All Outputs (16)

Going with the flow? Using participatory action research in physical geography (2015)
Journal Article
Whitman, G., Pain, R., & Milledge, D. (2015). Going with the flow? Using participatory action research in physical geography. Progress in Physical Geography, 39(5), 622-639. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133315589707

This paper critically appraises the idea and practice of ‘participation’ in scientific environmental research, arguing for the wider uptake by physical geographers of a more radical participatory approach. It proposes participatory action research (P... Read More about Going with the flow? Using participatory action research in physical geography.

Embodying intimate war: a response to Sjoberg, Massaro and Bernazzoli (2015)
Journal Article
Pain, R. (2015). Embodying intimate war: a response to Sjoberg, Massaro and Bernazzoli. Political Geography, 44, 82-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.09.012

Introduction: intimacy-geopolitics and violence (2014)
Journal Article
Pain, R., & Staeheli, L. (2014). Introduction: intimacy-geopolitics and violence. Area, 46(4), 344-347. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12138

Intimate war (2014)
Journal Article
Pain, R. (2015). Intimate war. Political Geography, 44, 64-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.09.011

Contending that domestic violence and modern international warfare are part of a single complex of violence, this paper identifies their shared intimate dynamics. Both violences operate through emotional and psychological registers that are as centra... Read More about Intimate war.

Everyday terrorism: connecting domestic violence and global terrorism (2014)
Journal Article
Pain, R. (2014). Everyday terrorism: connecting domestic violence and global terrorism. Progress in Human Geography, 38(4), 531-550. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132513512231

This paper remaps the geographies of terrorism. Everyday terrorism (domestic violence) and global terrorism are related attempts to exert political control through fear. Geographical research on violence neatly reflects the disproportionate recogniti... Read More about Everyday terrorism: connecting domestic violence and global terrorism.

Seismologies of emotion: fear and activism during domestic violence (2014)
Journal Article
Pain, R. (2014). Seismologies of emotion: fear and activism during domestic violence. Social and Cultural Geography, 15(2), 127-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2013.862846

This paper explores the relation of fear to activism in private and constrained circumstances of chronic risk and anxiety. Asking how people contest domestic violence, given the intensity of the fear that it generates, the paper reframes their respon... Read More about Seismologies of emotion: fear and activism during domestic violence.

Impact: striking a blow or walking together? (2014)
Journal Article
Pain, R. (2014). Impact: striking a blow or walking together?. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 13(1), 19-23

If, in future reinventions of research audit, agonising about the state of the discipline and its governance is introduced as a new strand of assessment, every UK geography department will breathe a heavy sigh of relief: at last we can claim global e... Read More about Impact: striking a blow or walking together?.

Retheorizing the Postsecular Present: Embodiment, Spatial Transcendence, and Challenges to Authenticity Among Young Christians in Glasgow, Scotland. (2013)
Journal Article
Olson, E., Hopkins, P., Pain, R., & Vincett, G. (2013). Retheorizing the Postsecular Present: Embodiment, Spatial Transcendence, and Challenges to Authenticity Among Young Christians in Glasgow, Scotland. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103(6), 1421-1436. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2012.702516

The politics of social justice in neoliberal times: a reply to Slater (2012)
Journal Article
Pain, R., Kesby, M., & Askins, K. (2012). The politics of social justice in neoliberal times: a reply to Slater. Area, 44(1), 120-123. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2011.01073.x

We thank Tom Slater for his comments, acknowledging that much of his paper is in significant disagreement with our own. We agree with Slater that we are engaged in contestations over meaning, and united on the principle of social justice as a guiding... Read More about The politics of social justice in neoliberal times: a reply to Slater.

Contact zones: participation, materiality and the messiness of interaction. (2011)
Journal Article
Askins, K., & Pain, R. (2011). Contact zones: participation, materiality and the messiness of interaction. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 29(5), 803-821. https://doi.org/10.1068/d11109

Recent debates around urban encounter, integration and cosmopolitanism and renewed engagement with contact theory have raised questions about the spaces of interaction that may enable meaningful and lasting encounters between different social groups.... Read More about Contact zones: participation, materiality and the messiness of interaction..

Geographies of impact: power, participation and potential (2011)
Journal Article
Pain, R., Kesby, M., & Askins, K. (2011). Geographies of impact: power, participation and potential. Area, 43(2), 183-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2010.00978.x

In this paper we offer a critique and an alternative to current proposals to include the economic and social impacts of research in the next UK audit of academic research. In contrast to most responses from UK academics, our argument is for impact; w... Read More about Geographies of impact: power, participation and potential.

The SAGE Handbook of Social Geographies (2010)
Book
Smith, S., Pain, R., Marston, S., & Jones, J. (Eds.). (2010). The SAGE Handbook of Social Geographies. SAGE Publications

Moments in everyday/distant geopolitics: Young people’s fears and hopes. (2010)
Journal Article
Pain, R., Panelli, R., Kindon, S., & Little, J. (2010). Moments in everyday/distant geopolitics: Young people’s fears and hopes. Geoforum, 41(6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.08.001

Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics (2009)
Journal Article
Pain, R. (2009). Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics. Progress in Human Geography, 33(4), 466-486. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132508104994

This paper questions the recent recasting of fear within critical geopolitics. It identifies a widespread metanarrative, `globalized fear', analysis of which lacks grounding and is remote, disembodied and curiously unemotional. A hierarchical scaling... Read More about Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics.

Fear, critical geopolitics and everyday life (2008)
Book Chapter
Pain, R., & Smith, S. (2008). Fear, critical geopolitics and everyday life. In R. Pain, & S. Smith (Eds.), Fear : critical geopolitics and everyday life (1-24). Ashgate Publishing

Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place (2007)
Book
Kindon, S., Pain, R., & Kesby, M. (Eds.). (2007). Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place. Routledge

Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences. PAR involves collaborative research, education and action which is oriented towards social change, represen... Read More about Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place.