Publications by category
Books
Mareková M, Peterová K, Szalai V, Tomášková R (eds)(2023).
Design mentoring manual., Fashion Revolution.
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Design mentoring manual
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Nečasová S, Maraková M, Tomasková R (eds)(2023).
Manual for organising a sustainable event., Fashion Revolution.
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Manual for organising a sustainable event
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Mareková M, Cook I, Tomášková R, Ryšavá Z (2023).
Manual for organising fashion education activities., Fashion Revolution.
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Manual for organising fashion education activities
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Crutchlow P, Cook I (2022). Museum of Contemporary Commodities / MoCC zine. Exeter, Museum of Contemporary Commodities.
CHGRG ->, Sugg B, DeSilvey C, Cartwright C, Asker C, Freeman C, Curtis D, Harvey D, Ryfield F, Lucas G, et al (2020).
Academic Life in Lockdown Activity Book. San Francisco, Blurb.
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Academic Life in Lockdown Activity Book
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Naylor S, Ryan J, Cook I, Crouch D (eds)(2018). Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns., Routledge.
Ditty S, Cook IJ, Hunter L, Futerra, Blanchard T (2018).
How to be a fashion revolutionary. Ashbourne, Fashion Revolution.
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How to be a fashion revolutionary
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Ditty S, Cook IJ, Hunter L, Futerra (2015).
Como ser um revolucionário da moda. Ashbourne, Fashion Revolution.
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Como ser um revolucionário da moda
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Ditty S, Cook IJ, Hunter L (2015).
Cómo ser un revolucionario de la moda. Ashbourne, Fashion Revolution.
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Ditty S, Cook IJ, Hunter L (2015).
How to be a fashion revolutionary., Ashbourne: Fashion Revolution.
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How to be a fashion revolutionary
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Crang MA, Cook IJ (2007).
Doing ethnographies. London, Sage.
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Doing ethnographies
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Cook IJ, Cloke P, Crang P, Philo C, Goodwin M, Painter J (2004). Practising human geography. London, Sage.
Cook IJ, Naylor S, Ryan J, Crouch D (2000). Cultural turns / geographical turns: perspectives on cultural geography. Harlow, Longman.
Cook IJ, Crang M (1995).
Doing ethnographies. Norwich, Geobooks.
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Journal articles
Parsons L, Safra De Campos R, Moncaster A, Siddiqui T, Cook I, Jayasinghe AB, Billah T, Pratik M, Abenayake C (2022). Trading disaster: containers & container thinking in the production of climate precarity.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
47(4), 990-1008.
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Trading disaster: containers & container thinking in the production of climate precarity.
This. paper. examines. how. global. trade. shapes. and. intensifies. disasters. Juxtaposing three basic, everyday consumer goods –. a t- shirt, a brick, and a tea bag –. with disasters manifesting in their respective global supply chains, it high-lights. how. climate. change. local. environmental. degradation. and. carbon. emis-sions are dynamically shaped by consumption. Analysis of data collected in South and. Southeast. Asia. reveals. that. local. environmental. degradation. linked. to. in-ternational trade interacts with global climate change and the policies intended to mitigate it, influencing how and where disasters manifest. Underpinning this analysis is the physical and conceptual presence of the container. With more and more of the natural environment packaged and redistributed for global trade, the container thinking that underpins these logistics is increasingly imbricated in en-vironmental. processes. Indeed. as. this. paper. aims. to. show. the. container. logic. that frames analysis of these processes –. linked to and drawn from the logistics of. global. trade. –. serves. as. both. obfuscator. and. actor. in. the. global. landscape. of. environmental risk.
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Cook et al I (2019). A new vocabulary for cultural-economic geography?.
Dialogues in Human Geography,
9(1), 83-87.
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A new vocabulary for cultural-economic geography?
Ibert et al.’s (2019) paper is a welcome stimulus to, and a re-focusing on, what seem to us to be reasonably well-established problematics and debates. It seems familiar to us because of our work, since 2011, on the followthethings.com project. From this perspective, their remit for new cultural-economic geography research doesn’t seem cultural enough (what about cultural geography’s recent ‘turn’ towards creative practice?), the publications drawn upon seem unnecessarily traditional (what about geography’s ongoing turn towards digital practice and ‘natively digital’ outputs?), and the research practices needed for the work that is outlined seem undeveloped (what can we learn about capitalism’s ‘dark’ places and strategies of association and dissociation from, among others, creative digital practice?). Digital outputs such as followthethings.com risk being bypassed by more traditional practices of academic review, and our insistence that it should ‘stand on its own’ without accompanying academic papers doesn’t, admittedly, help. So, in this response, we have chosen to engage with the paper’s main themes and arguments by sketching out our parallel world of ongoing research in which strategies and vocabularies of dissociation feature strongly. What we conclude is that both of our projects could be seen to be working towards the same goal: to assemble a new vocabulary that is better suited for the analysis of this area of cultural economic geography. We’d like to collaborate on this with Ibert et al. (2019) and anyone else who’s interested.
