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View article: Watery traces and absences: sensations and speculative histories of an ancient well and a carse landscape
Watery traces and absences: sensations and speculative histories of an ancient well and a carse landscape Open
This paper explores how mighty earth processes, aquatic agencies and human practical, political, religious, technological, commercial and environmental interventions have shaped and reshaped a now obscure Scottish holy well and the carse l…
View article: Sensing the past along Britain’s A roads
Sensing the past along Britain’s A roads Open
This paper seeks to explore the particular characteristics of British A-roads by focusing upon a motoring journey from Slough to Torquay. This trip was undertaken as part of an extended motoring adventure by two Indian tourists in 1955, an…
View article: Dark skies
Dark skies Open
This chapter presents the underpinning argument of the book, focusing upon how meanings about dark skies have emerged and relationships them have evolved. In particular, the chapter responds to the significant gap in knowledge across the h…
View article: Under the night
Under the night Open
In this concluding chapter, we bring together the theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, and empirical work in order to explain their implications for this emerging multi- and interdisciplinary field. We discuss the manifold pe…
View article: Dark Skies
Dark Skies Open
Dark Skies addresses a significant gap in knowledge in relation to perspectives from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In providing a new multi- and interdisciplinary field of inquiry, this book brings together engagements with da…
View article: Considering festive illuminations in dark sky places
Considering festive illuminations in dark sky places Open
This chapter assesses the festive illuminations produced at the national park and dark sky reserve in the South Downs. We firstly highlight some of the most deleterious effects on darkness perpetrated by festive lighting before moving towa…
View article: Custodians of a resort island: standing by between oblivion and restoration
Custodians of a resort island: standing by between oblivion and restoration Open
This paper explores the experiences of three Bangladeshi migrant workers who are the sole inhabitants and custodians of a former Maldivian island resort. We show how they currently remain in a state of indeterminate standby as the future o…
View article: Making the football stadium homely: Manchester City's relocation from Maine road to the Etihad
Making the football stadium homely: Manchester City's relocation from Maine road to the Etihad Open
Much geographical literature concerning home focuses on its emotional potency. This paper explores how football supporters consider their club's stadium as a 'home'. However, this sense of homeliness can evaporate when clubs relocate to ne…
View article: Reified monuments, counter memorials and anti-memorials: contested colonial heritage in Melbourne – commemorating John Batman
Reified monuments, counter memorials and anti-memorials: contested colonial heritage in Melbourne – commemorating John Batman Open
This paper contributes to recent debates about memorials and the persistence of outmoded forms that commemorate figures associated with slavery and colonial depredations. The focus is on John Batman, often considered to be the founder of M…
View article: What Color Is This Place?
What Color Is This Place? Open
This paper considers how a color-conscious approach to place might be explored. After focusing on the symbolic and affective qualities, of color, attention shifts to the persistent chromophobia that continues to influence western approache…
View article: The potent urban prehistory of an ancient megalith: the Kempock Stone, Gourock, Scotland
The potent urban prehistory of an ancient megalith: the Kempock Stone, Gourock, Scotland Open
This paper focuses on the modern biography of a prehistoric stone of uncertain provenance, the megalith known as the Kempock Stone or Granny Kempock that has stood in the Clydeside town of Gourock for at least several hundred years. Rather…
View article: Heritage assemblages, maintenance and futures: Stories of entanglement on Hampstead Heath, London
Heritage assemblages, maintenance and futures: Stories of entanglement on Hampstead Heath, London Open
This paper investigates a heritage assemblage in which the most prominent elements are an old brick arch and a massive beech tree, entwined together on Hampstead Heath. In drawing upon the figure of the assemblage, I explore how the practi…
View article: Learning from Hampstead’s Pergola: walking and image-making at a spectacular Edwardian structure
Learning from Hampstead’s Pergola: walking and image-making at a spectacular Edwardian structure Open
This paper focuses on the extraordinary 245-metre-long Pergola on Hampstead Heath, designed by renowned landscape architect Thomas Mawson between 1905 and 1925, and funded by William Lever, Lord Leverhulme, owner of the property. The paper…
View article: The affective and sensory potencies of urban stone: Textures and colours, commemoration and geologic convivialities
The affective and sensory potencies of urban stone: Textures and colours, commemoration and geologic convivialities Open
