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Variable geometries of connection: Urban digital divides and the uses of Information Technology (2006)
Journal Article
Crang, M., Graham, S., & Crosbie, T. (2006). Variable geometries of connection: Urban digital divides and the uses of Information Technology. Urban Studies, 43(13), 2551 -2570. https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980600970664

This paper proposes a new way of conceptualising urban ‘digital divides’. It focuses on the ways in which Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) unevenly affect the pace of life within the urban environment. Based on a detailed case study... Read More about Variable geometries of connection: Urban digital divides and the uses of Information Technology.

Poststructuralist Theories. (2006)
Book Chapter
Harrison, P. (2006). Poststructuralist Theories. In S. Aitken, & G. Valentine (Eds.), Approaches to Human Geography (122-133). SAGE Publications

The New Economic Geography? (2006)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2006). The New Economic Geography?. In H. Lawton-Smith, & S. Bagchi-Sen (Eds.), Past, Present and Future of Economic Geography (47-55). Routledge

Dependency Theory. (2006)
Book Chapter
Power, M. (2006). Dependency Theory. In B. Wharf (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Geography. SAGE Publications

Using Images, Films and Photography. (2006)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2006). Using Images, Films and Photography. In V. Desai, & R. Potter (Eds.), Doing Development Research (231-240). SAGE Publications

Urban Sustainability: learning from best practice? (2006)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2006). Urban Sustainability: learning from best practice?. Environment and Planning A, 38(6), 1029-1044. https://doi.org/10.1068/a37300

In the quest for sustainable development, numerous examples of ‘best practice’ have been created and circulated in national and international arenas. Yet despite the vast array of examples, demonstration projects, case studies, and the like, little i... Read More about Urban Sustainability: learning from best practice?.

(Re)Politicizing empowerment: Lessons from the South African wine industry (2006)
Journal Article
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.

Becoming and being hopeful: towards a theory of affect (2006)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2006). Becoming and being hopeful: towards a theory of affect. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 24(5), 733-752. https://doi.org/10.1068/d393t

In this paper I describe how hope takes place, in order to outline an explicit theory of the more-than-rational or less-than rational in the context of the recent attunement to issues of the affectual and emotional in social and cultural geography. I... Read More about Becoming and being hopeful: towards a theory of affect.