(2005). Consuming ethics: Articulating the subjects and spaces of ethical consumption. Antipode, 37 (1)

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In this paper we seek to develop the concept of dwelling as a means of theorising place and landscape. We do this for two interconnected reasons. First, dwelling has come to the fore recently as an approach to nature, place, and landscape, but we argue that further development of this idea is required in order to address issues relating to romantic views of places, authenticity, localness, and the way we`see' landscapes. Second, we turn to the notion of dwelling to develop interconnected views of the world which can still retain a notion of place, a key but problematic concept within geography, landscape studies, and environmental thinking. In particular, we seek to develop ideas of place within the context of actor network theory. We explore the notion of dwelling in Heidegger and as adapted by Ingold, and we trace how dwelling has been deployed subsequently in studies of landscape and place. We then develop a more critical appreciation of dwelling in the context of an orchard in Somerset which we have researched as a place of hybrid constructions of culture and nature.

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Geographies of food banks have focused predominantly on issues of neoliberal politicaleconomy and food insecurity. In this paper, we trace alternative understandings of food bankingas spaces of care, and as liminal spaces of encounter capable of incubating political and ethical values, practices and subjectivities that challenge neoliberal austerity. Our aim is to develop a conceptual approach to voluntary welfare capable both of holding in tension the ambivalent and contradictory dynamics of care and welfare in the meantime(s), and of underlining some of the more hopeful and progressive possibilities that can arise in and through such spaces of care.

This paper addresses the dilemma of how easy it is to talk and write about human geographies of ethics and justice compared to the difficulties of living out those geographies in our everyday life practices. If radical ideas and radical practices are to go hand in hand, we need to address the apparent inability to retain a critical political edge in human geography. The paper comments on new readings of moral and ethical geographies, noting Marc Augé's distinction between a sense of the other and a sense for the other, and arguing that any goal in human geography for developing an emotional, connected and committed sense for the other may necessitate a prompting of the moral imagination which includes political/ethical/spiritual constellations of issues such as charity, agape and evil. Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt and Melissa Orlie, the paper emphasizes imaginations of power that recognize ‘evil’, the crisis of the citizen-subject, and the recovery of political enthusiasms for ‘invisible powers’. It envisions a human geography in which living ethically and acting politically can be essentially intertwined with a sense for the other in a sensitive, committed and active approach to the subject. This entails both a continuing engagement in collective political action against ordered evil, and taking responsibility for what we have been made to be and for who we are becoming.

In the U K the current Coalition government has introduced an unprecedented set o f reforms to welfare, public services, and local governance under the rubric o f 'localism'. Conventional analytics o f neoliberalism have commonly portrayed the impacts o f these changes in the architectures o f governance in blanket terms: as an utterly regressive dilution o f local democracy; as an extension of conservative political technology by which state welfare is denuded in favour of market-led individualism; and as a further politicised subjectification o f the charitable self. Such seemingly hegemonic grammars o f critique can ignore or underestimate the progressive possibilities for creating new ethical and political spaces in amongst the neoliberal canvas. In this paper we investigate the localism agenda using alternative interpretative grammars that are more open to the recognition o f interstitial politics o f resistance and experimentation that are springing up within, across, and beyond formations o f the neoliberal. We analyse the broad framework o f intentional localisms laid down by the Coalition government, and then point to four significant pathways by which more progressive articulations o f localism have been emerging in amongst the neoliberal infrastructure. In so doing we seek to endorse and expand imaginations o f political activism that accentuate an interstitial political sensibility that works strategically, and even subversively, with the tools at hand.

(2007). Globalising the consumer: doing politics in an ethical register. Political Geography, 26(3) pp. 231-249.For guidance on citations see FAQs.