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Cook et al I (2018). Inviting construction: Primark, Rana Plaza and political LEGO.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
43(3), 477-495.
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Inviting construction: Primark, Rana Plaza and political LEGO
Toys protest political corruption in Siberia, critique ISIS worldviews in London and illustrate Greece's financial and migrant crises. Geographers disagree about whether playing with things distracts us from, or helps us to more critically engage with, questions of justice, poverty, exploitation, environment and the commodity. Art activists in the academy say that working in creative ways can enliven and enhance our practices of research, publication and impact. Drawing together these debates about art, activism and geography, this paper asks what can be learned from recreating in LEGO and posting online scenes from the tense and changing socio‐economic relationships between investigative journalists, corporate executives and garment workers making clothes for a high street fashion retailer Primark before, during and after the catastrophic Rana Plaza garment complex collapse in April 2013. It also experiments with the composition of academic outputs, in the hope that that its arguments leap up from the page. and it finishes by inviting readers to try this approach for themselves.
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Cook et al I (2017). From 'follow the thing: papaya' to followthethings.com. Journal of Consumer Ethics, 1(1), 22-29.
Cook et al I (2016). Les géographies du numérique: on en veut encore! | More digital geographies, please. Justice Spatiale | Spatial Justice, 10
Philo C, Askins K, Cook IJ (2015). 'Civic Geographies: pictures and other things at an exhibition.'.
Acme: an international e-journal for critical geographies,
14(2), 355-366.
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'Civic Geographies: pictures and other things at an exhibition.'
This paper introduces an Interventions theme section of ACME exploring the possibilities raised by the notion of ‘civic geographies’, inquiring what it might mean to rework an older, sometimes conservative and even reactionary version of ‘civics’ into alternative ways of intervening in the world, ‘counter civics’ perhaps, with a potentially critical and transformative edge. Taking seriously the connective or associational dimensions of civics, coupled to a sensibility of engaging with theplaces, buildings and wider infrastructures of civic life, this collection does n ot seek to settle the matter of what civic geographies might entail, neither in the world nor as lens for critical-geographical theory-and-praxis. Nonetheless, it seeks to ask fresh questions through the medium of academic papers that initially grew from what might itself be deemed a practical civic intervention, namely contributions to an exhibition held in 2012 at an international Geography conference. The introductory paper that now follows will critically review the notion of civic geographies, underlining its unsettled and maybe unsettling dimensions, as well as elaborating the rationale for an exhibition that now becomes this theme section in ACME.
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Hudson C, Cook IJ (2015). Occupy RGS(IBG) 2012. Acme: an international e-journal for critical geographies, 14(2), 413-421.
Cook et al I (2014). 'Afters': 26 authors, a blog and a 'workshop imagination geared to writing'. Cultural geographies, 21(1), 135-140.
Cook et al I (2014). 'Organic Public Geographies and REF Impact'. Acme: an international e-journal for critical geographies, 13(1), 47-51.
Cook et al I (2014). Fabrication critique et web 2.0: les géographies matérielles de followthethings.com.
Géographie et cultures,
91-92, 23-48.
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Fabrication critique et web 2.0: les géographies matérielles de followthethings.com.
Recent reviews of new media scholarship have criticised it for paying little attention to the social and environmental (in)justices in its technical infrastructure. At the same time, scholars of social and environmental (in)justice are experimenting with web2.0, using wikis, blogs, twitter and other social media to conduct and disseminate their research. These strands have collided in the making of a website called followthethings.com which simultaneously critiques the injustices embedded in everyday things, whilst also being made and maintained using everyday things, most notably a laptop, its software and the technical infrastructure of web2.0. Drawing on an emerging literature on critical making, this paper explains what has been learned about the material geographies of web2.0 and commodity activism through this making process.
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Cook IJ, Hobson K, Hallett L, Guthman J, Murphy A, Hulme A, Sheller M, Crewe L, Nally D, Roe E, et al (2011). Geographies of food: afters.
Progress in human geography,
35(1), 104-120.
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Geographies of food: afters
This third and final ‘Geographies of food’ review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series (Cook et al. 2006; 2008a). Authors of the work featured in these reviews – plus others whose work was not but should have been featured – were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people’s work, and to enter into conversations about – and in the process review – other/new work within and beyond what could be called ‘food geographies’. These conversations were
coded, edited, arranged, discussed and rearranged to produce a fragmentary, multi-authored text aiming to convey the rich and multi-stranded content, breadth and character of ongoing food studies research within and beyond geography.
