Karen E Till
Biographic Data
| ID | 189836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen E Till |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Till |
| SIGNATURE | TILL K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0921-389X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 530 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Introduction: Yi-Fu Tuan and the Expanding Cosmos of Human Geography
This GeoHumanities Forum explores the continuing relevance of works by the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan (1930–2022). Beyond his obvious legacy establishing the subfield of humanistic geography and writing some of the most frequently cited works in the discipline of geography, Tuan’s ideas paved the way for disciplinary shifts of the past several decades, including concerns with ethics, affect, writing, imaginaries, embodiment, and animal geographies. To…
Yi-Fu Tuan’s Legacy: Impacts on the Geographical Review , Disciplines, Scholarship, and Teaching
Yi-Fu Tuan published extensively in a number of outlets throughout his long career, including in the Geographical Review between 1968 and 2002. While Tuan’s influence on research and teaching in geography was far reaching, he also inspired scholars in other disciplines, such as education and environmental psychology. This retrospective essay commemorates Tuan’s relationship with the Geographical Review and brings together a diverse group of schol…
Introduction Walls, Borders, Boundaries
Leading Change: Reproductive Rights, Empowerment and Feminist Solidarity in the Dublin Bay North Repeal the 8th Campaign
This article examines how the Dublin Bay North (DBN) Repeal the 8th activist group, an independent women-led, grassroots movement in the largest constituency in Ireland, practiced a collectivist approach to forms of ‘power-with’ and ‘power-to’ (Allen, 2018) that enabled the group to create an activist community based upon a feminist ethics of ‘caring-with’ (Tronto, 1993). In 2018 in Dublin, what had been a narrow majority in 1983 against abortion…
The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration: A Participatory Visual Approach
I Challenging Gender Discrimination in Irish Geography
In this collection, several authors – ranging from early career to well established academics – consider the role of women and the female voice in academia. This compilation developed from a conference session organised by the Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG) Ireland group, at the Conference of Irish Geographers in University College Cork (UCC) in 2017. In the first piece, Ahern and Mc Ardle consider why this discussion is necessary at all, r…
Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin
Lawton et al. 2019, Natura Urbana, AAG Review of Books, 3(7), p. 214-227
Towards responsible geographies of memory: Complexities of place and the ethics of remembering
Debates about the meanings of place often emerge when unsettled pasts resurface unexpectedly in ways that dislocate present-day land-uses. Such was the case for the IGU 2011 Regional Meeting in Chile, which was held in Santiago's Military Academy. When considering the geographical scholarship about place and memory, the debates resulting from the conference should not be surprising. Geographers have long examined the controversial processes of so…
Interventions in the political geographies of walls
Walls, borders, boundaries: Spatial and cultural practices in Europe
Till, and Janet Ward PART I: CITY WALLS Chapter 1. The Dialectics of Urban Form in Absolutist France Yair Mintzker Chapter 2. The Camp in the City, the City as Camp: Berlin's Other Guarded Walls Olaf Briese Chapter 3. Threshold Resistance: Dani Karavan's Berlin Installation Grundgesetz Eric Jarosinski Chapter 4. Did Walls Really Come Down? Contemporary B/ordering Walls in Europe Daniela Vicherat Mattar PART II: BORDER ZONES Chapter 5. Border Guar…
Wounded cities: Memory-work and a place-based ethics of care
Place In Context: Rethinking Humanist Geographies
The appeal of icewine is attributable to its distinct aroma characteristics, such as 'honey', 'caramel', and 'dried fruit', but little is known about the chemical basis of these aroma attributes. A set of icewines with different aroma intensities were selected by a panel of wine experts. Detailed volatile compound analyses and sensory descriptive analyses were performed on the selected icewines. Using partial least-squares regression, several lac…
Reimagining National Identity "Chapters Of Life" At The German Historical Museum In Berlin
Textures Of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies
Ethnography and Participant Observation
Mapping and excavating spectral traces in post-apartheid Cape Town
This article explores how spectral traces at places marked by acts of violence and injustice allow residents to come into contact with past and future inhabitants of the postcolonial city. We examine controversies surrounding Prestwich Place, Cape Town, an informal burial ground for colonial underclasses that was unearthed when construction began for an upscale ‘New York-style’ apartment and office complex. The human remains that emerged embodied…
Artistic and activist memory-work: Approaching place-based practice
While an emerging interdisciplinary field of memory studies exists, what it is and might become remains open to debate. This article calls for a memory studies agenda that remains sensitive to the ways individuals and groups experience memory as multi-sensual, spatial ways of understanding their worlds. Artistic and activist memory-work in particular offers at least two contributions to such an agenda. It challenges ontological assumptions that u…
