Outputs (37)

Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin (2021)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., Langley, P., Lewis, S., Painter, J., & Vradis, A. (2023). Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin. Urban Geography, 44(2), 337-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2021.2003586

The relationship between the city and ‘innovation’ is long and varied, but in recent years there has been a new focus on the potential of innovation to catalyse economic, social, and environmental change. This has led to a debate around whether and h... Read More about Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin.

Governing mobility in times of crisis: Practicing the border and embodying resistance in and beyond the hotspot infrastructure (2020)
Journal Article
Vradis, A., Papada, E., Papoutsi, A., & Painter, J. (2020). Governing mobility in times of crisis: Practicing the border and embodying resistance in and beyond the hotspot infrastructure. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 38(6), 981-990. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820968316

Pop-up governance: transforming the management of migrant populations through humanitarian and security practices in Lesbos, Greece, 2015-2017 (2019)
Journal Article
Papada, E., Papoutsi, A., Painter, J., & Vradis, A. (2020). Pop-up governance: transforming the management of migrant populations through humanitarian and security practices in Lesbos, Greece, 2015-2017. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 38(6), 1028-1045. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775819891167

This paper intervenes in recent debates on humanitarianism and security in migration by introducing the notion of ‘pop-up governance’. It reflects on our two year-long fieldwork on Lesbos, Greece at the peak of Europe’s migrant reception crisis (2015... Read More about Pop-up governance: transforming the management of migrant populations through humanitarian and security practices in Lesbos, Greece, 2015-2017.

The EC hotspot approach in Greece: creating liminal EU territory (2018)
Journal Article
Papoutsi, A., Painter, J., Papada, E., & Vradis, A. (2019). The EC hotspot approach in Greece: creating liminal EU territory. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(12), 2200-2212. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2018.1468351

This article makes a theoretical argument stemming from our study of the European Commission’s hotspot approach to the management of migrant populations. It draws on empirical research findings from field research which took place on the island of Le... Read More about The EC hotspot approach in Greece: creating liminal EU territory.

Why we need to talk about money (2017)
Journal Article
Painter, J. (2017). Why we need to talk about money. Soundings, Summer 2017(66), 34-39

Hotspot politics―or, when the EU state gets real (2017)
Journal Article
Painter, J., Papada, E., Papoutsi, A., & Vradis, A. (2017). Hotspot politics―or, when the EU state gets real. Political Geography, 60, 259-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.02.012

Editorial. Re-imagining Politics and Space: Why here, why now? (2017)
Journal Article
Daley, P., McCann, E., Mountz, A., & Painter, J. (2017). Editorial. Re-imagining Politics and Space: Why here, why now?. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 35(1), 3-5. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654417691347

Doreen Massey (1944-2016): an appreciation (2016)
Journal Article
Painter, J. (2016). Doreen Massey (1944-2016): an appreciation. Soundings, 63, 38-44

Deciding whose future? Challenges and opportunities of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 for Scotland and beyond (2014)
Journal Article
Sharp, J., Cumbers, A., Painter, J., & Wood, N. (2014). Deciding whose future? Challenges and opportunities of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 for Scotland and beyond. Political Geography, 41, 32-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.04.002

The image of Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond unfurling the Scottish Saltire behind the bemused UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, moments after Andy Murray won the Wimbledon tennis tournament in July 2013, has come to epitomize the n... Read More about Deciding whose future? Challenges and opportunities of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 for Scotland and beyond.

The politics of the neighbour (2012)
Journal Article
Painter, J. (2012). The politics of the neighbour. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 30(3), 515-533. https://doi.org/10.1068/d21110

This paper argues that the neighbour is a neglected figure in public debate and political theory. Whereas the spatial concept of ‘neighbourhood’ has long been the focus of geographical research, its underpinning concept of the neighbour has received... Read More about The politics of the neighbour.