Jonathan Wylie
Biographic Data
| ID | 117257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Wylie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wylie |
| SIGNATURE | WYLIE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3318-3002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1610 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Professor Peter Haggett (1933-2025)
Short AbstractThis is an obituary of the geographer Peter Haggett (1933-2025), written by colleagues at the University of Bristol
Landscape and phenomenology
What is the nature of the relationship between landscape and phenomenology? Phenomenology is a branch of continental philosophy which aims to elucidate and express the meaning and nature of things in the world – of phenomena – through a focus upon human lived experience, perception, sensation and understanding. One element of this aim involves developing an account of culture-nature relations that is radically different from an orthodox scientifi…
Eye‐opener: Drawing landscape near and far
This paper is about learning to see the world anew – but also about doubting and qualifying that newness. Drawing on a practice‐led art–geography collaboration, in which en plein air painting and drawing was the primary medium, it aims to further extend understandings of the affective spatialities of landscape. The paper offers a sequence of extended reflections on the phenomenologies and materialities of the perceptual experience of landscape dr…
Forward cultural geographies
In this brief editorial, we chart the past and future of the journal cultural geographies as we launch our 25th volume. On a daring course, we seek to publish the most creative cultural work, and here suggest what that may include
Prior history of testing for syphilis, hepatitis B and hepatitis C among a population-based cohort of HIV-positive individuals and their HIV-negative controls
Understanding patterns of serological testing for hepatitis B & C, and syphilis among HIV-positive individuals, prior to HIV diagnosis, can inform HIV diagnosis, engagement and prevention strategies. This was a population-based, retrospective analysis of prior serological testing among HIV-positive individuals in Manitoba, Canada. HIV cases were age-, sex- and region-matched to HIV-negative controls at a 1:5 ratio. Conditional logistic regression…
Timely geographies: ‘New directions in cultural geography’ revisited
In this commentary I focus on the timing and timeliness of Cosgrove and Jackson's ( ) ‘New directions’ piece (Area, 19, 95–101). The discussion is structured in two parts. First, I consider the coincidence (or not) between the emergence of new cultural geography and the establishment of official measurements of research quality in UK Higher Education – an issue flagged for me by the contents of the Area issue in which ‘New directions’ appears. Se…
A landscape cannot be a homeland
What is the problem for which landscape is the answer? In this paper, I offer a response to this question, first posed at a meeting of landscape researchers in Brussels in 2011. I argue that the problem can be defined as ontopology, or what I call here homeland thinking, and I propose that a landscape cannot be a homeland. The salience of landscape as a critical term instead involves modes of thinking and feeling that chafe against invocations of…
Livres reçus
Youth Perspectives on Sexual Health Workshops: Informing Future Practice
Newcomer and street-involved youth provided their perspective on the design and content of a sexual education workshop. Following the workshop, focus group discussions were held with 80 youth from four youth-serving agencies. Youth expressed increased levels of confidence and empowerment, consistent with recent criticism that a focus on specific behaviors as intervention outcome measures may miss important psychosocial changes in participants. So…
A Social Network–Informed Latent Class Analysis of Patterns of Substance Use, Sexual Behavior, and Mental Health: Social Network Study III, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Objectives. We assessed whether a meaningful set of latent risk profiles could be identified in an inner-city population through individual and network characteristics of substance use, sexual behaviors, and mental health status. Methods. Data came from 600 participants in Social Network Study III, conducted in 2009 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We used latent class analysis (LCA) to identify risk profiles and, with covariates, to identify predi…
Persistent Memories: Pyramiden – A Soviet Mining Town in the High Arctic
Dwelling and displacement: Tim Robinson and the questions of landscape
A study of the work of the writer Tim Robinson, this paper also presents a series of wider arguments regarding concepts of landscape, dwelling and writing. English-born, but resident in the far west of Ireland for nearly 40 years, Tim Robinson is the author of a series of increasingly féted books about the Aran Islands and Connemara. Erudite and dense, these texts present the Aran and Connemara landscape to the reader via a heady mix of cultural …
Cultural geographies of the future, or looking rosy and feeling blue
Shifting grounds: A response to Mitch Rose
Landscape, absence and the geographies of love
