Ian R Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 217817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian R Cook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian R |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK I R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4674-9354 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 332 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Policy mobilities and gender: A case study of the influence of the ‘Swedish model’ on Northern Ireland’s sex work policy
As gender is largely absent in academic studies of policy mobilities, this article calls for academic discussion on the role of gender within policy mobilities. To kick-start this discussion, it suggests two avenues of investigation: (1) gendered labour and power relations, and (2) gendered narratives. To demonstrate the value of taking these avenues, it examines the circulation of sex work policy models. In particular, the article considers the …
Lecture tours, cultural propaganda and policy mobilities: An exploration of architect-planner William G. Holford’s wartime visit to Sweden
This article explores the performance, motivations and geopolitical context of a 1942 British Council-organised lecture tour of Sweden by the British architect-planner William Holford. It engages with the policy mobilities literature – in particular studies on 1) the learning/educating within policy circulation and 2) the temporalities of policy circulation. It uses Holford’s tour and lectures – which projected a bright future for the UK to Swedi…
‘Maybe I’m a quiet activist’: Sex work scholars and negotiations of ‘minor’ academic-activism
With the intensification of calls for social ‘impact’ from research, there is renewed emphasis on academic-activism as a means to realize social change. But what ‘counts’ as activism in these visions of academic-activist impact? Drawing on interviews with sex work scholars in the United Kingdom and Aotearoa New Zealand, we examine the borders – and the disruption of borders – between ‘traditional’ forms of activism and a wider array of more ‘mino…
The subterranean in crime fiction: Examining Edinburgh's underground in Ian Rankin's John Rebus novels
Given the prominence of subterranean settings and imagery within crime fiction, this article critically examines the genre's representation of the subterranean. Influenced by scholarly work on the subterranean, I focus on the writing of one prominent crime novelist, Ian Rankin, and his Edinburgh-set John Rebus detective novels. From a relational standpoint, two issues are focused on: subterranean place (namely the attachment of meaning to the sub…
Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism
From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians …
Platforms, sex work and their interconnectedness
This article examines the interconnectedness of sex work with the platform economy. It does this by mobilizing two concepts from the platform economy literature: the platform stack (which captures the structure of platforms) and interpenetration (which describes the processes through which platforms intersect). Exploring these concepts, the article draws on a dataset of linked platforms used by 54 cam workers and documented observations of 55 dif…
Conferences, award ceremonies and the showcasing of ‘best practice’: A case study of the annual European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels
This paper makes the case that conferences and award ceremonies are important means through which best practices are presented as being successful, transferable and transformative. To do this, it draws on the expanding literature on policy mobilities and a case study of the European Week of Regions and Cities conference and one of the centrepieces at the conference, the RegioStars awards ceremony. Organised by public bodies within the European Un…
Criminological Policy Mobilities and Sex Work: Understanding the Movement of the ‘Swedish Model’ to Northern Ireland
Ideas, policies and models related to criminal justice often travel between places. How, then, should we make sense of this movement? We make the case for drawing on the policy mobilities literature, which originates in human geography. It is only recently that criminological studies have drawn on small parts of this literature. This article argues for a more expansive engagement with the policy mobilities literature, so that criminal justice res…
Suburban policy mobilities: Examining North American post-war engagements with Vällingby, Stockholm
This article calls for a detailed examination of the links between suburbia and the mobilization of policy knowledge. With suburbanization taking place across the world and the expanding literature on policy mobilities having little to say about the suburbs, this article begins to address this important gap in our collective understanding. It does this through a case study of Vällingby, a Stockholm suburb that captured the imagination of many pla…
Sex Work, Sensory Urbanism and Visual Criminology: Exploring the Role of the Senses in Shaping Residential Perceptions of Brothels in Blackpool
Urban studies and criminology have much to offer each other, but the links between the two have so far been underexplored. This article is an illustration of how aspects of both can, and should, be brought into conversation: namely the literatures on sensory urbanism (in urban studies) and visual criminology. The benefits of doing so are evidenced by a case study exploring the ways in which the senses shape residents' perceptions of brothels in B…
Television drama and the urban diegesis: Portraying Albuquerque in Breaking Bad
