Chris Philo
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3583746 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chris Philo |
| PRENOMES | Chris |
| SOBRENOME | Philo |
| ASSINATURA | PHILO C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 423 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Geographies of the Good Life
In 1986 Yi-Fu Tuan, humanistic geographer, published The Good Life. In 1951 Theodor W. Adorno, pioneer of the early Frankfurt School, published Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, concerned with ‘the teaching of the good life’. Two ostensibly so very different authors: one a geographer, humanist with a positive, optimistic, and ‘sunny outlook’; the other a critical theorist, Marxist of sorts, negative dialectician, a pessimistic curmud…
Talking population geographies and a ‘love letter’ to the journal
Various significant anniversaries for population geography as a recognisable subdiscipline fall round about now, in 2023, serving as fitting prompts for reflecting upon its character, history and possible futures. This paper offers such a reflection, taking an interview transcript between the two authors as its basis, the format here offering a directness of address not always possible in standard academic papers. Arguments are advanced about wid…
Hanging Around in Their Brokenness
The subdisciplinary field of mental health geography has arguably departed from its initial emphasis on mental ill health, and a case is made for continuing to take seriously the lifeworlds of people with severe and enduring mental health conditions, particularly if resident in psychiatric inpatient facilities. Attempting to (re)humanize inquiries in this field, emphasis is lent to the task of repeopling mental health geographies and, more broadl…
Ontological Boundaries or Contextual Borders
What and where is ‘the asylum’ today? To what extent do mental healthcare facilities stand out as clearly bounded entities in the modern urban landscape, perhaps reflecting their history as deliberately set-apart and then often stigmatised places? To what extent have they maybe become less obtrusive, more sunk into and interacting with their urban surroundings? What issues of urban ethics are at stake: concerning who/what is starkly demarcated in…
Spatial Histories of Radical Geography
This book is undoubtedly a milestone in the ongoing process of writing the histories of the great period that saw the rising of critical and radical approaches in geography from the 1960s and 1970s onward. Although these histories are characterized by a plurality of methodological approaches (biographical, transnational, place-based, and spatial-sensitive), there is increasing evidence that this rising was international, albeit one of its most fa…
On edge?’
Staying with the trouble of institutions
This paper provides a commentary on the theme section entitled “Troubling Institutions at the Nexus of Care and Control.” Using the recent book Matters of Care (2017) by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa as a reference point, the authors of the commentary introduce the project of exploring how care and control admix across a range of institutional geographies, reflecting complex assemblages of places, peoples, practices and problems. Taking seriously th…
More words, more worlds
This chapter shows that geography as spatial science, emerging in the 1950s and 1960s, replicated the obsession with the material world, albeit translating the configurations of material phenomena into more abstract geometric representations supposedly disclosing the deeper truths of humanity's spatial organization. It suggests that there are surprisingly few works which explicitly set out to explore the possible overlaps between human geography …
Theory and Methods
Contents: Introduction Part I Spatial Science and Its Critics: A geographic methodology, William Bunge Sensations and spatial science: gratification and anxiety in the production of ordered landscapes, D. Sibley Retheorizing economic geography: from the quantitative revolution to the 'cultural turn', Trevor J. Barnes. Part II Marxist Geography and Its Early Reconstructions: Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the probl…
Squeezing, Bleaching, and the Victims' Fate
This article opens a dialogue between geohumanities and poetry-or, more broadly, creative writing-around the subject matters of violence and wounding. It considers what kinds of "poetry" might be usefully enrolled by the geoliterary critic, or even authored by the geographer-poet, in response to such subject matters. Difficult questions abound about what it means to author, hear, and read poetry that is engaged and enraged by instances of violenc…
The Sage Handbook of Human Geography
‘One Must Eliminate the Effects of … Diffuse Circulation [and] their Unstable and Dangerous Coagulation’
Foucault spent time investigating the stopping of mobilities, notably when studying carceral spaces such as asylums and prisons which effectively immobilise their inmates at a societal scale. In Discipline and Punish, he speculates on how such spaces are designed to put a stop to casual ‘nomadisms’. The purpose here is to inspect this aspect of Foucault’s thinking, particularly to recover what he also said about the regulation and cultivation of …
