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Performing marginal space: film, topology and the Petite Ceinture in Paris
(Liminalities, 2012-09)
Urban scholars have long accepted that analysing and understanding urban realities
involves many routes: from the repertoire associated with social scientific urban studies
to the more essayistic, figurative approaches ...
Social spatiality: some rudimentary thoughts on the epistemology of Benno Werlen
(Copernicus Publications, 2014)
Benno Werlen requires no introduction to readers of Geographica
Helvetica: arguably the most internationally resonating
of names amongst Swiss human geographers writing
today, the Jena-based social geographer has not ...
Structure and event, networks and nodes in human geography: the 1960s revisited
(Copernicus Publications, 2013-05-30)
In search of transnational scholarship and languages within human geography, the so-called “Quantitative
Revolution” of the 1960s arguably holds considerable pride of place. More than previous innovations
within geography, ...
Planning in/for/with the Public
(Cogitatio Press, 2016-03-18)
Urban planning in general, and discursively motivated
practices attaching to urban form in particular, are beholden
in many ways to notions of a ‘public’. In fact, it
would not be an exaggeration to say that urban ...
Comment on ‘Was Scotland deglaciated during the Younger Dryas?’ by Small and Fabel (2016)
(Elsevier, 2016-10-04)
The course of climatic events in Scotland and the broader North Atlantic region during the glacial termination has important implications for our understanding of the causes and mechanisms of abrupt climate change but ...
Foredune accretion under offshore winds
(Elsevier, 2007)
Experiments carried out at Magilligan Strand on the north coast of Ireland
suggest that topographic steering of offshore winds is an important facet of the aeolian
sediment transport system at this location. A five-day ...
Cultural geographies of the contact zone: Gaels, Galls and overlapping territories in late medieval Ireland
(2005)
In writing about the social and cultural geographies of the past, we frequently reinforce notions of difference by using neatly delineated ethnic terms of reference that often superscribe the complexities of reality on the ...
Geography militant: resistance and the essentialisation of identity in colonial Ireland
(2004)
In recent years, a growing recognition of the interconnections (in addition to the conflicts) between the worlds of the coloniser and the colonised has enabled the construction of an enhanced collection of differentiated ...
Contours of colonialism: Gaelic Ireland and the early colonial subject
(2004)
The sixteenth century is critical to our reading of Ireland's subsequent colonial and indeed postcolonial geographies, yet has frequently evaded considered scrutiny for a variety of reasons, including the deficiencies of ...
The moral dimension of third world development
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1997)
The 1987 Encyclical of Pope John Paul II, Solicitudo Rei Socialis is a most remarkable statement on the problem of development, particularly in relation to the Third World. While following the tradition of the social ...