In drawing out how human lives are always already inextricably entangled with the non-human elements of the world, this paper explores how stone, as a constituent of urban materiality, provokes a wealth of emotional, sensory and affective …
View article: Tourist skills
Tourist skills Open
This study extends the theoretical debate on skills as an important element of tourism as a practice. Analysing qualitative data on train and canal boating tourism in the UK, we discuss how some tourism practices require both specialist an…
View article: Dreamlands: stories of enchantment and excess in a search for lost sensations
Dreamlands: stories of enchantment and excess in a search for lost sensations Open
This paper reflects on the search for a lost, obscure piece of experimental architecture that appeared on the west coast of Scotland in the late 1960s. Encouraged by cultural geography’s efforts to recuperate storytelling as a valid mode o…
View article: Enigmatic objects and playful provocations: the mysterious case of Golden Head
Enigmatic objects and playful provocations: the mysterious case of Golden Head Open
This article explores community responses to 'Golden Head', a guerrilla artwork that was installed covertly in a Melbourne park in early 2020 by unknown persons. Focusing on local residents' reactions to this mysterious, unsanctioned statu…
View article: Keeping the family silver: The changing meanings and uses of Manchester’s civic plate
Keeping the family silver: The changing meanings and uses of Manchester’s civic plate Open
This article explores the shifting uses and meanings of Manchester civic plate, a huge silver dining service purchased in 1877 to coincide with the opening of the city’s neo-Gothic Town Hall. The authors explore how the silver collection h…
View article: Entering the Fifth Dimension: modular modernities, psychedelic sensibilities, and the architectures of lived experience
Entering the Fifth Dimension: modular modernities, psychedelic sensibilities, and the architectures of lived experience Open
In this paper, we elaborate on the Fifth Dimension, an extraordinary, largely overlooked architectural example of 1960s psychedelia that was installed in a small Scottish resort town. Made up of 17 domed chambers, each designed to stimulat…
View article: Relational Risk and Collective Management: A Pathway to Transformational Risk Management
Relational Risk and Collective Management: A Pathway to Transformational Risk Management Open
Risk tends to be conceptualized at the individual scale, with global risk communication and governance efforts fixated on an individual's knowledge and behavior. While individuals are undoubtedly influenced by those who surround them, such…
View article: Walking with light and the discontinuous experience of urban change
Walking with light and the discontinuous experience of urban change Open
This paper is concerned with the affective power of light, darkness, and illumination and their role in exposing and obscuring processes of rapid urban change. Little academic attention has focused on how lighting informs multiple, overlap…
View article: Commuter lives: a review symposium on David Bissell's <i>Transit Life</i>
Commuter lives: a review symposium on David Bissell's <i>Transit Life</i> Open
This article presents a series of commentaries on Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities , published by MIT Press in 2018. Centring on an in—depth case study of Sydney, the book argues the need to attend carefully to the fi…
View article: Experiential Attunements in an Illuminated City at Night: A Pedagogical Writing Experiment
Experiential Attunements in an Illuminated City at Night: A Pedagogical Writing Experiment Open
This article traces stories of singular footsteps taken on a collective meandering through Brisbane city, as a pedagogical experiment in writing for geographers. The diverse encounters recounted here took place as part of an extended works…
View article: Patina: A Profane Archaeology
Patina: A Profane Archaeology Open
Shannon Lee Dawdy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xv and 195 pp., photos, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $82.50 cloth (ISBN 9780226351056), $27.50 paper (ISBN...
View article: Atmospheres in Urban Light
Atmospheres in Urban Light Open
Inescapably spatial and located in experience, understanding atmospheres and their impact means close empirical attention to how they arise and are constituted, how they impress upon us, how they circulate and are shared, and what configur…
View article: The more-than-visual experiences of tourism
The more-than-visual experiences of tourism Open
John Urry’s focus on the tourist gaze (1990) marks a definitive shift away from hitherto singular, functionalist and ethnocentric theories about what tourists do, understand and feel. His key sugge...
View article: Re‐casting experience and risk along rocky coasts: A relational analysis using qualitative <scp>GIS</scp>
Re‐casting experience and risk along rocky coasts: A relational analysis using qualitative <span>GIS</span> Open
This study invites readers to experience risk on Australia’s hazardous rocky coasts with the rock fishing community. In the paper, we offer an understanding of risk that is relational, a process that emerges within human–environment intera…