TY - JOUR
T1 - Organic Public Geographies: “Making the connection”
AU - Hawkins, Harriet
AU - Sacks, Shelley
AU - Cook (U. of Ex.), Ian
AU - Rawling, Eleanor
AU - Griffiths, Helen
AU - Swift, Di
AU - Evans, James
AU - Rothnie, Gail
AU - Wilson, Jacky
AU - Williams, Alice
AU - Feeney, Kate
AU - Gordon, Linzi
AU - Prescott, Heather
AU - Murphy, Claire
AU - Allen, Daniel
AU - Mitchell, Tyler
AU - Wheeldon, Rachel
AU - Roberts, Margaret
AU - Robinson, Guy
AU - Flaxman, Pete
AU - Fuller, Duncan
AU - Lovell, Tom
AU - Askins, Kye
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - A new field of “public geographies” is taking shape (Fuller 2008) in geography's mainstream journals. While much is “traditional”, with intellectuals disseminating academic research via non- academic outlets (Castree 2006; Mitchell 2008; Oslender 2007), less visible is the “organic” work and its “more involved intellectualizing, pursued through working with area-based or single-interest groups, in which the process itself may be the outcome” (Ward 2006:499; see Fuller and Askins 2010). A number of well-known projects exist where research has been “done not merely for the people we write about but with them” (Gregory 2005:188; see also Cahill 2004; Johnston and Pratt 2010). However, collaborative writing of academic publications which gives research participants authorial credit is unusual (mrs kinpainsby 2008; although see Sangtin Writers and Nagar 2006). This paper is about an organic public geographies project called “Making the connection”. It is written by a diverse collection of (non-)academic participants who contributed to the project before it had started, as it was undertaken, and/or after it had finished. This is a “messy”, process-oriented text (Cook et al. 2007) working through the threads (partially) connecting the activities of its main collaborators, including a referee who helped get the paper to publication.
AB - A new field of “public geographies” is taking shape (Fuller 2008) in geography's mainstream journals. While much is “traditional”, with intellectuals disseminating academic research via non- academic outlets (Castree 2006; Mitchell 2008; Oslender 2007), less visible is the “organic” work and its “more involved intellectualizing, pursued through working with area-based or single-interest groups, in which the process itself may be the outcome” (Ward 2006:499; see Fuller and Askins 2010). A number of well-known projects exist where research has been “done not merely for the people we write about but with them” (Gregory 2005:188; see also Cahill 2004; Johnston and Pratt 2010). However, collaborative writing of academic publications which gives research participants authorial credit is unusual (mrs kinpainsby 2008; although see Sangtin Writers and Nagar 2006). This paper is about an organic public geographies project called “Making the connection”. It is written by a diverse collection of (non-)academic participants who contributed to the project before it had started, as it was undertaken, and/or after it had finished. This is a “messy”, process-oriented text (Cook et al. 2007) working through the threads (partially) connecting the activities of its main collaborators, including a referee who helped get the paper to publication.
KW - organic public geographies
KW - collaboration
KW - co-authorship
KW - school geographies
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00909.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00909.x
M3 - Article
VL - 43
SP - 909
EP - 926
JO - Antipode
JF - Antipode
SN - 0066-4812
IS - 4
ER -