Helen Watkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 134572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Watkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Watkins |
| SIGNATURE | WATKINS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1920 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Political markets: Recycling, Economization and Marketization
This paper considers recycling as an economic activity, locating it in debates about economization, marketization and performativity. It argues that recycling is a reflexive intervention in economic activity which extends the boundaries of markets, by internalizing objects formerly externalized as wastes and by attending to the temporal properties of materials. It differentiates between activities based on manufacturing recycled products and the …
Building Bridges Through Performance and Decision‐making: Schools, Research and Public Engagement
This paper uses the impact agenda in the UK to realign debate about the relationship between schools, universities and (human) geography. It positions this debate in systemic tendencies within UK higher education. It argues that, whilst impact can be seen as a further instance of neoliberalism, emphasising the gap between accountability and accounting allows an identification with communicative and reflexive knowledge and, more broadly, critical …
Souvenir salvage and the death of great naval ships
This article re-orientates work on the material culture of war by considering military material culture beyond conflict and demonstrating how military material culture has extended social lives and passes through value regimes, as do many forms of material culture. The article focuses on end-of-life military things, specifically the neglected field of naval vessels. It shows how the social and physical death of naval ships connects to residue mil…
Inextinguishable Fibres: Demolition and the Vital Materialisms of Asbestos
This paper forwards a performative reading of asbestos in economies of disposal. It argues that materials need to be thought through transformative states, not just stable states, and that materials' performativity varies according to material states. As a radical intervention in form, demolition is one such transformative state, which disturbs and animates materials. Relatively unconsidered in the academic literature, demolition is argued to be …
Beauty Queen, Bulletin Board and Browser: Rescripting the refrigerator
An integral element of most British kitchens, refrigerators support daily practices of social reproduction, but tend to blend almost unnoticed into the background. Drawing in particular on feminist social theorists and historians of technology, my research pays critical attention to mundane objects, domestic practices and the stories that they tell. This paper pauses to take a closer look at a usually unobtrusive appliance in, on and around which…
The Making of the Modern Kitchen: A Cultural History - June Freeman
Cultural policy and place promotion: Swansea and Dylan Thomas
Kangerdlugsuak and Mount Forel: Two Journeys on the British Arctic Air Route Expedition: Discussion
The British Arctic Air Route Expedition
The British Arctic Air Route Expedition (Continued)
River Exploration in Labrador by Canoe and Dog Sledge
The Cambridge Expedition to Edge Island: Discussion
The Cambridge Expedition to Edge Island
Brazil: A Study of Economic Conditions Since 1913
Inextinguishable Fibres: Demolition and the Vital Materialisms of Asbestos
This paper forwards a performative reading of asbestos in economies of disposal. It argues that materials need to be thought through transformative states, not just stable states, and that materials' performativity varies according to material states. As a radical intervention in form, demolition is one such transformative state, which disturbs and animates materials. Relatively unconsidered in the academic literature, demolition is argued to be …
Political markets: Recycling, Economization and Marketization
This paper considers recycling as an economic activity, locating it in debates about economization, marketization and performativity. It argues that recycling is a reflexive intervention in economic activity which extends the boundaries of markets, by internalizing objects formerly externalized as wastes and by attending to the temporal properties of materials. It differentiates between activities based on manufacturing recycled products and the …
Beauty Queen, Bulletin Board and Browser: Rescripting the refrigerator
An integral element of most British kitchens, refrigerators support daily practices of social reproduction, but tend to blend almost unnoticed into the background. Drawing in particular on feminist social theorists and historians of technology, my research pays critical attention to mundane objects, domestic practices and the stories that they tell. This paper pauses to take a closer look at a usually unobtrusive appliance in, on and around which…
Cultural policy and place promotion: Swansea and Dylan Thomas
Building Bridges Through Performance and Decision‐making: Schools, Research and Public Engagement
This paper uses the impact agenda in the UK to realign debate about the relationship between schools, universities and (human) geography. It positions this debate in systemic tendencies within UK higher education. It argues that, whilst impact can be seen as a further instance of neoliberalism, emphasising the gap between accountability and accounting allows an identification with communicative and reflexive knowledge and, more broadly, critical …
Souvenir salvage and the death of great naval ships
This article re-orientates work on the material culture of war by considering military material culture beyond conflict and demonstrating how military material culture has extended social lives and passes through value regimes, as do many forms of material culture. The article focuses on end-of-life military things, specifically the neglected field of naval vessels. It shows how the social and physical death of naval ships connects to residue mil…
The British Arctic Air Route Expedition
The Cambridge Expedition to Edge Island: Discussion
Brazil: A Study of Economic Conditions Since 1913
The Cambridge Expedition to Edge Island: Discussion
The Cambridge Expedition to Edge Island
River Exploration in Labrador by Canoe and Dog Sledge
Kangerdlugsuak and Mount Forel: Two Journeys on the British Arctic Air Route Expedition: Discussion
The British Arctic Air Route Expedition
The British Arctic Air Route Expedition (Continued)
Cultural policy and place promotion: Swansea and Dylan Thomas
Beauty Queen, Bulletin Board and Browser: Rescripting the refrigerator
An integral element of most British kitchens, refrigerators support daily practices of social reproduction, but tend to blend almost unnoticed into the background. Drawing in particular on feminist social theorists and historians of technology, my research pays critical attention to mundane objects, domestic practices and the stories that they tell. This paper pauses to take a closer look at a usually unobtrusive appliance in, on and around which…
The Making of the Modern Kitchen: A Cultural History - June Freeman
Inextinguishable Fibres: Demolition and the Vital Materialisms of Asbestos
This paper forwards a performative reading of asbestos in economies of disposal. It argues that materials need to be thought through transformative states, not just stable states, and that materials' performativity varies according to material states. As a radical intervention in form, demolition is one such transformative state, which disturbs and animates materials. Relatively unconsidered in the academic literature, demolition is argued to be …
Souvenir salvage and the death of great naval ships
This article re-orientates work on the material culture of war by considering military material culture beyond conflict and demonstrating how military material culture has extended social lives and passes through value regimes, as do many forms of material culture. The article focuses on end-of-life military things, specifically the neglected field of naval vessels. It shows how the social and physical death of naval ships connects to residue mil…
Building Bridges Through Performance and Decision‐making: Schools, Research and Public Engagement
This paper uses the impact agenda in the UK to realign debate about the relationship between schools, universities and (human) geography. It positions this debate in systemic tendencies within UK higher education. It argues that, whilst impact can be seen as a further instance of neoliberalism, emphasising the gap between accountability and accounting allows an identification with communicative and reflexive knowledge and, more broadly, critical …
Political markets: Recycling, Economization and Marketization
This paper considers recycling as an economic activity, locating it in debates about economization, marketization and performativity. It argues that recycling is a reflexive intervention in economic activity which extends the boundaries of markets, by internalizing objects formerly externalized as wastes and by attending to the temporal properties of materials. It differentiates between activities based on manufacturing recycled products and the …
Geography (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · Polar Research and Ecology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)