Luke Dickens
Biographic Data
| ID | 79561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Dickens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Dickens |
| SIGNATURE | DICKENS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Geography King’s College London London UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2521-4649 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Bones of contention: A Double-Blind Study of Experts' Ability to Classify Sheep and Goat Astragali From Images
Covid Commentaries: London’s Cultural Policy
Dreamlands: Stories of Enchantment and Excess in a Search for Lost Sensations
This paper reflects on the search for a lost, obscure piece of experimental architecture that appeared on the west coast of Scotland in the late 1960s. Encouraged by cultural geography's efforts to recuperate storytelling as a valid mode of inquiry and to adopt a more enchanted, affirmative disposition to our endeavors, we develop a geographical story intended to draw out how enchanted experiences gained through curiosity and an openness to conti…
Covid commentaries: London’s cultural landscape
LD: In place of our usual theatre and exhibition reviews, we're looking to get an overview from key cultural commentators about the impacts, mainly of COVID but also perhaps other recent events, on London's cultural landscape with an emphasis on museums, galleries and theatres.It would be useful, just to start though, for our readers to be able to position you as a cultural commentator. DB:The perspective I bring to this is from my work on the Lo…
Entering the Fifth Dimension: Modular modernities, psychedelic sensibilities, and the architectures of lived experience
In this paper, we elaborate on the Fifth Dimension, an extraordinary, largely overlooked architectural example of 1960s psychedelia that was installed in a small Scottish resort town. Made up of 17 domed chambers, each designed to stimulate psychedelic sensory experiences for its intrepid visitors, the Fifth Dimension was the creation of London‐based environmental artist Keith Albarn using his experimental “Ekistikit” modular building system. We …
World Making, Critical Pedagogies, and the Geographical Imagination: Where Youth Work Meets Participatory Research
Renewed interest in the critical geographies of education has raised productive yet under‐examined synergies with reflections taking place among radical youth work and participatory research practitioners. In particular, such intersections point to important ways that the geographical imagination might advance a critical yet creative means of learning through the living material forces of everyday worlds. This paper examines this common ground th…
Going public? Re‐thinking visibility, ethics and recognition through participatory research praxis
Recent work in human geography has articulated the principles of an emerging ‘participatory ethics’. Yet despite sustained critical examination of the participatory conditions under which geographical knowledge is produced, far less attention has addressed how a participatory ethics might unsettle the conventional ways such knowledge continues to be received, circulated, exchanged and mediated. As such, the uptake of visual methods in participato…
Real social analytics: A contribution towards a phenomenology of a digital world
This article argues against the assumption that agency and reflexivity disappear in an age of 'algorithmic power' (Lash 2007). Following the suggestions of Beer (2009), it proposes that, far from disappearing, new forms of agency and reflexivity around the embedding in everyday practice of not only algorithms but also analytics more broadly are emerging, as social actors continue to pursue their social ends but mediated through digital interfaces…
Spatial Dislocation and Affective Displacement: Youth Perspectives on Gentrification in London
Analyses of contemporary processes of gentrification have been primarily produced from adult perspectives with little focus on how age affects or mediates urban change. However, in analysing young people's responses to transformations in their neighbourhood we argue that there is evidence for a more complex relationship between 'gentrifiers' and residents than existing arguments of antagonism or tolerance would suggest. Using a participatory vide…
Becoming musicians: Situating Young People's Experiences of Musical Learning Between Formal, Informal and Non-Formal Spheres
This article considers the processes of musical learning that take place across formal, non-formal and informal contexts and spaces. Building on notions of embodied knowledge, identity and culture within education studies, specifically the concept of 'musical habitus', this article explores processes of access, inclusion and appropriation of music learning environments. Based on focus group discussions with a diverse group of young Londoners (age…
Digitization and Materiality: Researching Community Memory Practice Today
Among the most deep-seated anxieties of the Internet age is the fear of technologically produced forgetting. Technology critics and sociologists of memory alike argue that daily exposure to overwhelming flows of information is undermining our ability to connect and synthesize past and present. Acknowledging the salience of these concerns our approach seeks to understand the contemporary conditions of collective memory practice in relation to proc…
Constructing a digital storycircle: Digital infrastructure and mutual recognition
