Peter Gilchrist
Biographic Data
| ID | 113279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Gilchrist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilchrist |
| SIGNATURE | GILCHRIST P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5149-2138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Youth and the materialities of the outdoors: Exploring Nature Connectivity Through Free Play in Hidden Green Spaces
Nature connection is considered beneficial for young people’s health and wellbeing and for developing pro-environmental behaviour, yet they display some of the lowest rates of access to nature spaces and levels of nature connectedness. Nature connection is often presented as synonymous with learning and formalised environmental education programmes represent the usual model for nature engagement interventions in youth. Evidence indicates, however…
Planning in the “LGBTQ Capital”: Choreographing Transgender In and Out of Policy
Greater consideration of transgender communities within planning has been called for from research highlighting their absence in policy and practice. However, there is little work that outlines how trans is considered within current planning practice. This article presents an empirical case study of how trans becomes articulated into city-level policy and practice in Brighton & Hove, the “LGBTQ capital” of England. A poststructural approach is us…
Clarifying street culture: Integrating a diversity of opinions and voices
Scholarly fields are meant to be dynamic to accommodate new information that is infused with old. One of these areas is the notion, subject, subfield and process of street culture. Despite the frequency of its usage in the social sciences, urban planning, and selected areas of the visual arts, rarely is the term street culture defined and when it is, the definitions are often conceptually lacking. This article synthesizes current ideas about the …
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Understanding and Treating SE-AN: Locating the Self in Culture
There has been a growing call for sociologically engaged research to better understand the complex processes underpinning Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa (SE-AN). Based on a qualitative study with women in Adelaide, South Australia who were reluctant to seek help for their disordered eating practices, this paper draws on anthropological concepts of embodiment to examine how SE-AN is experienced as culturally grounded. We argue that experienc…
Embodied Causes: Climbing, Charity, and ‘Celanthropy’
Women have played significant roles in the emergence of the charity climbing expedition. This study maps key selective historical developments in the evolution of humanitarian, philanthropic, and charitable works involving the climbing community from the 1960s to the present and the formation of the ‘climbing-charity-corporate-complex’. In this process some climbers have evolved into ‘celanthropists’, celebrity philanthropists as the sociologist …
Routledge Handbook of Street Culture
This chapter engages with a growing interest from urban sociology, criminology and critical legal studies with conviviality and negotiation in the shared use of public space. It reports on research that has investigated the flourishing and rapidly globalising parkour scene and highlights how a discourse of conviviality has been central to processes of legitimisation in the contest for an informal use of public space. The chapter throws an analyti…
Roses and castles: Competing Visions of Canal Heritage and the Making of Place
This article evaluates the cultural politics of waterfront heritage in regenerating Manchester, UK, in order to understand why the benefits envisaged for local communities have not been fully realised. Analysing a database of texts produced for an EU cultural heritage project (2015–2017) we find there is no lack of rich and diverse cultural heritage in Manchester, produced by a broad range of people. Using Lefebvre’s ideas about the social produc…
Positioning relapse and recovery through a cultural lens of desire: A South Australian case study of disordered eating
This article explores how desire operates in the daily lives of women with disordered eating. Based on qualitative findings from a South Australian study investigating why women with disordered eating are reluctant to seek help, we trace the multiple “tipping points” and triggers that are central to participants’ everyday experiences. Employing anthropological interpretations of desire, we argue that triggers are circulations of productive desire…
Sports
Sports geographies deal with the social and spatial dynamics and impacts of sport. Research and scholarship have engaged with many established areas of geographical investigation – landscape, place, environment, nature, colonialism and imperialism, nationalism, globalization – and have intersected with and catalyzed the study of sport in other fields.
