Richard Phillips
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Phillips |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillips |
| SIGNATURE | PHILLIPS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4630-4555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 377 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1898 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
What happened to the progressive sense of place? Exploratory place writing from Kilburn to Neukölln
This paper opens a window on global culture and place in the twenty-first century. It does so through exploratory place writing, a diverse field of geographical literature that observes and documents places through media as varied as essays, poetry, lists and novels. This paper reads a contemporary example of exploratory urban place writing – Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection, a novel about millennials in Berlin – against an earlier, contrasting ex…
Relationships and sex education for the postsecular classroom
Schools in the UK and Europe, North America and Australia are introducing ambitious forms of relationships and sex education (RSE) or school-based sexuality education.For RSE to be effective it must be inclusive, recognising and respecting the needs and experiences of those who have not always been well served by sex/sexuality education.This paper considers one such groupstudents with faith backgrounds -and explores ways of delivering RSE in the …
Geographical perspectives on loneliness: An agenda for research and action
Geographical perspectives can make distinctive contributions to how we understand, explain and investigate loneliness, and what we do about it. Conversely, loneliness can also open new windows on a range of geographical questions and concerns. This paper frames geographical perspectives on loneliness, reviewing and advancing upon conceptual and methodological first steps that focus upon tangible geographies and statistical measurement and mapping…
Sketching and ethical observation on the margins of the city
This paper explores the potential of sketching as a vehicle for ethical observation, or an ethical quality of attention, through research involving marginalised individuals. Sketching is a form of drawing, distinguished by immediacy and speed. As such, it has scope for observation of people and places, which navigates the ethical risks and opportunities of research by looking with a light touch. This means paying attention (not blanking or unseei…
Arbitrage spaces in the offshore world: Layering, 'fuses' and partitioning of the legal structure of modern firms
In this article, we discuss the way offshore financial centres are used by the multi-subsidiary, multi-jurisdictional group structure known as the 'multinational enterprise' to arbitrage between social geographies of political jurisdictions. We define arbitrage as the use of corporate legal entities located in diverse jurisdictions to arbitrate a third country's rules and regulations. Using a new method to categorize firm-level data from Van Dijk…
Working with community interviewers in social and cultural research
Working with community or peer interviewers can provide valuable access to the lived experiences of individuals and communities who researchers are unlikely to reach. However, the ethical and methodological issues involved in working with community interviewers has received relatively little attention in social and cultural geographical research. In this paper, we reflect on our work with community interviewers in qualitative research about the s…
Student loneliness through the pandemic: How, why and where
Loneliness has emerged as a problem for individuals and society. A group whose loneliness has recently grown in severity and visibility is students in higher education. Complementing media reports and surveys of students' lockdown loneliness, this paper presents qualitative research findings on students loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the how, why and where of student loneliness through research co-produced with undergraduate…
Arbitrage power and the disappearing financialized firm
Modern corporations have increasingly been adopting a decentred, layered, and multi-jurisdictional form as a strategy of boundary manipulation known amongst tax lawyers and accountants as 'regulatory arbitrage'. The argument we put forward in this article is that the scholarly work that treats these strategies as mere tax avoidance practices has contributed to an underestimation and misrecognition of the way contemporary multinationals operate in…
Is a lecture-free curriculum ideal
Dear EditorWe read with interest the article by Parmelee et al. (2020) on the proposal of a lecture-free curriculum. We felt inspired by their suggestion of integrating evidence-based approaches to
Reducing teaching hours, increasing wellbeing
Dear EditorWe recently read a case study by Choi-Lundberg et al. (2020) and were particularly drawn by the observation that a 14% reduction in teaching hours produced minimal impact on students’ ex
How artificial intelligence (AI) could have helped our medical education during the Covid-19 pandemic – A student’s perspective
