- About
- Conveners
- Programme 2013-14
- Past events
About
In the upcoming academic year, the Taking Place research group proposes to attend to the ways in which particular places elicit networks of affective resonances. The critical practice of examining emotive responses to the external environment has recently gained prominence across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines, including geography, literary studies, anthropology, history, and philosophy. Given its flexibility across diverse modes of analysis, the notion of affect can be deployed in an interdisciplinary context to open up creative new insights into the ways we encounter, live in, and move through particular places. For instance, our group intends to explore the ways in which affective relations to place vary in different geopolitical and socioeconomic contexts, such as the global south. Furthermore, issues of entitlement, displacement and spatially configured processes of identity formation can lead to substantially fraught types of affective geographies. We intend to push such concerns further in the 2013/14 incarnation of Taking Place, particularly by exploring non-western theoretical perspectives.
To provide this seminar series with a thematic coherence, we will focus on three sites of interest in order to examine the complex relationship between emotions and place. The themes we have chosen will be addressed from a variety of disciplinary and geopolitical perspectives and are at the crux of current critical discourse on affective geographies.
1. Urban places
2. In-between places
3. Rural places
Conveners
Conveners
Jesus F. Chairez Garza (Faculty of History)
Diana Leca (Faculty of English)
Laura T. Loyola Hernandez (Department of Geography)
Emma Notfors (Faculty of English)
Thue Winkler (Faculty of English)
Faculty Advisors
Dr Robert Macfarlane (Faculty of English)
Professor Sarah Radcliffe (Department of Geography)
Programme 2013-14
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Race and Queer Space in Bloomberg’s NY 16 Oct 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Johan Andersson (KC London) at Taking Place |
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Subcultures and Surplus: Urban Scene 30 Oct 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Dr Jo-Anne Dillabough (Cambridge) at Taking Place |
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What happens in Vegas? 13 Nov 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Steve Pile (Open University) at Taking Place |
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Reflections on Naturalisation 27 Nov 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Anne-Marie Fortier (Lancaster) at Taking Place |
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Atmospheric Things 22 Jan 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Dr Derek McCormack (Oxford) at Taking Place |
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Cross-Border Mobility and Transnational Spaces: Border Crossings amongst Mexican Indigenous People 5 Feb 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S1, First floor* Dr Aída Hernández (CIESAS/Simon Bolivar Chair CLAS) at Taking Place |
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Therapeutic Landscapes: 19th Century 19 Feb 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S1, First floor* Dr Clare Hickman (KCL) at Taking Place |
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Geographies of Affection?: Emotional Responses to the Gallipoli Peninsula in Ireland and Australia 5 Mar 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Dr Stuart Ward (Copenhagen) at Taking Place |
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Eyeopener: Geographies of Light and Shadow, Near and Far 14 May 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Seminar room SG2 John Wylie (Exeter) at Taking Place |
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Gender and the New British Nature Writing 29 May 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1 (NB different date & room today) Astrid Bracke (Radbout Universiteit) at Taking Place |
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Rural Networks of Empire in Contemporary Literature 11 Jun 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Seminar room SG2 Lucienne Loh (Liverpool) at Taking Place |
Past events
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Giving Time, Taking Place: Inheriting Landscape on a Dynamic Planet 17 Oct 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Nigel Clark (Senior Lecturer of Human Geography, The Open University) |
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Technologies, Territories, and Mobilities 31 Oct 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH David Morley (Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London) |
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In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads 14 Nov 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH David Matless (Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Nottingham) |
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Learning From Detroit: The Aesthetics of Urban Decay 28 Nov 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Christopher Woodward (Director, The Garden Museum, London). |
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Four Maps and a Wedding: Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples and Contested Notions of Landscape and Territory 30 Jan 2012 5:15pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Dr Sarah Radcliffe (Reader in Latin American Geography, Cambridge), Respondent: Dr Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge) |
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Place, Belonging and Language in North-West Greenland: Some Initial Thoughts 13 Feb 2012 5:15pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Dr Stephen Pax Leonard (Research Fellow in Linguistics, Cambridge) |
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From Preserving Sites to Restoring Nature in the Landscape 27 Feb 2012 5:15pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Brian Eversham (Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough) |
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Roundtable: Place and the Museum: Landscape, Heritage and Conservation 12 Mar 2012 5:15pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Dr Dacia Viejo Rose (Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identities after Conflict, Cambridge), Bryan Lintott (Exhibitions Officer, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge) – other speakers tbc |
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Layering Territories, Making Place: The Case of Maxwell Street, Chicago 10 May 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor Tim Cresswell (Professor of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London). NB Thursday 10 May at 5.00pm |
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England’s Silent Places: Landscape, Photography and Identity Formation 21 May 2012 5:15pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor Ingrid Pollard (Artist and Photographer) |
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Which Colony? Which Block?: Violence, Urban Planning and Post-Colonial Writing 7 Jun 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor NB Different date |
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Commitees, Witch Doctors, and the ‘Mother-Body’: Everyday resistance and politics in the township of Cato Manor, South Africa’ 15 Oct 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Dr Paula Meth (University of Sheffield) NB: Only today we will meet in room SG2* |
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Recoding Urban Space through Place Hacking 29 Oct 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor Dr Bradley Garrett (University of Oxford)) |
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Engineering Informality: Flyover and Skywalk Construction in Mumbai 12 Nov 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor Dr Andrew Harris (University College London) |
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Languages of Place in Official and Everyday Politics 26 Nov 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor Dr Jon Lawrence (University of Cambridge) |
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Rebordering Jerusalem: Landscaping through World Heritage and the Wall 28 Jan 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor Dr Britt Baillie (University of Cambridge) |
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The Settlement Circuit: Entertainment and Urban Renewal in Interwar Boston 11 Feb 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor Dr Michael McCluskey (metaLAB, Harvard University) |
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Living Dangerously: The Politics of Risk in Bogotá, Colombia 25 Feb 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S1, First Floor Dr Austin Zeiderman (Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science). NB: The group will meet in a different room today, S1-1st Floor* |
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Challenging Conventions of Slum Upgrading: Lessons Learnt from a Study of Upgrade in South Africa 11 Mar 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor Dr Kamna Patel (Lecturer in Development Administration, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL) |
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(De)constructions of Cosmopolitanism and Identity Among Urban Middle Classes in Africa 20 May 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground Floor Claire Mercer (London School of Economics) and Rachel Spronk (University of Amsterdam) |
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Colonel Blimp and the ‘Posturing Progressives’: The Battle for Glasgow’s George Square 3 Jun 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground Floor Dr Ray McKenzie (Glasgow School of Arts) |
