Edward Wigley
Biographic Data
| ID | 122102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Wigley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Wigley |
| SIGNATURE | WIGLEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7429-2286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
When the lights (don’t) go out: Disrupting the hyperreal at the Basel Fasnacht in 2020
The folk that make the nation: The cultural associations of the wassail imagined in English news media from 1980 to 2024
Wassailing, the toasting to the good health of the orchard, has become a popular annual custom occurring each January and February over the last 20 years across the UK. As a ‘folk’ event, it has resisted commercialisation and is often organised at a community level thereby ensuring a locally contingent and diverse experience for those attending. The article explores the representation of these community events in local and national newspapers fro…
Between purity and pollution: Water, wudu and the sacred space of the 'pure' body
This paper draws attention to the time-spaces of preparation - such as wudu - as sites where the labour and creativity of constructing the sacred are practiced and their significant role in the construction of the individual's spirituality and expression. In this case, the site of the body and the contexts in which it is located is the focus for understanding how spiritual meaning is produced between the dualisms of purity and pollution, the sacr…
Why has this guy got his foot in the sink: Challenges, Encounters and Everyday Geographies of Practicing Wudu
Wudu, an ablution performed (often multiple times) daily which is integral to the spiritual lives of many, has been somewhat neglected from the analysis of the everyday experiences and geographies of Muslims. The lack of general and academic knowledge around this practice can lead to misunderstandings amongst non-Muslims which may reinforce negative attitudes towards the Muslim population. This paper draws on questionnaires and interviews with Mu…
Economic geographies of the illegal: The multiscalar production of cybercrime
Blue is for boys: Postfeminist continuations of gender, body and hue in UK magazines, 2009–2018
From 2009 to 2018, social attitudes towards gender in the UK and other western countries significantly shifted, with greater awareness of gender stereotyping and the objectification of women's bodies in the media due to popular social media campaigns. Arguably, postfeminism has provided a channel in which tropes traditionally critiqued by feminism, such as the objectification or stereotyping of the female body, are appropriated by consumption, an…
A place of magic: Enchanting Geographies of Contemporary Wassailing Practices
Orchard wassailing practices, along with other folk traditions have been overlooked by geographers. This paper considers how such practices can engineer spaces of enchantment in otherwise ‘disenchanted’ spaces. Furthermore, how this form of enchantment is never fixed but relational, unstable and contingent, or ‘borrowed’. Having nearly disappeared in the mid-20th century, wassailing has been ‘re-wakened’ for the contemporary world. A surprising f…
Do Autonomous Vehicles Dream of Virtual Sheep? The Displacement of Reality in the Hyperreal Visions of Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have received a great deal of attention in recent years, with many commentators asking how these vehicles will “see” to navigate themselves and, more important, avoid colliding with people, other vehicles, and objects. This article analyzes how AVs see and the data sets they create through Jean Baudrillard’s framework of simulation and simulacra, paying attention to how these technologies purify and classify the real int…
Who’s behind the wheel? Visioning the future users and urban contexts of connected and autonomous vehicle technologies
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are promised by their developers to transform mobilities, making travel accessible to all – including those unable to drive due to age, affordability or disability – and thereby widen the distribution of what Urry calls ‘network capital’. This paper interrogates promotional visualizations about CAVs as they imagine future automated mobilities and the scaling up of the technologies from small trials to mass…
Platform urbanism, smartphone applications and valuing data in a smart city
Recent scholarship on smart cities and platform urbanism has explored the very wide range of data harvested from urban environments by digital devices of many kinds, analysing how not only efficiencies but also profits are sought through the extraction, circulation, transformation, commodification, integration, and re‐use of data. Much of that data is generated by smartphone applications. This paper looks at the design of a group of eight smartph…
Wassail! Reinventing 'tradition' in contemporary wassailing customs in southern England
