Deborah P Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 197134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah P Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah P |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON D P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Difference
Difference is crucial to geographic inquiry not only as an object of analysis in and of itself, but also as a means of locating and sorting other objects ready for analysis. In a diverse and often diffuse disciplinary landscape, two key shifts can be discerned in regard to how difference is understood and debated. The first revolves around the charge of essentialism, as difference as a matter of the distinctness of objects/events and their core a…
GeoHumanities
The recent emergence of geohumanities signals a cross‐disciplinary and a transdisciplinary engagement with themes of space and place. As a loosely structured field of inquiry, geohumanities combines a long‐standing humanities interest in the Earth, dating back to the Renaissance, with much more recent developments in the digital humanities and creative uses of geographic information science ( GIScience ). This entry explores these varying genealo…
Nature, Art, and Aesthetics
Though much of geography today makes little explicit reference to either art or aesthetics, both are nevertheless key to the emergence of the discipline as a modern mode of inquiry into nature. Artistic practice, using diverse mediums, has helped physical as well as human geographers think through and convey the import of particular landscape features, while aesthetics has underpinned a multisensuous engagement with the environment through an exp…
Feminist Geopolitics: Material States
What can unfold from an engagement of feminist issues, concerns and practices with the geopolitical? How does feminism allow for a reconfiguration of how these two elements, the geo- and the -political, are understood and related? What kinds of objects can be located and put into motion? What kinds of relations can be drawn between these? What kinds of practice become valued? And, what is glossed or rendered absent in the process? In this thought…
Engaging Hashima: Memory Work, Site-Based Affects, and the Possibilities of Interruption
How is memory embodied, narrated, interrupted, and reworked? Here, we take a postphenomenological approach to memory work that is attentive to how site-based affects prompt and ossify, but also transmogrify, memory of place. With reference to an intensely traumatized, but also domesticated and entropied, environment—the island of Hashima, off the coast from Nagasaki City in Japan—we demonstrate the relevance and explanatory reach of culturally sp…
One Sinister Hurricane: Simondon and Collaborative Visualization
This article offers a theory and methodology for understanding and interpreting collaborations that involve visualization technologies. The collaboration discussed here is technically a geovisualization—an immersive, digital “fulldome” film of Hurricane Katrina developed by the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, produced in collaboration with atmospheric scientists at the National Center for…
The Future of Ruins: The Baroque Melancholy of Hashima
Here, we present an iteration of our theoretical/creative writing project Hashima, begun in 2012. The paper is a collaboration and draws on the different discourses, practices and sensibilities of a performance theorist, a geographer, and a visual artist. For us, Hashima, located off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, and a former site of forced labor and intensive offshore coal-mining, is a provocation for experimentation. Hashima, exploited and abje…
Wonder, horror and the hunt for La Bête in mid-18th century France
Monsters, monstrousness, and monstrous nature/s
Introduction: Monstrous Irruptions
Scream: The Sound of the Monstrous
What does the monstrous sound like? Using the case of Living TV's Most Haunted, a paranormal investigative show that brings together a team of believers, sceptics and undecided, I want to articulate an answer to this question by drawing upon literatures from feminist psychoanalysis, performance and media studies that address the nature of screaming. Specifically, I emphasize how the scream has functioned as a focal point for both the 'monstrous-f…
Geographies of Touch/Touched by Geography
Considerable attention within geography has been paid to the physiologies, knowledges and practices that give substance and import to the senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch - and the manner in which these work alone, or in concert, to facilitate particular forms of relations between and amongst people, other life forms and objects. This article takes stock of the manner in which touch has entered into these debates and in particular …
On the other Hand … Dialectics
The blade and the claw: Science, Art and the Creation of the Lab-Borne Monster
