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Home futures: a house biography of futures for a modernist high-rise estate cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Richard Baxter
House biographies tend to focus on buildings’ pasts. By comparison, this article develops a house biography of futures for a modernist high-rise estate, the Aylesbury Estate in London. It argues that a house biography of futures explores the multiple futures of house, building, estate and the built environment. To provide the biography the fieldwork involved archival research, oral history interviews
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Dwelling and healing with saints and jinn in the haunted landscapes of Palestine cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Amer A Al-Qobbaj, David J Marshall
The Jinn of Islamic and Middle Eastern popular mythology play a role in maintaining spatial divisions between sacred and profane space, public and protected areas, and acceptable and exceptional behaviour. Though research on jinn continues to be of importance in cross-cultural psychology, the rich relationship between jinn and place has largely been lost or severed. This paper seeks to restore this
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Robin Hood Gardens and the Brutalist Image cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Edward Brookes
This article contributes to cultural geography’s continued interest in exploring how images and photographic practices have shaped representations and engagements with architectural space. Using the Robin Hood Gardens Estate – a Brutalist social housing estate in East London as an example, it interrogates how visual strategies associated with the grid, the interruption and the ruin shape different
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Pluriversal scenographics and staging world feelings: climate crisis in SUPERFLUX’s ‘It Is Not The End Of The World’ cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Rachel Hann
This article investigates the role of scenographics in staging climate crisis cultures. The art collective SUPERFLEX’s installation It Is Not The End Of The World (Copenhagen 2019) explored human-world relations through techniques of set design, lighting, sound and costume. Central to this was a detailed 1-to-1 scale replica of the UN Building toilets re-imagined as an archaeology of a future without
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River(s) Wear: Water in the Expanded Field cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Miguel Santos, John Wainwright
This article elaborates on an artist-in-residence project funded by the Leverhulme Trust in the Geography Department at Durham University in 2015–16. The project confronted artistic and scientific perspectives to investigate how people in the North-East of England perceive and value their river environments and to recognize potential contributions to catchment management. The project identified a variety
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How many Kirulapana Canals are there in Colombo? Reading everyday imageries and imaginations using southern theory cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Nipesh Palat Narayanan, Natasha Cornea
Urban imaginations, imageries and conceptualizations are always plural and illustrate the formation of knowledge hegemonies. In this article, we engage with the problematic of reading infrastructures with a southern theory lens. We explore multiple imaginations, imageries and conceptualizations of the Kirulapana Canal in Colombo via everyday practices. Analysing the geographical imaginations of the
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‘Y Compartimos. . .’: the collective creation of performed fiction in practice cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Joanna Kocsis
This essay combines text and images in the style of a graphic novel to animate the lively and dynamic processes of a qualitative research approach that I call the collective creation of performed fiction. This is a form of projective storytelling in which participants draw on their own experiences to create and perform composite stories. Using fiction helps them avoid revealing sensitive details of
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Re-animating the archive: encountering and transforming historical materials with digital design tools cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Kristine G. Ericson
Once documents exist outside physical archives in high-resolution digital forms, researcher-artists may interact with them in previously impossible or forbidden ways – spinning them around in three dimensions, zooming in to their tiniest details, or tearing them apart. Commonly used by visual and spatial designers, digital 3D modeling, animation, and image-editing tools make possible affective and
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Remembered belonging: encounters with the spectral more-than amidst landscapes of decline cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Milo Newman
Recent literature in cultural geography, and elsewhere, has productively applied a spectral lens to the subject of extinction, revealing its hauntological aspects. In this article I expand on this, exploring the spectral effects of the diminishments that precede extinction. This is articulated via an extinction story detailing the steep decline in numbers of arctic terns (pickies) returning to the
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After Wilding: exploring environmental futures through place-based, speculative documentary filmmaking cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Joe Revans, Oscar Hartman Davies
In 2021 and 2022, we engaged in a collaborative filmmaking project at Maple Farm, a rewilding site in Southeast England. The project resulted in After Wilding, a speculative documentary film that e...
