John Paul Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 253363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Paul Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3258-0770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1560 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1915 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
What’s the Matter with Ghost Stories
In this short reflection I report on a pair of ghostly encounters. Such experiences are by no means rare, but geographers, like other social scientists, have been reluctant to treat ghosts as a serious object of study. Here I raise some questions that might guide future research
Scale and Anti‐Scale
Scale is an important and contested concept in geography. In both its historical and contemporary use, it defines a system of measurement for the purposes of mapping. In recent decades, scale has also played a role in the social theorization of the discipline. Proponents maintain that social processes produce different spatial scales (e.g., locality, region, nation, and globe), and that these spatial configurations rebound on how economic, politi…
Neil Smith's Scale
In this essay, part of a special issue acknowledging the scholarship of Neil Smith, we trace his contributions to conceptualizing scale. From his important foundational text, Uneven Development , to his later works that fashioned a more malleable, constructivist, and socio‐cultural approach, Neil Smith made lifelong contributions to our understanding of the processes of scale production—contributions that have forever altered how we understand th…
Mediated Geographies Across Arizona: Learning Literacy Skills Through Filmmaking
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…
Commentary 2: On spatial turns and ecological urgency
The tactile topologies of Contagion
Can we reconfigure recent work on topological space, so productively brought to bear in an understanding of power in geography, to understand the spatialities of and among flesh, objects and viral life? Here we expand on topology via touch – a ‘tactile topology’ – that focuses on the material connections among mobile bodies. The engine of topological transformation thus becomes the various materials and forces that grab onto each other, interpene…
The mosquito’s umwelt, or one monster’s standpoint ontology
Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet
The politics of autonomous space
This paper offers a further exploration of ‘flat ontology’, an account of the world that takes the immanence of localized, material process to be fundamentally different from and ontologically prior to transcendent, structured, and formal treatments of space. Our previous work in this area aimed at developing the concept of the site – via site ontology – as an ‘event-space’ that describes the differential contours and pressures of aggregating and…
American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776–1989: A Global Perspective
Journal Article American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776–1989: A Global Perspective Get access Billias George Athan. American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776–1989: A Global Perspective. New York: New York University Press, 2009. 544 pp. $60.00 (cloth). John Paul Jones John Paul Jones University of Richmond Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume…
Managerialism in Motion: Lessons from Oaxaca
Non-governmental organisations operate as nodes in networks of 'managerialism' - bundles of often Northern, corporate-inspired knowledge and practices that promote 'good governance' under neoliberalism. Managerialism is double-sided: it can guard against corruption and help ensure accountability, but it can also be culturally disjunctive, reinforcing North-South power imbalances while diffusing the political potential of NGOs. In this paper we pr…
Introduction Segmented Worlds And Selves
The Sage Handbook of Social Geographies
Social geography has been concerned with the ways in which social relations, social identities and social inequalities are produced, their spatial variation, and the role of space in constructing them. This title is divided into five sections which develop these fundamental concerns
Repetita juvant! A reply to Gwilym Eades
A Bug's Life and the Spatial Ontologies of Mosquito Management
This article uses the theory of Gilles Deleuze to address the disjuncture between (1) the mechanical, chemical, and thermal processes of transduction that determine the biogeographical life of the mosquito; and (2) the spatialities of historic and contemporary management strategies. The history of mosquito management reveals two operative spatial ontologies, one an immanent horizontalism underwriting an intimate strategy of detection and destruct…
Of eagles and flies: Orientations Toward the Site
The macro‐micro distinction is one of the most powerful in the human and physical sciences. In this article we challenge the macro by positing an alternative that recognises the intricacies and complexities of material geographies. We employ the Latin proverb – Aquila non captat muscas (Eagles don't catch flies) – to epitomise our position. Instead of looking to general theory – the bird's eye view – we argue for interrogating the ontological and…
The Condition of Postmodernity (1989): David Harvey
On the other Hand … Dialectics