Here I outline some of the fears, as well as some of the desires, associated with the lab-borne \nmonster as manifest in the emergent genre of critical BioArt. Using a recent installation on \nDisembodied Cuisine to ground my discussion, I look first to the chimeric character of \nbiotechnology per se, as well as the hybridised practices and products of this close \ncollaboration between Science and Art. I then take the opportunity to explore how…
Technological trajectories: Old and New Dialogues in Geography and Technology Studies
Dixon, D. P., Whitehead, M. (2008). Technological trajectories: old and new dialogues in geography and technology studies. Social and Cultural Geography, 9 (6), 601-611
I hear dead people: Science, Technology and a Resonant Universe
In recent years the simplistic categorization of Victorian practices and beliefs as either ‘occult’ or ‘scientific’ has been undercut by a series of revisionist analyses that point to an over-arching concern with influence and effect, a concern that was manifest across the sciences and humanities and beyond into popular culture. This paper sets out to further problematize such a distinction via an exploration of twentieth-century research into el…
Imagining Geographies of films
To the extent that the geographic study of film has come of age, it is important to not only tie it to disciplinary issues but also to push theoretical boundaries. Geographic concern is often lacking a critical perspective, focusing primarily on the geographic realism of films rather than how they produce meaning. Geographers needed to elaborate insights through critical spatial theories, so that our studies are not only about filmic representati…
Guest Editorial
Cultivating Discourse: The Social Construction of Agricultural Legislation
In this article we initiate a critical analysis of the discursive geographies from which U.S. agricultural legislation has been constructed. First, we refer to the geography of discourse, which consists of the production, dissemination, and consumption of ideas, concepts, theories, and understandings. Specifically, we trace the emergence and development of an American agrarian discourse, constituted from a wealth of ideas and theories concerning …
For a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Scientific Geography
Contemporary geographic thought finds scientific approaches triangulated by critiques launched by various political economy, feminist, and poststructuralist positions. In aiming their conceptual arsenal at fixed understandings of scientific geography, however, such critiques run the danger of essentializing their intended target. Moreover, in the consequent stabilization of the trajectories taken by these critiques, the process of criticism itsel…
Guest Editorial
Geographies of Touch/Touched by Geography
Considerable attention within geography has been paid to the physiologies, knowledges and practices that give substance and import to the senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch - and the manner in which these work alone, or in concert, to facilitate particular forms of relations between and amongst people, other life forms and objects. This article takes stock of the manner in which touch has entered into these debates and in particular …
The blade and the claw: Science, Art and the Creation of the Lab-Borne Monster
Here I outline some of the fears, as well as some of the desires, associated with the lab-borne \nmonster as manifest in the emergent genre of critical BioArt. Using a recent installation on \nDisembodied Cuisine to ground my discussion, I look first to the chimeric character of \nbiotechnology per se, as well as the hybridised practices and products of this close \ncollaboration between Science and Art. I then take the opportunity to explore how…
Technological trajectories: Old and New Dialogues in Geography and Technology Studies
Dixon, D. P., Whitehead, M. (2008). Technological trajectories: old and new dialogues in geography and technology studies. Social and Cultural Geography, 9 (6), 601-611
Cultivating Discourse: The Social Construction of Agricultural Legislation
In this article we initiate a critical analysis of the discursive geographies from which U.S. agricultural legislation has been constructed. First, we refer to the geography of discourse, which consists of the production, dissemination, and consumption of ideas, concepts, theories, and understandings. Specifically, we trace the emergence and development of an American agrarian discourse, constituted from a wealth of ideas and theories concerning …
For a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Scientific Geography
Contemporary geographic thought finds scientific approaches triangulated by critiques launched by various political economy, feminist, and poststructuralist positions. In aiming their conceptual arsenal at fixed understandings of scientific geography, however, such critiques run the danger of essentializing their intended target. Moreover, in the consequent stabilization of the trajectories taken by these critiques, the process of criticism itsel…
Engaging Hashima: Memory Work, Site-Based Affects, and the Possibilities of Interruption