Working out from an encounter with a series of memorial benches at Mullion Cove, Cornwall, this paper develops an account of landscape in terms of absence and the non-coincidence of self and world. Arguing that recent work on the topics of landscape, embodiment, perception and material culture has tended to stress presence in various ways, I seek to explore instead here motifs of absence, distance, loss and haunting. The paper further attempts to…
On Geography and Materiality
In the context of human geography's encounter with the problematics that surround matter and materiality, this paper offers a principle that works towards a distinctive material imagination. This principle states that our image of matter should be multiplied, so that it can be attended to as taking place with the properties and capacities of any element or state. We elaborate this principle through three substantive discussions of materiality as …
Identifying Heterogeneity Among Injection Drug Users: A Cluster Analysis Approach
Objectives. We used cluster analysis to subdivide a population of injection drug users and identify previously unknown behavioral heterogeneity within that population. Methods. We applied cluster analysis techniques to data collected in a cross-sectional survey of injection drug users in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The clustering variables we used were based on receptive syringe sharing, ethnicity, and types of drugs injected. Results. Seven clusters wer…
Landscape, mobility, practice
This paper is an edited transcript of a panel discussion on 'Landscape, Mobility and Practice' which was held at the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference in September 2006. In the paper the panel engage with the work of geographers and others who have been drawing upon theories of practice to explore issues of mobility and how we encounter, apprehend, inhabit and move through landscapes. The con…
Landscape
Landscape is a stimulating introduction to and contemporary understanding of one of the most important concepts within human geography. A series of different influential readings of landscape are debated and explored, and, for the first time, distinctive traditions of landscape writing are brought together and examined as a whole, in a forward-looking critical review of work by cultural geographers and others within the last twenty to thirty year…
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Necrotizing Chondritis Complicating High Helical Ear Piercing Case Report: Clinical and Public Health Perspectives
The spectral geographies of W.G. Sebald
For Jacques Derrida, place and self are conjured, and unsettled, through haunting rather than dwelling. He argues that spectrality, the revenance of the ghostly, is an irreducible, incessant condition, and also one that demands new, themselves haunted, ways of writing. This article uses Derrida's spectrality to introduce, engage with and activate the work of the German author and academic W.G. Sebald. Sebald, who died in 2001, was a remarkably or…
Poststructuralist Theories, Critical Methods and Experimentation
Demographic, risk behaviour and personal network variables associated with prevalent hepatitis C, hepatitis B, and HIV infection in injection drug users in Winnipeg, Canada
The findings suggest that consideration of both respondent and personal network variables can assist in understanding the transmission patterns of HCV, HBV, and HIV. It is important to assess these effects for multiple pathogens within one setting as the associations identified and the direction of those associations can differ between pathogens
Incorporating geographic settings into a social network analysis of injection drug use and bloodborne pathogen prevalence
Animating Landscape
A single day's walking: Narrating self and landscape on the South West Coast Path
This paper tells the story of a single day's walking, alone, along the South West Coast Path in North Devon, England. Forms of narrative and descriptive writing are used here as creative and critical means of discussing the varied affinities and distanciations of self and landscape emergent within the affective and performative milieu of coastal walking. Discussion of these further enables critical engagement with current conceptualizations of se…
On Geography and Materiality
In the context of human geography's encounter with the problematics that surround matter and materiality, this paper offers a principle that works towards a distinctive material imagination. This principle states that our image of matter should be multiplied, so that it can be attended to as taking place with the properties and capacities of any element or state. We elaborate this principle through three substantive discussions of materiality as …
Landscape, absence and the geographies of love
Working out from an encounter with a series of memorial benches at Mullion Cove, Cornwall, this paper develops an account of landscape in terms of absence and the non-coincidence of self and world. Arguing that recent work on the topics of landscape, embodiment, perception and material culture has tended to stress presence in various ways, I seek to explore instead here motifs of absence, distance, loss and haunting. The paper further attempts to…
Enacting geographies
An essay on ascending Glastonbury Tor
Depths and Folds: On Landscape and the Gazing Subject
The aim of this paper is to take some steps towards a renewed understanding of landscape and the gazing subject. A first main section, 'Depth, outlines Merleau-Ponty's final visual philosophy and its attempts to replace a spectatorial conception of vision with an embodied ontology that accords transcendance to the depth of the visual world. A second section, 'fold', engages with Deleuze's rendition of Leibniz's philosophy as a means of both criti…