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Immunological atmospheres: Ambient music and the design of self-experience cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 George Burdon
This paper examines the cultural popularity of ‘ambient music’ playlists on digital streaming platforms as a paradigm of the technical fabrication of atmospheres and the modulation of affect in som...
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Tracking Sonny: localised digital knowledge of an urban fox cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Tom Fry
This paper outlines the practice of a novel digital method in animal geographies: etho-ethnographic citizen science. I describe a project using this participatory method with local residents in inn...
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Earthling: the labourer and the soil cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Carl J. Griffin
Geography is a discipline rooted in the idea of ‘earth writing’, yet until recently human geographers had left the study of the very matter of the earth – the soil beneath our feet – to natural sci...
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Street art, heritage and affective atmospheres cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Laima Nomeikaite
During the last decade, street art has received increased attention within heritage studies. However, current heritage research has not sufficiently explored street art’s crucial relationships with...
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Back lane geography: in praise of worlds behind cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Marijn Nieuwenhuis
‘Gateshead’, the Tory playwright Samuel Johnson said, is ‘the dirty back lane leading to Newcastle’. What his derogatory dialectic misses is the significance of the back lane as a place in and of i...
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Sonic methodologies for more-than-human geographies: the politics of listening in a traditional slaughterhouse in the UK cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Eimear Mc Loughlin
Sound is an established parameter in animal welfare studies. A sonic ethnographic study of a traditional slaughterhouse in south-west England reveals how animal welfare, conceived as ‘respect for t...
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Starting to care: making place with microbes cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Molly McConnell
Despite the many conversations in the environmental humanities about care and making kin with the more-than-human, there has been little focus on the sourdough starter and its relation with human c...
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On the banks of the Pilcomayo River: Wichí fishery in the age of motorcycles cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Alberto Preci
In just a few years motorcycles had become an irreplaceable object for the daily life of Indigenous people in the Gran Chaco region. In spite of their pervasiveness, there are still many aspects to...
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On burning ground: Theatre of the Oppressed and ecological crisis in Bolivia cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Alastair Cole, Lorenza Fontana, Max Hirzel, Caleb Johnston, Angelo Miramonti
In this essay, we report on a 2022 creative research collaboration in which we deployed Augusto Boal’s models of Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre to generate community dialogue and action...
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Spaces of fluidity: articulating ‘politics of presence’ through place-based activism in Iqrit (Israel) cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Dorota Golańska, Marta Woźniak-Bobińska
This article engages with the material geographies of colonialism in Israel/Palestine by looking at the site-specific cultural activities in Iqrit (Israel), a Christian-Arab village depopulated dur...
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Frozen modernity: the US-India ice trade and the cultures of colonialism cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Ishan Ashutosh
This article examines the history of the ice trade between the United States and India that operated from the early-to-mid 19th century. I argue that the ice trade reinforced cultures of colonialis...
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Kochi: provincialising postcolonial metro-cosmopolitan spatialities cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Jintu Alias, Soni Wadhwa
There is much to learn about how some locales come to be deemed as more cosmopolitan than others. Mumbai is hailed as a cosmopolitan city and even a model for India. With an increasing sense of dis...
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Stories, crisis, and meaning-making: storying possibility and community in the terrain of cultural struggle cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Dylan M Harris
In a time of multiple, competing, and nested crises, the draw to storytelling is intuitive. Stories help us make sense of the world around us. People are drawn to stories because of their emphasis ...
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Restoring the river, restoring relations: on Anishinaabe artist Michael Belmore’s stone series, Replenishment cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Nicole Latulippe
In his work and creative practice, Anishinaabe artist Michael Belmore shows that materials have language and rock tells a story. Belmore’s land-based installation on Manitoulin Island, a three-part...
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Space out of joint: absurdist geographies of the Anthropocene cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Japhy Wilson
This paper seeks to demonstrate the critical utility of the concept of the absurd in the exploration of the combined and uneven apocalypse known as the Anthropocene. Drawing inspiration from absurd...