Memory Studies
Journal Article Memory Studies Get access Marc Augé, Oblivion, transl. Marjolijn de Jager, foreword James Young, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 2004; $18.95 paper, ISBN: 0-8166-3567-6. Annie E. Coombes, History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa, Duke University Press, Durham and London: 2003; $27.95 paper, ISBN: 0-8223-3072-5. Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone (ed.), Conte…
Post-totalitarian national identity: Public memory in Germany and Russia
Through a comparative analysis of Germany and Russia, this paper explores how \nparticipation in the memorialization process affects and reflects national identity formation \nin post-totalitarian societies. These post-totalitarian societies face the common problem of \nre-presenting their national character as civic and democratic, in great part because their \nnational identities were closely bound to oppressive regimes. Through a comparison of…
New Urbanism and Nature: Green Marketing and the Neotraditional Community
A central goal of New Urbanism (NU) is to provide alternatives to suburbs through ecologically sound designs and more natural communities. This article situates NU environmental rhetoric culturally and analyzes why this form of nature is being promoted now. I argue that NU anthropocentric understandings of nature reflect and resonate with dominant mainstream environmental ideas in American culture. To understand why NU planners may uncritically a…
(Re)placing the New Urbanism Debates: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
New Urbanism (NU) is a complex planning paradigm and social movement that has recently become influential in planning, residential development, and government housing circles. To introduce this special issue on NU, we describe the history and important figures of the movement and provide a brief literature review of popular, academic, and professional presses. Because NU is a multifaceted phenomenon, we advocate an interdisciplinary approach to u…
Returning Home and to the Field
Staging the past: Landscape designs, cultural identity and Erinnerungspolitik at Berlin’s Neue Wache
The controversies surrounding the re-establishment of a national memorial in Berlin, the Neue Wache, are examined to discuss the process of public memory. After unification, West German media continued to define public debate. ‘Established’ interest groups (politicians, victims, historical experts and citizen groups) were included in media discussions whereas others (East Germans, marginalized groups) were not. Criticisms about the function, form…
Staging the past: Landscape designs, cultural identity and Erinnerungspolitik at Berlin's Neue Wache
fter the Bundestag voted for Berlin as the new seat of government for a united Federal Republic in 1991, the reconstruction of the city centre accelerated.The sum of $135 billion has been devoted to this massive urban renewal project by the federal government and the city of Berlin (Figure 1).Former icons of the East-West division are being replaced by new government and business complexes, including the former 'death strip' at Potsdamer Platz (t…
Possessed by the past: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History
Textures Of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies
Wounded cities: Memory-work and a place-based ethics of care
Post-totalitarian national identity: Public memory in Germany and Russia
Through a comparative analysis of Germany and Russia, this paper explores how \nparticipation in the memorialization process affects and reflects national identity formation \nin post-totalitarian societies. These post-totalitarian societies face the common problem of \nre-presenting their national character as civic and democratic, in great part because their \nnational identities were closely bound to oppressive regimes. Through a comparison of…
Neotraditional Towns and Urban Villages: The Cultural Production of a Geography of 'Otherness
The 'neotraditional' planning movement in the USA is criticized through an analysis of promotional materials for the urban village of Rancho Santa Margarita in Orange County, CA. The 'traditions' of towns and villages are viewed as recent 'inventions' created by corporate planners; they are attempts to validate the establishment of residential communities through ambiguous, yet familiar, historical symbols. Yet the identities constructed for neot…
Artistic and activist memory-work: Approaching place-based practice
While an emerging interdisciplinary field of memory studies exists, what it is and might become remains open to debate. This article calls for a memory studies agenda that remains sensitive to the ways individuals and groups experience memory as multi-sensual, spatial ways of understanding their worlds. Artistic and activist memory-work in particular offers at least two contributions to such an agenda. It challenges ontological assumptions that u…
Staging the past: Landscape designs, cultural identity and Erinnerungspolitik at Berlin's Neue Wache
fter the Bundestag voted for Berlin as the new seat of government for a united Federal Republic in 1991, the reconstruction of the city centre accelerated.The sum of $135 billion has been devoted to this massive urban renewal project by the federal government and the city of Berlin (Figure 1).Former icons of the East-West division are being replaced by new government and business complexes, including the former 'death strip' at Potsdamer Platz (t…
Staging the past: Landscape designs, cultural identity and Erinnerungspolitik at Berlin’s Neue Wache
