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The Imaginative Geographies of the Aquatic: Piscatorial Encounters with Landscape Geography
Humanimalia, 2010
Fishes so often escape our (human) concern. Practically, they are rarely encountered except possi... more Fishes so often escape our (human) concern. Practically, they are rarely encountered except possibly in aquaria, on the plate or the fishmonger's bed of crushed ice. Moreover, fishes occupy spaces which are so fundamentally alien to human ways of knowing that the use of the large-scale, industrial trawlers that are so ethically and environmentally contentious can almost be understood. Indeed, their continued existence is evidence of our failure to place fishes within the schema of intellectual and social moral concern (see Jones 2000). It is therefore superb to find such a work on salmon in the Animal series, and the concern Coates shows for the subject is careful and stimulating. The range of topics included in the text is wide reaching, covering the biological understandings of salmon, cultural significance, tins of salmon, a salmonskin-bikini, and the conflicts which arise between different social groups and individuals as well as between humans and salmon.
Mobilities, Mobility Justice and Social Justice, 2018
The encounters between animals and humans are not static. They are practiced, dynamic and ongoing... more The encounters between animals and humans are not static. They are practiced, dynamic and ongoing. Therefore direction, velocity and the way that different power relations converge to enable or pre ...
Gender, Place & Culture, 2018
Journal of Rural Studies, 2017
Since the 1940s Swedish rural policy has shaped agriculture and food production into a rational, ... more Since the 1940s Swedish rural policy has shaped agriculture and food production into a rational, large scale and specialised industry, focused on food hygiene. However, in J€ amtland pockets of resistance remained where small-scale farmers continued to produce local cheeses. As rural policy has shifted towards favouring the local and traditional within Geographic Indication frameworks, these cheeses are receiving more attention from policymakers as well as consumers. During the last 10e15 years local cheese making has been revitalised with the introduction of sophisticated techniques and new knowledges on how to work with microbes to create more distinct, local cheeses. Bacteria cultures and moulds are treasured and explicitly considered in ways that were previously tacit. As this paper shows the development of these new cheese-making processes owe a lot to imported knowledge and microbes from France. The paper goes on to discuss how these 'cultural imports' combine with local knowledge and microbes to enable different narratives of locality, 'authenticity', and 'traditional' within contemporary cheese-making.
Crossroads of Knowledge, 2016
This chapter draws attention to bodily boundaries between species of bacteria and the bodies of t... more This chapter draws attention to bodily boundaries between species of bacteria and the bodies of ticks, pets and humans, examining how ‘spot-on’ treatments for protection against ticks and fleas are used to protect human and companion animal bodies, relationships, and spaces from the threats of parasites. Such threats, it is argued, are controlled on the bodies of pets through the creation of ‘toxic skin’ that comes to serve as a protective boundary between human bodies and spaces and the threats of parasites. Suggesting that the parasitic relation can be used as an analytical tool for engaging with the politics of multispecies codependencies, the chapter addresses how parasitic relations challenge notions of human exceptionalism and the integrity of bodily boundaries. It demonstrates how spot-on treatments respond to such challenges by drawing lines through and around relations between human and non-human-animal bodies premised on the priority of particular bodily perspectives and ways of relating. The chapter concludes with the consideration that ticks, in spite of being an unwelcome parasite conceptualised and experienced as a threat, may be seen as the companion species par excellence as they bind together and are bound with a multitude of other species.
