K Macfarlane
Biographic Data
| ID | 34695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Macfarlane |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Macfarlane |
| SIGNATURE | MACFARLANE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7710-1975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Phenomenology of Disembodiment
Departures: Space in the Frankfurt school
The theme issue Departures charts the formative significance of space, spatiality, and geography in the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory and its political relevance to the present. For Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, and others associated with the first generation of the Institute for Social Research, the spatial experience of displacement, exile, and migration played a crucial role in shaping the orientation of critical thought. And ye…
Residues of the Possible in advance: Henri Lefebvre on Everyday Life and Class Struggle
This paper argues that the concept of residue is integral to Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist project and its attempts to redefine class struggle on the worldwide level of uneven development. After examining Lefebvre’s analysis of the spatiotemporal obstruction of everyday life in capitalist society, the paper’s second section considers the residual dimensions of his concept of the proletarian condition, surveying its affinities and divergences with Geor…
Missing the Housing for the Trees: Equity in Urban Climate Planning
This paper examines equity’s incorporation into Climate Action Plans (CAPs), an increasingly important part of the urban sustainability planning landscape. We conduct a content analysis of 170 California CAPs and compare the plans’ treatment of equity to city characteristics such as size and income inequality. We find that equity language correlates with an increased presence of more systemic policy interventions, such as dense and/or affordable …
Sanctuary Space, Racialized Violence, and Memories of Resistance
Sanctuary, which comes from the Latin sanctus, meaning “holy, ” has played a strategic role in political resistance for hundreds of years. Today the concept has returned as one of importance in the protection of refugees worldwide. In this article, which focuses on sanctuary practices in Germany, we examine the importance of the spaces of church-based asylum—the structure, physical spaces, and neighborhood of the church itself. We investigate the…
Children of the Grave
Governing the noisy sphere: Geographies of noise regulation in the US
Over the last 10 years there has been considerable growth in the range of geographical work on sound, particularly on how sound shapes everyday life. One area that is beginning to receive attention is how noise is formalized in law and policy. This paper contributes to that literature by developing a geographic theory of modern noise regulation. Two policies are examined: the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Noise Control Act of 1972 and Seat…
Negative Research: Sonic Methods in Geography and Their Limits
Sound has received much attention from human geographers in recent years. This article opens a debate around the growing body of work on sound as a research method. Sonic methods have largely emerged as part of the so-called affective turn in geography, as efforts to attend to the performative, emotional, and prereflective aspects of experience. Drawing on the work of Adorno, I develop a critique of existing sonic methods, arguing that their focu…
Hamburg's Spaces of Danger: Race, Violence and Memory in a Contemporary Global City
Germany today is experiencing the strongest upsurge of right-wing populism since the second world war, most notably with the rise of Pegida and Alternative für Deutschland. Yet wealthy global cities like Hamburg continue to present themselves as the gatekeepers of liberal progress and cosmopolitan openness. This article argues that Hamburg's urban boosterism relies on, while simultaneously obscuring, the same structures of racial violence that em…
Time, Waste, and the City: The Rise of the Environmental Industry
In many US cities, especially those in the Rust Belt, the environmental goods and services ( EGS ) industry has played a significant role in restructuring local economies to promote new, flexible, and “creative” forms of service‐based labour. And yet much of the environmental work conducted in these cities has been directed at an industrial past, cleaning up the waste left over from long‐departed manufacturing sectors. Returning to David Harvey's…
A thousand CEOs: Relational thought, processual space, and Deleuzian ontology in human geography and strategic management
The last 20 years have witnessed a deepening of the imbrication between capital and the university. This paper seeks to map one point at which this binding occurs: in critical theory. Recently scholars in strategic management have turned to processual and relational ontologies in an attempt to reimagine the logics of profit, value, and growth. These same ontologies have appealed to critical geographers as a means of reconceiving space as unfixed.…
Negative Research: Sonic Methods in Geography and Their Limits
Sound has received much attention from human geographers in recent years. This article opens a debate around the growing body of work on sound as a research method. Sonic methods have largely emerged as part of the so-called affective turn in geography, as efforts to attend to the performative, emotional, and prereflective aspects of experience. Drawing on the work of Adorno, I develop a critique of existing sonic methods, arguing that their focu…
Time, Waste, and the City: The Rise of the Environmental Industry
In many US cities, especially those in the Rust Belt, the environmental goods and services ( EGS ) industry has played a significant role in restructuring local economies to promote new, flexible, and “creative” forms of service‐based labour. And yet much of the environmental work conducted in these cities has been directed at an industrial past, cleaning up the waste left over from long‐departed manufacturing sectors. Returning to David Harvey's…
Missing the Housing for the Trees: Equity in Urban Climate Planning
This paper examines equity’s incorporation into Climate Action Plans (CAPs), an increasingly important part of the urban sustainability planning landscape. We conduct a content analysis of 170 California CAPs and compare the plans’ treatment of equity to city characteristics such as size and income inequality. We find that equity language correlates with an increased presence of more systemic policy interventions, such as dense and/or affordable …
Hamburg's Spaces of Danger: Race, Violence and Memory in a Contemporary Global City
