Helen F Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen F Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen F |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON H F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 433 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Lively Transgressions at the Urban–Ocean Edge: Conflict, Coexistence and Animals on the Move
Human–wildlife conflict has become a dominant framework for understanding the challenges of coexistence. In the context of global environmental change and new geographies of wildlife encounter, this paper intervenes in two bodies of work: ‘Species on the Move’ and human–wildlife conflict. We do so by drawing on two seemingly disparate examples that both concern animals on the move and the fraught politics of coexistence—urban gulls in Northern Eu…
Deterrence
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Together in difference: A review symposium on Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities , by Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston
Celebrating and launching this inspiring book with Professor Lesley Head at the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne was a multicultural event that circulated immense joy. There was a
Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students
Animal Encounters: A Genre of Contact
What does it mean to encounter an animal? Encounters are regularly summoned in animal studies, but rarely subject to conceptual scrutiny. The chapter argues that encounters might be considered a particular genre of contact that bring categories of difference into view as well as their simultaneous undoing. Building on this conceptualisation, the chapter outlines why human-animal encounters have been framed as key sites of transformative potential…
Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through Imperial Eyes
The contact zone is described as the space of imperial encounter. Against a backdrop of work that has used Mary Louise Pratt's concept of the contact zone to examine culture-making, and destabilize normative understandings of division, distinction, and bordering, the paper interrogates the value of utilizing the concept in multispecies contexts. To do so, the paper considers the relationship between the contact zone and the concept of encounter, …
Everyday Brexits
In this commentary we explore how geographers might respond to the event of “Brexit” – the decision and process of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union after the referendum of 23 June 2016. Although it is necessary to understand the ways in which Brexit is an effect of a range of named causes and conditions, we argue that geographers should also stay with the event of “Brexit” by following how Brexit surfaces across a variety of everyda…
On the Paradox of 'Organised' Encounter
Encounters are politically and pedagogically charged. They have long been celebrated for their ability to chip away at prejudices, enact cultural destabilisations, shape subjectivities, and produce new knowledges. Yet encounters come with risk. The paper argues that encounters should be taken as very specific genres of contact and offers a conceptual interrogation of the notion of encounter, and its (dis)organisation, as a way of reflecting on th…
Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York
Encountering the City provides a new and sustained engagement with the concept of encounter. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, classic writings on the city and rich empirical examples, this volume demonstrates why encounters are significant to urban studies, politically, philosophically and analytically. Bringing together a range of interests, from urban multiculture, systems of economic regulation, security and suspicion, to more-than-hu…
An urban laboratory for the multicultural nation
At a time when urban space is considered central to understanding how multicultural societies cohere, this paper examines how the urban and the nation are related. To do so, the paper focuses upon Birmingham, UK, which has been presented as a testing ground for national responses to difference and as a model for other European cities. Drawing on narratives of city boosterism, urban policy, local and national news articles, academic writing and re…
The Possibilities of Tolerance: Intercultural Dialogue in a Multicultural Europe
Tolerance is everywhere. The Council of Europe endeavours to build it, schools are required to teach it, and neighbours are asked to extend it. It features in citizenship ceremonies, city-marketing campaigns, and religious texts and is attached to a variety of different objects, people, and behaviours. Yet despite its ubiquitous circulation as a moral good, critiques of tolerance as a way of relating have called for its rejection in favour of alt…
Multicultural learning: Parent encounters with difference in a Birmingham primary school
In the UK , schools are considered vital to the realisation of intercultural cities, to the strengthening of community relations and to the development of new forms of social learning. This paper brings work on the geographies of education and learning together with work on the challenges of living with difference, to examine how the routines and repetitive interactions of everyday school life shape the capacities of parents to live with differen…
Collective life: Parents, Playground Encounters and the Multicultural City