Albuquerque, New Mexico is the filming location and setting of the popular television drama Breaking Bad (2008–2013). Albuquerque is not merely a passive backdrop to the action in the show but a focal point of the series. So much so that in the geographical imaginations of many, Albuquerque and Breaking Bad have become synonymous with each other. This paper critically examines the representation of urban life within the show. To do this it draws …
Policies on the Move: The Transatlantic Travels of Tax Increment Financing
Growing influence of the new mobilities paradigm among human geographers has combined with a long and rich disciplinary tradition of studying the movement of things and people. Yet how policy ideas and knowledge are mobilized remains a notably underdeveloped area of inquiry. In this article, we discuss the mobilization of policy ideas and policy models as a particularly powerful type of mobile knowledge. The article examines the burgeoning academ…
A vengeful education? urban revanchism, sex work and the penal politics of john schools
This article considers how useful the urban revanchism thesis is in helping us understand the John School, a “mobile” educational programme that has been rolled out in the United States, Canada, the UK and South Korea which teaches those arrested for soliciting for the purposes of buying sex the negative consequences of their actions. The article begins by unpacking the urban revanchism thesis and bringing it into dialogue with ideas on punishmen…
Policy Mobilities and Interdisciplinary Engagement
This essay explores the nature and potential of interdisciplinarity in the expanding body of research on the circulation of policies between places. It focuses on the policy mobilities literature, highlighting its geographical underpinnings as well as its links to, and divergences from, literature beyond geography, in particular the political science-led work on policy transfer. Acknowledging the potential downfalls of interdisciplinarity, it cal…
Making links between sex work, gender and victimisation: The politics and pedagogies of John Schools
This article will explore the links between sex work, gender and victimisation. It will draw on the literature on victims and victimology as well as the literature on sex work to explore the ways in which sex work, gender and victimisation are presented at John Schools. These are court-diversion educational programmes that teach those arrested for soliciting for the purposes of buying sex the negative consequences of their actions and are current…
Governing Sex Work in the City
Sex work is often constructed as an urban 'problem'. As a result, sex workers, clients and the spaces in which people buy or sell sex are frequently the subject of intervention from those governing cities. This paper considers the ways in which problems and solutions are framed in the wider governance of sex work in cities in the global north. It draws on a range of academic literature to show how the urban governance of sex work takes relational…
A Springtime Journey to the Soviet Union: Postwar Planning and Policy Mobilities through the Iron Curtain
This article builds upon a relatively small but growing literature in geography, planning and cognate disciplines that seeks to understand the variegated geographies and histories of policy mobilities. The article uses a case study of an exchange trip between town planners in the Soviet Union and the UK between 1957 and 1958. It focuses on the experiences of the British planners in the Soviet Union and sets the tour within the wider context of a …
Conferences, informational infrastructures and mobile policies: The process of getting Sweden ‘BID ready’
This paper makes a contribution to the fledgling literature on policy mobilities and mutations. Using the example of the internationalization of the Business Improvement District (BID) model, it argues that conferences constitute important arenas in and through which both the mobilizing and embedding of urban policies can occur. Focusing on a two-day conference that took place in Sweden in 2009, it uses the language of trans-urban policy pipeline…
Relational Comparisons: The Assembling of Cleveland's Waterfront Plan
This study uses the ongoing attempts to redevelop Cleveland's waterfront to reveal the relational comparative geographies that are present in a number of contemporary urban revalorization strategies. It draws on archival documents, semi-structured interviews, and the local gray literature to make three contributions to the existing urban-global studies literature. First, the article argues that many contemporary waterfront and other similar redev…
Cities, Social Cohesion and the Environment: Towards a Future Research Agenda
It will be argued in this paper that the problematic of social cohesion is also one of socio-ecological cohesion whereby the urbanisation of nature and its socio-environmentally enabling and disabling conditions are key processes. By viewing the contradictions of the urbanisation process as intrinsically socio-ecological ones, the terrain of social cohesion is shifted both epistemologically and politically. The paper critically examines three con…
Trans-urban Networks of Learning, Mega Events and Policy Tourism: The Case of Manchester’s Commonwealth and Olympic Games Projects
This paper argues for a rethinking of our understanding of what and where go into the ‘urban’ in the New Urban Politics (NUP). It contends that these issues have always been more complex, complicated and, most importantly, contested than has sometimes appeared to be the case in the literature. Using the example of one trans-urban policy learning network—that around the city of Manchester’s bids for the Olympic and Commonwealth Games—the paper mak…
