Laura Pottinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 283956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Pottinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Pottinger |
| SIGNATURE | POTTINGER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8833-8975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Male, Pale and Stale'? For More Curious, Diverse and Heterodox Economic Geographies
With this paper we directly address critiques made of mainstream, self-defined Economic Geography as a 'male, pale and stale' subdiscipline, proposing that more constructive conversations require open-mindedness, diversity and curiosity. To develop this argument, we draw on scholarship across feminist economic geographies and feminist studies more broadly, presenting new directions and possibilities for overlap. More specifically, inspired by McD…
Creative interdisciplinary geographies in practice: Stitching sphagnum moss
How might we get to know moss on more intimate terms? This paper outlines a creative stitching workshop as a method for facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration and for encouraging slowly paced, tactile ways of noticing and getting to know plants - in this case, sphagnum mosses. We reflect on MossWorlds , a project bringing together artists and academics from a variety of disciplines in the social and physical sciences and humanities. Via a s…
Making (Slowly) as Method: Piecing, Stitching and Steeping Metaphors for Multiple Methodologies
How and what do we make through method? This paper imagines the processes of designing and carrying out socio-environmental research through the lens of a slow, creative craft form: sewing a patchworked piece from hand-dyed fabric samples. In doing so, it contributes to thinking about how methodologies are pieced and stitched together from multiple parts. Based on early findings from an extended research project exploring the practice of natural …
Talking methods, talking about methods: Invoking the transformative potential of social methods through animals, objects and how‐to instructions
This paper focuses on "talking" methods, noting their wide application across the social sciences, and identifies potential spaces for innovation in this field. Drawing on interview material from the Methods for Change project, we argue that researching methods requires creative approaches to talk. With research methods as our focus, we draw on data collected from online interviews with 36 academics, which aimed to explore the transformative pote…
Treading carefully through tomatoes: Embodying a gentle methodological approach
Though feminist scholars have long advocated reflexivity in geographical research, the multifaceted practices of care that gently shape (and take shape within) fieldwork encounters are often tidied out of academic accounts. By foregrounding moments of embodied gentleness in research into human–plant relationships, this paper asks what a gentle methodological approach might look, and importantly, feel like. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork explor…
Re-articulating labour in global production networks: The case of street traders in Barcelona
The global production network approach constitutes a relational theorising of production processes, incorporating firm and non-firm actors, including the state, civil society and labour. Despite renewed attention to labour, global production network analysis focuses predominantly on formal waged work, giving insufficient attention to growing numbers of precarious workers, including self-employed and own-account workers, who are often the most vul…
Growing, guarding and generous exchange in an analogue sharing economy
Environment and Consumption
Patterns of human consumption have numerous well‐documented negative consequences for the environment. Consumption practices aiming (or claiming) to be more environmentally or socially responsible are variously referred to as “ethical,” “green,” “sustainable,” or “political” and also as “alternative.” “Green consumption” is one popular solution to the environmentally harmful impacts of contemporary lifestyles. In theory, it works by connecting to…
Planting the seeds of a quiet activism
While traditional academic accounts of activism emphasise vocal, antagonistic and demonstrative forms of protest, geographers have begun to expand the category of activism to include modest, quotidian acts of kindness, connection and creativity. This paper outlines ‘quiet activism’ as small, everyday, embodied acts, often of making and creating, that can be either implicitly or explicitly political in nature. This concept is explored with seed sa…
Ethical Food Consumption and the City
Whilst conceptualisations of ethical or alternative food emphasise places of production, spaces of urban ethical consumption are comparatively under-theorised. I address this gap by considering ethical consumption in cities alongside ethical consumption of urban space. Attending to the spatiality of ethics in urban food, I examine how ethical consumption practices inflect city identities and how urban spaces shape ideas about being ethical, polit…
StephenHalebsky2009: Small Towns and Big Business: Challenging Wal‐Mart Superstores . Plymouth: Lexington Books
Planting the seeds of a quiet activism
While traditional academic accounts of activism emphasise vocal, antagonistic and demonstrative forms of protest, geographers have begun to expand the category of activism to include modest, quotidian acts of kindness, connection and creativity. This paper outlines ‘quiet activism’ as small, everyday, embodied acts, often of making and creating, that can be either implicitly or explicitly political in nature. This concept is explored with seed sa…
Treading carefully through tomatoes: Embodying a gentle methodological approach
Though feminist scholars have long advocated reflexivity in geographical research, the multifaceted practices of care that gently shape (and take shape within) fieldwork encounters are often tidied out of academic accounts. By foregrounding moments of embodied gentleness in research into human–plant relationships, this paper asks what a gentle methodological approach might look, and importantly, feel like. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork explor…
Growing, guarding and generous exchange in an analogue sharing economy
Re-articulating labour in global production networks: The case of street traders in Barcelona
The global production network approach constitutes a relational theorising of production processes, incorporating firm and non-firm actors, including the state, civil society and labour. Despite renewed attention to labour, global production network analysis focuses predominantly on formal waged work, giving insufficient attention to growing numbers of precarious workers, including self-employed and own-account workers, who are often the most vul…
