Kye Askins
Biographic Data
| ID | 220270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kye Askins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kye |
| FAMILY NAME | Askins |
| SIGNATURE | ASKINS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3013-7978 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 514 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
For a relationship perspective on geographical ethics
We draw on a particular way of doing research – as volunteer practitioners based in community‐based organisations – to propose a relationship‐centred perspective on geographical ethics. Grounded in a wider rationale driven by socio‐spatial justice, politics of care, and emotional work, the paper reflects on praxes of doing geographical research as volunteer‐practitioners and considers how dimensions of relationship‐forging in community settings c…
Feminist geographies and participatory action research: Co-producing narratives with people and place
This review offers thoughts, queries and hesitations regarding articles drawing on participatory action research (PAR) published over 25 years of Gender, Place and Culture. It foregrounds the interconnections and overlaps between PAR and feminist geographies, and considers a continuum of participations-collaborations-actions-knowledges co-produced across a range of interrelated feminist methodologies. I emphasise epistemological commitment as cen…
Participatory Geographies
Participatory geographies involve approaches to research, learning, and teaching that engage in the world, with local people and communities as co‐researchers and coproducers of knowledge, as /toward progressive change. Drawing from feminism, critical race theory, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism, they are enacted through an ethical orientation to mutual collaboration, emphasizing process and iterative reflection, learning and action, with …
Feeling our way: Academia, Emotions and a Politics of Care
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social & Cultural Geography on 03 Oct 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1240224
Identity Cards and Coercion in Palestine
This chapter argues the transformative geopolitics that not only attempts to juggle with simultaneous difference and similarity within identities, but also encapsulates the ways in which space as different and similar is interwoven through identity production. It argues the rural as positioned within a web of spaces, local, national and international, and call for a serious commitment to conceiving space relationally in order to shift exclusive c…
Emotional citizenry: Everyday geographies of befriending, belonging and intercultural encounter
This paper develops the concept of emotional citizenry, as a process grounded in the complexities of places, lives and feelings, exceeding any fixed status of citizenship to be achieved in the formal political sphere. Drawing on encounters between refugees, asylum seekers and more settled residents in a befriending scheme in Newcastle, England, it focusses on the emotional geographies of intercultural interactions produced through everyday spaces…
A quiet politics of being together: M iriam and R ose
This paper draws on fieldwork with a befriending scheme that pairs refugees, asylum seekers and local residents in the north east of E ngland. It explores the ways in which a ‘quiet politics’ of encounter, embedded in intimate relationships, is caught up in and productive of complex inter‐scale geographies, highlighting the ebbs and flows across security and insecurity. Critically, it foregrounds the relationality of emotions in enabling and main…
Narratives of ethnic identity among practitioners in community settings in the northeast of England
The increasing ethnic diversity of the UK has been mirrored by growing public awareness of multicultural issues, alongside developments in academic and government thinking. This paper explores the contested meanings around ethnic identity/ies in community settings, drawing on semi-structured interviews with staff from Children's Centres and allied agencies conducted for a research project that examined the relationship between identity and the pa…
Interventions in teaching political geography: Reflections on practice
‘Us and Us’: Faslane 30 and Academic Direct Action
The politics of social justice in neoliberal times: A reply to Slater
We thank Tom Slater for his comments, acknowledging that much of his paper is in significant disagreement with our own. We agree with Slater that we are engaged in contestations over meaning, and united on the principle of social justice as a guiding force for critical geographers, but we differ over how we might contribute to its realisation. This debate over tactics reflects quite different conceptualisations of power, resistance, and what it i…
Organic Public Geographies: “Making the Connection”
A new field of “public geographies” is taking shape (Fuller 2008) in geography's mainstream journals. While much is “traditional”, with intellectuals disseminating academic research via non- academic outlets (Castree 2006; Mitchell 2008; Oslender 2007), less visible is the “organic” work and its “more involved intellectualizing, pursued through working with area-based or single-interest groups, in which the process itself may be the outcome” (War…
Geographies of impact: Power, participation and potential
