Leila Dawney
Biographic Data
| ID | 339428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leila Dawney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leila |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawney |
| SIGNATURE | DAWNEY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9432-7095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 242 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Warm spaces as commoning: Rethinking energy poverty beyond the private doctrine
This paper argues for policy solutions addressing energy poverty to look beyond the level of individual households. Drawing on commons thinking and recent turns in geographical literature to the idea of commoning as a post‐capitalist response to the managing of needs and resources, this paper addresses keeping warm as a human need that can be met collectively. Through empirical research in ‘warm spaces’, which are community‐led responses to the g…
Epistemic authority, judgement, and the uncomfortable problem of conspiracism
This commentary on Victoria Ridgway's article “Conspiracy theories and Geography: Who gets to say where is power?” pushes further at Ridgway’s central claim: that geographers have largely ignored conspiracism not because it lacks relevance, but because it poses an unsettling challenge to the discipline’s assumptions about knowledge, legitimacy, and political virtue. Ridgway argues that while poststructuralist critiques have opened space for alter…
Endurance, exhaustion and the lure of redemption
This paper is concerned with the lure of redemption in contemporary academic and accounts of exhaustion, endurance, and biopolitical life. Drawing on, and contributing to recent work on negativity in cultural geography, the paper analyses how optimism and redemption find their way in to academic writing on the contemporary condition. It interrogates the optimism in these literatures, paying attention to the genealogical roots of the propensity to…
Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict
How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume. The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and offer innovative insights for the conservation, mending, care and em…
Múltiplas Temporalidades Da Infraestrutura: Cidades Atômicas E a Memória De Futuros Perdidos
Usinas nucleares, com sua promessa de energia a baixo custo e sem limites, são arquetípicas do progresso da modernidade. Ao reconhecermos os limites do progresso industrial e do capital baseado no crescimento, lugares onde o sonho acabou, cujos habitantes estão encontrando modos de vida em meio à transição oferecerem ontologias práticas emergentes baseadas em manutenção, bricolagem e necessidade. Através de um estudo de caso da cidade atômica de …
É preciso olhar para as montanhas: Entrevista com Lucas Bambozzi sobre cinema, ruínas e mineração
Entrevista com o artista multimídia, realizador audiovisual, professor e pesquisador acadêmico Lucas Bambozzi realizada por membros do grupo interdisciplinar e internacional de pesquisadores reunidos em torno da temática do Antropoceno brasileiro. O entrevistado fala de sua mais recente produção audiovisual, o documentário Lavras sobre os atingidos pelos impactos da mineração no Estado de Minas Gerais, refletindo sobre as relações entre o cinema …
Locais desativados: Ruínas, Resistência E Cuidado No Final Da Primeira Era Nuclear
Este artigo advoga por uma geografia dos lugares desindustrializados como espaços de habitação e de persistência, ao invés de uma que se baseia em narrativas de progresso, declínio e ruína. Há muito as ruínas constituem uma questão para os geógrafos, embora as reminiscências materiais dos grandes esquemas da modernidade acabem facilmente endossando formas de perceber e de compreender lugares desindustrializados ao ponto de apagarem as práticas at…
Geographies of authority
We propose a geography that pluralizes the sites, practices and politics of authority. We defend an approach that tracks less perceptible forms of authority emerging through everyday micropolitics and experimental practices. In contrast to dominant definitions of authority as institutionalized legitimate power, we define authority as a relation of guidance emerging from recognition of inequalities in access to truth, experience or objectivity. An…
The multiple temporalities of infrastructure: Atomic cities and the memory of lost futures
Nuclear power plants, with their promise of boundless cheap energy, are archetypal figures of progress modernity. As we acknowledge the limits of industrial progress and growth-based capital, places for where the dream is now over, and whose inhabitants are finding ways of living through its transition, offer emergent practical ontologies based on maintenance, bricolage and necessity. Through the case study of the atomic city of Visaginas, Lithua…
Figurations of Wounding: Soldiers' Bodies, Authority, and the Militarisation of Everyday Life
This article argues that the figures of the wounded and dead soldier are central organising nodes in public objects, events, and institutions and are generative of intense affects and feelings, which are in turn bound to and constitute geopolitical imaginaries. Through these figurations, bodies of wounded and dead soldiers are brought to visibility, becoming key technologies for the production of authority and attachment, and fostering powerful a…
Decommissioned places: Ruins, endurance and care at the end of the first nuclear age
