All Outputs (65)

Futures, ethics and the politics of expectation in biodiversity conservation: A case study of South African sustainable wildflower harvesting (2014)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., Hughes, A., & Bek, D. (2014). Futures, ethics and the politics of expectation in biodiversity conservation: A case study of South African sustainable wildflower harvesting. Geoforum, 52, 206-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.09.010

Corporate efforts to demonstrate ‘sustainability’ within production networks are driving a continued demand for new metrics. This raises questions concerning which experts will be enlisted in their creation, what data and calculative methods they wil... Read More about Futures, ethics and the politics of expectation in biodiversity conservation: A case study of South African sustainable wildflower harvesting.

Why ‘place’ matters in the development and impacts of Fairtrade production (2014)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., Hughes, A., Bek, D., & Rosenberg, Z. (2014). Why ‘place’ matters in the development and impacts of Fairtrade production. Food Chain, 4(1), 78-92. https://doi.org/10.3362/2046-1887.2014.007

This paper examines the importance of place for the cultural and environmental dynamics shaping Fairtrade cooperatives. It draws on a case study of the Eksteenskuil Agricultural Cooperative (EAC) in South Africa's Northern Cape, which supplies Fairtr... Read More about Why ‘place’ matters in the development and impacts of Fairtrade production.

Climate change, urban vulnerability and development in Saint-Louis and Bobo-Dioulasso: learning from across two West African cities (2013)
Journal Article
Silver, J., McEwan, C., Petrella, L., & Baguian, H. (2013). Climate change, urban vulnerability and development in Saint-Louis and Bobo-Dioulasso: learning from across two West African cities. Local Environment, 18(6), 663-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.807787

Climate change processes pose significant challenges to development in cities across West Africa. These processes shape and mediate urban vulnerability across urban areas and hinder wider development efforts across these cities. This paper reviews th... Read More about Climate change, urban vulnerability and development in Saint-Louis and Bobo-Dioulasso: learning from across two West African cities.

Retailers, Supply Networks and Changing Articulations of Ethicality: Lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa (2013)
Journal Article
Hughes, A., McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2013). Retailers, Supply Networks and Changing Articulations of Ethicality: Lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa. Journal of Economic Geography, 13(2), 211-230. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbs049

This article advances debate on retailers’ supply networks and ethical trade using the case of sustainably harvested wildflower bouquets supplied from South Africa to domestic and UK retailers. It illustrates three developments concerning: an evolvin... Read More about Retailers, Supply Networks and Changing Articulations of Ethicality: Lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa.

Mary Kingsley. (2012)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2012). Mary Kingsley. In H. Gates, & E. Akyeampong (Eds.), Dictionary of African Biography. OUP

Trilateral development cooperation: power and politics in emerging aid relationships (2012)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Mawdsley, E. (2012). Trilateral development cooperation: power and politics in emerging aid relationships. Development and Change, 43(6), 1185-1209. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01805.x

Changes are reverberating through the international development system. This article focuses on (re)emerging development actors in the South and their role in setting agendas, challenging current aid orthodoxies, and re-articulating development coope... Read More about Trilateral development cooperation: power and politics in emerging aid relationships.

Postcolonial Economies. (2011)
Book
Pollard, J., McEwan, C., & Hughes, A. (Eds.). (2011). Postcolonial Economies. Zed

Art as social practice: transforming lives using sculpture in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention in Uganda. (2011)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Nabulime, L. (2011). Art as social practice: transforming lives using sculpture in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention in Uganda. cultural geographies, 18(3), 275-296. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474010377548

This paper explores the possibilities of art as social practice in the context of the fight against HIV/AIDS. It is inspired by notions of art as having the capacity to move beyond the spaces of galleries into an expanded field, and thus beyond the v... Read More about Art as social practice: transforming lives using sculpture in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention in Uganda..

Place Geography and the Ethics of Care: Introductory remarks on the geographies of ethics, responsibility and care. (2010)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Goodman, M. (2010). Place Geography and the Ethics of Care: Introductory remarks on the geographies of ethics, responsibility and care. Ethics, place & environment, 13(2), 103-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668791003778602

The South African wine industry: meeting the challenges of structural and social transformation. (2010)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C., Bek, D., & Binns, T. (2010). The South African wine industry: meeting the challenges of structural and social transformation. In P. Douglas (Ed.), Geography of Wine: Regions, Terroir and Techniques. Springer Verlag

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

Postcolonialism and Development. (2009)
Book
McEwan, C. (2009). Postcolonialism and Development. Routledge

While the possibility of producing a de-colonized, postcolonial knowledge in development studies became a subject of considerable debate in the 1990s, there has been little dialogue between postcolonialism and development. However, the need for devel... Read More about Postcolonialism and Development..

Development: Postcolonialism/Postcolonial Geographies. (2009)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2009). Development: Postcolonialism/Postcolonial Geographies. In R. Kitchin, & N. Thrift (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (327-333). 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.

Feminisme 'occidental' et autres feminismes: politique postcoloniale et transversale. (2008)
Journal Article
McEwan, C. (2008). Feminisme 'occidental' et autres feminismes: politique postcoloniale et transversale

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.