George Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9881-8350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 671 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1887 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
He Huarahi Tautoko
Kaumātua (Māori [Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand] elders over 55 years of age) often experienced disconnection from their cultural roots because of colonisation and policies that discouraged use of the Māori language, and cultural protocols, which had negative effects on well-being and sense of identity. This article describes a strength-based co-design process and programme that is kaumātua-led, for and by Māori communities, to help ad…
Enhancing health outcomes for Māori elders through an intergenerational cultural exchange and physical activity programme
Background The study offers baseline data for a strengths-based approach emphasizing intergenerational cultural knowledge exchange and physical activity developed through a partnership with kaumātua (Māori elders) and kaumātua service providers. The study aims to identify the baseline characteristics, along with correlates of five key outcomes. Methods The study design is a cross-sectional survey. A total of 75 kaumātua from six providers complet…
Chemsex at home
Sexualised drug use -usually referred to as chemsex- represents an established cultural practice among gay men in contemporary societies, mostly associated with home settings in urban areas. Against the reductionism of existing studies that conceptualize home as merely the location where chemsex occurs, the paper explores the ways in which the multidimensional character of home shapes chemsex experiences and cultures. Drawing on 25 interviews wit…
Monkeypox
The World Health Organisation declared the 2022 Monkeypox outbreak a 'Public Health Emergency of International Concern', following the rapid spread of infections in non-endemic countries. Unlike its usual epidemiology in Africa, most cases reported since May 2022 have been among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). This commentary provides an overview of the current Monkeypox outbreak and public health responses to it, draw…
Predicting Domestic Abuse (Fairly) and Police Risk Assessment
Domestic abuse victim risk assessment is crucial for providing victims with the correct level of support. However, it has been shown that the approach currently taken by most UK police forces, the Domestic Abuse, Stalking, and Honour Based Violence (DASH) risk assessment, is not identifying the most vulnerable victims. Instead, we tested several machine learning algorithms and propose a predictive model, using logistic regression with elastic net…
(Re)placing the heteronormative family in global urbanism. A review of Natalie Oswin's Global City Futures
Archaeology and ethnography demonstrate a human origin for Amazonian Dark Earths
Archaeological research provides clear evidence that the widespread formation of Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) in tropical lowland South America was concentrated in the Late Holocene, an outcome of sharp demographic growth that peaked towards 1000 BP. In their recent paper, however, Silva et al. propose that the high fertility of ADE is not of anthropic origin but instead the result of alluvial deposition starting in the Middle Holocene (8200-4200…
Geographies of PrEP, TasP and undetectability
Recent biomedical innovations in the field of HIV prevention and treatment – namely PrEP, TasP, and ‘undetectability’ – have completely reshaped the experience of living with HIV, as well as the meanings of ‘risk’ and ‘safety’ in relation to sexual practices, leading to new forms of pleasure and sociality for gay and bisexual men in the Minority World. While human geographers have been slow to engage with the changing social dimensions brought by…
Geography and sexuality II
Sexually inflected and queer geographies have variously responded to the changing legal, social and cultural landscapes of the 21st century. This report explores the spatial normalisations that these changes have created, through the concept of homonormativity, and the locatedness of these homonormative critiques. It then examines how these changes have been challenged in an effort to restore forms of heteronormativity through heteroactivism. The…
Everyday Spatialities of Intersectional Solidarity and Activism
sponsorship: The authors would like to express their gratitude to the members of the 'Solidarity in Diversity' research network, for the discussions that inspired this collection, and thank the FWO. Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek for the funding that made these discussions possible. (FWO. Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)
Sexualities and gendered intersectionalities
As a journal, Social and Cultural Geography has played a key role from the outset in publishing geographical work on gender and sexualities, not least in bringing this work to the attention of thos
Reflecting on personal data in a health course
Activity trackers (ATs) equipped with biometric sensors may support deep knowledge acquisition of health and active learning. The mechanism may be via personal data being pushed to the students, which deepens the knowledge about their own health and may impact long-term health action processes. To understand health knowledge acquisition, 43 students attending an undergraduate university course were equipped with an AT over a period of five months…
From Nowhere
Using contemporary and historical sources about one medium-sized provincial city in England, this short paper examines the distinctive features of gay life outside major metropolitan cities. This provocation engages with the question of violence and discrimination against LGBT people in small and medium sized European cities. However, it focuses more on thinking about everyday life in such cities. Conceptually, the paper attempts to provincialize…
Burn it down!’