How is memory embodied, narrated, interrupted, and reworked? Here, we take a postphenomenological approach to memory work that is attentive to how site-based affects prompt and ossify, but also transmogrify, memory of place. With reference to an intensely traumatized, but also domesticated and entropied, environment—the island of Hashima, off the coast from Nagasaki City in Japan—we demonstrate the relevance and explanatory reach of culturally sp…
I hear dead people: Science, Technology and a Resonant Universe
In recent years the simplistic categorization of Victorian practices and beliefs as either ‘occult’ or ‘scientific’ has been undercut by a series of revisionist analyses that point to an over-arching concern with influence and effect, a concern that was manifest across the sciences and humanities and beyond into popular culture. This paper sets out to further problematize such a distinction via an exploration of twentieth-century research into el…
One Sinister Hurricane: Simondon and Collaborative Visualization
This article offers a theory and methodology for understanding and interpreting collaborations that involve visualization technologies. The collaboration discussed here is technically a geovisualization—an immersive, digital “fulldome” film of Hurricane Katrina developed by the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, produced in collaboration with atmospheric scientists at the National Center for…
Introduction: Monstrous Irruptions
Scream: The Sound of the Monstrous
What does the monstrous sound like? Using the case of Living TV's Most Haunted, a paranormal investigative show that brings together a team of believers, sceptics and undecided, I want to articulate an answer to this question by drawing upon literatures from feminist psychoanalysis, performance and media studies that address the nature of screaming. Specifically, I emphasize how the scream has functioned as a focal point for both the 'monstrous-f…
The Future of Ruins: The Baroque Melancholy of Hashima
Here, we present an iteration of our theoretical/creative writing project Hashima, begun in 2012. The paper is a collaboration and draws on the different discourses, practices and sensibilities of a performance theorist, a geographer, and a visual artist. For us, Hashima, located off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, and a former site of forced labor and intensive offshore coal-mining, is a provocation for experimentation. Hashima, exploited and abje…
Wonder, horror and the hunt for La Bête in mid-18th century France
Monsters, monstrousness, and monstrous nature/s
For a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Scientific Geography
Contemporary geographic thought finds scientific approaches triangulated by critiques launched by various political economy, feminist, and poststructuralist positions. In aiming their conceptual arsenal at fixed understandings of scientific geography, however, such critiques run the danger of essentializing their intended target. Moreover, in the consequent stabilization of the trajectories taken by these critiques, the process of criticism itsel…
Cultivating Discourse: The Social Construction of Agricultural Legislation
In this article we initiate a critical analysis of the discursive geographies from which U.S. agricultural legislation has been constructed. First, we refer to the geography of discourse, which consists of the production, dissemination, and consumption of ideas, concepts, theories, and understandings. Specifically, we trace the emergence and development of an American agrarian discourse, constituted from a wealth of ideas and theories concerning …
Guest Editorial
Imagining Geographies of films
To the extent that the geographic study of film has come of age, it is important to not only tie it to disciplinary issues but also to push theoretical boundaries. Geographic concern is often lacking a critical perspective, focusing primarily on the geographic realism of films rather than how they produce meaning. Geographers needed to elaborate insights through critical spatial theories, so that our studies are not only about filmic representati…
I hear dead people: Science, Technology and a Resonant Universe
In recent years the simplistic categorization of Victorian practices and beliefs as either ‘occult’ or ‘scientific’ has been undercut by a series of revisionist analyses that point to an over-arching concern with influence and effect, a concern that was manifest across the sciences and humanities and beyond into popular culture. This paper sets out to further problematize such a distinction via an exploration of twentieth-century research into el…
On the other Hand … Dialectics
The blade and the claw: Science, Art and the Creation of the Lab-Borne Monster
Here I outline some of the fears, as well as some of the desires, associated with the lab-borne \nmonster as manifest in the emergent genre of critical BioArt. Using a recent installation on \nDisembodied Cuisine to ground my discussion, I look first to the chimeric character of \nbiotechnology per se, as well as the hybridised practices and products of this close \ncollaboration between Science and Art. I then take the opportunity to explore how…
