Alison Blunt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 643865 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alison Blunt |
| NOMBRES | Alison |
| APELLIDO | Blunt |
| FIRMA | BLUNT A |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7820-5204 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1007 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Pandemic Geographies of Home
With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. Whilst pre‐pandemic research stressed the porosity of domestic thresholds and the capacity of home to stretch beyond domestic space, ‘stay home’ directives and lockdown restrictions demarcated home as a place of containment, separation and immobility…
Civic geographies
This commentary introduces civic geographies as a theme in Area , where papers can be collected, allowing a space for discussion at a time when the civic university agenda has become a priority for the sector. It calls for the discipline to share and debate ideas about civic geographies, showcase civic geographical research and teaching, and create a community of practice to develop approaches to engagement and social responsibility
Tales from other people's houses
This paper explores what it means to live together in the city through a focus on home and urban public space in East London. It develops a conceptual framework for understanding home as a site of dis/connection - both connected to and disconnected from - the wider estate, street, neighbourhood and city. Drawing on a series of home-city biographies with residents living on different housing estates, we explore what makes a city 'liveable' for its…
Home
Home and Empire
In this chapter, the author examines photographs of British families in the Lucknow Album to explore representations of imperial domesticity before its violent disruption. The content, purpose and circulation of these photographs reveal connections between domesticity and imperialism not only within Lucknow, but also between India and Britain. The author explores the ambivalent position of Ahmad Ali Khan as the photographer of pre-‘mutiny’ life i…
The “living of time”
This paper explores the entanglements between urban and domestic temporalities in order to understand what it means to live in the city. The “living of time” encompasses the temporalities of urban dwelling at home and in relation to the wider estate, street, neighbourhood, and city and reveals how residents adapt to, negotiate, and at times resist processes of change and continuity at home and in the city
Globe's encounters and the art of rolling
This article explores the multiple and multifarious encounters of and with Globe, a 1-metre-diameter copper spherical sculpture hosting four cameras that has been rolled by the artist Janetka Platun and others in London, Shrewsbury and Delhi. Situating Globe in relation to Janetka's art practice and the wider 'art of rolling', and extending broader debates about globality, encounter and relational aesthetics, the article argues that Globe's journ…
Home-city geographies
Developing an agenda to conceptualise the connections between the domestic and the urban, this paper focuses on urban domesticities (homemaking in the city), domestic urbanism (the city as home) and the home-city geographies that connect them. Home-city geographies examine the interplay between lived experiences of urban homes and the contested domestication of urban space. Reflecting the ways in which urban homes and the ability to feel at home …
Home
From homemaking practices on a domestic scale to broader ideas about belonging, privacy, and security, the home is a rich and diverse subject for geographical research. While humanistic geographers celebrate home at the center of human life, feminist geographers have foregrounded the home as a site of power relations and inequalities, and have explored the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality in shaping lived experiences and normat…
Dissident Geographies
Dissident Geographies is an accessible and lively exploration of radical perspectives in human geography. The perspectives examined in the book reveal and resist certain power relations that have constituted geographical knowledge. The book has two main aims. First, rather than reify 'the' geographical tradition, Dissident Geographies introduces a number of geographical traditions that challenge and destabilize what counts as geographical knowled…
Cultural Geography in Practice
Part 1: Writing Cultural Geography Chapter 1 Knowledge is Power: Using Archival REsearch to interpret State Formulation Chapter 2: The View from the Streets: Geographies of Homelessness in the British Newspaper Press Chapter 3: Secondary Worlds: Reading Novels as Geographical Research Chapter 4: Researching Bodies in Virtual Space Part 2: Living Cultural Geography Chapter 5: Home and Identity: Life Stories in Text and in Person Chapter 6: Gender …
Domestic Practice in the Past
Home, city and diaspora
This article is about the city as home for people living in diaspora. We develop two key areas of debate. First, in contrast to research that explores diasporic homes in relation to domestic homemaking and/or the nation as home or 'homeland', we consider the city as home in diaspora. Second, building on research on transnational urbanism, translocality and the importance of the 'city scale' in migration studies, we argue that the city is a distin…