In this paper we offer a critique and an alternative to current proposals to include the economic and social impacts of research in the next UK audit of academic research. In contrast to most responses from UK academics, our argument is for impact; while the growing marketisation of knowledge is to be deplored, resources and activities within universities do have a vital role to play in progressive social change. The problem is that the current p…
Contact Zones: Participation, Materiality, and the Messiness of Interaction
Recent debates around urban encounter, integration cosmopolitanism, and renewed engagement with contact theory have raised questions about the spaces of interaction that may enable meaningful encounters between different social groups. Reflecting on a participatory art project with young people of African and British heritage in northeast England, we argue that discussion and practice around participatory action research, including the deployment…
Public geographies II: Being organic
This second report on ‘public geographies’ considers the diverse, emergent and shifting spaces of engaging with and in public/s. Taking as its focus the more ‘organic’ rather than ‘traditional’ approach to doing public geography, as discussed in the first report, it explores the multiple and unorthodox ways in which engagements across academic-public spheres play out, and what such engagements may mean for geography/ers. The report first explores…
‘That's just what I do’: Placing emotion in academic activism
Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality
Waste interfaces: Biodegradable Waste, Municipal Policy and Everyday Practice
Recent years have seen a rapid rise in the political saliency of the ever growing volumes of municipal waste produced in the UK. In this paper, we examine how one particular part of the municipal waste stream - biodegradable waste - has come under the policy spotlight. As targets to divert biodegradable waste from landfill under the Landfill Directive come into force, the need to focus explicitly on recovering value from biodegradable materials h…
Obituary: Emptier place: in memory of Dr Duncan Fuller
In and beyond the classroom: Research ethics and participatory pedagogies
In this paper I want to talk about the use of participatory approaches to ‘teaching’, drawing on my own efforts to explore research ethics with undergraduate students. I first critically address what we ‘teach’ regarding ethics in geography, given that ‘codes of ethics’ and ‘good research practice’ are both highly contested entities. Secondly, echoing Valentine's (2005 Progress in Human Geography 29 483–7) belief that students need the skills to …
The Discomforting Rise of “Public Geographies”: A “Public” Conversation
In this innovative and provocative intervention, the authors explore the burgeoning ‘public turn’ visible across the social sciences to espouse the need to radically challenge and reshape dominant and orthodox visions of ‘the academy’, academic life, and the role and purpose of the academic
Contact Zones: Participation, Materiality, and the Messiness of Interaction
Recent debates around urban encounter, integration cosmopolitanism, and renewed engagement with contact theory have raised questions about the spaces of interaction that may enable meaningful encounters between different social groups. Reflecting on a participatory art project with young people of African and British heritage in northeast England, we argue that discussion and practice around participatory action research, including the deployment…
Feeling our way: Academia, Emotions and a Politics of Care
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social & Cultural Geography on 03 Oct 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1240224
Emotional citizenry: Everyday geographies of befriending, belonging and intercultural encounter
This paper develops the concept of emotional citizenry, as a process grounded in the complexities of places, lives and feelings, exceeding any fixed status of citizenship to be achieved in the formal political sphere. Drawing on encounters between refugees, asylum seekers and more settled residents in a befriending scheme in Newcastle, England, it focusses on the emotional geographies of intercultural interactions produced through everyday spaces…
Geographies of impact: Power, participation and potential
In this paper we offer a critique and an alternative to current proposals to include the economic and social impacts of research in the next UK audit of academic research. In contrast to most responses from UK academics, our argument is for impact; while the growing marketisation of knowledge is to be deplored, resources and activities within universities do have a vital role to play in progressive social change. The problem is that the current p…
Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality
A quiet politics of being together: M iriam and R ose
This paper draws on fieldwork with a befriending scheme that pairs refugees, asylum seekers and local residents in the north east of E ngland. It explores the ways in which a ‘quiet politics’ of encounter, embedded in intimate relationships, is caught up in and productive of complex inter‐scale geographies, highlighting the ebbs and flows across security and insecurity. Critically, it foregrounds the relationality of emotions in enabling and main…
Public geographies II: Being organic
This second report on ‘public geographies’ considers the diverse, emergent and shifting spaces of engaging with and in public/s. Taking as its focus the more ‘organic’ rather than ‘traditional’ approach to doing public geography, as discussed in the first report, it explores the multiple and unorthodox ways in which engagements across academic-public spheres play out, and what such engagements may mean for geography/ers. The report first explores…