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Cook IJ, Hawkins H, Sacks S, Rawling E, Griffiths H, Swift D, Evans J, Rothnie G, Wilson J, Williams A, et al (2011). Organic public geographies: 'making the connection'.
Antipode,
43(3), 909-926.
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Organic public geographies: 'making the connection'
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.
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Cook IJ, Hawkins H, Sacks S, Rawling E, Griffiths HG, Swift D, Evans J, Rothnie G, Wilson J, Williams A, et al (2011). Organic public geographies: 'making the connection'. Antipode, 43(4), 909-926.
Cook et al I (2008). Geographies of food: mixing. Progress in Human Geography, 32(6), 821-833.
Anderson J, Askins K, Cook IJ, Desforges L, Evans J, Fannin M, Fuller D, Griffiths H, Lambert D, Lee R, et al (2008). What is geography's contribution to making citizens.
Geography,
93(1), 34-39.
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What is geography's contribution to making citizens
A Citizenship Working Group (CWG) was established in September 2006 to support members of the Geographical Association in the development of the citizenship dimension of geography education. One of the group’s first initiatives was to invite a number of academic geographers (in one case, with their students) to write short ‘viewpoint’ essays responding to the question: what is geography’s contribution to making citizens? These have been made available unedited on the CWG website. and this paper is an attempt to condense out their main arguments through a question and answer format which addresses what we mean by ‘citizenship’, how it is ‘geographical’, how it is changing, what’s new about ‘citizenship education’ in the UK, what this means for school pupils and their teachers, and what we therefore believe geography’s contribution to making citizens might be.
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Cook IJ, Evans J, Griffiths H, Morris R, Wrathmell S (2007). 'It's more than just what it is': defetishising commodities, expanding fields, mobilising change….
Geoforum,
38(6), 1113-1126.
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'It's more than just what it is': defetishising commodities, expanding fields, mobilising change…
Commodity geographies are politically weak. Geographical pedagogy isn’t particularly engaging. Radical geography should make connections. But it rarely leaves room for interpretation. Too much seems to be too didactic. and to preach to the converted. That’s a problem that needs attention. So, is it possible to develop a radical, less didactic, geography? with research funding, publication and teaching the way they are? to engage more students, more heartily, in the issues studied? to promote social justice, critical citizenship, and participatory democracy? But not by setting out the right ways to think, be, or act. Some film-makers, artists and writers have been able to do this. It seems. Subtly and cleverly. Through projects attempting to de-fetishise commodities. But their politics have been placed largely in the background, between the lines of, or separated out from, the presentation of scenes, things, relations, bodies, lives and voices. Seen and unseen elements of their audiences’ lives. Re-connected. Perhaps. Through communication strategies giving audiences something to think about and to think with, to argue about and to argue with. Putting themselves in the picture, in the process. These less didactic materials may be difficult to master for an exam or an essay. They may not make it clear who or what’s right or wrong or what audiences are supposed to do. But they could engage them in less direct ways. When they’re shopping for petrol or fish, or when they’re doing or thinking about completely different things. Things that may not even come under the heading of ‘production’ or ‘consumption’. This approach might be labelled as ‘weak’, ‘relativist’, a bit too ‘cultural’ ‘post-modern’, or ‘defunct’. But it’s an approach that may be radical in effect because its ‘politics’ aren’t so straightforward or ‘up front’. This paper is about changing relationships between research, writing, teaching, learning and assessment; expanding fields of commodity geographies to include classrooms as sites not only of ‘instruction’, but also of learning, for researchers and their students1; showing how such learning might usefully shape research and writing elsewhere in these fields for those engaged in this defetishising project.
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Evans J, Cook IJ, Griffiths H (2007). Creativity, group pedagogy & social action: a departure from Gough. Educational philosophy and theory, 40(2), 330-345.
ICook, Harrison M (2007). Follow the thing: West Indian hot pepper sauce. Space and Culture, 10(1), 40-63.
Cook IJ, Harrison M (2007). Follow the thing: ‘West Indian hot pepper sauce’.
Space and culture,
10(1), 40-63.
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Follow the thing: ‘West Indian hot pepper sauce’.
This article adds to the food studies literature by tracing relations between one North London family cooking fishcakes on a Friday night and the changing fortunes of a group of farmers in a rural Jamaica town ripping up sugar cane to grow hot peppers, a key ingredient in a bottle hot pepper sauce that connected their lives. The article draws on and contributes to political and academic
debates about (a) conducting “follow the thing” ethnographies in which commodities and their biographies are the organizing principles of postdisciplinary research; (b) producing detailed case studies that illustrate how capitalist relations not only could be,but are,diverse,different,surprising; (c) presenting evocative, engaging, affecting, but jarring accounts of connected lives with which readers can hopefully identify and get wrapped up in as they read; and (d) theorizing together, between the lines, Marxist, poststructuralist,and postcolonial approaches to food and its globalized, uneven geographies.
