(2021). Mapping beyond measure: art, cartography, and the space of global modernity. Social & Cultural Geography. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Threshold Modernisms: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London. Social & Cultural Geography. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT In a policy context of personalisation, disability support organisations recognise the increasingly contentious nature of clustering people according to disability. Instead, they are placing more emphasis on activities that promote community inclusion. Accordingly, the work between people with cognitive disability and their support workers is increasingly mobile. In this context, drawing on

(2021). Feral Atlas: the more-than-human Anthropocene. Social & Cultural Geography. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Cities are important sites of accumulation within capitalism, but also home for many humans and non-humans. Rock pigeons (Columba livia) are ubiquitous, but not always welcome, and are thus subjected to a variety of exclusionary tactics – including killing. On the other hand, charismatic non-humans like peregrine falcons (Falco perigrinus) are often encouraged to occupy prominent urban spaces

ABSTRACT This paper connects relational theorising within geographies of disability and geographies of fear of violent crime (FOVC) to explore how disabled people navigate fear and experience of hostility in their everyday lives in Ireland. Drawing on a two year qualitative study with people with a range of impairments, we explore the human and non-human components of assemblages – in particular, encounters

ABSTRACT This paper examines young women university students’ expectations of gender inequalities in the workplace, drawing upon semi-structured interviews with 21 young women at three mid-high ranking universities. Our original findings show that the young women were factoring-in expectations of the gendered workplace as a backdrop to their career choices and life-planning. Critically, these young

ABSTRACT As researchers, institution-wide regulatory and organisational cultures guide our work. Over the past two decades, University Research Ethics Committees have been formally established across social science disciplines. However, the functioning of these committees has not been without critique. It is often argued that established ethical procedures informed by the medical sciences do not fit

ABSTRACT Recent geographical scholarship has shown that the persecution and extermination of European Jews during the Holocaust was associated with profound spatial transformations at every scale, from the body to the continent. Yet, the embodied spatial experience of Jews throughout persecution and the way it affected their subjectivity, particularly as they kept living and surviving in the ordinary

ABSTRACT This paper explores the impact of policy changes and budget cuts on services and support faced by people with learning disabilities. Drawing upon collaborative research in England and Scotland and interviews with commissioners and support organisations, we show how landscapes of care and support are unstable and fragmented. We identify how pressures of time, resource and precaritisation in

(2021). Retraction. Social & Cultural Geography. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Biosecurity restrictions regulate the types of materials that international travellers can bring into certain countries. Australia is well known in international travel cultures for stringent customs regulations and checks on all incoming passengers. This blanket approach to biosecurity governance implies that all materials, even banal personal possessions or luggage, pose a potential threat

(2021). Dear science and other stories. Social & Cultural Geography. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This paper contributes to debates on the use of cultural events to regenerate urban areas. Cultural geographers have identified the influence of such events in informing urban belonging, whilst being cautious towards the politics associated with claims of diversity and inclusion. Yet, what seldom features in such geographic accounts are the ways events influence, and are influenced by, inclusions

ABSTRACT In the aftermath of a firestorm, many survivors will spend time with the ruins of their homes, fossicking through the rubble or simply being present with the transformed space. Through a series of oral history interviews with survivors of the 2003 Canberra firestorm in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), this paper investigates ruined homes as spaces imbued with memory – of the fire itself

ABSTRACT A substantial amount of research in cultural geography has been dedicated to the mundane or everyday living with diversity, yet little has been done in relation to linguistic diversity and the ways in which individuals experience the city through this particular form of diversity. This paper addresses how geographers can build on and assist in contemporary sociolinguistic scholarship to understand

ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of Airbnb on the everyday lived experiences of residents in London. We focus on three spatial scales – the city, neighbourhood, and an individual building. Short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb have transformed socio-cultural urban landscapes by turning homes into informal hotels. We argue that many of the consequences of Airbnb echo and support those of

ABSTRACT The importance of a Culture of Care is increasingly referred to in the literature surrounding laboratory animal science, with good care viewed as essential to the competent management of animal facilities. Yet ‘culture of care’ is poorly defined, with care often being seen as synonymous with an attention to animal welfare. This paper draws on data from focus groups with researchers and animal

ABSTRACT Scholars have described the increasing fragmentation of categories like ‘refugee’ as part of efforts to reduce refugees’ access to protection. The proliferation of categories such as economic migrants, humanitarian migrants, and transit migrants generally emerge from top-down, policy-driven migration management paradigms, efforts by traditional resettlement countries to restrict opportunities

ABSTRACT Based on the results of research on multisensory experience of a city carried out with the participation of sensorily diverse people, the article discusses the possibilities offered by an approach based on the premises of social practice theory for understanding and studying the urban audiosphere. Three auditory fields of analysis of social sonic practices are identified, through and in which

(2021). Navigating ethnicity: segregation, placemaking, and difference. Social & Cultural Geography. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Access to transport for older people is inherently related to the right to lead an independent life and to participate in social and cultural life with dignity. Yet often transport planning strategies prioritise the smooth flow of urban commuters, while people over the age of 60 are at risk of experiencing marginalisation and inequality. In this paper, we consider the mobility patterns of

(2021). Religion, hypermobility and digital media in global Asia: faith, flows, and fellowship. Social & Cultural Geography. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Routledge handbook of ecocultural identity. Social & Cultural Geography. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This paper analyses the scopic regime established by images of UK food banks. Analysis of three popular images of ‘Food Bank Britain’ reveals the persistence of historical practices for visualizing hunger – namely, the dominance of faciality, infantilization of the hungry, and erasure of geographical context from visual frames. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler, this paper demonstrates

ABSTRACT In this article, we contribute to robot geographies by developing the idea of robotic ‘liveliness’ in the context of their increased use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our framing draws on new materialism, and builds the idea of liveliness by considering robots’ agential capacities in three different ways: as apparently autonomous technologies; as inorganic and mechanical bodies; and as perpetually

ABSTRACT Those fleeing domestic violence often have complex and diverse needs but central for all is access to a ‘place of safety’. Caring for victims/survivors is largely predicated on the availability of secure housing but an absence of stock together with competition in the private rented sector has significantly reduced the chances of victims of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) being housed. In

ABSTRACT Austerity and welfare reforms – such as Universal Credit (UC) – are changing the ways in which care is delivered in the UK, increasing the precarity of individuals and the organisations who care for them. New cultures of care are emerging as a result. We show how an emplaced affect of ‘edgy-ness’ shaped a culture of care within third-sector organisations and housing associations working in

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

ABSTRACT Inspired by an idea that occurred to me during a walking holiday in Scotland, this article identifies a new dimension to place memory: namely, the way in which we can be unexpectedly reminded of one place in another that is, on first inspection, very different. Reflecting on this phenomenon has led me to propose (similar to Hayden Lorimer) that topographical features such as slope, camber

ABSTRACT Research on geographies of care identifies care work as a low-paid, menial and ultimately feminized activity. Much of the work in the field, unsurprisingly, has focused upon the plight of women and how the division of labour produces and sustains gender inequalities. We are interested in how new generations understand gender, work and care and the possibilities for generating heterogeneous

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

(2021). Red coats and wild birds: how military ornithologists and migrant birds shaped empire. Social & Cultural Geography. Ahead of Print.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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)

(2021). Curating and re-curating the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 893-894.

(2021). A global history of anti-apartheid: ‘forward to freedom’ in South Africa. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 891-893.

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

(2021). Traces of J.B. Jackson: the man who taught us to see everyday America. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 890-891.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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