Clare Madge
Biographic Data
| ID | 85625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clare Madge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | Madge |
| SIGNATURE | MADGE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9365-3208 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 829 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Transnational online research
This paper lies at the intersection of discussions surrounding digitally mediated research methods and transnational research projects. It contributes to the current methodological debate surrounding online interviewing by focusing on tensions and affordances involved in Skype-to-phone interviewing in a transnational research context. While the Skype-to-phone facility does indeed increase further access to global participants, complex power hiera…
Social media among African students
Scholars are increasingly starting to engage in analysing non-use of social media among higher education students, but to date there lacks a framework within which to do so. Toward this end, this article identifies four key themes associated with not using social media to develop a typology of social media non-use. The themes are: 1) exclusion which may be owing to access problems or the social environment on social media; 2) distrust owing to di…
Contesting Forestry in West Africa
Part 1 Introduction: constructing, contesting and situating forestry in West Africa - an introduction. Part 2 Historical considerations: representing West African forests in British Imperial discourse, c.1800-1900 redefining forestry space and threatening livelihoods in colonial Northern Nigeria shaping socio-ecological and historical knowledge of deforestation in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Togo. Part 3 Cultural negotiations: trees and the domesti…
Creative geographies and living on from breast cancer
This paper is located at the intersection of scholarship on creative geographies and geographies of dying, death and “living on” (survival). It explores the intimate experience of breast cancer through the practice of creative bricolage which uses autobiographical poetry and photographs. Employing a roving writing strategy that allows for multiple entry points and connectivities surrounding the complex meshworks of precarious cancer survival, the…
Poetic world-writing in a pluriversal world
The file associated with this record is under a 12-month embargo from publication in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
Living through, living with and living on from breast cancer in the UK
This paper contributes to a growing literature exploring the embodied emotions involved in death studies. It does so through a creative cathartic autobiographical account of living through and on from breast cancer. In presenting this ‘storifying experience’, this UK-based paper has three key aims: first, it attempts to counter the disjuncture between the fleshy and emotional cancer journey I have travelled through and the sometimes abstract, dis…
Rising A sia and postcolonial geography
There has been much discussion recently about the future of postcolonial theory. Some suggest that it is on the wane, while others defend its continued capacity for transformative critique. This paper contributes to these debates by considering postcolonial geography's future through the prism of ‘Rising A sia’. Rising A sia presents challenges to the spatial matrices underpinning current thinking in postcolonial geography, particularly the globa…
On the creative (re)turn to geography
This paper contributes to the debate about the creative (re)turn to geography through the lens of poetry. In considering the potentialities and limitations of geopoetics, I explore three issues in particular: evaluation of the poetic creative moment; poetry as a means of expressing an embodied, affective geopolitics; and the limitations involved in this particular creative move as a means of empathetic, passionate storytelling. The paper highligh…
Conceptualizing international education
In a rapidly changing transnational eduscape, it is timely to consider how best to conceptualize international education. Here we argue for a conceptual relocation from international student to international study as a means to bridge the diverse literatures on international education. International study also enables recognition of the multiple contributions (and resistances) of international students as agents of knowledge formation; it facilit…
Now let me share this with you”
In this article we attempt to “seize back the creative initiative” to uncover whether poetry might be a useful postcolonial research method. In exploring the possibilities and limitations of poetry as a means of re‐representing and interpreting data collected through in‐depth qualitative interviews, our conclusions are ambivalent: we are attracted to poetry but troubled by it too. For instance, poetry does hold promise through its ability to imag…
Unsettling responsibility
This paper contributes to debates about geographies of responsibility. In contrast to much of the previous literature in this field, which has concentrated on teasing out the intimate interconnections between different people, places and spaces, in this paper we highlight the limits to such connections, focusing on more unsettled versions of responsibility. Our critique draws on postcolonial readings to highlight two limitations of responsibility…
Facebook , social integration and informal learning at university
Whilst recent studies suggest that over 95% of British undergraduate students are regularly using social networking sites, we still know very little about how this phenomenon impacts on the student experience and, in particular, how it influences students’ social integration into university life. This paper explores how pre‐registration engagement with a university Facebook network influences students’ post‐registration social networks. Research …
Engaged pedagogy and responsibility
Rethinking responsibility and care for a postcolonial world
Geography is Pregnant' and 'Geography's Milk is Flowing