This paper offers a new way of conceptualising how intersectional solidarities are actualised. It recounts and theorises an outbreak of radical internationalism, when working class struggles in Britain and South Africa were unexpectedly linked. It examines how intersectional solidarity was materialised through a process of coming together against the architectural fabric of the South African Embassy and considers the interwoven temporalities that…
Theorising cohortness
This paper advances a theory of “cohortness” for understanding the experience and articulation of identities. Using a case study focusing on higher education students, we argue that thinking in terms of cohorts enables an alternative way to examine how people perform, feel, and express their subjectivities collectively, especially within institutional spaces. Our analysis is based on an ongoing research‐education project, which ran over five year…
Civil Liberties and Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Chris Moores
Youth Activism and Solidarity
From April 1986 until just after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, supporters of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group maintained a continuous protest, day and night, outside the South African Embassy in central London. This book examines how and why a group of children, teenagers and young adults made themselves ‘non-stop against apartheid’, creating one of the most visible expressions of anti-apartheid solidarity in Brita…
Rethinking the origins of homonormativity
This paper rethinks the origins of contemporary homonormativity. Through an analysis of archival material from a rural lesbian and gay social movement from the 1970s, it questions the common link between homonormativity and urban neoliberalism. The Gay Rural Aid & Information Network ( GRAIN ) provided support to lesbians and gay men living in rural Britain or who were exploring the possibility of leaving the city for rural life. The network cons…
Practices of Solidarity
International solidarity is frequently presented as an asymmetrical flow of assistance travelling from one place to another. In contrast, we theorise the more complex, entangled and reciprocal flows of solidarity that serve to enact social change in more than one place simultaneously. The international campaign against apartheid was one of the most widespread, sustained social movements of the last century. This paper examines the spatial practic…
Epistemologies of Participation, or, What Do Critical Human Geographers Know That's of Any Use
Non-Stop Against Apartheid
From April 1986 to February 1990, the supporters of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group [City Group] maintained a Non-Stop Picket outside the South African Embassy in London calling for the release of Nelson Mandela. Whilst the Non-Stop Picket was one of the most visible expressions of British anti-apartheid activism at the time, the Picket was never endorsed by the national Anti-Apartheid Movement. Positioned on the pavement directly outside…
Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign
The End Conscription Campaign (ECC) was one of the most significant white social movements to oppose apartheid in South Africa during the 1980s. It opposed compulsory conscription to the South African military for white men and supported conscientious objectors. Daniel Conway examines the work of the ECC to pose important questions about the interconnections between masculinity and sexuality in highly militarized societies. In doing so, he seeks …
Queering bathrooms
This article is part of a review symposium of Sheila Cavanagh's book Queering bathrooms: gender, sexuality and the hygienic imagination, 2010, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 295 pp., £19.94 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4426-10736
Going mobile
There has been little consideration to date regarding how we might best adjust our assessment protocols so that the overall learning experience remains appropriately aligned to both content and teaching approach when adopting location-specific mobile learning. This paper explores the success of a novel strategy to design an assessment regime that captures a field experience in Dublin as a whole for both staff and students alike. Evaluation identi…
Reanimating Anarchist Geographies
The late nineteenth century saw a burgeoning of geographical writings from influential anarchist thinkers like Peter Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus. Yet despite the vigorous intellectual debate sparked by the works of these two individuals, following their deaths anarchist ideas within geography faded. It was not until the 1970s that anarchism was once again given serious consideration by academic geographers who, in laying the groundwork for what i…
