Chris Perkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Perkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Perkins |
| SIGNATURE | PERKINS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7273-4500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 224 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
An investigation into cultures, concepts and understandings of Japanese studies in the UK
This project explores empirically student and staff conceptualisations of Japanese Studies with the aim of helping us understand better the tacit assumptions that structure our approach to learning and teaching about Japan in Higher Education. Drawing on constructivist theories from education studies and employing grounded theory methods, we conducted and analysed interviews and focus groups with academics and students across the UK, asking quest…
Smell walking and mapping
Smell is a ubiquitous and powerful way in which we make sense of the world, but is largely taken for granted and under-analysed. The geographies wrapped up with smell relate to our everyday experiences of place, and the mapping of these perceptions and their affects has great potential for revealing hitherto unseen social and cultural norms. This chapter charts some of the ways in which smell mapping might be enacted. It explores different tempor…
From the ashes of the Great Kantō Earthquake
In 1884, an Anglican clergyman and staff and students from Oxford University set up a ‘settlement house’ in the East End of London. Conceiving poverty in moral and aspirational terms, their goal was to live with the poor to raise their cultural standards, and thus pull them out of the cycle of destitution. The idea soon spread to the United States. That the Settlement movement would travel across the Atlantic is no surprise: there was rich exchan…
Time for mapping
The digital era has brought about huge transformations in the map itself, which to date have been largely conceptualised in spatial terms. Novel objects, forms, processes and approaches have emerged and pose new, pressing questions about the temporality of digital maps and contemporary mapping practices: in spite of its implicit spatiality, digital mapping is strongly grounded in time. This collection brings time back into the map, taking up Dore…
Critical cartography
Mapping as performance involves more than a reliance upon visual acuity, hence why a turn to non-representational theories and approaches can be useful in re-thinking the transformational capacities of cartography. Of substantive salience to cartographical studies has been the invocation of ideas surrounding performativity and non-representational understandings of performance. Given the disparate array of mapping performances in existence, it is…
Reflecting on J.B. Harley's Influence and What He Missed in “Deconstructing the Map”
Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization - Volume 50, Number 1, Spring 2015
Maps, Memories and Manchester
Re-cartographies of Landscape
This paper explores the potential of a different kind of counter-mapping. It focuses upon a critical reading of five different architectural atlases and argues that their construction and design reveals how ‘re-cartographies’ can narrate novel stories about places. The narrative power of these atlases is traced back to a focus upon relations between phenomena, and a careful consideration of how to map the mutability and dynamism of the built and …
The Politics of (Un)fixity and the Vernacularisation of Borders
The paper offers an alternative interpretation of borders, one not centred on a familiar state–security–mobility nexus. It outlines a “vernacularised” border studies which emphasises the role of ordinary people in bordering activity and the potential for connectivity that borders often display, coupled with a recognition that borders are not always a possession of the nation state. The paper outlines ways in which border politics are manifest in …
Plotting practices and politics
It has been argued that crowd‐sourcing offers a radical alternative to conventional ways of mapping, challenging the hegemony of official and commercial cartographies. In this view mapping might begin to offer a forum for different voices, mapping different things, enabling new ways of living. Instead of the Latourian notion of the map as immutable mobile, fixing knowledge and bodies and facilitating governance, the wikification of mapping might …
Flatness, depth and Kon Satoshi's ethics
This article offers an exploratory reading of two works by Kon Satoshi: his debut Perfect Blue (1998c) and the television series Mōsō Dairinin/Paranoia Agent (2004b). The goal of this article is to work through the relationship between social ontology and ethics embedded in these two examples. To do this the article develops a concept of ontological flatness, both as a description of the specific late modern phenomenon of the levelling of value d…
Between Frontiers
Extreme Heritage Management
Borders and status-functions
This article develops an institutional understanding of borders. Drawing on constitutive constructivism and theories of practical communication we argue that bordering as a process is a form of sorting through the imposition of status-functions on people and things, which alters the perception of that thing by setting it within a web of normative claims, teleologies and assumptions. Studying any border, therefore, extends to include the rule stru…
The Map Reader
WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation. The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a power…
Edited Collections