This paper attempts to mobilise the metaphors of pregnancy and lactation to address the imperatives arising from British academic geography's postcolonial position. We embed our argument in our readings of extracts from two consciously postcolonial fictional texts. In the first part of the paper we consider geography as a discipline that is pregnant but 'in trouble' to illustrate the paradoxical struggle of the discipline to be a global disciplin…
Developing a geographers' agenda for online research ethics
This paper explores and advances the debate surrounding online research ethics. The use of internet-mediated research using online research methods has increased significantly in recent years raising the issue of online research ethics. Obviously, many ethical issues of onsite research are directly translatable to the online context, but there is also a need for existing ethical principles to be examined in the light of these new virtual research…
Towards a method for postcolonial development geography? Possibilities and challenges
In this paper we explore the contours of a ‘method’ for postcolonial development geography, which makes it possible to imagine another ‘world‐picturing’. We suggest three steps towards such a method. First, we propose that a postcolonial method involves thinking about why we are doing research in the south in the first place; how we come to and produce our questions; and how we analyze and represent our findings based on our subject positionings.…
Parenting gone wired
This is the authors' final draft of the paper published as Social and Cultural Geography, 2006, 7(2), pp.199-220. The definitive version is available from www.informaworld.com, via DOI: 10.1080/14649360600600528
Working a fraction and making a fraction work
Little is known about the issues facing geographers working on fractional appointments in higher education institutions in the UK. This paper draws on a survey of UK geography departments and personal experiences to explore some of that territory for the first time. The purpose is both to set the agenda for institutional policy issues and to provide some immediate points of reflection for staff intending to take up fractional work. We consider th…
Mothers in the making? Exploring liminality in cyber/space
This paper makes a case for cyberspace and geographical space coexisting simultaneously as an interconnected dyadic cyber/space combining the virtually real and the actually real. Based on empirical evidence from a study examining the role of the Internet in the life of new mothers, we investigate the simultaneity of online/onsite experiences through an exploration of cyberspace as a performative liminal space, one where the women 'tried out' dif…
Online methods in geography educational research
Geographers are fully engaged in the debate surrounding the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICT) and there has been a proliferation of research on the impact of ICT on geo
My mum's thirty years out of date
It is now widely recognized that the use of the Internet as a source of self-help and support, particularly for health-related matters, is increasing. The recent growth in the number of websites aimed specifically at parents suggests that this group are increasingly accessing the Internet to seek information and advice not only for themselves but also for their children's health and well-being. This paper presents findings from the Cyberparents r…
On‐line with e‐mums
This paper contributes to the emerging debate about the value of on‐line research. Drawing on the experience of an Internet‐based Cyberparents project, it explores the possibilities and limitations of web‐based questionnaire surveys and on‐line synchronous interviews. It discusses some of the implications of conducting research in the virtual arena, with particular emphasis on sampling, on‐line interactions and computer‐mediated conversations. Al…
Cyber-Mothers
The potential of the Internet as a valuable methodological tool for social science research is increasingly being recognised. This paper contributes to the debate surrounding virtual synchronous interviews and the value of online research. Specifically it introduces the use of a software conferencing technique - Hotline Connect - and discusses the implications of using the technique for Internet- based research. In particular issues of interview …
Women, science and identity
Interviews with female physical geographers show that although the significance of gender in influencing a woman's position and identity in physical geography is contested, gender still remains an important social relation that structures the personal relations, institutional practices and material outcomes of academic physical geography
Rethinking responsibility and care for a postcolonial world
Engaged pedagogy and responsibility
Conceptualizing international education
In a rapidly changing transnational eduscape, it is timely to consider how best to conceptualize international education. Here we argue for a conceptual relocation from international student to international study as a means to bridge the diverse literatures on international education. International study also enables recognition of the multiple contributions (and resistances) of international students as agents of knowledge formation; it facilit…
Parenting gone wired
This is the authors' final draft of the paper published as Social and Cultural Geography, 2006, 7(2), pp.199-220. The definitive version is available from www.informaworld.com, via DOI: 10.1080/14649360600600528
Unsettling responsibility
This paper contributes to debates about geographies of responsibility. In contrast to much of the previous literature in this field, which has concentrated on teasing out the intimate interconnections between different people, places and spaces, in this paper we highlight the limits to such connections, focusing on more unsettled versions of responsibility. Our critique draws on postcolonial readings to highlight two limitations of responsibility…
Mothers in the making? Exploring liminality in cyber/space
