Nick Gill
Biographic Data
| ID | 648678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Gill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill |
| SIGNATURE | GILL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6064-8157 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 704 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Inside Asylum Appeals: Access, Participation and Procedure in Europe
Appeals are a crucial part of Europe’s asylum system but they remain poorly understood. Building on insights and perspectives from legal geography and socio-legal studies, this book shines a light on what takes place during asylum appeals and puts forward suggestions for improving their fairness and accessibility. Drawing on hundreds of ethnographic observations of appeal hearings, as well as research interviews, the authors paint a detailed pict…
Can we do inclusive politics in urgent times
In times of crisis it is even more important to ensure that political decisions have broad, popular and trusted support from a wide range of people than in normal, non-crisis times. We argue that the best way to achieve this is through the use of deliberative mini-publics, as leaving a crisis response only to our political leaders presents them with almost irresistible opportunities for the arrogation of power, possible corruption, and the use (o…
Epilogue: Asylum Law and Linguistic Fragility
This paper provides an overview of the contributions of the special issue, using these to arrive at an inventory of five ways in which we can critically approach the role of legal language in the systems of asylum determination in rich countries. It also draws out a series of broader lessons from the special issue and concludes by reflecting on the influence of scholarly work amongst the judges, lawyers, interpreters, and others involved in admin…
Geographies of welcome: Engagements with ‘ordinary’ hospitality
We explore the topic of welcome through a geographical lens, setting out the relationships between geographical perspectives and current approaches to welcome and hospitality. We argue that geographers are well positioned to develop engagements with the ‘prosaics’ of welcome that have recently been advocated by scholars in hospitality studies. To make this case, we identify a series of fruitful directions, offering a critical exploration of ‘ordi…
The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration: A Participatory Visual Approach
It’s Not What You Know, It’s How You Use It: The Application of Country of Origin Information in Judicial Refugee Status Determination Decisions – A Case Study of Germany
Existing research has emphasized the different forms of expert knowledge available to refugee status determination (RSD) decision makers, as well as the differing conditions under which it is produced. However, little work has been done to address how decision makers interpret, represent, and use such evidence in their written decisions. This study investigates how country of origin information (COI) is used in judicial RSD decisions, taking deci…
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals
The Common European Asylum System aims to establish common standards for refugee status determination among EU Member States. Combining insights from legal and political geography we bring the depth and scale of this challenge into sharp relief. Drawing on interviews and a detailed ethnography of asylum adjudication involving over 850 in-person asylum appeal observations, we point towards practical differences in the spatio-temporality, materiali…
To fail an asylum seeker: Time, space and legal events
Legal geographers have recently highlighted the importance of attending to the interaction of time and space to understand law and its enactment. We build on these efforts to examine the spatiotemporal influences over the processes by which asylum claim determination procedures in Western industrialised countries seek to reconstruct past events for the purposes of deciding refugee claims. Two 'common-sense' beliefs underpin this reconstruction: t…
Waiting as probation: Selecting Self-Disciplining Asylum Seekers
This article diagnoses and critiques a type of governmentality associated with waiting during protracted asylum appeal procedures by drawing upon data from a multi-methodological study of asylum adjudication in Europe. Focusing on Austria, Germany and Italy, we explore the use of integration-related considerations in asylum appeal processes by looking at the ways in which these considerations permeate judges’ decision-making, particularly, but no…
The tribunal atmosphere: On qualitative barriers to access to justice
Vulnerable groups’ direct experiences and impressions of British courts and tribunals have often been overlooked by politicians and policy makers (JUSTICE, 2019). This paper takes a geographical, empirical approach to access to justice to respond to these concerns, paying attention to the atmosphere of First Tier Immigration and Asylum Tribunal hearings to explore the qualitative aspects of (in)access to justice during asylum appeals. It draws on…
Courtwatching: Visibility, publicness, witnessing, and embodiment in legal activism
The paper sets out what courtwatching is and gives some examples from various countries. It argues that a closer engagement with courtwatching in legal geography will yield insights into the issues of visibility, publicness, witnessing, and embodiment that surround court observations