"How artificial intelligence (AI) could have helped our medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic – A student’s perspective." Medical Teacher, 42(11), pp. 1315–1316 Disclosure statementThe authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of this article
Halal dating: Changing relationship attitudes and experiences among young British Muslims
Young Muslims in the UK are making space to gain greater control over their personal lives through the diction of ‘halal’ and ‘haram’ when reflecting on and negotiating personal relationships. This article explores the significance of ‘halal dating’ within the lived experiences and sexual relationships of young British Muslims. It draws upon 56 in-depth interviews conducted with young (16–30 years) British Muslims of Pakistani heritage. This rese…
Critical collaborative storying: Making an Animated Film About Halal Dating
This article works at the intersection of creative, participatory and critical research. It explores an emergent qualitative methodology that is creative and participatory but not is always as critical as it might be: collaborative storytelling or storying. Understandings of critical collaborative storytelling and (more generically and inclusively) storying are developed through an account of a series of storying workshops. In these workshops, a …
Mobilizing Pakistani heritage, approaching marriage
This paper examines the ongoing significance of Pakistani heritage in the lives of young British Pakistani Muslims. Drawing upon interviews with 56 women and men, it explores the link between Pakistani heritage and young peoples' lives, focusing upon marriage. \n \n \n \nPakistani heritage is widely regarded as a constraint and an anachronism, which young people are jettisoning in favour of religious or secular identities: as Muslims, British, or…
Sexual misery’ or ‘happy British Muslims: Contemporary depictions of Muslim sexuality
We begin this article with a close look at some contemporary pictures of sexual life in the Muslim world that have been painted in certain sections of the Western media, asking how and why these pictures matter. Across a range of mainstream print media from the New York Times to the Daily Mail, and across reported events from several countries, can be found pictures of ‘sexual misery’. These ‘frame’ Muslim men as tyrannical, Muslim women as downt…
Georges Perec's experimental fieldwork; Perecquian fieldwork
This paper traces key themes in contemporary experimental fieldwork – explorations of ordinary places by artists, writers, activists, enthusiasts, students and researchers – to the works of Georges Perec. Preoccupations of this work – including playfulness, attention to the ordinary, and writing as a fieldwork practice – are all anticipated and elaborated in Perec's oeuvre, where they converge around an 'essayistic' approach. Exhibiting these tra…
Sex, politics and empire: A Postcolonial Geography
The operation of the British model of imperialism was never consistent, seldom coherent, and far from comprehensive. Purity campaigns, controversies about the age of consent, the regulation of prostitution and passage and repeal of contagious diseases laws, as well as a new legislative awareness of homosexuality, were all part of the sexual currency of the late Victorian age. Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in man…
Unions and regional governance: The case of North West Tasmania, Australia
Unions have a distanced relationship from the practice of regional governance. Studies of regional governance tend to focus on the role of the state in combination with politically and economically dominant interest groups. In these analyses, and in practice, unions and their members are at best marginal and often absent. The argument presented in this study is that to understand the relative absence of unions, it is necessary to consider the for…
Interventions in the political geographies of 'area
Curious about Others: Relational and Empathetic Curiosity for Diverse Societies
Sociable curiosity - wondering and finding out about others (empathetic curiosity), and being curious with them (relational curiosity)- can draw people together, bridging differences and social distances. This promises more than the distant connections that are increasingly recognised and endorsed as mechanisms of coping with diversity and living within societies that have been characterised as diverse. It reaches towards more active and definite…
Islam in sexuality
Friendship, curiosity and the city: Dementia friends and memory walks in Liverpool
The city is not just a context for friendships or a problem to be solved through them; it can be a catalyst for these relationships, sparking and strengthening connections between individuals and groups. Shared experiences of and curiosity in cities - expressed through practices that include revisiting familiar places and exploring others for the first time - can draw people together in beneficial ways. These principles underpin a health and well…
Playful and multi-sensory fieldwork: Seeing, hearing and touching New York
