All Outputs (17)

Governing majorities in the Arab World: urban life beyond neoliberalism (2017)
Book Chapter
Harker, C. (2017). Governing majorities in the Arab World: urban life beyond neoliberalism. In L. Khirfan (Ed.), Order and disorder : urban governance and the making of Middle Eastern cities (41-69). McGill-Queen's University Press

This chapter examines how contemporary urban studies in the Middle East theorize the cities in which they are located. It is argued that many of these studies privilege neoliberalism as the key conceptual lens through which urban change is gauged. Th... Read More about Governing majorities in the Arab World: urban life beyond neoliberalism.

Informal Sector (2017)
Book Chapter
Harker, C. (2017). Informal Sector. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu, & R. Marston (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of geography : people, the Earth, environment and technology. John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0484

The informal sector designates forms of paid labor that are outside, or are placed beyond, legislative and regulatory frameworks, which designate the formal sector. The crude binary between formal and informal has subsequently been nuanced, leading t... Read More about Informal Sector.

Debt space: topologies, ecologies and Ramallah, Palestine (2017)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2017). Debt space: topologies, ecologies and Ramallah, Palestine. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(4), 600-619. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816686973

Debt is widely conceived as temporal – present consumption bought with future labour. This paper advances conceptualisations of debt by incorporating the active role space plays in creating, maintaining and undermining debt relations. Debts are topol... Read More about Debt space: topologies, ecologies and Ramallah, Palestine.

Researching Spaces of Violence Through Family (2016)
Book Chapter
Harker, C. (2016). Researching Spaces of Violence Through Family. In C. Harker, K. Hörschelmann, & T. Skelton (Eds.), Conflict, violence and peace (1-16). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-98-9_20-1

This chapter uses families’ spatial practices as a lens for exploring violence. Geographical understandings of violence and conflict often focus on international terrorism and domestic governance. This can create situations where certain contexts, of... Read More about Researching Spaces of Violence Through Family.

The ambiguities of cohabitation (2014)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2014). The ambiguities of cohabitation. Area, 46(4), 355-356. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12138_6

In this paper I examine Judith Butler's ethic of cohabitation as a means of thinking intimacy-geopolitics. Butler's ethic of cohabitation begins with an inability to choose in advance who we inhabit the earth with. Conceptually this idea is linked wi... Read More about The ambiguities of cohabitation.

The only way is up? Ordinary topologies of Ramallah (2014)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2014). The only way is up? Ordinary topologies of Ramallah. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(1), 318-335. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12094

This article seeks to conceptualise and value some of the quotidian geographies responsible for contemporary forms of urban change. The starting point for the argument is an attempt to account for recent urban change in the Palestinian city of Ramall... Read More about The only way is up? Ordinary topologies of Ramallah.

How useful is neoliberalism for understanding cities in the Middle East? (2012)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2012). How useful is neoliberalism for understanding cities in the Middle East?. Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant, 7(1), 80-82. https://doi.org/10.1179/1752726012z.0000000009

Familial Relations: Spaces, Subjects, and Politics (2012)
Journal Article
Harker, C., & Martin, L. (2012). Familial Relations: Spaces, Subjects, and Politics. Environment and Planning A, 44(4), 768-775. https://doi.org/10.1068/a4513

Precariousness, precarity and family: notes from Palestine (2012)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2012). Precariousness, precarity and family: notes from Palestine. Environment and Planning A, 44(4), 849 -865. https://doi.org/10.1068/a4478

Geographical studies that have engaged the family have generally done so by critiquing the patriarchal, heternormative family. However, this paper argues that families are enmeshed in a plurality of political and ethical spacings that exceed this sin... Read More about Precariousness, precarity and family: notes from Palestine.

Moving on up : new geographies of apartment dwelling in Ramallah, Palestine (2011)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2011). Moving on up : new geographies of apartment dwelling in Ramallah, Palestine. Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant, 6(1), 50-51. https://doi.org/10.1179/175272711x13140949668673

This pilot study formed the first part of a more extensive investigation into how everyday life practices are shaping the recent growth of the urban conurbation Ramallah - Al Bireh - Beitounia (hereafter Ramallah), and how these practices are entangl... Read More about Moving on up : new geographies of apartment dwelling in Ramallah, Palestine.

Geopolitics and family in Palestine (2011)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2011). Geopolitics and family in Palestine. Geoforum, 42(3), 306-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.06.007

This paper questions Geographers ability to think about power and violence through different epistemological registers, specifically by examining the discursive production of Palestine as place in geopolitical studies. Although the banner of geopolit... Read More about Geopolitics and family in Palestine.

New Geographies of Palestine/Palestinians (2010)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2010). New Geographies of Palestine/Palestinians. Arab world geographer, 13(3/4), 199-216

Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the amount of geographical scholarship on Palestine and/or Palestinians. This paper draws this scholarship together to make three arguments. First, this work has proliferated to the point... Read More about New Geographies of Palestine/Palestinians.

On (not) forgetting families: family spaces and spacings in Birzeit, Palestine (2010)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2010). On (not) forgetting families: family spaces and spacings in Birzeit, Palestine. Environment and Planning A, 42(11), 2624-2639. https://doi.org/10.1068/a4338

This paper is a response to Valentine’s (2008) recent suggestion that the family is an absent presence within Geography. Persuaded by her argument, I explore other disciplinary approaches to theorizing families, and in particular how discursive appro... Read More about On (not) forgetting families: family spaces and spacings in Birzeit, Palestine.

Spacing Palestine through the home (2009)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2009). Spacing Palestine through the home. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34(3), 320-332. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00352.x

This paper explores connections that can be made between houses, homes and violence in Palestine, and representational consequences of making such connections. Drawing on ethnographic field research in Birzeit, I put recent work on critical geographi... Read More about Spacing Palestine through the home.

Student Im/mobility in Birzeit, Palestine (2009)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2009). Student Im/mobility in Birzeit, Palestine. Mobilities, 4(1), 11-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450100802657947

This paper draws on research with students at the Birzeit University in Palestine to examine how their experiences of university are shaped by a range of im/mobilities. In particular I am interested in how students who rent accommodation in Birzeit a... Read More about Student Im/mobility in Birzeit, Palestine.

A Close and Unbreachable distance: Witnessing Everything and Nothing (2007)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2007). A Close and Unbreachable distance: Witnessing Everything and Nothing. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 6(1), 51-72

This paper began life as my attempt to bear witness to untitled part 1: everything and nothing, a videotape made by Vancouver based artist Jayce Salloum. However, in doing (or attempting to do) this, I found myself bearing witness to a great deal mor... Read More about A Close and Unbreachable distance: Witnessing Everything and Nothing.

Playing and Affective Time-Spaces (2005)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2005). Playing and Affective Time-Spaces. Children's Geographies, 3(1), 47-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733280500037182

In this paper I have two objectives. The first is to critically explore definitions of playing that have underpinned a great deal of research in children's geography. In so doing I want to highlight some of the assumptions that various authors within... Read More about Playing and Affective Time-Spaces.