R Slatter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Slatter |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Slatter |
| SIGNATURE | SLATTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5590-1410 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Women, faith, and anti-apartheid activism in late twentieth-century Britain
Between 1989 and 1990 grassroots members of the Methodist women’s movement in Britain made, displayed, and exchanged an anti-apartheid ribbon. Constructed of hundreds of individual panels made by local groups of Methodist women, this ribbon was used to publicly demonstrate solidarity with women campaigning against apartheid in South Africa. Analysing this ribbon as a local, national, and international object, this article highlights how it simult…
Participatory historical geographies
Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly questioned who produces historical knowledge, whose voices are heard or excluded, and how participatory approaches might reshape geographical scholarship. In response, participatory methods have emerged as powerful tools for unsettling dominant historical narratives and expanding the practice of doing historical geography with communities, rather than about them. This Special Sec…
The Victoria County History and participatory historical geography
This article critically reflects on the Victoria County History's (VCH) relationship with participatory historical geography approaches. Telling a story of change, it argues that it is not only possible, but also extremely productive for long‐standing, well‐established academic research projects to embrace participatory approaches and engage in transformative research. The VCH is a national project to write the history of every parish‐sized area …
Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists
This article explores how collaborations between geographers and performance artists can offer new ways for present‐day communities to engage with the histories and legacies of postwar urban planning. Focusing on the development of site‐responsive performances in Newport (Wales) codesigned by geographer Aled Singleton, Tin Shed Theatre Co and artist TEMMAH , the paper examines how artistic interventions can mediate contested planning documents, o…
Geographical approaches to religion in the past
This review assesses (anglophone) cross‐disciplinary research that has used geographical methodologies to study religion in the past. It identifies three prominent themes within the existing literature: the spatalisation of religion, the intersections between religion and built environments, and the relationships between religion and physical landscapes. It argues that the application of geographical approaches to the study of religion in the pas…
Sacred squares? A non-representational study of James Smetham's (1821–1889) everyday artistic experiences of religion, faith, and spirituality
This paper develops new ways of approaching representations to understand individuals' everyday experiences of religion, faith, and spirituality in the past. Drawing on non-representational theories' emphasis on practice and affect, it focuses on processes of making representations within religious, faithful, and spiritual practices. Contribuing to ongoing dialogues between art history and geography, it explores the material spaces such represent…
Three participatory geographers
This paper advances the geographies of religion, spirituality and faith’s limited attention to positionality by discussing the critical issues raised when using participatory approaches. Reflecting on three cases of participatory research, we foreground the dynamics of being a researcher with faith when working with participants from faith communities. Advocating participatory approaches as valuable methodologies that should be used more extensiv…
Worship, Social Gatherings and the ‘More-than-Wesleyan’
Using two geographically contrasting case studies, this paper explores the multiple ways in which London’s purpose-built Wesleyan chapels were used between the 1851 religious census and the reunification of the Methodist Church in 1932. Specifically focusing on chapels in the Bow and Highgate areas of London, it explores how the uses of these spaces varied over time and space, highlighting similarities and differences between urban and suburban W…
Materiality and the extended geographies of religion
Materialities and historical geographies
While (historical) geographers are now increasingly engaging with material things and approaches, there has been little debate about the role and place of material sources and methodologies within historical geography research. This special section of Area draws together five papers in which historical geographers explore material sources and the application of material approaches in order to make conceptual, methodological and empirical contribu…
Material “becomings” and a historical geography of religious experience
Using Wesleyan Methodism in London between 1851 and 1932 as its case study, this paper explores the potential methods and outcomes of studying religious spaces as material items. Interested in both the “becoming” of their physical material properties and social meanings, this paper considers how geographical research can engage with debates within material culture studies about the relative importance and consequences of analysing the material qu…
A Sociological Analysis of Students' Reasons for Becoming Teachers
A Sociological Analysis of Students' Reasons for Becoming Teachers
Three participatory geographers
This paper advances the geographies of religion, spirituality and faith’s limited attention to positionality by discussing the critical issues raised when using participatory approaches. Reflecting on three cases of participatory research, we foreground the dynamics of being a researcher with faith when working with participants from faith communities. Advocating participatory approaches as valuable methodologies that should be used more extensiv…
Materiality and the extended geographies of religion
The Victoria County History and participatory historical geography
This article critically reflects on the Victoria County History's (VCH) relationship with participatory historical geography approaches. Telling a story of change, it argues that it is not only possible, but also extremely productive for long‐standing, well‐established academic research projects to embrace participatory approaches and engage in transformative research. The VCH is a national project to write the history of every parish‐sized area …
Sacred squares? A non-representational study of James Smetham's (1821–1889) everyday artistic experiences of religion, faith, and spirituality
This paper develops new ways of approaching representations to understand individuals' everyday experiences of religion, faith, and spirituality in the past. Drawing on non-representational theories' emphasis on practice and affect, it focuses on processes of making representations within religious, faithful, and spiritual practices. Contribuing to ongoing dialogues between art history and geography, it explores the material spaces such represent…
Materialities and historical geographies
