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Papers by Chris Philo
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Geographische Zeitschrift
As part of a wider 'geographical' reading of writings by Theodor W. Adorno, the Frankfurt School ... more As part of a wider 'geographical' reading of writings by Theodor W. Adorno, the Frankfurt School critical theorist, energised by a wish to discern possible lineaments of an 'anti-fascist geographical imagination', this paper engages in detail with Adorno's aphoristic ruminations gathered together as Minima Moralia (2005 [1951]). With its close-grained attention to 'minimal' or 'minor' things-a bewildering diversity of objects, practices and events that might normally be reckoned of little account-this text exemplifies what Adorno elsewhere frames as a concern for the 'micrological', as well as signposting many dimensions of what he will later present more systematically as 'negative dialectics' (Adorno 1973 [1966]). This paper reconstructs the multiple geographies integral to many passages in Minima Moralia, working towards an exegesis of what is claimed there about 'distant nearness' and 'space enough between them', at the same time inspecting Adorno's austere opposition to 'affirmationism' but also readiness to be a phenomenologist-even one with occasional leanings towards a more 'romantic' celebration of objects, however unpleasant-of the nothing-much.
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI... more This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record.
Towards a Spatial Social Policy, 2019
En el contexto de las practicas y debates en torno a la nueva geografia cultural, se ofrece ahora... more En el contexto de las practicas y debates en torno a la nueva geografia cultural, se ofrece ahora una valoracion de los alcances del llamado «giro cultural» desde la publicacion en 1991 de la obra New Words, New Worlds: Reconceptualising Social and Cultural Geography, sopesando los logros pero tambien los problemas que ha causado a los geografos humanos en el final del milenio. La principal intencion es discutir la «des-materializacion» y la «de-socializacion» de la geografia humana que la nueva geografia cultural amenaza acarrear a la disciplina a pesar de los importantes avances de esta ultima.
This paper offers an introduction to a virtual theme issue devoted to medical and health geograph... more This paper offers an introduction to a virtual theme issue devoted to medical and health geographies. It argues that significant advances have been made by many of these pieces, some leading and others reflecting fundamental transitions in the theory, methods and studies undertaken by scholars identifying as medical or health geographers. The paper shows how PiHG contributions have orchestrated or captured debates over medical and health geographies, exploring how ‘the medical’ and ‘health’ intersect and diverge, giving rise to different trajectories in both the field as a whole and specific foci of inquiry loosely clustering within it. Questions about ‘two traditions’ (medical or health geography) run throughout, conjoined with questions about associated theoretical orientations, substantive interests, ethico-political commitments and treatments of space, place and akin constructs. Attention is addressed to the limits of what can be covered in such an introductory paper and, indeed...
Routledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2012
La résistance des animaux, qui déchaîne la violence des humains, est « l'éclat de vie ».
... Contents List of figures vii List of contributors ix Preface and acknowledgements xiii 1 Anim... more ... Contents List of figures vii List of contributors ix Preface and acknowledgements xiii 1 Animal spaces, beastly places: an introduction 1 CHRIS PHILO AND CHRIS W1LBERT 2 Flush and the banditti: dog-stealing in Victorian London 35 PHILIP HOWELL 3 Feral cats in the city 56 ...
Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 2016
Findings papers associated with ESRC-funded research project, 'Social Geographies of Rural Me... more Findings papers associated with ESRC-funded research project, 'Social Geographies of Rural Mental Health' (R000 23 8453)
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1993
Introduction Changing Approaches to Human Geography Changing Times and Development of Marxist App... more Introduction Changing Approaches to Human Geography Changing Times and Development of Marxist Approaches to Human Geography since the Late 1960s Still Relevant and Radical After All These Years? "Peopling" Human Geography and the Development of Humanistic Approaches Structuration Theory Anthony Giddens and the Bringing Together of Structure and Agency Realist Approaches to Human Geography The Differences of Postmodern Human Geography
Social & Cultural Geography, 2003
In introducing this theme issue on 'Psychoanalytic geographies'... more In introducing this theme issue on 'Psychoanalytic geographies', we offer brief reflections on the discipline's 'psychoanalytic turn', raise certain issues regarding this turn that intrigue us, and ponder the limits on what psychoanalysis can bring to studies of social and cultural ...
