Kimberley Peters
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberley Peters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberley |
| FAMILY NAME | Peters |
| SIGNATURE | PETERS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7297-6334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 938 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Crafting the Ocean
This paper brings cultural and environmental geographies into further conversation by linking theories of crafting and world‐making together, via the lens of the contemporary public aquarium and nascent oceanic geographies. Far from a niche example, the public aquarium—which represents, and in some form aims to replicate (and preserve), the ocean ‘out there’—demonstrates how crafting aims to establish particular connections with environmental wor…
Towards a strategy for offshore installations to enhance the environmental status of coastal seas
In European coastal and shelf seas, concurrent and sometimes conflicting economic and conservation needs call for innovative spatial management approaches that take account of new use concepts. In highly degraded environments, large areas contemplated for offshore wind farm (OWF) development could be actively used for different ecosystem enhancement concepts such as habitat restoration or the establishment of artificial reefs as part of conventio…
Routes to blue stewardship? Mobilising aquarium a/effects towards ocean citizenship and planetary change
Disrupted immobilities
Ships are technologies of maritime mobility. But sometimes ships are immobile—they stop and remain stationary for short or prolonged times. A degree of stasis inside and outside ports is both usual and essential for facilitating the movement of ships in global markets. This paper makes two important points: first, echoing existing literature, frequent stationarity (or waiting) is a normal occurrence in the industry. Second, it is not just mobilit…
Sedimentary relations
Contemporary cultural geographies have increasingly addressed subterranean and deep spaces through questions of access to earthly materials and the politics of resource extraction. This article engages with these themes through an investigation into the 'doings' or practices of seabed access. It does so by following the embodied and material experiences of two human geographers, an artist, a scientific coordinator and a microbiologist, who togeth…
Political Geography in Practice
Oceans sing, are you listening? Sounding out potentials for artistic audio engagements with science through the Polar Sounds project
Positioning possibilities for human geographies of the sea
This paper positions possibilities for human geographies of the sea. The growing volume of work under this banner has been largely qualitative in its approach, reflecting, in turn, the questions posed by oceanic scholars. These questions necessitate corresponding methods. Whilst this is not necessarily a problem, and the current corpus of work has offered many significant contributions, in making sense of the human dimensions of maritime worlds, …
Making the UN Ocean Decade work? The potential for, and challenges of, transdisciplinary research and real‐world laboratories for building towards ocean solutions
Due to the strong interconnectedness between the ocean and our societies worldwide, improved ocean governance is essential for sustainable development in the context of the UN Ocean Decade. However, a multitude of different perspectives—ecological, societal, political, economic—and relations between these have to be understood and taken into consideration to foster transformative pathways towards marine sustainability. A core challenge that we ar…
Principles for transformative ocean governance
With a focus on oceans, we collaborated across ecological, social and legal disciplines to respond to the United Nations call for transformation in the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’. We developed a set of 13 principles that strategically and critically connect transformative ocean research to transformative ocean governance (complementing the UN Decade for Ocean Science). We used a rigorous, iterative and transparent consensus-buildin…
Seven thoughts on seven ethics
To forty more years of Political Geography
For the place of terrain and materialist ‘re’ -returns
In this brief response to Stuart Elden’s thought-provoking essay ‘Terrain, Politics, History’, I question whether place, one of the most ubiquitous concepts worked with by geographers, might have a place itself in studies of territory and provide another way of attending to the neglect of the materiality of territory. In raising this point, I further ask if attention should also be shifted more broadly to the terrains of social and cultural geogr…
Making time in 2020
At Political Geography, the editorial team's annual editorial offers a chance to reflect on the previous year and to consider new directions being taken both at the journal and in the wider sub-discipline. But reflecting on a year such as 2020 presents several challenges, not least because, individually and collectively, our sense of time has become distorted and disoriented
