Exploring Ronan’s conceptual, methodological and substantive innovations: Ronan on public art

Radical geography from the Drumlin: an academic commemoration of Ronan Paddison (1945–2019)

“…The next seven pieces in the SI alight upon more focussed conceptual and substantive manoeuvres within Ronan's oeuvre: Gordon MacLeod on perhaps Ronan's most distinctive offering, with complex philosophical and empirical twists, in the shape of 'the fragmented state' (MacLeod, 2020); Charles Pattie on Ronan's dabbling with both fiscal and electoral geography, the latter deploying statistical methods to expose the grubby politics of constituency 'redistricting' (Pattie, 2020); Steven Miles on Ronan's early recognition of the need to interrogate and critique 'culture-led urban regeneration' (Miles, 2020); Vee Pollock on how the culture-cities axis morphed for Ronan into concerns about public art and urban politics (Pollock, 2020); John McKendrick on Ronan's brush with attempts to measure, map, interpret and draw inferences from the construct 'quality of life' (McKendrick, 2020); Lazaros Karaliotas on Ronan's remarkably prescient late work on post-politics and 'the post-political city' (Karaliotas, 2020); and Emma Laurie and Chris Philo on the relatively marginal but intriguing early statements by Ronan (and coauthors) about 'the Arab city' or even 'the post-colonial city' (Laurie & Philo, 2020). Some features of Ronan's scholarship are admittedly not touched upon at all directly, notably geographies of planning, governance, public administration, retailing, education and housing.…”