Building on the principles of the digital storytelling movement, this article asks whether the narrative exchange within the ‘storycircles’ of storymakers created in face-to-face workshops can be further replicated by drawing on digital infrastructure in specific ways. It addresses this question by reporting on the successes and limitations of a five-stream project of funded action research with partners in north-west England that explored the co…
News in the community: Investigating emerging inter-local spaces of news production/consumption
This article examines the emergence of new, inter-local spaces of news production and consumption, drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with community reporters trained by a community reporter organisation based in the north of England. Practices of news production and content generation are focused on people's own communities and they are underpinned by an ethos of production, which is grounded in a critical consumption of news and coll…
Digital citizenship? Narrative exchange and the changing terms of civic culture
This article explores the possibilities for new forms of 'digital citizenship' currently emerging through digitally supported processes of narrative exchange. Using Dahlgren's (Dahlgren, P. 2003. "Reconfiguring Civic Culture in the New Media Milieu." In Media and the Restyling of Politics, edited by J
Rap, rhythm and recognition: Lyrical practices and the politics of voice on a community music project for young people experiencing challenging circumstances
Pictures on walls? Producing, pricing and collecting the street art screen print
When graffiti writing was transferred onto canvas for sale during the Manhattan art boom of the 1980s, it was widely felt to have ‘sold out’ to the exploitative interests of the art establishment and become a ‘post‐graffiti’ art movement. In contrast, recent British street art demonstrates the capacity to be both more critical and complicit in the influential spheres of art and commerce. Yet, despite growing recognition of these ‘new directions i…
Placing post-graffiti: The journey of the Peckham Rock
This article is about the intersections between contemporary forms of urban inscription, art and the city, as they come to be configured through an emergent `post-graffiti' aesthetic practice. Exemplary of this movement is the self-proclaimed `art terrorist', Banksy, who has earned a reputation recently for his audacious interventions into some of the most significant art institutions in the western world, as well as for his politically charged s…
Placing post-graffiti: The journey of the Peckham Rock
This article is about the intersections between contemporary forms of urban inscription, art and the city, as they come to be configured through an emergent `post-graffiti' aesthetic practice. Exemplary of this movement is the self-proclaimed `art terrorist', Banksy, who has earned a reputation recently for his audacious interventions into some of the most significant art institutions in the western world, as well as for his politically charged s…
Real social analytics: A contribution towards a phenomenology of a digital world
This article argues against the assumption that agency and reflexivity disappear in an age of 'algorithmic power' (Lash 2007). Following the suggestions of Beer (2009), it proposes that, far from disappearing, new forms of agency and reflexivity around the embedding in everyday practice of not only algorithms but also analytics more broadly are emerging, as social actors continue to pursue their social ends but mediated through digital interfaces…
Spatial Dislocation and Affective Displacement: Youth Perspectives on Gentrification in London
Analyses of contemporary processes of gentrification have been primarily produced from adult perspectives with little focus on how age affects or mediates urban change. However, in analysing young people's responses to transformations in their neighbourhood we argue that there is evidence for a more complex relationship between 'gentrifiers' and residents than existing arguments of antagonism or tolerance would suggest. Using a participatory vide…
News in the community: Investigating emerging inter-local spaces of news production/consumption
This article examines the emergence of new, inter-local spaces of news production and consumption, drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with community reporters trained by a community reporter organisation based in the north of England. Practices of news production and content generation are focused on people's own communities and they are underpinned by an ethos of production, which is grounded in a critical consumption of news and coll…
Going public? Re‐thinking visibility, ethics and recognition through participatory research praxis
Recent work in human geography has articulated the principles of an emerging ‘participatory ethics’. Yet despite sustained critical examination of the participatory conditions under which geographical knowledge is produced, far less attention has addressed how a participatory ethics might unsettle the conventional ways such knowledge continues to be received, circulated, exchanged and mediated. As such, the uptake of visual methods in participato…
Pictures on walls? Producing, pricing and collecting the street art screen print
When graffiti writing was transferred onto canvas for sale during the Manhattan art boom of the 1980s, it was widely felt to have ‘sold out’ to the exploitative interests of the art establishment and become a ‘post‐graffiti’ art movement. In contrast, recent British street art demonstrates the capacity to be both more critical and complicit in the influential spheres of art and commerce. Yet, despite growing recognition of these ‘new directions i…