Visibility and the Policing of Public Space: Visibility and policing of public space
From studies of ‘panoptic’ CCTV surveillance to accounts of undercover police officers, it is often mooted that visibility and invisibility are central to the policing of public space. However, there has been no comprehensive and critical assessment of this axiom. Drawing on the practices of a variety of policing providers and regulators, and the work of geographers, criminologists and other social scientists, this paper examines how and why visi…
Policing, Partnerships, and Profits: The Operations of Business Improvement Districts and Town Center Management Schemes in England
This study considers the emergence of Public Private Policing Partnerships (PPPPs) in England and focuses on two increasingly common partnership bodies in particular: Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) and Town Center Management (TCM) schemes. It argues that in order to fully understand the operations of these partnerships, research must pay attention to their introduction, evolution, and social relationships. Through comparative case studies …
Securing an Urban Renaissance: Crime, Community and British Urban Policy – Edited by Rowland Atkinson and Gesa Helms
City. Phil Hubbard
Conferences, informational infrastructures and mobile policies: The process of getting Sweden ‘BID ready’
This paper makes a contribution to the fledgling literature on policy mobilities and mutations. Using the example of the internationalization of the Business Improvement District (BID) model, it argues that conferences constitute important arenas in and through which both the mobilizing and embedding of urban policies can occur. Focusing on a two-day conference that took place in Sweden in 2009, it uses the language of trans-urban policy pipeline…
Mobilising Urban Policies: The Policy Transfer of US Business Improvement Districts to England and Wales
This paper examines the ways in which policies are transferred between places: how they are disembedded from, and re-embedded into, new political, economic and social contexts. To do this, the paper will draw upon a case study of the transfer of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) from the US to England and Wales. Within this, the paper demonstrates how they were a response to fiscal problems facing city-centre management in England and Wales; …
Relational Comparisons: The Assembling of Cleveland's Waterfront Plan
This study uses the ongoing attempts to redevelop Cleveland's waterfront to reveal the relational comparative geographies that are present in a number of contemporary urban revalorization strategies. It draws on archival documents, semi-structured interviews, and the local gray literature to make three contributions to the existing urban-global studies literature. First, the article argues that many contemporary waterfront and other similar redev…
Trans-urban Networks of Learning, Mega Events and Policy Tourism: The Case of Manchester’s Commonwealth and Olympic Games Projects
This paper argues for a rethinking of our understanding of what and where go into the ‘urban’ in the New Urban Politics (NUP). It contends that these issues have always been more complex, complicated and, most importantly, contested than has sometimes appeared to be the case in the literature. Using the example of one trans-urban policy learning network—that around the city of Manchester’s bids for the Olympic and Commonwealth Games—the paper mak…
Cities, Social Cohesion and the Environment: Towards a Future Research Agenda
It will be argued in this paper that the problematic of social cohesion is also one of socio-ecological cohesion whereby the urbanisation of nature and its socio-environmentally enabling and disabling conditions are key processes. By viewing the contradictions of the urbanisation process as intrinsically socio-ecological ones, the terrain of social cohesion is shifted both epistemologically and politically. The paper critically examines three con…
Private sector involvement in urban governance: The case of Business Improvement Districts and Town Centre Management partnerships in England
A Springtime Journey to the Soviet Union: Postwar Planning and Policy Mobilities through the Iron Curtain
This article builds upon a relatively small but growing literature in geography, planning and cognate disciplines that seeks to understand the variegated geographies and histories of policy mobilities. The article uses a case study of an exchange trip between town planners in the Soviet Union and the UK between 1957 and 1958. It focuses on the experiences of the British planners in the Soviet Union and sets the tour within the wider context of a …
Visibility and the Policing of Public Space: Visibility and policing of public space
From studies of ‘panoptic’ CCTV surveillance to accounts of undercover police officers, it is often mooted that visibility and invisibility are central to the policing of public space. However, there has been no comprehensive and critical assessment of this axiom. Drawing on the practices of a variety of policing providers and regulators, and the work of geographers, criminologists and other social scientists, this paper examines how and why visi…
Policing, Partnerships, and Profits: The Operations of Business Improvement Districts and Town Center Management Schemes in England
This study considers the emergence of Public Private Policing Partnerships (PPPPs) in England and focuses on two increasingly common partnership bodies in particular: Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) and Town Center Management (TCM) schemes. It argues that in order to fully understand the operations of these partnerships, research must pay attention to their introduction, evolution, and social relationships. Through comparative case studies …