Technological trajectories: Old and New Dialogues in Geography and Technology Studies
Dixon, D. P., Whitehead, M. (2008). Technological trajectories: old and new dialogues in geography and technology studies. Social and Cultural Geography, 9 (6), 601-611
Geographies of Touch/Touched by Geography
Considerable attention within geography has been paid to the physiologies, knowledges and practices that give substance and import to the senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch - and the manner in which these work alone, or in concert, to facilitate particular forms of relations between and amongst people, other life forms and objects. This article takes stock of the manner in which touch has entered into these debates and in particular …
Introduction: Monstrous Irruptions
Scream: The Sound of the Monstrous
What does the monstrous sound like? Using the case of Living TV's Most Haunted, a paranormal investigative show that brings together a team of believers, sceptics and undecided, I want to articulate an answer to this question by drawing upon literatures from feminist psychoanalysis, performance and media studies that address the nature of screaming. Specifically, I emphasize how the scream has functioned as a focal point for both the 'monstrous-f…
Wonder, horror and the hunt for La Bête in mid-18th century France
Monsters, monstrousness, and monstrous nature/s
The Future of Ruins: The Baroque Melancholy of Hashima
Here, we present an iteration of our theoretical/creative writing project Hashima, begun in 2012. The paper is a collaboration and draws on the different discourses, practices and sensibilities of a performance theorist, a geographer, and a visual artist. For us, Hashima, located off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, and a former site of forced labor and intensive offshore coal-mining, is a provocation for experimentation. Hashima, exploited and abje…
One Sinister Hurricane: Simondon and Collaborative Visualization
This article offers a theory and methodology for understanding and interpreting collaborations that involve visualization technologies. The collaboration discussed here is technically a geovisualization—an immersive, digital “fulldome” film of Hurricane Katrina developed by the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, produced in collaboration with atmospheric scientists at the National Center for…
Feminist Geopolitics: Material States
What can unfold from an engagement of feminist issues, concerns and practices with the geopolitical? How does feminism allow for a reconfiguration of how these two elements, the geo- and the -political, are understood and related? What kinds of objects can be located and put into motion? What kinds of relations can be drawn between these? What kinds of practice become valued? And, what is glossed or rendered absent in the process? In this thought…
Engaging Hashima: Memory Work, Site-Based Affects, and the Possibilities of Interruption
How is memory embodied, narrated, interrupted, and reworked? Here, we take a postphenomenological approach to memory work that is attentive to how site-based affects prompt and ossify, but also transmogrify, memory of place. With reference to an intensely traumatized, but also domesticated and entropied, environment—the island of Hashima, off the coast from Nagasaki City in Japan—we demonstrate the relevance and explanatory reach of culturally sp…
Difference
Difference is crucial to geographic inquiry not only as an object of analysis in and of itself, but also as a means of locating and sorting other objects ready for analysis. In a diverse and often diffuse disciplinary landscape, two key shifts can be discerned in regard to how difference is understood and debated. The first revolves around the charge of essentialism, as difference as a matter of the distinctness of objects/events and their core a…
GeoHumanities
The recent emergence of geohumanities signals a cross‐disciplinary and a transdisciplinary engagement with themes of space and place. As a loosely structured field of inquiry, geohumanities combines a long‐standing humanities interest in the Earth, dating back to the Renaissance, with much more recent developments in the digital humanities and creative uses of geographic information science ( GIScience ). This entry explores these varying genealo…
Nature, Art, and Aesthetics
Though much of geography today makes little explicit reference to either art or aesthetics, both are nevertheless key to the emergence of the discipline as a modern mode of inquiry into nature. Artistic practice, using diverse mediums, has helped physical as well as human geographers think through and convey the import of particular landscape features, while aesthetics has underpinned a multisensuous engagement with the environment through an exp…
Sociology (14 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Art (9 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Geography (6 works)