While (historical) geographers are now increasingly engaging with material things and approaches, there has been little debate about the role and place of material sources and methodologies within historical geography research. This special section of Area draws together five papers in which historical geographers explore material sources and the application of material approaches in order to make conceptual, methodological and empirical contribu…
Material “becomings” and a historical geography of religious experience
Using Wesleyan Methodism in London between 1851 and 1932 as its case study, this paper explores the potential methods and outcomes of studying religious spaces as material items. Interested in both the “becoming” of their physical material properties and social meanings, this paper considers how geographical research can engage with debates within material culture studies about the relative importance and consequences of analysing the material qu…
Participatory historical geographies
Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly questioned who produces historical knowledge, whose voices are heard or excluded, and how participatory approaches might reshape geographical scholarship. In response, participatory methods have emerged as powerful tools for unsettling dominant historical narratives and expanding the practice of doing historical geography with communities, rather than about them. This Special Sec…
Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists
This article explores how collaborations between geographers and performance artists can offer new ways for present‐day communities to engage with the histories and legacies of postwar urban planning. Focusing on the development of site‐responsive performances in Newport (Wales) codesigned by geographer Aled Singleton, Tin Shed Theatre Co and artist TEMMAH , the paper examines how artistic interventions can mediate contested planning documents, o…
A Sociological Analysis of Students' Reasons for Becoming Teachers
A Sociological Analysis of Students' Reasons for Becoming Teachers
A Sociological Analysis of Students' Reasons for Becoming Teachers
Materiality and the extended geographies of religion
Materialities and historical geographies
While (historical) geographers are now increasingly engaging with material things and approaches, there has been little debate about the role and place of material sources and methodologies within historical geography research. This special section of Area draws together five papers in which historical geographers explore material sources and the application of material approaches in order to make conceptual, methodological and empirical contribu…
Material “becomings” and a historical geography of religious experience
Using Wesleyan Methodism in London between 1851 and 1932 as its case study, this paper explores the potential methods and outcomes of studying religious spaces as material items. Interested in both the “becoming” of their physical material properties and social meanings, this paper considers how geographical research can engage with debates within material culture studies about the relative importance and consequences of analysing the material qu…
Worship, Social Gatherings and the ‘More-than-Wesleyan’
Using two geographically contrasting case studies, this paper explores the multiple ways in which London’s purpose-built Wesleyan chapels were used between the 1851 religious census and the reunification of the Methodist Church in 1932. Specifically focusing on chapels in the Bow and Highgate areas of London, it explores how the uses of these spaces varied over time and space, highlighting similarities and differences between urban and suburban W…
Three participatory geographers
This paper advances the geographies of religion, spirituality and faith’s limited attention to positionality by discussing the critical issues raised when using participatory approaches. Reflecting on three cases of participatory research, we foreground the dynamics of being a researcher with faith when working with participants from faith communities. Advocating participatory approaches as valuable methodologies that should be used more extensiv…
Geographical approaches to religion in the past
This review assesses (anglophone) cross‐disciplinary research that has used geographical methodologies to study religion in the past. It identifies three prominent themes within the existing literature: the spatalisation of religion, the intersections between religion and built environments, and the relationships between religion and physical landscapes. It argues that the application of geographical approaches to the study of religion in the pas…
Sacred squares? A non-representational study of James Smetham's (1821–1889) everyday artistic experiences of religion, faith, and spirituality
This paper develops new ways of approaching representations to understand individuals' everyday experiences of religion, faith, and spirituality in the past. Drawing on non-representational theories' emphasis on practice and affect, it focuses on processes of making representations within religious, faithful, and spiritual practices. Contribuing to ongoing dialogues between art history and geography, it explores the material spaces such represent…
Participatory historical geographies
Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly questioned who produces historical knowledge, whose voices are heard or excluded, and how participatory approaches might reshape geographical scholarship. In response, participatory methods have emerged as powerful tools for unsettling dominant historical narratives and expanding the practice of doing historical geography with communities, rather than about them. This Special Sec…
The Victoria County History and participatory historical geography
This article critically reflects on the Victoria County History's (VCH) relationship with participatory historical geography approaches. Telling a story of change, it argues that it is not only possible, but also extremely productive for long‐standing, well‐established academic research projects to embrace participatory approaches and engage in transformative research. The VCH is a national project to write the history of every parish‐sized area …
Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists
This article explores how collaborations between geographers and performance artists can offer new ways for present‐day communities to engage with the histories and legacies of postwar urban planning. Focusing on the development of site‐responsive performances in Newport (Wales) codesigned by geographer Aled Singleton, Tin Shed Theatre Co and artist TEMMAH , the paper examines how artistic interventions can mediate contested planning documents, o…
Women, faith, and anti-apartheid activism in late twentieth-century Britain
Between 1989 and 1990 grassroots members of the Methodist women’s movement in Britain made, displayed, and exchanged an anti-apartheid ribbon. Constructed of hundreds of individual panels made by local groups of Methodist women, this ribbon was used to publicly demonstrate solidarity with women campaigning against apartheid in South Africa. Analysing this ribbon as a local, national, and international object, this article highlights how it simult…
Sociology (11 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Citizen journalism (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Human geography (4 works)