Niamh Moore-Cherry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3066064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niamh Moore-Cherry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niamh |
| FAMILY NAME | Moore-Cherry |
| SIGNATURE | MOORE-CHERRY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0372-8809 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Importance of Place in Advancing Sustainable Mobility Thinking and Practice
How, why and where people move, and the larger processes that impact these decisions, are key concerns within the discipline of geography. Yet even though substantial research on mobility has been undertaken, particularly in recent years through the ‘mobilities turn’, limited attention has been paid in geography or mobility studies to mobility's place‐based aspects. We argue that including the concept of place is critical to advance sustainable m…
Understanding place-based “just transitions” in Ireland: A Co-Creation Approach
Policy, planning practice and the lived experience in a changing Ireland: Provoking thoughts for/of change
Recent planning frameworks and policies have formally recognised the significance of the urban in contemporary Ireland and put in place the groundwork to accommodate, facilitate, and accelerate ‘metropolitanisation.’ If implemented, this new strategic positioning can move Ireland in the direction of more balanced development. However, the new spatial arrangements pose profound implications for existing modes of organisation and economic activity …
Metropolitanization, civic capacity and metropolitan governance: Ireland in the metropolitan century
The dynamics and politics of metropolitanization in Ireland have received limited attention, attributed in part to Ireland’s historic culturally embedded urban–rural divide. The publication of the National Planning Framework (2018) demonstrates an effort by the Irish government to centre spatial thinking on Ireland’s five major cities. However, despite evidence of enhanced civic engagement, the Irish case demonstrates the challenges of creating a…
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: Urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin
While central to the origins, evolution and provisioning of cities, traditional markets are under threat globally as urban renewal supporting particular forms of economic development comes centre-stage. Design-led placemaking and built heritage policy have become tools of local, regional and national development, and urban heritage has become economically instrumentalised. In this paper, we argue for an alternate conceptualisation. Through a case…
Pathways to a more policy-engaged geography
Geographers have a responsibility to address the major challenges of our time by engaging with and shaping policy. The paper introduces three ways this might be achieved – through critical engagement with policy; through occupying liminal spaces that foster agenda setting; and through empowering others to shape policy-from-below. Drawing on a range of experiences related to urban and regional development, the challenges and opportunities of engag…
Negotiating applied and critical perspectives within the geography curriculum
Urban Redevelopment, Displacement, and Governmentality in Nanjing’s Historic Inner‐City
Housing‐related urban development has become a core plank of China’s economic policy since the mid‐1990s. Reports of resistance to displacement and resettlement associated with urban restructuring, once widespread, have dissipated since the early‐2010s. Using the framework of governmentality and through qualitative empirical fieldwork in the historic inner‐city of Nanjing, we try to understand the dynamics of this change. This research draws atte…
Street markets, urban development and immigrant entrepreneurship: Unpacking precarity in Moore Street, Dublin
Traditional markets represent vital spaces of opportunity for livelihood-building, intercultural contact and for developing familiarity with the city. Yet, worldwide, markets are under pressure due to redevelopment agendas driven by neoliberalised forms of urban governance. Although precarious sites of occupation and employment, markets still maintain an attractiveness for immigrant micro-entrepreneurs as a foothold into the labour market and urb…
Mapping Green Dublin: Co-Creating a Greener Future With Local Communities
Mapping Green Dublin is a transdisciplinary, collaborative action research project led by University College Dublin’s School of Geography in collaboration with arts organisation Common Ground, artist Seoidín O’Sullivan, and event facilitators Connect the Dots. It took place in an inner-city neighbourhood of Dublin 8 between 2019 and 2020 and was funded by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency. This article outlines the methodological approach…
Spatial transformation, public policy and metropolitan governance: Secondary business districts in Dublin and Warsaw
Across Europe, economic development is increasingly focused on large city regions intensifying processes of metropolitanization. However, the trajectories and experience of these processes are context dependent, shaped by the broad political–economic context and public policy frameworks. Drawing on case studies of Warsaw (Poland) and Dublin (Ireland), this paper examines the relationship between the transformation of the metropolitan spatial stru…
