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A call for papers for a session at the upcoming RGS-IBG conference in Edinburgh being organised by James Ash and myself… Feel free to post/email me if anyone reading this is interested or has any questions… ‘Geography and Post-phenomenology’ RGS-IBG … Continue reading →

I just came across an interesting post on Stuart Elden’s Blog regarding the ongoing dispute with pensions in HE (I don’t remember getting the email Stuart received, but I’m not sure if that’s because I’m in the TPS, not the USS, … Continue reading →

I’ve just received notice that my paper ‘Street Performance and the City: Public Space, Sociality, and Intervening in the Everyday’ is now available early online in the journal ‘Space and Culture‘ here. I believe the article will appear in the … Continue reading →

I’ve just been starting to relax after the RGS-IBG 2011 Annual Conference where I presented a version of my Area video methods paper and co-organised a session on Performative Imaginations with JD (University of Bristol) and had hoped to post … Continue reading →

I’ve just received notification that my paper, with the rather long title: “‘So, as you can see…’: some reflections on the utility of video methodologies in the study of embodied practices”, has now been published in Area. The paper draws on … Continue reading →

I’m not entirely sure why I’ve started thinking about this in the last few days – perhaps it’s the fact the department here has almost entirely disappeared given the start of the school holidays etc.; perhaps it is because I’ve … Continue reading →

My paper on video methods and street performance (currently early online in Area) has been picked up at the ‘Geography directions’ blog, primarily in the context of the Edinburgh Fringe festival and their inclusion of street performers. Their short comments … Continue reading →

I’ve just started reading Edward S. Casey‘s brilliantly written ‘The World at a Glance‘. This is a really useful text for me given the way it brings into sharp relief the privileging of the gaze/focused forms of attending in Western … Continue reading →

Below is a short introduction to some of the recent understandings of, and debates around, affect in Human Geography. [Extract from Simpson, P. (2010) Ecologies of Street Performance: Bodies, Affects, Politics. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Bristol, Bristol, pp. 129-134.] Geographies … Continue reading →