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View article: Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination
Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination Open
This article considers the interface of taxonomies of race and migration crystallised through the materialities of the contemporary city in the shadow of the 7th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. It draws on multi-method empirical re…
View article: Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political
Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political Open
The idea of the open city has been used both conceptually and analytically to understand the politics of the city. The contrast between the open city and the closed city relies, in part, upon an understanding of the global systems that enf…
View article: A progressive sense of place and the open city: Micro-spatialities and micro-conflicts on a north London council estate
A progressive sense of place and the open city: Micro-spatialities and micro-conflicts on a north London council estate Open
Doreen Massey’s progressive sense of place (2005) and Richard Sennett’s ethical case for the open city (2018) rely on seeing space as open. It is openness that guarantees an open future, an openness to others, and the possibility of a prog…
View article: ‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign Open
This article examines the production, representations and reactions to the #LondonIsOpen campaign to ask how urban imaginaries are produced and what they entail for understanding the city. The analysis considers how the idea of a cosmopoli…
View article: Learning from <scp>Stoke‐on‐Trent</scp>: Multiple ontologies, ontological alterity and the city
Learning from <span>Stoke‐on‐Trent</span>: Multiple ontologies, ontological alterity and the city Open
This paper seeks to learn from Stoke‐on‐Trent by asking questions about the ontologies of cities. It does so by counterposing two accounts of Stoke‐on‐Trent: one grounded in a critique of neoliberal urban development (or rather post‐indust…
View article: "Creating a world for Spirit": affectual infrastructures and the production of a place for affect
"Creating a world for Spirit": affectual infrastructures and the production of a place for affect Open
• Utilizes original fieldwork to provide a detailed account of the emergence of affect in a spiritual situation. • Introduces the original concepts of affectual forms and affectual infrastructures to account for the emergence of affect. • …
View article: Spirit knows: materiality, memory and the recovery of Spiritualist places and practices in Stoke-on-Trent
Spirit knows: materiality, memory and the recovery of Spiritualist places and practices in Stoke-on-Trent Open
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record.
View article: Talking with the dead: Spirit mediumship, affect and embodiment in Stoke‐on‐Trent
Talking with the dead: Spirit mediumship, affect and embodiment in Stoke‐on‐Trent Open
While Spiritualism has attracted much attention in other disciplines, geographers have largely ignored it. However, we agree with Holloway (2006 Enchanted spaces: the séance, affect, and geographies of religion Annals of the Association of…