations of everyday rhythms. Informed by Lefebvre’s rhythmanalytical thinking, in conjunction with sound studies and affect theory, the article expands the literature concerned with the conflicts and confluences of rhythms in everyday life. Building on in-depth interviews, it presents first-hand accounts of the experience of
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