Michael Curry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Curry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Curry |
| SIGNATURE | CURRY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9155-5006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Black Barbershops: Exploring Informal Mental Health Settings Within the Community
The barbershop is a landmark in the Black community, providing a site for cultural exchange, discussion forums and a point of psychological connection for African American men. Barbershops offer safe spaces for culturally responsive engagement, discourse, and guidance without stigma. Researchers and service providers have utilized Black barbershops for physical health outreach, understanding Black masculinity, exploring intersections of sexuality…
Reproducible Summary Tables with the gtsummary Package
The gtsummary package provides an elegant and flexible way to create publication-ready summary tables in R. A critical part of the work of statisticians, data scientists, and analysts is summarizing data sets and regression models in R and publishing or sharing polished summary tables. The gtsummary package was created to streamline these everyday analysis tasks by allowing users to easily create reproducible summaries of data sets, regression mo…
The Fragmented Individual And The Academic Realm
Toward a Geography of a World Without Maps: Lessons from Ptolemy and Postal Codes
Discussions within geography of the history of the concepts of “space” and “place” are often Whiggish rehearsals of perceived mistakes and misapprehensions; there is little sense that earlier understandings of the concepts have anything important to offer the contemporary geographer. Conversely, one finds little that suggests that reflections on contemporary life might shed light on those now seemingly antiquated concepts. Both views are unfortun…
Emergency Response Systems and the Creeping Legibility of People and Places
Over the last 35 years, centralized universal-number (in the United States, 9-1-1) systems have come to be the preferred means of emergency-response dispatching. The creation of these systems has motivated the development of information systems that render the landscape, to those with the right access, increasingly legible. This has been to the benefit of those receiving emergency services, but also to the benefit of police and commercial interes…
The Profiler's Question And The Treacherous Traveler: Narratives of Belonging in Commercial Aviation
Although criticized as potentially invasive, profiling has recently been promoted as a means for finding potential terrorists, and particularly airplane hijackers. Based upon sophisticated data-mining technologies, new forms of profiling have seemed, whatever the privacy issues that they raise, to offer more objective alternatives to earlier airline profiling systems, which appear to have been based on nothing more than a sense that certain group…
Maps and History: Constructing Images of the past. Jeremy Black
On the Possibility of Democracy in a Geocoded World
Political redistricting has increasingly been carried out with the aid of geographic information systems (GIS). Concerns about the systems have focused on their misuse, but their critics have failed to see that they raise deeper issues. First, they conceptualize districts as containers in space, where in fact people typically see themselves as belonging in and attached to their neighborhoods. Second, GIS-based geodemographic systems, based on inf…
Digital Places: Living with geographic information technologies
The Digital Individual and the Private Realm
Geographic information systems and the technological family associated with them—global positioning systems, geodemographics, and remote surveillance systems—raise important questions with respect to the issue of privacy. Of most immediate import, the systems store and represent data in ways that render ineffective the most popular safeguards against privacy abuse. But the systems are associated with more fundamental changes in the right to priva…
The Work in the World: Geographical Practice and the Written Word
Buttimer, A. 1974: Values in geography. Commission on College Geography Resource Paper 24. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers
Data Protection and Intellectual Property: Information Systems and the Americanization of the New Europe
The introduction of computer-based information systems into the newly emerging democracies—and markets—of Central and Eastern Europe raises important questions. With information seen by many in government and industry as the gold of the future, it is not surprising that it is common in the West to see it as essential that those countries adopt regulations that will encourage its relatively unfettered flow. In fact, in the key areas of data protec…
The Limits of Representation
Image, practice and the hidden impacts of geographic information systems
Postmodernism in Economic Geography: Metaphor and the Construction of Alterity
From the premise that economic geography is shot through with metaphors, it is argued that there is very little difference in the way modernist and postmodernist economic geographers semantically approach metaphor within their discipline. This argument is illustrated by examining within economic geography the use both of 'big' metaphors, such as the gravity model, and of 'little' metaphors such as those that pepper individual pieces of writing. A…