Partnership, anti-racism, indigenization and technology: An INLT collaborative writing symposium
Geography is an academic discipline with a long but complex set of intellectual traditions that resonate across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. In recent decades however, it h
Documenting the ‘soft spaces’ of London planning: Opportunity Areas as institutional fix in a growth-oriented city
The concentration of economic growth into large metropolises is widely documented across Europe. Yet, planning of this growth at the strategic metropolitan scale shows significant variation. This paper documents the evolution of Opportunity Areas within Greater London. Through statistical and documentary analysis, and participant observation, we reveal how they have been repurposed from a tool employed to facilitate brownfield regeneration to one…
Fragmented governance, the urban data ecosystem and smart city-regions: The case of Metropolitan Boston
Through an empirical focus on Metropolitan Boston, this paper examines the effects of territorial politics and fragmented metropolitan governance on an urban data ecosystem and endeavours to enact a smart city-region. The fragmented governance of Metro Boston reduces scales of economy and produces interjurisdictional data incompatibilities that limit spatial intelligence, foster back-to-back planning and stifle the benefits of open data. Highligh…
Spatial planning, metropolitan governance and territorial politics in Europe: Dublin as a case of metro-phobia
The growing concentration of production and population in capital cities in Europe is accompanied by metropolitan governance reform with two policy objectives in mind. Firstly, capital cities are promoted as ‘national champions’ in the context of global territorial competition. Secondly, metropolitan regions are characterised by recurrent crises of ‘governability’ as economic, social, environmental and infrastructural interdependencies escape exi…
Playing with time in Moore Street, Dublin: Urban redevelopment, temporal politics and the governance of space-time
Whether urban redevelopment is considered a “success” or “failure” is dependent on the temporal framings that we privilege. Until relatively recently, geographers have neglected the temporal politics that underpin urban redevelopment despite space-time being a crucial aspect framing the urban experience under capitalism. In this paper we argue for a focus on temporal politics or the politics associated with how time is experienced. Drawing on a c…
Debating Austerity in Ireland: Crisis, Experience and Recovery
The austerity that followed the recent economic and financial crisis in has led to impassioned debates across the social sciences and the public at large. Although Ireland was not its only victim, the depth of the interacting economic, banking and budgetary crises has meant that the level of public interest has been especially intense. Among the hotly debated questions: what is austerity? Was it necessary? What have been its consequences? One of …
Addressing potential challenges in co-creating learning and teaching: Overcoming resistance, navigating institutional norms and ensuring inclusivity in student–staff partnerships
Debating Temporary Uses for Vacant Urban Sites: Insights for Practice from a Stakeholder Workshop
Temporary land uses have become the focus of much debate within academic and policy circles in recent years. Although the international literature contains numerous case studies of temporary interventions, little attention has been paid to the dynamics of the interactions among different stakeholders. This paper reports on a stakeholder workshop that used a participatory research approach to collectively define the issues facing those interested …
Inclusive partnership: Enhancing student engagement in geography
Partnership is currently the focus of much work within higher education and advocated as an important process to address a range of higher education goals. In this paper, we propose the term inclusive partnership to conceptualise a non-selective staff–student relationship. While recognising the challenges of inclusive partnership working for institutions, staff and students, this paper outlines the opportunities it offers and provides detailed ca…
Investigating urban transformations: GIS, map-elicitation and the role of the state in regeneration
The value of mixed-methods research has recently re-gained impetus among geographers interested in the production of knowledge (Elwood, 2010). Key conversations have centred on efforts to blend traditionally viewed quantitative tools such as GIS with more qualitative practices and data. While discussions in qualitative GIS have demonstrated the value of merging the qualitative in GIS, we highlight the unexplored potential of GIS in the enactment …
Growing intimate privatepublics: Everyday utopia in the naturecultures of a young lesbian and bisexual women's allotment