Digital citizenship? Narrative exchange and the changing terms of civic culture
This article explores the possibilities for new forms of 'digital citizenship' currently emerging through digitally supported processes of narrative exchange. Using Dahlgren's (Dahlgren, P. 2003. "Reconfiguring Civic Culture in the New Media Milieu." In Media and the Restyling of Politics, edited by J
Rap, rhythm and recognition: Lyrical practices and the politics of voice on a community music project for young people experiencing challenging circumstances
Entering the Fifth Dimension: Modular modernities, psychedelic sensibilities, and the architectures of lived experience
In this paper, we elaborate on the Fifth Dimension, an extraordinary, largely overlooked architectural example of 1960s psychedelia that was installed in a small Scottish resort town. Made up of 17 domed chambers, each designed to stimulate psychedelic sensory experiences for its intrepid visitors, the Fifth Dimension was the creation of London‐based environmental artist Keith Albarn using his experimental “Ekistikit” modular building system. We …
Dreamlands: Stories of Enchantment and Excess in a Search for Lost Sensations
This paper reflects on the search for a lost, obscure piece of experimental architecture that appeared on the west coast of Scotland in the late 1960s. Encouraged by cultural geography's efforts to recuperate storytelling as a valid mode of inquiry and to adopt a more enchanted, affirmative disposition to our endeavors, we develop a geographical story intended to draw out how enchanted experiences gained through curiosity and an openness to conti…
World Making, Critical Pedagogies, and the Geographical Imagination: Where Youth Work Meets Participatory Research
Renewed interest in the critical geographies of education has raised productive yet under‐examined synergies with reflections taking place among radical youth work and participatory research practitioners. In particular, such intersections point to important ways that the geographical imagination might advance a critical yet creative means of learning through the living material forces of everyday worlds. This paper examines this common ground th…
Becoming musicians: Situating Young People's Experiences of Musical Learning Between Formal, Informal and Non-Formal Spheres
This article considers the processes of musical learning that take place across formal, non-formal and informal contexts and spaces. Building on notions of embodied knowledge, identity and culture within education studies, specifically the concept of 'musical habitus', this article explores processes of access, inclusion and appropriation of music learning environments. Based on focus group discussions with a diverse group of young Londoners (age…
Bones of contention: A Double-Blind Study of Experts' Ability to Classify Sheep and Goat Astragali From Images
Digitization and Materiality: Researching Community Memory Practice Today
Among the most deep-seated anxieties of the Internet age is the fear of technologically produced forgetting. Technology critics and sociologists of memory alike argue that daily exposure to overwhelming flows of information is undermining our ability to connect and synthesize past and present. Acknowledging the salience of these concerns our approach seeks to understand the contemporary conditions of collective memory practice in relation to proc…
Placing post-graffiti: The journey of the Peckham Rock
This article is about the intersections between contemporary forms of urban inscription, art and the city, as they come to be configured through an emergent `post-graffiti' aesthetic practice. Exemplary of this movement is the self-proclaimed `art terrorist', Banksy, who has earned a reputation recently for his audacious interventions into some of the most significant art institutions in the western world, as well as for his politically charged s…
Pictures on walls? Producing, pricing and collecting the street art screen print
When graffiti writing was transferred onto canvas for sale during the Manhattan art boom of the 1980s, it was widely felt to have ‘sold out’ to the exploitative interests of the art establishment and become a ‘post‐graffiti’ art movement. In contrast, recent British street art demonstrates the capacity to be both more critical and complicit in the influential spheres of art and commerce. Yet, despite growing recognition of these ‘new directions i…
Rap, rhythm and recognition: Lyrical practices and the politics of voice on a community music project for young people experiencing challenging circumstances
Constructing a digital storycircle: Digital infrastructure and mutual recognition
Building on the principles of the digital storytelling movement, this article asks whether the narrative exchange within the ‘storycircles’ of storymakers created in face-to-face workshops can be further replicated by drawing on digital infrastructure in specific ways. It addresses this question by reporting on the successes and limitations of a five-stream project of funded action research with partners in north-west England that explored the co…
News in the community: Investigating emerging inter-local spaces of news production/consumption
This article examines the emergence of new, inter-local spaces of news production and consumption, drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with community reporters trained by a community reporter organisation based in the north of England. Practices of news production and content generation are focused on people's own communities and they are underpinned by an ethos of production, which is grounded in a critical consumption of news and coll…
