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Rancière and the re-distribution of the sensible: The artist Rosanna Raymond, dissensus and postcolonial sensibilities within the spaces of the museum (2017)
Journal Article
Tolia-Kelly, D. P. (2019). Rancière and the re-distribution of the sensible: The artist Rosanna Raymond, dissensus and postcolonial sensibilities within the spaces of the museum. Progress in Human Geography, 43(1), 123-140. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132517739141

Through aesthetics we can articulate affective politics and demonstrate new ways of ‘doing’ progressive politics. This article explores the politics and practice of dissensus within the museum with artist Rosanna Raymond. The article argues that the... Read More about Rancière and the re-distribution of the sensible: The artist Rosanna Raymond, dissensus and postcolonial sensibilities within the spaces of the museum.

A day in the life of a Geographer: ‘lone’, black, female (2017)
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Tolia-Kelly, D. P. (2017). A day in the life of a Geographer: ‘lone’, black, female. Area, 49(3), 324-328. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12373

This piece is a narrative representation of the experience of being black and female in the discipline of Geography in the UK and beyond. The aim is to share an ethnographic research on race in Geography, based on day-to-day experience in the academy... Read More about A day in the life of a Geographer: ‘lone’, black, female.

Feeling and Being at the (Postcolonial) Museum: Presencing the Affective Politics of ‘Race’ and Culture (2016)
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Tolia-Kelly, D. (2016). Feeling and Being at the (Postcolonial) Museum: Presencing the Affective Politics of ‘Race’ and Culture. Sociology, 50(5), 896-912. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038516649554

This article posits the value in considering the affective politics in the everyday space of the British Museum with a postcolonial lens. Based on research collaborations with artist Rosanna Raymond the article argues that the gallery space becomes a... Read More about Feeling and Being at the (Postcolonial) Museum: Presencing the Affective Politics of ‘Race’ and Culture.

The landscape of Cultural Geography: ideologies lost (2016)
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Tolia-Kelly, D. (2016). The landscape of Cultural Geography: ideologies lost. Area, 48(3), 371-373. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12288

This piece reflects on the contemporary resonances, value and legacy of Cosgrove and Jackson's (1987) Area paper entitled ‘New directions in cultural geography’ (Area, 19, 95–101). It argues that much scholarship in today's cultural geography (its in... Read More about The landscape of Cultural Geography: ideologies lost.

The geographies of cultural geography III: Material geographies, vibrant matters and risking surface geographies (2013)
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Tolia-Kelly, D. (2013). The geographies of cultural geography III: Material geographies, vibrant matters and risking surface geographies. Progress in Human Geography, 37(1), 153-160. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132512439154

The doing of material geographies within the subdiscipline of cultural geography has been inspired by Jane Bennett’s (2010) account of Vibrant Matter. This review follows the various trajectories in recently published research in the field of materia... Read More about The geographies of cultural geography III: Material geographies, vibrant matters and risking surface geographies.

Narrating the Postcolonial Landscape: Archaeologies of Race at Hadrian's Wall (2011)
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Tolia-Kelly, D. (2011). Narrating the Postcolonial Landscape: Archaeologies of Race at Hadrian's Wall. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 36(1), 71-88. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00414.x

This paper presents research completed as part of an interdisciplinary project entitled ‘Tales of the Frontier’; both between the disciplines of geography and archaeology; and on the landscape narratives of Hadrian’s Wall. In particular, the paper un... Read More about Narrating the Postcolonial Landscape: Archaeologies of Race at Hadrian's Wall.

Archaeologies of Landscape. Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian's Wall (2010)
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Witcher, R., Tolia-Kelly, D., & Hingley, R. (2010). Archaeologies of Landscape. Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian's Wall. Journal of Material Culture, 15(1), 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183510355228

This article interrogates the materiality of Hadrian’s Wall beyond its widespread perception as a monument of/to Ancient Rome. Encounters with this monument have generated multitudinous materialities: hegemonic, conflicting and ambiguous. These traje... Read More about Archaeologies of Landscape. Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian's Wall.

Hadrian’s Wall: Embodied Archaeologies of the Linear Monument. (2009)
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Nesbitt, C., & Tolia-Kelly, D. (2009). Hadrian’s Wall: Embodied Archaeologies of the Linear Monument. Journal of Social Archaeology, 9(3), 368-390

The aim of this paper is to consider the value of an embodied account of the Roman Frontier of Hadrian’s Wall, in Britain. This heritage site has often been understood within archaeology in predominantly Imperial and military terms. While this is a c... Read More about Hadrian’s Wall: Embodied Archaeologies of the Linear Monument..

Fear in paradise: The affective registers of the English Lake District landscape re-visited (2007)
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Tolia-Kelly, D. P. (2007). Fear in paradise: The affective registers of the English Lake District landscape re-visited. The Senses and Society, 2(3), 329-352. https://doi.org/10.2752/174589307x233576

During the summer of 2004, the artist Graham Lowe and I undertook a research project entitled Nurturing Ecologies within the Lake District National Park (LDNP)at Windermere. This landscape, considered as an icon of “Englishness,” is revisited through... Read More about Fear in paradise: The affective registers of the English Lake District landscape re-visited.

Organic cosmopolitanism: challenging cultures of the non-native at the Burnley Millenium Arboretum (2007)
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Tolia-Kelly, D. (2007). Organic cosmopolitanism: challenging cultures of the non-native at the Burnley Millenium Arboretum. Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, 35(2), 172-184

This paper examines the concept of cosmopolitanism in contemporary cultural theory which has not been embraced in modern ecological discourses and practices committed to legislate against cosmopolitan landscapes made up of ‘native’ and ‘non-native’ p... Read More about Organic cosmopolitanism: challenging cultures of the non-native at the Burnley Millenium Arboretum.

Mobility/stability: British Asian cultures of 'landscape and Englishness' (2006)
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Tolia-Kelly, D. P. (2006). Mobility/stability: British Asian cultures of 'landscape and Englishness'. Environment and Planning A, 38(2), 341-358. https://doi.org/10.1068/a37276

This paper examines the way in which the (British) Asian diaspora creates a territory of belonging and a cultural nationalism within the British landscape. New, British Asian cultures of Englishness are figured through the experience of mobility from... Read More about Mobility/stability: British Asian cultures of 'landscape and Englishness'.

Locating processes of identification: studying the precipitates of re-memory through artefacts in the British Asian home (2004)
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Tolia-Kelly, D. (2004). Locating processes of identification: studying the precipitates of re-memory through artefacts in the British Asian home. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29(3), 314-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00303.x

Memory has been figured as an important process of placing and locating people and communities, both geographically and socially. Memory has also been significant in research on people who are not part of a formal record of history. This memory work... Read More about Locating processes of identification: studying the precipitates of re-memory through artefacts in the British Asian home.

Landscape, Race and Memory: Biographical Mapping of the Routes of British Asian Landscape Values (2004)
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Tolia-Kelly, D. (2004). Landscape, Race and Memory: Biographical Mapping of the Routes of British Asian Landscape Values. Landscape Research, 29(3), 277-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142639042000248924

In this paper the migration routes of British Asian women living in London are examined. It is shown that British Asians connect with a myriad of landscapes abroad, including East Africa, India and Pakistan. These connections to past landscapes are m... Read More about Landscape, Race and Memory: Biographical Mapping of the Routes of British Asian Landscape Values.