Talking methods, talking about methods: Invoking the transformative potential of social methods through animals, objects and how‐to instructions
This paper focuses on "talking" methods, noting their wide application across the social sciences, and identifies potential spaces for innovation in this field. Drawing on interview material from the Methods for Change project, we argue that researching methods requires creative approaches to talk. With research methods as our focus, we draw on data collected from online interviews with 36 academics, which aimed to explore the transformative pote…
Ethical Food Consumption and the City
Whilst conceptualisations of ethical or alternative food emphasise places of production, spaces of urban ethical consumption are comparatively under-theorised. I address this gap by considering ethical consumption in cities alongside ethical consumption of urban space. Attending to the spatiality of ethics in urban food, I examine how ethical consumption practices inflect city identities and how urban spaces shape ideas about being ethical, polit…
Making (Slowly) as Method: Piecing, Stitching and Steeping Metaphors for Multiple Methodologies
How and what do we make through method? This paper imagines the processes of designing and carrying out socio-environmental research through the lens of a slow, creative craft form: sewing a patchworked piece from hand-dyed fabric samples. In doing so, it contributes to thinking about how methodologies are pieced and stitched together from multiple parts. Based on early findings from an extended research project exploring the practice of natural …
StephenHalebsky2009: Small Towns and Big Business: Challenging Wal‐Mart Superstores . Plymouth: Lexington Books
Ethical Food Consumption and the City
Whilst conceptualisations of ethical or alternative food emphasise places of production, spaces of urban ethical consumption are comparatively under-theorised. I address this gap by considering ethical consumption in cities alongside ethical consumption of urban space. Attending to the spatiality of ethics in urban food, I examine how ethical consumption practices inflect city identities and how urban spaces shape ideas about being ethical, polit…
Planting the seeds of a quiet activism
While traditional academic accounts of activism emphasise vocal, antagonistic and demonstrative forms of protest, geographers have begun to expand the category of activism to include modest, quotidian acts of kindness, connection and creativity. This paper outlines ‘quiet activism’ as small, everyday, embodied acts, often of making and creating, that can be either implicitly or explicitly political in nature. This concept is explored with seed sa…
Environment and Consumption
Patterns of human consumption have numerous well‐documented negative consequences for the environment. Consumption practices aiming (or claiming) to be more environmentally or socially responsible are variously referred to as “ethical,” “green,” “sustainable,” or “political” and also as “alternative.” “Green consumption” is one popular solution to the environmentally harmful impacts of contemporary lifestyles. In theory, it works by connecting to…
Growing, guarding and generous exchange in an analogue sharing economy
Re-articulating labour in global production networks: The case of street traders in Barcelona
The global production network approach constitutes a relational theorising of production processes, incorporating firm and non-firm actors, including the state, civil society and labour. Despite renewed attention to labour, global production network analysis focuses predominantly on formal waged work, giving insufficient attention to growing numbers of precarious workers, including self-employed and own-account workers, who are often the most vul…
Treading carefully through tomatoes: Embodying a gentle methodological approach
Though feminist scholars have long advocated reflexivity in geographical research, the multifaceted practices of care that gently shape (and take shape within) fieldwork encounters are often tidied out of academic accounts. By foregrounding moments of embodied gentleness in research into human–plant relationships, this paper asks what a gentle methodological approach might look, and importantly, feel like. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork explor…
Talking methods, talking about methods: Invoking the transformative potential of social methods through animals, objects and how‐to instructions
This paper focuses on "talking" methods, noting their wide application across the social sciences, and identifies potential spaces for innovation in this field. Drawing on interview material from the Methods for Change project, we argue that researching methods requires creative approaches to talk. With research methods as our focus, we draw on data collected from online interviews with 36 academics, which aimed to explore the transformative pote…
Making (Slowly) as Method: Piecing, Stitching and Steeping Metaphors for Multiple Methodologies
How and what do we make through method? This paper imagines the processes of designing and carrying out socio-environmental research through the lens of a slow, creative craft form: sewing a patchworked piece from hand-dyed fabric samples. In doing so, it contributes to thinking about how methodologies are pieced and stitched together from multiple parts. Based on early findings from an extended research project exploring the practice of natural …
Male, Pale and Stale'? For More Curious, Diverse and Heterodox Economic Geographies
With this paper we directly address critiques made of mainstream, self-defined Economic Geography as a 'male, pale and stale' subdiscipline, proposing that more constructive conversations require open-mindedness, diversity and curiosity. To develop this argument, we draw on scholarship across feminist economic geographies and feminist studies more broadly, presenting new directions and possibilities for overlap. More specifically, inspired by McD…
Creative interdisciplinary geographies in practice: Stitching sphagnum moss
How might we get to know moss on more intimate terms? This paper outlines a creative stitching workshop as a method for facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration and for encouraging slowly paced, tactile ways of noticing and getting to know plants - in this case, sphagnum mosses. We reflect on MossWorlds , a project bringing together artists and academics from a variety of disciplines in the social and physical sciences and humanities. Via a s…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (3 works)