Cultural geography: worldly shapes, differently arranged

‘It’s good but it’s not enough’: the relational geographies of social policy and youth mentoring interventions

“…Smith et al (2010:270) argue for the need to attend to the "situated, emotional and embodied" nature of social policy and emphasise the "social" of social policy, as well as the importance of the "more-than-social" in exploring "how the spaces of [social practice] function in and through myriad prosaic, complex, tangible and intangible practices, feelings and encounters". In this paper we argue for the need to be open to what, after Lorimer (2007), Smith et al (2010:271) discuss as the "on-going nature of 'doing' [social practice] and its 'emergent' qualities in diverse spaces which are both central to, but also excessive of, the direct spaces and places of [social practice]." Thus both temporal and wider socio-spatial aspects of the practices of care require consideration.…”

“…Our approach to the relational thus not only insists on the interpersonal, temporal and spatial dimensions in the doing of social practice but also on an expansive sense of relationality. In so doing, it begins to address the need identified by Lorimer (2007) and Smith et al (2010) to "bridge the gap" between attention to the personal and immediate practices of social policy and "wider political agendas" of the state, though challenges remain.…”

Revolutionary landscapes: the PCTP/MRPP mural paintings in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area

“…Within this perspective, a rather different understanding has been developed by scholars such as Dewsbury et al (2002), Harrison (2007), Latham (2003), Lorimer (2005Lorimer ( , 2007Lorimer ( , 2008Lorimer ( ), nash (2000, rose and Wylie (2006Wylie ( ), smith (2003, and thrift (1996,1997,2007), who have been influenced by non-representational theorists (e.g. Haraway, Latour, Deleuze, Bahktin, Merleau-Ponty).…”

La production culturelle de la norme spatiale à travers l’habitat illégal dans l’Hérault

“…19 Si cette tolérance généralisée à l'égard de la « cabanisation » ressort de processus a priori peu cohérents, chacune des lectures proposées dans ce texte est convaincue de la permanence de l'intentionnalité de l'action (ou l'inaction) et de la performativité du discours qui l'accompagne. En effet, si on dépasse l'approche étriquée d'Austin ou de Benvéniste qui distinguent entre performativité (potentielle) et performance (avérée et ainsi action), cette performativité devient un outil théorique majeur qui renouvelle les sciences humaines (Thrift, 1996(Thrift, et 2007Butler, 2004 ;Lorimer, 2005Lorimer, et 2007 Ainsi, la préoccupation environnementale masque le problème social, largement sousestimé ; or la « cabanisation » de pauvreté est celle qui se développe. L'unanimisme du discours de protection environnemental permet à la fois d'esquiver le débat politique autour de la pauvreté et l'expulsion hors de la ville d'une part croissante des populations pauvres mais aussi de justifier des mesures brutales d'exclusion (écoles) ou d'expulsion (cabanes).…”