Crossroads of Knowledge, 2016
I set out to critically engage with the concept transgressive encounters. Given the heritage and ... more I set out to critically engage with the concept transgressive encounters. Given the heritage and weighty presence of the term transgression in Feminist, Queer, Trans and Gender Studies debate, such a discussion would be a review of Gender Studies. From activism to texts, we can trace the multiple heritages, ties and examples of transgression within the broad category of gender research: the historical moments where particular forms of gendered power have been successfully challenged; reinterpreting, refracting and redirecting the production of knowledge; operating as a conduit between different academic disciplines; engaging issues outside of disciplinary domains; and subversive bodily acts and the fleshy politics of everyday life; thinking and doing gender research is a transgressive act. I do not want to draw a line between academic debate and activism. Thinking is, after all, doing, and doing generates new knowledge as exemplified by scholars such as Gayatri Spivak who have constantly crossed between ‘activism’ and ‘academic’ (see, e.g., Spivak 1999). This is not to suggest that all transgressions are similar but to emphasise how they share a common thread, providing critical perspectives and articulating different questions. Gender Studies has shifted across academic and disciplinary boundaries and occupied spaces in the borderlands between disciplines, on fringes, ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the academy as well as in dedicated research institutes and departments. In a description of ‘intellectual activism’, Patricia Hill Collins (2013) describes two core mechanisms by which lines are blurred between activism and the academy. These two mechanisms are ‘speaking truth to power’ and ‘speaking truth to people’. The contributions to this volume might sit most squarely in the former – they speak from within the academy, from a particular context, and they offer the experience of doing interdisciplinary research in particular spaces.
Crossroads of Knowledge, 2016
Beginning from a series of miscommunications, misunderstandings and seemingly incongruous connect... more Beginning from a series of miscommunications, misunderstandings and seemingly incongruous connections, this chapter explores how three trans- or interdisciplinary areas of research might meet. By exploring the way that cattle are depicted in trade magazines, the chapter discusses how perspectives informed by gender studies, animal studies and rural development might examine how animals are both mirrors of rural gender relations and active in them. Such meetings of different perspectives might help to build towards more sustainable rural futures as they challenge the way that gendered narratives have implications for individual farmers. In addition the chapter points to ways that these narratives have material impacts as animal caretaking and the bodies of individual animals are shaped in response to these gendered narratives.
Environment and Planning A
ABSTRACT There is no abstract for this paper.
Social & Cultural Geography, 2011
This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or s... more This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply, or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae, and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand, or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material.
Gender, Place & Culture, 2009
This article examines the masculinities evident through fly fishing for salmon and trout in the S... more This article examines the masculinities evident through fly fishing for salmon and trout in the South West of England. It identifies the way that many accounts of rural masculinities focus on particularly macho traits such as strength, resilience and domination and particular ...
The Imaginative Geographies of the Aquatic: Piscatorial Encounters with Landscape Geography
Humanimalia, 2010
Fishes so often escape our (human) concern. Practically, they are rarely encountered except possi... more Fishes so often escape our (human) concern. Practically, they are rarely encountered except possibly in aquaria, on the plate or the fishmonger's bed of crushed ice. Moreover, fishes occupy spaces which are so fundamentally alien to human ways of knowing that the use of the large-scale, industrial trawlers that are so ethically and environmentally contentious can almost be understood. Indeed, their continued existence is evidence of our failure to place fishes within the schema of intellectual and social moral concern (see Jones 2000). It is therefore superb to find such a work on salmon in the Animal series, and the concern Coates shows for the subject is careful and stimulating. The range of topics included in the text is wide reaching, covering the biological understandings of salmon, cultural significance, tins of salmon, a salmonskin-bikini, and the conflicts which arise between different social groups and individuals as well as between humans and salmon.
Mobilities, Mobility Justice and Social Justice, 2018
The encounters between animals and humans are not static. They are practiced, dynamic and ongoing... more The encounters between animals and humans are not static. They are practiced, dynamic and ongoing. Therefore direction, velocity and the way that different power relations converge to enable or pre ...
Gender, Place & Culture, 2018
Journal of Rural Studies, 2017
Since the 1940s Swedish rural policy has shaped agriculture and food production into a rational, ... more Since the 1940s Swedish rural policy has shaped agriculture and food production into a rational, large scale and specialised industry, focused on food hygiene. However, in J€ amtland pockets of resistance remained where small-scale farmers continued to produce local cheeses. As rural policy has shifted towards favouring the local and traditional within Geographic Indication frameworks, these cheeses are receiving more attention from policymakers as well as consumers. During the last 10e15 years local cheese making has been revitalised with the introduction of sophisticated techniques and new knowledges on how to work with microbes to create more distinct, local cheeses. Bacteria cultures and moulds are treasured and explicitly considered in ways that were previously tacit. As this paper shows the development of these new cheese-making processes owe a lot to imported knowledge and microbes from France. The paper goes on to discuss how these 'cultural imports' combine with local knowledge and microbes to enable different narratives of locality, 'authenticity', and 'traditional' within contemporary cheese-making.