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A French bazaar and a Mexican street market: an object-centered comparative analysis of interstitial spaces cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Julie-Anne Boudreau, Léa Billen, Jordi Agüero
A neighborhood bazaar run by a community organization in Saint-Denis in the Greater Paris region, an ‘informal’ cultural street market in downtown Mexico City run by the oldest members of the Punk-...
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Finding comfort and conviviality with urban trees cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Elizabeth Straughan, Catherine Phillips, Jennifer Atchison
This paper develops cultural geographic understandings of more-than-human comfort and conviviality by analysing emails sent to trees living in the City of Melbourne, Australia. The emails arrive fr...
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Living in the skin of dictatorship: an encounter with the Belarus Free Theatre cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Noah Birksted-Breen
On 12 March 2022, I attended Dogs of Europe, a performance by Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) at London’s Barbican Theatre. Adapted from the novel by Belarusian writer Alhierd Bacharevič, the play imagi...
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Collaging to find river connections and stimulate new meanings cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Ioanna Daphne Giannoulatou, Stephanie R Januchowski-Hartley, Asha Sahni, Sayali K Pawar, James C White, Julia Lockheart, Nina Baranduin, Doryn Herbst, Benjamin Whittaker, Stephen J Thackeray, Robert Shooter, Judy Darley, Merryn Thomas
This article contributes to work in creative geographies through the lens of river spaces and a multimodal practice among an ensemble of artists/poets/scientists. The collaboration created two coll...
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Seismic media: art and geological co-creation in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Zita Joyce, Susan Ballard
In September 2010 the city of Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand was rocked by the first of a sequence of 16,000 earthquakes. This essay considers art and creative practices that have responded to ...
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The ‘geobiography’ of an extraordinary artifact, or a conserved relic from the Iranianized ‘Dacha’ culture cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Mahsa Sholeh, Sahand Lotfi
Since one of cultural geography’s aims is to understand how human cultures influence the landscape, the geobiography of a modest artifact can be a readable clue concerning a larger cultural context...
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Vegetal HydroPoetics: an arts-based practice for plant studies cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Franklin Ginn, Katy Connor
In this paper we outline an arts-based practice of experimenting with plant growth. Working with hydroponic systems, we describe a means to interact with plants beyond instrumentalism and beyond ap...
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Enacting sustainability through glass: a study of ontological politics in the proclaimed role model neighbourhood of Vallastaden cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Maria Eidenskog, Wiktoria Glad, Madelene Gramfält
This article explores how sustainability is made present and visible in the life of residents in a new neighbourhood. Glass is enacted by design professionals and a Swedish municipality to create s...
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Opening spatial hinges with mindful writing practice: negotiating Philip Pullman’s secret commonwealth cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Jane Lovell
This article enquires how ‘spatial hinges’ between author Philip Pullman’s series The Book of Dust and different sites are unexpected and elusive, but may opened by mindfulness. Natalie Goldberg’s ...
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‘It was quiet’: the radical architectures of understatement in feminist science fiction cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Amy Butt
“Poisonless:a bare city, bright, the colours light and hard, the air pure. It was quiet.”The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)This is how Ursula K. Le Guin describes the city of Abbenay in The...
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(In)visible powers: witnessing the ‘tourist-waters’ of Nämforsen cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Linda Maria Thompson
This artistic research reflection explores Sweden’s legally-mandated ‘tourist-release’ at the Ångermanälven River’s storied site of Nämforsen. Against World Wars and calls for energy independence o...
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A geography beyond the Anthropocene: Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home as topophilia for survival cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Ben Garlick, Liesl King
The science fiction of Ursula Le Guin deftly uses prose to conjure alternative worlds, societies and cultures of nature amidst times of profound upheaval. Equally, her writing is suffused with quie...
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All Lines Flow In: excavating the geophilosophical relations of Singapore’s infrastructure through SEA STATE cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 William Jamieson
Infrastructure has proven a polyvalent concept in human geography and anthropology for exploring the intersection of the social and technical. However, the ‘below’ of infrastructure, the infra, has...
