Space and Place

„Nicht-Orte“, Jugendzentren, Zeitzeugen: Zur Verortung von Shopping Malls. [„Non-Places“, Youth Centers, Historic Sites: Contextualizing Shopping Malls]

by Tobias Bernet

In: Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde 107 (2): 191-216 (2011).

Shopping Malls sind in jüngster Zeit vermehrt zum Gegenstand sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen... more Shopping Malls sind in jüngster Zeit vermehrt zum Gegenstand sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen geworden. Dabei lässt sich zumeist eine eher kritische Haltung gegenüber den "Konsumtempeln" feststellen. Diese rekurriert oft auf Marc Augés Begriff des "Nicht-Ortes". Der vorliegende Artikel betrachtet dessen Rezeption und verortet die «Mall-Kritik» in der kulturwissenschaftlichen Literatur ihrerseits kritisch. Anhand von differenzierteren ethnographischen Werken und eigenen Beobachtungen, insbesondere zu Shopping Malls in der Schweiz, hebt der Autor mögliche alternative Sichtweisen auf das Phänomen hervor und zeigt auf, wie diese angeblich "identitätslosen" Räume gesellschaftlich und zeitgeschichtlich verortet werden können.

Geografías del terror en Colombia.

by Iñigo Errejón Galván

(2010) Reseña del libro: "Comunidades negras y espacio en el Pacífico colombiano. Hacia un giro geográfico en el estudio de los movimientos sociales" Ulrich Oslender (2008) Bogotá: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, 355 pp.

Life off the Grid: An ethnographer and videographer meet the people whose homes produce all the energy they need

by Phillip Vannini

Co-authored with Jonathan Taggart, published in Canadian Geographic, June 2012

Graham Swift and the Rhetoric of Remembrance

by David James

Published in Critique (2009)

'New Horizons for the British Regional Novel'

by David James

Published in JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory (2006)

Off-grid Mobilities: Incorporating a Way of Life

by Phillip Vannini

Published in Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies

Drawing from sensory ethnography, the present multimodal writing—accompanied by photography and digital... more Drawing from sensory ethnography, the present multimodal writing—accompanied by photography and digital video—documents and interprets the mobilities of off-grid living on Lasqueti Island, British Columbia, Canada. The data presentation focuses in particular on the embodied experience of off-grid inhabitation, highlighting the sensory and kinetic experiences and practices of everyday life in a community disconnected from the North American electrical grid and highway network. The mobilities of fuel and energy are presented in unison with ethnographic attention to the taskscape of everyday activities and movements in which off-grid islanders routinely engage. The analysis, based on Tim Ingold's non-representational theory on place, movement, and inhabitation, focuses on how the material and corporeal mobilities of off-grid life body forth a unique sense of place.

The Playces of Parkour

by Robert Finch

The Dirty Legacy of Europe’s New Cultural Metropolis: The Ruhr Area’s Old Industrial and New Cultural Energies

by Jonas Leonhard Tinius

What is at stake when one of Europe's most densely populated urban conglomerates changes the frame of reference for its identity from industry to postindustrial culture? How are we to understand campaigns that seek to redefine an entire area into Europe's new cultural metropolis and what are some of the limitations as well as potentials of this more than conceptual imagination for the study of industrial landscapes, theatre, and space?

The Earth Still Trembles: On Landscape Views in Contemporary Italian Cinema

by Giorgio Bertellini

italian culture, Vol. xxx No. 1, March, 2012, 38–50

The essay discusses contemporary Italian fi lmmakers’ sustained interest in
the representation of national... more The essay discusses contemporary Italian fi lmmakers’ sustained interest in
the representation of national landscapes and physical environments as
revelatory settings of defacement of the nation’s geo-cultural patrimony.
Whether historical costume dramas, documentaries, or high-class melodramas,
Martone’s Noi credevamo, Guzzanti’s Draquila, and even Guadagnino’s
Io sono l’amore, among others, have exposed comparable forms of spatial
and anthropological degrado. In so doing they resonate with articulations
of environmental literacy and ethics emerged in the writings of Roberto
Saviano and Salvatore Settis.

