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Containment, control and surveillance: a qualitative inquiry into eating disorders and the COVID-19 pandemic Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Ellys Feather
This paper works towards a social geography of eating disorders through the lens of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK. Through an empirical engagement with experience-centred knowledge, I couple n...
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Imagining post-fossil tourism mobilities with Norwegian tourists Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Debbie Hopkins, Iratxe Landa-Mata, Jens Kr Steen Jacobsen, Eivind Farstad, James Higham
Sustainable mobility has become a catch-all term to describe forms, modes, policies and practices of mobility that are thought to have a lower environmental footprint and/or fewer social exclusions...
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Mobile therapeutic ‘home’ territories during the COVID-19 pandemic and moments of being well pedalling Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Gordon Waitt, Elyse Stanes
This paper moves beyond biomedical accounts of cycling health benefits to consider the situated, emergent, embodied, and relational notion of being well. In doing so, we draw on Deleuze and Guattar...
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‘Why has this guy got his foot in the sink?’: challenges, encounters and everyday geographies of practicing wudu Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Edward Wigley, Rashida Bibi
Wudu, an ablution performed (often multiple times) daily which is integral to the spiritual lives of many, has been somewhat neglected from the analysis of the everyday experiences and geographies ...
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A walk with “that wild dog of yours”: tales of circumscribed, co-negotiated and adaptive walking practices Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Paul O’Hare
The benefits of pet companionship – and of dog walking in particular – has been long acknowledged across academic disciplines. Much of the research values – even romanticizes – it as mutually benef...
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Interfacing as embodied practice: journeys between print, screen and beyond Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 George Revill, Jan Van Duppen, Caroline Scarles
This paper develops a concept of interfacing as a heterogeneous zone of interaction, a relational space created by users as they bring together interact with and draw on a range of digital and anal...
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Estate regeneration and its discontents: public housing, place and inequality in London Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Farjana Islam
Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2024)
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Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Teesta Sengupta
Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2024)
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‘Empty returns’: home and its unmaking during Greek-Cypriot refugee women’s return visits Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Christakis Peristianis
The 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus led to the division of the island between the Turkish-occupied north and the Greek-Cypriot Republic in the south. For approximately 30 years, the Greek and Turki...
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Out in Suburbia: Associations between residential location, mental health, and community connectedness among LGBTQ Australians Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Ruby Grant, Natalie Amos, Anthony Lyons, Ruth McNair, Jennifer Power, Marina Carman, Adam Hill, Adam Bourne
This article critically examines the contemporary applicability of homonormativity in understanding LGBTQ experiences in outer suburban Australia. Representing a departure from urban-rural dichotom...
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Shapes of hot water: the ontological politics of handwashing during the COVID-19 pandemic Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Wiktoria Glad, Bodil Axelsson
This paper explores the ontological politics and practices of handwashing using hot tap water during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden through attending to how handwashing was performed, what thought...
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(Em)placing the popular in Cultural Geography Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Alex Hastie, Robert A. Saunders
Geographers have long been interested in popular culture, exploring everything from music and film, to fashion and sport. However, there remain some gaps in the field with some of the biggest and m...
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The decolonial wor(l)ds of Indigenous women Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Walaa Alqaisiya
This article focuses on Indigenous women’s narrative and storytelling tradition and its relation to decolonial ecologies. It argues that Indigenous women’s narratives, both written and orally trans...
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Veganism, Archives and Animals: Geographies of a Multispecies World Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Dave McLaughlin, Gino Jafet Quintero Venegas, Norman Riley, Neil Ward
Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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A composition of Reviews on : Home SOS: Gender, Violence, and Survival in Crisis Ordinary Cambodia Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Dave McLaughlin, Rosa Yi, Eunbi Ko, Vimuolea Hang, Michele Lancione
Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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“You better stay healthy and postpone any illness until I can be with you”: the multidirectional ‘care ecologies’ of migrant women during the COVID-19 pandemic Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Anoosh Soltani, Holly Thorpe, Julie Brice
Drawing upon the concept of ‘care ecology’, in this paper we explore migrant women’s unpaid caring activities and emotional labour within the spatial orderings of the COVID-19 pandemic in and beyon...