Assembly-Line Baptism: Judicial Discussions of ‘Free Churches’ in German and Austrian Asylum Hearings
We explore judges’ approaches to asylum court appeals based on the issue of conversion from Islam to Christianity. Our court ethnography in Germany and Austria in 2018 and 2019 provides an insight into how such claims are discussed during appeals. At the time, they were increasingly common, especially concerning Iranians and Afghans involved in ‘free churches’ (e.g. Evangelical, Pentecostal or charismatic). We show how rumours, congregations’ rep…
Rural Geographies of Refugee Activism: The Expanding Spaces of Sanctuary in the UK
The steep rise in the number of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe in 2015 prompted widespread pro-migrant political mobilisation in the UK, including in rural areas. This article argues that more account should be taken of rural sanctuary movements in academic and popular understandings of pro-migrant activism, which remain largely urban-centric. It examines why the growth of rural sanctuary movements is significant, identifies how the dis…
Law and Speed: Asylum Appeals and the Techniques and Consequences of Legal Quickening
This article examines how a politics of speed is manifest in a legal context via a detailed ethnography of the French National Court of Asylum (CNDA). It identifies the temporal, spatial, and organizational ordering techniques that characterize asylum appeals in France and discusses the consequences of these techniques for the way in which the appeal process is experienced by legal decision makers and subjects. It reveals adverse impacts of legal…
What’s missing from legal geography and materialist studies of law? Absence and the assembling of asylum appeal hearings in Europe
There is an absence of absence in legal geography and materialist studies of the law. Drawing on a multi‐sited ethnography of European asylum appeal hearings, this paper illustrates the importance of absences for a fully‐fledged materiality of legal events. We show how absent materials impact hearings, that non‐attending participants profoundly influence them, and that even when participants are physically present, they are often simultaneously a…
In defence of the hearing? Emerging geographies of publicness, materiality, access and communication in court hearings
The shift towards dispute resolution taking place outside traditional legal arenas is fundamentally changing the relationship between space and law, presenting legal geography with pressing new research opportunities. This paper explores how the emerging geographies of publicness, materiality, access to justice and communication shed light on the consequences of alternative and online dispute resolution. Crucially, these consequences raise urgent…
Conclusion
This chapter identifies the key contributions of the book and reflects on ethnography as an approach to studying legal actors, communication and decision making. In terms of contributions, the book highlights the messy, contingent, discretionary, unreliable, inconsistent and unjust processes through which legal doctrine is translated into bureaucratic practice in the context of large scale, international asylum decision making systems. In particu…
Asylum Procedures in Greece: The Case of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Minors
This chapter demonstrates how ‘nonlegal forms of normative ordering’ (Merry 1988: 870) such as those that inhere in national discourses and perceptions, and that are held by legal subjects themselves, can interrupt and recast formal legal structures. The chapter focuses on unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in Greece and their experiences of residing both in shelters and refugee camps. The ethnographic material presented includes narratives of t…
Unsettling work
The political mobilities of reporting: Tethering, Slickness and Asylum Control
This paper focuses on the coerced mobilities associated with reporting, meaning the mandatory requirement to regularly check-in with authorities for the purpose of control. Drawing on recent calls for a politics of mobility and advances in carceral geographies, we attend to the forces, movements, speeds and affective materialities of reporting with a focus on deportable migrants and the UK Home Office. In doing so we develop two conceptual lenses…
Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives
In Denmark, as elsewhere, narratives are central to the asylum determination procedure. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this chapter investigates the ways in which asylum seekers and asylum lawyers present and re-present asylum narratives across two contrasting narrative contexts: Danish asylum centers (“camp” to asylum seekers) and the Danish Refugee Appeals Board (“court” to asylum seekers). Distinguishing between “asylum motive” and “asylum…
Mobilities and Forced Migration
1. Introduction: Mobilities and Forced Migration 2: Specters at the Port of Entry: Understanding State Mobilities through an Ontology of Exclusion 3: Reconsidering the Problem of 'Bogus' Refugees with 'Socio-economic Motivations' for Seeking Asylum 4: The Im/mobilities of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan: Pan-Arabism, 'Hospitality' and the Figure of the 'Refugee' 5 Confined Offline, Traversing Online Palestinian Mobility through the Prism of the Internet…
The Limits of Procedural Discretion: Unequal Treatment and Vulnerability in Britain’s Asylum Appeals
