Andrea Gibbons
Biographic Data
| ID | 87291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Gibbons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbons |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBONS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-5902-2527 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Commentary
Bob Catterall was not a simple man, but I have felt his loss deeply. I still remember the first year of my PhD when everything was shiny and new and Peter Marcuse was coming to speak about the Righ...
My menstruation journey in sport was sad and lonely
This research examined the lived experiences of Pacific sportswomen living in Aotearoa New Zealand concerning menstruation and sport. This research looks into understanding how the different cultural beliefs and taboos on menstruation may impact a Pacific sportswoman's life. Pacific sportswomen in Aotearoa experience menstruation through an intersectional lens with their family and cultural values and practices, intersecting with gender to shape …
Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access
This research examines the role of food aid providers, including their spatial engagement, in seeking to alleviate urban food poverty. Current levels of urban poverty across the UK have resulted in an unprecedented demand for food aid. Yet, urban poverty responsibility increasingly shifts away from policymakers to the third sector. Building on Castilhos and Dolbec’s notion of segregating space and original qualitative research with food aid organ…
Bloating, Heavy Legs, and Fatigue
A wide array of menstrual tracking apps, including a small number of sport-specific menstrual tracking apps, are increasingly being used by athletes and coaches to better understand the complex relationships between hormonal cycles and sporting performance. To date, however, there have been few qualitative inquiries into the affects, affordances, and knowledge produced by entanglements of these apps and their users. In this article, we present a …
It's Such a Taboo Subject, Everybody's Scared to Talk About It
Despite a growing body of research focused on women's experiences of menstruation in sports, most of this has been done by white women on white women and then applied to sportswomen from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Very rarely are the menstruation-related experiences of Black, Indigenous, and women of color considered, let alone the focus of such studies. To date, no research has explored Pacific sports women's experiences of menstru…
Pluriversal urbanisms
ITY is opening up a platform for research and theory from and about places and topics that are, and researchers who are, under-and misrepresented in urban studies journals.For want of a satisfying and even joyful term that doesn't homogenise complexity or have an implied negative counterpart (e.g."Global South"; "majority world"), we are using the placeholder term of pluriversal urbanisms.Here we draw on recent works by Escobar (2018) and Blaser …
Homes and health in the Outer Hebrides
Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security
Local state and third sector actors routinely provide support to help people navigate their right to social security and mediate their chequered relationship to it. COVID‐19 has not only underlined the significance of these actors in the claims‐making process, but also just how vulnerable those working within ‘local ecosystems of support’ are to external shocks and their own internal pressures. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork with organisations …
Moving between I and we
This editorial continues portions of the conversation within the editorial by Ulises Moreno-Tabarez in our last double issue—I cannot stop thinking about the connections between the many pressures
Understanding Lived Experiences of Food Insecurity through a Paraliminality Lens
This article examines lived experiences of food insecurity in the United Kingdom as a liminal phenomenon. Our research is set within the context of austerity measures, welfare reform and the precarity experienced by increasing numbers of individuals. Drawing on original qualitative data, we highlight diverse food insecurity experiences as transitional, oscillating between phases of everyday food access to requiring supplementary food, which are b…
Radical housing (dis)encounters
We came to this issue before the outbreak of Covid-19, and we release it amidst what feels like an entirely new, and yet also entirely known world-order—a place of multiple and multiplying crises that existed before the pandemic and continue, relentlessly, to render certain people, bodies and homes disposable. It is against this cruelty, but also with a renewed sense of radical hope in justice everywhere, that RHJ first came to be. The majority o…
For the City yet to come
Whose Right to the City
FinTech is the term used to refer to financial and technology convergence space solutions. It usually refers to new innovations that conduct or connect with financial services via the internet, smart devices, software applications, or cloud services and encompasses anything from mobile banking to cryptocurrency applications. Despite the advantages of FinTech, cybercriminals seized the opportunity to exploit vulnerabilities in FinTech systems. Phi…
Rural Homelessness
Homelessness is largely understood as an urban issue and so rural homelessness is to a large extent invisible in both academic literature and in policy and practice discussions, just as it is often invisible in discourses of everyday rural life. This article draws on extensive interviews with homeless service users and providers in three rural authorities in Wales to give a clearer sense of the nature and challenges of rural homelessness. The art…