On the possibility of ethics in geography: Writing, citing, and the construction of intellectual property
Postmodernism, Language, and the Strains of Modernism
During the last few years a group of geographers has seen decisive problems in the accepted ways of thinking about the subject matter of geography, the ways of knowing that subject matter, and the ways of communicating the results of geographical inquiry. They have attempted to develop alternatives to these accepted practices. Advocates of these alternatives have characterized the now questionable views as “modernist,” and have claimed to be “pos…
A Ground for Common Search
Forms of Life and Geographical Method
Form of life, like culture, is a term that is used both colloquially and technically. During the twentieth century, the term has partially defied a shift to an exclusively technical meaning. Wittgenstein's use of the term is especially significant because it shares intellectual roots with work by the geographer Vidal de la Blache. Wittgenstein implies different conclusions about the possibility of developing a systematic social science that can a…
Time and Narrative in Economic Geography
There are two types of dynamic models found within economic geography-the statistical and the causal. Both rest on a view of time which is based upon chronology and sequence. It is argued, however, that a chronological and sequential view of time is inadequate to comprehend the nature of economic behaviour. Instead, it is suggested that economic geographers begin thinking about time from the perspective of narrative
Beyond Nuclear Winter: On the Limitations of Science in Political Debate
On rationality: Contemporary geography and the search for the foolproof method
Survey 5: In the Wake of Nuclear War-Possible Worlds in an Age of Scientific Expertise
Towards a Contextualist Approach to Geographical Knowledge
Contemporary geographers assume that before embarking on empirical studies one ought to determine what exists and what can be known. In practice, this view denies validity to much traditional work. A contextual approach, deriving from contemporary ordinary-language philosophy, will be less constraining and more critical, providing a bridge between traditional and contemporary work
The Digital Individual and the Private Realm
Geographic information systems and the technological family associated with them—global positioning systems, geodemographics, and remote surveillance systems—raise important questions with respect to the issue of privacy. Of most immediate import, the systems store and represent data in ways that render ineffective the most popular safeguards against privacy abuse. But the systems are associated with more fundamental changes in the right to priva…
The Work in the World: Geographical Practice and the Written Word
On the possibility of ethics in geography: Writing, citing, and the construction of intellectual property
Image, practice and the hidden impacts of geographic information systems
Postmodernism in Economic Geography: Metaphor and the Construction of Alterity
From the premise that economic geography is shot through with metaphors, it is argued that there is very little difference in the way modernist and postmodernist economic geographers semantically approach metaphor within their discipline. This argument is illustrated by examining within economic geography the use both of 'big' metaphors, such as the gravity model, and of 'little' metaphors such as those that pepper individual pieces of writing. A…
Postmodernism, Language, and the Strains of Modernism
During the last few years a group of geographers has seen decisive problems in the accepted ways of thinking about the subject matter of geography, the ways of knowing that subject matter, and the ways of communicating the results of geographical inquiry. They have attempted to develop alternatives to these accepted practices. Advocates of these alternatives have characterized the now questionable views as “modernist,” and have claimed to be “pos…
Forms of Life and Geographical Method
Form of life, like culture, is a term that is used both colloquially and technically. During the twentieth century, the term has partially defied a shift to an exclusively technical meaning. Wittgenstein's use of the term is especially significant because it shares intellectual roots with work by the geographer Vidal de la Blache. Wittgenstein implies different conclusions about the possibility of developing a systematic social science that can a…
Towards a Contextualist Approach to Geographical Knowledge
Contemporary geographers assume that before embarking on empirical studies one ought to determine what exists and what can be known. In practice, this view denies validity to much traditional work. A contextual approach, deriving from contemporary ordinary-language philosophy, will be less constraining and more critical, providing a bridge between traditional and contemporary work
Toward a Geography of a World Without Maps: Lessons from Ptolemy and Postal Codes