This paper argues for a geography of deindustrialising places as spaces of inhabitation and endurance, rather than one based on narratives of progres, decline and ruination. Ruins have long been a concern for geographers, yet the material remains of modernity's grand schemes feed easily into ways of seeing and knowing deindustrialised spaces that can efface the practices through which lives and worlds are made in the present. Drawing on fieldwork…
Introduction: The Legacies and Limits of The Body in Pain
Since its publication in 1985, Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain has become a seminal text in the study of embodiment. In its foregrounding of the body in war and torture, it critiques the minimising of the body in questions of politics, offering a compelling account of the structure and phenomenology of violent domination. However, at the same time the text can be seen to shore up a mind/body dualism that has been associated with oppressive forms…
Affective War: Wounded Bodies as Political Technologies
This article argues that wounded military bodies are affective technologies in the production of supportive publics in war. It builds on Elaine Scarry's concept of substantiation, suggesting that the damaged or altered body functions in war as a vehicle for the making material of immaterial beliefs, values and ideas. Scarry's focus on the affective force of the wounded body is elaborated and pushed further, by asserting that the concept of substa…
The affective life of power
No description available
The intimate spaces of debt: Love, freedom and entanglement in indebted lives
Future World: Anticipatory Archaeology, Materially Affective Capacities and the Late Human Legacy
Using the 2010 film Into Eternity as a springboard for thought, this article considers how archaeologies of the future might help us make sense of how to seek commonality and take care across vast temporal scales. The film, about a nuclear waste repository in Finland, addresses the impossibility of communicating across millennia. In thinking with this film, we engage with recent responses to the post-human call, arguing that they are inadequate i…
Authority, Experience and the Life of Power
Taking up the challenge of understanding power in its complexity, this volume returns to and revitalises the concept of ‘authority’. It provides a powerful analysis of the ways that relationships of trust, attachment, governance and inequality become possible when subjectivities and bodies are invested in the life of power. The collection offers a vibrant new analysis of the biopolitical, arguing that ‘experience of life’ has become equated with …
Data Diffraction: Challenging Data Integration in Mixed Methods Research
This article extends the debates relating to integration in mixed methods research. We challenge the a priori assumptions on which integration is assumed to be possible in the first place. More specifically, following Haraway and Barad, we argue that methods produce "cuts" which may or may not cohere and that "diffraction," as an expanded approach to integration, has much to offer mixed methods research. Diffraction pays attention to the ways in …
Authority and experience
This is the final version. Available on open access from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
The figure of authority: The Affective Biopolitics of the Mother and the Dying Man
This paper discusses the relationship between authority-production and experience through a consideration of the emergence of certain figures as authorities on particular matters as a result of extraordinary experiences that they have undergone. It argues that analysis of such figures of experiential authority can help us to identify ‘objectivities’: foundational tenets upon which their authority is based and to which it ultimately refers. With r…
The Interruption: Investigating Subjectivation and Affect
This paper contributes to current debates concerning affect and the nonrepresentational subject by introducing the concept of the interruption as a means of exploring the politics both of experience and of the feeling body. By thinking about the way in which affect is theorised in Spinoza's Ethics alongside a critique of the subject that draws on Foucault, I position the interruption as an event that elicits a mode of critique that enables an int…
The motor of being: A response to Steve Pile’s ‘Emotions and affect in recent human geography’
Social Imaginaries and Therapeutic Self-Work: The Ethics of the Embodied Imagination
This paper explores the concept of the social imaginary as a means for understanding how bodies and worlds interact in the production of therapeutic spaces. The 'body that imagines' is discussed through an engagement with Foucault's writing on subjectivation and Spinoza's theory of knowledge and the imagination. This focus on the 'body that imagines' allows a consideration of social imaginaries as processual and collective entities, and reveals h…
The Interruption: Investigating Subjectivation and Affect
This paper contributes to current debates concerning affect and the nonrepresentational subject by introducing the concept of the interruption as a means of exploring the politics both of experience and of the feeling body. By thinking about the way in which affect is theorised in Spinoza's Ethics alongside a critique of the subject that draws on Foucault, I position the interruption as an event that elicits a mode of critique that enables an int…
Data Diffraction: Challenging Data Integration in Mixed Methods Research