Animating Landscape
The spectral geographies of W.G. Sebald
For Jacques Derrida, place and self are conjured, and unsettled, through haunting rather than dwelling. He argues that spectrality, the revenance of the ghostly, is an irreducible, incessant condition, and also one that demands new, themselves haunted, ways of writing. This article uses Derrida's spectrality to introduce, engage with and activate the work of the German author and academic W.G. Sebald. Sebald, who died in 2001, was a remarkably or…
Landscape, mobility, practice
This paper is an edited transcript of a panel discussion on 'Landscape, Mobility and Practice' which was held at the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference in September 2006. In the paper the panel engage with the work of geographers and others who have been drawing upon theories of practice to explore issues of mobility and how we encounter, apprehend, inhabit and move through landscapes. The con…
Becoming-icy: Scott and Amundsen's South Polar voyages, 1910-1913
This paper presents a critical narration of the South Polar voyages of Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott. The argument which guides this narration is that it is through embodied, material practices - through relations of becoming anterior to a duality of discourse and world - that distinctive subjectivities and landscapes are produced. Within this conceptual frame, the paper focuses upon the differences between the expeditions led by Scott a…
Cultural geographies of the future, or looking rosy and feeling blue
A landscape cannot be a homeland
What is the problem for which landscape is the answer? In this paper, I offer a response to this question, first posed at a meeting of landscape researchers in Brussels in 2011. I argue that the problem can be defined as ontopology, or what I call here homeland thinking, and I propose that a landscape cannot be a homeland. The salience of landscape as a critical term instead involves modes of thinking and feeling that chafe against invocations of…
Dwelling and displacement: Tim Robinson and the questions of landscape
A study of the work of the writer Tim Robinson, this paper also presents a series of wider arguments regarding concepts of landscape, dwelling and writing. English-born, but resident in the far west of Ireland for nearly 40 years, Tim Robinson is the author of a series of increasingly féted books about the Aran Islands and Connemara. Erudite and dense, these texts present the Aran and Connemara landscape to the reader via a heady mix of cultural …
Cultural Geographies in Practice: Smoothlands: fragments/landscapes/fragments
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Eye‐opener: Drawing landscape near and far
This paper is about learning to see the world anew – but also about doubting and qualifying that newness. Drawing on a practice‐led art–geography collaboration, in which en plein air painting and drawing was the primary medium, it aims to further extend understandings of the affective spatialities of landscape. The paper offers a sequence of extended reflections on the phenomenologies and materialities of the perceptual experience of landscape dr…
New and Old Worlds: The Tempest and early colonial discourse
Although geographers have begun to critically re-examine the historical imbrication of their discipline within eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial discourses and practices, few studies have focused specifically upon the many complex interconnections between colonial and geographical discourses during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In this paper I attempt to address this deficit via a reading of one of Shakespeare's final p…
Incorporating geographic settings into a social network analysis of injection drug use and bloodborne pathogen prevalence
The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History
The Sense of Time, the Social Construction of Reality, and the Foundations of Nationhood in Dominica and the Faroe Islands
Dominica is the northernmost of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. Its capital is Roseau. The official language is English, but for most of the island's predominantly Negro population of about 80,000 the language of everyday life is a French-based Creole called patois. Dominica was granted full independence from Britain on 3 November 1978. From November 1977 to December 1978, I lived there in a fishing village called Casse. Casse has ab…
Counterfeiting Nature: Artistic Innovation and Cultural Crisis in Renaissance Venice
Venice faced serious political and economic setbacks in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The future of the Eternal Republic seemed bleak when, in 1509, nearly bankrupt, her commercial empire in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean slipping away, Venice's army was routed at Agnadello by the forces of the League of Cambrai. Even the elements seemed to have turned against Venice around this time, visiting the city with earthquak…
The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History
Forward cultural geographies
In this brief editorial, we chart the past and future of the journal cultural geographies as we launch our 25th volume. On a daring course, we seek to publish the most creative cultural work, and here suggest what that may include
