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Social and Cultural Geography: Subaltern. (2009)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2009). Social and Cultural Geography: Subaltern. In R. Kitchin, & N. Thurift (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (59-64). Elsevier

The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry (2009)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2009). The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry. Journal of Rural Studies, 25(3), 255-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2009.03.001

Despite recent critical analyses of the nature and impacts of social and environmental certification, the increasingly complex landscape of voluntary, industry and third-party codes and certification processes that have emerged in specific sectors is... Read More about The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry.

Placing ethical trade in context: WIETA and the South African wine industry (2009)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2009). Placing ethical trade in context: WIETA and the South African wine industry. Third World Quarterly, 30(4), 723-742. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590902867144

How ethical trade develops in specific ways in particular national-institutional and historical contexts remains largely unexamined. This paper analyses approaches to ethical trade in the South African wine industry through a case study of the Wine a... Read More about Placing ethical trade in context: WIETA and the South African wine industry.

Economic Geography Under Postcolonial Scrutiny (2009)
Journal Article
Pollard, J., McEwan, C., Laurie, N., & Stenning, A. (2009). Economic Geography Under Postcolonial Scrutiny. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34(2), 137-142. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00336.x

Because the economy is not found as an empirical object among other worldly things, in order for it to be 'seen' by the human perceptual apparatus it has to undergo a process, crucial for science, of representational mapping. This is doubling, but wi... Read More about Economic Geography Under Postcolonial Scrutiny.

Geography, Culture and Global Change. (2008)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2008). Geography, Culture and Global Change. In P. Daniels, M. Bradshaw, D. Shaw, & J. Sidaway (Eds.), Human Geography, Issues for the 21st Century (273-289). (3). Pearson

The non-'Global City' of Birmingham, UK: a gateway through time. (2007)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C., Pollard, J., & Henry, N. (2007). The non-'Global City' of Birmingham, UK: a gateway through time. In L. Benton-Short, & M. Price (Eds.), Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities (191-224). Syracuse University Press

A very modern ghost: postcolonialism and the politics of enchantment (2007)
Journal Article
McEwan, C. (2007). A very modern ghost: postcolonialism and the politics of enchantment. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(1), 29-46. https://doi.org/10.1068/d460t

Ghosts, spectres, and spirits and the stories told about them have long been a source of intellectual inquiry; they appear to be everywhere in scholarly discourse yet are largely absent from many recent debates about enchantment and modernity. This p... Read More about A very modern ghost: postcolonialism and the politics of enchantment.

Disability and Development: Different Models, Different Places (2007)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Butler, R. (2007). Disability and Development: Different Models, Different Places. Geography Compass, 1(3), 448-466. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00023.x

Debates about disability within geography, as well as in disability studies more generally, have been largely urban, Anglophone and Western-centric. Not only have industrialised societies remained the predominant focus of attention, but the debates t... Read More about Disability and Development: Different Models, Different Places.

Ethical trading and socioeconomic transformation: critical reflections on the South African wine industry (2007)
Journal Article
Bek, D., McEwan, C., & Bek, K. (2007). Ethical trading and socioeconomic transformation: critical reflections on the South African wine industry. Environment and Planning A, 39(2), 301-319. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3831

Newly emerging ethical trade practices in the South African wine industry are examined as a way of engaging with debates about the ability of alternative trade approaches to facilitate meaningful opportunities for socioeconomic development in the glo... Read More about Ethical trading and socioeconomic transformation: critical reflections on the South African wine industry.

Using Images, Films and Photography. (2006)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2006). Using Images, Films and Photography. In V. Desai, & R. Potter (Eds.), Doing Development Research (231-240). SAGE Publications

(Re)Politicizing empowerment: Lessons from the South African wine industry (2006)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2006). (Re)Politicizing empowerment: Lessons from the South African wine industry. Geoforum, 37(6), 1021-1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.06.004

Despite being a poorly defined and vague concept, empowerment is currently of political and theoretical significance and nowhere more so than in South Africa, where it seen as central to post-apartheid transformation. This paper explores the ways in... Read More about (Re)Politicizing empowerment: Lessons from the South African wine industry.

Geography, Culture and Global Change. (2005)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2005). Geography, Culture and Global Change. In P. Daniels, M. Bradshaw, D. Shaw, & J. Sidaway (Eds.), Human Geography, Issues for the 21st Century (265-283). Pearson

The 'global' in the city economy: multicultural economic development in Birmingham (2005)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., Pollard, J., & Henry, N. (2005). The 'global' in the city economy: multicultural economic development in Birmingham. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 29(4), 916-933. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2005.00628.x

This article draws on critiques of ‘global cities’ to conceptualize Birmingham, the UK's second largest metropole, as a ‘global’ city by highlighting forms of economic globalization that draw on the city's residents, their histories and their social... Read More about The 'global' in the city economy: multicultural economic development in Birmingham.

New spaces of citizenship? Rethinking gendered participation and empowerment in South Africa (2005)
Journal Article
McEwan, C. (2005). New spaces of citizenship? Rethinking gendered participation and empowerment in South Africa. Political Geography, 24(8), 969-991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2005.05.001

This paper draws on empirical research in South Africa to explore questions about the exclusionary nature of citizenship, the problems and possibilities of participatory citizenship and its potential reconceptualisation through the lens of gender. Th... Read More about New spaces of citizenship? Rethinking gendered participation and empowerment in South Africa.

Transnationalism. (2004)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2004). Transnationalism. In N. Johnson, R. Schein, & J. Duncan (Eds.), Companion of Cultural Geography (499-512). Blackwell