This article extends the debates relating to integration in mixed methods research. We challenge the a priori assumptions on which integration is assumed to be possible in the first place. More specifically, following Haraway and Barad, we argue that methods produce "cuts" which may or may not cohere and that "diffraction," as an expanded approach to integration, has much to offer mixed methods research. Diffraction pays attention to the ways in …
The intimate spaces of debt: Love, freedom and entanglement in indebted lives
Decommissioned places: Ruins, endurance and care at the end of the first nuclear age
This paper argues for a geography of deindustrialising places as spaces of inhabitation and endurance, rather than one based on narratives of progres, decline and ruination. Ruins have long been a concern for geographers, yet the material remains of modernity's grand schemes feed easily into ways of seeing and knowing deindustrialised spaces that can efface the practices through which lives and worlds are made in the present. Drawing on fieldwork…
The figure of authority: The Affective Biopolitics of the Mother and the Dying Man
This paper discusses the relationship between authority-production and experience through a consideration of the emergence of certain figures as authorities on particular matters as a result of extraordinary experiences that they have undergone. It argues that analysis of such figures of experiential authority can help us to identify ‘objectivities’: foundational tenets upon which their authority is based and to which it ultimately refers. With r…
Endurance, exhaustion and the lure of redemption
This paper is concerned with the lure of redemption in contemporary academic and accounts of exhaustion, endurance, and biopolitical life. Drawing on, and contributing to recent work on negativity in cultural geography, the paper analyses how optimism and redemption find their way in to academic writing on the contemporary condition. It interrogates the optimism in these literatures, paying attention to the genealogical roots of the propensity to…
The motor of being: A response to Steve Pile’s ‘Emotions and affect in recent human geography’
The multiple temporalities of infrastructure: Atomic cities and the memory of lost futures
Nuclear power plants, with their promise of boundless cheap energy, are archetypal figures of progress modernity. As we acknowledge the limits of industrial progress and growth-based capital, places for where the dream is now over, and whose inhabitants are finding ways of living through its transition, offer emergent practical ontologies based on maintenance, bricolage and necessity. Through the case study of the atomic city of Visaginas, Lithua…
Affective War: Wounded Bodies as Political Technologies
This article argues that wounded military bodies are affective technologies in the production of supportive publics in war. It builds on Elaine Scarry's concept of substantiation, suggesting that the damaged or altered body functions in war as a vehicle for the making material of immaterial beliefs, values and ideas. Scarry's focus on the affective force of the wounded body is elaborated and pushed further, by asserting that the concept of substa…
Geographies of authority
We propose a geography that pluralizes the sites, practices and politics of authority. We defend an approach that tracks less perceptible forms of authority emerging through everyday micropolitics and experimental practices. In contrast to dominant definitions of authority as institutionalized legitimate power, we define authority as a relation of guidance emerging from recognition of inequalities in access to truth, experience or objectivity. An…
Social Imaginaries and Therapeutic Self-Work: The Ethics of the Embodied Imagination
This paper explores the concept of the social imaginary as a means for understanding how bodies and worlds interact in the production of therapeutic spaces. The 'body that imagines' is discussed through an engagement with Foucault's writing on subjectivation and Spinoza's theory of knowledge and the imagination. This focus on the 'body that imagines' allows a consideration of social imaginaries as processual and collective entities, and reveals h…
Figurations of Wounding: Soldiers' Bodies, Authority, and the Militarisation of Everyday Life
This article argues that the figures of the wounded and dead soldier are central organising nodes in public objects, events, and institutions and are generative of intense affects and feelings, which are in turn bound to and constitute geopolitical imaginaries. Through these figurations, bodies of wounded and dead soldiers are brought to visibility, becoming key technologies for the production of authority and attachment, and fostering powerful a…
Introduction: The Legacies and Limits of The Body in Pain
Since its publication in 1985, Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain has become a seminal text in the study of embodiment. In its foregrounding of the body in war and torture, it critiques the minimising of the body in questions of politics, offering a compelling account of the structure and phenomenology of violent domination. However, at the same time the text can be seen to shore up a mind/body dualism that has been associated with oppressive forms…
Future World: Anticipatory Archaeology, Materially Affective Capacities and the Late Human Legacy