Germany today is experiencing the strongest upsurge of right-wing populism since the second world war, most notably with the rise of Pegida and Alternative für Deutschland. Yet wealthy global cities like Hamburg continue to present themselves as the gatekeepers of liberal progress and cosmopolitan openness. This article argues that Hamburg's urban boosterism relies on, while simultaneously obscuring, the same structures of racial violence that em…
Governing the noisy sphere: Geographies of noise regulation in the US
Over the last 10 years there has been considerable growth in the range of geographical work on sound, particularly on how sound shapes everyday life. One area that is beginning to receive attention is how noise is formalized in law and policy. This paper contributes to that literature by developing a geographic theory of modern noise regulation. Two policies are examined: the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Noise Control Act of 1972 and Seat…
A thousand CEOs: Relational thought, processual space, and Deleuzian ontology in human geography and strategic management
The last 20 years have witnessed a deepening of the imbrication between capital and the university. This paper seeks to map one point at which this binding occurs: in critical theory. Recently scholars in strategic management have turned to processual and relational ontologies in an attempt to reimagine the logics of profit, value, and growth. These same ontologies have appealed to critical geographers as a means of reconceiving space as unfixed.…
Sanctuary Space, Racialized Violence, and Memories of Resistance
Sanctuary, which comes from the Latin sanctus, meaning “holy, ” has played a strategic role in political resistance for hundreds of years. Today the concept has returned as one of importance in the protection of refugees worldwide. In this article, which focuses on sanctuary practices in Germany, we examine the importance of the spaces of church-based asylum—the structure, physical spaces, and neighborhood of the church itself. We investigate the…
A thousand CEOs: Relational thought, processual space, and Deleuzian ontology in human geography and strategic management
The last 20 years have witnessed a deepening of the imbrication between capital and the university. This paper seeks to map one point at which this binding occurs: in critical theory. Recently scholars in strategic management have turned to processual and relational ontologies in an attempt to reimagine the logics of profit, value, and growth. These same ontologies have appealed to critical geographers as a means of reconceiving space as unfixed.…
Time, Waste, and the City: The Rise of the Environmental Industry
In many US cities, especially those in the Rust Belt, the environmental goods and services ( EGS ) industry has played a significant role in restructuring local economies to promote new, flexible, and “creative” forms of service‐based labour. And yet much of the environmental work conducted in these cities has been directed at an industrial past, cleaning up the waste left over from long‐departed manufacturing sectors. Returning to David Harvey's…
Children of the Grave
Governing the noisy sphere: Geographies of noise regulation in the US
Over the last 10 years there has been considerable growth in the range of geographical work on sound, particularly on how sound shapes everyday life. One area that is beginning to receive attention is how noise is formalized in law and policy. This paper contributes to that literature by developing a geographic theory of modern noise regulation. Two policies are examined: the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Noise Control Act of 1972 and Seat…
Negative Research: Sonic Methods in Geography and Their Limits
Sound has received much attention from human geographers in recent years. This article opens a debate around the growing body of work on sound as a research method. Sonic methods have largely emerged as part of the so-called affective turn in geography, as efforts to attend to the performative, emotional, and prereflective aspects of experience. Drawing on the work of Adorno, I develop a critique of existing sonic methods, arguing that their focu…
Hamburg's Spaces of Danger: Race, Violence and Memory in a Contemporary Global City
Germany today is experiencing the strongest upsurge of right-wing populism since the second world war, most notably with the rise of Pegida and Alternative für Deutschland. Yet wealthy global cities like Hamburg continue to present themselves as the gatekeepers of liberal progress and cosmopolitan openness. This article argues that Hamburg's urban boosterism relies on, while simultaneously obscuring, the same structures of racial violence that em…
Missing the Housing for the Trees: Equity in Urban Climate Planning
This paper examines equity’s incorporation into Climate Action Plans (CAPs), an increasingly important part of the urban sustainability planning landscape. We conduct a content analysis of 170 California CAPs and compare the plans’ treatment of equity to city characteristics such as size and income inequality. We find that equity language correlates with an increased presence of more systemic policy interventions, such as dense and/or affordable …
Sanctuary Space, Racialized Violence, and Memories of Resistance
Sanctuary, which comes from the Latin sanctus, meaning “holy, ” has played a strategic role in political resistance for hundreds of years. Today the concept has returned as one of importance in the protection of refugees worldwide. In this article, which focuses on sanctuary practices in Germany, we examine the importance of the spaces of church-based asylum—the structure, physical spaces, and neighborhood of the church itself. We investigate the…
Phenomenology of Disembodiment
Departures: Space in the Frankfurt school
The theme issue Departures charts the formative significance of space, spatiality, and geography in the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory and its political relevance to the present. For Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, and others associated with the first generation of the Institute for Social Research, the spatial experience of displacement, exile, and migration played a crucial role in shaping the orientation of critical thought. And ye…
Residues of the Possible in advance: Henri Lefebvre on Everyday Life and Class Struggle
This paper argues that the concept of residue is integral to Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist project and its attempts to redefine class struggle on the worldwide level of uneven development. After examining Lefebvre’s analysis of the spatiotemporal obstruction of everyday life in capitalist society, the paper’s second section considers the residual dimensions of his concept of the proletarian condition, surveying its affinities and divergences with Geor…
Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)