The nature of publishing and assessment in Geography and Environmental Studies
We present a summary of the kinds of outputs submitted to the Geography and Environmental Studies sub‐panel (H‐32) for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and examine the relationships between the peer assessment of research quality that the RAE process has typified, and alternative modes of assessment based on bibliometrics. This comparison is effected using (in aggregate form) some of the results from the RAE, together with citation da…
Michel Foucault , Psychiatric Power
S]ometimes something like an enigmatic and indecipherable secret, which may have been overlooked or cast aside but which actually contains the essential, falls into someone's hands.And this secret, so secret that we do not know it is a secret unless, precisely, we have undergone the ritual initiations
Possible geographies
The rise of non‐representational theory in human geography has prompted searching questions about how researchers might ‘represent’ what they encounter in their fieldwork. A central problem is that we reach an insurmountable impasse, an aporia, because we cannot share thoughts, meanings, feelings, etc., in a manner faithful to our experience of them or equally that certain spectacular or horrific events and encounters escape their retelling. We a…
Sex, life, death, geography
This paper is prompted by Stephen Legg's contribution to the journal on the subject of ‘Foucault's population geographies’. It provides a brief appreciation of Legg's contribution, and uses his claims as a platform for reflecting further on what attention to the work of Michel Foucault – the French philosopher‐historian – can bring to the table of population geography. More specifically, it is argued that Foucault's concern for sex, its bio‐polit…
An oasis for us”
The geographies that wound
As a contribution to debates about vulnerability, this essay is a meditation on the theme of 'wounds' and 'wounding'. The focus is primarily conceptual, reflecting on how vulnerability studies might be recast through the lenses of wounds and wounding, thereby retrieving a critical sense of attributing blame for the 'making' of certain peoples and places more vulnerable than others to hazards of all kinds. Emphasis is placed on the interconnected …
Practising Human Geography
This work provides a critical introduction to recent disciplinary debates about the practice of human geography examining those methods and practices which are integral to doing geography
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans and non-human animals are mixed together. Our emotions involving animals range from those of love and compassion to untold cruelty, force, violence and…
Entanglements of Power
Entanglements of Power
This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it.The team of contributors explore themes of identity, embodiment, organisation, colonialism, and political transformation, examining them from historical, contemporary and more …
Institutional geographies
Selling places
Culture, History, Capital - a critical introduction to selling places (C. Philo, G. Kearns). Historical geographies of urban life and modem consumption (N. Thrift, P. Glennie). The city as spectacle - Paris and the bicentenary of the French Revolution (G. Kearns). Trading history, reclaiming the past - the Crystal Palace as icon (M. Billings). Revisioning place: de- and re-constructing the image of the industrial city (B. Holcomb). The city as co…
Bellicose History’ and ‘Local Discursivities’
Possible geographies
The rise of non‐representational theory in human geography has prompted searching questions about how researchers might ‘represent’ what they encounter in their fieldwork. A central problem is that we reach an insurmountable impasse, an aporia, because we cannot share thoughts, meanings, feelings, etc., in a manner faithful to our experience of them or equally that certain spectacular or horrific events and encounters escape their retelling. We a…
Institutional geographies
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans and non-human animals are mixed together. Our emotions involving animals range from those of love and compassion to untold cruelty, force, violence and…
The geographies that wound
As a contribution to debates about vulnerability, this essay is a meditation on the theme of 'wounds' and 'wounding'. The focus is primarily conceptual, reflecting on how vulnerability studies might be recast through the lenses of wounds and wounding, thereby retrieving a critical sense of attributing blame for the 'making' of certain peoples and places more vulnerable than others to hazards of all kinds. Emphasis is placed on the interconnected …
The Birth of the Clinic
This paper provides a ‘geographical reading’ of Michel Foucault's book, The Birth of the Clinic (1963 in French; 1976 in English). It is argued that this book is a remarkable work of medical geography, despite remaining almost entirely unreferenced and unnoticed in the literature. The emphases in the book, particularly on medicine discovering the hidden spaces of the body, suggest possible new foci for medical geography, as well as placing a new …
On edge?’
