Author Archives: Paul Simpson

I’ve just spotted that the article I co-wrote with Peter Adey, Laure Brayer, Damien Masson, Patrick Murphy and Nicolas Tixier for Geoforum is now early online. The article can be accessed here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718513001140 I’m not sure when it will be fully … Continue reading →

The audio recordings of our ‘Ambiances and Atmospheres in Translation’ event from February are now available online. This includes audio of each presentation and the discussion that took place between our three ‘observers’ and those who came along. To access … Continue reading →

I was very pleased to learn earlier this week that our paper, ‘Pour votre tranquillité’: ambiance, atmosphere, and surveillance, has been accepted to Geoforum as part of a themed issue on ‘New Geographies of Surveillance’. The paper was co-written by myself, … Continue reading →

I’m very happy to be able to announce the details of the RGS-IBG sessions I am co-organizing with Peter Adey (RHUL) and Damien Masson (Cergy-Pontoise) this year. We have 3 sessions in the programme, 2 sponsored by the HPGRG and … Continue reading →

Next week I’ll be at our conference/event ‘Ambiances and Atmospheres in Translation’. This has been put together by Peter Adey, Damien Masson, Rachel Thomas and myself and emerges from our ongoing collaborative project on the ‘Spatial Enigmas of Contemporary Urban … Continue reading →

My paper ‘Ecologies of experience’ is now out in Environment and Planning A.  Full reference details are: Simpson, P. (2013) ‘Ecologies of experience: Materiality, sociality, and the embodied experience of (street) performing’. Environment and Planning A 45(1) pp. 180-196. DOI:10.1068/a4566 This paper was quite … Continue reading →

I’ve recently reviewed Dylan Trigg’s ‘The Memory of Place: A Phenomenology of the Uncanny’ for the journal ‘Emotion, Space and Society’. The review is now early online here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458612000710 As the review hopefully makes clear, I think this is an excellent … Continue reading →

This caught me a little by surprise by the speed they got this up following the submission of the corrected proofs, but my paper ‘Apprehending everyday rhythms: Rhythmanalysis, time-lapse photography, and the space-times of street performance’ is now up on … Continue reading →

Recently i was involved in some discussion emerging from the CRIT-GEOG forum related to early career life and the increasing challenges faced by those coming out of PhDs. This has got me thinking about the job situation etc (also see … Continue reading →