Policies on the Move: The Transatlantic Travels of Tax Increment Financing
Growing influence of the new mobilities paradigm among human geographers has combined with a long and rich disciplinary tradition of studying the movement of things and people. Yet how policy ideas and knowledge are mobilized remains a notably underdeveloped area of inquiry. In this article, we discuss the mobilization of policy ideas and policy models as a particularly powerful type of mobile knowledge. The article examines the burgeoning academ…
Conferences, award ceremonies and the showcasing of ‘best practice’: A case study of the annual European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels
This paper makes the case that conferences and award ceremonies are important means through which best practices are presented as being successful, transferable and transformative. To do this, it draws on the expanding literature on policy mobilities and a case study of the European Week of Regions and Cities conference and one of the centrepieces at the conference, the RegioStars awards ceremony. Organised by public bodies within the European Un…
Criminological Policy Mobilities and Sex Work: Understanding the Movement of the ‘Swedish Model’ to Northern Ireland
Ideas, policies and models related to criminal justice often travel between places. How, then, should we make sense of this movement? We make the case for drawing on the policy mobilities literature, which originates in human geography. It is only recently that criminological studies have drawn on small parts of this literature. This article argues for a more expansive engagement with the policy mobilities literature, so that criminal justice res…
Suburban policy mobilities: Examining North American post-war engagements with Vällingby, Stockholm
This article calls for a detailed examination of the links between suburbia and the mobilization of policy knowledge. With suburbanization taking place across the world and the expanding literature on policy mobilities having little to say about the suburbs, this article begins to address this important gap in our collective understanding. It does this through a case study of Vällingby, a Stockholm suburb that captured the imagination of many pla…
Making links between sex work, gender and victimisation: The politics and pedagogies of John Schools
This article will explore the links between sex work, gender and victimisation. It will draw on the literature on victims and victimology as well as the literature on sex work to explore the ways in which sex work, gender and victimisation are presented at John Schools. These are court-diversion educational programmes that teach those arrested for soliciting for the purposes of buying sex the negative consequences of their actions and are current…
Governing Sex Work in the City
Sex work is often constructed as an urban 'problem'. As a result, sex workers, clients and the spaces in which people buy or sell sex are frequently the subject of intervention from those governing cities. This paper considers the ways in which problems and solutions are framed in the wider governance of sex work in cities in the global north. It draws on a range of academic literature to show how the urban governance of sex work takes relational…
Policy Mobilities and Interdisciplinary Engagement
This essay explores the nature and potential of interdisciplinarity in the expanding body of research on the circulation of policies between places. It focuses on the policy mobilities literature, highlighting its geographical underpinnings as well as its links to, and divergences from, literature beyond geography, in particular the political science-led work on policy transfer. Acknowledging the potential downfalls of interdisciplinarity, it cal…
Sex Work, Sensory Urbanism and Visual Criminology: Exploring the Role of the Senses in Shaping Residential Perceptions of Brothels in Blackpool
Urban studies and criminology have much to offer each other, but the links between the two have so far been underexplored. This article is an illustration of how aspects of both can, and should, be brought into conversation: namely the literatures on sensory urbanism (in urban studies) and visual criminology. The benefits of doing so are evidenced by a case study exploring the ways in which the senses shape residents' perceptions of brothels in B…
The subterranean in crime fiction: Examining Edinburgh's underground in Ian Rankin's John Rebus novels
Given the prominence of subterranean settings and imagery within crime fiction, this article critically examines the genre's representation of the subterranean. Influenced by scholarly work on the subterranean, I focus on the writing of one prominent crime novelist, Ian Rankin, and his Edinburgh-set John Rebus detective novels. From a relational standpoint, two issues are focused on: subterranean place (namely the attachment of meaning to the sub…
A vengeful education? urban revanchism, sex work and the penal politics of john schools
This article considers how useful the urban revanchism thesis is in helping us understand the John School, a “mobile” educational programme that has been rolled out in the United States, Canada, the UK and South Korea which teaches those arrested for soliciting for the purposes of buying sex the negative consequences of their actions. The article begins by unpacking the urban revanchism thesis and bringing it into dialogue with ideas on punishmen…
Rethinking Silicon Valley: New Perspectives on Regional Development