Interrogating the Prevention Approach of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 for People with Mental Health Needs Who Are Homeless
Rates of homelessness and poor mental health present significant challenges across the globe. In this article, we explore how these intersecting issues have been addressed in Wales through Part 2 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 through a paradigm shift towards a prevention model. This article reports findings from a study (conducted between 2016 and 2018) which evaluated the processes and impacts of the Act against the backdrop of welfare reform …
Working and Homeless
Alongside an increasing focus on ‘prevention’, moving homeless adults into work is frequently considered an important part of helping them overcome homelessness and sustain an ‘independent’ life. However, a growing evidence base shows that work does not always offer the means to escape poverty, and many in employment face housing insecurity. Relatedly, there is increasing concern about the phenomenon of ‘in-work homelessness’. Drawing on new data…
Challenges to Implementing the New Homelessness Prevention Agenda in Wales
Devolution presented an opportunity for the Welsh Government to introduce changes to housing and homelessness policy, and the subsequent homelessness reforms are seen as one of the best examples to date of the Welsh Government using its powers. However, devolved governments in small countries face a number of challenges in terms of realising their housing policy ambitions. In this article we argue that there is inevitable dissonance between the p…
Policy Transfer and Part 2 of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014
Part 2 of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014 and its implementation has been keenly observed by governments outside of Wales, as they continue to search for policy solutions to help address the homelessness crisis. This article examines the extent to which there has been policy transfer from Wales to other national contexts and the potential for such transfer to occur in the future. It is identified that some transfer has already taken place within the…
The Five Refusals of White Supremacy
This article draws on the work of Charles Mills to posit white supremacy as a global political, economic, and cultural system. Resistance among people of color is, and has always been, widespread. The focus here, however, is on what Mills (1997: 18) describes as the "epistemology of ignorance" among whites themselves, serving to preserve a sense of self as decent in the face of privileges dependent upon obvious injustices against (nonwhite) other…
It matters who is walking
In Walking in Cities, walking’s meanings are as multiple as those who engage in it, inscribed as they are within the particular bodies, constellations of inequalities, and practices and signifiers
Linking race, the value of land and the value of life
This paper works to more fully integrate critical theories of race and privilege with political economy to explore the connections between segregation, property values and violence in US cities. Through the prism of Los Angeles (LA), it exposes the economic mechanisms and history of violent struggle by which whiteness became, and remains, an intrinsic component of high land values. The resulting articulations of racial ideologies and geography, c…
Endpiece
Andrea Gibbons is from Arizona, USA, and worked as a community worker in Los Angeles, which influenced both her short story, 'The El Rey Bar' (2011), and her article 'Linking Race, the Value of Land and the Value of Life' in CITY (this issue). Here Andrea talks to Debbie Humphry about the key themes running through both her fiction and academic work. Debbie is CITY's web editor, a lecturer, research fellow, and photographer, who works on housing,…
Can risk and illness perceptions predict breast cancer worry in healthy women
Predictors of breast cancer worry in healthy women remain unclear. Healthy women less than 50 years ( N = 857) completed measures of family history, anxiety, absolute and comparative risk perceptions, illness perceptions, and breast cancer worry. Regression analyses revealed that having a family history of breast cancer, greater anxiety, higher absolute risk perceptions and negative illness perceptions predicted 45 per cent of the variance in bre…
Liberatory struggles for housing
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAndrea Gibbons is a community activist and postgraduate researcher in the Geography Department at LSE. Email: A.Gibbons1@ lse.ac.uk
One hundred and forty characters will not be changing the world
Drawing on a background of community organising experience and the work of Paolo Freire and Hamid Dabashi, this response to Paul Mason's Why It's Still Kicking of Everywhere explores some of the limits of seeing the current wave of uprising and rebellion through a Eurocentric lens, and challenges us both to look to broader histories of struggle from around the world and work towards developing new theory as we seek to understand today's uprisings…
Pluriversal urbanisms
ITY is opening up a platform for research and theory from and about places and topics that are, and researchers who are, under-and misrepresented in urban studies journals.For want of a satisfying and even joyful term that doesn't homogenise complexity or have an implied negative counterpart (e.g."Global South"; "majority world"), we are using the placeholder term of pluriversal urbanisms.Here we draw on recent works by Escobar (2018) and Blaser …