For parents, the school playground is a site of daily intermingling—an important and yet often overlooked site of sociality. Yet whilst it is a space where common needs and experiences are shared, and where friendships and subtle gestures of familiarity are formed, it is also a site of ‘panoptic force’, where on-going conflicts over class, religion, race and competing interpretations of morality are played out and reinforced. This paper focuses o…
Learning to think differently: Diversity training and the ‘good encounter’
Passing Propinquities in the Multicultural City: The Everyday Encounters of Bus Passengering
This paper examines how intercultural relations are continuously developed, destroyed, and remade in the practice of everyday bus travel. Through an ethnographic study of one bus route across Birmingham, UK, the paper explores the formation of relational practices on the move and the bodily orientations, public codes of conduct, material cultures, habits and affects through which they are formed. In particular, this paper gives specific attention…
Passing Propinquities in the Multicultural City: The Everyday Encounters of Bus Passengering
This paper examines how intercultural relations are continuously developed, destroyed, and remade in the practice of everyday bus travel. Through an ethnographic study of one bus route across Birmingham, UK, the paper explores the formation of relational practices on the move and the bodily orientations, public codes of conduct, material cultures, habits and affects through which they are formed. In particular, this paper gives specific attention…
Collective life: Parents, Playground Encounters and the Multicultural City
For parents, the school playground is a site of daily intermingling—an important and yet often overlooked site of sociality. Yet whilst it is a space where common needs and experiences are shared, and where friendships and subtle gestures of familiarity are formed, it is also a site of ‘panoptic force’, where on-going conflicts over class, religion, race and competing interpretations of morality are played out and reinforced. This paper focuses o…
Multicultural learning: Parent encounters with difference in a Birmingham primary school
In the UK , schools are considered vital to the realisation of intercultural cities, to the strengthening of community relations and to the development of new forms of social learning. This paper brings work on the geographies of education and learning together with work on the challenges of living with difference, to examine how the routines and repetitive interactions of everyday school life shape the capacities of parents to live with differen…
Everyday Brexits
In this commentary we explore how geographers might respond to the event of “Brexit” – the decision and process of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union after the referendum of 23 June 2016. Although it is necessary to understand the ways in which Brexit is an effect of a range of named causes and conditions, we argue that geographers should also stay with the event of “Brexit” by following how Brexit surfaces across a variety of everyda…
Learning to think differently: Diversity training and the ‘good encounter’
An urban laboratory for the multicultural nation
At a time when urban space is considered central to understanding how multicultural societies cohere, this paper examines how the urban and the nation are related. To do so, the paper focuses upon Birmingham, UK, which has been presented as a testing ground for national responses to difference and as a model for other European cities. Drawing on narratives of city boosterism, urban policy, local and national news articles, academic writing and re…
The Possibilities of Tolerance: Intercultural Dialogue in a Multicultural Europe
Tolerance is everywhere. The Council of Europe endeavours to build it, schools are required to teach it, and neighbours are asked to extend it. It features in citizenship ceremonies, city-marketing campaigns, and religious texts and is attached to a variety of different objects, people, and behaviours. Yet despite its ubiquitous circulation as a moral good, critiques of tolerance as a way of relating have called for its rejection in favour of alt…
Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through Imperial Eyes
The contact zone is described as the space of imperial encounter. Against a backdrop of work that has used Mary Louise Pratt's concept of the contact zone to examine culture-making, and destabilize normative understandings of division, distinction, and bordering, the paper interrogates the value of utilizing the concept in multispecies contexts. To do so, the paper considers the relationship between the contact zone and the concept of encounter, …
On the Paradox of 'Organised' Encounter
Encounters are politically and pedagogically charged. They have long been celebrated for their ability to chip away at prejudices, enact cultural destabilisations, shape subjectivities, and produce new knowledges. Yet encounters come with risk. The paper argues that encounters should be taken as very specific genres of contact and offers a conceptual interrogation of the notion of encounter, and its (dis)organisation, as a way of reflecting on th…
Passing Propinquities in the Multicultural City: The Everyday Encounters of Bus Passengering
This paper examines how intercultural relations are continuously developed, destroyed, and remade in the practice of everyday bus travel. Through an ethnographic study of one bus route across Birmingham, UK, the paper explores the formation of relational practices on the move and the bodily orientations, public codes of conduct, material cultures, habits and affects through which they are formed. In particular, this paper gives specific attention…
Learning to think differently: Diversity training and the ‘good encounter’