Digital citizenship? Narrative exchange and the changing terms of civic culture
This article explores the possibilities for new forms of 'digital citizenship' currently emerging through digitally supported processes of narrative exchange. Using Dahlgren's (Dahlgren, P. 2003. "Reconfiguring Civic Culture in the New Media Milieu." In Media and the Restyling of Politics, edited by J
Digitization and Materiality: Researching Community Memory Practice Today
Among the most deep-seated anxieties of the Internet age is the fear of technologically produced forgetting. Technology critics and sociologists of memory alike argue that daily exposure to overwhelming flows of information is undermining our ability to connect and synthesize past and present. Acknowledging the salience of these concerns our approach seeks to understand the contemporary conditions of collective memory practice in relation to proc…
Going public? Re‐thinking visibility, ethics and recognition through participatory research praxis
Recent work in human geography has articulated the principles of an emerging ‘participatory ethics’. Yet despite sustained critical examination of the participatory conditions under which geographical knowledge is produced, far less attention has addressed how a participatory ethics might unsettle the conventional ways such knowledge continues to be received, circulated, exchanged and mediated. As such, the uptake of visual methods in participato…
Real social analytics: A contribution towards a phenomenology of a digital world
This article argues against the assumption that agency and reflexivity disappear in an age of 'algorithmic power' (Lash 2007). Following the suggestions of Beer (2009), it proposes that, far from disappearing, new forms of agency and reflexivity around the embedding in everyday practice of not only algorithms but also analytics more broadly are emerging, as social actors continue to pursue their social ends but mediated through digital interfaces…
Spatial Dislocation and Affective Displacement: Youth Perspectives on Gentrification in London
Analyses of contemporary processes of gentrification have been primarily produced from adult perspectives with little focus on how age affects or mediates urban change. However, in analysing young people's responses to transformations in their neighbourhood we argue that there is evidence for a more complex relationship between 'gentrifiers' and residents than existing arguments of antagonism or tolerance would suggest. Using a participatory vide…
Becoming musicians: Situating Young People's Experiences of Musical Learning Between Formal, Informal and Non-Formal Spheres
This article considers the processes of musical learning that take place across formal, non-formal and informal contexts and spaces. Building on notions of embodied knowledge, identity and culture within education studies, specifically the concept of 'musical habitus', this article explores processes of access, inclusion and appropriation of music learning environments. Based on focus group discussions with a diverse group of young Londoners (age…
World Making, Critical Pedagogies, and the Geographical Imagination: Where Youth Work Meets Participatory Research
Renewed interest in the critical geographies of education has raised productive yet under‐examined synergies with reflections taking place among radical youth work and participatory research practitioners. In particular, such intersections point to important ways that the geographical imagination might advance a critical yet creative means of learning through the living material forces of everyday worlds. This paper examines this common ground th…
Covid commentaries: London’s cultural landscape
LD: In place of our usual theatre and exhibition reviews, we're looking to get an overview from key cultural commentators about the impacts, mainly of COVID but also perhaps other recent events, on London's cultural landscape with an emphasis on museums, galleries and theatres.It would be useful, just to start though, for our readers to be able to position you as a cultural commentator. DB:The perspective I bring to this is from my work on the Lo…
Entering the Fifth Dimension: Modular modernities, psychedelic sensibilities, and the architectures of lived experience
In this paper, we elaborate on the Fifth Dimension, an extraordinary, largely overlooked architectural example of 1960s psychedelia that was installed in a small Scottish resort town. Made up of 17 domed chambers, each designed to stimulate psychedelic sensory experiences for its intrepid visitors, the Fifth Dimension was the creation of London‐based environmental artist Keith Albarn using his experimental “Ekistikit” modular building system. We …
Covid Commentaries: London’s Cultural Policy
Dreamlands: Stories of Enchantment and Excess in a Search for Lost Sensations
This paper reflects on the search for a lost, obscure piece of experimental architecture that appeared on the west coast of Scotland in the late 1960s. Encouraged by cultural geography's efforts to recuperate storytelling as a valid mode of inquiry and to adopt a more enchanted, affirmative disposition to our endeavors, we develop a geographical story intended to draw out how enchanted experiences gained through curiosity and an openness to conti…
Bones of contention: A Double-Blind Study of Experts' Ability to Classify Sheep and Goat Astragali From Images
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