This paper makes a case for cyberspace and geographical space coexisting simultaneously as an interconnected dyadic cyber/space combining the virtually real and the actually real. Based on empirical evidence from a study examining the role of the Internet in the life of new mothers, we investigate the simultaneity of online/onsite experiences through an exploration of cyberspace as a performative liminal space, one where the women 'tried out' dif…
On the creative (re)turn to geography
This paper contributes to the debate about the creative (re)turn to geography through the lens of poetry. In considering the potentialities and limitations of geopoetics, I explore three issues in particular: evaluation of the poetic creative moment; poetry as a means of expressing an embodied, affective geopolitics; and the limitations involved in this particular creative move as a means of empathetic, passionate storytelling. The paper highligh…
Public Parks and the Geography of Fear
This article investigates the geography of fear surrounding the use of public parks in Leicester city, Britain. Fear was a major deterrent limiting the use of parks, especially for women, the elderly and Asian and African‐Caribbean people. Certain fears were particularly important for specific groups: women were particularly fearful of sexual attack, the elderly of mugging and Asian and African‐Caribbean people of racial attack. Women and African…
Geography is Pregnant' and 'Geography's Milk is Flowing
This paper attempts to mobilise the metaphors of pregnancy and lactation to address the imperatives arising from British academic geography's postcolonial position. We embed our argument in our readings of extracts from two consciously postcolonial fictional texts. In the first part of the paper we consider geography as a discipline that is pregnant but 'in trouble' to illustrate the paradoxical struggle of the discipline to be a global disciplin…
Developing a geographers' agenda for online research ethics
This paper explores and advances the debate surrounding online research ethics. The use of internet-mediated research using online research methods has increased significantly in recent years raising the issue of online research ethics. Obviously, many ethical issues of onsite research are directly translatable to the online context, but there is also a need for existing ethical principles to be examined in the light of these new virtual research…
Poetic world-writing in a pluriversal world
The file associated with this record is under a 12-month embargo from publication in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
My mum's thirty years out of date
It is now widely recognized that the use of the Internet as a source of self-help and support, particularly for health-related matters, is increasing. The recent growth in the number of websites aimed specifically at parents suggests that this group are increasingly accessing the Internet to seek information and advice not only for themselves but also for their children's health and well-being. This paper presents findings from the Cyberparents r…
Cyber-Mothers
The potential of the Internet as a valuable methodological tool for social science research is increasingly being recognised. This paper contributes to the debate surrounding virtual synchronous interviews and the value of online research. Specifically it introduces the use of a software conferencing technique - Hotline Connect - and discusses the implications of using the technique for Internet- based research. In particular issues of interview …
Living through, living with and living on from breast cancer in the UK
This paper contributes to a growing literature exploring the embodied emotions involved in death studies. It does so through a creative cathartic autobiographical account of living through and on from breast cancer. In presenting this ‘storifying experience’, this UK-based paper has three key aims: first, it attempts to counter the disjuncture between the fleshy and emotional cancer journey I have travelled through and the sometimes abstract, dis…
On‐line with e‐mums
This paper contributes to the emerging debate about the value of on‐line research. Drawing on the experience of an Internet‐based Cyberparents project, it explores the possibilities and limitations of web‐based questionnaire surveys and on‐line synchronous interviews. It discusses some of the implications of conducting research in the virtual arena, with particular emphasis on sampling, on‐line interactions and computer‐mediated conversations. Al…
Online methods in geography educational research
Geographers are fully engaged in the debate surrounding the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICT) and there has been a proliferation of research on the impact of ICT on geo
Creative geographies and living on from breast cancer
This paper is located at the intersection of scholarship on creative geographies and geographies of dying, death and “living on” (survival). It explores the intimate experience of breast cancer through the practice of creative bricolage which uses autobiographical poetry and photographs. Employing a roving writing strategy that allows for multiple entry points and connectivities surrounding the complex meshworks of precarious cancer survival, the…
Contesting Forestry in West Africa
Part 1 Introduction: constructing, contesting and situating forestry in West Africa - an introduction. Part 2 Historical considerations: representing West African forests in British Imperial discourse, c.1800-1900 redefining forestry space and threatening livelihoods in colonial Northern Nigeria shaping socio-ecological and historical knowledge of deforestation in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Togo. Part 3 Cultural negotiations: trees and the domesti…
Feminist Research Methodologies and Student Projects in Geography
Although there has been an increasing number of articles on teaching and gender, there has been little discussion of the implications of feminist research methodologies for student projects. This paper aims to overcome this 'blind spot' through discussion of the pedagogic implications raised by the adoption of such methodologies in student projects: choice of topic, choice of research methods, emancipatory role of the project, dilemmas experience…
Collected Food and Domestic Knowledge in the Gambia, West Africa
