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Spatial Fixity and Revanchist Renewal in Post-Industrial Cultural Cities in the Cultural Heartlands
Full text linkThe investment strategies of post-industrial cities are viewed within a critical Marxist framework. Drawing on the notion of the ‘spatial fix’ as a temporary solution to the crisis of capitalist accumulation and especially Harvey’s (1985) ‘consumption fund’ as a secondary circuit of capital flow, this session focuses on the impact of cities’ expansion into a broadly cultural arena as part of their post-industrial transformation. Using examples of cities’ expansion of higher education space, including student accommodation, retail, and culture, which has led to mega – construction in cities and a change in the cityscape, this session reflects on the physical and socio-economic impact, and sustainability of such developments. Empirical examples from Leicester, Birmingham, and Lincoln as cities of different sizes and origin in the Midlands, are used to consider local impacts of a transformed cityscape in terms of ownership and identity, the emergence of a cultural space of conspicuous consumption (Veblen, 1899) tied to an exclusive and transitory user group, and the temporary nature of second and third circuit capital flows. The privatisation of space, the use of key city assets, and the mega-investment and commercialisation of key urban space is cited as being neoliberal in use and benefits, and emphatically revanchist. As such, it introduces a spatiality of contestation locally, which is underpinned by negligible economic returns on investment in terms of the broader local economy. The three mega project examples comprise, Birmingham’s “City Park”, Lincoln’s university expansion in the historic Brayford Pool, and Leicester’s investment in the Curve Theatre in the St George’s Conservation Area. In these examples, mega investment is viewed as nothing more than a spatio-temporal fix (Jessop, 2006, p143) – that is, a temporal displacement through investment in projects that defer re-entry of current excess capital
Session on amenity migration at annual RGS IBG conference 2005
No full textSession on amenity migration at annual RGS IBG conference 2005. In: Revue de géographie alpine, tome 92, n°4, 2004. Sports de montagne et territoire dans les Alpes, sous la direction de Philippe Bourdeau . p. 111
Session on amenity migration at annual RGS IBG conference 2005
No full textSession on amenity migration at annual RGS IBG conference 2005. In: Revue de géographie alpine, tome 92, n°4, 2004. Sports de montagne et territoire dans les Alpes, sous la direction de Philippe Bourdeau . p. 111
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RGS-IBG Expeditions Database and Report Collection
No full textThe goal of this project was to improve the functionality and increase submissions to the Report Collection and Expeditions Database of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) (RGS-IBG). To determine the limitations and possible improvements of the Database and Collection, we conducted an assessment, a survey, and an interview. We then produced a series of guides for volunteers at the Society and a number of recommendations for the future development of the Collection and Database
Mapping Indigeneity in the RGS-IBG map collections
Full text linkThis article summarises and reflects on the ‘Mapping Indigeneity’ Map Room Conversation that formed part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024. As debates continue to gather pace regarding the colonial legacies of geography and how researchers can work with/work against these legacies, the theme of this Conversation was timely and inspired an engaging and thought-provoking discussion. The paper is organised into three sections. Firstly, the maps from the RGS-IBG collections displayed during the Conversation are presented and their relevance explained. Secondly, the authors offer a summary of the key points/themes raised during the discussions. Topics included the decolonisation of archival and museum collections; the repatriation of Indigenous objects and artefacts; and the inclusion/exclusion of Indigenous peoples within academic research. Finally, reflecting on their experience of taking part in the Map Room Conversation, and considering how the points raised pushed them to (re)consider their own approaches, the authors conclude by offering some suggestions as to the shape of future geographical research that combines Indigenous-focused studies with historical map collections
Past, present, future: the RGS‐IBG political geography research group within British political geography
Full text linkThis paper critically examines the history of the Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) within the shifting landscape of political geography as a sub-discipline within British academic geography. While the sub-discipline has evolved almost beyond recognition in the past 50 years, from the rehabilitation of political geography and geopolitics in the 1960s through the political turn to the present, what has been the role of the flagship national study group in this journey? Reflecting on this question provides an opportunity to consider how the RGS-IBG research group has previously and can continue to contribute to and advance the (re)birth of British political geography while reflecting more broadly on the growing challenges to research groups—which rely upon volunteers undertaking ‘service roles’ for the benefit of the discipline—in the face of increasing workload pressures in the sector
Appel à contributions / RGS-IBG Conference: "Utility after Abandonment? The New Ruin as Cultural Asset and Public Space", Cardiff (28th August – 31st August 2018) - LIMITE : 05/02/2018
No full textConference RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2018 Geographical landscapes / Changing landscapes of geography Cardiff, Tuesday 28th August – Friday 31st August 2018 Session Call for Papers UTILITY AFTER ABANDONMENT? The New Ruin as Cultural Asset and Public Space Session sponsored by the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (of the RGS-IBG) Convenors: Luke Bennett (Sheffield Hallam Uni.), Ed Hollis (Univ. of Edinburgh), Hayden Lorimer (Univ. of Glasgow), Ruth Olden (Univ. of Glas..
"From hybrid electrical practices to heterogeneous situated configurations in Ibadan and Cotonou” - RGS-IBG Annual Conference
No full textSlide 1 - "From hybrid electrical practices to heterogeneous situated configurations in Ibadan and Cotonou” Slide 8 - "From hybrid electrical practices to heterogeneous situated configurations in Ibadan and Cotonou” Hello everyone, I am happy to do my first post in English to announce that I had the honour to present my work at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference (28th-30th august 2019), as part of the session 48: "Hybrid electrical configurations : from heterogeneity to reconceptualizing ener..
Decolonising spaces of geographical knowledge production: ‘Thinking geographically’ with undergraduate geographers in the RGS-IBG at Kensington Gore
Full text linkThis commentary is a response to the Area commentary by Mark Griffiths and Kate Baker (2020), which draws focus on the problematic prominence of colonial material histories at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’s Lowther Lodge site. We outline an undergraduate field trip – run collaboratively by University College London (UCL) and the RGS-IBG since 2018 – for first year UCL Geography students that aims to make them both aware of Geography’s problematic colonial histories, and party to the ways the discipline is changing and critically engaging with its past. Positioned at the intersections of teaching and research, we highlight this field trip because we believe it stands as an example of precisely the kind of decolonial engagement with the RGS-IBG for which Griffiths and Baker call
Institutionalising future geographies of financial inclusion: national legitimacy versus local autonomy in the British credit union movement.
No full textThis paper provides a critical overview of recent developments in British credit union development, and contributed to the broader analysis of alternative financial/economic spaces and (the geographies of) alterity. The paper was underpinned by a wide range of local, national and international conference presentations including the National Association of Credit Union Workers, Birmingham, 2001; Combating Financial Exclusion, Salford, 2001; Association of American Geographers, New York, 2001, New Orleans, 2003; Alternative Economic Spaces, Hull, 2005; and discussions with local user communities throughout the UK (including through non-academic publishing, such as SCCD news and New Start articles)
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