Studies of procedural in-court judicial discretion have highlighted a dilemma between the imperative to reduce it owing to its potential misuse and preserve it owing to its importance in protecting vulnerable groups. This article offers a new framework with which to enter this debate and new quantitative empirical evidence that favours the former position over the latter. Drawing upon 240 in-person observations of Britain’s First Tier Tribunal (I…
Conveyor-Belt Justice: Precarity, Access to Justice, and Uneven Geographies of Legal Aid in UK Asylum Appeals
Ongoing government funding cuts to British legal aid have resulted in the formation of legal deserts and uneven geographies of access to advice and legal representation. Asylum seekers, particularly those subjected to no-choice dispersal throughout the UK for housing, are enduring the impact of these cuts directly. This paper explores the spatial and legal marginalisation of asylum seekers, drawing upon the findings of a three-year study of the a…
Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention
Carceral circuitry: New directions in carceral geography
Despite the popular impression of prisons and other carceral spaces as disconnected from broader social systems, they are traversed by various circulations that reach within and beyond their boundaries. This article opens a new analytical window onto this reality, developing the concept of ‘circuits’ to critically enquire into the carceral. Drawing inspiration from Harvey (1982; 1985), the article makes circuits do fresh work, teasing apart the e…
Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention
Contents: Introduction, Dominique Moran, Deirdre Conlon and Nick Gill Part I Mobility: On mobilities and migrations, Alison Mountz Mobility versus liberty? The punitive uses of movement within and outside carceral environments, Nick Gill Mobility and power in detention: the management of internal movement and governmental mobility in Romania, BA(c)nA(c)dicte Michalon a You dona (TM)t even know where you area (TM): chaotic geographies of US migran…
Nothing Personal: Geographies of Governing and Activism in the British Asylum System
New state-theoretic approaches to asylum and refugee geographies
This paper examines recent innovations in the way the concept of the state is employed by geographers researching forced migrants’ and refugees’ experiences. A still-dominant body of thought tends to essentialize the state and foreground both its institutional forms and coercive powers by asking questions that take the primacy of these attributes for granted. In response, poststructuralist geographers and sociologists have begun to forge alternat…
Climate change and household dynamics: Beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability
New friends in new places: Network formation during the migration process among Poles in the UK
Introduction: Mobilities and Forced Migration
Whether precipitated by political or environmental factors, human displacement can be more fully understood by attending to the ways in which a set of bodily, material, imagined and virtual mobilities and immobilities interact to produce population movement. Very little work, however, has addressed the fertile middle ground between mobilities and forced migration. This article introduces the special issue by setting out the ways in which theories…
Presentational state power: Temporal and spatial influences over asylum sector decisionmakers
Previous analyses of forced migration have drawn attention to the increasing discretion held by asylum sector decisionmakers. According to these accounts, as the state reacts to the political risks associated with asylum migration control, responsibility for forced migration management is increasingly transferred onto a range of intermediate actors, between state and society, including local government employees, asylum interviewers, immigration …
Waiting as probation: Selecting Self-Disciplining Asylum Seekers
This article diagnoses and critiques a type of governmentality associated with waiting during protracted asylum appeal procedures by drawing upon data from a multi-methodological study of asylum adjudication in Europe. Focusing on Austria, Germany and Italy, we explore the use of integration-related considerations in asylum appeal processes by looking at the ways in which these considerations permeate judges’ decision-making, particularly, but no…
What’s missing from legal geography and materialist studies of law? Absence and the assembling of asylum appeal hearings in Europe
There is an absence of absence in legal geography and materialist studies of the law. Drawing on a multi‐sited ethnography of European asylum appeal hearings, this paper illustrates the importance of absences for a fully‐fledged materiality of legal events. We show how absent materials impact hearings, that non‐attending participants profoundly influence them, and that even when participants are physically present, they are often simultaneously a…
Conveyor-Belt Justice: Precarity, Access to Justice, and Uneven Geographies of Legal Aid in UK Asylum Appeals
Ongoing government funding cuts to British legal aid have resulted in the formation of legal deserts and uneven geographies of access to advice and legal representation. Asylum seekers, particularly those subjected to no-choice dispersal throughout the UK for housing, are enduring the impact of these cuts directly. This paper explores the spatial and legal marginalisation of asylum seekers, drawing upon the findings of a three-year study of the a…