The Discomforting Rise of “Public Geographies”: A “Public” Conversation
In this innovative and provocative intervention, the authors explore the burgeoning ‘public turn’ visible across the social sciences to espouse the need to radically challenge and reshape dominant and orthodox visions of ‘the academy’, academic life, and the role and purpose of the academic
Waste interfaces: Biodegradable Waste, Municipal Policy and Everyday Practice
Recent years have seen a rapid rise in the political saliency of the ever growing volumes of municipal waste produced in the UK. In this paper, we examine how one particular part of the municipal waste stream - biodegradable waste - has come under the policy spotlight. As targets to divert biodegradable waste from landfill under the Landfill Directive come into force, the need to focus explicitly on recovering value from biodegradable materials h…
In and beyond the classroom: Research ethics and participatory pedagogies
In this paper I want to talk about the use of participatory approaches to ‘teaching’, drawing on my own efforts to explore research ethics with undergraduate students. I first critically address what we ‘teach’ regarding ethics in geography, given that ‘codes of ethics’ and ‘good research practice’ are both highly contested entities. Secondly, echoing Valentine's (2005 Progress in Human Geography 29 483–7) belief that students need the skills to …
For a relationship perspective on geographical ethics
We draw on a particular way of doing research – as volunteer practitioners based in community‐based organisations – to propose a relationship‐centred perspective on geographical ethics. Grounded in a wider rationale driven by socio‐spatial justice, politics of care, and emotional work, the paper reflects on praxes of doing geographical research as volunteer‐practitioners and considers how dimensions of relationship‐forging in community settings c…
Organic Public Geographies: “Making the Connection”
A new field of “public geographies” is taking shape (Fuller 2008) in geography's mainstream journals. While much is “traditional”, with intellectuals disseminating academic research via non- academic outlets (Castree 2006; Mitchell 2008; Oslender 2007), less visible is the “organic” work and its “more involved intellectualizing, pursued through working with area-based or single-interest groups, in which the process itself may be the outcome” (War…
Narratives of ethnic identity among practitioners in community settings in the northeast of England
The increasing ethnic diversity of the UK has been mirrored by growing public awareness of multicultural issues, alongside developments in academic and government thinking. This paper explores the contested meanings around ethnic identity/ies in community settings, drawing on semi-structured interviews with staff from Children's Centres and allied agencies conducted for a research project that examined the relationship between identity and the pa…
The Discomforting Rise of “Public Geographies”: A “Public” Conversation
In this innovative and provocative intervention, the authors explore the burgeoning ‘public turn’ visible across the social sciences to espouse the need to radically challenge and reshape dominant and orthodox visions of ‘the academy’, academic life, and the role and purpose of the academic
In and beyond the classroom: Research ethics and participatory pedagogies
In this paper I want to talk about the use of participatory approaches to ‘teaching’, drawing on my own efforts to explore research ethics with undergraduate students. I first critically address what we ‘teach’ regarding ethics in geography, given that ‘codes of ethics’ and ‘good research practice’ are both highly contested entities. Secondly, echoing Valentine's (2005 Progress in Human Geography 29 483–7) belief that students need the skills to …
‘That's just what I do’: Placing emotion in academic activism
Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality
Waste interfaces: Biodegradable Waste, Municipal Policy and Everyday Practice
Recent years have seen a rapid rise in the political saliency of the ever growing volumes of municipal waste produced in the UK. In this paper, we examine how one particular part of the municipal waste stream - biodegradable waste - has come under the policy spotlight. As targets to divert biodegradable waste from landfill under the Landfill Directive come into force, the need to focus explicitly on recovering value from biodegradable materials h…
Obituary: Emptier place: in memory of Dr Duncan Fuller
Public geographies II: Being organic
This second report on ‘public geographies’ considers the diverse, emergent and shifting spaces of engaging with and in public/s. Taking as its focus the more ‘organic’ rather than ‘traditional’ approach to doing public geography, as discussed in the first report, it explores the multiple and unorthodox ways in which engagements across academic-public spheres play out, and what such engagements may mean for geography/ers. The report first explores…
Organic Public Geographies: “Making the Connection”
A new field of “public geographies” is taking shape (Fuller 2008) in geography's mainstream journals. While much is “traditional”, with intellectuals disseminating academic research via non- academic outlets (Castree 2006; Mitchell 2008; Oslender 2007), less visible is the “organic” work and its “more involved intellectualizing, pursued through working with area-based or single-interest groups, in which the process itself may be the outcome” (War…
Geographies of impact: Power, participation and potential
