This report examines the ways in which mapping is performative, participatory and political. Performativity has received increasing attention from scholars, and cartography is no exception. Interest has shifted from the map as object to mapping as practice. Performativity is a cultural, social and political activity; maps as protest and commentary. The internet both facilitates and shapes popular political activism, but scholars have been slow to grasp amateur political mappings, although analysis of political deployments of mapping in state, territorial and imperial projects remains rich. Finally, some authors suggest that cartography be understood as existence (becoming) rather than essence (fixed ontology).

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Cartography: performative, participatory, political

Developing an agenda to conceptualise the connections between the domestic and the urban, this paper focuses on urban domesticities (homemaking in the city), domestic urbanism (the city as home) an...

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Home-city geographies: Urban dwelling and mobility

How well can the concept of Padé approximant be generalized to the multivariate case

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One of the ideas of the GeoCapabilities project(s) is to open up an international debate on the purposes and values of geography education. In line with this, the aim of this article is to examine ...

GeoCapabilities, Didaktical analysis and curriculum thinking – furthering the dialogue between Didaktik and curriculum

© TE A CH IN G G EO G RA PH Y . S U M M ER 20 0 7 involved in manufacturing the polyamide and elastane lycra, the farmers planting, tending and cultivating the cotton plants, and those getting these and other materials to the factory. This simple transaction links me with hundreds, thousands, millions(?) of people across the world. If my socks could become more than mere garments – sock puppets who could talk! – what would they tell me about the conditions, education, wealth, future of the people involved in putting them on my feet (Cook et al., 2006)? This transaction links me to more than just individual people. The factory in Bulgaria, contributing to hundreds of job losses in the UK (Anon, 1999), is owned by Delta Socks, an Israeli company fighting its own battles against boycotters who have identified how its Israeli factories benefit from operating on illegally confiscated Palestinian land by employing labourers in dreadful non-unionised conditions (Scheid, 2002). The headquarters of these sock boycotters are located in London, just a couple of Tube stops away from the M&S I bought them in. Putting my foot into the oh-sofluffy, comforting sock, it seems I’m helping to perpetuate the Arab–Israeli conflict, to disrupt the lives of hundreds of fellow Brits, and to contribute to the lives of thousands in Bulgaria. Who lives, dies, profits or suffers depends, in a small part, on me. My socks have spoken, and what they have said matters. Oppression doesn’t sit well with me – and what I do with my money. I can change what socks I buy. I must change. Sacrificing quality for ethics is a small price to pay. I may be just one person, but what I do makes a difference, to a lot of people, in a lot of different places. But I’m not the only one that can or should act differently. Surely, this can’t all be my responsibility as a consumer. Others are shaping my options and they have to change too, including M&S bosses, and the people who decide what socks get onto their shelves. A new range of fairtrade cotton socks has just started to appear there (Anon, 2006a; 2006b). Would you believe it? Their marketing pitch was ‘Your M&S: Look Behind the Label’! Just what I was doing. Their cotton is grown by farmers in Gujurat, India. It’s good for them. But what about those sock workers in the UK, Bulgaria and Israel/Palestine (O’Nions, 2006)? What ‘good’ has this done them? And what should I do with the socks I’ve already got? The ones lying in my drawer? Put them on, as usual, I suppose, for a run this morning, then to walk into uni. Verrucas, dirt, cold, pain. Whenever I am barefooted, unpleasant things tend to invade my feet, and that’s why I like socks. They are barriers to my discomfort; I am secure, safe in their company. Yet, I do seem to like them a little too much. They take up a whole drawer in my room after all. I can’t imagine life without them. But socks are strange beings. In improving my life, offering comfort, warmth and protecting me against disease, they seem to have sacrificed their own identities. They are the only free item of clothing I have – free from tags, labels or any clues to their origin or even what they are made from. I have to delve deeper, literally, into my bin and retrieve the packet before I can make out that they were ‘Made in Bulgaria’. By buying them in my local Marks & Spencer store in London, I became part of an intricate and widereaching network of people and machines. In purchasing these socks, I was one of 15 million customers in one of 400 M&S stores in the UK that employ 65,000 people (Anon, 2005). The socks that ended up on the checkout conveyor-belt are part of the countless number transported from a factory in Rousse, Bulgaria, packaged by automated production lines and made by over 600 workers (Anon, 2002) who knit, sew, seam, bleach, iron, shape and sort my socks assisted by 200-needle single and double-cylinder machines (Anon, no date). Not to mention the thousands of workers in Bulgaria Many of us pay little or no attention to where the things in our lives come from. We may be concerned about factory conditions in other parts of the world, but not feel any direct sense of connection with the people working there. ‘Made in...’ labels and ingredient information don’t tell us much about these connections and relationships. But they can be starting points for ‘geographical detective work’ (Hartwick, 2000). This can allow teachers and students to piece together their understanding of commodities and their complex geographies, and provoke classroom discussion about the impacts of consumers’ decisions, which inevitably draw upon the key geographical concepts including:

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Made in… ? Appreciating the everyday geographies of connected lives

To ‘make public’ expresses three aims that have driven my doctoral research into the past and future of east London housing estates undergoing regeneration; materially – to protect public housing provision at a time when austerity measures are dismantling it in ideal and form; procedurally – to make visible problematic processes of urban change that are increasingly hidden from public view; and methodologically – to make public my act of research through intimate and sustained collaboration with residents on site. This research document focuses on Balfron Tower, a high-rise of 146 flats and maisonettes arranged on 26 storeys built in 1965–7, the first phase of emigre architect Ernő Goldfinger's work on the Greater London Council's (GLC) Brownfield Estate in Poplar.In December 2015, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets approved plans to refurbish and privatise Balfron Tower. In this paper, I describe my collaborative work with the tower’s current and former residents in the preceding three years during whic...

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Make public: performing public housing in Ernő Goldfinger's Balfron Tower

This article is the result of some of the early work of the GA Citizenship Working Group (CWG) which was established in 2006 to support the development of the citizenship dimension of geography education.

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What is geography’s contribution to making citizens?

The recent scheme of approximants formed from double power series and proposed by Chisholm (1973) is examined in relation to known functions containing simple singularities of the form (x-xs(y))- gamma , in cases where xs(y) is linear. Attention is focused on the usefulness of these approximants in determining sequences of approximations to the locus of singularities xs(y), and the exponent gamma .

The analysis of double power series using Canterbury approximants

2019 was the year of the declaration – from Culture Declares to Architects Declare to Architecture Education Declares – a landmark moment when architects pledged to confront climate emergency. In t...

Why Now: The Ethical Act of Architectural Declaration

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