Geographical fieldwork is being reinvigorated through pedagogical and methodological innovations. Yet, while there are many good ideas in circulation, there is less evidence of where these ideas are taking us: what students are getting out of them, and what significance they may have for the discipline. These questions are explored through case studies involving playful and multi-sensory fieldwork: collecting sounds, urban climbing, finding “acci…
Curiosity: Care, Virtue and Pleasure in Uncovering the New
It is no longer controversial or suspicious to be curious. But, until recently, there has been little curiosity about curiosity itself. This has begun to change, with the publication of a series of books asking what curiosity is and why it matters. Though an eclectic and slippery subject, taking different forms in different times and places, curiosity has two common threads. The first is ‘care’, comprising commitment or interest (committed rather…
Curiosity, place and wellbeing: Encouraging Place-Specific Curiosity as a 'Way to Wellbeing
This paper advances understandings of relationships between wellbeing and place by exploring one mechanism by which place is mobilised in the pursuit of wellbeing: the cultivation and practice of curiosity. It does so through discussion of projects funded through the Decade of Health and Wellbeing in Liverpool, England. This scheme advances 'five ways to wellbeing,' one of which - 'take notice' - encourages curiosity in and about places. Three pr…
Mapping Men and Empire: Geographies of Adventure
Introduction: Spatialities of Transnational Networks
Bureaucratic Effects: Weberian' State Agencies and Poverty Reduction
Evans and Rauch (1999) have demonstrated that there is a strong relationship between the 'Weberianness' of a national state's bureaucratic capacities and its record on economic growth. Using their data set and the best available data sets on the incidence of income poverty, this article investigates whether there is a relationship between a Weberian notion of effective bureaucratic capacities and the state's ability to reduce poverty. Using the s…
Unintended consequences: Social policy, state institutions and the 'stalling' of the Malaysian industrialization project
This paper examines the relation of particular forms of social and labour market policy to economic development. Taking the history of Malaysian industrialization as its empirical case, the paper assesses the unintended consequences of redistribution policy, on the one hand, and migration policy, on the other, for the limited upgrading of the country's electronics industry. It argues that, while the former has been central to social harmony in Ma…
The impact agenda and geographies of curiosity: Boundary Crossings
Sexual misery’ or ‘happy British Muslims: Contemporary depictions of Muslim sexuality
We begin this article with a close look at some contemporary pictures of sexual life in the Muslim world that have been painted in certain sections of the Western media, asking how and why these pictures matter. Across a range of mainstream print media from the New York Times to the Daily Mail, and across reported events from several countries, can be found pictures of ‘sexual misery’. These ‘frame’ Muslim men as tyrannical, Muslim women as downt…
Spaces of Adventure and Cultural Politics of Masculinity: R M Ballantyne and The Young Fur Traders
Masculinities reflect the characteristics of the spaces-real and imaginary, material and metaphorical-in which they are constructed. Mapmakers, ranging from academic geographers to popular storytellers, chart masculinist geographies: Spaces in which masculinities are mapped. One important genre of masculinist geographical narrative is adventure. I explore the masculinism of adventure through a detailed, contextual reading of one particular advent…
Space for curiosity
In education and creative industries, ordinary workplaces and everyday life, curiosity is widely regarded as a good thing, worthy of encouragement and support. This raises practical questions about how to be more curious and encourage curiosity in others. To bring these questions into focus, it helps to think geographically, asking: how can we find and make ‘space’ for curiosity? But curiosity is not simply a practical problem. Through spaces for…
Student loneliness through the pandemic: How, why and where
Loneliness has emerged as a problem for individuals and society. A group whose loneliness has recently grown in severity and visibility is students in higher education. Complementing media reports and surveys of students' lockdown loneliness, this paper presents qualitative research findings on students loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the how, why and where of student loneliness through research co-produced with undergraduate…
Friendship, curiosity and the city: Dementia friends and memory walks in Liverpool
The city is not just a context for friendships or a problem to be solved through them; it can be a catalyst for these relationships, sparking and strengthening connections between individuals and groups. Shared experiences of and curiosity in cities - expressed through practices that include revisiting familiar places and exploring others for the first time - can draw people together in beneficial ways. These principles underpin a health and well…
Playful and multi-sensory fieldwork: Seeing, hearing and touching New York
