Nicola Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1107-7006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Past‐past Time
This article is concerned with the long poem doggerland (2021) by Ulrike Draesner, which we read here primarily in its relationship to the temporal disorder of the Anthropocene. We explore some specific manifestations of what we term ‘Anthropocene arrhythmia’ in Draesner's text, in particular through its engagement with linearity and cyclicality. We conclude by suggesting that Draesner's use of language both produces and demands a kind of philolo…
Hooray for Bollywood
Many economic educators have been teaching with pop culture since the start of this century but until recently, the focus was almost exclusively on English-language media. In response to the increasing internationalisation of higher education, economic educators have begun to embrace foreign-language media sources, recognising the diverse and ever-changing nature of today's classrooms. We expand on the work of Ben Abdesslem and Picault (2023a, 20…
Hooray for Bollywood
From sustainable development to social-ecological justice
While sustainability was introduced as a game-changing idea, it has often been criticized for its vagueness and its over-accommodating bent toward powerful, vested interests, economic growth, and profit seeking-or, on the contrary, for not being able to enter mainstream politics. As a result, in the current political climate, sustainability policies seem to be everywhere, but so does the social and ecological critique of these policies.In this ar…
Recognising our collective labours
The New German Nature Lyric
Naturlyrik has long been a contested category in German poetry, but however politically suspect some may find ‘Gespräch(e) über Bäume’ (Brecht), they are vitally important in the era of anthropogenic environmental collapse. The current generation of German-language poets have sought new ways of writing about the natural world and environments; these differ from, and draw on, pre-twentieth-century Naturlyrik as well as the complex, often critical,…
Historical geographies of the 21st century
Glass ceilings and stone floors
While there has been a steady growth of women working in geography in UK universities since the mid-Twentieth Century, there are continuing challenges in gendered career progression and professional interactions within the contemporary discipline. These range from problems associated with employment precarity and inflexible work practices, life choices and obligations in the domestic arena, discrimination and bullying, to less tangible gendered n…
Stark, Necessary and Not Permanent
This article examines the motif of the hut in the work of Paul Celan and J. H. Prynne as a metaphor for poetry which also mediates the relationship between poetry, language and place. Both Prynne's and Celan's use of the hut motif intersects with the role played by huts in work by Martin Heidegger, but this article demonstrates, through close reading of poems by Prynne and Celan, that each develops Heidegger's understanding of the hut further, wi…
Mind the gap
This paper evidences persistent gender inequalities in UK higher education ( HE ) geography departments. The two key sources of data used are: Higher Education Statistics Agency ( HESA ) data for staff and students, which affords a longitudinal response to earlier surveys by M c D owell and M c D owell and Peake of women in UK university geography departments, and a qualitative survey of the UK HE geography community undertaken in 2010 that sough…
Soziale Arbeit in der unternehmerischen Stadt
Soziale Arbeit in der Unternehmerischen Stadt
Assessing the burden of childhood asthma
Firing up craft capital
Crafts have recently been experiencing a renaissance. This revitalization sees craft increasingly recognised as a growing industrial sector with benefits linked to educational, cultural and economic development policy agendas. This paper engages with policy debates around the place of craft in the United Kingdom from 2010. Drawing on craft sector perspectives and UK government policy initiatives it situates the disciplines and practices of craft …
Historical geography in Prague
Crafting the Region
Thomas N. J., Harvey D. C. and Hawkins H. Crafting the region: creative industries and practices of regional space, Regional Studies . This paper draws on an analysis of craft-based networks in South West Britain to inform one's understandings of regional space; around thinking 'territorially' and thinking 'topologically'. It considers how the contemporary 'relational region' negotiates the historical context of sedimented practices and imaginari…
Thinking creative clusters beyond the city
Regional Imaginaries of Governance Agencies
Changes in government and governmentality in the UK have resulted in what has been termed a 'regional renaissance' over the last decade. This has led to an increase in the number of offices, institutions, and agencies operating with a regional remit that is based upon a notion of fixed territorial containers. One sector that has increasingly been brought into the orbit of the new regional policy framework is that of the creative industries, and r…