The spaces and times of community farming
This paper uses a multiple case study approach to researching people's everyday lives and experiences of six community farms and gardens in diverse settings in China and England. We argue that collective understandings of community are bound up in everyday action in particular spaces and times. Successful community farms and gardens are those that are able to provide suitable spaces and times for these actions so that their members can enjoy mult…
Co-designing non-hierarchical community arts research: The collaborative stories spiral
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential and durability of arts practice as research through developing a new approach to arts research that challenges the conventional association between dominant constructions of community and dominant modes of research. Design/methodology/approach – A co-design approach, situated in arts practice, has been used to generate a conceptual framework that offers potential to open up the worki…
Healthy anorexia: The complexity of care in disordered eating
Special Section Introduction: The Political Sociologies of Sport
[No abstract]
The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment by Peter H. Hansen (review)
Reviewed by: The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment by Peter H. Hansen Paul Gilchrist The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment By Peter H. Hansen. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2013. The Summits of Modern Man explores “a particular strand of modernity in which modern man stands alone on the summit, autonomous from other men and dominant over nature” (2). The question of “w…
Gender and British Climbing Histories: Introduction
This article provides an overview to the special issue on 'Gender and British climbing histories', setting out core themes and issues discussed by authors in the issue
Mountains, Manliness and Post-war Recovery: C.E. Montague's ‘Action’
Cultural historians have vigorously debated the impact of the First World War in shaping male subjectivities and (heroic) masculinities. Victimhood, emotional survival and disablement have featured in recent scholarship as a means to shed light on the psycho-social products of war and how these have fed into new or reconstructed forms of male subjectivity and agency. This paper adds to this literature through a consideration of the place of mount…
Space hijacking and the anarcho-politics of leisure
Political scientists, social movement theorists and cultural geographers have made us aware of forms of micro-political resistance that have challenged the privatisation, corporatisation and securitisation of the city. An increasing tactical feature of such resistance has been the deployment of leisure practices and performances to challenge the dominant norms and ideologies governing the use of urban space. This paper focuses upon a case study o…
Property Ownership, Resource Use, and the 'Gift of Nature
Through a theoretical and empirical consideration of gift exchange we argue in this paper that those with legal interests in land have constructed property relations around a claim of reciprocity with nature. This has been used to legitimate the ways in which they have deployed their property power to exclude others, thus seeking to retain their dominion over both humans and nonhumans. In so doing, however, people with such interests have failed …
Beyond the Brink: Beachy Head as a Climbing Landscape
This article closely interrogates the cultural meanings and embodied history of climbing Beachy Head on the south coast of England. The history is traced through the escapades and accounts of leading protagonists, such as Edward Whymper and the famed occultist and mystic Aleister Crowley. The article contends that Beachy Head offers an enduring topography of mortal terror which can be seen through Romantic depictions of the cliffs in art and lite…
Lifestyle sport, public policy and youth engagement: Examining the emergence of parkour
In this article we consider the development of parkour in the South of England and its use in public policy debates and initiatives around youth, physical activity and risk. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with participants and those involved in the development of parkour in education, sport policy and community-based partnerships, we explore the potential of parkour to engage communities, particularly those traditionally excluded from m…
Spaces of transgression: Governance, discipline and reworking the carnivalesque
In this essay we seek to engage with the emerging research agenda related to the analysis of deviant activities performed in times and spaces conventionally associated with leisure. Using a reading of Mikhail Bakhtin’s seminal work on the governmental structures informing medieval festivals, we suggest that much leisure research has misunderstood the role of deviance in the performance of social relations. Rather than the superficial commodificat…
The Emergent Working Society of Leisure
This paper explores a contemporary trend in the sociology of work and leisure which engages with classic leisure studies concerns about the nature of peoples' uses of time and their relationship to production and consumption. Utilizing data from qualitative research into the career biographies of creative industries workers in a small coastal town in England, we posit that we are witnessing an emerging working society of leisure. This involves a …
Power to the paddlers’? The internet, governance and discipline
This article explores the role of the internet in the processes of organisation and mobilisation of a sporting subculture in asserting rights to enjoy the countryside for recreational purposes. It reports upon findings from a qualitative survey of chat room posts surrounding claims made by canoeists for better access to inland waterways in England and Wales. Informed by a reworking of the gift relationship, the findings question claims about the …
Reality TV on the Rock Face – Climbing the Old Man of Hoy
In July 1967, 15 million people were glued to their TV sets to watch one of the most audacious BBC outside broadcasts – the climbing of the Old Man of Hoy. A 450-foot crumbling sea stack situated in the Orkneys was conquered by six climbers in a broadcast that has been dubbed the first ‘reality television’ programme. It connected an armchair audience with the elite of a sport subculture intent on conquering one of Britain's most spectacular geolo…