Downsizing Wal-Mart: A Reply to Prytherch
We are grateful to the editors of Urban Geography for inviting us to respond to the recent article by David Prytherch (2007), “Urban Geography With Scale: Rethinking Scale Via Wal-Mart’s Geography of Big Things.” In his essay, Prytherch criticized our article, “Human Geography Without Scale” (Marston et al., 2005), in which we argued that scale is an irredeemably chaotic concept, one more suggestive of a pervasive hierarchical epistemology—wherei…
Walter Benjamin’s Dionysian Adventures on Google Earth
Flattening Ontologies of Globalization: The Nollywood Case
In this article we offer some criticisms regarding the spatial ontologies that have underwritten theories of globalization. We evaluate different approaches to understanding their workings, each of which must grapple with the problem of connecting the local and the global, and contrast these to that of our recent work aimed at elaborating a ‘flat ontology’. The central feature of this alternative ontology is the site: a material localization char…
Announcing: The Janice Monk Lecture in Feminist Geography
In this brief announcement we have the pleasure of introducing the inaugural Janice Monk Lecture in Feminist Geography. The lecture will appear annually in the pages of Gender, Place and Culture. The first lecture, printed here, is by Ruth Fincher of the University of Melbourne. Her article is preceded by four papers that pay tribute to Jan Monk's academic achievements and her dedication to encouraging and guiding the careers of emerging scholars…
Neoliberal development through technical assistance: Constructing communities of entrepreneurial subjects in Oaxaca, Mexico
When Participation Meets Empowerment: The WWF and the Politics of Invitation in the Chimalapas, Mexico
Emerging out of radical theories about the uneven nature of power and underwriting practices that assist marginalized peoples in constructing their own development strategies, “participation” has recently come under fire for being co-opted and mainstreamed by governmental and nongovernmental agencies, part of a new development “tyranny” that betrays the concept's populist roots. The issues surrounding participation are nowhere more hotly debated …
Human geography without scale
The concept of scale in human geography has been profoundly transformed over the past 20 years. And yet, despite the insights that both empirical and theoretical research on scale have generated, there is today no consensus on what is meant by the term or how it should be operationalized. In this paper we critique the dominant - hierarchical - conception of scale, arguing it presents a number of problems that cannot be overcome simply by adding o…
White socio-spatial epistemology
Recent work by geographers concerned with the enduring presence of racism has called for an interrogation of the privileges and contingencies of whiteness. Central to this project of denaturalizing White Identity has been the disclosure of its co-constitution with a host of social practices. Building on the work of critical theorists in the humanities and social sciences concerned with masculinist and post-colonial epistemologies, this paper outl…
Situating Flatness
Guest Editorial
The politics of autonomous space
This paper offers a further exploration of ‘flat ontology’, an account of the world that takes the immanence of localized, material process to be fundamentally different from and ontologically prior to transcendent, structured, and formal treatments of space. Our previous work in this area aimed at developing the concept of the site – via site ontology – as an ‘event-space’ that describes the differential contours and pressures of aggregating and…
Of eagles and flies: Orientations Toward the Site
The macro‐micro distinction is one of the most powerful in the human and physical sciences. In this article we challenge the macro by positing an alternative that recognises the intricacies and complexities of material geographies. We employ the Latin proverb – Aquila non captat muscas (Eagles don't catch flies) – to epitomise our position. Instead of looking to general theory – the bird's eye view – we argue for interrogating the ontological and…
NGOs and the globalization of managerialism: A research framework
Walter Benjamin’s Dionysian Adventures on Google Earth
Neoliberal development through technical assistance: Constructing communities of entrepreneurial subjects in Oaxaca, Mexico
A Bug's Life and the Spatial Ontologies of Mosquito Management
This article uses the theory of Gilles Deleuze to address the disjuncture between (1) the mechanical, chemical, and thermal processes of transduction that determine the biogeographical life of the mosquito; and (2) the spatialities of historic and contemporary management strategies. The history of mosquito management reveals two operative spatial ontologies, one an immanent horizontalism underwriting an intimate strategy of detection and destruct…
Methodological frameworks for the geography of organizations
The mosquito’s umwelt, or one monster’s standpoint ontology
The tactile topologies of Contagion
Can we reconfigure recent work on topological space, so productively brought to bear in an understanding of power in geography, to understand the spatialities of and among flesh, objects and viral life? Here we expand on topology via touch – a ‘tactile topology’ – that focuses on the material connections among mobile bodies. The engine of topological transformation thus becomes the various materials and forces that grab onto each other, interpene…
