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Towards a spatial history of Israel (2011)
Book Chapter
Leshem, N., & Ronel, A. (2011). Towards a spatial history of Israel. In H. Yacobi, & T. Fenster (Eds.), Memory Forgetfulness and the Construction of Space (81-105). Hakibutz Hameuchad and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Where is the Great White North? Spatializing history, historicizing whiteness (2011)
Book Chapter
Baldwin, W., Cameron, L., & Kobayashi, A. (2011). Where is the Great White North? Spatializing history, historicizing whiteness. In W. Baldwin, L. Cameron, & A. Kobayashi (Eds.), Rethinking the Great White North : race, nature and the historical geographies of whiteness in Canada. University of British Columbia Press

Scales of Care and Responsibility: debating the surgically globalised body (2011)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. (2011). Scales of Care and Responsibility: debating the surgically globalised body. Social and Cultural Geography, 12(6), 623-637. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2011.601263

This paper initiates debate for geographers on the nature of care in relation to the self explored through the practices of aesthetic surgery. Central to debates on the meanings and relations of aesthetic surgery are a set of problematics related to... Read More about Scales of Care and Responsibility: debating the surgically globalised body.

Art as social practice: transforming lives using sculpture in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention in Uganda. (2011)
Journal Article
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..

'Change4Life for your kids': embodied collectives and public health pedagogy (2011)
Journal Article
Evans, B., Colls, R., & Horschelmann, K. (2011). 'Change4Life for your kids': embodied collectives and public health pedagogy. Sport, Education and Society, 16(3), 323-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.565964

Recent work in human geography has begun to explore the fluidity of bodily boundaries and to foreground the connectedness of bodies to other bodies/objects/places. Across multiple subdisciplinary areas, including health, children's and feminist geogr... Read More about 'Change4Life for your kids': embodied collectives and public health pedagogy.

The place and practices of wellbeing in local governance (2011)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., & Joyce, K. (2011). The place and practices of wellbeing in local governance. Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, 29(1), 133-148. https://doi.org/10.1068/c09200

The concept of well-being has become prominent within national policy goals in the UK since the end of the 1990s. However, the concept of well-being remains ill defined, an instability that is increasingly understood as problematic to policy making.... Read More about The place and practices of wellbeing in local governance.

Time and the University (2011)
Journal Article
Meyerhoff, E., Johnson, E., & Braun, B. (2011). Time and the University. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 10(3), 483-507

Over the past twenty years, university administrators in North America, Europe and elsewhere have used the apparent ‘crisis’ in higher education as an opportunity to roll out neoliberal policies. For many working in the academy, the effect has been f... Read More about Time and the University.

Care of the body: spaces of practice (2011)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Lawson, V., & Wiles, J. (2011). Care of the body: spaces of practice. Social and Cultural Geography, 12(6), 563-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2011.601238

Care—concept, emotion, practice, politics, moral exhortation—is a starting point for a range of critical geographies. Care affords geographers a richness of possibilities through which to engage critically with a range of politically charged discours... Read More about Care of the body: spaces of practice.