Geoforum, 2000
No abstract available
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 2001
RIASSUNTOScopo— Valutare la ricerca condotta nel campo della geografia della salute mentale, conc... more RIASSUNTOScopo— Valutare la ricerca condotta nel campo della geografia della salute mentale, concentrandosi sui lavori pubblicati in lingua inglese.Metodi— L'articolo offre una lettura globale, approfondita e critica della letteratura relativa alia geografia della salute mentale, a partire dal sorgere di questo settore di ricerca nei primi anni '70.Risultati— L'articolo identifica tre fasi di ricerca all'interno dei lavori sulla geografia della salute mentale. Queste fasi sono descritte in dettaglio; inoltre, sono interpretati punti di forza e di debolezza delle prime due fasi, che sono ben consolidate, e vengono forniti suggerimenti su importanti problemi che dovranno essere affrontati in una futura terza fase della ricerca.Conclusioni— Molte eccellenti ricerche sono state finora condotte nel campo della geografia della salute mentale, è tuttavia necessario aumentare la rilevanza di queste ricerche, mediante un ampliamento del focus ed un collegamento più diretto de...
Ecumene, 1994
This is an intriguing if somewhat curious collection, a ’pick and mix’ assortment of short essays... more This is an intriguing if somewhat curious collection, a ’pick and mix’ assortment of short essays designed principally for undergraduate students to dip into when seeking guidance about various facets of academic geography (its concerns, its history, its ideas and methods, its source material, its organization and personnel, and also its career possibilities). One aim of the collection is obviously to enthuse students about geographical inquiry, and particularly valuable in this connection are the two essays by Gale and Roberts offering personal reflections in their ’attraction’ to the discipline. These authors hence speak of the ’challenge and pleasure of decoding landscape’ (p. 20), as well as stressing the need to regard the world as ’an interrelated whole, people and land, past and present’ (p. 24). Not dissimilar sentiments lie behind certain of the great traditions constituting geography’s history, as Livingstone’s excellent chapter tells us, although the technologically sophisticated and politically
draft) Department of Geography and Topographic …
Findings papers associated with ESRC-funded research project, 'Social Geographies of Rural Me... more Findings papers associated with ESRC-funded research project, 'Social Geographies of Rural Mental Health' (R000 23 8453)
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Geographische Zeitschrift
As part of a wider 'geographical' reading of writings by Theodor W. Adorno, the Frankfurt School ... more As part of a wider 'geographical' reading of writings by Theodor W. Adorno, the Frankfurt School critical theorist, energised by a wish to discern possible lineaments of an 'anti-fascist geographical imagination', this paper engages in detail with Adorno's aphoristic ruminations gathered together as Minima Moralia (2005 [1951]). With its close-grained attention to 'minimal' or 'minor' things-a bewildering diversity of objects, practices and events that might normally be reckoned of little account-this text exemplifies what Adorno elsewhere frames as a concern for the 'micrological', as well as signposting many dimensions of what he will later present more systematically as 'negative dialectics' (Adorno 1973 [1966]). This paper reconstructs the multiple geographies integral to many passages in Minima Moralia, working towards an exegesis of what is claimed there about 'distant nearness' and 'space enough between them', at the same time inspecting Adorno's austere opposition to 'affirmationism' but also readiness to be a phenomenologist-even one with occasional leanings towards a more 'romantic' celebration of objects, however unpleasant-of the nothing-much.
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI... more This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record.
Towards a Spatial Social Policy, 2019
En el contexto de las practicas y debates en torno a la nueva geografia cultural, se ofrece ahora... more En el contexto de las practicas y debates en torno a la nueva geografia cultural, se ofrece ahora una valoracion de los alcances del llamado «giro cultural» desde la publicacion en 1991 de la obra New Words, New Worlds: Reconceptualising Social and Cultural Geography, sopesando los logros pero tambien los problemas que ha causado a los geografos humanos en el final del milenio. La principal intencion es discutir la «des-materializacion» y la «de-socializacion» de la geografia humana que la nueva geografia cultural amenaza acarrear a la disciplina a pesar de los importantes avances de esta ultima.