Progress in the study of health inequalities and selective migration
This paper seeks to deepen understandings of the relations between health inequalities and migration, with a particular emphasis on health-selective migration. Papers in this journal have urged for a more nuanced consideration of connections between migration and health but these have not seen-through how to combine understandings of health and migration to better theorise their relations. A strong theoretical basis regarding the politics of mobi…
Making and breaking boundaries in times of transition
Deep Routeing and the Making of 'Maritime Motorways
Geography has turned to towards the seas and oceans with much attention being paid to ‘water worlds’ through socio-cultural, political and environmental lenses. Geo-economic analysis, in particular, has considered the role of containerisation, the port, and logistics global flows central to the contemporary shipping industry. However, where routeing enters discussion these debates remain ‘surficial’ with a focus on the rationale of lines of conne…
Cross-currents and undertows
In our response, we address two themes that appear in several of the commentaries. First, we elaborate on our decision to maintain a focus on the ocean, rather than turning to a term that speaks more clearly to geographic categories (e.g. the sea), elemental foundations (e.g. water), earth-system processes (e.g. the hydrosphere). Secondly, we address the critique that, in our effort to highlight the ocean’s geophysical liveliness, we may overlook…
Natural Flood Management
Globally, flood frequency has increased over the last three decades. Natural Flood Management ( NFM ) is considered a progressive holistic flood management approach, using “natural” hydrological processes to slow and store water, delivering multiple benefits including water quality, biodiversity and amenity improvements. Although there are existing evaluations of NFM , they remain insufficient for drawing conclusions as to its effectiveness at ca…
The ocean in excess
This article builds upon previous assertions that the ocean provides a fertile environment for reconceptualising understandings of space, time, movement and experiences of being in a transformative and mobile world. Following previous articles that urged scholars to adopt a ‘wet ontology’, this article presents a progression of, and a caveat to, these earlier arguments. As we have argued previously, liquid ‘materiality, motion, and temporality al…
Unlock the Volume
In recent years “volume” has become a key analytic idea, and tool, for re‐imagining and making sense of historical and contemporary socio‐cultural and geopolitical phenomena. This paper argues that this important work could be pushed in new directions by thinking seriously of how volume might otherwise be interpreted spatially, as capacity . Accordingly, in this paper, we address what we call a “politics of capacity”. To do so, we draw specifical…
Carceral Mobilities
Oceans and Seas
Seas and oceans constitute two thirds of the surface of the Earth. However, in spite of this geophysical dominance, they have only recently begun to attract the attention of geographers. In physical geography, seas and oceans have been explored from the coast to the deep sea using a range of techniques from traditional sampling to remote sensing to understanding geomorphic processes, sediment mobilization, earth science, and sea level rise. In hu…
Military mobilities in an age of global war, 1870–1945
Interventions on military mobilities
Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces
This paper expands on recent attempts to destabilise the static, bordered, and linear framings that typify human geographical studies of place, territory, and time. In a world conceptualised as open, immanent, and ever-becoming, scholars have turned away from notions of fixity towards fluidity and flow, and, in so doing, have developed networked, 'flat' ontologies. Recent attempts have gone further, challenging the horizontalism inherent in such …
The ocean in excess
This article builds upon previous assertions that the ocean provides a fertile environment for reconceptualising understandings of space, time, movement and experiences of being in a transformative and mobile world. Following previous articles that urged scholars to adopt a ‘wet ontology’, this article presents a progression of, and a caveat to, these earlier arguments. As we have argued previously, liquid ‘materiality, motion, and temporality al…
Neighborhood Social Context and Racial Differences in Women's Heart Disease Mortality
Compared to white women, black women experience similar rates of heart disease morbidity, but higher rates of heart disease mortality. This puzzling relationship may be due to several factors working at varied levels to affect each race. For example, the high heart disease mortality rate may be due to individual health or socioeconomic risk factors or to social structural factors. We conduct a multi-level analysis to address these issues, using d…
Ethnicity and Mortality in the United States
