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The stakes of situated knowledges (2019)
Journal Article
Proudfoot, J. (2019). The stakes of situated knowledges. Dialogues in Human Geography, 9(2), 158-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619850270

This commentary explores the politics of Dragos Simandan’s (2019) proposal to expand the concept of situated knowledge beyond social difference. I argue that while an expanded conception of situated knowledges is welcome, Simandan’s focus on de-polit... Read More about The stakes of situated knowledges.

Traumatic landscapes: Two geographies of addiction (2019)
Journal Article
Proudfoot, J. (2019). Traumatic landscapes: Two geographies of addiction. Social Science & Medicine, 228, 194-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.03.020

The confluence of the contemporary opioid crisis and the fallout from the Great Recession has renewed interest in theories of addiction that can account for the relationship between individual symptoms and large-scale socio-political forces. Gesler's... Read More about Traumatic landscapes: Two geographies of addiction.

What is a Psychological Task? The Operational Pliability of “Task” in Psychological Laboratory Experimentation (2019)
Journal Article
Morrison, H., McBriar, S., Powell, H., Proudfoot, J., Stanley, S., Fitzgerald, D., & Callard, F. (2019). What is a Psychological Task? The Operational Pliability of “Task” in Psychological Laboratory Experimentation. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 5, 61-85. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2019.274

There has been no sustained sociological analysis of a near ubiquitous feature of psychological laboratory experimentation: the task. Yet the task is central in arranging the means by which phenomena are isolated and brought into the experimental sci... Read More about What is a Psychological Task? The Operational Pliability of “Task” in Psychological Laboratory Experimentation.