South Asian cities and diasporas
This special issue aims to foreground the city within diaspora studies and, in particular, within research on South Asian diasporas. Drawing together papers that focus on cities of diasporic depart
Diasporic returns to the city
Whilst the city is a central focus of research on diasporic resettlement, little research has explored the city as a site of diasporic return. This paper explores return visits to Calcutta by members of the Anglo-Indian and Jewish communities who have migrated to London, Toronto and Israel since 1947. In doing so, the paper contributes to broader debates about return visits and migrations as well as the connections between cities, communities and…
Complex locations
The future of research monographs
This Forum makes four points. First, it expands our knowledge on the writing and publishing of research monographs in different countries and so it moves beyond accounts which generalize from the UK experience. Second, the Forum considers international differences in the ways in which the assessment of academic performances affects the writing and publishing of geography research monographs. Third, it considers the ways in which structural change…
The 'Skyscraper Settlement
The author develops a house biography of Christodora House, New York City, to investigate the relationships between the built form of a settlement house and new forms of residence within it. Settlement houses were founded from the 1880s as centres of neighbourhood welfare and social work, and housed resident workers in the poorest parts of cities. Founded in 1897, Christodora House occupied a purpose-built 'skyscraper' on Tompkins Square from 192…
Cultural geographies of migration
As part of my last report on cultural geographies of home I addressed recent research on transnational geographies of home and family life for domestic and other migrant workers. Building on this my current report concentrates on recent cultural geographical research on migration in relation to broader debates about mobility transnationality and diaspora. I begin by tracing some of the connections between cultural geographies of migration and wha…
My Home
Home
‘Home’ is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social relations and has wide symbolic and ideological meanings; home can be feelings of belonging or of alienation; feelings of home can be stretched across the world, connected to a nation or attached to a house; the spaces and imaginaries of home are central to the construction of people’s identities. An …
Domicile and Diaspora
Cultural geography
Geographies of home
Geographies of diaspora and mixed descent
This paper explores geographies of diaspora for Anglo‐Indians (formerly known as ‘Eurasians’) through a focus on their ‘homing desire’ in two diaspora spaces: firstly, an imperial diaspora in British India, and secondly, a decolonised diaspora in Britain after independence in 1947. Before independence, although Anglo‐Indians were ‘country‐born’ and domiciled in India, many imagined Britain as home and identified with British life in India even th…
Geographies of home
Cultural geography
Writing women and space
Cultural geographies of migration
As part of my last report on cultural geographies of home I addressed recent research on transnational geographies of home and family life for domestic and other migrant workers. Building on this my current report concentrates on recent cultural geographical research on migration in relation to broader debates about mobility transnationality and diaspora. I begin by tracing some of the connections between cultural geographies of migration and wha…
Collective Memory and Productive Nostalgia
Memory and nostalgia have attracted an increasing amount of critical interest in recent years. Whereas sites of memory often invoke, but also extend far beyond, spaces of home, nostalgia invokes home in its very meaning. And yet, whereas spatial narratives explore the sites and landscapes of memory, nostalgia is usually described in temporal terms rather than in spatial terms and is understood as a wider "desire for desire" [Stewart S, 1993 On Lo…
Imperial Geographies of Home
This paper considers the translation of domestic discourses over imperial space as middle‐class British women established homes in India from 1886 to 1925. Unlike studies of imperial domesticity that delineate separate spheres of home and empire, I consider the exercise of imperial power on a domestic scale, by examining advice given in household guides on managing servants and raising British children in India. Rather than view the household mer…
Home-city geographies
Developing an agenda to conceptualise the connections between the domestic and the urban, this paper focuses on urban domesticities (homemaking in the city), domestic urbanism (the city as home) and the home-city geographies that connect them. Home-city geographies examine the interplay between lived experiences of urban homes and the contested domestication of urban space. Reflecting the ways in which urban homes and the ability to feel at home …
The “living of time”