Geographical fieldwork is being reinvigorated through pedagogical and methodological innovations. Yet, while there are many good ideas in circulation, there is less evidence of where these ideas are taking us: what students are getting out of them, and what significance they may have for the discipline. These questions are explored through case studies involving playful and multi-sensory fieldwork: collecting sounds, urban climbing, finding “acci…
Georges Perec's experimental fieldwork; Perecquian fieldwork
This paper traces key themes in contemporary experimental fieldwork – explorations of ordinary places by artists, writers, activists, enthusiasts, students and researchers – to the works of Georges Perec. Preoccupations of this work – including playfulness, attention to the ordinary, and writing as a fieldwork practice – are all anticipated and elaborated in Perec's oeuvre, where they converge around an 'essayistic' approach. Exhibiting these tra…
Creating 'Community'? Preparing for Bushfire in Rural Victoria
The term 'community' has a long and contested lineage in social analysis and debate. This lineage, however, is not generally recognized in policy and public debates on community and bushfire in Australia. 'Community' is thought to be central to bushfire preparedness in Australia, especially in rural areas, but what 'community' actually means in this context is vague at best. There is an ever-present tension between the use of 'community' as a ref…
Imperialism and the regulation of sexuality: Colonial legislation on contagious diseases and ages of consent
Interventions in the political geographies of 'area
Interventions against forced marriage: Contesting hegemonic narratives and minority practices in Europe
Muslims in western countries are routinely depicted as non-liberal minorities through representations of homophobia, honour killings and forced marriage within their communities. This presents a practical challenge to face up to non-liberal practices where they do exist, but without demonising an entire faith community. It also raises conceptual questions about mainstream western values. In the context of forced marriage, liberal principles (such…
Standing together: The Muslim Association of Britain and the anti-war movement
One of the main groups involved in organising the mobilisation of millions of people in opposition to the Iraq war of 2003 was the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB). Much recent commentary has focused on the involvement of MAB (an offshoot of the Arab Muslim Brotherhood) in the coalition of organisations that led the anti-war movement. Less attention has been paid to how MAB activists themselves understood their working relationship with the ot…
Unsettling Geographical Horizons: Exploring Premodern and Non-European Imperialism
A critical genealogy of the emerging subfield of postcolonial geography illustrates how human geography has become historically shortsighted. Postcolonial geography interrogates the significance of imperialism and colonialism for disciplinary and material geographies, though its reference points, like those of most other geographical subfields, have been almost exclusively modern (c.1500–present). The marginalization of premodern imperialism rest…
Bridging East and West: Muslim‐identified activists and organisations in the UK anti‐war movements
Divisive Orientalist discourses and practices, mobilised in the ‘war on terror’, have been resisted through collaborative political projects designed to contest and close gaps between East and West, Muslim and non‐Muslim. Through interviews with Muslim‐identified and other British anti‐war activists, this paper traces the making of a ‘new bridge between the East and the West’. It then goes on to examine the limitations of this political model and…
Histories of Sexuality and Imperialism: What's the Use
Postcolonial criticism is structured and sometimes strained by a dual interest in histories of imperialism and interventions in and against the colonial present. Setting up a dialogue between these spheres, this paper asks how histories of imperialism bear upon and can be useful within political interventions today. It does so with reference to a growing sub-field of postcolonial criticism, concerned with relationships between imperialism and sex…
Geographies of childhood: Introduction
Working with community interviewers in social and cultural research
Working with community or peer interviewers can provide valuable access to the lived experiences of individuals and communities who researchers are unlikely to reach. However, the ethical and methodological issues involved in working with community interviewers has received relatively little attention in social and cultural geographical research. In this paper, we reflect on our work with community interviewers in qualitative research about the s…
Curiosity, place and wellbeing: Encouraging Place-Specific Curiosity as a 'Way to Wellbeing
This paper advances understandings of relationships between wellbeing and place by exploring one mechanism by which place is mobilised in the pursuit of wellbeing: the cultivation and practice of curiosity. It does so through discussion of projects funded through the Decade of Health and Wellbeing in Liverpool, England. This scheme advances 'five ways to wellbeing,' one of which - 'take notice' - encourages curiosity in and about places. Three pr…