The Archaeology of the Pueblo Revolt and the Formation of the Modern Pueblo World. Kiva: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History 73(2):195-217.

by Matthew Liebmann

Co-authored with Robert Preucel.  Published 2007

ASCA_McArdle_Photography at the Chiasm

by James McArdle

Presented at EXTREMELY CLOSE AND INCREDIBLY SLOW
ASCA International Workshop 2012, 28-30 March 2012

“Immobile inside the train, seeing immobile things slip by”; thus is the theme of the immobile world of the traveller... more “Immobile inside the train, seeing immobile things slip by”; thus is the theme of the immobile world of the traveller in the train introduced by Michel de Certeau in “Railway Navigation and Incarceration”. In contemplating this transfixion, he adapts Merleau-Ponty’s figure of the Chiasm, applying it to the carriage window and the steel rail to account for the way immobility crosses between near and far, between speed and stasis.

This paper identifies the photographic surface as a further manifestation of the binding chiasm to ask ‘What if the photographer were to relinquish habitual cyclopean and mercurial powers and to choose instead slow down the ‘capture’ and to peer around the ‘frame’? Recent experiments in contemporary photomedia deal with being (noun and verb), and moving, in space. Artist-researchers Marian Drew, Daniel Armstrong and the author, will be shown to be re-evaluating their inheritance; the ‘static’ image. Each has discovered new means by which to resolve the ‘figure and ground’ and the coincidence of environment and human subjects, at, within and through the ‘Chiasm’, by extending exposure and interpenetrating relations of near and far.

An observer who sees the world at a traveling point of observation is ‘everywhere at once’ (Gibson 1979). It is a sign of mind and attention that both visible and the tangible co-exist in and interpenetrate both the observer and the space in which they move. What is proposed by Marcel Merleau-Ponty via the Chiasm; a ‘double and crossed sublation of the visible in the tangible and of the tangible in the visible’, is verified in these artistic experiments.

Review of 'The Spatial Construction of Organization.' Tor Hernes. John Benjamins, Amsterdam (2004).

by Jerzy Kociatkiewicz

Published (2004) in Scandinavian Journal of Management 20/4: 396-398
Unformatted copy
DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2004.08.001

Space is a rather vaguely defined but nevertheless (or perhaps consequently) a widely used concept, employed both as... more Space is a rather vaguely defined but nevertheless (or perhaps consequently) a widely used concept, employed both as metaphor and designation. Tor Hernes’ book is an attempt to examine and describe the various ways in which space could be relevant to organization theory.

Scales of knowledge: North Sea fisheries governance, the local fisherman and the European scientist

by Liza Griffin

Griffin, L (2009) ‘Scales of knowledge in North Sea fisheries governance: the local fisherman & the European scientist’ Environmental Politics 18 (4). Pp 557 — 575.

Mapping indigenous Siberia: Spatial changes and ethnic realities, 1900–2010

by Ivan Sablin

co-authored with Maria Savelyeva, published in Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 77–110.

This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century... more This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. A Geographic Information System (GIS) was developed to model and observe these changes. The GIS also features resource-oriented economic activities, major waterways and railroads. Analysis of the model, textual sources and statistical data made it possible to determine what factors constituted Siberia’s ethnographical pattern of the early twentieth century and led to its changes in the ensuing decades and what impact on the indigenous peoples these changes had. Four special maps showing Siberia in the 1900s–10s, 1930s–40s, 1970s–80s and 2000s–10s were produced from the GIS and are included in the article. The current legal status of the indigenous peoples’ territories was also examined. This article presents an interdisciplinary macroscale case study.

Research Education: Whose space for learning?

by Terri Seddon

Reference:

Doecke, B and Seddon, T. 2002 Research Education: Whose Space for Learning? Australian Education Researcher 29 (3), pp.85-100

Recent changes in the funding of research degree programs in Australia have had an impact on the way research students... more Recent changes in the funding of research degree programs in Australia have had an impact on the way research students are prepared and licensed as researchers. In particular, the design of programs must now address issues of student progress, support and pacing in order to access funding for timely completions. In a sense, the social space within which research training has traditionally been addressed is being reconfigured through the application of funding levers, coupled with increased reporting procedures relating to a specified set of research outcomes. This paper draws on recent theorising of social space in order to investigate the scope and character of this reconfiguration. We argue that research education remains a complex and contested zone despite the pressures of neo-liberal globalisation to impose a model of research in its own image.

