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{"title":"Landings: The moor and the ecological therapeutic practice of Richard Skelton","authors":"James Ingham","doi":"10.1111/area.12928","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12928","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Richard Skelton's 2009 recording, <i>Landings</i>, is recognised as being intimately connected with landscape and the experience of place. This paper explores the use of therapeutic practice within the creation of the recording of <i>Landings</i>. Building on the work of cultural geographers who have emphasised the cultural and symbolic significance of landscape, as well as incorporating the work of geographers who have studied sound and music, the paper develops a non-representational analysis, emphasising the interplay of human experiences and therapeutic practice. The paper explores how Skelton's music transcends a simple representation of the moorland landscape. It shows how the music, created through Skelton's therapeutic practice, channels the essence of the landscape. Skelton acknowledges the healing nature of this creative process. It offers catharsis and solace while, at the same time, connecting to living systems and exhibiting an ecological principle. By exploring the music created by Skelton's therapeutic practice and its profound alignment with nature, <i>Landings</i> offers valuable insights for geographers and beyond.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12928","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139835488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Field notes and Polaroids: Engaging with Black lives in West London","authors":"Nathaniel Télémaque","doi":"10.1111/area.12927","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12927","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This short paper explores the practice of putting Polaroid photographs into field notebooks. It draws on the ethnographic research and collaborative photography associated with my PhD on the everyday lives of young Black people in West London. I begin by describing how and why I put Polaroids into my A6 sized field notebooks in an attempt to think harder about how these lives might be represented. Then, looking to encourage other geographers to consider using Polaroids in this way, I discuss how traditional approaches to field notetaking can be replaced by something more collaborative. Doing so, I contend, can help you to engage productively with those involved in your studies as you take and talk about photos together.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12927","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139889764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The significance of sketching: Drawing a streetscape in a Nairobi neighbourhood","authors":"Tatiana A. Thieme","doi":"10.1111/area.12922","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12922","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This piece examines the value of sketching in ethnographic fieldwork. Thinking with a sketch drawn of a Nairobi streetscape one morning, I discuss how sketching can enable a particular engagement with our surroundings that serves both as a licence to lurk and a valuable mode of recording what we see. I also consider how the sketch becomes a meaningful artefact that can be shared in the moment or later on, as another way of conveying an argument or telling a story. I argue that both the sketch itself and the practice of sketching can help us pay really close attention to our surroundings while accepting the limits to what we can know about ‘the field’.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12922","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139793727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Losing the notebook: An evolving study of the life of a Berlin Square","authors":"Julia Dzun","doi":"10.1111/area.12921","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12921","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on PhD fieldwork on the practice and experience of ‘welcome’ in Berlin in the wake of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015–2016, this article engages with the ethics and practicalities of note-taking. It does so by focusing on the production of particular spaces of welcome and hostility in and around one neighbourhood in particular, Neukölln, an important place of arrival for newcomers both historically and in the present day. This article is about losing the notebook and finding new ways of approaching people and places in ways that centre reciprocity and an ethics of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12921","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139796326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Walking-with/worlding-with in a global pandemic: A story of mothering in motion","authors":"Louise C. Platt","doi":"10.1111/area.12925","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12925","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper addresses how walking-with an infant makes mothering worlds legible. Employing the active verb ‘worlding’, it illustrates how walking-with contributes to the emergent, embodied and relational nature of mothering as a story in motion and how we make sense of becoming a mother. The walking in this study takes place in and through (sub)urban landscapes, and how we negotiate our maternal bodies through these spaces, at a very particular moment in time (COVID-19 lockdowns), is imbricated in our worldings. Walking-with is used to not only explain the interembodiment of mother and child but also the wider milieu of ‘withs’ to demonstrate the corporeal and relational experience of walking. Walking-with a baby, particularly with a postpartum body, is hard work, messy and unpredictable, yet that is not to say the analysis leads to a negative perspective. When walking-with a baby is understood as ‘worlding-with’ we can develop a more affirmative understanding of mothering. By using creative analytical practice a walking-with story was developed drawing on data collected from walking mothers and autoethnography of my own walking-with experiences. The story makes it possible to develop a legibility that captures the contradictory experiences of mothering in motion. Creative analytical practice highlights that storying, walking and mothering is never a complete.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12925","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139683597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Qualitative longitudinal methodologies for crisis times: Against crisis exceptionalism and ‘helicopter’ research","authors":"Katherine Brickell,&nbsp;Sabina Lawreniuk,&nbsp;Lauren McCarthy","doi":"10.1111/area.12924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12924","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this introduction to the collection of papers ‘Qualitative Longitudinal Methodologies for Crisis Times’, we argue that two main characteristics or ‘qualities’ of qualitative longitudinal methodologies (QLMs) can be identified for researching crisis. The first is that QLMs can function to repudiate crisis exceptionalism. The papers denounce the discrete and time-limited, instead impressing the ongoingness of crisis from the past, the present, and into the future. The second overarching point made in the introduction is that QLMs protect against ‘helicopter’ research, a heightened risk when studying crisis times. Together the papers offer a close and complex introspection on the use and outcome of QLMs in spaces and times of crisis from the perspective of researchers undertaking the research, and in multiple instances, research participants enrolled in them.