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Learning beyond the state: the pedagogical spaces of the CAB service

Jones, R. (2010)

This paper discusses the role played by the Citizens Advice Bureau service in enabling British citizenship and the way in which such a project has been facilitated through two different processes of learning. First, the ...
Learning from the ‘war on terror’

Hannah, Matthew G. (2010-02-01)
The little ice age in the Scottish Highlands and Islands : Documenting its human impact

Dodgshon, Robert (2005)

This paper examines the Little Ice Age in the Scottish Highlands and Islands and uses documentary evidence to show its impact on the farm economy. It has three sections. The first examines how Highland climate may have ...
Lobotomizing logics : A Critique Of Memory Sports and The Business Of Mapping The Mind

Hoskins, G. (Springer Nature, 2012-10-10)
Making up Chinese-Americans : Moral Geographies of Immigration in the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and The Peopling of America Theme Study Act (2001)

Gareth; Tim J. (Brill Publishers, 2006)

This collection of essays investigates the convergence between the postmodern politics of mobility and a politics of metaphor, a politics, in other words, in the context of which the production and displacement of meaning(s) ...
Manipulating material hydro-worlds: rethinking human and more-than-human relationality through offshore radio piracy

Peters, Kimberley Anne (2012)

Lambert et al state that emerging geographical studies of social and cultural worlds at sea should take into account the currents, textures, and more-than-human elements of the oceans. In spite of this call there has been ...
Materialising memory at Angel Island Immigration Station, San Francisco

Hoskins, Gareth (2007)

This paper presents an object-centred account of the politics of memory at a National Historic Landmark: Angel Island Immigration Station, San Francisco. Once a port of entry and detention for Chinese immigrants arriving ...
Materiality, subjectification, and government: the geographies of Britain's Motorway Code

Merriman, Peter (2005)

In this paper I provide a critical discussion of Foucault's work on government and governmentality. I argue that geographers have tended to overlook the ways in which practices of self-government and subjectification are ...
A mirage of colonial consensus: resettlement schemes in early Spanish Peru

Scott, Heidi V. (2004)

In this paper I examine struggles over space, mobility, and indigenous human geographies that centred on the reducciones (reductions), colonial towns that were created for the purpose of controlling indigenous populations ...
‘Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre’ : Assembling and governing the motorway driver in late 1950s Britain

Merriman, Peter (2006-10)

In recent years social scientists have paid increasing attention to the complex relations between drivers and cars, drawing upon the writings of Bruno Latour, John Law, Donna Haraway and others to trace the materialities ...
(Mis)adventures in Rumsfeld space

Hannah, Matthew G. (2010-08)

Ewald’s recent genealogy of constructions of risk in Western societies argues that the 1980s saw an important paradigm shift to the “precautionary principle”. Critical scholars have taken up this idea as a lens through ...
Mobility, Space and Culture

Merriman, P. (Taylor & Francis, 2012-06-12)
Negotiating the “Place” and “Placement” of Banal Tourist Souvenirs in the Home

Peters, Kimberley Anne (2011)

Souvenirs have been largely ignored in geographic work on tourism. This paper adds to the body of literature concerned with ‘tourism geographies’ by considering the partial lives of one type of souvenir; those labelled ...
'A new look at the English landscape': landscape architecture, movement and the aesthetics of motorways in early postwar Britain

Merriman, Peter (2006-01)

In the past decade or so geographers have been arguing for more performative, practice-oriented and non-representational accounts of the ways in which people encounter, move through and inhabit landscapes, spaces and places. ...
On Arrival : memory and temporality at Ellis Island, New York

Hoskins, Gareth (2012)

Museums and heritage operations are increasingly employing experiential forms of interpretation, such as role adoption and first-person interpretation, in order to cultivate emotional bonds between visitors and the characters ...
On the other hand ... dialectics

Dixon, Deborah P.; Woodward, Keith; Jones III, John Paul (2008)

On the other hand ... dialectics: a sometimes social, sometimes materialist, sometimes psychological, but always political ontology that has offered the foundational logic for historico-geographical methodologies, rumbles ...
On the Potential of Being a Village Boy: An Argument for Local Rural Ethnography

Heley, Jesse (2011-10-27)

This article explores the significance of researcher's positionality for the interpretation of local cultures of rurality. Drawing on personal experience of studying the apparent emergence of a new squirearchy in an English ...
Paradise in the New World: an Iberian vision of tropicality

Scott, Heidi V. (2010-01)

This article provides an in-depth exploration of early modern ideas of the American tropics in the specific context of colonial Spanish America. Its principal focus is a 17th century treatise entitled Paraíso en el Nuevo ...
People - States - Territories : The Political Geographies of British State Transformation

Jones, Rhys (Wiley, 2007-05)

People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demonstrates how agents have actively contributed to the reproduction and transformation ...
Personalisation and de-schooling: uncommon trajectories in contemporary education policy

Pykett, Jessica (2009-08)

‘Personalised learning’ has become a popular term within education policy and practice in England, and is part of wider moves towards the ‘personalisation’ of public services and the promotion of personal responsibility ...

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