Outputs (30)

Making autoethnography: crafting intimate, social and material relations (2022)
Journal Article

Making autoethnography outlines a method for combining the practices of making (sewing and crochet) and interpretive writing to capture the relationality of the self and materials. I discuss how I have developed my fascination with making as a condui... Read More about Making autoethnography: crafting intimate, social and material relations.

Bedding into bags: the life histories of materials, makers and the time of making in a case study of fabric upcycling (2022)
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Geographical scholarship on making has established the interrelations between makers, materials and space. With this paper I explore how this scholarship can be developed to incorporate time through paying close attention to the time of making. Drawi... Read More about Bedding into bags: the life histories of materials, makers and the time of making in a case study of fabric upcycling.

The hopes of memorial remaking: Product, process, and the temporal rhythms of making (2022)
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The individual and social therapeutic benefits of spending time making have received both popular and academic endorsement. These testimonials often promote the sentiment that the benefits of making are experienced in the doing rather than what is ma... Read More about The hopes of memorial remaking: Product, process, and the temporal rhythms of making.

A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday (2022)
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Teleology shapes the design of much geographical research through the requirement to identify outcomes. In contrast, the theoretical orientation of geographical research on the everyday promotes a relational and visceral approach to resist the teleol... Read More about A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday.

Lessons Learned From 11 Countries on Programs Promoting Intergenerational Solidarity (2020)
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Objective The goal of this project was to develop a systematic framework through which interventions promoting intergenerational solidarity in 11 countries could be assessed. Background Although intergenerational solidarity—the exchange of mater... Read More about Lessons Learned From 11 Countries on Programs Promoting Intergenerational Solidarity.

The paradoxical habits of busyness and the complexity of intimate time-space (2020)
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Talk of busyness is everywhere. Obsessions with being busy mediate the temporalities of working and family life. The assumption that busyness is universal suggests a unified experience of temporality in the 21st century. This paper responds to this n... Read More about The paradoxical habits of busyness and the complexity of intimate time-space.

Young entrepreneurs and non-teleological temporality in Portugal and the UK (2019)
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The promotion of young enterprise is central to European Union youth policy, particularly since the financial crisis of 2007/2008. Expectations that young people need to be enterprising and eschew dependency on formal structures of salaried employmen... Read More about Young entrepreneurs and non-teleological temporality in Portugal and the UK.

Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities, with commentaries from Peter Adey, Clare Holdsworth, Hayden Lorimer, Peter Merriman, Tim Schwanen and Elaine Stratford (2019)
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Book review.

Gendered temporalities of everyday family practices: An analysis of self-help literature on ‘busyness’ (2019)
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The busyness of everyday life has received considerable popular and academic attention in recent years. The narrative developed in popular literature is that busyness is the defining temporality of the twenty-first century. While these subjective con... Read More about Gendered temporalities of everyday family practices: An analysis of self-help literature on ‘busyness’.

Understanding drinking among midlife men in the United Kingdom: A systematic review of qualitative studies (2018)
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Objectives This study reviews qualitative research into the sociocultural meanings and subjective experiences that midlife men in the United Kingdom (UK) associate with their drinking. In the UK, average weekly alcohol consumption is highest among mi... Read More about Understanding drinking among midlife men in the United Kingdom: A systematic review of qualitative studies.