This paper explores the entanglements between urban and domestic temporalities in order to understand what it means to live in the city. The “living of time” encompasses the temporalities of urban dwelling at home and in relation to the wider estate, street, neighbourhood, and city and reveals how residents adapt to, negotiate, and at times resist processes of change and continuity at home and in the city
Home, city and diaspora
This article is about the city as home for people living in diaspora. We develop two key areas of debate. First, in contrast to research that explores diasporic homes in relation to domestic homemaking and/or the nation as home or 'homeland', we consider the city as home in diaspora. Second, building on research on transnational urbanism, translocality and the importance of the 'city scale' in migration studies, we argue that the city is a distin…
Embodying war
The 'Skyscraper Settlement
The author develops a house biography of Christodora House, New York City, to investigate the relationships between the built form of a settlement house and new forms of residence within it. Settlement houses were founded from the 1880s as centres of neighbourhood welfare and social work, and housed resident workers in the poorest parts of cities. Founded in 1897, Christodora House occupied a purpose-built 'skyscraper' on Tompkins Square from 192…
Spatial Stories under Siege
The 5-month siege of the Lucknow Residency was one of the most significant conflicts of the Indian uprising in 1857-58. This article examines the diaries written by six British women during the siege, all of which were subsequently published. These diaries describe daily domestic life under siege and tell spatial stories of an imperial crisis on a domestic scale. Domestic and imperial disorder were intimately connected within the spatial confinem…
My Home
Tales from other people's houses
This paper explores what it means to live together in the city through a focus on home and urban public space in East London. It develops a conceptual framework for understanding home as a site of dis/connection - both connected to and disconnected from - the wider estate, street, neighbourhood and city. Drawing on a series of home-city biographies with residents living on different housing estates, we explore what makes a city 'liveable' for its…
Geographies of diaspora and mixed descent
This paper explores geographies of diaspora for Anglo‐Indians (formerly known as ‘Eurasians’) through a focus on their ‘homing desire’ in two diaspora spaces: firstly, an imperial diaspora in British India, and secondly, a decolonised diaspora in Britain after independence in 1947. Before independence, although Anglo‐Indians were ‘country‐born’ and domiciled in India, many imagined Britain as home and identified with British life in India even th…
Globe's encounters and the art of rolling
This article explores the multiple and multifarious encounters of and with Globe, a 1-metre-diameter copper spherical sculpture hosting four cameras that has been rolled by the artist Janetka Platun and others in London, Shrewsbury and Delhi. Situating Globe in relation to Janetka's art practice and the wider 'art of rolling', and extending broader debates about globality, encounter and relational aesthetics, the article argues that Globe's journ…
Land of our Mothers
This paper explores the symbolic and material intersections of home, identity and nationality for Anglo‐Indians (previously known as ‘Eurasians’) in the period between the Montague Chelmsford Reforms and Indian Independence. Community claims for a legitimate heritage were articulated through images of Britain as fatherland and India as motherland, and were closely tied to political attempts to gain a legitimate stake in national life. The paper e…
The future of research monographs
This Forum makes four points. First, it expands our knowledge on the writing and publishing of research monographs in different countries and so it moves beyond accounts which generalize from the UK experience. Second, the Forum considers international differences in the ways in which the assessment of academic performances affects the writing and publishing of geography research monographs. Third, it considers the ways in which structural change…
Domestic Practice in the Past
Writing Women and Space
Travel, Gender, and Imperialism
Complex locations
Decolonizing feminisms
Writing women and space
Decolonizing feminisms
Writing Women and Space
A feminist examination of questions regarding mapping space and difference; the intersection of race with class and gender; complicity and/or resistance to hegemony; and strategies of critique and disruption
Travel, Gender, and Imperialism
Writing Women and Space
Imperial Geographies of Home
This paper considers the translation of domestic discourses over imperial space as middle‐class British women established homes in India from 1886 to 1925. Unlike studies of imperial domesticity that delineate separate spheres of home and empire, I consider the exercise of imperial power on a domestic scale, by examining advice given in household guides on managing servants and raising British children in India. Rather than view the household mer…
Embodying war
Spatial Stories under Siege