This paper offers an introduction to a virtual theme issue devoted to medical and health geograph... more This paper offers an introduction to a virtual theme issue devoted to medical and health geographies. It argues that significant advances have been made by many of these pieces, some leading and others reflecting fundamental transitions in the theory, methods and studies undertaken by scholars identifying as medical or health geographers. The paper shows how PiHG contributions have orchestrated or captured debates over medical and health geographies, exploring how ‘the medical’ and ‘health’ intersect and diverge, giving rise to different trajectories in both the field as a whole and specific foci of inquiry loosely clustering within it. Questions about ‘two traditions’ (medical or health geography) run throughout, conjoined with questions about associated theoretical orientations, substantive interests, ethico-political commitments and treatments of space, place and akin constructs. Attention is addressed to the limits of what can be covered in such an introductory paper and, indeed...
Routledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2012
La résistance des animaux, qui déchaîne la violence des humains, est « l'éclat de vie ».
... Contents List of figures vii List of contributors ix Preface and acknowledgements xiii 1 Anim... more ... Contents List of figures vii List of contributors ix Preface and acknowledgements xiii 1 Animal spaces, beastly places: an introduction 1 CHRIS PHILO AND CHRIS W1LBERT 2 Flush and the banditti: dog-stealing in Victorian London 35 PHILIP HOWELL 3 Feral cats in the city 56 ...
Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 2016
Findings papers associated with ESRC-funded research project, 'Social Geographies of Rural Me... more Findings papers associated with ESRC-funded research project, 'Social Geographies of Rural Mental Health' (R000 23 8453)
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1993
Introduction Changing Approaches to Human Geography Changing Times and Development of Marxist App... more Introduction Changing Approaches to Human Geography Changing Times and Development of Marxist Approaches to Human Geography since the Late 1960s Still Relevant and Radical After All These Years? "Peopling" Human Geography and the Development of Humanistic Approaches Structuration Theory Anthony Giddens and the Bringing Together of Structure and Agency Realist Approaches to Human Geography The Differences of Postmodern Human Geography
Social & Cultural Geography, 2003
In introducing this theme issue on 'Psychoanalytic geographies'... more In introducing this theme issue on 'Psychoanalytic geographies', we offer brief reflections on the discipline's 'psychoanalytic turn', raise certain issues regarding this turn that intrigue us, and ponder the limits on what psychoanalysis can bring to studies of social and cultural ...
Geoforum, 2000
No abstract available
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 2001
RIASSUNTOScopo— Valutare la ricerca condotta nel campo della geografia della salute mentale, conc... more RIASSUNTOScopo— Valutare la ricerca condotta nel campo della geografia della salute mentale, concentrandosi sui lavori pubblicati in lingua inglese.Metodi— L'articolo offre una lettura globale, approfondita e critica della letteratura relativa alia geografia della salute mentale, a partire dal sorgere di questo settore di ricerca nei primi anni '70.Risultati— L'articolo identifica tre fasi di ricerca all'interno dei lavori sulla geografia della salute mentale. Queste fasi sono descritte in dettaglio; inoltre, sono interpretati punti di forza e di debolezza delle prime due fasi, che sono ben consolidate, e vengono forniti suggerimenti su importanti problemi che dovranno essere affrontati in una futura terza fase della ricerca.Conclusioni— Molte eccellenti ricerche sono state finora condotte nel campo della geografia della salute mentale, è tuttavia necessario aumentare la rilevanza di queste ricerche, mediante un ampliamento del focus ed un collegamento più diretto de...
Ecumene, 1994
This is an intriguing if somewhat curious collection, a ’pick and mix’ assortment of short essays... more This is an intriguing if somewhat curious collection, a ’pick and mix’ assortment of short essays designed principally for undergraduate students to dip into when seeking guidance about various facets of academic geography (its concerns, its history, its ideas and methods, its source material, its organization and personnel, and also its career possibilities). One aim of the collection is obviously to enthuse students about geographical inquiry, and particularly valuable in this connection are the two essays by Gale and Roberts offering personal reflections in their ’attraction’ to the discipline. These authors hence speak of the ’challenge and pleasure of decoding landscape’ (p. 20), as well as stressing the need to regard the world as ’an interrelated whole, people and land, past and present’ (p. 24). Not dissimilar sentiments lie behind certain of the great traditions constituting geography’s history, as Livingstone’s excellent chapter tells us, although the technologically sophisticated and politically
draft) Department of Geography and Topographic …
Findings papers associated with ESRC-funded research project, 'Social Geographies of Rural Me... more Findings papers associated with ESRC-funded research project, 'Social Geographies of Rural Mental Health' (R000 23 8453)