Space for emotion in the spaces of activism
Homonormativity
In this commentary, I want to make a clear distinction between homonormativity, as an assemblage of specific social changes in a range of countries over the last two decades that appear to have had
Ceramics, clothing and other bodies
This paper provides a new approach to the geographies of cruising and public homosex. For some time, social scientists have contended that, in those semi-public spaces where men meet each other for sex, actions speak louder than words and men's competency in using the space is more important that the (sexual) identities they claim in other aspects of their lives. This paper extends that argument in a new direction through an engagement with recen…
Thinking beyond Homonormativity
This paper performatively decentres the role of mainstream gay consumption in contemporary thought about the economic and social lives of lesbians and gay men in the Global North. It is simultaneously critical and reparative in outlook. This paper critically engages with recent writing on homonormativity, suggesting that this work presents 'homonormativity' as an all-encompassing structure that becomes politically unassailable. In parallel with a…
Urban (Homo)Sexualities
This article appraises the current state of research on urban sexualities and suggests some underexamined areas of research that might productively be explored further. This review primarily focuses on studies of gay space and urban homosexualities, as this remains the largest body of work on urban sexualities within geography. I argue that this work has got caught in a trap of concentrating on the production of gay identities and spaces within s…
Mutinous Eruptions
This paper offers a reflexive ethnography of a set of queer autonomous spaces created in London over the last five years. It traces the political genealogies of a recent strand of radical queer activism that is broadly aligned with the anarchist and anticapitalist wings of the global justice movement. In line with the usage of the term 'queer' by these activists themselves, to refer to a variety of states of being that challenge both homonormativ…
Emotional geographies of young people's aspirations for adult life
For the last decade, the aspirations of working class young people have been a significant policy concern in the UK, with a range of interventions being implemented to work on and ‘raise’ them (particularly through initiatives to widen participation in higher education). This paper considers the emotional geographies of young people's aspirations. Interventions to ‘raise’ young people's aspirations act on an emotional/affective level (creating ‘w…
Sexualities in/of the Global South
This paper scopes the contemporary literatures that examine sexualities in/of the Global South. Recognising the complexities of both 'sexualities' and 'the Global South', the paper outlines key areas that can be explored under these headings. It questions the conflation of sexualities with homosexualities and contests the assumptions that spatial analyses of the Global South are confined within the discipline of geography. Instead a broad range o…
You’ve not made the grade, son’
The purpose of this investigation was to utilize in‐depth interviews to explore the experiences of young former elite footballers whose respective professional careers were prematurely ended as a consequence of deselection. To this end, the analysis focuses upon (a) the respondents’ development of a strong athletic identity, (b) the impact of deselection on the respondents’ sense of self, and (c) the respondents’ adaptations to life outside of pr…
Reanimating Anarchist Geographies
The late nineteenth century saw a burgeoning of geographical writings from influential anarchist thinkers like Peter Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus. Yet despite the vigorous intellectual debate sparked by the works of these two individuals, following their deaths anarchist ideas within geography faded. It was not until the 1970s that anarchism was once again given serious consideration by academic geographers who, in laying the groundwork for what i…
Geography and sexuality II
Sexually inflected and queer geographies have variously responded to the changing legal, social and cultural landscapes of the 21st century. This report explores the spatial normalisations that these changes have created, through the concept of homonormativity, and the locatedness of these homonormative critiques. It then examines how these changes have been challenged in an effort to restore forms of heteronormativity through heteroactivism. The…