Two aspects of rural African life which have hitherto received little attention are women's domestic knowledge and collected food products. A Gambian case study reveals that both are important for household survival since it is through storage and preservation that women seasonally regulate the collected food supply in relation to cultivated food availability. While there is a lack of awareness by 'experts' of the nutritional role of collected fo…
Now let me share this with you”
In this article we attempt to “seize back the creative initiative” to uncover whether poetry might be a useful postcolonial research method. In exploring the possibilities and limitations of poetry as a means of re‐representing and interpreting data collected through in‐depth qualitative interviews, our conclusions are ambivalent: we are attracted to poetry but troubled by it too. For instance, poetry does hold promise through its ability to imag…
Working a fraction and making a fraction work
Little is known about the issues facing geographers working on fractional appointments in higher education institutions in the UK. This paper draws on a survey of UK geography departments and personal experiences to explore some of that territory for the first time. The purpose is both to set the agenda for institutional policy issues and to provide some immediate points of reflection for staff intending to take up fractional work. We consider th…
Transnational online research
This paper lies at the intersection of discussions surrounding digitally mediated research methods and transnational research projects. It contributes to the current methodological debate surrounding online interviewing by focusing on tensions and affordances involved in Skype-to-phone interviewing in a transnational research context. While the Skype-to-phone facility does indeed increase further access to global participants, complex power hiera…
Social media among African students
Scholars are increasingly starting to engage in analysing non-use of social media among higher education students, but to date there lacks a framework within which to do so. Toward this end, this article identifies four key themes associated with not using social media to develop a typology of social media non-use. The themes are: 1) exclusion which may be owing to access problems or the social environment on social media; 2) distrust owing to di…
Women, science and identity
Interviews with female physical geographers show that although the significance of gender in influencing a woman's position and identity in physical geography is contested, gender still remains an important social relation that structures the personal relations, institutional practices and material outcomes of academic physical geography
Gender, development and identity
The snakes and ladders of research
The Snakes and Ladders of Research is a board game aimed at summarising and reinforcing the pitfalls and virtues of research design in undergraduate research projects. The game was used as part of a second‐year research design course, in which an attempt was made to transfer knowledge of good and bad research practices from a passive learning environment to an active one. When played with two undergraduate classes the game was well received and t…
Collected Food and Domestic Knowledge in the Gambia, West Africa
Two aspects of rural African life which have hitherto received little attention are women's domestic knowledge and collected food products. A Gambian case study reveals that both are important for household survival since it is through storage and preservation that women seasonally regulate the collected food supply in relation to cultivated food availability. While there is a lack of awareness by 'experts' of the nutritional role of collected fo…
The Adaptive Performance of West African Life
One key feature of rural African society concerns the dynamic flexibility of household livelihood strategies which Richards (1992) has conceptualised as an 'adaptive and continuous performance'. Adaptability is essential for rural African households are required to respond to environmental, social, political and economic changes both within and between years. This paper explores the adaptive performance surrounding collecting activities (gatherin…
More than books’
A problem‐solving exercise was used to develop transferable skills (time management, joint decision making, group work, task allocation and self‐assessment) through student exploration of university library materials. Emphasis was placed on materials useful for dissertation investigation. The exercise formed part of a second‐year research design course and the results are based on the responses of 65 undergraduates studying Human Geography. The s…
Public Parks and the Geography of Fear
This article investigates the geography of fear surrounding the use of public parks in Leicester city, Britain. Fear was a major deterrent limiting the use of parks, especially for women, the elderly and Asian and African‐Caribbean people. Certain fears were particularly important for specific groups: women were particularly fearful of sexual attack, the elderly of mugging and Asian and African‐Caribbean people of racial attack. Women and African…
Therapeutic landscapes of the Jola, The Gambia, West Africa
Feminist Research Methodologies and Student Projects in Geography
Although there has been an increasing number of articles on teaching and gender, there has been little discussion of the implications of feminist research methodologies for student projects. This paper aims to overcome this 'blind spot' through discussion of the pedagogic implications raised by the adoption of such methodologies in student projects: choice of topic, choice of research methods, emancipatory role of the project, dilemmas experience…
Women, gender, feminisms
Women, science and identity
Interviews with female physical geographers show that although the significance of gender in influencing a woman's position and identity in physical geography is contested, gender still remains an important social relation that structures the personal relations, institutional practices and material outcomes of academic physical geography
Cyber-Mothers