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12924","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139719946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The ‘More Than Maps’ framework for building research capacity among young people in coastal climate change adaptation","authors":"Sien van der Plank,&nbsp;Kwasi Appeaning Addo,&nbsp;Romario Anderson,&nbsp;Bryan Boruff,&nbsp;Eleanor Bruce,&nbsp;Kishna Chambers,&nbsp;John Duncan,&nbsp;Kevin Davies,&nbsp;Damoi Escoffery,&nbsp;Yanna Fidai,&nbsp;Darren Fletcher,&nbsp;Sharyn Hickey,&nbsp;Philip-Neri Jayson-Quashigah,&nbsp;Ava Maxam,&nbsp;Natasha Pauli,&nbsp;Marie Schlenker,&nbsp;Winnie Naa Adjorkor Sowah,&nbsp;Jadu Dash","doi":"10.1111/area.12919","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12919","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When young people engage with climate change education, they are often left feeling disempowered and daunted. But past research has shown that there are ways to design and deliver climate change education that can be empowering and enabling. The delivery of climate change education was further challenged in 2020 by the shift to online learning driven by the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. However, the challenges of the pandemic context also offered an opportunity to engage new audiences and establish new collaborations in climate change education. In this paper, we explore how the shift to online research, collaboration and education can also be harnessed to develop interdisciplinary coastal adaptation training for young people interested in better understanding the complexities of our coastal environments. The resulting ‘<i>More than Maps</i>’ framework draws on qualitative and quantitative data collected over a two-year programme focused on the design and delivery of an international climate change research capacity building workshop series, across the United Kingdom, Ghana, Jamaica and Australia. Carried out by an interdisciplinary team of early career researchers and established academics, 15 workshops were developed on coastal adaptation research methods, targeting a range of ‘young’ audiences who are and will continue to be impacted by climate change. Building on reflections from the workshops' design and delivery, we developed a scalable framework to aid researchers in sharing open-access, replicable methods for studying climate change mitigation and adaptation. This work demonstrates that our workshop participants had increased confidence, sought to apply learned methods to other contexts, and wanted to share this knowledge with others. We conclude that the COVID-19 online workspace facilitated rather than hindered the international collaboration and delivery of these coastal adaptation research methods workshops, and we provide best practice tips to researchers delivering climate change education.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12919","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140485249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gendering fieldwork: Who buys the coffee?","authors":"Ashleigh Rushton","doi":"10.1111/area.12923","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12923","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The examination of gender in fieldwork highlights a need to provide attention to possible problematic instances that may arise between women interviewers and men participants. Qualitative research identifies that women interviewing men find themselves continually navigating power imbalances while attempting to negotiate safe environments for themselves. Gender in fieldwork predominately focuses on <i>differences</i> between interviewer and interviewees, with little understanding of <i>similarities</i> that contribute to shaping the research environment and research outcomes. This article draws on PhD research and my experience as a cisgender woman PhD student conducting interviews with cisgender men to demonstrate the multiple meaningful ways interviews are constructed and negotiated, including how both interviewer and interviewees draw on <i>sameness</i> in the field. I argue that gendered behaviours are not always obvious and problematic, but rather can be subtle, fluid and work to support shared understandings of the research topic.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12923","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139613941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Voice notes in the car: capturing immediate emotions from fieldwork with Sri Lankan refugees","authors":"Charishma Ratnam","doi":"10.1111/area.12917","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12917","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As researchers, we are trained to publish the most polished versions of our core findings. Yet, what is hidden away when we do so are the raw and sometimes messy accounts of what we see, feel, hear, and experience during fieldwork. Integrating fieldwork challenges into research outputs is still uncommon in human geography. In this paper, I present an excerpt of field notes from research that examined the (re)creations of home by Sri Lankan refugees resettling in Sydney, Australia that were made using the ‘Voice Memos’ application on a smartphone. I reflect on the process of capturing voice field notes using a smartphone, the emotional aspects of fieldwork, and the benefits of documenting fieldwork experiences and challenges at different times and places. This paper champions digital technologies as useful tools to capture immediate emotions felt during fieldwork.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12917","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139532052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The production of ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ on BBC Radio 4: A popular geopolitical analysis","authors":"Alice Watson","doi":"10.1111/area.12918","DOIUrl":"10.1111/area.12918","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The production of radio, a medium with the power to shape listeners' geographical imaginations, has received little attention in geography, particularly in comparison to visual media such as photography, television and film. This paper redresses this imbalance by examining the production of <i>From Our Own Correspondent</i> (FOOC), one of BBC Radio 4's longest-running programmes which has broadcast dispatches from journalists around the world since 1955. It explores the representational power of FOOC to script the world for listeners by constructing geographical imaginaries of distant people and places; interrogates who ‘Our’ correspondents are and the structures which underpin whose voices are heard; and reveals the concealed practices, spatialities and temporalities which shape the programme's production and geopolitical scripts it broadcasts. In doing so, the paper makes a significant and timely contribution to popular geopolitics, a subfield of political geography which has traditionally focused on deconstructing geopolitical discourses and imaginaries in ‘texts’, at the expense of investigating where, how and why media are ‘made’. It draws on original interviews conducted with FOOC's presenter, two producers and four correspondents, and reflects on what the programme's production reveals about how FOOC understands, conceptualises and portrays the world. By exploring FOOC, the paper offers important insights into the hidden geographies of production which govern BBC radio journalism as a sonic medium of popular geopolitics.</p>","PeriodicalId":8422,"journal":{"name":"Area","volume":"56 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/area.12918","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139532785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}