Claire Perkins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 250557 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Claire Perkins |
| PRENOMES | Claire |
| SOBRENOME | Perkins |
| ASSINATURA | PERKINS C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6679-4603 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 254 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Teaching film studies in the age of streamed screenings and the commercial teaching archive
New modes of online and hybrid course delivery can pose significant challenges for teaching film studies. The shift from in-class screenings to online delivery of course films impacts what is available to screen—privileging work available in digital form—and how this material is accessed and engaged with. This article discusses some of the issues and opportunities that can arise from the move to online learning for film programs by reflecting on …
Grace Lavery, Closures
Streaming diversity
The unprecedented growth of video-on-demand (VOD) streaming platforms has brought both new optimism and new complications to concerns around screen ‘diversity’. To what extent have major global and smaller regional VOD platforms invested in screen diversity, at the level of genres, languages, country-of-origin, social representation or creative labour? Just how ‘diverse’ are the catalogues of VOD services? How is this content represented to audie…
Doing Film Feminisms in the Age of Popular Feminism
In a move that has now been thoroughly documented, the Anglophone West of the past decade or so has become an environment in which feminism is popular. Film and television, and the discourses around them, have been central to this development, with productions from Eternals (Chloé Zhao, 2021) to Fleabag (2016-2019) to Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023) prompting an infoglut of commentary that foregrounds and debates the feminist credentials of a wave of…
An investigation into cultures, concepts and understandings of Japanese studies in the UK
This project explores empirically student and staff conceptualisations of Japanese Studies with the aim of helping us understand better the tacit assumptions that structure our approach to learning and teaching about Japan in Higher Education. Drawing on constructivist theories from education studies and employing grounded theory methods, we conducted and analysed interviews and focus groups with academics and students across the UK, asking quest…
Centaur VGI
Despite advances in mapping technologies and spatial data capabilities, global mapping inequalities are not declining. Inequalities in the coverage, quality, and currency of mapping persist, with significant gaps in remote and rural parts of the Global South. These regions, representing some of the most economically and resource-disadvantaged societies in the world, need high-quality mapping to aid in the delivery of essential services, such as h…
Smell walking and mapping
Smell is a ubiquitous and powerful way in which we make sense of the world, but is largely taken for granted and under-analysed. The geographies wrapped up with smell relate to our everyday experiences of place, and the mapping of these perceptions and their affects has great potential for revealing hitherto unseen social and cultural norms. This chapter charts some of the ways in which smell mapping might be enacted. It explores different tempor…
The ladies take over
For the former see, for instance, Diane Garrett, 'Why so many feminist
Thrift, Imperfection and Popular Feminist Apartment Plot on Television
This paper will explore the ways in which thrift operates as a signifier of a specific type of lprecarity and imperfection in young women's lives in several popular series associated with the current 'golden age' of women's television production. The twenty-something women of series including Girls, Insecure, Broad City, Fleabag, Can't Cope Won't Cope and Search Party, have all been raised in comfortable middle-class homes and are now living inde…
Independent women
“Independent Women: From Film to Television” explores the significance for feminism of the increasing representation of women on and behind the screen in television contexts around the world. “Independent” has functioned throughout film and television history as an important euphemism for “feminist,” and this special issue investigates how this connection plays out in a contemporary environment that popular feminist discourse is constructing as a…
From the ashes of the Great Kantō Earthquake
In 1884, an Anglican clergyman and staff and students from Oxford University set up a ‘settlement house’ in the East End of London. Conceiving poverty in moral and aspirational terms, their goal was to live with the poor to raise their cultural standards, and thus pull them out of the cycle of destitution. The idea soon spread to the United States. That the Settlement movement would travel across the Atlantic is no surprise: there was rich exchan…
Flying a kite
This article reviews the potential of kite-mapping as part of an interdisciplinary and multinational field course. It situates kite-mapping as a low cost, high quality, participatory approach, in relation to field use of maps, arguing that research might usefully attend to more than simply the skills acquired during the field exercise and the technicalities of the innovation. Evidenced from two day-long workshops on the Maltese island of Gozo we …
Critical cartography
Mapping as performance involves more than a reliance upon visual acuity, hence why a turn to non-representational theories and approaches can be useful in re-thinking the transformational capacities of cartography. Of substantive salience to cartographical studies has been the invocation of ideas surrounding performativity and non-representational understandings of performance. Given the disparate array of mapping performances in existence, it is…