The Young Women's Group in Manchester is a 'young women's peer health project, run by and for young lesbian and bisexual women', which runs an allotment as one of its activities. At a time when interest in allotments and gardening appears to be on the increase, the existence of yet another community allotment may seem unremarkable. Yet we suggest that this queer allotment poses challenges for conventional theorisations of allotments, as well as f…
Beyond agriculture: The counter-hegemony of community farming
Mapping the Journey Toward Self-Authorship in Geography
Learning is a developmental journey, and geography curriculum plays a key role in supporting student progression. In this article, we argue that the concept of ‘self-authorship’ is a useful guiding principle in supporting curriculum revision and reform. A series of international case studies illustrate how self-authorship can be enacted in different ways within geography curricula in a range of contexts. The role of a range of collaborators and t…
Eco/feminism and rewriting the ending of feminism: From the Chipko movement to Clayoquot Sound
This article draws on research at an eco/feminist peace camp set up to facilitate blockades against clear-cut logging in coastal temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in Canada in the early 1990s. The camp was said to be based on feminist principles and sometimes these were even articulated as eco/feminist principles. The slippage between these terms provides a focus for my discussion. Specifically the art…
Playing with time in Moore Street, Dublin: Urban redevelopment, temporal politics and the governance of space-time
Whether urban redevelopment is considered a “success” or “failure” is dependent on the temporal framings that we privilege. Until relatively recently, geographers have neglected the temporal politics that underpin urban redevelopment despite space-time being a crucial aspect framing the urban experience under capitalism. In this paper we argue for a focus on temporal politics or the politics associated with how time is experienced. Drawing on a c…
Fragmented governance, the urban data ecosystem and smart city-regions: The case of Metropolitan Boston
Through an empirical focus on Metropolitan Boston, this paper examines the effects of territorial politics and fragmented metropolitan governance on an urban data ecosystem and endeavours to enact a smart city-region. The fragmented governance of Metro Boston reduces scales of economy and produces interjurisdictional data incompatibilities that limit spatial intelligence, foster back-to-back planning and stifle the benefits of open data. Highligh…
Eco/Feminism, Non-Violence and the Future of Feminism
This article turns to an eco/feminist peace camp of the early 1990s in order to revisit the often passionate and troubled debates in feminism about pacifism, non-violence, maternalism and essentialism. Many readings of feminist peace activism, and eco/feminism, have collapsed a complicated politics into simple manifestations of maternalism, while at the same time reducing maternalism to essentialism. In this process essentialism has been invoked …
Spatial planning, metropolitan governance and territorial politics in Europe: Dublin as a case of metro-phobia
The growing concentration of production and population in capital cities in Europe is accompanied by metropolitan governance reform with two policy objectives in mind. Firstly, capital cities are promoted as ‘national champions’ in the context of global territorial competition. Secondly, metropolitan regions are characterised by recurrent crises of ‘governability’ as economic, social, environmental and infrastructural interdependencies escape exi…
Teaching for Better Learning: A Blended Learning Pilot Project with First-Year Geography Undergraduates
Internationally, recognition is growing that the transition between post-primary and higher education is raising a number of challenges for both students and educators. Simultaneously with growing class sizes, resources have become more constrained and there is a new set of expectations from the “net generation” (Mohanna, 2007, p. 211) The use of e-learning in medical education, Postgraduate Medical Journal, 83, p. 211). Within this transforming …
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: Urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin
While central to the origins, evolution and provisioning of cities, traditional markets are under threat globally as urban renewal supporting particular forms of economic development comes centre-stage. Design-led placemaking and built heritage policy have become tools of local, regional and national development, and urban heritage has become economically instrumentalised. In this paper, we argue for an alternate conceptualisation. Through a case…
Urban Redevelopment, Displacement, and Governmentality in Nanjing’s Historic Inner‐City
Housing‐related urban development has become a core plank of China’s economic policy since the mid‐1990s. Reports of resistance to displacement and resettlement associated with urban restructuring, once widespread, have dissipated since the early‐2010s. Using the framework of governmentality and through qualitative empirical fieldwork in the historic inner‐city of Nanjing, we try to understand the dynamics of this change. This research draws atte…
