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Papers by Andrew Kirby

Research paper thumbnail of The Occidental Tourist: Said, Orientalism, and the Mediterranean

the arab world geographer, Apr 1, 2004

At the close of the 19th century, an emergent urban bourgeoisie in Catalonia emulated its counter... more At the close of the 19th century, an emergent urban bourgeoisie in Catalonia emulated its counterparts in more affluent European countries and developed distinctive cultural behaviour, such as travel to exotic locations. Egypt, and particularly Cairo, became a ...

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Editors and Journal Startup in the Digital Era

Research paper thumbnail of Tiempo, espacio y acción colectiva : espacio político/geografía política

Techniques are disclosed for contemporaneously assessing the success of a renal denervation proce... more Techniques are disclosed for contemporaneously assessing the success of a renal denervation procedure. One or more characteristics of a patient's heart, such as atrioventricular (AV) interval, PR interval and/or heart rate are monitored during an ablation procedure. A change in the heart characteristic detected during the ablation may indicate successful denervation. Accordingly, successive new locations may be targeted for ablation until a change is detected.

Research paper thumbnail of https://sustainability.hapres.com/htmls/JSR_1098_Detail.html

Journal of Sustainability Research, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Editors and Journal Startup in the Digital Era

Research paper thumbnail of The Challenges of Journal Startup in the Digital Era

Publications, 2015

This paper aims to contribute to the evolving literature on the new landscape of scholarly journa... more This paper aims to contribute to the evolving literature on the new landscape of scholarly journals. It builds on a series of experiences as a journal editor which span the print and digital eras, and focuses on two current activities with new journals. One was designed as a synoptic journal in a broad multidisciplinary field, supported by a commercial publisher; the other a non-revenue journal which aims to showcase the work of undergraduates in the author's institution. Despite the uniqueness of goals and delivery, some of the experiences-and challenges-have proved remarkably similar.

Research paper thumbnail of The Americanization of American Geography

Research paper thumbnail of The Changing Face of Cities-A Study of Development Cycles and Urban Form-Whitehand, JWR

Research paper thumbnail of Urbanization, Industrialization, and the Social Creation of a Space Economy: A Reconstruction of the Historical Development of Lowell and Lawrence, Massachusetts

Urban Geography, 1988

Although the term" space economy" has b... more Although the term" space economy" has been in existence for over 30 years, it remains an untheorized concept and little more than an assertion that economic relations exist within a spatial domain. In an attempt to recreate a specific context for the use of the term space economy, we examine the production relations and social interactions existing in the initial period of industrialization within particular communities. We argue that the determination of social relations by a particular form of production and the purposive actions of individuals ...

Research paper thumbnail of In Search of the Corpse

Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1990

In this article we use a recent publication by Mark Gottdiener, The Decline of Urban Politics: Po... more In this article we use a recent publication by Mark Gottdiener, The Decline of Urban Politics: Political Theory and the Crisis of the Local State, as the basis for a discussion of the many economic and social changes taking place within advanced capitalist societies. We argue that Gottdiener was too hasty when he identified the demise of the local political realm, and we show that alternative interpretations are possible and necessary. We draw on two sets of literature: one concerning the local state and the other exploring the current phase of economic restructuring. Although we agree that urban analysis necessitates considering state theory and economic analysis, we conclude that Gottdiener's ambitious yet desolate analysis remains unproved.

Research paper thumbnail of The production of private space and its implications for urban social relations

Political Geography, 2008

In my paper I try to trace and understand the reasons for the birth of the 24/7 world as it is de... more In my paper I try to trace and understand the reasons for the birth of the 24/7 world as it is described by Johnatan Crary in his book 24/7 Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep. He proposes a grim vision of late capitalism in which sleep deprivation and the disintegration of public and private spaces will become a market necessity. My attempt to understand is supported on two other authors. First, Hannah Arendt provided me with an analysis of origins, transformations and somewhat present version of the relation of private and public spheres. Second, Fredrich Schiller delivered an interesting theory on the aesthetic ideal, art, beauty and human experience of beauty. These three analyzes stand as basis for my attempt to present a proposal to overcome the crisis described by Crary and the answer is related to the issue of aesthetic experience of street art in urban space.

Research paper thumbnail of Scientific communication, Open Access, and the publishing industry

Political Geography, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of 15 World cities and global communities: the municipal foreign policy movement and new roles for cities

World cities in a world-system, 1995

In March 1993, less than a month before the World Cities in a World-System conference, a full-pag... more In March 1993, less than a month before the World Cities in a World-System conference, a full-page advertisement in the New York Times asked rhetorically why the Japanese transnational corporation Nissan Shatai is trying to evict eighty ethnic Korean families from the village of Utoro near Kyoto in Japan. The villagers are descendants of conscripted labourers brought from Korea during the Second World War. Despite having lived in Japan for decades, the family members cannot vote and suffer discrimination of the sort that ...

