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Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis (2023)
Journal Article
Nieuwenhuis, M., & Chen, H. (2024). Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis. Political Geography, 108, Article 103018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.103018

Existing at the intersection of health, politics and affect, medical masks evoke lines and flights of contentions and resistance in everyday lives. They are instruments of negotiation that mediate across bodies, breaths, airs, faces, and lived experi... Read More about Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis.

Atmospheric Pedagogies: Everyday Ethnographies of the (Post) Pandemic Classroom (2023)
Journal Article
Nieuwenhuis, M., & Strausz, E. (2023). Atmospheric Pedagogies: Everyday Ethnographies of the (Post) Pandemic Classroom. Theory and Event, 26(3), 597-625. https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2023.a901580

This paper offers a series of (auto)ethnographic reflections on COVID-19 and the ways it changes how we, as educators, practice, perform and inhabit the spaces of higher education. Using a phenomenological framework based on the concept of atmosphere... Read More about Atmospheric Pedagogies: Everyday Ethnographies of the (Post) Pandemic Classroom.

Back lane geography: in praise of worlds behind (2023)
Journal Article
Nieuwenhuis, M. (2024). Back lane geography: in praise of worlds behind. Cultural Geographies, 31(1), 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740231161561

‘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 itself. Although not written about much, at least not... Read More about Back lane geography: in praise of worlds behind.

The politics of subterranean atmospheres in China: a study of contemporary chinese mining art (2022)
Journal Article
Nieuwenhuis, M. (2022). The politics of subterranean atmospheres in China: a study of contemporary chinese mining art. Ambiances (En ligne), https://doi.org/10.4000/ambiances.4409

Every five seconds someone dies prematurely from air pollution (UN, 2019). Environmental degradation, however, is not limited to the air above alone, but also affects the conditions of life underneath the surface. Black lung disease (pneumoconiosis),... Read More about The politics of subterranean atmospheres in China: a study of contemporary chinese mining art.

Geographies of Trust: Hitchhiking from Gateshead to Calais (2021)
Journal Article
Nieuwenhuis, M. (2022). Geographies of Trust: Hitchhiking from Gateshead to Calais. Geohumanities, 8(1), 329-343. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2021.1990102

“Trust is the most joyous kind of bond with another living being. But isn't it true that whenever we enjoy being with someone, there is [both] a factor of risk there, and also a factor of trust, which gives our enjoyment an edge of rapture?” (Lingis... Read More about Geographies of Trust: Hitchhiking from Gateshead to Calais.

Towards a geography of voice-hearing (2021)
Journal Article
Nieuwenhuis, M., & Knoll, E. (2021). Towards a geography of voice-hearing. Emotion, Space and Society, 40(August), Article 100812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100812

The social psychiatrists Marius Romme and Sandra Escher argue that boundaries are of critical importance in the therapeutic treatment of so-called ‘auditory verbal hallucinations’ (AVH), or, what is better known as, ‘hearing voices’. Limiting voices... Read More about Towards a geography of voice-hearing.

Spon End: A Local Guide (2019)
Book
Nieuwenhuis, M., Nassar, A., & Leach, C. (2019). Spon End: A Local Guide. Independent Publishing Network