Beyond agriculture: The counter-hegemony of community farming
From indigenous industry to foreign finance: The changing face of Dublin Docklands
Metropolitanization, civic capacity and metropolitan governance: Ireland in the metropolitan century
The dynamics and politics of metropolitanization in Ireland have received limited attention, attributed in part to Ireland’s historic culturally embedded urban–rural divide. The publication of the National Planning Framework (2018) demonstrates an effort by the Irish government to centre spatial thinking on Ireland’s five major cities. However, despite evidence of enhanced civic engagement, the Irish case demonstrates the challenges of creating a…
Investigating urban transformations: GIS, map-elicitation and the role of the state in regeneration
The value of mixed-methods research has recently re-gained impetus among geographers interested in the production of knowledge (Elwood, 2010). Key conversations have centred on efforts to blend traditionally viewed quantitative tools such as GIS with more qualitative practices and data. While discussions in qualitative GIS have demonstrated the value of merging the qualitative in GIS, we highlight the unexplored potential of GIS in the enactment …
Growing intimate privatepublics: Everyday utopia in the naturecultures of a young lesbian and bisexual women's allotment
The Young Women's Group in Manchester is a 'young women's peer health project, run by and for young lesbian and bisexual women', which runs an allotment as one of its activities. At a time when interest in allotments and gardening appears to be on the increase, the existence of yet another community allotment may seem unremarkable. Yet we suggest that this queer allotment poses challenges for conventional theorisations of allotments, as well as f…
Street markets, urban development and immigrant entrepreneurship: Unpacking precarity in Moore Street, Dublin
Traditional markets represent vital spaces of opportunity for livelihood-building, intercultural contact and for developing familiarity with the city. Yet, worldwide, markets are under pressure due to redevelopment agendas driven by neoliberalised forms of urban governance. Although precarious sites of occupation and employment, markets still maintain an attractiveness for immigrant micro-entrepreneurs as a foothold into the labour market and urb…
Documenting the ‘soft spaces’ of London planning: Opportunity Areas as institutional fix in a growth-oriented city
The concentration of economic growth into large metropolises is widely documented across Europe. Yet, planning of this growth at the strategic metropolitan scale shows significant variation. This paper documents the evolution of Opportunity Areas within Greater London. Through statistical and documentary analysis, and participant observation, we reveal how they have been repurposed from a tool employed to facilitate brownfield regeneration to one…
Inclusive partnership: Enhancing student engagement in geography
Partnership is currently the focus of much work within higher education and advocated as an important process to address a range of higher education goals. In this paper, we propose the term inclusive partnership to conceptualise a non-selective staff–student relationship. While recognising the challenges of inclusive partnership working for institutions, staff and students, this paper outlines the opportunities it offers and provides detailed ca…
Eco/feminism and rewriting the ending of feminism: From the Chipko movement to Clayoquot Sound
This article draws on research at an eco/feminist peace camp set up to facilitate blockades against clear-cut logging in coastal temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in Canada in the early 1990s. The camp was said to be based on feminist principles and sometimes these were even articulated as eco/feminist principles. The slippage between these terms provides a focus for my discussion. Specifically the art…
Mapping the Journey Toward Self-Authorship in Geography
Learning is a developmental journey, and geography curriculum plays a key role in supporting student progression. In this article, we argue that the concept of ‘self-authorship’ is a useful guiding principle in supporting curriculum revision and reform. A series of international case studies illustrate how self-authorship can be enacted in different ways within geography curricula in a range of contexts. The role of a range of collaborators and t…
Pathways to a more policy-engaged geography
Geographers have a responsibility to address the major challenges of our time by engaging with and shaping policy. The paper introduces three ways this might be achieved – through critical engagement with policy; through occupying liminal spaces that foster agenda setting; and through empowering others to shape policy-from-below. Drawing on a range of experiences related to urban and regional development, the challenges and opportunities of engag…
Negotiating applied and critical perspectives within the geography curriculum
Debating Eco/Feminist Natures: Response to Commentaries by Stacy Alaimo and Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
