Pauline Couper
Biographic Data
| ID | 4527183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pauline Couper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pauline |
| FAMILY NAME | Couper |
| SIGNATURE | COUPER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | York St John University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0083-223X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feeling rules and emotion work in geomorphology fieldwork
Geography’s fieldwork culture has been subject to much scrutiny in recent decades. With roots in colonial exploration and shaped by Enlightenment ideals of reason and rationality, the presence of emotion in physical geography fieldwork has remained invisible, unspoken. This article draws on geomorphologists’ fieldwork stories, accessed via questionnaire and interviews, to provide insight into the emotion work involved in collaborative fieldwork, …
Reflections on the first decade of the HPGRG undergraduate dissertation prize: The geography and politics of reward
The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group launched its undergraduate dissertation prize in 2008. This paper reflects on the dissertations submitted throughout its first decade, highlighting particular themes in Deleuzian-inspired vitalism and immanence, attention to the politics of knowledge production, and the emergence of critical physical geography. The paper also discusses the practice of awarding a prize, noting evidence that th…
Conversations in geography: Journeying through four decades of history and philosophy of geography in the United Kingdom
This article offers a critical appraisal of institutionalised knowledge production and exchange on the history and philosophy of geography in the United Kingdom. We examine broad epistemic trends over 41 years (1981–2021) through an analysis of annual conference sessions and special events convened by the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG…
History and philosophy of geography: Looking back and looking forward
This introduction to the special issue Reflections on Histories and Philosophies of Geography discusses the context and content of nineteen articles written to mark the fortieth anniversary of the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG). The group was founded in 1981, two years after the early career researchers who set up the group, Richard T…
Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic
This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key registers; courageous and compassionate pedagogies. Our premise is that understanding in more nuanced form the approaches we took to creating courageous and compassionate education during the pandemic m…
Interpretive field geomorphology as cognitive, social, embodied and affective epistemic practice
This article examines the epistemic practices of interpretive field geomorphology—that is, the in‐the‐moment act of “seeing the landscape” geomorphologically. Drawing on the philosophical works of Wittgenstein and Merleau‐Ponty, it aims to bring to light the complex, multi‐dimensional, knowledge‐producing process of field observation and interpretation. Methodologically the study is based on geomorphologists' accounts of their fieldwork, gathered…
Visibility and invisibility in, of and through textbook publication
In their production and their role in academic life, textbooks lie at the intersection of a number of “regimes of visibility” (and invisibility). In this contribution I reflect on my own experience of textbook authorship to highlight some of these regimes: first, the processes through which textbooks are published; second, the mechanisms of monitoring and measuring of academic production; third, disciplinary hierarchies of reputation and influenc…
The embodied spatialities of being in nature: Encountering the Nature/Culture Binary in Green/Blue Space
The contact with nature provided by urban green and blue space is said to be beneficial for mental health, physical health, social contact and cohesion, and for learning and development among children. Yet the literature identifying these benefits fails to recognise that 'nature', as a category in binary relation with 'culture' (or 'humans'), is a cultural construct. Acknowledging this inevitably raises questions about exactly what 'contact with …
"Environmental awareness" and rock climbing: Changing pedagogies to enhance pro-environmental graduate attributes
Geography has long been seen as having a central role in education for sustainable development, and yet the degree to which a geographical education translates to personal capacities for action has been questioned. Having struggled for some years to engage Outdoor Adventure Education students with physical geography science-based knowledge of the environment, we trialled a pedagogical shift to emphasize a relational, self-in-environment conscious…
Confluences of human and physical geography research on the outdoors: An introduction to the special section on ‘Exploring the outdoors’
This special section of Area demonstrates the multiple ways that geographers engage with the outdoors. Human and physical geographers have pursued different paths of academic research on the outdoors, ranging from ‘objective’ empirical epistemologies to understandings of outdoor spaces as socially constructed. The special section highlights that more‐than‐representational accounts and more‐than‐scientific encounters have the potential to bridge h…
Researching the outdoors: Exploring the unsettled frontier between science and adventure
Outdoor practitioners and academic geographers arguably share a common origin in the explorers of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. The two interests diverged during the twentieth century, as academic geography became less dependent on travel, and the pursuit of knowledge no longer provided the sole justification for exploration and adventure, but some synergies remain, at least in experiencing and making sense of the natural environment. …