Ethnic gaps in mortality persist in the United States but the specific causes remain elusive. We propose a broader mortality framework that includes neighborhood characteristics that we test using data from a file that links the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) from 1986 through 1990 with information from death certificates from the National Death Index (NDI), and additional census tract-level data from the 1990 Census STF-3A files. Cox pr…
The Ship in Geography and the Geographies of Ships
Although interest in the maritime world has been growing steadily within human geography over the past decade, the ship remains a largely neglected figure in its own right. In spite of facilitating the emergence of modern geographical study and being bound intricately to the movement of ideas, goods and people around the globe, past and present, the ship is an elusive, often invisible, and largely forgotten space. In this paper we seek to move th…
Manipulating Material Hydro-Worlds
Lambert et al state that emerging geographical studies of social and cultural worlds at sea should take into account the currents, textures, and more-than-human elements of the oceans. In spite of this call there has been little work which seriously considers the physical, more-than-human geography of the sea-its very materiality-and how it comes into play with social and cultural life. This paper draws on the watery excursions of Radio Caroline'…
Drifting
This paper advocates a critical analysis of drifting as a particular typology of mobility. Drifting is a commonplace term used across the social sciences and particularly within physical, urban and psycho‐geographic strands of geography. However, drifting has not been unpacked within a mobilities framework as a specific trope of moving, nor has it been taken ‘to sea’ by social scientists. This is surprising given the long‐standing relationship be…
The Mobilities of Ships and Shipped Mobilities
Our special thanks goes to Pennie Drinkall for her patience and assistance in helping us to complete the project
Future Promises for Contemporary Social and Cultural Geographies of the Sea
Seventy per cent of the Earth's surface is sea. Yet, until recently social and cultural geographers have failed to pay much attention to this aspect of the world in which we live, with the most notable contributions deriving from historical perspectives. This study examines the work characterising this area of research before outlining possible reasons for the failure of consistent and comprehensive examination of the seas and ships for social an…
Negotiating the 'Place' and 'Placement' of Banal Tourist Souvenirs in the Home
Souvenirs have been largely ignored in geographic work on tourism. This paper adds to the body of literature concerned with ‘tourism geographies’ by considering the partial lives of one type of souvenir; those labelled ‘banal’. This paper explores the negotiations that arise when such souvenirs (material objects from the exotic, extraordinary, temporary place of tourism) are implanted in the usual, ordinary place of ‘home’. It is argued the ‘plac…
Unlocking carceral atmospheres
Using a variety of devices from visual displays, material objects, sensory engagements and embodied performance, museums select and narrate particular moments in history to an increasingly active audience. Thus far, focus on specific elements of museum design has eluded the altogether more pervasive, intangible and complex sensations designed, engineered, co-constituted and also arising unexpectedly from these sites: atmospheres. This article dra…
Between crime and colony
Recent literature in carceral geography has attended to the importance of mobilities in \ninterrogating the experience and control of spaces of imprisonment, detention and \nconfinement. Scholars have explored the paradoxical nature of incarcerated experience as \nindividuals oscillate between moments of fixity and motion as they are transported to/from \ncarceral environments. This paper draws upon the convict ship—an example yet to gain \natten…
Tracking (Im)mobilities at Sea
This paper explores how national governments exercise regulatory power over spaces beyond their jurisdiction, when activities in those extra-territorial spaces have direct impacts within the boundaries of state concerned.Focusing explicitly on the control of shipping mobilities in the high seas and territorial sea zones, it is contended that apparatus of control, in particular, surveillance, are not only complex across spaces of alternate legal c…
Interventions on military mobilities
Rethinking mobility in criminology
Typically, to be incarcerated is to be fixed: limited within specific parameters or boundaries with liberty and agency greatly reduced. Yet, recent literature has attended to the movement (or mobilities) that shape, or are shaped by modes of incarceration. Rather than simply assuming that experiences are inherently ones of immobility, such literature unhinges carceral studies from its framing within a sedentary ontology. However, the potential of…
Sinking the radio ‘pirates’