The 5-month siege of the Lucknow Residency was one of the most significant conflicts of the Indian uprising in 1857-58. This article examines the diaries written by six British women during the siege, all of which were subsequently published. These diaries describe daily domestic life under siege and tell spatial stories of an imperial crisis on a domestic scale. Domestic and imperial disorder were intimately connected within the spatial confinem…
Land of our Mothers
This paper explores the symbolic and material intersections of home, identity and nationality for Anglo‐Indians (previously known as ‘Eurasians’) in the period between the Montague Chelmsford Reforms and Indian Independence. Community claims for a legitimate heritage were articulated through images of Britain as fatherland and India as motherland, and were closely tied to political attempts to gain a legitimate stake in national life. The paper e…
Geographies of diaspora and mixed descent
This paper explores geographies of diaspora for Anglo‐Indians (formerly known as ‘Eurasians’) through a focus on their ‘homing desire’ in two diaspora spaces: firstly, an imperial diaspora in British India, and secondly, a decolonised diaspora in Britain after independence in 1947. Before independence, although Anglo‐Indians were ‘country‐born’ and domiciled in India, many imagined Britain as home and identified with British life in India even th…
Collective Memory and Productive Nostalgia
Memory and nostalgia have attracted an increasing amount of critical interest in recent years. Whereas sites of memory often invoke, but also extend far beyond, spaces of home, nostalgia invokes home in its very meaning. And yet, whereas spatial narratives explore the sites and landscapes of memory, nostalgia is usually described in temporal terms rather than in spatial terms and is understood as a wider "desire for desire" [Stewart S, 1993 On Lo…
Geographies of home
Domicile and Diaspora
Cultural geography
Home
‘Home’ is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social relations and has wide symbolic and ideological meanings; home can be feelings of belonging or of alienation; feelings of home can be stretched across the world, connected to a nation or attached to a house; the spaces and imaginaries of home are central to the construction of people’s identities. An …
Cultural geographies of migration
As part of my last report on cultural geographies of home I addressed recent research on transnational geographies of home and family life for domestic and other migrant workers. Building on this my current report concentrates on recent cultural geographical research on migration in relation to broader debates about mobility transnationality and diaspora. I begin by tracing some of the connections between cultural geographies of migration and wha…
My Home
The 'Skyscraper Settlement
The author develops a house biography of Christodora House, New York City, to investigate the relationships between the built form of a settlement house and new forms of residence within it. Settlement houses were founded from the 1880s as centres of neighbourhood welfare and social work, and housed resident workers in the poorest parts of cities. Founded in 1897, Christodora House occupied a purpose-built 'skyscraper' on Tompkins Square from 192…
The future of research monographs
This Forum makes four points. First, it expands our knowledge on the writing and publishing of research monographs in different countries and so it moves beyond accounts which generalize from the UK experience. Second, the Forum considers international differences in the ways in which the assessment of academic performances affects the writing and publishing of geography research monographs. Third, it considers the ways in which structural change…
Complex locations
South Asian cities and diasporas
This special issue aims to foreground the city within diaspora studies and, in particular, within research on South Asian diasporas. Drawing together papers that focus on cities of diasporic depart
Diasporic returns to the city
Whilst the city is a central focus of research on diasporic resettlement, little research has explored the city as a site of diasporic return. This paper explores return visits to Calcutta by members of the Anglo-Indian and Jewish communities who have migrated to London, Toronto and Israel since 1947. In doing so, the paper contributes to broader debates about return visits and migrations as well as the connections between cities, communities and…
Home, city and diaspora
This article is about the city as home for people living in diaspora. We develop two key areas of debate. First, in contrast to research that explores diasporic homes in relation to domestic homemaking and/or the nation as home or 'homeland', we consider the city as home in diaspora. Second, building on research on transnational urbanism, translocality and the importance of the 'city scale' in migration studies, we argue that the city is a distin…
Cultural Geography in Practice
Part 1: Writing Cultural Geography Chapter 1 Knowledge is Power: Using Archival REsearch to interpret State Formulation Chapter 2: The View from the Streets: Geographies of Homelessness in the British Newspaper Press Chapter 3: Secondary Worlds: Reading Novels as Geographical Research Chapter 4: Researching Bodies in Virtual Space Part 2: Living Cultural Geography Chapter 5: Home and Identity: Life Stories in Text and in Person Chapter 6: Gender …
Domestic Practice in the Past
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