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Coupling constraints affecting daily mobilities of Swedish families with wheelchair-using children Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Emma Landby
Mobility can involve many barriers that make it challenging for individuals with disabilities to travel. When it is a child who has a disability, the whole family’s mobility practices can be affect...
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Navigating the future: hope and aspirations for future lives among Filipino middling transnational families in Singapore Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Evangeline O. Katigbak-Montoya
This paper sheds light on the experiences of middling Filipino transnational families in Singapore concerning the intersections of hope and aspiration in constructing their imagined futures. In par...
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Custodians of a resort island: standing by between oblivion and restoration Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Uma Kothari, Tim Edensor
This paper explores the experiences of three Bangladeshi migrant workers who are the sole inhabitants and custodians of a former Maldivian island resort. We show how they currently remain in a stat...
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‘Now there’s just a different feel’: spatiotemporal commitments & commercial racialization as markers of rural belonging Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Cristina L. Ortiz
Twenty-first century rural Midwest communities are experiencing demographic shifts and industrialization in ways that challenge assumptions about rural social cohesion. Urban spatial segregation, s...
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Queer Latinx Worldmakings: geographies of food, love and familia in prison Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Lorena Munoz
This study illustrates how incarcerated Latinx people create alternative social worlds or queer worldmakings as they negotiate everyday life in prison. I explore how these queer Latinx worldmakings...
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Some popular cultural geographies, starring Cyrille Regis, Delia Derbyshire, an Ewok, Mickey Mouse, Napalm Death, the Sylvanian families, and anonymous hate mail… Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 John Horton
This essay is about many things including, but not limited to, Cyrille Regis, Delia Derbyshire, an Ewok badge, Mickey Mouse, Napalm Death, the Sylvanian Families, anonymous hate mail, bereavement, ...
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‘Like yelling bomb in an airport’: bed bugs and more-than-human geographies of migrant farm worker hostels Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Kaya Barry
This paper unravels the intimate and irritant more-than-human encounters in hostel accommodation used by migrant farm workers in regional Australia. These are communal places of inhabitancy that dr...
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The domestic bathroom: a strongbox for gender performativity and transgression Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Júlia Pascual-Bordas
ABSTRACT Public bathrooms are key sites for understanding gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientations that are out of the norm. Research has shown that they are places of discrimination but they also provide opportunities for transgression. Domestic bathrooms, however, have not received much attention. Through the experiences of 27 LGBT+ youth from Bages, an interior region of Catalonia
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The Unsettling Outdoors: Environmental Estrangement in Everyday Life, by Russell Hitchings. London: Wiley, RGS-IBG Book Series 2021 176 pp., $51.95 paperback (ISBN: 978-1-119-54915-4); $124.95 hardback (ISBN: 978-1-119-54912-3) Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Raksha Pande, Jennifer M. Atchison, David Bissell, Cecily Maller, Gordon Walker, Russell Hitchings
Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2024)
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Construction as a ‘building event’: exploring the role of project architects and their practices of intermediation during the construction of global architecture Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Venetsiya Dimitrova
ABSTRACT The main aim of the following paper is to unpack the construction processes behind global architecture that have remained conceptually under-theorized and empirically unexplored. This is achieved by shifting the focus away from the brand-name global architects to the invisible, less prominent project architects employed in their celebrity offices. Based on the analysis of qualitative interviews
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‘When this thing hit’: examining the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the blues-based cultural economy of Clarksdale, Mississippi Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Mandy Truman, Eric Sarmiento
ABSTRACT Often considered the ‘birthplace of the blues’, the Mississippi Delta hosts a vibrant cultural economy based on blues music and culture. As this economy relies on embodied social experiences in place, health and safety regulations issued to combat the SARS-CoV-2 virus had dramatic effects on musicians, business owners, and other cultural workers. In this paper, we examine the impacts of the
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Night-time bedroom soundscapes: embodied geographies of housing and home Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Katie Walsh
