All Outputs (18)

Landscapes of Trauma and Mental Health (2024)
Book Chapter
Proudfoot, J. (2024). Landscapes of Trauma and Mental Health. In C. P. Boyd, L. E. Boyle, S. L. Bell, E. Högström, J. Evans, A. Paul, & R. Foley (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003345725-41

In recent years, human geographers have turned their attention to trauma as a way of re-examining long-standing concerns in the discipline, including transnational migration, natural and human-made disasters, and urban displacement. Drawing on work f... Read More about Landscapes of Trauma and Mental Health.

The Dreamwork of the Symptom: Reading Structural Racism and Family History in a Drug Addiction (2023)
Journal Article
Proudfoot, J. (2023). The Dreamwork of the Symptom: Reading Structural Racism and Family History in a Drug Addiction. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 47(4), 961-981. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-023-09820-w

A key tenet of critical health research is that individual symptoms must be considered in light of the social and political contexts that shape or, in some cases, produce them. Precisely how oppressive social forces give rise to individual symptoms,... Read More about The Dreamwork of the Symptom: Reading Structural Racism and Family History in a Drug Addiction.

The psychic life of gentrification: mapping desire and resentment in the gentrifying city (2021)
Journal Article
Seitz, D. K., & Proudfoot, J. (2021). The psychic life of gentrification: mapping desire and resentment in the gentrifying city. Cultural Geographies, 28(2), 213-219. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474021993427

Following the lead of artists and scholars in Black, feminist, psychoanalytic, and queer studies and geographies, this special issue and editorial call for greater scholarly attention to the conscious and unconscious emotional, psychic, and affective... Read More about The psychic life of gentrification: mapping desire and resentment in the gentrifying city.

Isolation, solitude and social distancing for people who use drugs: An ethnographic perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Roe, L., Proudfoot, J., Tay Wee Teck, J., Irvine, R. D., Frankland, S., & Baldacchino, A. M. (2021). Isolation, solitude and social distancing for people who use drugs: An ethnographic perspective. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, Article 623032. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.623032

COVID-19 has resulted in deepened states of crisis and vulnerability for people who use drugs throughout Europe and across the world, with social distancing measures having far-reaching implications for everyday life. Prolonged periods of isolation a... Read More about Isolation, solitude and social distancing for people who use drugs: An ethnographic perspective.

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.

The Libidinal Economy of Revanchism: Illicit Drugs, Harm Reduction, and the Problem of Enjoyment (2017)
Journal Article
Proudfoot, J. (2019). The Libidinal Economy of Revanchism: Illicit Drugs, Harm Reduction, and the Problem of Enjoyment. Progress in Human Geography, 43(2), 214-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132517739143

Harm reduction is generally presented as the compassionate, pragmatic alternative to prohibitionist drug policy. This article examines harm reduction in relation to debates over the revanchist city in urban geography, arguing that it should be unders... Read More about The Libidinal Economy of Revanchism: Illicit Drugs, Harm Reduction, and the Problem of Enjoyment.

Drugs, Addiction, and the Social Bond (2017)
Journal Article
Proudfoot, J. (2017). Drugs, Addiction, and the Social Bond. Geography Compass, 11(7), Article e12320. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12320

This article contributes towards the project of critically theorizing drug addiction by drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, anthropology, and geography. I argue that social bonds—that is, people's relationships to other people and to society—are... Read More about Drugs, Addiction, and the Social Bond.

Anxiety and Phantasy in the Field: The Position of the Unconscious in Ethnographic Research (2015)
Journal Article
Proudfoot, J. (2015). Anxiety and Phantasy in the Field: The Position of the Unconscious in Ethnographic Research. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33(6), 1135-1152. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775815598156

This article contributes to the geographical literature on reflexivity by asking what it means to take the researcher’s unconscious seriously in ethnographic research, and proposes psychoanalysis as a theoretical and methodological resource for resea... Read More about Anxiety and Phantasy in the Field: The Position of the Unconscious in Ethnographic Research.

Translated Landscapes (2015)
Book Chapter
Proudfoot, J. (2015). Translated Landscapes. In W. Murray (Ed.), Wil Murray : Die Welt in Farben (5-21). P|M Gallery

Drug Policy and Mass Incarceration in Chicago (2014)
Digital Artefact
Proudfoot, J. (2014). Drug Policy and Mass Incarceration in Chicago

Periscope Down! Charting Masculine Sexuation in Submarine Films (2014)
Book Chapter
Proudfoot, J., & Kingsbury, P. (2014). Periscope Down! Charting Masculine Sexuation in Submarine Films. In P. Kingsbury, & S. Pile (Eds.), Psychoanalytic geographies (241-256). Routledge

St. Leonard’s House: Housing as an Anti-recidivism Strategy (2013)
Digital Artefact
Proudfoot, J. (2013). St. Leonard’s House: Housing as an Anti-recidivism Strategy

The Derelict, the Deserving Poor, and the Lumpen: A History of the Politics of Representation in the Downtown Eastside (2011)
Book Chapter
Proudfoot, J. (2011). The Derelict, the Deserving Poor, and the Lumpen: A History of the Politics of Representation in the Downtown Eastside. In S. Douglas (Ed.), Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971 (88-104). Arsenal Pulp Press. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0392621

Interviewing Enjoyment, or the Limits of Discourse. (2010)
Journal Article
Proudfoot, J. (2010). Interviewing Enjoyment, or the Limits of Discourse. Professional Geographer, 62(4), 507-518. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2010.501271

This article addresses how psychoanalytic methodologies can be used to conduct and analyze semistructured interviews. Drawing on my work as a research assistant during the summer of 2006, I discuss the process of interviewing soccer fans who attended... Read More about Interviewing Enjoyment, or the Limits of Discourse..

Geography and Psychoanalysis (2009)
Book Chapter
Proudfoot, J. (2009). Geography and Psychoanalysis. In B. Warf (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geography (2299-2301). SAGE Publications

At Street Level: Bureaucratic Practice in the Management of Urban Neighborhood Change (2008)
Journal Article
Proudfoot, J., & McCann, E. (2008). At Street Level: Bureaucratic Practice in the Management of Urban Neighborhood Change. Urban Geography, 29(4), 348-370. https://doi.org/10.2747/0272-3638.29.4.348

Bureaucratic regulation shapes cities in important ways. Yet certain aspects of how state regulation operates in urban neighborhoods have been understudied in geography and cognate disciplines. This article focuses on one understudied group of state... Read More about At Street Level: Bureaucratic Practice in the Management of Urban Neighborhood Change.