On a bleak winter’s Saturday evening, I find myself along with many others in the middle of a suburban park located in a small town in North Somerset, singing, shouting and toasting to an apple tree, otherwise known as ‘wassailing’. The practice of wassailing the orchards has become increasingly popular since the early 2000s with the custom being performed in community orchards, city farms and public gardens across the United Kingdom and beyond e…
A global sense of religious place: The production of religious and spiritual sites through local–global entanglements and global mobilities
Places of worship in the Christian tradition are often considered to retain fixed and static identities. However, circuits of globalization and global mobilities are increasingly present within such sites and drawn upon to construct new forms of place and geographies filtered through the individual church’s channels of mobilities. Following on from the new mobilities paradigm and relational approaches to ‘place’, this paper explores how the globa…
Everyday mobilities and the construction of subjective spiritual geographies in 'Non-places
Traditional geographic approaches depict sacred spaces, religion and spirituality as places of stillness and tranquillity, this paper challenges such fixity and instead uses the mobilities lens to analyse the dynamic and fluid nature of contemporary spirituality. It builds on recent work that draws on mobilities and geographies of religion by shifting focus away from the extraordinary journeys of pilgrimage to the ordinary, the mundane and everyd…
Constructing subjective spiritual geographies in everyday mobilities: The Practice of Prayer and Meditation in Corporeal Travel
This paper contributes to contemporary geographies of religion by exploring how everyday spaces of mobility and flows can be transformed through specific practices such as prayer and meditation that contribute to personal spirituality. The work challenges traditionally held assumptions that sacred space or codified religious spaces requires stillness and calmness by drawing on the New Mobilities Paradigm to explore how spiritual practices are con…
The Sunday morning journey to church considered as a form of 'micro-pilgrimage
Using mixed methods data, the social significance and narrative of local journeys to church on a Sunday morning are examined and reframed as a form of pilgrimage. Pilgrimage studies over the last 30 years have criticized the concept proposed by Turner and Turner of pilgrimage as entirely opposite and peripheral to social structures and relation. Recent literature has reinterpreted Turner and Turner's terminology of 'liminality' and 'communitas', …
Platform urbanism, smartphone applications and valuing data in a smart city
Recent scholarship on smart cities and platform urbanism has explored the very wide range of data harvested from urban environments by digital devices of many kinds, analysing how not only efficiencies but also profits are sought through the extraction, circulation, transformation, commodification, integration, and re‐use of data. Much of that data is generated by smartphone applications. This paper looks at the design of a group of eight smartph…
Who’s behind the wheel? Visioning the future users and urban contexts of connected and autonomous vehicle technologies
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are promised by their developers to transform mobilities, making travel accessible to all – including those unable to drive due to age, affordability or disability – and thereby widen the distribution of what Urry calls ‘network capital’. This paper interrogates promotional visualizations about CAVs as they imagine future automated mobilities and the scaling up of the technologies from small trials to mass…
The Sunday morning journey to church considered as a form of 'micro-pilgrimage
Using mixed methods data, the social significance and narrative of local journeys to church on a Sunday morning are examined and reframed as a form of pilgrimage. Pilgrimage studies over the last 30 years have criticized the concept proposed by Turner and Turner of pilgrimage as entirely opposite and peripheral to social structures and relation. Recent literature has reinterpreted Turner and Turner's terminology of 'liminality' and 'communitas', …
Everyday mobilities and the construction of subjective spiritual geographies in 'Non-places
Traditional geographic approaches depict sacred spaces, religion and spirituality as places of stillness and tranquillity, this paper challenges such fixity and instead uses the mobilities lens to analyse the dynamic and fluid nature of contemporary spirituality. It builds on recent work that draws on mobilities and geographies of religion by shifting focus away from the extraordinary journeys of pilgrimage to the ordinary, the mundane and everyd…
Blue is for boys: Postfeminist continuations of gender, body and hue in UK magazines, 2009–2018
From 2009 to 2018, social attitudes towards gender in the UK and other western countries significantly shifted, with greater awareness of gender stereotyping and the objectification of women's bodies in the media due to popular social media campaigns. Arguably, postfeminism has provided a channel in which tropes traditionally critiqued by feminism, such as the objectification or stereotyping of the female body, are appropriated by consumption, an…