ABSTRACT This article examines night-time bedroom soundscapes to highlight the significance of embodied geographies of home in understanding lived inequalities of housing. The article presents an analysis of responses (n =174) to the Mass Observation Project ‘Your Bedroom’ (2017) directive, in which UK panellists were asked about their bedrooms. The mundane, ordinary and frequent noise disturbance
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‘I haven’t got anywhere safe’: disabled people’s experiences of hate and violence within the home Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Leah Burch
ABSTRACT This paper explores disabled people’s experiences of ‘everyday’ hate within and around their home. The characteristics of the home make it a particularly interesting site of analysis, as many of the features offer protections and risks simultaneously. Moreover, the home is a particularly important space within our everyday lives, particularly for disabled people who may encounter marginalization
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Bubbles, fortresses and rings of steel: risk and socio-spatialities in Australians’ accounts of border controls during the COVID-19 pandemic Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Ella Butler, Deborah Lupton
ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic, several jurisdictions have exerted controls over people’s mobilities as a way of containing viral spread. In Australia, international borders were closed for almost two years and internal borders were periodically shut and policed as part of strong public health measures implemented by federal and state governments. In this article, we discuss how Australians
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Threatening dystopias: the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Lizzie Yarina
Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Young people and TikTok use in Australia: digital geographies of care in popular culture Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Jessica McLean, Clare Southerton, Deborah Lupton
ABSTRACT The short-form video-sharing app TikTok is the fastest growing social media platform globally, particularly among young people, and the app is attracting significant academic interest. However, the voices of young people have been mostly absent from these debates. This article offers a qualitative study of how young people are using TikTok to make care-full digital worlds in and around Sydney
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Whose infrastructure, which commons? On the maintenance of an emergent health commons in the Netherlands Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Fenna Smits
ABSTRACT This article explores how and by what means an emergent health commons is (re)produced in practice. Drawing on recent studies that consider the materiality of citizens’ struggles over the commons, it adopts a more-than-human approach to commoning. Employing ethnographic research on a communal healthcare cooperative in a region of the Netherlands that faces depopulation and institutional failure
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Transspecies liminality: unpacking the politics and patchy legitimization of urban human-cat relations Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Jacquelyn Johnston
ABSTRACT Urban human-cat relations depend on complex and contingent systems of overlapping policies, ordinances, and laws. Cats defy anthropocentric binaries and boundaries. In response to the problematic use of the term ‘feral’, a term rife with negative associations, many government agencies, including those in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties in Florida, have rebranded this population as ‘community’
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Overcoming the Troubles in Westeros: changing perceptions of post-conflict Northern Ireland through the diegetic heritage of Game of Thrones Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Christoph Doppelhofer
ABSTRACT The fantasy series Game of Thrones (GoT) has become a phenomenon that reaches far beyond the television screens. Through extensive on-location filming, the series has linked its diegetic world of Westeros to countless heritage sites across several countries, most prominently Northern Ireland. Through narrative and special effects, GoT has overcoded these landscapes with their on-screen identities
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Plant-based food politics: veganism, quiet activism and small businesses in Sydney’s foodscapes Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Andrew McGregor, Donna Houston, Tasmin-Lara Dilworth, Milena Bojovic
ABSTRACT Veganism is becoming more popular as the social, environmental, and ethical impacts of animal agriculture become better known. This is creating new opportunities and challenges as an array of economic actors seek to profit from and contribute to the movement. In this paper, we analyse how small plant-based food businesses are engaging with and influencing vegan politics through a case study
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Spatial division of opportunity: local economic context, elite trajectories, and the widening participation industry Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Joanne Davies, Michael Donnelly