Researching the riots
This commentary sets out an agenda for researching the riots that swept through English cities in 2011, and for exploring the broader issues raised by these events. Drawing inspiration from groundbreaking social and cultural geographies of the 1981 riots, and also from mappings and quantitative studies of the more recent disturbances, this paper sets out a framework for researching the riots, and underlines the importance of doing so. It conclude…
Dystopian space in colonial representations and interventions: Sierra leone as ‘the white man's grave’
This paper explores the power of dystopian imaginations. It does so by examining the form and function of dystopias in colonial contexts, both in general and through one particularly salient and significant colonial dystopia, which was known widely in imperial England as ‘the white man's grave’. A detailed analysis of the form and function of dystopian accounts of Sierra Leone, with particular attention to Richard Burton's negative appraisal of t…
Vocabulary of Australian Aborigines in the Neighbourhood of Cooktown, North Queensland
Richard Phillips, Vocabulary of Australian Aborigines in the Neighbourhood of Cooktown, North Queensland, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 27 (1898), pp. 144-147
Fashions in Horseflesh
The domesticated horse, closely associated with man throughout history, became his closest friend and favourite and the most serviceable of his animal servants. Accordingly he chose his breeding stock to suit his needs. Fashions and styles are always fickle and shifty, they come and go. In this way over the centuries the three ‘main’ types of horses, the heavy, the light and the small have undergone changes in features and characteristics, to acc…
Women's Emancipation, the Family and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century France
Journal Article Women's Emancipation, the Family and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century France Get access Roderick Phillips Roderick Phillips University of Auckland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 12, Issue 4, Summer 1979, Pages 553–567, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/12.4.553 Published: 01 July 1979
The Japanese Occupation of Hainan
Japanese interest in Hainan stemmed from the desire to emulate the success which they had achieved in Taiwan in an area further south which could offer a full range of tropical products for theuse of the Japanese economy. The naval importance of Hainan was also recognized, because it could dominate the South China Sea from the excellent harbour of San-ya (Samah) Bay, and there were indications that the island was rich in minerals. The development…
A Casket of Savage Curiosities: Eighteenth-century objects from north-eastern North America in the Farquharson collection
This paper describes a private collection of early Woodlands Indian artefacts which was acquired through eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century Scottish military connections with north-eastern North America. The unusual association of original documentation with the material enhances the importance of the collection, adding to our knowledge of the age, provenance and range of eighteenth-century Native American object types.
Spaces of Adventure and Cultural Politics of Masculinity: R M Ballantyne and The Young Fur Traders
Masculinities reflect the characteristics of the spaces-real and imaginary, material and metaphorical-in which they are constructed. Mapmakers, ranging from academic geographers to popular storytellers, chart masculinist geographies: Spaces in which masculinities are mapped. One important genre of masculinist geographical narrative is adventure. I explore the masculinism of adventure through a detailed, contextual reading of one particular advent…
China since 1911
A narrative history of China since the end of dynastic rule at the 1911 Revolution, this book seeks in nine chapters to outline the major political developments of the last eighty years, with attentio
A Collaborative-Comparative Approach to Learning Qualitative Data Analysis
The literature on qualitative research offers the novice two strategies for learning analysis: (1) "trust" that you will "somehow" make sense out of qualitative material, or (2) follow a predetermined set of analytic steps and stages. A problem with the first approach is that it does not take into account the wide variety of qualitative analysis projects researchers undertake or differences in how individuals approach the interpretation of qualit…
"Son of Thoth" on an Unpublished Gold Lamella from Sidon
Publication d'une amulette (lamella) en or datee des IIe-IIIe siecles decouverte a Sidon, portant les signes magiques en caracteres grecs d'un charme contre les demons et les mauvais esprits, en rapport avec Thot
War and Foreign Affairs in China