Youth Perspectives on Sexual Health Workshops: Informing Future Practice
Newcomer and street-involved youth provided their perspective on the design and content of a sexual education workshop. Following the workshop, focus group discussions were held with 80 youth from four youth-serving agencies. Youth expressed increased levels of confidence and empowerment, consistent with recent criticism that a focus on specific behaviors as intervention outcome measures may miss important psychosocial changes in participants. So…
Shifting grounds: A response to Mitch Rose
The subject of landscape: A brief reply to Mark Blacksell
Asterix Ethnologue: Anthropology Beyond the Community in Europe
The ring of dancers: Images of Faroese culture
The Sense of Time, the Social Construction of Reality, and the Foundations of Nationhood in Dominica and the Faroe Islands
Dominica is the northernmost of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. Its capital is Roseau. The official language is English, but for most of the island's predominantly Negro population of about 80,000 the language of everyday life is a French-based Creole called patois. Dominica was granted full independence from Britain on 3 November 1978. From November 1977 to December 1978, I lived there in a fishing village called Casse. Casse has ab…
The Ring of Dancers: Images of Faroese Culture
The Ring of Dancers: Images of Faroese Culture
The Ring of Dancers: Images of Faroese Culture
Ólavsøka: The faroese national holiday
The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History
The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History
The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History
The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History
Counterfeiting Nature: Artistic Innovation and Cultural Crisis in Renaissance Venice
Venice faced serious political and economic setbacks in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The future of the Eternal Republic seemed bleak when, in 1509, nearly bankrupt, her commercial empire in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean slipping away, Venice's army was routed at Agnadello by the forces of the League of Cambrai. Even the elements seemed to have turned against Venice around this time, visiting the city with earthquak…
Too Much of a Good Thing: Crises of Glut in the Faroe Islands and Dominica
The question to which this essay is addressed struck me when, having done ethnographic field work in the Faroe Islands, I undertook another stint on Dominica, at the opposite corner of the North Atlantic.1In the Faroes, I took part in a couple of slaughters of herds of pilot whales. Thegrindadrápis dramatic, but apart from the inevitable tumult of the slaughter itself, in which romantically inclined observers have been pleased (or horrified) to f…
Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages
The Origins of Lesser Antillean French Creole: Some Literary and Lexical Evidence
A survey of literary and lexical evidence — early French descriptions of Martinique and its neighboring islands, and the etymologies of modern Dominican names for fish and parts of dugout canoes — suggests that Lesser Antillean French Creole did not take shape until the first decades of the 18th century, some 70 years after French colonization got seriously underway in 1635. The language's progenitors included a Spanish-Carib-French pidgin used b…
Coastal Economies, Cultural Accounts: Human Ecology and Icelandic Discourse. GÍSLI PÁLSSON
Introducing Iceland
E. Paul Durrenberger. Icelandic Essays: Explorations in the Anthropology of Modern Life. Iowa City: Rudi Publishing, 1995. + 157 pp
What is Pastoral
New and Old Worlds: The Tempest and early colonial discourse
Although geographers have begun to critically re-examine the historical imbrication of their discipline within eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial discourses and practices, few studies have focused specifically upon the many complex interconnections between colonial and geographical discourses during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In this paper I attempt to address this deficit via a reading of one of Shakespeare's final p…
Enacting geographies
An essay on ascending Glastonbury Tor
Becoming-icy: Scott and Amundsen's South Polar voyages, 1910-1913
This paper presents a critical narration of the South Polar voyages of Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott. The argument which guides this narration is that it is through embodied, material practices - through relations of becoming anterior to a duality of discourse and world - that distinctive subjectivities and landscapes are produced. Within this conceptual frame, the paper focuses upon the differences between the expeditions led by Scott a…
The subject of landscape: A brief reply to Mark Blacksell
A single day's walking: Narrating self and landscape on the South West Coast Path
This paper tells the story of a single day's walking, alone, along the South West Coast Path in North Devon, England. Forms of narrative and descriptive writing are used here as creative and critical means of discussing the varied affinities and distanciations of self and landscape emergent within the affective and performative milieu of coastal walking. Discussion of these further enables critical engagement with current conceptualizations of se…
Poststructuralist Theories, Critical Methods and Experimentation
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