Multicultural learning: Parent encounters with difference in a Birmingham primary school
In the UK , schools are considered vital to the realisation of intercultural cities, to the strengthening of community relations and to the development of new forms of social learning. This paper brings work on the geographies of education and learning together with work on the challenges of living with difference, to examine how the routines and repetitive interactions of everyday school life shape the capacities of parents to live with differen…
Collective life: Parents, Playground Encounters and the Multicultural City
For parents, the school playground is a site of daily intermingling—an important and yet often overlooked site of sociality. Yet whilst it is a space where common needs and experiences are shared, and where friendships and subtle gestures of familiarity are formed, it is also a site of ‘panoptic force’, where on-going conflicts over class, religion, race and competing interpretations of morality are played out and reinforced. This paper focuses o…
The Possibilities of Tolerance: Intercultural Dialogue in a Multicultural Europe
Tolerance is everywhere. The Council of Europe endeavours to build it, schools are required to teach it, and neighbours are asked to extend it. It features in citizenship ceremonies, city-marketing campaigns, and religious texts and is attached to a variety of different objects, people, and behaviours. Yet despite its ubiquitous circulation as a moral good, critiques of tolerance as a way of relating have called for its rejection in favour of alt…
An urban laboratory for the multicultural nation
At a time when urban space is considered central to understanding how multicultural societies cohere, this paper examines how the urban and the nation are related. To do so, the paper focuses upon Birmingham, UK, which has been presented as a testing ground for national responses to difference and as a model for other European cities. Drawing on narratives of city boosterism, urban policy, local and national news articles, academic writing and re…
Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York
Encountering the City provides a new and sustained engagement with the concept of encounter. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, classic writings on the city and rich empirical examples, this volume demonstrates why encounters are significant to urban studies, politically, philosophically and analytically. Bringing together a range of interests, from urban multiculture, systems of economic regulation, security and suspicion, to more-than-hu…
Everyday Brexits
In this commentary we explore how geographers might respond to the event of “Brexit” – the decision and process of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union after the referendum of 23 June 2016. Although it is necessary to understand the ways in which Brexit is an effect of a range of named causes and conditions, we argue that geographers should also stay with the event of “Brexit” by following how Brexit surfaces across a variety of everyda…
On the Paradox of 'Organised' Encounter
Encounters are politically and pedagogically charged. They have long been celebrated for their ability to chip away at prejudices, enact cultural destabilisations, shape subjectivities, and produce new knowledges. Yet encounters come with risk. The paper argues that encounters should be taken as very specific genres of contact and offers a conceptual interrogation of the notion of encounter, and its (dis)organisation, as a way of reflecting on th…
Animal Encounters: A Genre of Contact
What does it mean to encounter an animal? Encounters are regularly summoned in animal studies, but rarely subject to conceptual scrutiny. The chapter argues that encounters might be considered a particular genre of contact that bring categories of difference into view as well as their simultaneous undoing. Building on this conceptualisation, the chapter outlines why human-animal encounters have been framed as key sites of transformative potential…
Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through Imperial Eyes
The contact zone is described as the space of imperial encounter. Against a backdrop of work that has used Mary Louise Pratt's concept of the contact zone to examine culture-making, and destabilize normative understandings of division, distinction, and bordering, the paper interrogates the value of utilizing the concept in multispecies contexts. To do so, the paper considers the relationship between the contact zone and the concept of encounter, …
Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students
Together in difference: A review symposium on Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities , by Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston
Celebrating and launching this inspiring book with Professor Lesley Head at the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne was a multicultural event that circulated immense joy. There was a
Lively Transgressions at the Urban–Ocean Edge: Conflict, Coexistence and Animals on the Move
Human–wildlife conflict has become a dominant framework for understanding the challenges of coexistence. In the context of global environmental change and new geographies of wildlife encounter, this paper intervenes in two bodies of work: ‘Species on the Move’ and human–wildlife conflict. We do so by drawing on two seemingly disparate examples that both concern animals on the move and the fraught politics of coexistence—urban gulls in Northern Eu…
Deterrence
I n
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Multiculturalism (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Art (4 works)