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Routledge eBooks, Aug 9, 2023

In this paper I examine different forms of spiritual practice which seek to (re)enchant the every... more In this paper I examine different forms of spiritual practice which seek to (re)enchant the everyday and the ordinary. By considering the duality of sacred and profane as the relational outcome of both embodied action and the action of other objects or things that are nominally valued as profane, an account is sought which acknowledges the corporeal enacting and sensing of the sacred both in and of the everyday. Taking empirical examples from New Age spiritual seekers, I trace the ways in which profane spatialities and temporalities are reconfigured into sacred topologies and how these seekers realise spiritual enlightenment through a reinhabited appropriation or articulation of the world. The source of signification of this spiritual comportment lies in embodied practices of the everyday that are sensed as the spiritually 'correct' or 'true' way of doing things. New ways of thinking everyday spiritual practice are thus sought and elaborated upon.

cultural geographies, 2022

This paper investigates how sound produces and transforms space and place as it moves and travels... more This paper investigates how sound produces and transforms space and place as it moves and travels. In charting the movement of sound from field recording to music studio, and from rehearsal to performance space, this paper examines the aesthetic and affective geographies that are developed and the consequences of this travel. This argument is illustrated through the example of an artistic project that sought to explore the anti- or non-idyllic practice and experience of the British countryside in sonic and musical form. The notion that there are stranger and eerie, less bucolic, and more unnerving, versions of rurality formed the artistic impulse for this project. The paper explores the creative, emotional, and technical labour involved in translating this idea into sound and music. Through inspecting the processes of achieving this project, and the geographies it generated, the paper argues that it was in the translation and movement of sound through space and through different pla...

... EndNote. SFX Query. Title: Tracing the emergent in geographies of religion and belief. Author... more ... EndNote. SFX Query. Title: Tracing the emergent in geographies of religion and belief. Authors: Holloway, Julian. Citation: Holloway, J. Tracing the emergent in geographies of religion and belief. In C. Brace et al, eds. Emerging Geographies of Belief. ...

© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Nadia Bartolini, Sara MacKian and Steve Pile; individual c... more © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Nadia Bartolini, Sara MacKian and Steve Pile; individual chapters, the contributors. Where the geography of religion and political geography meet, a productive range of writings have emerged around the theme of religious geopolitics (see Dijkink 2006; Dittmer 2007, 2009; Dittmer and Sturm 2010; Megoran 2010). In his agenda setting piece on this conjunction, Sturm (2013) sets out a distinction between ‘the geopolitics of religion’ and ‘religious geopolitics’. The former refers to actors who view the geopolitical map of the world through theological spatial divisions and religious discourses of valued significance; here one may cite the contrasting contemporary examples of Daesh’s self-declared caliphate or the Dali Lama’s vision of Tibet as a regional ‘zone of peace’ facilitating a ‘scalar jump’ to world peace (McConnell 2013: 164). On the other hand, ‘religious geopolitics’ demarcates how manifestly secular geopolitical discourse often deploys ...

Ann Assn Amer Geogr, 2006

cultural geographies

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/culturalgeog cultural geographies On the spaces and movement of m... more http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/culturalgeog cultural geographies On the spaces and movement of monsters: The Itinerant crossings of Gef the talking mongoose Abstract Geographical enquiries of the monster and the monstrous have increased in recent years. Through the accounting of a particular monster that emerged in the Isle of Man in the 1930s, I seek to contribute to these debates. The monster detailed in this paper underscores the argument that the power of the monster lies in both their proximity to familiar spatial and cultural codings, and their distance in the unfamiliarity they perform. However, I argue that the geographical accounts of the monster must focus their attention not only on their ambiguous status, but how they are constituted through mobility and movement. It is the constant itinerancy in-between and in-the-between wherein the monster finds its disruption and potential. Furthermore, in exploring monstrous modes of mobility, I argue the monster is best understood as an itinerant crossing that is incessantly and continually emergent. I finish by reminding those interested in monstrous geographies that whilst these strange beings may act as sources of hope and potentiality, geographers must not lose sight of how the monster still has the capacity to warn and to bite.

Landscape Research

There is continuing debate as to how many villagers survived due to the enforced quarantine, but ... more There is continuing debate as to how many villagers survived due to the enforced quarantine, but it is likely that the spread of the disease was restricted (during the quarantine only two people are reported to have left and one man entered). Indeed, with limited surviving evidence there is also debate concerning how many died, with figures ranging from 259 to 276 (although this includes deaths from other causes). Yet the human cost was considerable with many families being all but wiped out by the plague. For example, a Mrs Hancock who lived at the edge of the village, buried her husband and six children in a location known as the Riley Graves; and Catherine Mompesson, the rector's wife, succumbed to the disease in August 1666

Area, 2016

Getting Participants' Voices Heard: Using mobile, participant led, sound-based methods to explore... more Getting Participants' Voices Heard: Using mobile, participant led, sound-based methods to explore place making Introductory vignette: Groaning buses Whilst researching the acquisition of meaningful attachments to a newly encountered city, Alba (who is blind and from Barcelona) and Tori (her Labrador guide dog) led the researcher along their favourite walking route, Oxford Road, Manchester, England, one of Europe's busiest (and loudest) bus-routes. Sound: GROANING BUSES. Researcher: "So you actually prefer it when there's more traffic because you can hear?" Alba: "Yeah, in open spaces you need those references. It's really more confusing in open space." Introduction: sight and sound This paper deals with sonic approach to place making, and as such relates to how sound is part of the way in which place is brought into being, performed and known through both representational meaning-making practices and more multi-sensory processes and formations (Cresswell, 2004). As such, and as our brief introductory vignette shows, sound can play a central orienting role as we navigate, make sense of and experience space: in this paper the sonic and the aural will take precedence in the production of space and place. Indeed, the development of the field of sonic geographies and sound studies emphasises the aural alongside the visual (Drever

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Feb 29, 2008

This article calls for the geographies of religion and belief to attend to the sensuous, vitalist... more This article calls for the geographies of religion and belief to attend to the sensuous, vitalistic, and affectual forces through which spaces of the religious, spiritual, and the sacred are performed. Not only do we need to recognize and explore these forces themselves, but our analyses of how religious-sacred spaces (re)produce or challenge societal and cultural discourses can also be enhanced if we focus on affect and embodiment. Through the case study of nineteenth-century spiritualism and the key space of the séance, these points are exemplified and substantiated. Finally, I explore some of the implications of recognizing these sensations for the study of geographies of religion and belief through Bennett's (2001) nonreductionist and nonteleological notion of enchantment.

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Environment and Planning A, 2007

Binnie, J., Edensor, T., Holloway, J., Millington, S. and Young. C. (2007) Editorial: Mundane mob... more Binnie, J., Edensor, T., Holloway, J., Millington, S. and Young. C. (2007) Editorial: Mundane mobilities, banal travels’. Social and Cultural Geography. 8(2). 165-174..