Using the 2010 film Into Eternity as a springboard for thought, this article considers how archaeologies of the future might help us make sense of how to seek commonality and take care across vast temporal scales. The film, about a nuclear waste repository in Finland, addresses the impossibility of communicating across millennia. In thinking with this film, we engage with recent responses to the post-human call, arguing that they are inadequate i…
The affective life of power
No description available
Authority and experience
This is the final version. Available on open access from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Epistemic authority, judgement, and the uncomfortable problem of conspiracism
This commentary on Victoria Ridgway's article “Conspiracy theories and Geography: Who gets to say where is power?” pushes further at Ridgway’s central claim: that geographers have largely ignored conspiracism not because it lacks relevance, but because it poses an unsettling challenge to the discipline’s assumptions about knowledge, legitimacy, and political virtue. Ridgway argues that while poststructuralist critiques have opened space for alter…
The motor of being: A response to Steve Pile’s ‘Emotions and affect in recent human geography’
Social Imaginaries and Therapeutic Self-Work: The Ethics of the Embodied Imagination
This paper explores the concept of the social imaginary as a means for understanding how bodies and worlds interact in the production of therapeutic spaces. The 'body that imagines' is discussed through an engagement with Foucault's writing on subjectivation and Spinoza's theory of knowledge and the imagination. This focus on the 'body that imagines' allows a consideration of social imaginaries as processual and collective entities, and reveals h…
Authority and experience
This is the final version. Available on open access from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
The figure of authority: The Affective Biopolitics of the Mother and the Dying Man
This paper discusses the relationship between authority-production and experience through a consideration of the emergence of certain figures as authorities on particular matters as a result of extraordinary experiences that they have undergone. It argues that analysis of such figures of experiential authority can help us to identify ‘objectivities’: foundational tenets upon which their authority is based and to which it ultimately refers. With r…
The Interruption: Investigating Subjectivation and Affect
This paper contributes to current debates concerning affect and the nonrepresentational subject by introducing the concept of the interruption as a means of exploring the politics both of experience and of the feeling body. By thinking about the way in which affect is theorised in Spinoza's Ethics alongside a critique of the subject that draws on Foucault, I position the interruption as an event that elicits a mode of critique that enables an int…
Authority, Experience and the Life of Power
Taking up the challenge of understanding power in its complexity, this volume returns to and revitalises the concept of ‘authority’. It provides a powerful analysis of the ways that relationships of trust, attachment, governance and inequality become possible when subjectivities and bodies are invested in the life of power. The collection offers a vibrant new analysis of the biopolitical, arguing that ‘experience of life’ has become equated with …
Data Diffraction: Challenging Data Integration in Mixed Methods Research
This article extends the debates relating to integration in mixed methods research. We challenge the a priori assumptions on which integration is assumed to be possible in the first place. More specifically, following Haraway and Barad, we argue that methods produce "cuts" which may or may not cohere and that "diffraction," as an expanded approach to integration, has much to offer mixed methods research. Diffraction pays attention to the ways in …
Future World: Anticipatory Archaeology, Materially Affective Capacities and the Late Human Legacy
Using the 2010 film Into Eternity as a springboard for thought, this article considers how archaeologies of the future might help us make sense of how to seek commonality and take care across vast temporal scales. The film, about a nuclear waste repository in Finland, addresses the impossibility of communicating across millennia. In thinking with this film, we engage with recent responses to the post-human call, arguing that they are inadequate i…
The affective life of power
No description available
The intimate spaces of debt: Love, freedom and entanglement in indebted lives
Decommissioned places: Ruins, endurance and care at the end of the first nuclear age
This paper argues for a geography of deindustrialising places as spaces of inhabitation and endurance, rather than one based on narratives of progres, decline and ruination. Ruins have long been a concern for geographers, yet the material remains of modernity's grand schemes feed easily into ways of seeing and knowing deindustrialised spaces that can efface the practices through which lives and worlds are made in the present. Drawing on fieldwork…
Introduction: The Legacies and Limits of The Body in Pain
Since its publication in 1985, Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain has become a seminal text in the study of embodiment. In its foregrounding of the body in war and torture, it critiques the minimising of the body in questions of politics, offering a compelling account of the structure and phenomenology of violent domination. However, at the same time the text can be seen to shore up a mind/body dualism that has been associated with oppressive forms…