From indigenous industry to foreign finance: The changing face of Dublin Docklands
Ireland's heritages: Critical perspectives on memory and identity - Edibted by Mark McCarthy
The Rise and Rise of Ecofeminism as a Development Fable: A Response to Melissa Leach's ‘Earth Mothers and Other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell’
This contribution offers a response to Melissa Leach's paper ‘Earth Mothers and Other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell’, published in an earlier issue of Development and Change . Leach's article examined the rise and fall of the figure of ‘woman as natural environmental carer’ in environment and development discourses. Specifically, it appeared concerned with the role of ‘the northern ecofeminist’ in popularizing this figu…
Debating Eco/Feminist Natures: Response to Commentaries by Stacy Alaimo and Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
Eco/Feminism, Non-Violence and the Future of Feminism
This article turns to an eco/feminist peace camp of the early 1990s in order to revisit the often passionate and troubled debates in feminism about pacifism, non-violence, maternalism and essentialism. Many readings of feminist peace activism, and eco/feminism, have collapsed a complicated politics into simple manifestations of maternalism, while at the same time reducing maternalism to essentialism. In this process essentialism has been invoked …
The Green City: Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs. Nicholas Low, Brendan Gleeson, Ray Green, and Darko Radovic
Teaching for Better Learning: A Blended Learning Pilot Project with First-Year Geography Undergraduates
Internationally, recognition is growing that the transition between post-primary and higher education is raising a number of challenges for both students and educators. Simultaneously with growing class sizes, resources have become more constrained and there is a new set of expectations from the “net generation” (Mohanna, 2007, p. 211) The use of e-learning in medical education, Postgraduate Medical Journal, 83, p. 211). Within this transforming …
Mapping the Journey Toward Self-Authorship in Geography
Learning is a developmental journey, and geography curriculum plays a key role in supporting student progression. In this article, we argue that the concept of ‘self-authorship’ is a useful guiding principle in supporting curriculum revision and reform. A series of international case studies illustrate how self-authorship can be enacted in different ways within geography curricula in a range of contexts. The role of a range of collaborators and t…
Eco/feminism and rewriting the ending of feminism: From the Chipko movement to Clayoquot Sound
This article draws on research at an eco/feminist peace camp set up to facilitate blockades against clear-cut logging in coastal temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in Canada in the early 1990s. The camp was said to be based on feminist principles and sometimes these were even articulated as eco/feminist principles. The slippage between these terms provides a focus for my discussion. Specifically the art…
Beyond agriculture: The counter-hegemony of community farming
Growing intimate privatepublics: Everyday utopia in the naturecultures of a young lesbian and bisexual women's allotment
The Young Women's Group in Manchester is a 'young women's peer health project, run by and for young lesbian and bisexual women', which runs an allotment as one of its activities. At a time when interest in allotments and gardening appears to be on the increase, the existence of yet another community allotment may seem unremarkable. Yet we suggest that this queer allotment poses challenges for conventional theorisations of allotments, as well as f…
Inclusive partnership: Enhancing student engagement in geography
Partnership is currently the focus of much work within higher education and advocated as an important process to address a range of higher education goals. In this paper, we propose the term inclusive partnership to conceptualise a non-selective staff–student relationship. While recognising the challenges of inclusive partnership working for institutions, staff and students, this paper outlines the opportunities it offers and provides detailed ca…
Investigating urban transformations: GIS, map-elicitation and the role of the state in regeneration
The value of mixed-methods research has recently re-gained impetus among geographers interested in the production of knowledge (Elwood, 2010). Key conversations have centred on efforts to blend traditionally viewed quantitative tools such as GIS with more qualitative practices and data. While discussions in qualitative GIS have demonstrated the value of merging the qualitative in GIS, we highlight the unexplored potential of GIS in the enactment …
Addressing potential challenges in co-creating learning and teaching: Overcoming resistance, navigating institutional norms and ensuring inclusivity in student–staff partnerships
Debating Temporary Uses for Vacant Urban Sites: Insights for Practice from a Stakeholder Workshop