The Tactics of Asylum and Irregular Migrant Support Groups: Disrupting Bodily, Technological, and Neoliberal Strategies of Control
States are exercising an increasing array of spatial strategies of migration control, including in the area of asylum migration. Drawing on interview data with thirty-five British and American irregular migrant and asylum support groups (MASGs), this article explores the spatial “tactics” (De Certeau 1984) employed by MASGs in response to strategies of migration control. We consider their infiltration of highly securitized physical spaces like de…
Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives
In Denmark, as elsewhere, narratives are central to the asylum determination procedure. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this chapter investigates the ways in which asylum seekers and asylum lawyers present and re-present asylum narratives across two contrasting narrative contexts: Danish asylum centers (“camp” to asylum seekers) and the Danish Refugee Appeals Board (“court” to asylum seekers). Distinguishing between “asylum motive” and “asylum…
Law and Speed: Asylum Appeals and the Techniques and Consequences of Legal Quickening
This article examines how a politics of speed is manifest in a legal context via a detailed ethnography of the French National Court of Asylum (CNDA). It identifies the temporal, spatial, and organizational ordering techniques that characterize asylum appeals in France and discusses the consequences of these techniques for the way in which the appeal process is experienced by legal decision makers and subjects. It reveals adverse impacts of legal…
Pathologies of Migrant Place-Making: The Case of Polish Migrants to the UK
The author argues that migrant place-making can become counterproductive for migrant communities for a variety of reasons. Existing place-making literature is often optimistic about the ability of places to offer migrants common identities and means of mobilising collectively. The author constructs a four-stage general model of migrant place-making to examine the potential pathologies of migrant organisational strategies at each of these four sta…
Gagging orders: Asylum Seekers and Paradoxes of Freedom and Protest in Liberal Society
The detention of non-status migrants is now commonplace in developed countries. Detention has been justified on such grounds as security, the welfare of non-status migrant populations, and as a way to speed up processing asylum claims. Drawing from the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko's sustained interest in themes of migration and belonging, this article examines the relationships between technologies of government in detention and accommodation facili…
Towards a geography of tolerance: Post-politics and political forms of toleration
Sustainable Household Capability: Which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability
This paper presents a framework for analysing which households are doing ‘their bit’ for sustainability in an era of climate change, using a two-stage cluster analysis of sustainable household capabilities. The framework segments households by their reported level of commitment to ‘pro-sustainability’ practices common to conventional government policies. Results are presented from a large-scale survey of Wollongong households, New South Wales, Au…
Courtwatching: Visibility, publicness, witnessing, and embodiment in legal activism
The paper sets out what courtwatching is and gives some examples from various countries. It argues that a closer engagement with courtwatching in legal geography will yield insights into the issues of visibility, publicness, witnessing, and embodiment that surround court observations
The Limits of Procedural Discretion: Unequal Treatment and Vulnerability in Britain’s Asylum Appeals
Studies of procedural in-court judicial discretion have highlighted a dilemma between the imperative to reduce it owing to its potential misuse and preserve it owing to its importance in protecting vulnerable groups. This article offers a new framework with which to enter this debate and new quantitative empirical evidence that favours the former position over the latter. Drawing upon 240 in-person observations of Britain’s First Tier Tribunal (I…
Tracing Imaginations of the State: The Spatial Consequences of Different State Concepts among Asylum Activist Organisations
This paper examines the spatial consequences for activism of viewing the state through either a statist or post‐structural lens. It is argued that understanding the state in different ways produces very different spatial strategies among activists. Drawing upon detailed case studies of two asylum‐seeking activist organisations in the UK, the connections between imaginations of the state, spatial strategies towards institutionalised authority, and…
The tribunal atmosphere: On qualitative barriers to access to justice
Vulnerable groups’ direct experiences and impressions of British courts and tribunals have often been overlooked by politicians and policy makers (JUSTICE, 2019). This paper takes a geographical, empirical approach to access to justice to respond to these concerns, paying attention to the atmosphere of First Tier Immigration and Asylum Tribunal hearings to explore the qualitative aspects of (in)access to justice during asylum appeals. It draws on…
The business of child detention: Charitable Co-Option, Migrant Advocacy and Activist Outrage