Negotiating Recreational Access Under Asymmetrical Power Relations: The Case of Inland Waterways in England
This article addresses recreational conflict between anglers and boaters in England. While recognizing that interpersonal conflicts between individual anglers and boaters exist much as they do in other countries, the article argues that the position in England is mediated through complex land and property rights that position the stakeholders asymmetrically, as legal rights holders (anglers) and moral rights claimants (boaters). Under this scenar…
Healthy anorexia: The complexity of care in disordered eating
Spaces of transgression: Governance, discipline and reworking the carnivalesque
In this essay we seek to engage with the emerging research agenda related to the analysis of deviant activities performed in times and spaces conventionally associated with leisure. Using a reading of Mikhail Bakhtin’s seminal work on the governmental structures informing medieval festivals, we suggest that much leisure research has misunderstood the role of deviance in the performance of social relations. Rather than the superficial commodificat…
Space hijacking and the anarcho-politics of leisure
Political scientists, social movement theorists and cultural geographers have made us aware of forms of micro-political resistance that have challenged the privatisation, corporatisation and securitisation of the city. An increasing tactical feature of such resistance has been the deployment of leisure practices and performances to challenge the dominant norms and ideologies governing the use of urban space. This paper focuses upon a case study o…
The Emergent Working Society of Leisure
This paper explores a contemporary trend in the sociology of work and leisure which engages with classic leisure studies concerns about the nature of peoples' uses of time and their relationship to production and consumption. Utilizing data from qualitative research into the career biographies of creative industries workers in a small coastal town in England, we posit that we are witnessing an emerging working society of leisure. This involves a …
Negotiating Recreational Access Under Asymmetrical Power Relations: The Case of Inland Waterways in England
This article addresses recreational conflict between anglers and boaters in England. While recognizing that interpersonal conflicts between individual anglers and boaters exist much as they do in other countries, the article argues that the position in England is mediated through complex land and property rights that position the stakeholders asymmetrically, as legal rights holders (anglers) and moral rights claimants (boaters). Under this scenar…
Co-designing non-hierarchical community arts research: The collaborative stories spiral
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential and durability of arts practice as research through developing a new approach to arts research that challenges the conventional association between dominant constructions of community and dominant modes of research. Design/methodology/approach – A co-design approach, situated in arts practice, has been used to generate a conceptual framework that offers potential to open up the worki…
Roses and castles: Competing Visions of Canal Heritage and the Making of Place
This article evaluates the cultural politics of waterfront heritage in regenerating Manchester, UK, in order to understand why the benefits envisaged for local communities have not been fully realised. Analysing a database of texts produced for an EU cultural heritage project (2015–2017) we find there is no lack of rich and diverse cultural heritage in Manchester, produced by a broad range of people. Using Lefebvre’s ideas about the social produc…
Property Ownership, Resource Use, and the 'Gift of Nature
Through a theoretical and empirical consideration of gift exchange we argue in this paper that those with legal interests in land have constructed property relations around a claim of reciprocity with nature. This has been used to legitimate the ways in which they have deployed their property power to exclude others, thus seeking to retain their dominion over both humans and nonhumans. In so doing, however, people with such interests have failed …
Motherhood, ambition and risk: Mediating the sporting hero/ine in Conservative Britain
In May 1995, a 33 year-old woman named Alison Hargreaves made her name by becoming the first woman (and second person) to make an unaided solo ascent of the world's highest mountain, Everest. She was constructed as an exemplar of the highest order, a national heroine to be proud of, and in the vein of a series of British female heroes who punctuate the typically masculine narrative of national achievement. By August she was dead, the victim of a …
Power to the paddlers’? The internet, governance and discipline
This article explores the role of the internet in the processes of organisation and mobilisation of a sporting subculture in asserting rights to enjoy the countryside for recreational purposes. It reports upon findings from a qualitative survey of chat room posts surrounding claims made by canoeists for better access to inland waterways in England and Wales. Informed by a reworking of the gift relationship, the findings question claims about the …
The spaces and times of community farming
This paper uses a multiple case study approach to researching people's everyday lives and experiences of six community farms and gardens in diverse settings in China and England. We argue that collective understandings of community are bound up in everyday action in particular spaces and times. Successful community farms and gardens are those that are able to provide suitable spaces and times for these actions so that their members can enjoy mult…
Special Section Introduction: The Political Sociologies of Sport
[No abstract]
Beyond the Brink: Beachy Head as a Climbing Landscape