Research paper thumbnail of The urban problematic

Geography in America. Columbus, OH: Merrill, 1989

Research paper thumbnail of The Right to Make Mistakes? The Limits to Adaptive Planning for Climate Change

Challenges

While the UN recognizes the right of individuals “to take risks and make mistakes”, there are rea... more While the UN recognizes the right of individuals “to take risks and make mistakes”, there are reasons to question whether this right can be universal. In the context of a changing climate, it is imperative that individuals have access to a safe and sustainable environment; yet we must ask if this covenant is broken if people choose to place themselves in harm’s way. In its first part, this paper explores outcomes of climate change denial, manifested as continued migration to dangerous locations, and skepticism for adaptive strategies. The second half of the paper explores how localities can create a false narrative concerning risks, and asks whether communities also have a right to make mistakes?

Research paper thumbnail of Exploratory Bibliometrics: Using VOSviewer as a Preliminary Research Tool

Publications

This paper explores ways in which open access bibliometric software can be used to undertake expl... more This paper explores ways in which open access bibliometric software can be used to undertake exploratory research and to generate new avenues of inquiry. It takes as its focus VOSviewer, a freely available software package used to construct and display bibliometric relationships between a variety of variables. Beginning with published examples, the paper proceeds to create an original case study using bibliometrics to explore the extent to which the field of remote sensing is contributing to the implementation of sustainable development goals. This example uses Scopus data and VOSviewer to examine and contrast co-occurrence data among publications in six journals, and it demonstrates how such software can be successfully used to undertake preliminary studies and to shape subsequent research which employs more formal approaches.

Research paper thumbnail of Climate Change: A Bibliometric Study of Adaptation, Mitigation and Resilience

Sustainability, 2020

The paper uses bibliometric methods to explore the production of knowledge in the field of climat... more The paper uses bibliometric methods to explore the production of knowledge in the field of climate change from 1991–2019. Using the Web of Science database, we demonstrate the growth of publications in the field, including papers in mitigation, adaptation and resilience. Using VOSviewer software, we show the connections between these subfields and the journals in which they are published. The analysis displays clusters of publications in different subfields and minimal convergence of research in STEM fields and the social sciences. We suggest that this lack of convergence may reflect a relative shortage of interdisciplinary research which may in turn have negative outcomes in terms of research and policy.

Research paper thumbnail of Urban Adaptation to Climate Change: geographers and wicked problems

Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles

This paper explores the importance of adaptation to climate change impacts in urban areas. The co... more This paper explores the importance of adaptation to climate change impacts in urban areas. The complexity of existing and likely impacts poses unique challenges to all aspects of society, from state to polity and economy. These in turn pose methodological challenges to academic practice, demanding the integration of macro and micro perspectives and pure and applied research. The paper argues that geographers can make significant contributions to this scholarship.

Research paper thumbnail of Reconstructing Powerful Knowledge in an era of climate change

Revista Produção e Desenvolvimento

Purpose: Identifies a hierarchy of information and argues that professional knowledge has margina... more Purpose: Identifies a hierarchy of information and argues that professional knowledge has marginalized ‘local knowledge’. Methodology/Approach: In a review of recent research, the paper offers examples of how ‘wicked problems’ (from obesity to climate change) impose different burdens on different communities, which foregrounds the value of residents’ experiences. Findings: In an era of climate change, adaptive planning must incorporate ‘local knowledge’, which may return to older technologies and established practices. Research Implication: The paper argues that ‘local knowledge’ can be ‘powerful knowledge’, as discussed within educational research, which has important implications for school and college curricula. Originality/Value of paper: Amateur experts, citizen observatories and crowd sourced data can all play significant roles within communities facing new forms of risk and hazard.

Research paper thumbnail of Reconstructing Powerful Knowledge in an era of climate change

Revista Produção e Desenvolvimento

Purpose: Identifies a hierarchy of information and argues that professional knowledge has margina... more Purpose: Identifies a hierarchy of information and argues that professional knowledge has marginalized ‘local knowledge’. Methodology/Approach: In a review of recent research, the paper offers examples of how ‘wicked problems’ (from obesity to climate change) impose different burdens on different communities, which foregrounds the value of residents’ experiences. Findings: In an era of climate change, adaptive planning must incorporate ‘local knowledge’, which may return to older technologies and established practices. Research Implication: The paper argues that ‘local knowledge’ can be ‘powerful knowledge’, as discussed within educational research, which has important implications for school and college curricula. Originality/Value of paper: Amateur experts, citizen observatories and crowd sourced data can all play significant roles within communities facing new forms of risk and hazard.