It's Such a Taboo Subject, Everybody's Scared to Talk About It
Despite a growing body of research focused on women's experiences of menstruation in sports, most of this has been done by white women on white women and then applied to sportswomen from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Very rarely are the menstruation-related experiences of Black, Indigenous, and women of color considered, let alone the focus of such studies. To date, no research has explored Pacific sports women's experiences of menstru…
Challenges to Implementing the New Homelessness Prevention Agenda in Wales
Devolution presented an opportunity for the Welsh Government to introduce changes to housing and homelessness policy, and the subsequent homelessness reforms are seen as one of the best examples to date of the Welsh Government using its powers. However, devolved governments in small countries face a number of challenges in terms of realising their housing policy ambitions. In this article we argue that there is inevitable dissonance between the p…
Understanding Lived Experiences of Food Insecurity through a Paraliminality Lens
This article examines lived experiences of food insecurity in the United Kingdom as a liminal phenomenon. Our research is set within the context of austerity measures, welfare reform and the precarity experienced by increasing numbers of individuals. Drawing on original qualitative data, we highlight diverse food insecurity experiences as transitional, oscillating between phases of everyday food access to requiring supplementary food, which are b…
Bloating, Heavy Legs, and Fatigue
A wide array of menstrual tracking apps, including a small number of sport-specific menstrual tracking apps, are increasingly being used by athletes and coaches to better understand the complex relationships between hormonal cycles and sporting performance. To date, however, there have been few qualitative inquiries into the affects, affordances, and knowledge produced by entanglements of these apps and their users. In this article, we present a …
Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security
Local state and third sector actors routinely provide support to help people navigate their right to social security and mediate their chequered relationship to it. COVID‐19 has not only underlined the significance of these actors in the claims‐making process, but also just how vulnerable those working within ‘local ecosystems of support’ are to external shocks and their own internal pressures. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork with organisations …
Bridging theory and practice
We Need to Get You Focused
Although subject to considerable research from perspectives including general practitioners, patients, and perspective guidelines, chronic low back pain (CLBP) continues to be a common but contentious condition in primary care. We used medical consultation records, critical incident interviews, and a think-aloud problem-solving task to examine how general practitioners applied professional knowledge of the condition, especially in relation to psy…
For the City yet to come
Working and Homeless
Alongside an increasing focus on ‘prevention’, moving homeless adults into work is frequently considered an important part of helping them overcome homelessness and sustain an ‘independent’ life. However, a growing evidence base shows that work does not always offer the means to escape poverty, and many in employment face housing insecurity. Relatedly, there is increasing concern about the phenomenon of ‘in-work homelessness’. Drawing on new data…
Policy Transfer and Part 2 of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014
Part 2 of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014 and its implementation has been keenly observed by governments outside of Wales, as they continue to search for policy solutions to help address the homelessness crisis. This article examines the extent to which there has been policy transfer from Wales to other national contexts and the potential for such transfer to occur in the future. It is identified that some transfer has already taken place within the…
The Five Refusals of White Supremacy
This article draws on the work of Charles Mills to posit white supremacy as a global political, economic, and cultural system. Resistance among people of color is, and has always been, widespread. The focus here, however, is on what Mills (1997: 18) describes as the "epistemology of ignorance" among whites themselves, serving to preserve a sense of self as decent in the face of privileges dependent upon obvious injustices against (nonwhite) other…
Linking race, the value of land and the value of life
This paper works to more fully integrate critical theories of race and privilege with political economy to explore the connections between segregation, property values and violence in US cities. Through the prism of Los Angeles (LA), it exposes the economic mechanisms and history of violent struggle by which whiteness became, and remains, an intrinsic component of high land values. The resulting articulations of racial ideologies and geography, c…
One hundred and forty characters will not be changing the world