Review essay on: J. Snyder, (Ed.). Religion and International Relations Theory. New York: Columbia University Press. 2011. G.Tameme, W. T. Bagatelas, D.Reichardt, and B. S. Sergi. Studies in Contemporary International Relations and Politics. Leverkusen Opladen: Budrich UniPress Ltd. 2010
The Banality of Boundaries
Through the framework provided by what Billig terms "banal nationalism," this article analyzes the performance of national identity in the Japanese media.The specific target for analysis is an episode of nodame cantabile, first broadcast on the Fuji Television Network in 2006. After a review of literature on Japanese nationalism, a number of bordering processes are identified, in particular: the presentation of a Japan-the West dichotomy, the re-…
Making the Critical Links and the Links Critical in Golf Studies
The Performance of Golf
This article instigates critical work on golf in North West England by considering how golfing identities are performed in different places and landscapes. Extensive overview of the geography of the game and intensive case-study interviews and participant observation reveal an interplay between social and personal actions in relation to golfing landscapes and institutional contexts. The author argues for a performative analysis of golf, focusing …
RGS/IBG Annual International Conference
2008 RGS/IBG Annual International Conference." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 44(2), pp. 123–124
A New Politics of Identity
Satellite imagery and the spectacle of secret spaces
The ‘view from nowhere’? Spatial politics and cultural significance of high-resolution satellite imagery
ICA Maps and Society Commission
ICA Maps and Society Commission." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 43(4), p. 279
Wood(s) and Trees – (Re)posting Nature
Consider the following snapshots. It is the start of the 1990s. The Wall is down, Communism in the Eastern Bloc is in its death throes, Francis Fukayama claims history has ended, and neo-liberal orthodoxies seem to offer few alternatives to an economically driven and rationalist agenda, dominated by global multinationals and partly regulated by nation-states. Individual agency appears powerless in the face of these overwhelming power structures. …
Cartography
Satellite imagery and the spectacle of secret spaces
Cartography - cultures of mapping
The ‘view from nowhere’? Spatial politics and cultural significance of high-resolution satellite imagery
Plotting practices and politics
It has been argued that crowd‐sourcing offers a radical alternative to conventional ways of mapping, challenging the hegemony of official and commercial cartographies. In this view mapping might begin to offer a forum for different voices, mapping different things, enabling new ways of living. Instead of the Latourian notion of the map as immutable mobile, fixing knowledge and bodies and facilitating governance, the wikification of mapping might …
The Politics of (Un)fixity and the Vernacularisation of Borders
The paper offers an alternative interpretation of borders, one not centred on a familiar state–security–mobility nexus. It outlines a “vernacularised” border studies which emphasises the role of ordinary people in bordering activity and the potential for connectivity that borders often display, coupled with a recognition that borders are not always a possession of the nation state. The paper outlines ways in which border politics are manifest in …
Reclaiming the Map
Borders and status-functions
This article develops an institutional understanding of borders. Drawing on constitutive constructivism and theories of practical communication we argue that bordering as a process is a form of sorting through the imposition of status-functions on people and things, which alters the perception of that thing by setting it within a web of normative claims, teleologies and assumptions. Studying any border, therefore, extends to include the rule stru…
Cartography
For this first of three progress reports on cartography, I am going to focus upon research into tactile mapping for visually impaired people, published since Fleming's (1990) review. This specialist field is often perceived as marginal to more mainstream cartography; production is often informal and receives no attention in Parry and Perkins (2000), the latest benchmark survey of the state of world mapping. Key themes in the tactile mapping commu…
Making the Critical Links and the Links Critical in Golf Studies
Re-cartographies of Landscape
This paper explores the potential of a different kind of counter-mapping. It focuses upon a critical reading of five different architectural atlases and argues that their construction and design reveals how ‘re-cartographies’ can narrate novel stories about places. The narrative power of these atlases is traced back to a focus upon relations between phenomena, and a careful consideration of how to map the mutability and dynamism of the built and …
The Banality of Boundaries
Through the framework provided by what Billig terms "banal nationalism," this article analyzes the performance of national identity in the Japanese media.The specific target for analysis is an episode of nodame cantabile, first broadcast on the Fuji Television Network in 2006. After a review of literature on Japanese nationalism, a number of bordering processes are identified, in particular: the presentation of a Japan-the West dichotomy, the re-…
Visual Explanations
The Performance of Golf
This article instigates critical work on golf in North West England by considering how golfing identities are performed in different places and landscapes. Extensive overview of the geography of the game and intensive case-study interviews and participant observation reveal an interplay between social and personal actions in relation to golfing landscapes and institutional contexts. The author argues for a performative analysis of golf, focusing …