Consuming transnational fashion in London and Mumbai
Embodying imperial spectacle
This article contributes an embodied historical cultural geography that pays attention to the interplay between the dressed body, material culture and textual representation. Debates concerning the politics of identity, performance and subjectivity, transnational circuits of consumption, clothing as material culture, and the place of dress and colonial power, are drawn on to configure a material and embodied biography of the clothes and the cloth…
Exploring the boundaries of biography
Dietary restraint and self-reported meal sizes
Thinking creative clusters beyond the city
Mind the gap
This paper evidences persistent gender inequalities in UK higher education ( HE ) geography departments. The two key sources of data used are: Higher Education Statistics Agency ( HESA ) data for staff and students, which affords a longitudinal response to earlier surveys by M c D owell and M c D owell and Peake of women in UK university geography departments, and a qualitative survey of the UK HE geography community undertaken in 2010 that sough…
Crafting the Region
Thomas N. J., Harvey D. C. and Hawkins H. Crafting the region: creative industries and practices of regional space, Regional Studies . This paper draws on an analysis of craft-based networks in South West Britain to inform one's understandings of regional space; around thinking 'territorially' and thinking 'topologically'. It considers how the contemporary 'relational region' negotiates the historical context of sedimented practices and imaginari…
Glass ceilings and stone floors
While there has been a steady growth of women working in geography in UK universities since the mid-Twentieth Century, there are continuing challenges in gendered career progression and professional interactions within the contemporary discipline. These range from problems associated with employment precarity and inflexible work practices, life choices and obligations in the domestic arena, discrimination and bullying, to less tangible gendered n…
From sustainable development to social-ecological justice
While sustainability was introduced as a game-changing idea, it has often been criticized for its vagueness and its over-accommodating bent toward powerful, vested interests, economic growth, and profit seeking-or, on the contrary, for not being able to enter mainstream politics. As a result, in the current political climate, sustainability policies seem to be everywhere, but so does the social and ecological critique of these policies.In this ar…
Exploring the boundaries of biography
Consuming transnational fashion in London and Mumbai
Embodying imperial spectacle
This article contributes an embodied historical cultural geography that pays attention to the interplay between the dressed body, material culture and textual representation. Debates concerning the politics of identity, performance and subjectivity, transnational circuits of consumption, clothing as material culture, and the place of dress and colonial power, are drawn on to configure a material and embodied biography of the clothes and the cloth…
Firing up craft capital
Crafts have recently been experiencing a renaissance. This revitalization sees craft increasingly recognised as a growing industrial sector with benefits linked to educational, cultural and economic development policy agendas. This paper engages with policy debates around the place of craft in the United Kingdom from 2010. Drawing on craft sector perspectives and UK government policy initiatives it situates the disciplines and practices of craft …
Regional Imaginaries of Governance Agencies
Changes in government and governmentality in the UK have resulted in what has been termed a 'regional renaissance' over the last decade. This has led to an increase in the number of offices, institutions, and agencies operating with a regional remit that is based upon a notion of fixed territorial containers. One sector that has increasingly been brought into the orbit of the new regional policy framework is that of the creative industries, and r…
Dietary restraint and self-reported meal sizes
Dietary restraint and self-reported meal sizes
Exploring the boundaries of biography
Consuming transnational fashion in London and Mumbai
Embodying imperial spectacle
This article contributes an embodied historical cultural geography that pays attention to the interplay between the dressed body, material culture and textual representation. Debates concerning the politics of identity, performance and subjectivity, transnational circuits of consumption, clothing as material culture, and the place of dress and colonial power, are drawn on to configure a material and embodied biography of the clothes and the cloth…
Regional Imaginaries of Governance Agencies