Silicon Valley in Southern California has, over the past 30 years, become a model for high technology development in many parts of the world. Associated with Silicon Valley is a common rhetoric and mythology that explains the origins of this area of high technology agglomeration and indeed the business and entrepreneurial attributes needed for success. Governments in many parts of the world (including Southeast Asia and Australia) have tried to e…
Alternative Economic Spaces
Journal Article Alternative Economic Spaces Get access Ian R. Cook Ian R. Cook School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 253–254, https://doi.org/10.1093/jnlecg/lbh049 Published: 01 April 2005
Mobilising Urban Policies: The Policy Transfer of US Business Improvement Districts to England and Wales
This paper examines the ways in which policies are transferred between places: how they are disembedded from, and re-embedded into, new political, economic and social contexts. To do this, the paper will draw upon a case study of the transfer of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) from the US to England and Wales. Within this, the paper demonstrates how they were a response to fiscal problems facing city-centre management in England and Wales; …
Securing an Urban Renaissance: Crime, Community and British Urban Policy – Edited by Rowland Atkinson and Gesa Helms
City. Phil Hubbard
Private sector involvement in urban governance: The case of Business Improvement Districts and Town Centre Management partnerships in England
Policing, Partnerships, and Profits: The Operations of Business Improvement Districts and Town Center Management Schemes in England
This study considers the emergence of Public Private Policing Partnerships (PPPPs) in England and focuses on two increasingly common partnership bodies in particular: Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) and Town Center Management (TCM) schemes. It argues that in order to fully understand the operations of these partnerships, research must pay attention to their introduction, evolution, and social relationships. Through comparative case studies …
Trans-urban Networks of Learning, Mega Events and Policy Tourism: The Case of Manchester’s Commonwealth and Olympic Games Projects
This paper argues for a rethinking of our understanding of what and where go into the ‘urban’ in the New Urban Politics (NUP). It contends that these issues have always been more complex, complicated and, most importantly, contested than has sometimes appeared to be the case in the literature. Using the example of one trans-urban policy learning network—that around the city of Manchester’s bids for the Olympic and Commonwealth Games—the paper mak…
Visibility and the Policing of Public Space: Visibility and policing of public space
From studies of ‘panoptic’ CCTV surveillance to accounts of undercover police officers, it is often mooted that visibility and invisibility are central to the policing of public space. However, there has been no comprehensive and critical assessment of this axiom. Drawing on the practices of a variety of policing providers and regulators, and the work of geographers, criminologists and other social scientists, this paper examines how and why visi…
Conferences, informational infrastructures and mobile policies: The process of getting Sweden ‘BID ready’
This paper makes a contribution to the fledgling literature on policy mobilities and mutations. Using the example of the internationalization of the Business Improvement District (BID) model, it argues that conferences constitute important arenas in and through which both the mobilizing and embedding of urban policies can occur. Focusing on a two-day conference that took place in Sweden in 2009, it uses the language of trans-urban policy pipeline…
Relational Comparisons: The Assembling of Cleveland's Waterfront Plan
This study uses the ongoing attempts to redevelop Cleveland's waterfront to reveal the relational comparative geographies that are present in a number of contemporary urban revalorization strategies. It draws on archival documents, semi-structured interviews, and the local gray literature to make three contributions to the existing urban-global studies literature. First, the article argues that many contemporary waterfront and other similar redev…
Cities, Social Cohesion and the Environment: Towards a Future Research Agenda
It will be argued in this paper that the problematic of social cohesion is also one of socio-ecological cohesion whereby the urbanisation of nature and its socio-environmentally enabling and disabling conditions are key processes. By viewing the contradictions of the urbanisation process as intrinsically socio-ecological ones, the terrain of social cohesion is shifted both epistemologically and politically. The paper critically examines three con…
Making links between sex work, gender and victimisation: The politics and pedagogies of John Schools
This article will explore the links between sex work, gender and victimisation. It will draw on the literature on victims and victimology as well as the literature on sex work to explore the ways in which sex work, gender and victimisation are presented at John Schools. These are court-diversion educational programmes that teach those arrested for soliciting for the purposes of buying sex the negative consequences of their actions and are current…
Governing Sex Work in the City
Sex work is often constructed as an urban 'problem'. As a result, sex workers, clients and the spaces in which people buy or sell sex are frequently the subject of intervention from those governing cities. This paper considers the ways in which problems and solutions are framed in the wider governance of sex work in cities in the global north. It draws on a range of academic literature to show how the urban governance of sex work takes relational…