Discussions within geography of the history of the concepts of “space” and “place” are often Whiggish rehearsals of perceived mistakes and misapprehensions; there is little sense that earlier understandings of the concepts have anything important to offer the contemporary geographer. Conversely, one finds little that suggests that reflections on contemporary life might shed light on those now seemingly antiquated concepts. Both views are unfortun…
The Profiler's Question And The Treacherous Traveler: Narratives of Belonging in Commercial Aviation
Although criticized as potentially invasive, profiling has recently been promoted as a means for finding potential terrorists, and particularly airplane hijackers. Based upon sophisticated data-mining technologies, new forms of profiling have seemed, whatever the privacy issues that they raise, to offer more objective alternatives to earlier airline profiling systems, which appear to have been based on nothing more than a sense that certain group…
The Limits of Representation
On rationality: Contemporary geography and the search for the foolproof method
Emergency Response Systems and the Creeping Legibility of People and Places
Over the last 35 years, centralized universal-number (in the United States, 9-1-1) systems have come to be the preferred means of emergency-response dispatching. The creation of these systems has motivated the development of information systems that render the landscape, to those with the right access, increasingly legible. This has been to the benefit of those receiving emergency services, but also to the benefit of police and commercial interes…
Buttimer, A. 1974: Values in geography. Commission on College Geography Resource Paper 24. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers
On the Possibility of Democracy in a Geocoded World
Political redistricting has increasingly been carried out with the aid of geographic information systems (GIS). Concerns about the systems have focused on their misuse, but their critics have failed to see that they raise deeper issues. First, they conceptualize districts as containers in space, where in fact people typically see themselves as belonging in and attached to their neighborhoods. Second, GIS-based geodemographic systems, based on inf…
Beyond Nuclear Winter: On the Limitations of Science in Political Debate
Data Protection and Intellectual Property: Information Systems and the Americanization of the New Europe
The introduction of computer-based information systems into the newly emerging democracies—and markets—of Central and Eastern Europe raises important questions. With information seen by many in government and industry as the gold of the future, it is not surprising that it is common in the West to see it as essential that those countries adopt regulations that will encourage its relatively unfettered flow. In fact, in the key areas of data protec…
Survey 5: In the Wake of Nuclear War-Possible Worlds in an Age of Scientific Expertise
The Idealist Dispute in Anglo‐American Geography
Leonard Guelke proposes an ‘idealist’ approach to geography. His critics see it as either irrelevant or incorrect. But both Guelke and his critics adopt a misguided approach to the problem of geographical explanation, assuming that the resolution of this or some other philosophical dispute will provide us with a theory which can then be applied in geography. An approach that begins not with philosophical theories but with the world of people and …
Must There Be Progress in Human Geography? A Reply to Agnew and Duncan
The Idealist Dispute in Anglo‐American Geography: A Reply
The Idealist Dispute in Anglo‐American Geography
Leonard Guelke proposes an ‘idealist’ approach to geography. His critics see it as either irrelevant or incorrect. But both Guelke and his critics adopt a misguided approach to the problem of geographical explanation, assuming that the resolution of this or some other philosophical dispute will provide us with a theory which can then be applied in geography. An approach that begins not with philosophical theories but with the world of people and …
Towards a Contextualist Approach to Geographical Knowledge
Contemporary geographers assume that before embarking on empirical studies one ought to determine what exists and what can be known. In practice, this view denies validity to much traditional work. A contextual approach, deriving from contemporary ordinary-language philosophy, will be less constraining and more critical, providing a bridge between traditional and contemporary work
On rationality: Contemporary geography and the search for the foolproof method
Survey 5: In the Wake of Nuclear War-Possible Worlds in an Age of Scientific Expertise
Beyond Nuclear Winter: On the Limitations of Science in Political Debate
Time and Narrative in Economic Geography
There are two types of dynamic models found within economic geography-the statistical and the causal. Both rest on a view of time which is based upon chronology and sequence. It is argued, however, that a chronological and sequential view of time is inadequate to comprehend the nature of economic behaviour. Instead, it is suggested that economic geographers begin thinking about time from the perspective of narrative
A Ground for Common Search