Crossroads of Knowledge, 2016
This chapter draws attention to bodily boundaries between species of bacteria and the bodies of t... more This chapter draws attention to bodily boundaries between species of bacteria and the bodies of ticks, pets and humans, examining how ‘spot-on’ treatments for protection against ticks and fleas are used to protect human and companion animal bodies, relationships, and spaces from the threats of parasites. Such threats, it is argued, are controlled on the bodies of pets through the creation of ‘toxic skin’ that comes to serve as a protective boundary between human bodies and spaces and the threats of parasites. Suggesting that the parasitic relation can be used as an analytical tool for engaging with the politics of multispecies codependencies, the chapter addresses how parasitic relations challenge notions of human exceptionalism and the integrity of bodily boundaries. It demonstrates how spot-on treatments respond to such challenges by drawing lines through and around relations between human and non-human-animal bodies premised on the priority of particular bodily perspectives and ways of relating. The chapter concludes with the consideration that ticks, in spite of being an unwelcome parasite conceptualised and experienced as a threat, may be seen as the companion species par excellence as they bind together and are bound with a multitude of other species.
Crossroads of Knowledge, 2016
I set out to critically engage with the concept transgressive encounters. Given the heritage and ... more I set out to critically engage with the concept transgressive encounters. Given the heritage and weighty presence of the term transgression in Feminist, Queer, Trans and Gender Studies debate, such a discussion would be a review of Gender Studies. From activism to texts, we can trace the multiple heritages, ties and examples of transgression within the broad category of gender research: the historical moments where particular forms of gendered power have been successfully challenged; reinterpreting, refracting and redirecting the production of knowledge; operating as a conduit between different academic disciplines; engaging issues outside of disciplinary domains; and subversive bodily acts and the fleshy politics of everyday life; thinking and doing gender research is a transgressive act. I do not want to draw a line between academic debate and activism. Thinking is, after all, doing, and doing generates new knowledge as exemplified by scholars such as Gayatri Spivak who have constantly crossed between ‘activism’ and ‘academic’ (see, e.g., Spivak 1999). This is not to suggest that all transgressions are similar but to emphasise how they share a common thread, providing critical perspectives and articulating different questions. Gender Studies has shifted across academic and disciplinary boundaries and occupied spaces in the borderlands between disciplines, on fringes, ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the academy as well as in dedicated research institutes and departments. In a description of ‘intellectual activism’, Patricia Hill Collins (2013) describes two core mechanisms by which lines are blurred between activism and the academy. These two mechanisms are ‘speaking truth to power’ and ‘speaking truth to people’. The contributions to this volume might sit most squarely in the former – they speak from within the academy, from a particular context, and they offer the experience of doing interdisciplinary research in particular spaces.
Crossroads of Knowledge, 2016
Beginning from a series of miscommunications, misunderstandings and seemingly incongruous connect... more Beginning from a series of miscommunications, misunderstandings and seemingly incongruous connections, this chapter explores how three trans- or interdisciplinary areas of research might meet. By exploring the way that cattle are depicted in trade magazines, the chapter discusses how perspectives informed by gender studies, animal studies and rural development might examine how animals are both mirrors of rural gender relations and active in them. Such meetings of different perspectives might help to build towards more sustainable rural futures as they challenge the way that gendered narratives have implications for individual farmers. In addition the chapter points to ways that these narratives have material impacts as animal caretaking and the bodies of individual animals are shaped in response to these gendered narratives.
Environment and Planning A
ABSTRACT There is no abstract for this paper.
Social & Cultural Geography, 2011
This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or s... more This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply, or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae, and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand, or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material.
Gender, Place & Culture, 2009
This article examines the masculinities evident through fly fishing for salmon and trout in the S... more This article examines the masculinities evident through fly fishing for salmon and trout in the South West of England. It identifies the way that many accounts of rural masculinities focus on particularly macho traits such as strength, resilience and domination and particular ...