Fluvial geomorphology and semiotics: A Wittgensteinian perspective of the ‘divide’ between human and physical geography
This paper presents a broadly realist, pragmatist view of geography, drawing on the work of Wittgenstein to consider the role of language in the divide between human and physical geography. The possibility that we may have ideas that are structured similarly but expressed differently is illustrated through the application of Peircean semiotics to a hierarchy of geomorphological processes in a river system. The resulting ‘scalar semiotic fluvial h…
The embodied spatialities of being in nature: Encountering the Nature/Culture Binary in Green/Blue Space
The contact with nature provided by urban green and blue space is said to be beneficial for mental health, physical health, social contact and cohesion, and for learning and development among children. Yet the literature identifying these benefits fails to recognise that 'nature', as a category in binary relation with 'culture' (or 'humans'), is a cultural construct. Acknowledging this inevitably raises questions about exactly what 'contact with …
Fluvial geomorphology and semiotics: A Wittgensteinian perspective of the ‘divide’ between human and physical geography
This paper presents a broadly realist, pragmatist view of geography, drawing on the work of Wittgenstein to consider the role of language in the divide between human and physical geography. The possibility that we may have ideas that are structured similarly but expressed differently is illustrated through the application of Peircean semiotics to a hierarchy of geomorphological processes in a river system. The resulting ‘scalar semiotic fluvial h…
History and philosophy of geography: Looking back and looking forward
This introduction to the special issue Reflections on Histories and Philosophies of Geography discusses the context and content of nineteen articles written to mark the fortieth anniversary of the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG). The group was founded in 1981, two years after the early career researchers who set up the group, Richard T…
Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic
This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key registers; courageous and compassionate pedagogies. Our premise is that understanding in more nuanced form the approaches we took to creating courageous and compassionate education during the pandemic m…
"Environmental awareness" and rock climbing: Changing pedagogies to enhance pro-environmental graduate attributes
Geography has long been seen as having a central role in education for sustainable development, and yet the degree to which a geographical education translates to personal capacities for action has been questioned. Having struggled for some years to engage Outdoor Adventure Education students with physical geography science-based knowledge of the environment, we trialled a pedagogical shift to emphasize a relational, self-in-environment conscious…
Confluences of human and physical geography research on the outdoors: An introduction to the special section on ‘Exploring the outdoors’
This special section of Area demonstrates the multiple ways that geographers engage with the outdoors. Human and physical geographers have pursued different paths of academic research on the outdoors, ranging from ‘objective’ empirical epistemologies to understandings of outdoor spaces as socially constructed. The special section highlights that more‐than‐representational accounts and more‐than‐scientific encounters have the potential to bridge h…
Researching the outdoors: Exploring the unsettled frontier between science and adventure
Outdoor practitioners and academic geographers arguably share a common origin in the explorers of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. The two interests diverged during the twentieth century, as academic geography became less dependent on travel, and the pursuit of knowledge no longer provided the sole justification for exploration and adventure, but some synergies remain, at least in experiencing and making sense of the natural environment. …
Interpretive field geomorphology as cognitive, social, embodied and affective epistemic practice
This article examines the epistemic practices of interpretive field geomorphology—that is, the in‐the‐moment act of “seeing the landscape” geomorphologically. Drawing on the philosophical works of Wittgenstein and Merleau‐Ponty, it aims to bring to light the complex, multi‐dimensional, knowledge‐producing process of field observation and interpretation. Methodologically the study is based on geomorphologists' accounts of their fieldwork, gathered…
Visibility and invisibility in, of and through textbook publication
In their production and their role in academic life, textbooks lie at the intersection of a number of “regimes of visibility” (and invisibility). In this contribution I reflect on my own experience of textbook authorship to highlight some of these regimes: first, the processes through which textbooks are published; second, the mechanisms of monitoring and measuring of academic production; third, disciplinary hierarchies of reputation and influenc…
Fluvial geomorphology and semiotics: A Wittgensteinian perspective of the ‘divide’ between human and physical geography
This paper presents a broadly realist, pragmatist view of geography, drawing on the work of Wittgenstein to consider the role of language in the divide between human and physical geography. The possibility that we may have ideas that are structured similarly but expressed differently is illustrated through the application of Peircean semiotics to a hierarchy of geomorphological processes in a river system. The resulting ‘scalar semiotic fluvial h…