Measuring mortality and the burden of adult disease associated with adverse childhood experiences in England
BACKGROUND: ACE (adverse childhood experience) studies typically examine the links between childhood stressors and adult health harming behaviours. Using an enhanced ACE survey methodology, we examine impacts of ACEs on non-communicable diseases and incorporate a proxy measure of premature mortality in England. METHODS: A nationally representative survey was undertaken (n = 3885, aged 18-69, April-July 2013). Socio-demographically controlled prop…
The United Red Army on Screen
Reflecting on J.B. Harley's Influence and What He Missed in “Deconstructing the Map”
Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization - Volume 50, Number 1, Spring 2015
Translating the television ‘treatment’ genre
In Treatment (2008–2010) was the first Israeli series to be remade for US television, and its largely positive critical reception established a reputation for Israel as a home for quality drama – setting the stage for the remake of Hatufim (Prisoners of War, 2009–2012) into Homeland (2011–). This article takes up the case of In Treatment to examine how the process of transnational television remaking can illuminate the concept of US quality telev…
Geography and the Methodological Ballpark
This short reflection highlights five aspects of geographical methodological practice which together capture a flavour of how place is being researched, and which offer interesting challenges for historians of sport. A willingness to innovate, to rethink mapping, to enact methods on the move, to deal with big and crowd-sourced data and to adopt playful, positioned approaches are flagged here. Historians of sport can usefully place their research …
Transnational television remakes
Maps, Memories and Manchester
Beyond Indiewood
At first glance, the US indie sector appears to defy Manohla Dargis's 2008 identification of a “new, post-female American cinema.” A significant number of women directors develop female-driven films in the industrial and aesthetic space between mainstream and avant-garde or independent film proper. Seldom, however, are these female directors absorbed by the promotional rhetoric of “Indiewood.” Specifically, their authorship rarely fits the mold c…
Re-cartographies of Landscape
This paper explores the potential of a different kind of counter-mapping. It focuses upon a critical reading of five different architectural atlases and argues that their construction and design reveals how ‘re-cartographies’ can narrate novel stories about places. The narrative power of these atlases is traced back to a focus upon relations between phenomena, and a careful consideration of how to map the mutability and dynamism of the built and …
Dancing on My Own
In all the critical hype around HBO's Girls (2012-), remarks on its intense physicality have been foremost - centering on Lena Dunham's blunt presentation of her 'imperfect' body in situations from sex to exercise to bathing to sleep. This article will consider the kinaesthetic affect of this, and other posing and performing bodies in Girls. Arguing that the choreographed body is central to the pleasures and accomplishments of the series as telev…
The post-mortem star discourse, or, loving Adrienne Shelly
The image of the prematurely dead film star is a site for the perception of cinema’s paradox of presence, or the romantic characterisation of a reality that is not ‘there’. Repeated evocations of this kind have given rise to a veritable cult of dead stars, where single names have the power to instantly convey the affective phenomenon: Marilyn, River, Brandon, Heath, Brittany ... Across a number of case studies this paper is concerned with this ‘p…
London Underground Maps
Two volumes about the underground mapping of London have recently been published, offering significantly contrasting interpretations. Claire Dobbin's London Underground Maps is the more conventiona
Cartography
Satellite imagery and the spectacle of secret spaces
Cartography - cultures of mapping
The ‘view from nowhere’? Spatial politics and cultural significance of high-resolution satellite imagery
Plotting practices and politics
It has been argued that crowd‐sourcing offers a radical alternative to conventional ways of mapping, challenging the hegemony of official and commercial cartographies. In this view mapping might begin to offer a forum for different voices, mapping different things, enabling new ways of living. Instead of the Latourian notion of the map as immutable mobile, fixing knowledge and bodies and facilitating governance, the wikification of mapping might …
The Politics of (Un)fixity and the Vernacularisation of Borders
The paper offers an alternative interpretation of borders, one not centred on a familiar state–security–mobility nexus. It outlines a “vernacularised” border studies which emphasises the role of ordinary people in bordering activity and the potential for connectivity that borders often display, coupled with a recognition that borders are not always a possession of the nation state. The paper outlines ways in which border politics are manifest in …
Reclaiming the Map
Borders and status-functions
This article develops an institutional understanding of borders. Drawing on constitutive constructivism and theories of practical communication we argue that bordering as a process is a form of sorting through the imposition of status-functions on people and things, which alters the perception of that thing by setting it within a web of normative claims, teleologies and assumptions. Studying any border, therefore, extends to include the rule stru…
Cartography
For this first of three progress reports on cartography, I am going to focus upon research into tactile mapping for visually impaired people, published since Fleming's (1990) review. This specialist field is often perceived as marginal to more mainstream cartography; production is often informal and receives no attention in Parry and Perkins (2000), the latest benchmark survey of the state of world mapping. Key themes in the tactile mapping commu…