Forms of Life and Geographical Method
Form of life, like culture, is a term that is used both colloquially and technically. During the twentieth century, the term has partially defied a shift to an exclusively technical meaning. Wittgenstein's use of the term is especially significant because it shares intellectual roots with work by the geographer Vidal de la Blache. Wittgenstein implies different conclusions about the possibility of developing a systematic social science that can a…
On the possibility of ethics in geography: Writing, citing, and the construction of intellectual property
Postmodernism, Language, and the Strains of Modernism
During the last few years a group of geographers has seen decisive problems in the accepted ways of thinking about the subject matter of geography, the ways of knowing that subject matter, and the ways of communicating the results of geographical inquiry. They have attempted to develop alternatives to these accepted practices. Advocates of these alternatives have characterized the now questionable views as “modernist,” and have claimed to be “pos…
Postmodernism in Economic Geography: Metaphor and the Construction of Alterity
From the premise that economic geography is shot through with metaphors, it is argued that there is very little difference in the way modernist and postmodernist economic geographers semantically approach metaphor within their discipline. This argument is illustrated by examining within economic geography the use both of 'big' metaphors, such as the gravity model, and of 'little' metaphors such as those that pepper individual pieces of writing. A…
Image, practice and the hidden impacts of geographic information systems
The Limits of Representation
Buttimer, A. 1974: Values in geography. Commission on College Geography Resource Paper 24. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers
Data Protection and Intellectual Property: Information Systems and the Americanization of the New Europe
The introduction of computer-based information systems into the newly emerging democracies—and markets—of Central and Eastern Europe raises important questions. With information seen by many in government and industry as the gold of the future, it is not surprising that it is common in the West to see it as essential that those countries adopt regulations that will encourage its relatively unfettered flow. In fact, in the key areas of data protec…
The Digital Individual and the Private Realm
Geographic information systems and the technological family associated with them—global positioning systems, geodemographics, and remote surveillance systems—raise important questions with respect to the issue of privacy. Of most immediate import, the systems store and represent data in ways that render ineffective the most popular safeguards against privacy abuse. But the systems are associated with more fundamental changes in the right to priva…
The Work in the World: Geographical Practice and the Written Word
Digital Places: Living with geographic information technologies
On the Possibility of Democracy in a Geocoded World
Political redistricting has increasingly been carried out with the aid of geographic information systems (GIS). Concerns about the systems have focused on their misuse, but their critics have failed to see that they raise deeper issues. First, they conceptualize districts as containers in space, where in fact people typically see themselves as belonging in and attached to their neighborhoods. Second, GIS-based geodemographic systems, based on inf…
Maps and History: Constructing Images of the past. Jeremy Black
The Profiler's Question And The Treacherous Traveler: Narratives of Belonging in Commercial Aviation
Although criticized as potentially invasive, profiling has recently been promoted as a means for finding potential terrorists, and particularly airplane hijackers. Based upon sophisticated data-mining technologies, new forms of profiling have seemed, whatever the privacy issues that they raise, to offer more objective alternatives to earlier airline profiling systems, which appear to have been based on nothing more than a sense that certain group…
Emergency Response Systems and the Creeping Legibility of People and Places
Over the last 35 years, centralized universal-number (in the United States, 9-1-1) systems have come to be the preferred means of emergency-response dispatching. The creation of these systems has motivated the development of information systems that render the landscape, to those with the right access, increasingly legible. This has been to the benefit of those receiving emergency services, but also to the benefit of police and commercial interes…
Toward a Geography of a World Without Maps: Lessons from Ptolemy and Postal Codes
Discussions within geography of the history of the concepts of “space” and “place” are often Whiggish rehearsals of perceived mistakes and misapprehensions; there is little sense that earlier understandings of the concepts have anything important to offer the contemporary geographer. Conversely, one finds little that suggests that reflections on contemporary life might shed light on those now seemingly antiquated concepts. Both views are unfortun…
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