This article closely interrogates the cultural meanings and embodied history of climbing Beachy Head on the south coast of England. The history is traced through the escapades and accounts of leading protagonists, such as Edward Whymper and the famed occultist and mystic Aleister Crowley. The article contends that Beachy Head offers an enduring topography of mortal terror which can be seen through Romantic depictions of the cliffs in art and lite…
Reality TV on the Rock Face – Climbing the Old Man of Hoy
In July 1967, 15 million people were glued to their TV sets to watch one of the most audacious BBC outside broadcasts – the climbing of the Old Man of Hoy. A 450-foot crumbling sea stack situated in the Orkneys was conquered by six climbers in a broadcast that has been dubbed the first ‘reality television’ programme. It connected an armchair audience with the elite of a sport subculture intent on conquering one of Britain's most spectacular geolo…
Assessment by Relatives of Elderly Patients with Psychiatric Illness
Participation of relatives to provide clinical information on psychiatric patients is frequently under-utilized resulting in valuable data being bypassed. In an attempt to formalise the gathering of data from relatives we used the Geriatric Evaluation by Relatives Rating Instrument (GERRI), a 49-statement questionnaire in which the relative rates the patient's behaviour in terms of frequency of occurrence, The information obtained from relatives …
Reality TV on the Rock Face – Climbing the Old Man of Hoy
In July 1967, 15 million people were glued to their TV sets to watch one of the most audacious BBC outside broadcasts – the climbing of the Old Man of Hoy. A 450-foot crumbling sea stack situated in the Orkneys was conquered by six climbers in a broadcast that has been dubbed the first ‘reality television’ programme. It connected an armchair audience with the elite of a sport subculture intent on conquering one of Britain's most spectacular geolo…
Negotiating Recreational Access Under Asymmetrical Power Relations: The Case of Inland Waterways in England
This article addresses recreational conflict between anglers and boaters in England. While recognizing that interpersonal conflicts between individual anglers and boaters exist much as they do in other countries, the article argues that the position in England is mediated through complex land and property rights that position the stakeholders asymmetrically, as legal rights holders (anglers) and moral rights claimants (boaters). Under this scenar…
Motherhood, ambition and risk: Mediating the sporting hero/ine in Conservative Britain
In May 1995, a 33 year-old woman named Alison Hargreaves made her name by becoming the first woman (and second person) to make an unaided solo ascent of the world's highest mountain, Everest. She was constructed as an exemplar of the highest order, a national heroine to be proud of, and in the vein of a series of British female heroes who punctuate the typically masculine narrative of national achievement. By August she was dead, the victim of a …
Power to the paddlers’? The internet, governance and discipline
This article explores the role of the internet in the processes of organisation and mobilisation of a sporting subculture in asserting rights to enjoy the countryside for recreational purposes. It reports upon findings from a qualitative survey of chat room posts surrounding claims made by canoeists for better access to inland waterways in England and Wales. Informed by a reworking of the gift relationship, the findings question claims about the …
Spaces of transgression: Governance, discipline and reworking the carnivalesque
In this essay we seek to engage with the emerging research agenda related to the analysis of deviant activities performed in times and spaces conventionally associated with leisure. Using a reading of Mikhail Bakhtin’s seminal work on the governmental structures informing medieval festivals, we suggest that much leisure research has misunderstood the role of deviance in the performance of social relations. Rather than the superficial commodificat…
The Emergent Working Society of Leisure
This paper explores a contemporary trend in the sociology of work and leisure which engages with classic leisure studies concerns about the nature of peoples' uses of time and their relationship to production and consumption. Utilizing data from qualitative research into the career biographies of creative industries workers in a small coastal town in England, we posit that we are witnessing an emerging working society of leisure. This involves a …
Lifestyle sport, public policy and youth engagement: Examining the emergence of parkour
In this article we consider the development of parkour in the South of England and its use in public policy debates and initiatives around youth, physical activity and risk. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with participants and those involved in the development of parkour in education, sport policy and community-based partnerships, we explore the potential of parkour to engage communities, particularly those traditionally excluded from m…
Beyond the Brink: Beachy Head as a Climbing Landscape
This article closely interrogates the cultural meanings and embodied history of climbing Beachy Head on the south coast of England. The history is traced through the escapades and accounts of leading protagonists, such as Edward Whymper and the famed occultist and mystic Aleister Crowley. The article contends that Beachy Head offers an enduring topography of mortal terror which can be seen through Romantic depictions of the cliffs in art and lite…
Gender and British Climbing Histories: Introduction
This article provides an overview to the special issue on 'Gender and British climbing histories', setting out core themes and issues discussed by authors in the issue
Mountains, Manliness and Post-war Recovery: C.E. Montague's ‘Action’
Cultural historians have vigorously debated the impact of the First World War in shaping male subjectivities and (heroic) masculinities. Victimhood, emotional survival and disablement have featured in recent scholarship as a means to shed light on the psycho-social products of war and how these have fed into new or reconstructed forms of male subjectivity and agency. This paper adds to this literature through a consideration of the place of mount…
Space hijacking and the anarcho-politics of leisure