The controversies surrounding the re-establishment of a national memorial in Berlin, the Neue Wache, are examined to discuss the process of public memory. After unification, West German media continued to define public debate. ‘Established’ interest groups (politicians, victims, historical experts and citizen groups) were included in media discussions whereas others (East Germans, marginalized groups) were not. Criticisms about the function, form…
Interventions in the political geographies of walls
Memory Studies
Journal Article Memory Studies Get access Marc Augé, Oblivion, transl. Marjolijn de Jager, foreword James Young, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 2004; $18.95 paper, ISBN: 0-8166-3567-6. Annie E. Coombes, History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa, Duke University Press, Durham and London: 2003; $27.95 paper, ISBN: 0-8223-3072-5. Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone (ed.), Conte…
(Re)placing the New Urbanism Debates: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
New Urbanism (NU) is a complex planning paradigm and social movement that has recently become influential in planning, residential development, and government housing circles. To introduce this special issue on NU, we describe the history and important figures of the movement and provide a brief literature review of popular, academic, and professional presses. Because NU is a multifaceted phenomenon, we advocate an interdisciplinary approach to u…
New Urbanism and Nature: Green Marketing and the Neotraditional Community
A central goal of New Urbanism (NU) is to provide alternatives to suburbs through ecologically sound designs and more natural communities. This article situates NU environmental rhetoric culturally and analyzes why this form of nature is being promoted now. I argue that NU anthropocentric understandings of nature reflect and resonate with dominant mainstream environmental ideas in American culture. To understand why NU planners may uncritically a…
Returning Home and to the Field
Mapping and excavating spectral traces in post-apartheid Cape Town
This article explores how spectral traces at places marked by acts of violence and injustice allow residents to come into contact with past and future inhabitants of the postcolonial city. We examine controversies surrounding Prestwich Place, Cape Town, an informal burial ground for colonial underclasses that was unearthed when construction began for an upscale ‘New York-style’ apartment and office complex. The human remains that emerged embodied…
Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin
Lawton et al. 2019, Natura Urbana, AAG Review of Books, 3(7), p. 214-227
Neotraditional Towns and Urban Villages: The Cultural Production of a Geography of 'Otherness
The 'neotraditional' planning movement in the USA is criticized through an analysis of promotional materials for the urban village of Rancho Santa Margarita in Orange County, CA. The 'traditions' of towns and villages are viewed as recent 'inventions' created by corporate planners; they are attempts to validate the establishment of residential communities through ambiguous, yet familiar, historical symbols. Yet the identities constructed for neot…
Possessed by the past: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History
Staging the past: Landscape designs, cultural identity and Erinnerungspolitik at Berlin’s Neue Wache
The controversies surrounding the re-establishment of a national memorial in Berlin, the Neue Wache, are examined to discuss the process of public memory. After unification, West German media continued to define public debate. ‘Established’ interest groups (politicians, victims, historical experts and citizen groups) were included in media discussions whereas others (East Germans, marginalized groups) were not. Criticisms about the function, form…
Staging the past: Landscape designs, cultural identity and Erinnerungspolitik at Berlin's Neue Wache
fter the Bundestag voted for Berlin as the new seat of government for a united Federal Republic in 1991, the reconstruction of the city centre accelerated.The sum of $135 billion has been devoted to this massive urban renewal project by the federal government and the city of Berlin (Figure 1).Former icons of the East-West division are being replaced by new government and business complexes, including the former 'death strip' at Potsdamer Platz (t…
New Urbanism and Nature: Green Marketing and the Neotraditional Community
A central goal of New Urbanism (NU) is to provide alternatives to suburbs through ecologically sound designs and more natural communities. This article situates NU environmental rhetoric culturally and analyzes why this form of nature is being promoted now. I argue that NU anthropocentric understandings of nature reflect and resonate with dominant mainstream environmental ideas in American culture. To understand why NU planners may uncritically a…
(Re)placing the New Urbanism Debates: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
New Urbanism (NU) is a complex planning paradigm and social movement that has recently become influential in planning, residential development, and government housing circles. To introduce this special issue on NU, we describe the history and important figures of the movement and provide a brief literature review of popular, academic, and professional presses. Because NU is a multifaceted phenomenon, we advocate an interdisciplinary approach to u…
Returning Home and to the Field
Post-totalitarian national identity: Public memory in Germany and Russia
