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The non-'Global City' of Birmingham, UK: a gateway through time. (2007)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C., Pollard, J., & Henry, N. (2007). The non-'Global City' of Birmingham, UK: a gateway through time. In L. Benton-Short, & M. Price (Eds.), Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities (191-224). Syracuse University Press

Health and Disease (2007)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. (2007). Health and Disease. In I. Douglas, R. Huggett, & C. Perkins (Eds.), Companion encyclopaedia of geography : from local to global (157-168). Routledge

Health and disease display uneven spatial patterns at all scales: between geo-political areas of the world, between countries, between sub-national units and within sub-national units. Health viewed as an outcome serves as a key indicator in assessme... Read More about Health and Disease.

The space between us: Opening remarks on the concept of dwelling (2007)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2007). The space between us: Opening remarks on the concept of dwelling. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 25(4), 625-647. https://doi.org/10.1068/d365t

Somewhat surprisingly the concept of dwelling remains largely unconsidered within contemporary geographical thought. Despite signs of a renewed interest in the term it remains all but bereft of a sustained critical appraisal and as a consequence firm... Read More about The space between us: Opening remarks on the concept of dwelling.

Wellbeing, health and geography: a critical review and research agenda (2007)
Journal Article
Fleuret, S., & Atkinson, S. (2007). Wellbeing, health and geography: a critical review and research agenda. New Zealand Geographer, 63(2), 106-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7939.2007.00093.x

This paper explores different conceptual and policy spaces of wellbeing. The increasing use of wellbeing in contemporary health debates affords geographers of health new arena in which to explore the processes that promote, remedy or regenerate healt... Read More about Wellbeing, health and geography: a critical review and research agenda.

A very modern ghost: postcolonialism and the politics of enchantment (2007)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Carbon-nation: the relational ontology of carbon scarcity in Canada's boreal forest (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baldwin, W. (2007, April). Carbon-nation: the relational ontology of carbon scarcity in Canada's boreal forest. Presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California

In Canada, the climate change debate is neatly divided along ideological lines. Conceptualizing the climate change debate in such stark terms, however, obscures much of what is at stake in the climate change furor. Building on insights from postcolon... Read More about Carbon-nation: the relational ontology of carbon scarcity in Canada's boreal forest.

Materialising bodily matter: Intra-action and the embodiment of 'Fat' (2007)
Journal Article
Colls, R. (2007). Materialising bodily matter: Intra-action and the embodiment of 'Fat'. Geoforum, 38(2), 353-365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.09.004

In this article I describe the processes through which fat bodies are materialised. I contextualise the article within the recent call to rematerialise social and cultural geography and the wider medical, social and political discrimination that obes... Read More about Materialising bodily matter: Intra-action and the embodiment of 'Fat'.

'How shall I say it...?' Relating the nonrelational (2007)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2007). 'How shall I say it...?' Relating the nonrelational. Environment and Planning A, 39(3), 590-608. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3825

As the ideas of the relational and relationality become part of the everyday conceptual make-up of human geography, in this paper I seek to recall the insistent and incessant importance of the nonrelational. In dialogue with nonrepresentational theor... Read More about 'How shall I say it...?' Relating the nonrelational.

Ethical trading and socioeconomic transformation: critical reflections on the South African wine industry (2007)
Journal Article
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.