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Professor Cheryl Mcewan's Outputs (43)

Climate change, urban vulnerability and development in Saint-Louis and Bobo-Dioulasso: learning from across two West African cities (2013)
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Silver, J., McEwan, C., Petrella, L., & Baguian, H. (2013). Climate change, urban vulnerability and development in Saint-Louis and Bobo-Dioulasso: learning from across two West African cities. Local Environment, 18(6), 663-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.807787

Climate change processes pose significant challenges to development in cities across West Africa. These processes shape and mediate urban vulnerability across urban areas and hinder wider development efforts across these cities. This paper reviews th... Read More about Climate change, urban vulnerability and development in Saint-Louis and Bobo-Dioulasso: learning from across two West African cities.

Retailers, Supply Networks and Changing Articulations of Ethicality: Lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa (2013)
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Hughes, A., McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2013). Retailers, Supply Networks and Changing Articulations of Ethicality: Lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa. Journal of Economic Geography, 13(2), 211-230. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbs049

This article advances debate on retailers’ supply networks and ethical trade using the case of sustainably harvested wildflower bouquets supplied from South Africa to domestic and UK retailers. It illustrates three developments concerning: an evolvin... Read More about Retailers, Supply Networks and Changing Articulations of Ethicality: Lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa.

Trilateral development cooperation: power and politics in emerging aid relationships (2012)
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McEwan, C., & Mawdsley, E. (2012). Trilateral development cooperation: power and politics in emerging aid relationships. Development and Change, 43(6), 1185-1209. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01805.x

Changes are reverberating through the international development system. This article focuses on (re)emerging development actors in the South and their role in setting agendas, challenging current aid orthodoxies, and re-articulating development coope... Read More about Trilateral development cooperation: power and politics in emerging aid relationships.

Art as social practice: transforming lives using sculpture in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention in Uganda. (2011)
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McEwan, C., & Nabulime, L. (2011). Art as social practice: transforming lives using sculpture in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention in Uganda. cultural geographies, 18(3), 275-296. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474010377548

This paper explores the possibilities of art as social practice in the context of the fight against HIV/AIDS. It is inspired by notions of art as having the capacity to move beyond the spaces of galleries into an expanded field, and thus beyond the v... Read More about Art as social practice: transforming lives using sculpture in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention in Uganda..

The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry (2009)
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McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2009). The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry. Journal of Rural Studies, 25(3), 255-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2009.03.001

Despite recent critical analyses of the nature and impacts of social and environmental certification, the increasingly complex landscape of voluntary, industry and third-party codes and certification processes that have emerged in specific sectors is... Read More about The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry.

Placing ethical trade in context: WIETA and the South African wine industry (2009)
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McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2009). Placing ethical trade in context: WIETA and the South African wine industry. Third World Quarterly, 30(4), 723-742. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590902867144

How ethical trade develops in specific ways in particular national-institutional and historical contexts remains largely unexamined. This paper analyses approaches to ethical trade in the South African wine industry through a case study of the Wine a... Read More about Placing ethical trade in context: WIETA and the South African wine industry.

Economic Geography Under Postcolonial Scrutiny (2009)
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Pollard, J., McEwan, C., Laurie, N., & Stenning, A. (2009). Economic Geography Under Postcolonial Scrutiny. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34(2), 137-142. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00336.x

Because the economy is not found as an empirical object among other worldly things, in order for it to be 'seen' by the human perceptual apparatus it has to undergo a process, crucial for science, of representational mapping. This is doubling, but wi... Read More about Economic Geography Under Postcolonial Scrutiny.

A very modern ghost: postcolonialism and the politics of enchantment (2007)
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McEwan, C. (2007). A very modern ghost: postcolonialism and the politics of enchantment. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(1), 29-46. https://doi.org/10.1068/d460t

Ghosts, spectres, and spirits and the stories told about them have long been a source of intellectual inquiry; they appear to be everywhere in scholarly discourse yet are largely absent from many recent debates about enchantment and modernity. This p... Read More about A very modern ghost: postcolonialism and the politics of enchantment.

Disability and Development: Different Models, Different Places (2007)
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McEwan, C., & Butler, R. (2007). Disability and Development: Different Models, Different Places. Geography Compass, 1(3), 448-466. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00023.x

Debates about disability within geography, as well as in disability studies more generally, have been largely urban, Anglophone and Western-centric. Not only have industrialised societies remained the predominant focus of attention, but the debates t... Read More about Disability and Development: Different Models, Different Places.

Ethical trading and socioeconomic transformation: critical reflections on the South African wine industry (2007)
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Bek, D., McEwan, C., & Bek, K. (2007). Ethical trading and socioeconomic transformation: critical reflections on the South African wine industry. Environment and Planning A, 39(2), 301-319. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3831

Newly emerging ethical trade practices in the South African wine industry are examined as a way of engaging with debates about the ability of alternative trade approaches to facilitate meaningful opportunities for socioeconomic development in the glo... Read More about Ethical trading and socioeconomic transformation: critical reflections on the South African wine industry.

(Re)Politicizing empowerment: Lessons from the South African wine industry (2006)
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McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2006). (Re)Politicizing empowerment: Lessons from the South African wine industry. Geoforum, 37(6), 1021-1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.06.004

Despite being a poorly defined and vague concept, empowerment is currently of political and theoretical significance and nowhere more so than in South Africa, where it seen as central to post-apartheid transformation. This paper explores the ways in... Read More about (Re)Politicizing empowerment: Lessons from the South African wine industry.

The 'global' in the city economy: multicultural economic development in Birmingham (2005)
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McEwan, C., Pollard, J., & Henry, N. (2005). The 'global' in the city economy: multicultural economic development in Birmingham. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 29(4), 916-933. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2005.00628.x

This article draws on critiques of ‘global cities’ to conceptualize Birmingham, the UK's second largest metropole, as a ‘global’ city by highlighting forms of economic globalization that draw on the city's residents, their histories and their social... Read More about The 'global' in the city economy: multicultural economic development in Birmingham.

New spaces of citizenship? Rethinking gendered participation and empowerment in South Africa (2005)
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McEwan, C. (2005). New spaces of citizenship? Rethinking gendered participation and empowerment in South Africa. Political Geography, 24(8), 969-991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2005.05.001

This paper draws on empirical research in South Africa to explore questions about the exclusionary nature of citizenship, the problems and possibilities of participatory citizenship and its potential reconceptualisation through the lens of gender. Th... Read More about New spaces of citizenship? Rethinking gendered participation and empowerment in South Africa.

Material geographies and postcolonialism (2003)
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McEwan, C. (2003). Material geographies and postcolonialism. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 24(3), 340-355. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9493.00163

While postcolonial studies have inspired new ideas, a new language and a new theoretical inflection for a wide range of teaching and research in human geography, there have been few sustained discussions about what might constitute a postcolonial geo... Read More about Material geographies and postcolonialism.

'Bringing government to the people': women, local governance and community participation in South Africa (2003)
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McEwan, C. (2003). 'Bringing government to the people': women, local governance and community participation in South Africa. Geoforum, 34(4), 469-481. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7185%2803%2900050-2

This paper considers the ongoing political transformations in South Africa in the context of debates about good governance and participatory democracy. It first appraises the current transformations of local government in South Africa, focusing speci... Read More about 'Bringing government to the people': women, local governance and community participation in South Africa.