Constructing subjective spiritual geographies in everyday mobilities: The Practice of Prayer and Meditation in Corporeal Travel
This paper contributes to contemporary geographies of religion by exploring how everyday spaces of mobility and flows can be transformed through specific practices such as prayer and meditation that contribute to personal spirituality. The work challenges traditionally held assumptions that sacred space or codified religious spaces requires stillness and calmness by drawing on the New Mobilities Paradigm to explore how spiritual practices are con…
Wassail! Reinventing 'tradition' in contemporary wassailing customs in southern England
On a bleak winter’s Saturday evening, I find myself along with many others in the middle of a suburban park located in a small town in North Somerset, singing, shouting and toasting to an apple tree, otherwise known as ‘wassailing’. The practice of wassailing the orchards has become increasingly popular since the early 2000s with the custom being performed in community orchards, city farms and public gardens across the United Kingdom and beyond e…
A place of magic: Enchanting Geographies of Contemporary Wassailing Practices
Orchard wassailing practices, along with other folk traditions have been overlooked by geographers. This paper considers how such practices can engineer spaces of enchantment in otherwise ‘disenchanted’ spaces. Furthermore, how this form of enchantment is never fixed but relational, unstable and contingent, or ‘borrowed’. Having nearly disappeared in the mid-20th century, wassailing has been ‘re-wakened’ for the contemporary world. A surprising f…
Do Autonomous Vehicles Dream of Virtual Sheep? The Displacement of Reality in the Hyperreal Visions of Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have received a great deal of attention in recent years, with many commentators asking how these vehicles will “see” to navigate themselves and, more important, avoid colliding with people, other vehicles, and objects. This article analyzes how AVs see and the data sets they create through Jean Baudrillard’s framework of simulation and simulacra, paying attention to how these technologies purify and classify the real int…
A global sense of religious place: The production of religious and spiritual sites through local–global entanglements and global mobilities
Places of worship in the Christian tradition are often considered to retain fixed and static identities. However, circuits of globalization and global mobilities are increasingly present within such sites and drawn upon to construct new forms of place and geographies filtered through the individual church’s channels of mobilities. Following on from the new mobilities paradigm and relational approaches to ‘place’, this paper explores how the globa…
The Sunday morning journey to church considered as a form of 'micro-pilgrimage
Using mixed methods data, the social significance and narrative of local journeys to church on a Sunday morning are examined and reframed as a form of pilgrimage. Pilgrimage studies over the last 30 years have criticized the concept proposed by Turner and Turner of pilgrimage as entirely opposite and peripheral to social structures and relation. Recent literature has reinterpreted Turner and Turner's terminology of 'liminality' and 'communitas', …
Constructing subjective spiritual geographies in everyday mobilities: The Practice of Prayer and Meditation in Corporeal Travel
This paper contributes to contemporary geographies of religion by exploring how everyday spaces of mobility and flows can be transformed through specific practices such as prayer and meditation that contribute to personal spirituality. The work challenges traditionally held assumptions that sacred space or codified religious spaces requires stillness and calmness by drawing on the New Mobilities Paradigm to explore how spiritual practices are con…
A global sense of religious place: The production of religious and spiritual sites through local–global entanglements and global mobilities
Places of worship in the Christian tradition are often considered to retain fixed and static identities. However, circuits of globalization and global mobilities are increasingly present within such sites and drawn upon to construct new forms of place and geographies filtered through the individual church’s channels of mobilities. Following on from the new mobilities paradigm and relational approaches to ‘place’, this paper explores how the globa…
Everyday mobilities and the construction of subjective spiritual geographies in 'Non-places
Traditional geographic approaches depict sacred spaces, religion and spirituality as places of stillness and tranquillity, this paper challenges such fixity and instead uses the mobilities lens to analyse the dynamic and fluid nature of contemporary spirituality. It builds on recent work that draws on mobilities and geographies of religion by shifting focus away from the extraordinary journeys of pilgrimage to the ordinary, the mundane and everyd…
Wassail! Reinventing 'tradition' in contemporary wassailing customs in southern England
