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'Bringing government to the people': women, local governance and community participation in South Africa (2003)
Journal Article
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.

Material geographies and postcolonialism (2003)
Journal Article
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.

Qualitative methods : touchy, feely, look-see? (2003)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2003). Qualitative methods : touchy, feely, look-see?. Progress in Human Geography, 27(4), 494-504. https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132503ph445pr

This paper follows the case of one city that has deliberately fashioned itself as a regional, indeed global, hub for the information age. Singapore has shaped itself into a global hub in what is often seen as a global information space that depends u... Read More about Qualitative methods : touchy, feely, look-see?.

Updating Coalfield Areas. (2003)
Report
Hudson, R., & Townsend, A. (2003). Updating Coalfield Areas. [No known commissioning body]

Placing Jane Austen, displacing England : touring between book, history and nation (2003)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2003). Placing Jane Austen, displacing England : touring between book, history and nation. In S. Pucci, & J. Thompson (Eds.), Jane Austen and Co. : remaking the past in contemporary culture (111-132). SUNY Press

In this essay I want to think through the popularity of Austen by linking her work to two sets of places. The first is the imagined geographies produced through the text, or perhaps more accurately through its reading, which speak of a vanished Engli... Read More about Placing Jane Austen, displacing England : touring between book, history and nation.

Telling materials (2003)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2003). Telling materials. In M. Pryke, G. Rose, & S. Whatmore (Eds.), Using social theory, thinking through research (127-144). SAGE Publications

This chapter asks us to think carefully about what we do with material we have created out in the field. The way it is going to approach this is by thinking about the actions involved in analysis making sense out of the material you have so painstaki... Read More about Telling materials.