Through a comparative analysis of Germany and Russia, this paper explores how \nparticipation in the memorialization process affects and reflects national identity formation \nin post-totalitarian societies. These post-totalitarian societies face the common problem of \nre-presenting their national character as civic and democratic, in great part because their \nnational identities were closely bound to oppressive regimes. Through a comparison of…
Memory Studies
Journal Article Memory Studies Get access Marc Augé, Oblivion, transl. Marjolijn de Jager, foreword James Young, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 2004; $18.95 paper, ISBN: 0-8166-3567-6. Annie E. Coombes, History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa, Duke University Press, Durham and London: 2003; $27.95 paper, ISBN: 0-8223-3072-5. Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone (ed.), Conte…
Artistic and activist memory-work: Approaching place-based practice
While an emerging interdisciplinary field of memory studies exists, what it is and might become remains open to debate. This article calls for a memory studies agenda that remains sensitive to the ways individuals and groups experience memory as multi-sensual, spatial ways of understanding their worlds. Artistic and activist memory-work in particular offers at least two contributions to such an agenda. It challenges ontological assumptions that u…
Mapping and excavating spectral traces in post-apartheid Cape Town
This article explores how spectral traces at places marked by acts of violence and injustice allow residents to come into contact with past and future inhabitants of the postcolonial city. We examine controversies surrounding Prestwich Place, Cape Town, an informal burial ground for colonial underclasses that was unearthed when construction began for an upscale ‘New York-style’ apartment and office complex. The human remains that emerged embodied…
Place In Context: Rethinking Humanist Geographies
The appeal of icewine is attributable to its distinct aroma characteristics, such as 'honey', 'caramel', and 'dried fruit', but little is known about the chemical basis of these aroma attributes. A set of icewines with different aroma intensities were selected by a panel of wine experts. Detailed volatile compound analyses and sensory descriptive analyses were performed on the selected icewines. Using partial least-squares regression, several lac…
Reimagining National Identity "Chapters Of Life" At The German Historical Museum In Berlin
Textures Of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies
Ethnography and Participant Observation
Walls, borders, boundaries: Spatial and cultural practices in Europe
Till, and Janet Ward PART I: CITY WALLS Chapter 1. The Dialectics of Urban Form in Absolutist France Yair Mintzker Chapter 2. The Camp in the City, the City as Camp: Berlin's Other Guarded Walls Olaf Briese Chapter 3. Threshold Resistance: Dani Karavan's Berlin Installation Grundgesetz Eric Jarosinski Chapter 4. Did Walls Really Come Down? Contemporary B/ordering Walls in Europe Daniela Vicherat Mattar PART II: BORDER ZONES Chapter 5. Border Guar…
Wounded cities: Memory-work and a place-based ethics of care
Interventions in the political geographies of walls
Towards responsible geographies of memory: Complexities of place and the ethics of remembering
Debates about the meanings of place often emerge when unsettled pasts resurface unexpectedly in ways that dislocate present-day land-uses. Such was the case for the IGU 2011 Regional Meeting in Chile, which was held in Santiago's Military Academy. When considering the geographical scholarship about place and memory, the debates resulting from the conference should not be surprising. Geographers have long examined the controversial processes of so…
Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin
Lawton et al. 2019, Natura Urbana, AAG Review of Books, 3(7), p. 214-227
I Challenging Gender Discrimination in Irish Geography
In this collection, several authors – ranging from early career to well established academics – consider the role of women and the female voice in academia. This compilation developed from a conference session organised by the Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG) Ireland group, at the Conference of Irish Geographers in University College Cork (UCC) in 2017. In the first piece, Ahern and Mc Ardle consider why this discussion is necessary at all, r…
Introduction Walls, Borders, Boundaries
Leading Change: Reproductive Rights, Empowerment and Feminist Solidarity in the Dublin Bay North Repeal the 8th Campaign
This article examines how the Dublin Bay North (DBN) Repeal the 8th activist group, an independent women-led, grassroots movement in the largest constituency in Ireland, practiced a collectivist approach to forms of ‘power-with’ and ‘power-to’ (Allen, 2018) that enabled the group to create an activist community based upon a feminist ethics of ‘caring-with’ (Tronto, 1993). In 2018 in Dublin, what had been a narrow majority in 1983 against abortion…
The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration: A Participatory Visual Approach
Yi-Fu Tuan’s Legacy: Impacts on the Geographical Review , Disciplines, Scholarship, and Teaching
Yi-Fu Tuan published extensively in a number of outlets throughout his long career, including in the Geographical Review between 1968 and 2002. While Tuan’s influence on research and teaching in geography was far reaching, he also inspired scholars in other disciplines, such as education and environmental psychology. This retrospective essay commemorates Tuan’s relationship with the Geographical Review and brings together a diverse group of schol…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (11 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works)