Between Frontiers
Visual Explanations
Cartography
For this first of three progress reports on cartography, I am going to focus upon research into tactile mapping for visually impaired people, published since Fleming's (1990) review. This specialist field is often perceived as marginal to more mainstream cartography; production is often informal and receives no attention in Parry and Perkins (2000), the latest benchmark survey of the state of world mapping. Key themes in the tactile mapping commu…
Cartography
Cartography - cultures of mapping
ICA Maps and Society Commission
ICA Maps and Society Commission." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 43(4), p. 279
Wood(s) and Trees – (Re)posting Nature
Consider the following snapshots. It is the start of the 1990s. The Wall is down, Communism in the Eastern Bloc is in its death throes, Francis Fukayama claims history has ended, and neo-liberal orthodoxies seem to offer few alternatives to an economically driven and rationalist agenda, dominated by global multinationals and partly regulated by nation-states. Individual agency appears powerless in the face of these overwhelming power structures. …
Reclaiming the Map
RGS/IBG Annual International Conference
2008 RGS/IBG Annual International Conference." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 44(2), pp. 123–124
A New Politics of Identity
Satellite imagery and the spectacle of secret spaces
The ‘view from nowhere’? Spatial politics and cultural significance of high-resolution satellite imagery
The Banality of Boundaries
Through the framework provided by what Billig terms "banal nationalism," this article analyzes the performance of national identity in the Japanese media.The specific target for analysis is an episode of nodame cantabile, first broadcast on the Fuji Television Network in 2006. After a review of literature on Japanese nationalism, a number of bordering processes are identified, in particular: the presentation of a Japan-the West dichotomy, the re-…
Making the Critical Links and the Links Critical in Golf Studies
The Performance of Golf
This article instigates critical work on golf in North West England by considering how golfing identities are performed in different places and landscapes. Extensive overview of the geography of the game and intensive case-study interviews and participant observation reveal an interplay between social and personal actions in relation to golfing landscapes and institutional contexts. The author argues for a performative analysis of golf, focusing …
The Map Reader
WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation. The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a power…
Edited Collections
Review essay on: J. Snyder, (Ed.). Religion and International Relations Theory. New York: Columbia University Press. 2011. G.Tameme, W. T. Bagatelas, D.Reichardt, and B. S. Sergi. Studies in Contemporary International Relations and Politics. Leverkusen Opladen: Budrich UniPress Ltd. 2010
Flatness, depth and Kon Satoshi's ethics
This article offers an exploratory reading of two works by Kon Satoshi: his debut Perfect Blue (1998c) and the television series Mōsō Dairinin/Paranoia Agent (2004b). The goal of this article is to work through the relationship between social ontology and ethics embedded in these two examples. To do this the article develops a concept of ontological flatness, both as a description of the specific late modern phenomenon of the levelling of value d…
Between Frontiers
Extreme Heritage Management
Borders and status-functions
This article develops an institutional understanding of borders. Drawing on constitutive constructivism and theories of practical communication we argue that bordering as a process is a form of sorting through the imposition of status-functions on people and things, which alters the perception of that thing by setting it within a web of normative claims, teleologies and assumptions. Studying any border, therefore, extends to include the rule stru…
The Politics of (Un)fixity and the Vernacularisation of Borders
The paper offers an alternative interpretation of borders, one not centred on a familiar state–security–mobility nexus. It outlines a “vernacularised” border studies which emphasises the role of ordinary people in bordering activity and the potential for connectivity that borders often display, coupled with a recognition that borders are not always a possession of the nation state. The paper outlines ways in which border politics are manifest in …
Plotting practices and politics
It has been argued that crowd‐sourcing offers a radical alternative to conventional ways of mapping, challenging the hegemony of official and commercial cartographies. In this view mapping might begin to offer a forum for different voices, mapping different things, enabling new ways of living. Instead of the Latourian notion of the map as immutable mobile, fixing knowledge and bodies and facilitating governance, the wikification of mapping might …
Maps, Memories and Manchester
Re-cartographies of Landscape
This paper explores the potential of a different kind of counter-mapping. It focuses upon a critical reading of five different architectural atlases and argues that their construction and design reveals how ‘re-cartographies’ can narrate novel stories about places. The narrative power of these atlases is traced back to a focus upon relations between phenomena, and a careful consideration of how to map the mutability and dynamism of the built and …
Reflecting on J.B. Harley's Influence and What He Missed in “Deconstructing the Map”
Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization - Volume 50, Number 1, Spring 2015
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