Squeezing, Bleaching, and the Victims' Fate
This article opens a dialogue between geohumanities and poetry-or, more broadly, creative writing-around the subject matters of violence and wounding. It considers what kinds of "poetry" might be usefully enrolled by the geoliterary critic, or even authored by the geographer-poet, in response to such subject matters. Difficult questions abound about what it means to author, hear, and read poetry that is engaged and enraged by instances of violenc…
Sex, life, death, geography
This paper is prompted by Stephen Legg's contribution to the journal on the subject of ‘Foucault's population geographies’. It provides a brief appreciation of Legg's contribution, and uses his claims as a platform for reflecting further on what attention to the work of Michel Foucault – the French philosopher‐historian – can bring to the table of population geography. More specifically, it is argued that Foucault's concern for sex, its bio‐polit…
Staying with the trouble of institutions
This paper provides a commentary on the theme section entitled “Troubling Institutions at the Nexus of Care and Control.” Using the recent book Matters of Care (2017) by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa as a reference point, the authors of the commentary introduce the project of exploring how care and control admix across a range of institutional geographies, reflecting complex assemblages of places, peoples, practices and problems. Taking seriously th…
An oasis for us”
Hanging Around in Their Brokenness
The subdisciplinary field of mental health geography has arguably departed from its initial emphasis on mental ill health, and a case is made for continuing to take seriously the lifeworlds of people with severe and enduring mental health conditions, particularly if resident in psychiatric inpatient facilities. Attempting to (re)humanize inquiries in this field, emphasis is lent to the task of repeopling mental health geographies and, more broadl…
A ‘lyffe in pyttes and caves’
The nature of publishing and assessment in Geography and Environmental Studies
We present a summary of the kinds of outputs submitted to the Geography and Environmental Studies sub‐panel (H‐32) for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and examine the relationships between the peer assessment of research quality that the RAE process has typified, and alternative modes of assessment based on bibliometrics. This comparison is effected using (in aggregate form) some of the results from the RAE, together with citation da…
Political geography and everything
Talking population geographies and a ‘love letter’ to the journal
Various significant anniversaries for population geography as a recognisable subdiscipline fall round about now, in 2023, serving as fitting prompts for reflecting upon its character, history and possible futures. This paper offers such a reflection, taking an interview transcript between the two authors as its basis, the format here offering a directness of address not always possible in standard academic papers. Arguments are advanced about wid…
Theory and Methods
Contents: Introduction Part I Spatial Science and Its Critics: A geographic methodology, William Bunge Sensations and spatial science: gratification and anxiety in the production of ordered landscapes, D. Sibley Retheorizing economic geography: from the quantitative revolution to the 'cultural turn', Trevor J. Barnes. Part II Marxist Geography and Its Early Reconstructions: Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the probl…
History, Geography and the ‘Still Greater Mystery’ of Historical Geography
‘Historical geography’ is a term that has long been employed in the English-speaking world to describe certain varieties of topographical writing, and it is a term that in more recent years has come to identify a seemingly distinctive subdiscipline of academic geography. Certain difficulties attach to this subdiscipline, however, and students first encountering courses on historical geography are often bemused by precisely how these courses are t…
Political geography and everything
Body Cultures
Body Cultures explores the relationship between the body, sport and landscape. This book presents the first critically edited collection of Henning Eichberg's provocative essays into 'body culture'. Eichberg, a well-known scholar in continental Europe who draws upon the ideas of Elias, Focault, Habermas and others, is now attracting considerable interest from Anglo-American sociologists, historians and geographers. This collection has been extens…
A ‘lyffe in pyttes and caves’
Entanglements of Power
This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it.The team of contributors explore themes of identity, embodiment, organisation, colonialism, and political transformation, examining them from historical, contemporary and more …
Institutional geographies
The Birth of the Clinic
This paper provides a ‘geographical reading’ of Michel Foucault's book, The Birth of the Clinic (1963 in French; 1976 in English). It is argued that this book is a remarkable work of medical geography, despite remaining almost entirely unreferenced and unnoticed in the literature. The emphases in the book, particularly on medicine discovering the hidden spaces of the body, suggest possible new foci for medical geography, as well as placing a new …
Entanglements of Power
Practising Human Geography
This work provides a critical introduction to recent disciplinary debates about the practice of human geography examining those methods and practices which are integral to doing geography
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans and non-human animals are mixed together. Our emotions involving animals range from those of love and compassion to untold cruelty, force, violence and…
Sex, life, death, geography