Studies of offshore broadcasting stations such as Radio Caroline have often focused on the media-communication impacts of the phenomenon, rather than the ramifications these so-called ‘pirate’ stations had over the governance of sea-space. This paper examines the strategies by which successive British governments sought to regulate offshore ‘pirate’ broadcasts emanating from outside territorial boundaries, onboard ships in the North Sea. Between …
Deep Routeing and the Making of 'Maritime Motorways
Geography has turned to towards the seas and oceans with much attention being paid to ‘water worlds’ through socio-cultural, political and environmental lenses. Geo-economic analysis, in particular, has considered the role of containerisation, the port, and logistics global flows central to the contemporary shipping industry. However, where routeing enters discussion these debates remain ‘surficial’ with a focus on the rationale of lines of conne…
Unlock the Volume
In recent years “volume” has become a key analytic idea, and tool, for re‐imagining and making sense of historical and contemporary socio‐cultural and geopolitical phenomena. This paper argues that this important work could be pushed in new directions by thinking seriously of how volume might otherwise be interpreted spatially, as capacity . Accordingly, in this paper, we address what we call a “politics of capacity”. To do so, we draw specifical…
For the place of terrain and materialist ‘re’ -returns
In this brief response to Stuart Elden’s thought-provoking essay ‘Terrain, Politics, History’, I question whether place, one of the most ubiquitous concepts worked with by geographers, might have a place itself in studies of territory and provide another way of attending to the neglect of the materiality of territory. In raising this point, I further ask if attention should also be shifted more broadly to the terrains of social and cultural geogr…
Fixed-Term and Temporary
This paper autobiographically considers the role of teaching-only staff as a contingent labour force in the contemporary higher education system in the UK. The aims are twofold. First, whilst much attention has been paid to the role of the research fellow, there has been less consideration, in the UK context, of the teaching fellow as an alternate form of postdoctoral experience. Accordingly, this paper gives voice to the teaching fellow-a member…
Writing with the sea
How does being with the sea change how we write about the sea? This article is constructed as a reflective/reflexive consideration of being at sea as part of an experimental week-long symposium held on board an 80-foot yacht in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, in early 2016. The event focused on the ways society lives with the sea in the 21st century - how awareness is raised and action is instigated - in light of growing threats to ocean spaces wo…
Cross-currents and undertows
In our response, we address two themes that appear in several of the commentaries. First, we elaborate on our decision to maintain a focus on the ocean, rather than turning to a term that speaks more clearly to geographic categories (e.g. the sea), elemental foundations (e.g. water), earth-system processes (e.g. the hydrosphere). Secondly, we address the critique that, in our effort to highlight the ocean’s geophysical liveliness, we may overlook…
Regulating the Radio Pirates
Offshore broadcasting pirates, transmitting radio shows from international waters back into the borders of nation-states, have been largely examined from a media-communications perspective. Drawing on pirate stations broadcasting into Britain I argue that new insights into the regulation of this phenomenon can be formed if it is considered not only as a media-communications venture, but likewise a maritime one. Following the Marine &c. Broadcasti…
Progress in the study of health inequalities and selective migration
This paper seeks to deepen understandings of the relations between health inequalities and migration, with a particular emphasis on health-selective migration. Papers in this journal have urged for a more nuanced consideration of connections between migration and health but these have not seen-through how to combine understandings of health and migration to better theorise their relations. A strong theoretical basis regarding the politics of mobi…
Making time in 2020
At Political Geography, the editorial team's annual editorial offers a chance to reflect on the previous year and to consider new directions being taken both at the journal and in the wider sub-discipline. But reflecting on a year such as 2020 presents several challenges, not least because, individually and collectively, our sense of time has become distorted and disoriented
Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Behavioral Factors Affecting Ethnic Mortality by Cause
This article examines ethnic differences in total and cause-specific mortality. We employ the linked National Health Interview Survey-National Death Index (NHIS-NDI) to examine ethnic differences in mortality from a combination of demographic, socioeconomic, and health characteristic perspectives. We find that Asian American mortality is low in part because of healthy behaviors and socioeconomic advantages; that Caucasian American mortality is hi…
The Effects of Perceived Health Status and Age on Elders' Longevity