Confluences of human and physical geography research on the outdoors: An introduction to the special section on ‘Exploring the outdoors’
This special section of Area demonstrates the multiple ways that geographers engage with the outdoors. Human and physical geographers have pursued different paths of academic research on the outdoors, ranging from ‘objective’ empirical epistemologies to understandings of outdoor spaces as socially constructed. The special section highlights that more‐than‐representational accounts and more‐than‐scientific encounters have the potential to bridge h…
Researching the outdoors: Exploring the unsettled frontier between science and adventure
Outdoor practitioners and academic geographers arguably share a common origin in the explorers of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. The two interests diverged during the twentieth century, as academic geography became less dependent on travel, and the pursuit of knowledge no longer provided the sole justification for exploration and adventure, but some synergies remain, at least in experiencing and making sense of the natural environment. …
"Environmental awareness" and rock climbing: Changing pedagogies to enhance pro-environmental graduate attributes
Geography has long been seen as having a central role in education for sustainable development, and yet the degree to which a geographical education translates to personal capacities for action has been questioned. Having struggled for some years to engage Outdoor Adventure Education students with physical geography science-based knowledge of the environment, we trialled a pedagogical shift to emphasize a relational, self-in-environment conscious…
Visibility and invisibility in, of and through textbook publication
In their production and their role in academic life, textbooks lie at the intersection of a number of “regimes of visibility” (and invisibility). In this contribution I reflect on my own experience of textbook authorship to highlight some of these regimes: first, the processes through which textbooks are published; second, the mechanisms of monitoring and measuring of academic production; third, disciplinary hierarchies of reputation and influenc…
The embodied spatialities of being in nature: Encountering the Nature/Culture Binary in Green/Blue Space
The contact with nature provided by urban green and blue space is said to be beneficial for mental health, physical health, social contact and cohesion, and for learning and development among children. Yet the literature identifying these benefits fails to recognise that 'nature', as a category in binary relation with 'culture' (or 'humans'), is a cultural construct. Acknowledging this inevitably raises questions about exactly what 'contact with …
Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic
This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key registers; courageous and compassionate pedagogies. Our premise is that understanding in more nuanced form the approaches we took to creating courageous and compassionate education during the pandemic m…
Interpretive field geomorphology as cognitive, social, embodied and affective epistemic practice
This article examines the epistemic practices of interpretive field geomorphology—that is, the in‐the‐moment act of “seeing the landscape” geomorphologically. Drawing on the philosophical works of Wittgenstein and Merleau‐Ponty, it aims to bring to light the complex, multi‐dimensional, knowledge‐producing process of field observation and interpretation. Methodologically the study is based on geomorphologists' accounts of their fieldwork, gathered…
Feeling rules and emotion work in geomorphology fieldwork
Geography’s fieldwork culture has been subject to much scrutiny in recent decades. With roots in colonial exploration and shaped by Enlightenment ideals of reason and rationality, the presence of emotion in physical geography fieldwork has remained invisible, unspoken. This article draws on geomorphologists’ fieldwork stories, accessed via questionnaire and interviews, to provide insight into the emotion work involved in collaborative fieldwork, …
Reflections on the first decade of the HPGRG undergraduate dissertation prize: The geography and politics of reward
The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group launched its undergraduate dissertation prize in 2008. This paper reflects on the dissertations submitted throughout its first decade, highlighting particular themes in Deleuzian-inspired vitalism and immanence, attention to the politics of knowledge production, and the emergence of critical physical geography. The paper also discusses the practice of awarding a prize, noting evidence that th…
Conversations in geography: Journeying through four decades of history and philosophy of geography in the United Kingdom
This article offers a critical appraisal of institutionalised knowledge production and exchange on the history and philosophy of geography in the United Kingdom. We examine broad epistemic trends over 41 years (1981–2021) through an analysis of annual conference sessions and special events convened by the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG…
History and philosophy of geography: Looking back and looking forward
This introduction to the special issue Reflections on Histories and Philosophies of Geography discusses the context and content of nineteen articles written to mark the fortieth anniversary of the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG). The group was founded in 1981, two years after the early career researchers who set up the group, Richard T…
Sociology (12 works) · Geography (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Geography Education and Pedagogy (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Human geography (6 works) · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works)