Research Education: Whose space for learning?

by Terri Seddon

Reference:

Doecke, B and Seddon, T. 2002 Research Education: Whose Space for Learning? Australian Education Researcher 29 (3), pp.85-100

Recent changes in the funding of research degree programs in Australia have had an impact on the way research students... more Recent changes in the funding of research degree programs in Australia have had an impact on the way research students are prepared and licensed as researchers. In particular, the design of programs must now address issues of student progress, support and pacing in order to access funding for timely completions. In a sense, the social space within which research training has traditionally been addressed is being reconfigured through the application of funding levers, coupled with increased reporting procedures relating to a specified set of research outcomes. This paper draws on recent theorising of social space in order to investigate the scope and character of this reconfiguration. We argue that research education remains a complex and contested zone despite the pressures of neo-liberal globalisation to impose a model of research in its own image.

Constructing the forced migrant and the politics of space and place-making

by Saskia Witteborn

Journal of Communication

Mobility is one of the defining concepts of globalization processes. For some migrants,
however, mobility is... more Mobility is one of the defining concepts of globalization processes. For some migrants,
however, mobility is restricted by international and national laws as well as sociopolitical
discourses, which regulate the migrant body and her ability to create social relations. Based
on interviews in asylum seeker accommodations in Germany, this study illustrates how
asylum seekers are spatially constructed and arrested through bureaucratic labeling and
assignment to heterotopias and as a discursive location of transience and difference. Those
processes freeze the forced migrant in place, in social and semiotic spaces, and position it
as a politicized discursive location. The positioning is indicative of monitoring the Other as
a symbol of threat to the nation in times of risk. Overall, the study illustrates the tensions
between transnational mobility and fixity and the intersections between globalization,
communication, social, legal, and political practice, and space/place-making.

Terminal <2012>

by Joerg Potthast

in N. Marquardt & V. Schreiber (eds.)

Ortsregister: Ein Glossar zu Räumen der Gegenwart, Bielefeld: transcript.

Familial relations: spaces, subjects, and politics

by Lauren Martin

co-authored with Chris Harker

Introduction to our themed issue on the family in geographical research.

Other articles include:
more Introduction to our themed issue on the family in geographical research.

Other articles include:

Do as I say, not as I do: the affective space of family life and the generational transmission of drinking cultures 776 – 792
Gill Valentine, Mark Jayne, Myles Gould

Transnational families and the family nexus: perspectives of Indonesian and Filipino children left behind by migrant parent(s) 793 – 815
Elspeth Graham, Lucy P Jordan, Brenda S A Yeoh, Theodora Lam, Maruja Asis, Su-kamdi

‘The church is ... my family’: exploring the interrelationship between familial and religious practices and spaces 816 – 831
Sonya Sharma

Women in waiting? Singlehood, marriage, and family in Singapore 832 – 848
Kamalini Ramdas

Precariousness, precarity, and family: notes from Palestine 849 – 865
Christopher Harker

Governing through the family: struggles over US noncitizen family detention policy 866 – 888
Lauren L Martin

The spectacular and the mundane: racialised state violence, Filipino migrant workers, and their families 889 – 904
Elizabeth Lee, Geraldine Pratt

After December: Spatial Legacies of the 2008 Athens Uprising. In Upping the Anti vol 10.

by Dimitris Dalakoglou

See: http://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/10-after-december-spatial-legacies-of-the-2008-athens-uprising/

The cold-blooded police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia on... more The cold-blooded police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia on December 6, 2008 sparked an unprecedented wave of protests and rioting. These protests quickly spread not only throughout Athens and the majority of Greek cities but also beyond the country’s borders. Around the world, more than 200 solidarity actions took place in December alone. During the riots and clashes that followed Grigoropoulos’ death, police departments, banks, government ministries, and other public buildings in Athens came under near-daily attack, while universities, high schools, town halls, and other buildings were occupied by demonstrators across the country. This episode ­– a major insurrection sparked by a single incident of police brutality – has attracted considerable attention from global social justice movements. The question of the uprising’s aftermath remains on many people’s minds. Before considering the legacies of the uprising, however, it’s useful to look at how the events of December 2008 became possible in the first place.