Independent women
“Independent Women: From Film to Television” explores the significance for feminism of the increasing representation of women on and behind the screen in television contexts around the world. “Independent” has functioned throughout film and television history as an important euphemism for “feminist,” and this special issue investigates how this connection plays out in a contemporary environment that popular feminist discourse is constructing as a…
Transnational television remakes
Making the Critical Links and the Links Critical in Golf Studies
Re-cartographies of Landscape
This paper explores the potential of a different kind of counter-mapping. It focuses upon a critical reading of five different architectural atlases and argues that their construction and design reveals how ‘re-cartographies’ can narrate novel stories about places. The narrative power of these atlases is traced back to a focus upon relations between phenomena, and a careful consideration of how to map the mutability and dynamism of the built and …
Doing Film Feminisms in the Age of Popular Feminism
In a move that has now been thoroughly documented, the Anglophone West of the past decade or so has become an environment in which feminism is popular. Film and television, and the discourses around them, have been central to this development, with productions from Eternals (Chloé Zhao, 2021) to Fleabag (2016-2019) to Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023) prompting an infoglut of commentary that foregrounds and debates the feminist credentials of a wave of…
Translating the television ‘treatment’ genre
In Treatment (2008–2010) was the first Israeli series to be remade for US television, and its largely positive critical reception established a reputation for Israel as a home for quality drama – setting the stage for the remake of Hatufim (Prisoners of War, 2009–2012) into Homeland (2011–). This article takes up the case of In Treatment to examine how the process of transnational television remaking can illuminate the concept of US quality telev…
Visual Explanations
Centaur VGI
Despite advances in mapping technologies and spatial data capabilities, global mapping inequalities are not declining. Inequalities in the coverage, quality, and currency of mapping persist, with significant gaps in remote and rural parts of the Global South. These regions, representing some of the most economically and resource-disadvantaged societies in the world, need high-quality mapping to aid in the delivery of essential services, such as h…
The Performance of Golf
This article instigates critical work on golf in North West England by considering how golfing identities are performed in different places and landscapes. Extensive overview of the geography of the game and intensive case-study interviews and participant observation reveal an interplay between social and personal actions in relation to golfing landscapes and institutional contexts. The author argues for a performative analysis of golf, focusing …
Flying a kite
This article reviews the potential of kite-mapping as part of an interdisciplinary and multinational field course. It situates kite-mapping as a low cost, high quality, participatory approach, in relation to field use of maps, arguing that research might usefully attend to more than simply the skills acquired during the field exercise and the technicalities of the innovation. Evidenced from two day-long workshops on the Maltese island of Gozo we …
Beyond Indiewood
At first glance, the US indie sector appears to defy Manohla Dargis's 2008 identification of a “new, post-female American cinema.” A significant number of women directors develop female-driven films in the industrial and aesthetic space between mainstream and avant-garde or independent film proper. Seldom, however, are these female directors absorbed by the promotional rhetoric of “Indiewood.” Specifically, their authorship rarely fits the mold c…
Dancing on My Own
In all the critical hype around HBO's Girls (2012-), remarks on its intense physicality have been foremost - centering on Lena Dunham's blunt presentation of her 'imperfect' body in situations from sex to exercise to bathing to sleep. This article will consider the kinaesthetic affect of this, and other posing and performing bodies in Girls. Arguing that the choreographed body is central to the pleasures and accomplishments of the series as telev…
The post-mortem star discourse, or, loving Adrienne Shelly
The image of the prematurely dead film star is a site for the perception of cinema’s paradox of presence, or the romantic characterisation of a reality that is not ‘there’. Repeated evocations of this kind have given rise to a veritable cult of dead stars, where single names have the power to instantly convey the affective phenomenon: Marilyn, River, Brandon, Heath, Brittany ... Across a number of case studies this paper is concerned with this ‘p…
Thrift, Imperfection and Popular Feminist Apartment Plot on Television
This paper will explore the ways in which thrift operates as a signifier of a specific type of lprecarity and imperfection in young women's lives in several popular series associated with the current 'golden age' of women's television production. The twenty-something women of series including Girls, Insecure, Broad City, Fleabag, Can't Cope Won't Cope and Search Party, have all been raised in comfortable middle-class homes and are now living inde…
Visual Explanations
Cartography
For this first of three progress reports on cartography, I am going to focus upon research into tactile mapping for visually impaired people, published since Fleming's (1990) review. This specialist field is often perceived as marginal to more mainstream cartography; production is often informal and receives no attention in Parry and Perkins (2000), the latest benchmark survey of the state of world mapping. Key themes in the tactile mapping commu…