Flattening Ontologies of Globalization: The Nollywood Case
In this article we offer some criticisms regarding the spatial ontologies that have underwritten theories of globalization. We evaluate different approaches to understanding their workings, each of which must grapple with the problem of connecting the local and the global, and contrast these to that of our recent work aimed at elaborating a ‘flat ontology’. The central feature of this alternative ontology is the site: a material localization char…
Pets or Meat: Class, Ideology, and Space in Roger & Me
This paper offers a reading of Michael Moore's docu‐comedy, Roger & Me , a film ostensibly chronicling the director's effort to interrogate General Motors Chairman Roger Smith following massive plant closures in and around Flint, Michigan in the 1980s. Our analysis focuses on four key themes: (1) the status of “community” as an ideological lever both prior and subsequent to GM's layoffs; (2) the spatial consequences of economic restructuring, exp…
Restructured Regions and Families: The Feminization of Poverty in the U.S
We examine the geographic dimensions of the feminization of poverty in the U.S. from 1970–80. County-level maps of growth in female-headed family poverty show strongest concentration in the Northeast and North Central regions. Three explanations for these variations are presented: the breakdown of the traditional nuclear family, changes in welfare programs, and the status of women's work. The last is integrated into a broader thesis focusing on s…
Neil Smith's Scale
In this essay, part of a special issue acknowledging the scholarship of Neil Smith, we trace his contributions to conceptualizing scale. From his important foundational text, Uneven Development , to his later works that fashioned a more malleable, constructivist, and socio‐cultural approach, Neil Smith made lifelong contributions to our understanding of the processes of scale production—contributions that have forever altered how we understand th…
When Participation Meets Empowerment: The WWF and the Politics of Invitation in the Chimalapas, Mexico
Emerging out of radical theories about the uneven nature of power and underwriting practices that assist marginalized peoples in constructing their own development strategies, “participation” has recently come under fire for being co-opted and mainstreamed by governmental and nongovernmental agencies, part of a new development “tyranny” that betrays the concept's populist roots. The issues surrounding participation are nowhere more hotly debated …
Making Güeras: Selling white identities on late-night Mexican television
This article examines discourses of whiteness and color in Mexico through a discussion of White Secret, a widely available skin-lightening cosmetic product. In an analysis of a televised infomercial advertising the product, we examine contextualizations of whiteness in Mexico, as figured through the product's representations of light-skinned female bodies and advanced cosmetic technology. We consider the ways that White Secret can speak to broade…
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…
Democracy, Identity, Space
A contextual examination of the feminization of poverty
Spatial Aspects of the Productivity Slowdown: An Analysis of U.S. Manufacturing Data
We investigate the spatial differentiation in the rates of change of manufacturing productivity growth in the U.S. Using an application of the “expansion method,” we focus on the relation between the productivity slowdown and the Snowbelt-Sunbelt shift that materialized at approximately the same time during the mid-1960s. We find that the spatial patterns of manufacturing productivity acceleration were different before and after the mid-1960s, an…
Regional Shifts in the Manufacturing Productivity Response to Output Growth: Sunbelt Versus Snowbelt
Work, Welfare, and Poverty among Black Female-Headed Families
Callaway and Vedder's I)overty-wNelfare curve suggests that Nwelfare paynients tend to pro(luce an income enhancement effect which removes families from p)overty until 0so1e threshold, beyond which increased payments engen(ler a work disincentive effect resulting in increased rates of poverty. State level poverty rates among black, female-headed families are employed to evaluate the regional operation of the p)overty-welfare curve. Some supl)port…
India: Its Life and Thought
A Note on the Processing of Classroom Observation Records
As discussed elsewhere (Yamamoto, 1967), many of our current observational instruments fail to deal with some important aspects of the unique dynamics of the classroom group. Not to repeat the analysis here, suffice it to say that one source of difficulty is the confusion among several units of behavior and, hence, the equation of what happens in a group with what is done to the group, what the individuals share as group members, or what the grou…
Regional Shifts in the Manufacturing Productivity Response to Output Growth: Sunbelt Versus Snowbelt
Spatial Variation In Migration Processes And Development: A Costa Rican Example Of Conventional Modeling Augmented By The Expansion Method