Using data from the linked National Health Interview Survey National Death Index (NHIS‐NDI), a new and unique data set, we examine the interaction of age and self‐rated health as a predictor of overall and cause‐specific mortality. Proponents of wear and tear theories argue that as the body ages, it begins to degenerate, leaving the aged in poor health and vulnerable to their ultimate mortality. We find that although the majority of the elderly r…
Ethnicity and Mortality in the United States
Ethnic gaps in mortality persist in the United States but the specific causes remain elusive. We propose a broader mortality framework that includes neighborhood characteristics that we test using data from a file that links the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) from 1986 through 1990 with information from death certificates from the National Death Index (NDI), and additional census tract-level data from the 1990 Census STF-3A files. Cox pr…
Neighborhood Social Context and Racial Differences in Women's Heart Disease Mortality
Compared to white women, black women experience similar rates of heart disease morbidity, but higher rates of heart disease mortality. This puzzling relationship may be due to several factors working at varied levels to affect each race. For example, the high heart disease mortality rate may be due to individual health or socioeconomic risk factors or to social structural factors. We conduct a multi-level analysis to address these issues, using d…
The Slave Ship
Future Promises for Contemporary Social and Cultural Geographies of the Sea
Seventy per cent of the Earth's surface is sea. Yet, until recently social and cultural geographers have failed to pay much attention to this aspect of the world in which we live, with the most notable contributions deriving from historical perspectives. This study examines the work characterising this area of research before outlining possible reasons for the failure of consistent and comprehensive examination of the seas and ships for social an…
A search for sovereignty
(2011). A search for sovereignty: law and geography in european empires, 1400–1900. benton, lauren. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 93, No. 4, pp. 344-346
Sinking the radio ‘pirates’
Studies of offshore broadcasting stations such as Radio Caroline have often focused on the media-communication impacts of the phenomenon, rather than the ramifications these so-called ‘pirate’ stations had over the governance of sea-space. This paper examines the strategies by which successive British governments sought to regulate offshore ‘pirate’ broadcasts emanating from outside territorial boundaries, onboard ships in the North Sea. Between …
Negotiating the 'Place' and 'Placement' of Banal Tourist Souvenirs in the Home
Souvenirs have been largely ignored in geographic work on tourism. This paper adds to the body of literature concerned with ‘tourism geographies’ by considering the partial lives of one type of souvenir; those labelled ‘banal’. This paper explores the negotiations that arise when such souvenirs (material objects from the exotic, extraordinary, temporary place of tourism) are implanted in the usual, ordinary place of ‘home’. It is argued the ‘plac…
The Ship in Geography and the Geographies of Ships
Although interest in the maritime world has been growing steadily within human geography over the past decade, the ship remains a largely neglected figure in its own right. In spite of facilitating the emergence of modern geographical study and being bound intricately to the movement of ideas, goods and people around the globe, past and present, the ship is an elusive, often invisible, and largely forgotten space. In this paper we seek to move th…
Manipulating Material Hydro-Worlds
Lambert et al state that emerging geographical studies of social and cultural worlds at sea should take into account the currents, textures, and more-than-human elements of the oceans. In spite of this call there has been little work which seriously considers the physical, more-than-human geography of the sea-its very materiality-and how it comes into play with social and cultural life. This paper draws on the watery excursions of Radio Caroline'…
Regulating the Radio Pirates
Offshore broadcasting pirates, transmitting radio shows from international waters back into the borders of nation-states, have been largely examined from a media-communications perspective. Drawing on pirate stations broadcasting into Britain I argue that new insights into the regulation of this phenomenon can be formed if it is considered not only as a media-communications venture, but likewise a maritime one. Following the Marine &c. Broadcasti…
Drifting
This paper advocates a critical analysis of drifting as a particular typology of mobility. Drifting is a commonplace term used across the social sciences and particularly within physical, urban and psycho‐geographic strands of geography. However, drifting has not been unpacked within a mobilities framework as a specific trope of moving, nor has it been taken ‘to sea’ by social scientists. This is surprising given the long‐standing relationship be…
Tracking (Im)mobilities at Sea