A Springtime Journey to the Soviet Union: Postwar Planning and Policy Mobilities through the Iron Curtain
This article builds upon a relatively small but growing literature in geography, planning and cognate disciplines that seeks to understand the variegated geographies and histories of policy mobilities. The article uses a case study of an exchange trip between town planners in the Soviet Union and the UK between 1957 and 1958. It focuses on the experiences of the British planners in the Soviet Union and sets the tour within the wider context of a …
A vengeful education? urban revanchism, sex work and the penal politics of john schools
This article considers how useful the urban revanchism thesis is in helping us understand the John School, a “mobile” educational programme that has been rolled out in the United States, Canada, the UK and South Korea which teaches those arrested for soliciting for the purposes of buying sex the negative consequences of their actions. The article begins by unpacking the urban revanchism thesis and bringing it into dialogue with ideas on punishmen…
Policy Mobilities and Interdisciplinary Engagement
This essay explores the nature and potential of interdisciplinarity in the expanding body of research on the circulation of policies between places. It focuses on the policy mobilities literature, highlighting its geographical underpinnings as well as its links to, and divergences from, literature beyond geography, in particular the political science-led work on policy transfer. Acknowledging the potential downfalls of interdisciplinarity, it cal…
Policies on the Move: The Transatlantic Travels of Tax Increment Financing
Growing influence of the new mobilities paradigm among human geographers has combined with a long and rich disciplinary tradition of studying the movement of things and people. Yet how policy ideas and knowledge are mobilized remains a notably underdeveloped area of inquiry. In this article, we discuss the mobilization of policy ideas and policy models as a particularly powerful type of mobile knowledge. The article examines the burgeoning academ…
Television drama and the urban diegesis: Portraying Albuquerque in Breaking Bad
Albuquerque, New Mexico is the filming location and setting of the popular television drama Breaking Bad (2008–2013). Albuquerque is not merely a passive backdrop to the action in the show but a focal point of the series. So much so that in the geographical imaginations of many, Albuquerque and Breaking Bad have become synonymous with each other. This paper critically examines the representation of urban life within the show. To do this it draws …
Suburban policy mobilities: Examining North American post-war engagements with Vällingby, Stockholm
This article calls for a detailed examination of the links between suburbia and the mobilization of policy knowledge. With suburbanization taking place across the world and the expanding literature on policy mobilities having little to say about the suburbs, this article begins to address this important gap in our collective understanding. It does this through a case study of Vällingby, a Stockholm suburb that captured the imagination of many pla…
Sex Work, Sensory Urbanism and Visual Criminology: Exploring the Role of the Senses in Shaping Residential Perceptions of Brothels in Blackpool
Urban studies and criminology have much to offer each other, but the links between the two have so far been underexplored. This article is an illustration of how aspects of both can, and should, be brought into conversation: namely the literatures on sensory urbanism (in urban studies) and visual criminology. The benefits of doing so are evidenced by a case study exploring the ways in which the senses shape residents' perceptions of brothels in B…
Conferences, award ceremonies and the showcasing of ‘best practice’: A case study of the annual European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels
This paper makes the case that conferences and award ceremonies are important means through which best practices are presented as being successful, transferable and transformative. To do this, it draws on the expanding literature on policy mobilities and a case study of the European Week of Regions and Cities conference and one of the centrepieces at the conference, the RegioStars awards ceremony. Organised by public bodies within the European Un…
Criminological Policy Mobilities and Sex Work: Understanding the Movement of the ‘Swedish Model’ to Northern Ireland
Ideas, policies and models related to criminal justice often travel between places. How, then, should we make sense of this movement? We make the case for drawing on the policy mobilities literature, which originates in human geography. It is only recently that criminological studies have drawn on small parts of this literature. This article argues for a more expansive engagement with the policy mobilities literature, so that criminal justice res…
Platforms, sex work and their interconnectedness
This article examines the interconnectedness of sex work with the platform economy. It does this by mobilizing two concepts from the platform economy literature: the platform stack (which captures the structure of platforms) and interpenetration (which describes the processes through which platforms intersect). Exploring these concepts, the article draws on a dataset of linked platforms used by 54 cam workers and documented observations of 55 dif…
Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism
From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians …
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