The ways in which migration and development have been linked in previous research in Third World settings are reviewed. Intercantonal migration in Costa Rica is analyzed, first in terms of a conventional model and then in terms of a paradigm of migration that focuses on place-to-place variations in development milieu. The results show there is spatial variation in the role of most variables and that these variations follow a reasonably consistent…
Distance and Space: A Geographical Perspective
Among the numerous concepts employed by geographers, few can be more central to their enquiries than those of distance and space. This book demonstrates that there are many different concepts of distance and a variety of spaces to be explored and mapped. It argues that space is best viewed as a relation on a set of objects. Consequently the notions of sets and relations are examined first and illustrated with geographical examples. Geographical d…
Spatial parameter variation by Orthogonal Trend Surface Expansions: An application to the analysis of welfare program participation rates
Spatial Aspects of the Productivity Slowdown: An Analysis of U.S. Manufacturing Data
We investigate the spatial differentiation in the rates of change of manufacturing productivity growth in the U.S. Using an application of the “expansion method,” we focus on the relation between the productivity slowdown and the Snowbelt-Sunbelt shift that materialized at approximately the same time during the mid-1960s. We find that the spatial patterns of manufacturing productivity acceleration were different before and after the mid-1960s, an…
Work, Welfare, and Poverty among Black Female-Headed Families
Callaway and Vedder's I)overty-wNelfare curve suggests that Nwelfare paynients tend to pro(luce an income enhancement effect which removes families from p)overty until 0so1e threshold, beyond which increased payments engen(ler a work disincentive effect resulting in increased rates of poverty. State level poverty rates among black, female-headed families are employed to evaluate the regional operation of the p)overty-welfare curve. Some supl)port…
The City Hotel as Landscape Artifact and Community Symbol
Hotels, or their precursor, the tavern, were cornerstones of urban development on America's settlement frontier. As a landscape artifact the hotel marked the early business and social core of cities; it also symbolized community progress and achievement, as well as investment opportunity. The hotel evolved from a democratic social institution into a grand central-city palace that showcased technological innovation while gradually yielding its dem…
Unfairly Structured Cities . Blair Badcock; The Myth of the North American City: Continentalism Challenged . Michael A. Goldberg and John Mercer, and Power and Place: Canadian Urban Development in the…
Restructured Regions and Families: The Feminization of Poverty in the U.S
We examine the geographic dimensions of the feminization of poverty in the U.S. from 1970–80. County-level maps of growth in female-headed family poverty show strongest concentration in the Northeast and North Central regions. Three explanations for these variations are presented: the breakdown of the traditional nuclear family, changes in welfare programs, and the status of women's work. The last is integrated into a broader thesis focusing on s…
A contextual examination of the feminization of poverty
The moral construction of poverty: Welfare reform in America
Pets or Meat: Class, Ideology, and Space in Roger & Me
This paper offers a reading of Michael Moore's docu‐comedy, Roger & Me , a film ostensibly chronicling the director's effort to interrogate General Motors Chairman Roger Smith following massive plant closures in and around Flint, Michigan in the 1980s. Our analysis focuses on four key themes: (1) the status of “community” as an ideological lever both prior and subsequent to GM's layoffs; (2) the spatial consequences of economic restructuring, exp…
Postmodern Contentions: Epochs, Politics, Space
Derek Gregory's Geographical Imaginations Dialogic Invitation
This Annals Forum is the second in an ongoing series devoted to the sustained analysis of significant new books. In this installment, the focus is Derek Gregory's Geographical Imaginations (1994). By way of contextualizing the rationale behind this selection, and against the risk of exaggeration, I want to first suggest that the history of modern geography's attempts at self-definition often neglected currents of thought perceived to be outside i…
Postmodernism as Normal Science
Democracy, Identity, Space
Dr. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination: The Case Reopened
Journal Article Dr. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination: The Case Reopened Get access Jones John Paul, Dr. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination: The Case Reopened. Conshohocken, Pa.: Combined Books, Inc., 1995. v, 280 pp. $24.95. Robert M. Jarvis Robert M. Jarvis Nova Southeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 40, Issue 4, October 1996, Pages 509–511, htt…
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…
Objectivity and Its Other
Back to the Future
The Millennial Number
Thresholds in Feminist Geography: Difference, Methodology, Representation
Methodological frameworks for the geography of organizations
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