In 2010 the British government announced that the outrage of child detention for immigration purposes was to end. Simultaneously, however, it commissioned the opening of a new family detention centre called CEDARS. An acronym for Compassion, Empathy, Dignity, Approachability, Respect and Support, CEDARS is run under novel governance arrangements by the Home Office, private security company G4S and the children's charity Barnardo's. This article d…
Interventions in the political geography of 'libertarian paternalism
To fail an asylum seeker: Time, space and legal events
Legal geographers have recently highlighted the importance of attending to the interaction of time and space to understand law and its enactment. We build on these efforts to examine the spatiotemporal influences over the processes by which asylum claim determination procedures in Western industrialised countries seek to reconstruct past events for the purposes of deciding refugee claims. Two 'common-sense' beliefs underpin this reconstruction: t…
Whose “No Borders”? Achieving Border Liberalization for the Right Reasons
Free population movement promises greater human liberties and improved economic performance. Inevitably, however, there are critics. Most vocally, the conservative Right points towards the erosion of Western welfare systems, the large migratory movements that a No Borders policy may precipitate, and the lowering of living standards in rich countries to approximate those in poor countries. This paper argues that, although the claims of the Right a…
Presentational state power: Temporal and spatial influences over asylum sector decisionmakers
Previous analyses of forced migration have drawn attention to the increasing discretion held by asylum sector decisionmakers. According to these accounts, as the state reacts to the political risks associated with asylum migration control, responsibility for forced migration management is increasingly transferred onto a range of intermediate actors, between state and society, including local government employees, asylum interviewers, immigration …
Attendance and Performance: Correlations and Motives in Lecture-Based Modules
Does attending lectures improve student performance? Using novel attendance data, we examine statistically the relationships between attendance and performance for first-year and third-year students. The relationship is moderately positive: very high attendance is significantly associated with an improvement in performance over very low attenders of between 5.3 and 12.8 per cent, depending on circumstances. Then, we provide qualitative evidence f…
New state-theoretic approaches to asylum and refugee geographies
This paper examines recent innovations in the way the concept of the state is employed by geographers researching forced migrants’ and refugees’ experiences. A still-dominant body of thought tends to essentialize the state and foreground both its institutional forms and coercive powers by asking questions that take the primacy of these attributes for granted. In response, poststructuralist geographers and sociologists have begun to forge alternat…
Tracing Imaginations of the State: The Spatial Consequences of Different State Concepts among Asylum Activist Organisations
This paper examines the spatial consequences for activism of viewing the state through either a statist or post‐structural lens. It is argued that understanding the state in different ways produces very different spatial strategies among activists. Drawing upon detailed case studies of two asylum‐seeking activist organisations in the UK, the connections between imaginations of the state, spatial strategies towards institutionalised authority, and…
Climate change and household dynamics: Beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability
Environmental Refugees: Key Debates and the Contributions of Geographers
This article reviews the key current debates around the concept of environmental refugees, focusing on geography's actual and potential contributions. First, although the most widely quoted estimate is between 200 and 250 million environmental refugees by 2050 (with some estimates greatly exceeding this), there is continuing disagreement about the scale of the challenge with numerous authors questioning available evidence. Geographical discussion…
Pathologies of Migrant Place-Making: The Case of Polish Migrants to the UK
The author argues that migrant place-making can become counterproductive for migrant communities for a variety of reasons. Existing place-making literature is often optimistic about the ability of places to offer migrants common identities and means of mobilising collectively. The author constructs a four-stage general model of migrant place-making to examine the potential pathologies of migrant organisational strategies at each of these four sta…
Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border. By Alison Mountz
Journal Article Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border. By Alison Mountz. Get access Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border. By Alison Mountz. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. xxxiii + 209pp. £56.00, ISBN 978 0 8166 6537 2 hb; £18.50, ISBN 978 0 8166 6538 9 pb. Nick Gill Nick Gill Department of Geography, University of Exeter [email protected] Search for other works by this author…
New friends in new places: Network formation during the migration process among Poles in the UK
Trial by Fire: Natural hazards, mixed-methods and cultural research