Temporary land uses have become the focus of much debate within academic and policy circles in recent years. Although the international literature contains numerous case studies of temporary interventions, little attention has been paid to the dynamics of the interactions among different stakeholders. This paper reports on a stakeholder workshop that used a participatory research approach to collectively define the issues facing those interested …
Debating Austerity in Ireland: Crisis, Experience and Recovery
The austerity that followed the recent economic and financial crisis in has led to impassioned debates across the social sciences and the public at large. Although Ireland was not its only victim, the depth of the interacting economic, banking and budgetary crises has meant that the level of public interest has been especially intense. Among the hotly debated questions: what is austerity? Was it necessary? What have been its consequences? One of …
Spatial planning, metropolitan governance and territorial politics in Europe: Dublin as a case of metro-phobia
The growing concentration of production and population in capital cities in Europe is accompanied by metropolitan governance reform with two policy objectives in mind. Firstly, capital cities are promoted as ‘national champions’ in the context of global territorial competition. Secondly, metropolitan regions are characterised by recurrent crises of ‘governability’ as economic, social, environmental and infrastructural interdependencies escape exi…
Playing with time in Moore Street, Dublin: Urban redevelopment, temporal politics and the governance of space-time
Whether urban redevelopment is considered a “success” or “failure” is dependent on the temporal framings that we privilege. Until relatively recently, geographers have neglected the temporal politics that underpin urban redevelopment despite space-time being a crucial aspect framing the urban experience under capitalism. In this paper we argue for a focus on temporal politics or the politics associated with how time is experienced. Drawing on a c…
Fragmented governance, the urban data ecosystem and smart city-regions: The case of Metropolitan Boston
Through an empirical focus on Metropolitan Boston, this paper examines the effects of territorial politics and fragmented metropolitan governance on an urban data ecosystem and endeavours to enact a smart city-region. The fragmented governance of Metro Boston reduces scales of economy and produces interjurisdictional data incompatibilities that limit spatial intelligence, foster back-to-back planning and stifle the benefits of open data. Highligh…
Mapping Green Dublin: Co-Creating a Greener Future With Local Communities
Mapping Green Dublin is a transdisciplinary, collaborative action research project led by University College Dublin’s School of Geography in collaboration with arts organisation Common Ground, artist Seoidín O’Sullivan, and event facilitators Connect the Dots. It took place in an inner-city neighbourhood of Dublin 8 between 2019 and 2020 and was funded by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency. This article outlines the methodological approach…
Spatial transformation, public policy and metropolitan governance: Secondary business districts in Dublin and Warsaw
Across Europe, economic development is increasingly focused on large city regions intensifying processes of metropolitanization. However, the trajectories and experience of these processes are context dependent, shaped by the broad political–economic context and public policy frameworks. Drawing on case studies of Warsaw (Poland) and Dublin (Ireland), this paper examines the relationship between the transformation of the metropolitan spatial stru…
Partnership, anti-racism, indigenization and technology: An INLT collaborative writing symposium
Geography is an academic discipline with a long but complex set of intellectual traditions that resonate across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. In recent decades however, it h
Documenting the ‘soft spaces’ of London planning: Opportunity Areas as institutional fix in a growth-oriented city
The concentration of economic growth into large metropolises is widely documented across Europe. Yet, planning of this growth at the strategic metropolitan scale shows significant variation. This paper documents the evolution of Opportunity Areas within Greater London. Through statistical and documentary analysis, and participant observation, we reveal how they have been repurposed from a tool employed to facilitate brownfield regeneration to one…
Pathways to a more policy-engaged geography
Geographers have a responsibility to address the major challenges of our time by engaging with and shaping policy. The paper introduces three ways this might be achieved – through critical engagement with policy; through occupying liminal spaces that foster agenda setting; and through empowering others to shape policy-from-below. Drawing on a range of experiences related to urban and regional development, the challenges and opportunities of engag…
Negotiating applied and critical perspectives within the geography curriculum
Political science (26 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Geography (16 works) · Politics (12 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Corporate governance (7 works)