Drawing on a background of community organising experience and the work of Paolo Freire and Hamid Dabashi, this response to Paul Mason's Why It's Still Kicking of Everywhere explores some of the limits of seeing the current wave of uprising and rebellion through a Eurocentric lens, and challenges us both to look to broader histories of struggle from around the world and work towards developing new theory as we seek to understand today's uprisings…
My menstruation journey in sport was sad and lonely
This research examined the lived experiences of Pacific sportswomen living in Aotearoa New Zealand concerning menstruation and sport. This research looks into understanding how the different cultural beliefs and taboos on menstruation may impact a Pacific sportswoman's life. Pacific sportswomen in Aotearoa experience menstruation through an intersectional lens with their family and cultural values and practices, intersecting with gender to shape …
Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access
This research examines the role of food aid providers, including their spatial engagement, in seeking to alleviate urban food poverty. Current levels of urban poverty across the UK have resulted in an unprecedented demand for food aid. Yet, urban poverty responsibility increasingly shifts away from policymakers to the third sector. Building on Castilhos and Dolbec’s notion of segregating space and original qualitative research with food aid organ…
Homes and health in the Outer Hebrides
It matters who is walking
In Walking in Cities, walking’s meanings are as multiple as those who engage in it, inscribed as they are within the particular bodies, constellations of inequalities, and practices and signifiers
Can risk and illness perceptions predict breast cancer worry in healthy women
Predictors of breast cancer worry in healthy women remain unclear. Healthy women less than 50 years ( N = 857) completed measures of family history, anxiety, absolute and comparative risk perceptions, illness perceptions, and breast cancer worry. Regression analyses revealed that having a family history of breast cancer, greater anxiety, higher absolute risk perceptions and negative illness perceptions predicted 45 per cent of the variance in bre…
Bridging theory and practice
We Need to Get You Focused
Although subject to considerable research from perspectives including general practitioners, patients, and perspective guidelines, chronic low back pain (CLBP) continues to be a common but contentious condition in primary care. We used medical consultation records, critical incident interviews, and a think-aloud problem-solving task to examine how general practitioners applied professional knowledge of the condition, especially in relation to psy…
Introduction
While acknowledging the post Olympic glow of immense human achievement and aspiration, it is important to remember the Olympic's other side: the stories of bumbling and incompetence that filled the
Introduction
‘As we predicted you just did the greatest Games ever.... I really want to congratulate Mayor Boris Johnson for leading the city of London into these great Games.... These are Games of legacy, I've been to London many times and it's amazing what you did in the area of the Olympic park.... The logistics of the operation, the mobility of the people in London is really something.... We came here for a little advice from Mayor Boris and we're going t…
Introduction
The Olympics have long had the official motto ‘ Citius, Altius, Fortius ’, or ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’. Technically referring to the athletes competing in the event, it is clear that such a motto
Games Monitor
Liberatory struggles for housing
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAndrea Gibbons is a community activist and postgraduate researcher in the Geography Department at LSE. Email: A.Gibbons1@ lse.ac.uk
One hundred and forty characters will not be changing the world
Drawing on a background of community organising experience and the work of Paolo Freire and Hamid Dabashi, this response to Paul Mason's Why It's Still Kicking of Everywhere explores some of the limits of seeing the current wave of uprising and rebellion through a Eurocentric lens, and challenges us both to look to broader histories of struggle from around the world and work towards developing new theory as we seek to understand today's uprisings…
Introduction
This special feature was inspired by the frightening possibilities of militarised public spaces (Graham 2012), and over the course of four issues we have looked at the long-term impact of the Olymp
Linking race, the value of land and the value of life
This paper works to more fully integrate critical theories of race and privilege with political economy to explore the connections between segregation, property values and violence in US cities. Through the prism of Los Angeles (LA), it exposes the economic mechanisms and history of violent struggle by which whiteness became, and remains, an intrinsic component of high land values. The resulting articulations of racial ideologies and geography, c…
Endpiece
Andrea Gibbons is from Arizona, USA, and worked as a community worker in Los Angeles, which influenced both her short story, 'The El Rey Bar' (2011), and her article 'Linking Race, the Value of Land and the Value of Life' in CITY (this issue). Here Andrea talks to Debbie Humphry about the key themes running through both her fiction and academic work. Debbie is CITY's web editor, a lecturer, research fellow, and photographer, who works on housing,…
Can risk and illness perceptions predict breast cancer worry in healthy women