Practices of Solidarity
International solidarity is frequently presented as an asymmetrical flow of assistance travelling from one place to another. In contrast, we theorise the more complex, entangled and reciprocal flows of solidarity that serve to enact social change in more than one place simultaneously. The international campaign against apartheid was one of the most widespread, sustained social movements of the last century. This paper examines the spatial practic…
Holding the Future Together
Social scientists often use the notion of 'transition' to denote diverse trajectories of change in different types of bodies: from individuals, to communities, to nation-states. Yet little work has theorised how transition might occur across, between, or beyond these bodies. The aim of this paper is to sketch out a multiple, synthetic, and generative (but by no means universal) theory of transition. Primarily drawing on the British context, we ex…
Rethinking the origins of homonormativity
This paper rethinks the origins of contemporary homonormativity. Through an analysis of archival material from a rural lesbian and gay social movement from the 1970s, it questions the common link between homonormativity and urban neoliberalism. The Gay Rural Aid & Information Network ( GRAIN ) provided support to lesbians and gay men living in rural Britain or who were exploring the possibility of leaving the city for rural life. The network cons…
Sedgwick’s geographies
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950—2009) was one of the founders of queer theory and a significant contributor to the fields of literary theory and philosophy. The four papers in this forum consider the impact and influence her work has had on diverse fields of research in human geography. Specifically, the papers examine how her work on the epistemology of the closet has been materialized and contested by geographers of sexualities; how her queer theor…
Epistemologies of Participation, or, What Do Critical Human Geographers Know That's of Any Use
Non-Stop Against Apartheid
From April 1986 to February 1990, the supporters of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group [City Group] maintained a Non-Stop Picket outside the South African Embassy in London calling for the release of Nelson Mandela. Whilst the Non-Stop Picket was one of the most visible expressions of British anti-apartheid activism at the time, the Picket was never endorsed by the national Anti-Apartheid Movement. Positioned on the pavement directly outside…
Geographies of PrEP, TasP and undetectability
Recent biomedical innovations in the field of HIV prevention and treatment – namely PrEP, TasP, and ‘undetectability’ – have completely reshaped the experience of living with HIV, as well as the meanings of ‘risk’ and ‘safety’ in relation to sexual practices, leading to new forms of pleasure and sociality for gay and bisexual men in the Minority World. While human geographers have been slow to engage with the changing social dimensions brought by…
Academic staff training in British universities
A survey of academic staff training in 42 universities and 25 colleges in the United Kingdom is reported and discussed. The results indicate that most training continues to be focused upon teaching skills but there is a growing recognition of the importance of training for all staff in research and management as well as teaching. There appears to be sufficient expertise and resources to provide training on most topics but various constraints on t…
The Structure of Religious Mystical Experience in Relation to Pre- and Postexperience Lifestyles
Understanding religious experience constitutes one of the perennial problems of the psychology of religion. Though formal work on this topic began almost a century ago (Coe, 1990; Cutten, 1908; Hall, 1904; James, 1902; Starbuck, 1899), the questions phrased by early scholars have still to be definitively answered. Following the landmark research of E. T. Clark in 1929 on "religious awakening," research on religious experience essentially disappea…
Everyday Spatialities of Intersectional Solidarity and Activism
sponsorship: The authors would like to express their gratitude to the members of the 'Solidarity in Diversity' research network, for the discussions that inspired this collection, and thank the FWO. Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek for the funding that made these discussions possible. (FWO. Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)
Burn it down!’