This paper explores how national governments exercise regulatory power over spaces beyond their jurisdiction, when activities in those extra-territorial spaces have direct impacts within the boundaries of state concerned.Focusing explicitly on the control of shipping mobilities in the high seas and territorial sea zones, it is contended that apparatus of control, in particular, surveillance, are not only complex across spaces of alternate legal c…
The Mobilities of Ships and Shipped Mobilities
Our special thanks goes to Pennie Drinkall for her patience and assistance in helping us to complete the project
Fixed-Term and Temporary
This paper autobiographically considers the role of teaching-only staff as a contingent labour force in the contemporary higher education system in the UK. The aims are twofold. First, whilst much attention has been paid to the role of the research fellow, there has been less consideration, in the UK context, of the teaching fellow as an alternate form of postdoctoral experience. Accordingly, this paper gives voice to the teaching fellow-a member…
Doing time-travel
This chapter focuses on Black gangs that were the “tempest” caused by the carceral current which swept through the Chicago’s Black neighborhoods in the early 1960s. Carceral power or the mechanisms of prison punishment was the spatial backdrop against which Black gangs like the Almighty Black Stone Rangers emerged. Architectures of confinement, restrictions on Black movement, ubiquitous policing, few job options, and rising rates of Black male in…
Where Land Meets Sea
Unlocking carceral atmospheres
Using a variety of devices from visual displays, material objects, sensory engagements and embodied performance, museums select and narrate particular moments in history to an increasingly active audience. Thus far, focus on specific elements of museum design has eluded the altogether more pervasive, intangible and complex sensations designed, engineered, co-constituted and also arising unexpectedly from these sites: atmospheres. This article dra…
Between crime and colony
Recent literature in carceral geography has attended to the importance of mobilities in \ninterrogating the experience and control of spaces of imprisonment, detention and \nconfinement. Scholars have explored the paradoxical nature of incarcerated experience as \nindividuals oscillate between moments of fixity and motion as they are transported to/from \ncarceral environments. This paper draws upon the convict ship—an example yet to gain \natten…
Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces
This paper expands on recent attempts to destabilise the static, bordered, and linear framings that typify human geographical studies of place, territory, and time. In a world conceptualised as open, immanent, and ever-becoming, scholars have turned away from notions of fixity towards fluidity and flow, and, in so doing, have developed networked, 'flat' ontologies. Recent attempts have gone further, challenging the horizontalism inherent in such …
Water Worlds
Contents: Foreword: on thalassography Introduction: 'A perfect and absolute blank': human geographies of the ocean, Jon Anderson and Kimberley Peters. Part I Ocean Knowledges: Understanding the Water World: Mediterranean metaphors: travel, translation, and oceanic imaginaries in the 'new Mediterraneans' of the Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, Philip E. Steinberg 'Plenty of weeds and penguins': charting ocean knowledge, Anne-Flo…
Carceral Mobilities
Mobilities research is now centre stage in the social sciences with wide-ranging work that considers the politics underscoring the movements of people and objects, critically examining a world that is ever on the move. At first glance, the words ‘carceral’ and ‘mobilities’ seem to sit uneasily together. This book challenges the assumption that carceral life is characterised by a lack of movement. Carceral Mobilities brings together contributions …
Rethinking mobility in criminology
Typically, to be incarcerated is to be fixed: limited within specific parameters or boundaries with liberty and agency greatly reduced. Yet, recent literature has attended to the movement (or mobilities) that shape, or are shaped by modes of incarceration. Rather than simply assuming that experiences are inherently ones of immobility, such literature unhinges carceral studies from its framing within a sedentary ontology. However, the potential of…
Oceans and Seas
Seas and oceans constitute two thirds of the surface of the Earth. However, in spite of this geophysical dominance, they have only recently begun to attract the attention of geographers. In physical geography, seas and oceans have been explored from the coast to the deep sea using a range of techniques from traditional sampling to remote sensing to understanding geomorphic processes, sediment mobilization, earth science, and sea level rise. In hu…
Sociology (32 works) · Political science (25 works) · Geography (19 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Social science (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · Coastal and Marine Management (14 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (14 works) · Epistemology (12 works)