Regan Koch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Regan Koch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Regan |
| FAMILY NAME | Koch |
| SIGNATURE | KOCH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Geography Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8739-6831 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Inviting the stranger in: Intimacy, digital technology and new geographies of encounter
Digital technologies are profoundly reshaping how people relate to unknown others, yet urban studies and geographies of encounter have yet to adequately incorporate these changes into theory and research. Building on a longstanding concern with stranger encounters in social and urban theory, this paper explores how digital technology brings new possibilities and challenges to urban life. With examples ranging from GPS-enabled apps for sex and dat…
Public, private, and the appeal to common good: Practices of justification in a peer‐to‐peer economy
Relations between public and private are implicit within much of everyday life, yet public/private distinctions are often invoked when there is a need to justify or critique a set of social arrangements. This paper attends to such moments, demonstrating how practices of justification provide insights into the values and reasoning through which different forms of collective life are negotiated and managed. It does so through a theoretically pragma…
Licensing, Popular Practices and Public Spaces: An Inquiry via the Geographies of Street Food Vending
The socio-legal technology of licensing is one of the primary tools governments use to manage spaces and practices deemed risky or threatening to public order. Licensing requirements thus play a crucial role in shaping routine experiences in public space as well as the trajectories of emerging forms of public life. Yet licensing laws have largely been ignored in critical urban scholarship: too often concerned with the interpretation and critique …
On the Hard Work of Domesticating a Public Space
This paper explores the concept of domestication as a way of attending to urban public spaces and the ways in which they come to be inhabited. It argues against the tendency in urban scholarship to use the term pejoratively and interchangeably with words like pacification or taming to express concerns relating to the corrosion of public life. Rather, the aim here is to develop domestication as a concept attentive to the processes by which people …
Rethinking urban public space: Accounts from a junction in West London
There has been remarkable enthusiasm for redesigning and reanimating urban public spaces in recent years. Yet geographical and urban research has tended to interpret these changes through a relatively limited set of concerns related to exclusion, encroachment and claim‐making. This paper seeks to extend engagement with the concept of public space. It does so by arguing for the need to attend more closely to the generative capacities of public spa…
On the Hard Work of Domesticating a Public Space
This paper explores the concept of domestication as a way of attending to urban public spaces and the ways in which they come to be inhabited. It argues against the tendency in urban scholarship to use the term pejoratively and interchangeably with words like pacification or taming to express concerns relating to the corrosion of public life. Rather, the aim here is to develop domestication as a concept attentive to the processes by which people …
Rethinking urban public space: Accounts from a junction in West London
There has been remarkable enthusiasm for redesigning and reanimating urban public spaces in recent years. Yet geographical and urban research has tended to interpret these changes through a relatively limited set of concerns related to exclusion, encroachment and claim‐making. This paper seeks to extend engagement with the concept of public space. It does so by arguing for the need to attend more closely to the generative capacities of public spa…
Inviting the stranger in: Intimacy, digital technology and new geographies of encounter
Digital technologies are profoundly reshaping how people relate to unknown others, yet urban studies and geographies of encounter have yet to adequately incorporate these changes into theory and research. Building on a longstanding concern with stranger encounters in social and urban theory, this paper explores how digital technology brings new possibilities and challenges to urban life. With examples ranging from GPS-enabled apps for sex and dat…
Licensing, Popular Practices and Public Spaces: An Inquiry via the Geographies of Street Food Vending
The socio-legal technology of licensing is one of the primary tools governments use to manage spaces and practices deemed risky or threatening to public order. Licensing requirements thus play a crucial role in shaping routine experiences in public space as well as the trajectories of emerging forms of public life. Yet licensing laws have largely been ignored in critical urban scholarship: too often concerned with the interpretation and critique …
Public, private, and the appeal to common good: Practices of justification in a peer‐to‐peer economy
Relations between public and private are implicit within much of everyday life, yet public/private distinctions are often invoked when there is a need to justify or critique a set of social arrangements. This paper attends to such moments, demonstrating how practices of justification provide insights into the values and reasoning through which different forms of collective life are negotiated and managed. It does so through a theoretically pragma…
Rethinking urban public space: Accounts from a junction in West London
There has been remarkable enthusiasm for redesigning and reanimating urban public spaces in recent years. Yet geographical and urban research has tended to interpret these changes through a relatively limited set of concerns related to exclusion, encroachment and claim‐making. This paper seeks to extend engagement with the concept of public space. It does so by arguing for the need to attend more closely to the generative capacities of public spa…
On the Hard Work of Domesticating a Public Space
This paper explores the concept of domestication as a way of attending to urban public spaces and the ways in which they come to be inhabited. It argues against the tendency in urban scholarship to use the term pejoratively and interchangeably with words like pacification or taming to express concerns relating to the corrosion of public life. Rather, the aim here is to develop domestication as a concept attentive to the processes by which people …
Licensing, Popular Practices and Public Spaces: An Inquiry via the Geographies of Street Food Vending
The socio-legal technology of licensing is one of the primary tools governments use to manage spaces and practices deemed risky or threatening to public order. Licensing requirements thus play a crucial role in shaping routine experiences in public space as well as the trajectories of emerging forms of public life. Yet licensing laws have largely been ignored in critical urban scholarship: too often concerned with the interpretation and critique …
Public, private, and the appeal to common good: Practices of justification in a peer‐to‐peer economy
Relations between public and private are implicit within much of everyday life, yet public/private distinctions are often invoked when there is a need to justify or critique a set of social arrangements. This paper attends to such moments, demonstrating how practices of justification provide insights into the values and reasoning through which different forms of collective life are negotiated and managed. It does so through a theoretically pragma…
Inviting the stranger in: Intimacy, digital technology and new geographies of encounter
Digital technologies are profoundly reshaping how people relate to unknown others, yet urban studies and geographies of encounter have yet to adequately incorporate these changes into theory and research. Building on a longstanding concern with stranger encounters in social and urban theory, this paper explores how digital technology brings new possibilities and challenges to urban life. With examples ranging from GPS-enabled apps for sex and dat…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Public space (3 works) · Scholarship (3 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · Architectural engineering (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)