Cartography
Cartography - cultures of mapping
ICA Maps and Society Commission
ICA Maps and Society Commission." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 43(4), p. 279
Wood(s) and Trees – (Re)posting Nature
Consider the following snapshots. It is the start of the 1990s. The Wall is down, Communism in the Eastern Bloc is in its death throes, Francis Fukayama claims history has ended, and neo-liberal orthodoxies seem to offer few alternatives to an economically driven and rationalist agenda, dominated by global multinationals and partly regulated by nation-states. Individual agency appears powerless in the face of these overwhelming power structures. …
Reclaiming the Map
RGS/IBG Annual International Conference
2008 RGS/IBG Annual International Conference." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 44(2), pp. 123–124
A New Politics of Identity
Satellite imagery and the spectacle of secret spaces
The ‘view from nowhere’? Spatial politics and cultural significance of high-resolution satellite imagery
Making the Critical Links and the Links Critical in Golf Studies
The Performance of Golf
This article instigates critical work on golf in North West England by considering how golfing identities are performed in different places and landscapes. Extensive overview of the geography of the game and intensive case-study interviews and participant observation reveal an interplay between social and personal actions in relation to golfing landscapes and institutional contexts. The author argues for a performative analysis of golf, focusing …
The Map Reader
WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation. The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a power…
Film Trilogies
Drawing on a wide range of examples, this book – the first devoted to the phenomenon of the film trilogy– provides a dynamic investigation of the ways in which the trilogy form engages key issues in c
Extreme Heritage Management
Borders and status-functions
This article develops an institutional understanding of borders. Drawing on constitutive constructivism and theories of practical communication we argue that bordering as a process is a form of sorting through the imposition of status-functions on people and things, which alters the perception of that thing by setting it within a web of normative claims, teleologies and assumptions. Studying any border, therefore, extends to include the rule stru…
Developing the recognition and response skills of student nurses
Acute deteriorations in health occur in all healthcare settings. Every health professional must therefore have the knowledge and skills to recognise and respond effectively to acute illness, in order to avert further deterioration. It is widely acknowledged that a robust understanding of physiological observations, in addition to effective interpretation and clinical decision-making skills, is required for this task ( Odell et al, 2009 ; Steen, 2…
The Politics of (Un)fixity and the Vernacularisation of Borders
The paper offers an alternative interpretation of borders, one not centred on a familiar state–security–mobility nexus. It outlines a “vernacularised” border studies which emphasises the role of ordinary people in bordering activity and the potential for connectivity that borders often display, coupled with a recognition that borders are not always a possession of the nation state. The paper outlines ways in which border politics are manifest in …
Plotting practices and politics
It has been argued that crowd‐sourcing offers a radical alternative to conventional ways of mapping, challenging the hegemony of official and commercial cartographies. In this view mapping might begin to offer a forum for different voices, mapping different things, enabling new ways of living. Instead of the Latourian notion of the map as immutable mobile, fixing knowledge and bodies and facilitating governance, the wikification of mapping might …
Maps, Memories and Manchester
Beyond Indiewood
At first glance, the US indie sector appears to defy Manohla Dargis's 2008 identification of a “new, post-female American cinema.” A significant number of women directors develop female-driven films in the industrial and aesthetic space between mainstream and avant-garde or independent film proper. Seldom, however, are these female directors absorbed by the promotional rhetoric of “Indiewood.” Specifically, their authorship rarely fits the mold c…
Re-cartographies of Landscape
This paper explores the potential of a different kind of counter-mapping. It focuses upon a critical reading of five different architectural atlases and argues that their construction and design reveals how ‘re-cartographies’ can narrate novel stories about places. The narrative power of these atlases is traced back to a focus upon relations between phenomena, and a careful consideration of how to map the mutability and dynamism of the built and …
Dancing on My Own
In all the critical hype around HBO's Girls (2012-), remarks on its intense physicality have been foremost - centering on Lena Dunham's blunt presentation of her 'imperfect' body in situations from sex to exercise to bathing to sleep. This article will consider the kinaesthetic affect of this, and other posing and performing bodies in Girls. Arguing that the choreographed body is central to the pleasures and accomplishments of the series as telev…
The post-mortem star discourse, or, loving Adrienne Shelly
The image of the prematurely dead film star is a site for the perception of cinema’s paradox of presence, or the romantic characterisation of a reality that is not ‘there’. Repeated evocations of this kind have given rise to a veritable cult of dead stars, where single names have the power to instantly convey the affective phenomenon: Marilyn, River, Brandon, Heath, Brittany ... Across a number of case studies this paper is concerned with this ‘p…
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