ABSTRACT The importance of geography in debates around education and labour market inequality is an enduring public policy concern. This paper argues that local economic contexts have a role in shaping the kind of university and career trajectories working-class young people are exposed to. Drawing on multi-sited data on working-class young people in different local contexts across England, it underlines
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The institutionalization of parkour: blurring the boundaries of tight and loose spaces Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Sirpa Tani
ABSTRACT During its twenty-year history as a globally popular lifestyle sport, parkour has undergone institutionalization, professionalization and commercialization. In this article, the analysis of these changes is based on interviews conducted with Finnish traceurs who have long experience in parkour as practitioners and coaches, with some of them having parkour as their main occupation. Earlier
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Mining presence: extraction and embodiment in Valles Centrales, Oaxaca Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Elena G Tjandra
ABSTRACT This paper offers a critical reflection on the ways extractive industries manifest within and across place. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Mexico over 8 months in 2019–2020, this paper focuses on the experiences of residents living in a town adjacent to an underground silver mine in Valles Centrales, Oaxaca, Mexico. I argue that a focus on lived, sensory and long-term engagement
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‘Standing still … in a moving place’ – reassessing lyrics and the spaces they construct through the musical landscapes of The Blue Nile Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Kevin Milburn
ABSTRACT This paper calls for a recalibration of how cultural geography engages with music, lyrics, motion, and emotion. Within existing geographical work on music, research on the music itself remains scarce, with reflection on lyrics rarer still. This paper addresses this via a close reading of the work of the Glaswegian group, The Blue Nile. It examines how the trio – and especially their principal
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“We’re not that much different from you!”: navigating positions of betweenness to explore solidarity, care and vulnerability in refugee and forced migration research Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Rik P. Huizinga
ABSTRACT This paper argues that through reflexive examination of positions of betweenness in research relationships, insights are gathered that help to understand and address the often-contested research spaces in refugee and forced migration research. Following the completion of a research project with Syrian male refugees in the Netherlands, I investigate how multiple identities and shifting social
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Andrew Baldwin The Other of Climate Change: racial futurism, migration, humanism Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Jonathan Pugh
Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Vol. 24, No. 9, 2023)
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Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Joshua Z. Merced
Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Vol. 24, No. 7, 2023)
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Experiences of ‘sensory space-time compression’ in migrant homemaking Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Ruth Webber
ABSTRACT Research examining migrant homemaking is multi-disciplinary and well-developed, providing evidence that ‘home’ exists in multiple places. However, only a small component of this work examines the role of the senses. This paper draws on research conducted between 2015 and 2019 in Glasgow, a city in Scotland, UK, with migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women that used photo elicitation interviews
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“Why Should a Married Man Fetch Water?” Masculinities, gender relations, and the embodied political ecology of urban water insecurity in Malawi Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Ellis Adjei Adams
ABSTRACT In sub-Saharan Africa, water insecurity is intertwined with gender and sociocultural norms. While extensive scholarship exists on gender-water relations in the region, it predominantly focuses on women’s roles and responsibilities, seldom considering the role of masculinities. This paper examines masculinities, gender relations, and women’s embodied experiences of water insecurity. It situates
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Towards an assemblage approach to mobile disability politics Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Gordon Waitt, Theresa Harada, Thomas Birtchnell
ABSTRACT This paper addresses embodied geographies of power assisted devices (powered wheelchairs and motorised scooters) for disabled people in Australia to augment understandings of mobile disability politics. Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of ‘lines’ is used to reimagine spatial thinking about mobile disability politics. Disability in this paper is understood as an emplaced, emergent, relational
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Gratitude for and to nature: insights from emails to urban trees Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Catherine Phillips, Elizabeth Straughan, Jennifer Atchison
Gratitude goes to the heart of discussions about ethics, care, and responsibility in a more-than-human world. Surprisingly, gratitude remains peripheral to geographical considerations of human-envi...