On a bleak winter’s Saturday evening, I find myself along with many others in the middle of a suburban park located in a small town in North Somerset, singing, shouting and toasting to an apple tree, otherwise known as ‘wassailing’. The practice of wassailing the orchards has become increasingly popular since the early 2000s with the custom being performed in community orchards, city farms and public gardens across the United Kingdom and beyond e…
Who’s behind the wheel? Visioning the future users and urban contexts of connected and autonomous vehicle technologies
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are promised by their developers to transform mobilities, making travel accessible to all – including those unable to drive due to age, affordability or disability – and thereby widen the distribution of what Urry calls ‘network capital’. This paper interrogates promotional visualizations about CAVs as they imagine future automated mobilities and the scaling up of the technologies from small trials to mass…
Platform urbanism, smartphone applications and valuing data in a smart city
Recent scholarship on smart cities and platform urbanism has explored the very wide range of data harvested from urban environments by digital devices of many kinds, analysing how not only efficiencies but also profits are sought through the extraction, circulation, transformation, commodification, integration, and re‐use of data. Much of that data is generated by smartphone applications. This paper looks at the design of a group of eight smartph…
Economic geographies of the illegal: The multiscalar production of cybercrime
Blue is for boys: Postfeminist continuations of gender, body and hue in UK magazines, 2009–2018
From 2009 to 2018, social attitudes towards gender in the UK and other western countries significantly shifted, with greater awareness of gender stereotyping and the objectification of women's bodies in the media due to popular social media campaigns. Arguably, postfeminism has provided a channel in which tropes traditionally critiqued by feminism, such as the objectification or stereotyping of the female body, are appropriated by consumption, an…
A place of magic: Enchanting Geographies of Contemporary Wassailing Practices
Orchard wassailing practices, along with other folk traditions have been overlooked by geographers. This paper considers how such practices can engineer spaces of enchantment in otherwise ‘disenchanted’ spaces. Furthermore, how this form of enchantment is never fixed but relational, unstable and contingent, or ‘borrowed’. Having nearly disappeared in the mid-20th century, wassailing has been ‘re-wakened’ for the contemporary world. A surprising f…
Do Autonomous Vehicles Dream of Virtual Sheep? The Displacement of Reality in the Hyperreal Visions of Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have received a great deal of attention in recent years, with many commentators asking how these vehicles will “see” to navigate themselves and, more important, avoid colliding with people, other vehicles, and objects. This article analyzes how AVs see and the data sets they create through Jean Baudrillard’s framework of simulation and simulacra, paying attention to how these technologies purify and classify the real int…
Why has this guy got his foot in the sink: Challenges, Encounters and Everyday Geographies of Practicing Wudu
Wudu, an ablution performed (often multiple times) daily which is integral to the spiritual lives of many, has been somewhat neglected from the analysis of the everyday experiences and geographies of Muslims. The lack of general and academic knowledge around this practice can lead to misunderstandings amongst non-Muslims which may reinforce negative attitudes towards the Muslim population. This paper draws on questionnaires and interviews with Mu…
Between purity and pollution: Water, wudu and the sacred space of the 'pure' body
This paper draws attention to the time-spaces of preparation - such as wudu - as sites where the labour and creativity of constructing the sacred are practiced and their significant role in the construction of the individual's spirituality and expression. In this case, the site of the body and the contexts in which it is located is the focus for understanding how spiritual meaning is produced between the dualisms of purity and pollution, the sacr…
When the lights (don’t) go out: Disrupting the hyperreal at the Basel Fasnacht in 2020
The folk that make the nation: The cultural associations of the wassail imagined in English news media from 1980 to 2024
Wassailing, the toasting to the good health of the orchard, has become a popular annual custom occurring each January and February over the last 20 years across the UK. As a ‘folk’ event, it has resisted commercialisation and is often organised at a community level thereby ensuring a locally contingent and diverse experience for those attending. The article explores the representation of these community events in local and national newspapers fro…
Sociology (11 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (6 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)