This paper offers a new way of conceptualising how intersectional solidarities are actualised. It recounts and theorises an outbreak of radical internationalism, when working class struggles in Britain and South Africa were unexpectedly linked. It examines how intersectional solidarity was materialised through a process of coming together against the architectural fabric of the South African Embassy and considers the interwoven temporalities that…
Theorising cohortness
This paper advances a theory of “cohortness” for understanding the experience and articulation of identities. Using a case study focusing on higher education students, we argue that thinking in terms of cohorts enables an alternative way to examine how people perform, feel, and express their subjectivities collectively, especially within institutional spaces. Our analysis is based on an ongoing research‐education project, which ran over five year…
Going mobile
There has been little consideration to date regarding how we might best adjust our assessment protocols so that the overall learning experience remains appropriately aligned to both content and teaching approach when adopting location-specific mobile learning. This paper explores the success of a novel strategy to design an assessment regime that captures a field experience in Dublin as a whole for both staff and students alike. Evaluation identi…
Styles of lecturing
This article reports a study of styles of lecturing conducted at Loughborough and Nottingham universities. A random sample of academic staff were sent a self‐report questionnaire consisting of structured, semi‐structured and open questions. Two‐Hundred‐and‐fifty‐eight respondents returned completed questionnaires. The structured items were factor and cluster analysed. This revealed the existence of five distinctive styles of lecturing: the oral l…
Papuans and Polynesians
Some Nature Myths from Samoa
Remarks on Samoan Sound Changes
Vermont Folk-Songs and Ballads
The Green Mountain Series of Vermont Books
Vermonters
The Maine Woods Songster
The New Green Mountain Songster
Netherlands India
Firestone-Libéria
III. The labour party
The Performance of Non‐graduate Student Teachers in University Courses
S ummary . The first year examination results of 60 students training as teachers, who would normally have taken non‐degree courses in a college of education, were compared with those of the first year honours degree students of the university. The student teachers had lower failures and fewer high scoring candidates. The overlap of results suggests that a wider range of students than has hitherto been considered can successfully study university…
Preparation of mental health personnel for the delivery of mental retardation services
Two days on explaining and lecturing
This paper describes the development, evaluation and underlying rationale of a two-day course on explaining and lecturing which has been used extensively in courses for lecturers. It is argued that since lecturing is the major method of teaching in universities it is important to help lecturers to improve their lecturing as well as to help them to become aware of the strengths and weaknesses of lectures
Explaining in professional contexts
This article provides a conceptual framework for the study of explaining and uses that framework to review and discuss studies of explaining in various professional contexts including school and university teaching, medicine and medical consultations, nursing, other health professions and law. Explaining is a central activity in all these professions. Explaining may be described as an attempt to give understanding of a problem to another and unde…
Academic staff training in British universities
A survey of academic staff training in 42 universities and 25 colleges in the United Kingdom is reported and discussed. The results indicate that most training continues to be focused upon teaching skills but there is a growing recognition of the importance of training for all staff in research and management as well as teaching. There appears to be sufficient expertise and resources to provide training on most topics but various constraints on t…
Styles of lecturing
This article reports a study of styles of lecturing conducted at Loughborough and Nottingham universities. A random sample of academic staff were sent a self‐report questionnaire consisting of structured, semi‐structured and open questions. Two‐Hundred‐and‐fifty‐eight respondents returned completed questionnaires. The structured items were factor and cluster analysed. This revealed the existence of five distinctive styles of lecturing: the oral l…
The Structure of Religious Mystical Experience in Relation to Pre- and Postexperience Lifestyles
Understanding religious experience constitutes one of the perennial problems of the psychology of religion. Though formal work on this topic began almost a century ago (Coe, 1990; Cutten, 1908; Hall, 1904; James, 1902; Starbuck, 1899), the questions phrased by early scholars have still to be definitively answered. Following the landmark research of E. T. Clark in 1929 on "religious awakening," research on religious experience essentially disappea…
Activities and Appointments
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Effective Teaching in Higher Education
Reflections on current developments in contemporary urban geography
The UGRG post-graduate conference held at theUniversity of Reading on 30 November 2002provided a forum for PhD students from various UKuniversities to come together to discuss not onlytheir own research but to reflect on currentdevelopments in contemporary urban geography inthe UK and elsewhere. The format of the day-longmeeting was divided into a morning devoted togroup discussions of three recent publications (Aminand Thrift 2002; Dear and Flus…
Joint Review
Changing geographies of access to medical education in London
Managing governance
Mutinous Eruptions
This paper offers a reflexive ethnography of a set of queer autonomous spaces created in London over the last five years. It traces the political genealogies of a recent strand of radical queer activism that is broadly aligned with the anarchist and anticapitalist wings of the global justice movement. In line with the usage of the term 'queer' by these activists themselves, to refer to a variety of states of being that challenge both homonormativ…
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