In this paper we offer a critique and an alternative to current proposals to include the economic and social impacts of research in the next UK audit of academic research. In contrast to most responses from UK academics, our argument is for impact; while the growing marketisation of knowledge is to be deplored, resources and activities within universities do have a vital role to play in progressive social change. The problem is that the current p…
Contact Zones: Participation, Materiality, and the Messiness of Interaction
Recent debates around urban encounter, integration cosmopolitanism, and renewed engagement with contact theory have raised questions about the spaces of interaction that may enable meaningful encounters between different social groups. Reflecting on a participatory art project with young people of African and British heritage in northeast England, we argue that discussion and practice around participatory action research, including the deployment…
‘Us and Us’: Faslane 30 and Academic Direct Action
The politics of social justice in neoliberal times: A reply to Slater
We thank Tom Slater for his comments, acknowledging that much of his paper is in significant disagreement with our own. We agree with Slater that we are engaged in contestations over meaning, and united on the principle of social justice as a guiding force for critical geographers, but we differ over how we might contribute to its realisation. This debate over tactics reflects quite different conceptualisations of power, resistance, and what it i…
Interventions in teaching political geography: Reflections on practice
A quiet politics of being together: M iriam and R ose
This paper draws on fieldwork with a befriending scheme that pairs refugees, asylum seekers and local residents in the north east of E ngland. It explores the ways in which a ‘quiet politics’ of encounter, embedded in intimate relationships, is caught up in and productive of complex inter‐scale geographies, highlighting the ebbs and flows across security and insecurity. Critically, it foregrounds the relationality of emotions in enabling and main…
Narratives of ethnic identity among practitioners in community settings in the northeast of England
The increasing ethnic diversity of the UK has been mirrored by growing public awareness of multicultural issues, alongside developments in academic and government thinking. This paper explores the contested meanings around ethnic identity/ies in community settings, drawing on semi-structured interviews with staff from Children's Centres and allied agencies conducted for a research project that examined the relationship between identity and the pa…
Identity Cards and Coercion in Palestine
This chapter argues the transformative geopolitics that not only attempts to juggle with simultaneous difference and similarity within identities, but also encapsulates the ways in which space as different and similar is interwoven through identity production. It argues the rural as positioned within a web of spaces, local, national and international, and call for a serious commitment to conceiving space relationally in order to shift exclusive c…
Emotional citizenry: Everyday geographies of befriending, belonging and intercultural encounter
This paper develops the concept of emotional citizenry, as a process grounded in the complexities of places, lives and feelings, exceeding any fixed status of citizenship to be achieved in the formal political sphere. Drawing on encounters between refugees, asylum seekers and more settled residents in a befriending scheme in Newcastle, England, it focusses on the emotional geographies of intercultural interactions produced through everyday spaces…
Participatory Geographies
Participatory geographies involve approaches to research, learning, and teaching that engage in the world, with local people and communities as co‐researchers and coproducers of knowledge, as /toward progressive change. Drawing from feminism, critical race theory, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism, they are enacted through an ethical orientation to mutual collaboration, emphasizing process and iterative reflection, learning and action, with …
Feeling our way: Academia, Emotions and a Politics of Care
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social & Cultural Geography on 03 Oct 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1240224
Feminist geographies and participatory action research: Co-producing narratives with people and place
This review offers thoughts, queries and hesitations regarding articles drawing on participatory action research (PAR) published over 25 years of Gender, Place and Culture. It foregrounds the interconnections and overlaps between PAR and feminist geographies, and considers a continuum of participations-collaborations-actions-knowledges co-produced across a range of interrelated feminist methodologies. I emphasise epistemological commitment as cen…
For a relationship perspective on geographical ethics
We draw on a particular way of doing research – as volunteer practitioners based in community‐based organisations – to propose a relationship‐centred perspective on geographical ethics. Grounded in a wider rationale driven by socio‐spatial justice, politics of care, and emotional work, the paper reflects on praxes of doing geographical research as volunteer‐practitioners and considers how dimensions of relationship‐forging in community settings c…
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Politics (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Geography Education and Pedagogy (8 works) · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Law (6 works)