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Debt space: topologies, ecologies and Ramallah, Palestine (2017)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2017). Debt space: topologies, ecologies and Ramallah, Palestine. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(4), 600-619. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816686973

Debt is widely conceived as temporal – present consumption bought with future labour. This paper advances conceptualisations of debt by incorporating the active role space plays in creating, maintaining and undermining debt relations. Debts are topol... Read More about Debt space: topologies, ecologies and Ramallah, Palestine.

The only way is up? Ordinary topologies of Ramallah (2014)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2014). The only way is up? Ordinary topologies of Ramallah. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(1), 318-335. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12094

This article seeks to conceptualise and value some of the quotidian geographies responsible for contemporary forms of urban change. The starting point for the argument is an attempt to account for recent urban change in the Palestinian city of Ramall... Read More about The only way is up? Ordinary topologies of Ramallah.

Precariousness, precarity and family: notes from Palestine (2012)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2012). Precariousness, precarity and family: notes from Palestine. Environment and Planning A, 44(4), 849 -865. https://doi.org/10.1068/a4478

Geographical studies that have engaged the family have generally done so by critiquing the patriarchal, heternormative family. However, this paper argues that families are enmeshed in a plurality of political and ethical spacings that exceed this sin... Read More about Precariousness, precarity and family: notes from Palestine.

Moving on up : new geographies of apartment dwelling in Ramallah, Palestine (2011)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2011). Moving on up : new geographies of apartment dwelling in Ramallah, Palestine. Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant, 6(1), 50-51. https://doi.org/10.1179/175272711x13140949668673

This pilot study formed the first part of a more extensive investigation into how everyday life practices are shaping the recent growth of the urban conurbation Ramallah - Al Bireh - Beitounia (hereafter Ramallah), and how these practices are entangl... Read More about Moving on up : new geographies of apartment dwelling in Ramallah, Palestine.

On (not) forgetting families: family spaces and spacings in Birzeit, Palestine (2010)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2010). On (not) forgetting families: family spaces and spacings in Birzeit, Palestine. Environment and Planning A, 42(11), 2624-2639. https://doi.org/10.1068/a4338

This paper is a response to Valentine’s (2008) recent suggestion that the family is an absent presence within Geography. Persuaded by her argument, I explore other disciplinary approaches to theorizing families, and in particular how discursive appro... Read More about On (not) forgetting families: family spaces and spacings in Birzeit, Palestine.