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Geography of placemories: deciphering spatialised memories cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Elena Hubner, Peter Dirksmeier
This paper develops the new concept of the geography of placemories as a critical approach for deciphering spatialised memories in cultural geography. In referring to Alfred North Whitehead’s philo...
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Conjunctions of Islam: rethinking the geographies of art and piety through the notebooks of Ahmet Süheyl Ünver cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Timur Hammond
How should we understand the relationship between artistic practice and religious devotion? This paper answers that question through a close engagement with the archive of the artist, teacher, doct...
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Allure in the uninhabitable: on affect, space, and Blackness in gentrifying Philadelphia cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Austin Colby Guy Lee
This article engages with affect theory and Black feminist interrogations of the human to examine the conflicting feelings evoked by the gentrification process. Black feminist theorists have long d...
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Corrigendum to The hidden geographies of religious creativity: place-making and material culture in West London faith communities cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-08-17
Gilbert D, Dwyer C, Ahmed N, Cuch Graces L, Hyacinth N. The hidden geographies of religious creativity: place-making and material culture in West London faith communities. cultural geographies. 2019;26(1):23-41. doi:10.1177/1474474018787278
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Hostile prototypes: plastic urbanism in San Francisco cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Kim Kullman
Turning to the concept of plasticity in the philosophy of Catherine Malabou, this article traces an approach to urban change as a volatile movement of giving, receiving and exploding form. It diver...
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‘Ooh it were mucky’: mapping memories of New Basford, Nottingham cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Alison Barnes
Using a ‘geo/graphic’ map of New Basford, Nottingham as its starting point, and contextualising this within critical approaches to map-making and contemporary critical cultural geographies, this ar...
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Mapping enchanted landscapes in Philip Weller’s The Dartmoor of The Hound of the Baskervilles cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 David McLaughlin
Literary mapping has developed in fascinating ways in recent years, both as a field of study and as a practical tool to pursue those studies. However, one area of literary mapping as a subject rema...
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Amor Loci: Auden in Rookhope cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 John Tomaney
I present a conspectus of the imaginative geography of the English poet WH Auden. This imaginative geography is avowedly the product of a rootless, cosmopolitan which extols domestic virtues agains...
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Intimate geographies of virginal blood cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Elisabeth Militz
Feminist scholars, activists, and artists have long addressed the topic of virginity and have dismantled it as a powerful, globally circulating, and gendered myth. It affects how many woman-identif...
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Toward a critical posthuman geography cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Joshua Falcon
Geographical analyses of posthuman thought have called for the need to develop a critical form of posthumanism that neither rehashes the pitfalls of humanism, nor promulgates a universalized and ungrounded subject position. This article demonstrates how recent advances in critical posthumanism work to address the limitations of posthuman thought by offering a unified philosophical framework that situates
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Detroit in memoriam: urban imaginaries and the spectre of demolished by neglect in performative photo-installations cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Wes Aelbrecht
Much has been written in recent years about ruins and photography and especially so in the context of Detroit’s declining urban landscape. Numerous books present us with beautiful ruined buildings and landscapes; and further explanations why we might be drawn to images of decay. While some claim that ruin imagery triggers a form of resistance to the forces of capitalism; others stand critical to the
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‘Imagine you are a Dog’: embodied learning in multi-species research cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Rebekah Fox, Nickie Charles, Harriet Smith, Mara Miele
Based upon a multi-species ethnography of companion dog training in the UK, this paper examines the training class as a site of inter-species communication through which dogs and their humans are mutually affected and transformed. We argue that dog training represents an important form of multi-species learning in which participants (human trainer, trainee and canine) shape one another, jointly if
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Emplaced sounding: voice, identity and place in Zadie Smith’s NW cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Alexandra Halligey
Through a close reading of Zadie Smith’s portrayal of the character Keisha/Natalie’s voice and relationship to voice in the novel NW, this article considers how people’s speaking, sounding voices are both emplaced (coming from, made by place) and are key place-making acts. This paper argues for how analysing sound in literature might serve sonic geographic interest in the ‘whole’ voice, with all sound’s
