Outputs (123)

Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth. (2009)
Book

Tourism: Between Place and Performance (2002)
Book

Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates wit... Read More about Tourism: Between Place and Performance.

Thinking Space (2000)
Book

As theorists have begun using geographical concepts and metaphors to think about the complex and differentiated world, it is important to reflect on their work, and its impact on our thoughts on space. This revealing book explores the work of a wide... Read More about Thinking Space.

Souvenirs, salvage and storied things: remembering community (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

What I am talking about comes from a much larger set of projects with a number of collaborators so I will be ventriloquising along the way today. What effect does it have if we take that supply chain and value chain and take it even further, into the... Read More about Souvenirs, salvage and storied things: remembering community.

Territory-network (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The state seems to have tangible existence as an entity through territoriality. States' territorial integrity is protected under international law, the OED offers 'territory' as one definition of 'state', and the association of 'territory' with 'land... Read More about Territory-network.

Cities and Climate Change Adaptation: the Role of Rapid Resilience. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Material matters and the search for resilience: Re-thinking and urban development strategies in the context of global environmental change. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

European citizenship and the regions. (2003)
Preprint / Working Paper

Density as a politics of value: regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism (2023)
Journal Article

Density is at the centre of urban change, and is often politicised. Building on Geographical and Urban scholarship, we set out a critical approach to understanding density through a focus on value. Following a review of key approaches to density, we... Read More about Density as a politics of value: regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism.

Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity (2023)
Journal Article

There has been a tendency for debates around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to focus on particular Goals or Targets. What tends to get lost, however, is the bigger picture. In this paper we ask: to what extent and under what conditions do t... Read More about Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity.

Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective (2023)
Journal Article

Transnational governance initiatives (TGIs) are increasingly recognized as central actors in the governing of climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet, their role in linking these domains has yet to be explored. As the climate crisis comes to be inc... Read More about Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective.

(Re)birthing the maternal (2023)
Journal Article

The aim of this essay is to explore the political and ethical potential of (re)birthing through Barad’s conceptualisation of transmateriality. This article puts Barad’s thought on entanglement, emergence, and responsibility into conversation with oth... Read More about (Re)birthing the maternal.

Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge (2023)
Journal Article

Although it has rarely been addressed as such, the regulation of disability within migration governance is a geopolitical issue. This article examines how refugee resettlement intersects with ablenationalism, an ideology that treats disability as exc... Read More about Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge.

Boredom and the politics of climate change (2023)
Journal Article

In this position paper, I speculate on what we might learn about the politics of climate change if we stay with the possibility that boredom might be part of how subjects encounter and make sense of climate change. I argue that boredom enacts an ethi... Read More about Boredom and the politics of climate change.

Lockdown time, time loops, and the crisis of the future (2023)
Journal Article

Amidst the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 in the United States and United Kingdom, a fantasy took hold that life under lockdown was like living in a time loop. The time loop quickly became the genre of the moment. And yet, however “timely” they... Read More about Lockdown time, time loops, and the crisis of the future.

Sanitation challenges in Dar es salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems (2023)
Journal Article

In the context of growing urbanization, sanitation in many cities is in acute crisis with severe social and environmental consequences. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of sanitation for all by 2030 is increasingly elusive. Municipalities have... Read More about Sanitation challenges in Dar es salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems.

Post-Pandemic Cities: An Urban Lexicon of Accelerations/Decelerations (2023)
Journal Article

COVID-19 has stimulated renewed societal and academic debate about the future of cities and urban life. Future visons have veered from the ‘death of the city’ to visual renderings and limited experiments with 15-minute neighbourhoods. Within this con... Read More about Post-Pandemic Cities: An Urban Lexicon of Accelerations/Decelerations.

The condition of urban climate experimentation (2023)
Journal Article

As the trend of urban climate experimentation continues, many accounts now seek to identify how it can be harnessed towards responses of sufficient scale and magnitude for the crises at hand. The imperative is to move beyond experimentation. Yet some... Read More about The condition of urban climate experimentation.

Density and the compact city (2023)
Journal Article

The ‘compact city’ agenda has become commonplace and is often presented as an urban ‘good’ in mainstream urban research, policy, and practice. Haarstad et al.'s intervention aims to bring critical geographical research to this debate, and is a very w... Read More about Density and the compact city.

Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme (2023)
Journal Article

Over the past five years, there have been growing calls for transformative responses to sustainability challenges, supported by increased transformative action in the pursuit of environmental justice. In parallel to this development within the policy... Read More about Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme.