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Professor Helen Wilson's Outputs (42)

Urban maintenance as compromise: Coming to terms with the multispecies city (2024)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. (online). Urban maintenance as compromise: Coming to terms with the multispecies city. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486241280354

The paper examines the role of maintenance and repair in the multispecies city as central to understanding the relationship between non-human life and infrastructure. The focus of the paper, black-legged kittiwakes (a pelagic species of gull), have l... Read More about Urban maintenance as compromise: Coming to terms with the multispecies city.

Futility and environmentalism: Affective repertoires and the imposition of limits (2024)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2024). Futility and environmentalism: Affective repertoires and the imposition of limits. New Formations, 112, 16-30. https://doi.org/10.3898/NewF%3A112.01.2024

Drawing on debates concerning crisis-laden horizons and the affective modes and narrative templates of environmentalism, this paper examines claims about how the feel of the affective present might or should be organised. To do so, it focuses on the... Read More about Futility and environmentalism: Affective repertoires and the imposition of limits.

Coming to terms with affective infrastructure (2023)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2023). Coming to terms with affective infrastructure. Dialogues in Human Geography, 13(1), 81-85. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231154347

Affective infrastructure has become an unremarkable feature of geographical research. By examining how ‘affective infrastructure’ has been mobilised within geography and political theory, and charting its distinguishing features – whether as metaphor... Read More about Coming to terms with affective infrastructure.

Robin (2022)
Book
Wilson, H. F. (2022). Robin. Reaktion

Arrival cities and the mobility of concepts (2022)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2022). Arrival cities and the mobility of concepts. Urban Studies, 59(16), 3459-3468. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221135820

The status of any arrival city is far from stable, being continuously reworked by state policy, geopolitics, economic fluctuations or localised events that rupture or destabilise what came before. The diversifications and differential inclusions that... Read More about Arrival cities and the mobility of concepts.

Seabirds in the city: urban futures and fraught coexistence (2021)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. (2022). Seabirds in the city: urban futures and fraught coexistence. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47(4), 1137-1151. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12525

At a time when seabird populations have experienced steep declines and the movement of diverse species into cities has become a globally important issue, the paper examines the contested presence of an urban seabird colony in North East England. Draw... Read More about Seabirds in the city: urban futures and fraught coexistence.

Data Management (2020)
Book Chapter
Wilson, H. F. (2020). Data Management. In H. F. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography. SAGE Publications

Geography and Ethics (2020)
Book Chapter
Darling, J., & Wilson, H. F. (2020). Geography and Ethics. In H. F. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography. SAGE Publications

Participatory Approaches (2020)
Book Chapter
Lobo, M., Kelly, D., & Wilson, H. F. (2020). Participatory Approaches. In H. F. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography. SAGE Publications

Anonymity (2020)
Book Chapter
Wilson, H. F. (2020). Anonymity. In H. F. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography. SAGE Publications

Discomfort: Transformative encounters and social change (2020)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2020). Discomfort: Transformative encounters and social change. Emotion, Space and Society, 37, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100681

In the context of debates on ontological risk, ‘border work’, and the transformative potentials of encounter, the paper offers a critical examination of the workings of discomfort to ask what is at stake in both its embrace and refusal. Focusing in p... Read More about Discomfort: Transformative encounters and social change.

Voluntary Spaces (2020)
Book Chapter
Farías, M., & Wilson, H. F. (2020). Voluntary Spaces. In H. F. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students. SAGE Publications

Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse (2019)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Wilson, H., Foreman, P., Heslop, J., Ormerod, E., & Maestri, G. (2020). Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(2), 256-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12348

Alongside the emergence of various populisms, Brexit and other contemporary geopolitical events have been presented as symptomatic of a generalizing and intensifying sense of uncertainty in the midst of a crisis of (neo)liberalism. In this paper we d... Read More about Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse.

Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through 'Imperial Eyes' (2019)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2019). Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through 'Imperial Eyes'. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2(4), 712-731. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619862191

The contact zone is described as the space of imperial encounter. Against a backdrop of work that has used Mary Louise Pratt's concept of the contact zone to examine culture-making, and destabilize normative understandings of division, distinction, a... Read More about Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through 'Imperial Eyes'.

On the paradox of 'organised' encounter (2018)
Book Chapter
Wilson, H. F. (in press). On the paradox of 'organised' encounter. In L. B. Christiansen, L. P. Galal, & K. Hvenegard-Lassen (Eds.), Cultural Encounters as Intervention Practices. Routledge