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Out of time/in place: Norwegianness, ‘immigration’, and spatial belonging in Beforeigners cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Robert A Saunders
Television – as a form of representation, a space of affect, and an instrument of identity production – is a growing force in shaping perceptions of and views on international immigration. While geographers have examined the ways in which films, documentaries, and social media engage with the so-called ‘migrant crisis’ in Europe, there has been little work on fictional TV series as a force in world-building
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Absence as an affordance: thinking with(out) water on the inland waterways cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Maarja Kaaristo, Francesco Visentin
This article extends our understanding of inland waterways by theorising the temporary absences of water in canals and rivers as possibilities for action, that is, affordances. The interplay of temporary absence and presence of water in the inland waterways provides a range of potentialities for various activities and practices. Affordance theory can help us to further theorise material absences and
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Infrastructures of obscenity: Total Request Live and participatory TV production in action cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Clayton Rosati
Obscenity and pornographic culture did not disappear with Times Square’s gentrification in the 1990s. Rather, gentrification inaugurated new obscene cultural forms, displaying the opulence of celebrity and the enclosed spaces of media production. Using observations and interviews with production staff at Total Request Live (1998–2008), the flagship music countdown show on the MTV cable network, the
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Posthuman landscapes cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Candice P Boyd, Elizabeth Straughan
Cultural geography has a long tradition of embracing video as both an observational method and a form of public engagement with research findings. In this article, we describe the making of Posthuman Landscapes, a silent film composed of moving panoramic images depicting the landscapes of three regional Australian towns (Griffith, Port Hedland, and Port Lincoln), along with creative writing that responded
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Picturing these days of love and rage: Extinction Rebellion’s ‘Impossible Rebellion’ cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Caleb Johnston, Aphra Holland Bonnett
This essay combines text and photographs to animate and engage the 2021 Extinction Rebellion protests in London. The work draws attention to the Rebellion’s creative interventions in public space and identifies and explores five modes of geographical street activism. We offer this encounter and visual report in the hope that it might inspire geographers to imagine and launch their own ‘impossible rebellion’
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Aboriginal cultural values framework: producing and communicating Bunurong values and meanings within Bunurong Country cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 David Tutchener, Dan Turnbull
This article discusses social spaces within Bunurong Country, Australia, and the production and recording of Aboriginal cultural values. Among the broader Australian community, there is a considerable appetite for the incorporation of ‘authentic’ Aboriginal cultural values into various Western processes, such as the planning, heritage and environmental sectors. This article argues that by establishing
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“¡Tengo gloria bendita!”: pitching and the sonic production of place atmospheres under increasing marketplace regulation cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Maria Lindmäe
This paper studies the sonic production of weekly markets through an analysis of the acoustic tactics employed by both authorized and unauthorized traders in two street markets of Catalonia. A three-fold typology of pitchers – the Repeaters, the Influencers and the Silenced – is presented to illustrate the different levels of creativity at play in contesting marketplace regulations that prohibit this
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Geographies of the event? Rethinking time and power through digital interfaces cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 James Ash, Rachel Gordon, Sarah Mills
This paper examines work in cultural and human geography that theorises temporality in terms of events. Moving from humanist phenomenology, to non-representational and assemblage theories and current geographies of encounter, it suggests these accounts of events tend to analyse the past and future through the lens of the present. Building upon these literatures and the work of Tristan Garcia, the paper
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Taking back taste in food bank Britain: on privilege, failure and (un)learning with auto-corporeal methods cultural geographies (IF 1.786) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Samuel Strong
Food banks are a growing feature of austerity Britain. Despite this, little research has focused on the object central to their operations: the food they provision. In charting an attempt to “open” food bank parcels to greater scrutiny, this article highlights the need to take back taste from predominantly nutritionist framings of food. Drawing on recent work in more-than-representational and visceral