Affective War: Wounded Bodies as Political Technologies
This article argues that wounded military bodies are affective technologies in the production of supportive publics in war. It builds on Elaine Scarry's concept of substantiation, suggesting that the damaged or altered body functions in war as a vehicle for the making material of immaterial beliefs, values and ideas. Scarry's focus on the affective force of the wounded body is elaborated and pushed further, by asserting that the concept of substa…
Figurations of Wounding: Soldiers' Bodies, Authority, and the Militarisation of Everyday Life
This article argues that the figures of the wounded and dead soldier are central organising nodes in public objects, events, and institutions and are generative of intense affects and feelings, which are in turn bound to and constitute geopolitical imaginaries. Through these figurations, bodies of wounded and dead soldiers are brought to visibility, becoming key technologies for the production of authority and attachment, and fostering powerful a…
Geographies of authority
We propose a geography that pluralizes the sites, practices and politics of authority. We defend an approach that tracks less perceptible forms of authority emerging through everyday micropolitics and experimental practices. In contrast to dominant definitions of authority as institutionalized legitimate power, we define authority as a relation of guidance emerging from recognition of inequalities in access to truth, experience or objectivity. An…
The multiple temporalities of infrastructure: Atomic cities and the memory of lost futures
Nuclear power plants, with their promise of boundless cheap energy, are archetypal figures of progress modernity. As we acknowledge the limits of industrial progress and growth-based capital, places for where the dream is now over, and whose inhabitants are finding ways of living through its transition, offer emergent practical ontologies based on maintenance, bricolage and necessity. Through the case study of the atomic city of Visaginas, Lithua…
Locais desativados: Ruínas, Resistência E Cuidado No Final Da Primeira Era Nuclear
Este artigo advoga por uma geografia dos lugares desindustrializados como espaços de habitação e de persistência, ao invés de uma que se baseia em narrativas de progresso, declínio e ruína. Há muito as ruínas constituem uma questão para os geógrafos, embora as reminiscências materiais dos grandes esquemas da modernidade acabem facilmente endossando formas de perceber e de compreender lugares desindustrializados ao ponto de apagarem as práticas at…
Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict
How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume. The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and offer innovative insights for the conservation, mending, care and em…
Múltiplas Temporalidades Da Infraestrutura: Cidades Atômicas E a Memória De Futuros Perdidos
Usinas nucleares, com sua promessa de energia a baixo custo e sem limites, são arquetípicas do progresso da modernidade. Ao reconhecermos os limites do progresso industrial e do capital baseado no crescimento, lugares onde o sonho acabou, cujos habitantes estão encontrando modos de vida em meio à transição oferecerem ontologias práticas emergentes baseadas em manutenção, bricolagem e necessidade. Através de um estudo de caso da cidade atômica de …
É preciso olhar para as montanhas: Entrevista com Lucas Bambozzi sobre cinema, ruínas e mineração
Entrevista com o artista multimídia, realizador audiovisual, professor e pesquisador acadêmico Lucas Bambozzi realizada por membros do grupo interdisciplinar e internacional de pesquisadores reunidos em torno da temática do Antropoceno brasileiro. O entrevistado fala de sua mais recente produção audiovisual, o documentário Lavras sobre os atingidos pelos impactos da mineração no Estado de Minas Gerais, refletindo sobre as relações entre o cinema …
Endurance, exhaustion and the lure of redemption
This paper is concerned with the lure of redemption in contemporary academic and accounts of exhaustion, endurance, and biopolitical life. Drawing on, and contributing to recent work on negativity in cultural geography, the paper analyses how optimism and redemption find their way in to academic writing on the contemporary condition. It interrogates the optimism in these literatures, paying attention to the genealogical roots of the propensity to…
Warm spaces as commoning: Rethinking energy poverty beyond the private doctrine
This paper argues for policy solutions addressing energy poverty to look beyond the level of individual households. Drawing on commons thinking and recent turns in geographical literature to the idea of commoning as a post‐capitalist response to the managing of needs and resources, this paper addresses keeping warm as a human need that can be met collectively. Through empirical research in ‘warm spaces’, which are community‐led responses to the g…
Epistemic authority, judgement, and the uncomfortable problem of conspiracism
This commentary on Victoria Ridgway's article “Conspiracy theories and Geography: Who gets to say where is power?” pushes further at Ridgway’s central claim: that geographers have largely ignored conspiracism not because it lacks relevance, but because it poses an unsettling challenge to the discipline’s assumptions about knowledge, legitimacy, and political virtue. Ridgway argues that while poststructuralist critiques have opened space for alter…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (9 works)