Research paper thumbnail of The Occidental Tourist: Said, Orientalism, and the Mediterranean

the arab world geographer, Apr 1, 2004

At the close of the 19th century, an emergent urban bourgeoisie in Catalonia emulated its counter... more At the close of the 19th century, an emergent urban bourgeoisie in Catalonia emulated its counterparts in more affluent European countries and developed distinctive cultural behaviour, such as travel to exotic locations. Egypt, and particularly Cairo, became a ...

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Editors and Journal Startup in the Digital Era

Research paper thumbnail of Tiempo, espacio y acción colectiva : espacio político/geografía política

Techniques are disclosed for contemporaneously assessing the success of a renal denervation proce... more Techniques are disclosed for contemporaneously assessing the success of a renal denervation procedure. One or more characteristics of a patient's heart, such as atrioventricular (AV) interval, PR interval and/or heart rate are monitored during an ablation procedure. A change in the heart characteristic detected during the ablation may indicate successful denervation. Accordingly, successive new locations may be targeted for ablation until a change is detected.

Research paper thumbnail of https://sustainability.hapres.com/htmls/JSR_1098_Detail.html

Journal of Sustainability Research, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Editors and Journal Startup in the Digital Era

Research paper thumbnail of The Challenges of Journal Startup in the Digital Era

Publications, 2015

This paper aims to contribute to the evolving literature on the new landscape of scholarly journa... more This paper aims to contribute to the evolving literature on the new landscape of scholarly journals. It builds on a series of experiences as a journal editor which span the print and digital eras, and focuses on two current activities with new journals. One was designed as a synoptic journal in a broad multidisciplinary field, supported by a commercial publisher; the other a non-revenue journal which aims to showcase the work of undergraduates in the author's institution. Despite the uniqueness of goals and delivery, some of the experiences-and challenges-have proved remarkably similar.

Research paper thumbnail of The Americanization of American Geography

Research paper thumbnail of The Changing Face of Cities-A Study of Development Cycles and Urban Form-Whitehand, JWR

Research paper thumbnail of Urbanization, Industrialization, and the Social Creation of a Space Economy: A Reconstruction of the Historical Development of Lowell and Lawrence, Massachusetts

Urban Geography, 1988

Although the term" space economy" has b... more Although the term" space economy" has been in existence for over 30 years, it remains an untheorized concept and little more than an assertion that economic relations exist within a spatial domain. In an attempt to recreate a specific context for the use of the term space economy, we examine the production relations and social interactions existing in the initial period of industrialization within particular communities. We argue that the determination of social relations by a particular form of production and the purposive actions of individuals ...

Research paper thumbnail of In Search of the Corpse

Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1990

In this article we use a recent publication by Mark Gottdiener, The Decline of Urban Politics: Po... more In this article we use a recent publication by Mark Gottdiener, The Decline of Urban Politics: Political Theory and the Crisis of the Local State, as the basis for a discussion of the many economic and social changes taking place within advanced capitalist societies. We argue that Gottdiener was too hasty when he identified the demise of the local political realm, and we show that alternative interpretations are possible and necessary. We draw on two sets of literature: one concerning the local state and the other exploring the current phase of economic restructuring. Although we agree that urban analysis necessitates considering state theory and economic analysis, we conclude that Gottdiener's ambitious yet desolate analysis remains unproved.

Research paper thumbnail of The production of private space and its implications for urban social relations

Political Geography, 2008

In my paper I try to trace and understand the reasons for the birth of the 24/7 world as it is de... more In my paper I try to trace and understand the reasons for the birth of the 24/7 world as it is described by Johnatan Crary in his book 24/7 Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep. He proposes a grim vision of late capitalism in which sleep deprivation and the disintegration of public and private spaces will become a market necessity. My attempt to understand is supported on two other authors. First, Hannah Arendt provided me with an analysis of origins, transformations and somewhat present version of the relation of private and public spheres. Second, Fredrich Schiller delivered an interesting theory on the aesthetic ideal, art, beauty and human experience of beauty. These three analyzes stand as basis for my attempt to present a proposal to overcome the crisis described by Crary and the answer is related to the issue of aesthetic experience of street art in urban space.

Research paper thumbnail of Scientific communication, Open Access, and the publishing industry

Political Geography, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of 15 World cities and global communities: the municipal foreign policy movement and new roles for cities

World cities in a world-system, 1995

In March 1993, less than a month before the World Cities in a World-System conference, a full-pag... more In March 1993, less than a month before the World Cities in a World-System conference, a full-page advertisement in the New York Times asked rhetorically why the Japanese transnational corporation Nissan Shatai is trying to evict eighty ethnic Korean families from the village of Utoro near Kyoto in Japan. The villagers are descendants of conscripted labourers brought from Korea during the Second World War. Despite having lived in Japan for decades, the family members cannot vote and suffer discrimination of the sort that ...