This paper is prompted by Stephen Legg's contribution to the journal on the subject of ‘Foucault's population geographies’. It provides a brief appreciation of Legg's contribution, and uses his claims as a platform for reflecting further on what attention to the work of Michel Foucault – the French philosopher‐historian – can bring to the table of population geography. More specifically, it is argued that Foucault's concern for sex, its bio‐polit…
An oasis for us”
The geographies that wound
As a contribution to debates about vulnerability, this essay is a meditation on the theme of 'wounds' and 'wounding'. The focus is primarily conceptual, reflecting on how vulnerability studies might be recast through the lenses of wounds and wounding, thereby retrieving a critical sense of attributing blame for the 'making' of certain peoples and places more vulnerable than others to hazards of all kinds. Emphasis is placed on the interconnected …
Possible geographies
The rise of non‐representational theory in human geography has prompted searching questions about how researchers might ‘represent’ what they encounter in their fieldwork. A central problem is that we reach an insurmountable impasse, an aporia, because we cannot share thoughts, meanings, feelings, etc., in a manner faithful to our experience of them or equally that certain spectacular or horrific events and encounters escape their retelling. We a…
Michel Foucault , Psychiatric Power
S]ometimes something like an enigmatic and indecipherable secret, which may have been overlooked or cast aside but which actually contains the essential, falls into someone's hands.And this secret, so secret that we do not know it is a secret unless, precisely, we have undergone the ritual initiations
The nature of publishing and assessment in Geography and Environmental Studies
We present a summary of the kinds of outputs submitted to the Geography and Environmental Studies sub‐panel (H‐32) for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and examine the relationships between the peer assessment of research quality that the RAE process has typified, and alternative modes of assessment based on bibliometrics. This comparison is effected using (in aggregate form) some of the results from the RAE, together with citation da…
The Sage Handbook of Human Geography
‘One Must Eliminate the Effects of … Diffuse Circulation [and] their Unstable and Dangerous Coagulation’
Foucault spent time investigating the stopping of mobilities, notably when studying carceral spaces such as asylums and prisons which effectively immobilise their inmates at a societal scale. In Discipline and Punish, he speculates on how such spaces are designed to put a stop to casual ‘nomadisms’. The purpose here is to inspect this aspect of Foucault’s thinking, particularly to recover what he also said about the regulation and cultivation of …
Theory and Methods
Contents: Introduction Part I Spatial Science and Its Critics: A geographic methodology, William Bunge Sensations and spatial science: gratification and anxiety in the production of ordered landscapes, D. Sibley Retheorizing economic geography: from the quantitative revolution to the 'cultural turn', Trevor J. Barnes. Part II Marxist Geography and Its Early Reconstructions: Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the probl…
Squeezing, Bleaching, and the Victims' Fate
This article opens a dialogue between geohumanities and poetry-or, more broadly, creative writing-around the subject matters of violence and wounding. It considers what kinds of "poetry" might be usefully enrolled by the geoliterary critic, or even authored by the geographer-poet, in response to such subject matters. Difficult questions abound about what it means to author, hear, and read poetry that is engaged and enraged by instances of violenc…
More words, more worlds
This chapter shows that geography as spatial science, emerging in the 1950s and 1960s, replicated the obsession with the material world, albeit translating the configurations of material phenomena into more abstract geometric representations supposedly disclosing the deeper truths of humanity's spatial organization. It suggests that there are surprisingly few works which explicitly set out to explore the possible overlaps between human geography …
On edge?’
Staying with the trouble of institutions
This paper provides a commentary on the theme section entitled “Troubling Institutions at the Nexus of Care and Control.” Using the recent book Matters of Care (2017) by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa as a reference point, the authors of the commentary introduce the project of exploring how care and control admix across a range of institutional geographies, reflecting complex assemblages of places, peoples, practices and problems. Taking seriously th…
Ontological Boundaries or Contextual Borders
What and where is ‘the asylum’ today? To what extent do mental healthcare facilities stand out as clearly bounded entities in the modern urban landscape, perhaps reflecting their history as deliberately set-apart and then often stigmatised places? To what extent have they maybe become less obtrusive, more sunk into and interacting with their urban surroundings? What issues of urban ethics are at stake: concerning who/what is starkly demarcated in…
Spatial Histories of Radical Geography
This book is undoubtedly a milestone in the ongoing process of writing the histories of the great period that saw the rising of critical and radical approaches in geography from the 1960s and 1970s onward. Although these histories are characterized by a plurality of methodological approaches (biographical, transnational, place-based, and spatial-sensitive), there is increasing evidence that this rising was international, albeit one of its most fa…
Sociology (20 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Geography (13 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 obras) · Social science (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Law (8 obras)