EDWARD L. DREYER. China at War, 1901–1949. London and New York: Longman, 1995. Pp. x, 422. $114.95 (CDN); ARTHUR WALDRON. From War to Nationalism: China's Turning Point, 1924–1925. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xix, 366. $39.95 (us); MICHAEL H. HUNT. The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 343. $34.50 (us); XIAOYUAN LIU. A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United St…
Sexual Politics of Authorship: Rereading the travels and translations of Richard and Isabel Burton
Women who accompanied male adventurers and geographers often made crucial (yet generally unacknowledged) contributions to the research and writing of their partners. These women were not always named as authors, but nevertheless participated in the production and promotion of texts, influencing their form and their impact. In this light the author reconsiders the works of Isabel Burton, wife of the famous British Victorian traveller, geographer, …
Politics of Reading: Cultural Politics of Homelessness
Reading opens up important avenues for political action. Reading is political in the sense that social groups produce and resist, advance and censor readings of key cultural texts, according to their power to do so and their interests in doing so. This paper examines the politics of reading in relation to cultural politics of homeless‐ness. It does so by considering readers and readings of Johnny Go Home (1975), a British television documentary d…
Geographies of childhood: Introduction
Politics of reading: Decolonizing Children’s Geographies
This paper critically analyses interventions in politics of children’s geographical reading. Politics of reading encompass a twofold agenda: how and what people read. Academic critics have written more about the former; activists have expressed more interest in the latter. The role of activists is examined in the context of their interventions in children’s geographical reading in Britain in the 1970s, in particular with respect to the adventure …
Decolonizing geographies of travel: Reading James/Jan Morris
Travel writing can produce critical 'in-between' spaces, which contribute to broader cultural politics of postcolonialism, by transgressing and in a preliminary sense deconstructing imperial binaries. These imperial binaries structure subjectivities, on the one hand, and material geographies, on the other. This paper examines such a project, through a reading of travel writing by James/Jan Morris, which shows how processes of decolonizing subject…
Dystopian space in colonial representations and interventions: Sierra leone as ‘the white man's grave’
This paper explores the power of dystopian imaginations. It does so by examining the form and function of dystopias in colonial contexts, both in general and through one particularly salient and significant colonial dystopia, which was known widely in imperial England as ‘the white man's grave’. A detailed analysis of the form and function of dystopian accounts of Sierra Leone, with particular attention to Richard Burton's negative appraisal of t…
Imperialism and the regulation of sexuality: Colonial legislation on contagious diseases and ages of consent
Dystopian space in colonial representations and interventions: Sierra Leone as 'the white man's grave
North China at War: The Social Ecology of Revolution, 1937-1945 . Feng Chongyi , David S. G. Goodman
Geographic Theorizations of Sexuality: A Review of Recent Works
Unsettling Geographical Horizons: Exploring Premodern and Non-European Imperialism
A critical genealogy of the emerging subfield of postcolonial geography illustrates how human geography has become historically shortsighted. Postcolonial geography interrogates the significance of imperialism and colonialism for disciplinary and material geographies, though its reference points, like those of most other geographical subfields, have been almost exclusively modern (c.1500–present). The marginalization of premodern imperialism rest…
The Search for Oil in the Chinese Northeast before 1949: A Research Note
(2006). The Search for Oil in the Chinese Northeast before 1949: A Research Note. Twentieth-Century China: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 81-89
The Search for Oil in the Chinese Northeast before 1949: A Research Note
Usurping Social Policy: Neoliberalism and Economic Governance in Hungary
This paper takes issue with arguments emanating from the global social policy literature that neoliberal policy agendas have been largely a consequence of the interplay of international agencies with indigenous reform interests. While relevant, such arguments grasp only part of the story of social policy change. By means of a case study of Hungary between 1990 and 2002, this article emphasises the role played by the bureaucratic reconstitution of…
Histories of Sexuality and Imperialism: What's the Use
Postcolonial criticism is structured and sometimes strained by a dual interest in histories of imperialism and interventions in and against the colonial present. Setting up a dialogue between these spheres, this paper asks how histories of imperialism bear upon and can be useful within political interventions today. It does so with reference to a growing sub-field of postcolonial criticism, concerned with relationships between imperialism and sex…
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