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Coming to terms with affective infrastructure (2023)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2023). Coming to terms with affective infrastructure. Dialogues in Human Geography, 13(1), 81-85. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231154347

Affective infrastructure has become an unremarkable feature of geographical research. By examining how ‘affective infrastructure’ has been mobilised within geography and political theory, and charting its distinguishing features – whether as metaphor... Read More about Coming to terms with affective infrastructure.

Arrival cities and the mobility of concepts (2022)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2022). Arrival cities and the mobility of concepts. Urban Studies, 59(16), 3459-3468. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221135820

The status of any arrival city is far from stable, being continuously reworked by state policy, geopolitics, economic fluctuations or localised events that rupture or destabilise what came before. The diversifications and differential inclusions that... Read More about Arrival cities and the mobility of concepts.

Seabirds in the city: urban futures and fraught coexistence (2021)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. (2022). Seabirds in the city: urban futures and fraught coexistence. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47(4), 1137-1151. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12525

At a time when seabird populations have experienced steep declines and the movement of diverse species into cities has become a globally important issue, the paper examines the contested presence of an urban seabird colony in North East England. Draw... Read More about Seabirds in the city: urban futures and fraught coexistence.

Discomfort: Transformative encounters and social change (2020)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2020). Discomfort: Transformative encounters and social change. Emotion, Space and Society, 37, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100681

In the context of debates on ontological risk, ‘border work’, and the transformative potentials of encounter, the paper offers a critical examination of the workings of discomfort to ask what is at stake in both its embrace and refusal. Focusing in p... Read More about Discomfort: Transformative encounters and social change.

Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse (2019)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Wilson, H., Foreman, P., Heslop, J., Ormerod, E., & Maestri, G. (2020). Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(2), 256-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12348

Alongside the emergence of various populisms, Brexit and other contemporary geopolitical events have been presented as symptomatic of a generalizing and intensifying sense of uncertainty in the midst of a crisis of (neo)liberalism. In this paper we d... Read More about Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse.

Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through 'Imperial Eyes' (2019)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2019). Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through 'Imperial Eyes'. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2(4), 712-731. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619862191

The contact zone is described as the space of imperial encounter. Against a backdrop of work that has used Mary Louise Pratt's concept of the contact zone to examine culture-making, and destabilize normative understandings of division, distinction, a... Read More about Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through 'Imperial Eyes'.

On the Paradox of ‘Organised’ Encounter (2017)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2017). On the Paradox of ‘Organised’ Encounter. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 38(6), 606-620. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2017.1386631

Encounters are politically and pedagogically charged. They have long been celebrated for their ability to chip away at prejudices, enact cultural destabilisations, shape subjectivities, and produce new knowledges. Yet encounters come with risk. The p... Read More about On the Paradox of ‘Organised’ Encounter.

Everyday Brexits (2017)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., & Wilson, H. (2018). Everyday Brexits. Area, 50(2), 291-295. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12385

In this commentary we explore how geographers might respond to the event of ‘Brexit’ – the decision and process of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union after the referendum of 23 June 2016. Although it is necessary to understand the ways in... Read More about Everyday Brexits.

An urban laboratory for the multicultural nation? (2015)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2015). An urban laboratory for the multicultural nation?. Ethnicities, 15(4), 586-604. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796815577703

At a time when urban space is considered central to understanding how multicultural societies cohere, this paper examines how the urban and the nation are related. To do so, the paper focuses upon Birmingham, UK, which has been presented as a testing... Read More about An urban laboratory for the multicultural nation?.

The Possibilities of Tolerance: Intercultural Dialogue in a Multicultural Europe (2014)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2014). The Possibilities of Tolerance: Intercultural Dialogue in a Multicultural Europe. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32(5), 852-868. https://doi.org/10.1068/d13063p

Tolerance is everywhere. The Council of Europe endeavours to build it, schools are required to teach it, and neighbours are asked to extend it. It features in citizenship ceremonies, city-marketing campaigns, and religious texts and is attached to a... Read More about The Possibilities of Tolerance: Intercultural Dialogue in a Multicultural Europe.

Collective life: parents, playground encounters and the multicultural city. (2013)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2013). Collective life: parents, playground encounters and the multicultural city. Social and Cultural Geography, 14(6), 625-648. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2013.800220

For parents, the school playground is a site of daily intermingling—an important and yet often overlooked site of sociality. Yet whilst it is a space where common needs and experiences are shared, and where friendships and subtle gestures of familiar... Read More about Collective life: parents, playground encounters and the multicultural city..

Multicultural learning: parent encounters with difference in a Birmingham primary school. (2013)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2014). Multicultural learning: parent encounters with difference in a Birmingham primary school. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 39(1), 102-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12015

In the UK, schools are considered vital to the realisation of intercultural cities, to the strengthening of community relations and to the development of new forms of social learning. This paper brings work on the geographies of education and learnin... Read More about Multicultural learning: parent encounters with difference in a Birmingham primary school..

Learning to think differently: Diversity training and the ‘good encounter’ (2012)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2013). Learning to think differently: Diversity training and the ‘good encounter’. Geoforum, 45, 73-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.10.001

At a time of ongoing economic and social insecurity the capacity to live with difference is under renewed strain. In this context, community outreach organisations and projects of intervention that deal with diversity-related tensions are essential.... Read More about Learning to think differently: Diversity training and the ‘good encounter’.