Political scientists, social movement theorists and cultural geographers have made us aware of forms of micro-political resistance that have challenged the privatisation, corporatisation and securitisation of the city. An increasing tactical feature of such resistance has been the deployment of leisure practices and performances to challenge the dominant norms and ideologies governing the use of urban space. This paper focuses upon a case study o…
Property Ownership, Resource Use, and the 'Gift of Nature
Through a theoretical and empirical consideration of gift exchange we argue in this paper that those with legal interests in land have constructed property relations around a claim of reciprocity with nature. This has been used to legitimate the ways in which they have deployed their property power to exclude others, thus seeking to retain their dominion over both humans and nonhumans. In so doing, however, people with such interests have failed …
The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment by Peter H. Hansen (review)
Reviewed by: The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment by Peter H. Hansen Paul Gilchrist The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment By Peter H. Hansen. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2013. The Summits of Modern Man explores “a particular strand of modernity in which modern man stands alone on the summit, autonomous from other men and dominant over nature” (2). The question of “w…
Co-designing non-hierarchical community arts research: The collaborative stories spiral
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential and durability of arts practice as research through developing a new approach to arts research that challenges the conventional association between dominant constructions of community and dominant modes of research. Design/methodology/approach – A co-design approach, situated in arts practice, has been used to generate a conceptual framework that offers potential to open up the worki…
Healthy anorexia: The complexity of care in disordered eating
Special Section Introduction: The Political Sociologies of Sport
[No abstract]
The spaces and times of community farming
This paper uses a multiple case study approach to researching people's everyday lives and experiences of six community farms and gardens in diverse settings in China and England. We argue that collective understandings of community are bound up in everyday action in particular spaces and times. Successful community farms and gardens are those that are able to provide suitable spaces and times for these actions so that their members can enjoy mult…
Sports
Sports geographies deal with the social and spatial dynamics and impacts of sport. Research and scholarship have engaged with many established areas of geographical investigation – landscape, place, environment, nature, colonialism and imperialism, nationalism, globalization – and have intersected with and catalyzed the study of sport in other fields.
Positioning relapse and recovery through a cultural lens of desire: A South Australian case study of disordered eating
This article explores how desire operates in the daily lives of women with disordered eating. Based on qualitative findings from a South Australian study investigating why women with disordered eating are reluctant to seek help, we trace the multiple “tipping points” and triggers that are central to participants’ everyday experiences. Employing anthropological interpretations of desire, we argue that triggers are circulations of productive desire…
Clarifying street culture: Integrating a diversity of opinions and voices
Scholarly fields are meant to be dynamic to accommodate new information that is infused with old. One of these areas is the notion, subject, subfield and process of street culture. Despite the frequency of its usage in the social sciences, urban planning, and selected areas of the visual arts, rarely is the term street culture defined and when it is, the definitions are often conceptually lacking. This article synthesizes current ideas about the …
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Understanding and Treating SE-AN: Locating the Self in Culture
There has been a growing call for sociologically engaged research to better understand the complex processes underpinning Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa (SE-AN). Based on a qualitative study with women in Adelaide, South Australia who were reluctant to seek help for their disordered eating practices, this paper draws on anthropological concepts of embodiment to examine how SE-AN is experienced as culturally grounded. We argue that experienc…
Embodied Causes: Climbing, Charity, and ‘Celanthropy’
Women have played significant roles in the emergence of the charity climbing expedition. This study maps key selective historical developments in the evolution of humanitarian, philanthropic, and charitable works involving the climbing community from the 1960s to the present and the formation of the ‘climbing-charity-corporate-complex’. In this process some climbers have evolved into ‘celanthropists’, celebrity philanthropists as the sociologist …
Routledge Handbook of Street Culture
This chapter engages with a growing interest from urban sociology, criminology and critical legal studies with conviviality and negotiation in the shared use of public space. It reports on research that has investigated the flourishing and rapidly globalising parkour scene and highlights how a discourse of conviviality has been central to processes of legitimisation in the contest for an informal use of public space. The chapter throws an analyti…
Roses and castles: Competing Visions of Canal Heritage and the Making of Place
This article evaluates the cultural politics of waterfront heritage in regenerating Manchester, UK, in order to understand why the benefits envisaged for local communities have not been fully realised. Analysing a database of texts produced for an EU cultural heritage project (2015–2017) we find there is no lack of rich and diverse cultural heritage in Manchester, produced by a broad range of people. Using Lefebvre’s ideas about the social produc…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (9 works) · History (8 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)