The potential of the Internet as a valuable methodological tool for social science research is increasingly being recognised. This paper contributes to the debate surrounding virtual synchronous interviews and the value of online research. Specifically it introduces the use of a software conferencing technique - Hotline Connect - and discusses the implications of using the technique for Internet- based research. In particular issues of interview …
On‐line with e‐mums
This paper contributes to the emerging debate about the value of on‐line research. Drawing on the experience of an Internet‐based Cyberparents project, it explores the possibilities and limitations of web‐based questionnaire surveys and on‐line synchronous interviews. It discusses some of the implications of conducting research in the virtual arena, with particular emphasis on sampling, on‐line interactions and computer‐mediated conversations. Al…
Online methods in geography educational research
Geographers are fully engaged in the debate surrounding the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICT) and there has been a proliferation of research on the impact of ICT on geo
My mum's thirty years out of date
It is now widely recognized that the use of the Internet as a source of self-help and support, particularly for health-related matters, is increasing. The recent growth in the number of websites aimed specifically at parents suggests that this group are increasingly accessing the Internet to seek information and advice not only for themselves but also for their children's health and well-being. This paper presents findings from the Cyberparents r…
Working a fraction and making a fraction work
Little is known about the issues facing geographers working on fractional appointments in higher education institutions in the UK. This paper draws on a survey of UK geography departments and personal experiences to explore some of that territory for the first time. The purpose is both to set the agenda for institutional policy issues and to provide some immediate points of reflection for staff intending to take up fractional work. We consider th…
Mothers in the making? Exploring liminality in cyber/space
This paper makes a case for cyberspace and geographical space coexisting simultaneously as an interconnected dyadic cyber/space combining the virtually real and the actually real. Based on empirical evidence from a study examining the role of the Internet in the life of new mothers, we investigate the simultaneity of online/onsite experiences through an exploration of cyberspace as a performative liminal space, one where the women 'tried out' dif…
Towards a method for postcolonial development geography? Possibilities and challenges
In this paper we explore the contours of a ‘method’ for postcolonial development geography, which makes it possible to imagine another ‘world‐picturing’. We suggest three steps towards such a method. First, we propose that a postcolonial method involves thinking about why we are doing research in the south in the first place; how we come to and produce our questions; and how we analyze and represent our findings based on our subject positionings.…
Parenting gone wired
This is the authors' final draft of the paper published as Social and Cultural Geography, 2006, 7(2), pp.199-220. The definitive version is available from www.informaworld.com, via DOI: 10.1080/14649360600600528
Developing a geographers' agenda for online research ethics
This paper explores and advances the debate surrounding online research ethics. The use of internet-mediated research using online research methods has increased significantly in recent years raising the issue of online research ethics. Obviously, many ethical issues of onsite research are directly translatable to the online context, but there is also a need for existing ethical principles to be examined in the light of these new virtual research…
Engaged pedagogy and responsibility
Rethinking responsibility and care for a postcolonial world
Geography is Pregnant' and 'Geography's Milk is Flowing
This paper attempts to mobilise the metaphors of pregnancy and lactation to address the imperatives arising from British academic geography's postcolonial position. We embed our argument in our readings of extracts from two consciously postcolonial fictional texts. In the first part of the paper we consider geography as a discipline that is pregnant but 'in trouble' to illustrate the paradoxical struggle of the discipline to be a global disciplin…
Facebook , social integration and informal learning at university
Whilst recent studies suggest that over 95% of British undergraduate students are regularly using social networking sites, we still know very little about how this phenomenon impacts on the student experience and, in particular, how it influences students’ social integration into university life. This paper explores how pre‐registration engagement with a university Facebook network influences students’ post‐registration social networks. Research …
Unsettling responsibility
This paper contributes to debates about geographies of responsibility. In contrast to much of the previous literature in this field, which has concentrated on teasing out the intimate interconnections between different people, places and spaces, in this paper we highlight the limits to such connections, focusing on more unsettled versions of responsibility. Our critique draws on postcolonial readings to highlight two limitations of responsibility…
Now let me share this with you”
In this article we attempt to “seize back the creative initiative” to uncover whether poetry might be a useful postcolonial research method. In exploring the possibilities and limitations of poetry as a means of re‐representing and interpreting data collected through in‐depth qualitative interviews, our conclusions are ambivalent: we are attracted to poetry but troubled by it too. For instance, poetry does hold promise through its ability to imag…
Sociology (28 works) · Political science (19 works) · Social science (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Geography (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (7 works) · Geography Education and Pedagogy (7 works) · Law (7 works)