This paper considers the issues of research ‘relevance’ and ‘use’ to reflect upon a cultural geography research project on bushfire that did not begin with any specific aim of being useful to policy makers but which has garnered considerable and ongoing interest from a broad audience. It provides an example of how the integration of quantitative and qualitative research methods and data can enhance research into cultural aspects of natural hazard…
Interventions in the political geography of 'libertarian paternalism
Introduction: Mobilities and Forced Migration
Whether precipitated by political or environmental factors, human displacement can be more fully understood by attending to the ways in which a set of bodily, material, imagined and virtual mobilities and immobilities interact to produce population movement. Very little work, however, has addressed the fertile middle ground between mobilities and forced migration. This article introduces the special issue by setting out the ways in which theories…
Do Citizens Really Shop between Decentralised Jurisdictions? Tiebout and Internal Migration Revisited
Tiebout predicted that differences in service provision and tax rates across regions would lead citizens to migrate to their preferred jurisdiction. This central tenet of the fiscal federalism literature has rarely been explored outside the North American context. This paper delves into this gap in the literature by examining the factors that undermine Tiebout's prediction. It undertakes an international comparative analysis drawing upon recent i…
Sustainable Household Capability: Which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability
This paper presents a framework for analysing which households are doing ‘their bit’ for sustainability in an era of climate change, using a two-stage cluster analysis of sustainable household capabilities. The framework segments households by their reported level of commitment to ‘pro-sustainability’ practices common to conventional government policies. Results are presented from a large-scale survey of Wollongong households, New South Wales, Au…
Towards a geography of tolerance: Post-politics and political forms of toleration
Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention
Contents: Introduction, Dominique Moran, Deirdre Conlon and Nick Gill Part I Mobility: On mobilities and migrations, Alison Mountz Mobility versus liberty? The punitive uses of movement within and outside carceral environments, Nick Gill Mobility and power in detention: the management of internal movement and governmental mobility in Romania, BA(c)nA(c)dicte Michalon a You dona (TM)t even know where you area (TM): chaotic geographies of US migran…
Interventions in teaching political geography: Reflections on practice
Gagging orders: Asylum Seekers and Paradoxes of Freedom and Protest in Liberal Society
The detention of non-status migrants is now commonplace in developed countries. Detention has been justified on such grounds as security, the welfare of non-status migrant populations, and as a way to speed up processing asylum claims. Drawing from the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko's sustained interest in themes of migration and belonging, this article examines the relationships between technologies of government in detention and accommodation facili…
The Tactics of Asylum and Irregular Migrant Support Groups: Disrupting Bodily, Technological, and Neoliberal Strategies of Control
States are exercising an increasing array of spatial strategies of migration control, including in the area of asylum migration. Drawing on interview data with thirty-five British and American irregular migrant and asylum support groups (MASGs), this article explores the spatial “tactics” (De Certeau 1984) employed by MASGs in response to strategies of migration control. We consider their infiltration of highly securitized physical spaces like de…
The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia
The business of child detention: Charitable Co-Option, Migrant Advocacy and Activist Outrage
In 2010 the British government announced that the outrage of child detention for immigration purposes was to end. Simultaneously, however, it commissioned the opening of a new family detention centre called CEDARS. An acronym for Compassion, Empathy, Dignity, Approachability, Respect and Support, CEDARS is run under novel governance arrangements by the Home Office, private security company G4S and the children's charity Barnardo's. This article d…
Nothing Personal: Geographies of Governing and Activism in the British Asylum System
Series Editors Preface viii List of Figures ix Acronyms xi Acknowledgements xii 1 Introduction 1 2 Moral Distance and Bureaucracy 21 3 Distant Bureaucrats 48 4 Distance at Close Quarters 76 5 Indifference Towards Suffering Others During Sustained Contact 107 6 Indifference and Emotions 135 7 Examining Compassion 156 8 Conclusion 179 Methodological Appendix 191 References 196 Index 216
Living with Invasive Plants in the Anthropocene: The Importance of Understanding Practice and Experience
The role of humans in facilitating the rapid spread of plants at a scale that is considered invasive is one manifestation of the Anthropocene, now framed as a geological period in which humans are the dominant force in landscape transformation. Invasive plant management faces intensified challenges, and can no longer be viewed in terms of 'eradication' or 'restoration of original landscapes'. In this perspectives piece, we focus on the practice a…
Nothing Personal: Geographies of Governing and Activism in the British Asylum System
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