Research paper thumbnail of The urban problematic

Geography in America. Columbus, OH: Merrill, 1989

Research paper thumbnail of The Right to Make Mistakes? The Limits to Adaptive Planning for Climate Change

Challenges

While the UN recognizes the right of individuals “to take risks and make mistakes”, there are rea... more While the UN recognizes the right of individuals “to take risks and make mistakes”, there are reasons to question whether this right can be universal. In the context of a changing climate, it is imperative that individuals have access to a safe and sustainable environment; yet we must ask if this covenant is broken if people choose to place themselves in harm’s way. In its first part, this paper explores outcomes of climate change denial, manifested as continued migration to dangerous locations, and skepticism for adaptive strategies. The second half of the paper explores how localities can create a false narrative concerning risks, and asks whether communities also have a right to make mistakes?

Research paper thumbnail of Exploratory Bibliometrics: Using VOSviewer as a Preliminary Research Tool

Publications

This paper explores ways in which open access bibliometric software can be used to undertake expl... more This paper explores ways in which open access bibliometric software can be used to undertake exploratory research and to generate new avenues of inquiry. It takes as its focus VOSviewer, a freely available software package used to construct and display bibliometric relationships between a variety of variables. Beginning with published examples, the paper proceeds to create an original case study using bibliometrics to explore the extent to which the field of remote sensing is contributing to the implementation of sustainable development goals. This example uses Scopus data and VOSviewer to examine and contrast co-occurrence data among publications in six journals, and it demonstrates how such software can be successfully used to undertake preliminary studies and to shape subsequent research which employs more formal approaches.

Research paper thumbnail of Climate Change: A Bibliometric Study of Adaptation, Mitigation and Resilience

Sustainability, 2020

The paper uses bibliometric methods to explore the production of knowledge in the field of climat... more The paper uses bibliometric methods to explore the production of knowledge in the field of climate change from 1991–2019. Using the Web of Science database, we demonstrate the growth of publications in the field, including papers in mitigation, adaptation and resilience. Using VOSviewer software, we show the connections between these subfields and the journals in which they are published. The analysis displays clusters of publications in different subfields and minimal convergence of research in STEM fields and the social sciences. We suggest that this lack of convergence may reflect a relative shortage of interdisciplinary research which may in turn have negative outcomes in terms of research and policy.

Research paper thumbnail of Urban Adaptation to Climate Change: geographers and wicked problems

Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles

This paper explores the importance of adaptation to climate change impacts in urban areas. The co... more This paper explores the importance of adaptation to climate change impacts in urban areas. The complexity of existing and likely impacts poses unique challenges to all aspects of society, from state to polity and economy. These in turn pose methodological challenges to academic practice, demanding the integration of macro and micro perspectives and pure and applied research. The paper argues that geographers can make significant contributions to this scholarship.

Research paper thumbnail of Reconstructing Powerful Knowledge in an era of climate change

Revista Produção e Desenvolvimento

Purpose: Identifies a hierarchy of information and argues that professional knowledge has margina... more Purpose: Identifies a hierarchy of information and argues that professional knowledge has marginalized ‘local knowledge’. Methodology/Approach: In a review of recent research, the paper offers examples of how ‘wicked problems’ (from obesity to climate change) impose different burdens on different communities, which foregrounds the value of residents’ experiences. Findings: In an era of climate change, adaptive planning must incorporate ‘local knowledge’, which may return to older technologies and established practices. Research Implication: The paper argues that ‘local knowledge’ can be ‘powerful knowledge’, as discussed within educational research, which has important implications for school and college curricula. Originality/Value of paper: Amateur experts, citizen observatories and crowd sourced data can all play significant roles within communities facing new forms of risk and hazard.

Research paper thumbnail of Reconstructing Powerful Knowledge in an era of climate change

Revista Produção e Desenvolvimento

Purpose: Identifies a hierarchy of information and argues that professional knowledge has margina... more Purpose: Identifies a hierarchy of information and argues that professional knowledge has marginalized ‘local knowledge’. Methodology/Approach: In a review of recent research, the paper offers examples of how ‘wicked problems’ (from obesity to climate change) impose different burdens on different communities, which foregrounds the value of residents’ experiences. Findings: In an era of climate change, adaptive planning must incorporate ‘local knowledge’, which may return to older technologies and established practices. Research Implication: The paper argues that ‘local knowledge’ can be ‘powerful knowledge’, as discussed within educational research, which has important implications for school and college curricula. Originality/Value of paper: Amateur experts, citizen observatories and crowd sourced data can all play significant roles within communities facing new forms of risk and hazard.