Changes in government and governmentality in the UK have resulted in what has been termed a 'regional renaissance' over the last decade. This has led to an increase in the number of offices, institutions, and agencies operating with a regional remit that is based upon a notion of fixed territorial containers. One sector that has increasingly been brought into the orbit of the new regional policy framework is that of the creative industries, and r…
Historical geography in Prague
Crafting the Region
Thomas N. J., Harvey D. C. and Hawkins H. Crafting the region: creative industries and practices of regional space, Regional Studies . This paper draws on an analysis of craft-based networks in South West Britain to inform one's understandings of regional space; around thinking 'territorially' and thinking 'topologically'. It considers how the contemporary 'relational region' negotiates the historical context of sedimented practices and imaginari…
Thinking creative clusters beyond the city
Soziale Arbeit in der unternehmerischen Stadt
Soziale Arbeit in der Unternehmerischen Stadt
Assessing the burden of childhood asthma
Firing up craft capital
Crafts have recently been experiencing a renaissance. This revitalization sees craft increasingly recognised as a growing industrial sector with benefits linked to educational, cultural and economic development policy agendas. This paper engages with policy debates around the place of craft in the United Kingdom from 2010. Drawing on craft sector perspectives and UK government policy initiatives it situates the disciplines and practices of craft …
Stark, Necessary and Not Permanent
This article examines the motif of the hut in the work of Paul Celan and J. H. Prynne as a metaphor for poetry which also mediates the relationship between poetry, language and place. Both Prynne's and Celan's use of the hut motif intersects with the role played by huts in work by Martin Heidegger, but this article demonstrates, through close reading of poems by Prynne and Celan, that each develops Heidegger's understanding of the hut further, wi…
Mind the gap
This paper evidences persistent gender inequalities in UK higher education ( HE ) geography departments. The two key sources of data used are: Higher Education Statistics Agency ( HESA ) data for staff and students, which affords a longitudinal response to earlier surveys by M c D owell and M c D owell and Peake of women in UK university geography departments, and a qualitative survey of the UK HE geography community undertaken in 2010 that sough…
Glass ceilings and stone floors
While there has been a steady growth of women working in geography in UK universities since the mid-Twentieth Century, there are continuing challenges in gendered career progression and professional interactions within the contemporary discipline. These range from problems associated with employment precarity and inflexible work practices, life choices and obligations in the domestic arena, discrimination and bullying, to less tangible gendered n…
The New German Nature Lyric
Naturlyrik has long been a contested category in German poetry, but however politically suspect some may find ‘Gespräch(e) über Bäume’ (Brecht), they are vitally important in the era of anthropogenic environmental collapse. The current generation of German-language poets have sought new ways of writing about the natural world and environments; these differ from, and draw on, pre-twentieth-century Naturlyrik as well as the complex, often critical,…
Historical geographies of the 21st century
Recognising our collective labours
From sustainable development to social-ecological justice
While sustainability was introduced as a game-changing idea, it has often been criticized for its vagueness and its over-accommodating bent toward powerful, vested interests, economic growth, and profit seeking-or, on the contrary, for not being able to enter mainstream politics. As a result, in the current political climate, sustainability policies seem to be everywhere, but so does the social and ecological critique of these policies.In this ar…
Hooray for Bollywood
Many economic educators have been teaching with pop culture since the start of this century but until recently, the focus was almost exclusively on English-language media. In response to the increasing internationalisation of higher education, economic educators have begun to embrace foreign-language media sources, recognising the diverse and ever-changing nature of today's classrooms. We expand on the work of Ben Abdesslem and Picault (2023a, 20…
Hooray for Bollywood
Past‐past Time
This article is concerned with the long poem doggerland (2021) by Ulrike Draesner, which we read here primarily in its relationship to the temporal disorder of the Anthropocene. We explore some specific manifestations of what we term ‘Anthropocene arrhythmia’ in Draesner's text, in particular through its engagement with linearity and cyclicality. We conclude by suggesting that Draesner's use of language both produces and demands a kind of philolo…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Economics (5 works)