Predictors of breast cancer worry in healthy women remain unclear. Healthy women less than 50 years ( N = 857) completed measures of family history, anxiety, absolute and comparative risk perceptions, illness perceptions, and breast cancer worry. Regression analyses revealed that having a family history of breast cancer, greater anxiety, higher absolute risk perceptions and negative illness perceptions predicted 45 per cent of the variance in bre…
It matters who is walking
In Walking in Cities, walking’s meanings are as multiple as those who engage in it, inscribed as they are within the particular bodies, constellations of inequalities, and practices and signifiers
The Five Refusals of White Supremacy
This article draws on the work of Charles Mills to posit white supremacy as a global political, economic, and cultural system. Resistance among people of color is, and has always been, widespread. The focus here, however, is on what Mills (1997: 18) describes as the "epistemology of ignorance" among whites themselves, serving to preserve a sense of self as decent in the face of privileges dependent upon obvious injustices against (nonwhite) other…
Rural Homelessness
Homelessness is largely understood as an urban issue and so rural homelessness is to a large extent invisible in both academic literature and in policy and practice discussions, just as it is often invisible in discourses of everyday rural life. This article draws on extensive interviews with homeless service users and providers in three rural authorities in Wales to give a clearer sense of the nature and challenges of rural homelessness. The art…
Interrogating the Prevention Approach of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 for People with Mental Health Needs Who Are Homeless
Rates of homelessness and poor mental health present significant challenges across the globe. In this article, we explore how these intersecting issues have been addressed in Wales through Part 2 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 through a paradigm shift towards a prevention model. This article reports findings from a study (conducted between 2016 and 2018) which evaluated the processes and impacts of the Act against the backdrop of welfare reform …
Working and Homeless
Alongside an increasing focus on ‘prevention’, moving homeless adults into work is frequently considered an important part of helping them overcome homelessness and sustain an ‘independent’ life. However, a growing evidence base shows that work does not always offer the means to escape poverty, and many in employment face housing insecurity. Relatedly, there is increasing concern about the phenomenon of ‘in-work homelessness’. Drawing on new data…
Challenges to Implementing the New Homelessness Prevention Agenda in Wales
Devolution presented an opportunity for the Welsh Government to introduce changes to housing and homelessness policy, and the subsequent homelessness reforms are seen as one of the best examples to date of the Welsh Government using its powers. However, devolved governments in small countries face a number of challenges in terms of realising their housing policy ambitions. In this article we argue that there is inevitable dissonance between the p…
Policy Transfer and Part 2 of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014
Part 2 of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014 and its implementation has been keenly observed by governments outside of Wales, as they continue to search for policy solutions to help address the homelessness crisis. This article examines the extent to which there has been policy transfer from Wales to other national contexts and the potential for such transfer to occur in the future. It is identified that some transfer has already taken place within the…
Radical housing (dis)encounters
We came to this issue before the outbreak of Covid-19, and we release it amidst what feels like an entirely new, and yet also entirely known world-order—a place of multiple and multiplying crises that existed before the pandemic and continue, relentlessly, to render certain people, bodies and homes disposable. It is against this cruelty, but also with a renewed sense of radical hope in justice everywhere, that RHJ first came to be. The majority o…
For the City yet to come
Whose Right to the City
FinTech is the term used to refer to financial and technology convergence space solutions. It usually refers to new innovations that conduct or connect with financial services via the internet, smart devices, software applications, or cloud services and encompasses anything from mobile banking to cryptocurrency applications. Despite the advantages of FinTech, cybercriminals seized the opportunity to exploit vulnerabilities in FinTech systems. Phi…
Moving between I and we
This editorial continues portions of the conversation within the editorial by Ulises Moreno-Tabarez in our last double issue—I cannot stop thinking about the connections between the many pressures
Understanding Lived Experiences of Food Insecurity through a Paraliminality Lens
This article examines lived experiences of food insecurity in the United Kingdom as a liminal phenomenon. Our research is set within the context of austerity measures, welfare reform and the precarity experienced by increasing numbers of individuals. Drawing on original qualitative data, we highlight diverse food insecurity experiences as transitional, oscillating between phases of everyday food access to requiring supplementary food, which are b…
Homes and health in the Outer Hebrides
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (18 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (8 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works)