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Rotating maps and users: praxiological aspects of alignment and orientation
(Institute of Geography. The School of Geosciences.The University of Edinburgh, 2006)
A longstanding topic in our notions of what geographic knowledge could be is the mental map, or, in its most recent
form, mental spatial representations. In this paper we draw upon ethnomethodological critiques of cognition, ...
Driving and passengering: notes on the ordinary organisation of car travel
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008)
We spend ever increasing periods of our lives travelling in cars, yet quite what it is we do
while travelling, aside from driving the vehicle itself, is largely overlooked. Drawing on
analyses of video records of a series ...
Possible geographies: a passing encounter in a café
(Blackwell Publishing, 2006)
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 ...
Cold shoulders and napkins handed: gestures of responsibility
(Wiley InterScience, 2006)
Cafes are places in the city in which we have come to expect conviviality between the unacquainted. Goffman is perhaps the most famous analyst of relations between strangers in public space, yet his depiction of society's ...
Drinking up endings: conversational resources of the café
(Elsevier, 2008)
A first theme of this article is the abiding relationship between the café and conversation.
A relationship which begins with Habermas’s emphasis on political debate in early
modernity and continues to more contemporary ...
Ethnoarchaeology and undefined investigations
(Pion Ltd, 2004)
For us in the event of writing this we hear ‘what next’ as something we have been
planning ought to happen. It means we will finally begin considering the affinities and
complementarities between Foucauldian historical ...
Neighbouring as an occasioned activity : "Finding a lost cat"
(Sage, 2002)
To illustrate the decline in a strong sense of community the
characteristics of suburban living are often cited by social and cultural
commentators. Spatially dispersed, lifeless during the daytime due to commuting,
an ...
Rotating maps and readers: praxiological aspects of alignment and orientation
(Blackwell Publishing, 2008)
A longstanding topic in our notions of what geographic knowledge could be is the mental map, or, in its most recent
form, mental spatial representations. In this paper we draw upon ethnomethodological critiques of cognition, ...
A parcel of muddling muckworms’: revisiting Habermas and the Early Modern English coffee-houses
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2007)
In the context of a research project concerned with contemporary cafés,
one in which coffee-shops have loomed large, it has been appropriate to
revisit Habermas’s famous 1962/1989 work on the transformation of the
‘public ...
Why people say where they are during mobile phone calls
(Pion Ltd, 2001)
An often-noticed feature of mobile phone calls is some form of 'geographical' locating after a greeting has been made. The author uses some singular instances of mobile phone conversations to provide an answer as to why ...