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Genealogical Journeys, Geographical Imagination, and (Popular) Geopolitics in Who Do You Think You Are? Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Robert A. Saunders
ABSTRACT Genealogy is now a global industry, accounting for $3 billion every year in the US market alone. Enhanced via public record digitisation, crowd-sourced data input, and consumer genetics testing, interest in one’s ancestral roots has never been higher. Recognising the public interest in personal lineages, the BBC launched the docuseries Who Do You Think You Are? in 2004. Focusing on celebrities’
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Travelling ‘down South’: language, cultural capital and spatiality in Chennai’s information technology sector Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 S. Shakthi
This article examines the role of language in shaping work processes in the Indian information technology (IT) industry, which has become synonymous with the country’s ‘new’ middle class. In the So...
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Masking Visible Poverty through ‘Activation’: Creative Placemaking as a Compassionate Revanchist Policy Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Daniel Kudla
ABSTRACT Creative placemaking strategies are widely adopted by urban planners, local governments, and business communities in hopes to revive economically struggling urban areas. These strategies seek to attract pedestrian traffic by facilitating arts and cultural activities in underutilized urban spaces. While these are seemingly innocuous and uncontroversial urban design strategies, I argue that
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Sonic registers of belonging: British mobile young people in UK higher education Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Sophie Cranston
Drawing on interviews with British passport holders who moved to the United Kingdom to start University, this paper explores slang and accent as sonic spatial identities. The paper analyses the inc...
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The multiple intensities of COVID-19 space-times Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Avril Maddrell, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Michele Lobo
Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Vol. 24, No. 3-4, 2023)
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Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Marina Rospitasari, Narita Pratiwi, Hendra Zebua
Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Vol. 24, No. 7, 2023)
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The Routledge handbook of wine and culture Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Nikolai Siimes
Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Vol. 24, No. 10, 2023)
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Radio and the anti-geopolitical ear: imaginative geographies of a Syrian family’s migration to Europe on BBC Radio 4 Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Alice Watson
ABSTRACT This paper examines imaginative geographies of forced migration and refugee settlement in a BBC radio series that follows and gives voice to a Syrian family as they journey to Europe. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2015 and 2017, the episodes have since been repackaged as a podcast on BBC Sounds. The paper answers Horton’s (2019) call for greater engagement with media and popular
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Bedding into bags: the life histories of materials, makers and the time of making in a case study of fabric upcycling Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Clare Holdsworth
Geographical scholarship on making has established the interrelations between makers, materials and space. With this paper I explore how this scholarship can be developed to incorporate time throug...
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Rethinking spaces of gendered livestock ownership: pastoralist women’s knowledge, care, and labor Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Kayla Yurco
This article examines the traditionally underemphasized and overlooked roles of pastoral (livestock-keeping) women in managing their livestock, demonstrating the types of, and significance of, thei...
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Legal and cultural geographies of displacement: home unmaking through material belongings Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2022-12-17 Ifigeneia Dimitrakou, Hanna Hilbrandt
This article examines the role that material belongings play in displacement processes. Following the evacuation of the housing complex Hannibal II in Dortmund (Germany), the displacement of its 75...
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Virtual reality and videogames: immersion, presence, and the performative spatiality of ‘being there’ in virtual worlds Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Tyler Blackman
Virtual worlds and their numerous digital geographies are ubiquitous in everyday life. This article addresses the intersection of two increasingly popular mediums: virtual reality and videogames. I...
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Towards a research agenda for animal and disability geographies: ableism, speciesism, care, space, and place Social & Cultural Geography (IF 2.888) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Jamie Arathoon
ABSTRACT Animal and disability geographies have become recognized fields of inquiry gaining traction with geographers of differing interests, approaches, and methods. To date, however, there has been limited engagement between the two fields themselves, despite healthy suggestions for such debate in the wider social sciences and humanities. This paper provides a series of provocations about the interconnections