The development of a theoretical approach to mobility in the book is based around a series of case studies ranging from the scale of the body in the workplace or the dancehall for instance , through various forms of migration to the international airport. In each, case I argue, mobility is seen as being both central to what it is to be a modern human being and, simultaneously, a potential source of threat and disorder.
Research on mobility is an on-going project. I have been writing about place as long as I have been a geographer. I am interested in the ways in which place plays an active role in the constitution of culture and society.
Early work focused on the notion of people, things and actions having appropriate places. Since then I have continued to think about and write about place.
Most recently I have explored in more detail a particular place, Maxwell Street Market in Chicago, in an effort to find new ways of writing about and exploring a place as it has changed over years. Currently I am exploring the role of excess and waste in this space. I am particularly fascinated by the role of non human objects in the constitution of this place as a space of excess. This will lead to a monograph which will include a meso-level theorization of place intended to take our understanding of place forward in helpful ways.
This research is on-going. The course is concerned with the character of place and culture in the modern world. It explores both the material cultural transformations wrought by processes of modernisation, and how people understand and imagine the places, spaces, times and environments they inhabit.
More specifically, the course addresses issues of: global geographies of cultural change, especially the relationship between the local and the global; questions of place, identity and landscape, especially at the local scale;. Deborah P. Dixon Professor of Geography Verified email at glasgow.
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Help Privacy Terms. She is an interdisciplinary artist and writer examining the politics of landscape and public space. Her research-based creative projects trace the production of landscape through ecological, historical, and legal forces, with particular interest given to the environmental and cultural effects of military activities.
Her award-winning, feature-length film, Around Crab Orchard , addressed how the politics of conservation and environmental justice are imbricated with military and penal economies deeply in an American wildlife refuge. She is co-author with Nicholas Brown of Re-Collecting Blackhawk, which addresses settler commemoration in the Midwest.
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