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Engaging publics: Writing as praxis (2014)

Kitchin, Rob

Engaging publics: Writing as praxis (2014)

Kitchin, Rob

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Geographers have long debated for whom and for what ends academics should research and publish, how geographical knowledge is produced, and the use and value of such knowledges. This paper contributes to these debates through a discussion of an on-going project concerning the financial crisis in Ireland and its legacy of ‘ghost estates’. The analysis is framed with respect to Michael Burawoy’s taxonomy of forms of scholarly knowledge production and details the use of 10 forms of writing praxis, aimed at engaging a variety of audiences. The paper demonstrates that the classes in Burawoy's taxonomy are far from mutually exclusive, and illustrates how geographical scholarship can make an impact in a variety of registers.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/7218/

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Public geographies through social media (2013)

Kitchin, Rob; Linehan, Denis; O'Callaghan, Cian; Lawton, Philip

Public geographies through social media (2013)

Kitchin, Rob; Linehan, Denis; O'Callaghan, Cian; Lawton, Philip

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In this paper, we argue that new social media produces new forms of public geography and digital praxis in which the relationship between reader and writer is radically altered and which enables geographers to engage in timely conversation and debate with the public on unfolding issues, and provides new avenues to connect with older forms of broadcast media. Social media can strengthen geographers engagement with the existing fourth estate and forge new relationships with an emerging fifth estate – dynamic, responsive and empowered publics. We illustrate such potentials by drawing on our own experiences of contributing to IrelandAfterNAMA , a collective blog that provides critical analysis of the present crisis in Ireland which has established a regular readership and has led to significant media work (over 500 newspaper articles and radio and television interviews). Such public geography projects are not without their challenges and pitfalls, not least because they alter and challe...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5369/

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The creation and circulation of public geographies (2013)

Kitchin, Rob; Linehan, Denis; O'Callaghan, Cian; Lawton, Philip

The creation and circulation of public geographies (2013)

Kitchin, Rob; Linehan, Denis; O'Callaghan, Cian; Lawton, Philip

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In response to the commentaries, we discuss further how social media disrupts and remakes the creation and circulation of geographical knowledges and potentially reconfigures the moral economy of the social sciences. In particular, we examine questions of what is meant by public geography, the publics which such geographies serve, alternative and complementary approaches to social media, the politics of authorship within collective blogs, the politics and mechanisms of knowledge circulation, and the extent to which social media has an impact beyond the academy, enacting ‘minimal politics’.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5368/

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Unfolding mapping practices: a new epistemology for cartography (2012)

Kitchin, Rob; Gleeson, Justin; Dodge, Martin

Unfolding mapping practices: a new epistemology for cartography (2012)

Kitchin, Rob; Gleeson, Justin; Dodge, Martin

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In recent years there has been a turn within cartographic theory from a representational to a processual understanding of mapping. Maps have been re-conceptualised as mappings that ceaselessly unfold through contingent, citational, habitual, negotiated, reflexive and playful practices, embedded within relational contexts. In this paper, we explore what this rethinking means for cartographic epistemology, contending that attention needs to be focused on understanding cartography through the lens of practices – how mappings are (re)made in diverse ways (technically, socially, bodily, aesthetically and politically) by people within particular contexts and cultures as solutions to everyday tasks. We detail how these practices can be profitably examined using a suite of methods – genealogies, ethnographies, ethnomethodology, participant observation, observant participation and deconstruction – that are sensitive to capturing and distilling the unfolding and contextual nature of mapping. ...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/3824/

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