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Cook IJ, Evans J, Griffiths H, Mayblin L, Payne R, Roberts D (2007). ‘Made in… ?’ appreciating the everyday geographies of connected lives?. Teaching geography(Summer), 80-83.
Cook et al I (2006). Geographies of food: following. Progress in human geography, 30(5), 655-666.
Cook IJ, Williams A, Motamedi M (2006). Stuff geography. Primary Geographer(Autumn), 38-39.
Cook et al I (2004). Follow the thing: papaya.
Antipode,
36(4), 642-664.
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Follow the thing: papaya.
In a recent round table about Antipode’s radical geographies, contributors argued that the journal needed more papers which stimulated debate, were accessible to academics and non-academics alike, didn’t ‘‘preach to the cognoscenti’’, were written to fit into radical teaching agendas, and were diverse and eclectic in style (Waterstone 2002:663; Hague 2002). This paper has been written to fit this bill. It outlines the findings of multi-locale ethnographic research into the globalization of food, focusing on a supply chain stretching from UK supermarket shelves to a Jamaican farm, and concluding in a North London flat. It addresses perspectives and critiques from the growing literature on the geographies of commodities, but presents these academic arguments ‘‘between the lines’’ of a series of overlapping vignettes about people who were (un)knowingly connected to each other through the international trade in fresh papaya, and an entangled range of economic, political, social, cultural, agricultural and other processes also shaping these connections in the early 1990s. The research on which it is based was initially energized by David Harvey’s (1990:422) call for radical geographers to ‘‘get behind the veil, the fetishism of the market’’, to make powerful, important, disturbing connections between Western consumers and the distant strangers whose contributions to their lives were invisible, unnoticed, and largely unappreciated. Harvey argued that radical geographers should attempt to de-fetishise commodities, re-connect consumers and producers, tell fuller stories of social reproduction, and thereby provoke moral and ethical questions for participants in this exploitation who might think they’re decent people. This paper has been written to provoke such questions, to provide material s to think through and with, for geography’s ongoing debates about the politics of consumption.
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Cook IJ, Harrison M (2003). ‘Cross over food: re-materialising postcolonial geographies’.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
28(3), 296-331.
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‘Cross over food: re-materialising postcolonial geographies’.
Recent geographical discussions of postcolonialism have highlighted its emphasis on texts and discourses, its neglect of more material aspects of (post)imperial/colonial domination and the need for detailed empirical research articulating postcolonialism
and global capitalism. This paper addresses these issues by reporting on research based in a recent debate in the UK trade press over the ‘failure’ of Caribbean food to ‘cross over’ into the UK ‘mainstream’. It outlines the contrasting manufacturing and marketing practices of two Jamaican food companies whose accounts of (not) attempting this ‘cross-over’ illustrate postcolonialism’s hybrid, resistant, ambivalent, scale-jumping, boundary-crossing, material cultural politics.
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Cook et al I (2001). Social sculpture and connective aesthetics: Shelley Sacks’s ‘Exchange values’.
Ecumene,
7(3), 337-343.
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Social sculpture and connective aesthetics: Shelley Sacks’s ‘Exchange values’
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Cook IJ, Angus T, Evans J (2001). ‘A manifesto for cyborg pedagogy’. International research in geographical & environmental education, 10(2), 195-201.
Cook IJ (2000). 'Nothing can ever be a case of us and them again': exploring the politics of difference through border pedagogy & student journal writing.
Journal of geography in higher education,
24(1), 13-27.
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'Nothing can ever be a case of us and them again': exploring the politics of difference through border pedagogy & student journal writing
Linda McDowell (1994) has called for styles of teaching which put into practice arguments about the 'politics of difference' which has become an increasingly central part of human geographical research. This paper draws on a number of years’ experience of teaching an undergraduate course on multicultural historical geography, in which this was attempted. Here students were encouraged to get more involved in these debates, to take them more personally, and to develop 'situated knowledges' about the UK as a multicultural society. The approach to teaching, learning and assessment which made this possible was based on the principles of. ‘border pedagogy’ and on students writing journals throughout the course which charted the development of their understandings of the materials they encountered.
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Cook IJ, Crang P, Thorpe M (1998). Biographies & geographies: consumer understandings of the origins of foods.
British food journal,
100(3), 162-167.
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Biographies & geographies: consumer understandings of the origins of foods.
This article argues for a biographical and geographical understanding of foods and food choice. It suggests that such an approach highlights one of the most compelling characteristics of food - that being the way in which it connects the wide worlds of an increasingly internationalised food system into the intimate space of the home and the body. More specifically, and based on ongoing empirical research with 12 households in inner north London, the article explores one aspect of food biographies, through an interlinked consideration of what consumers know of the origins of foods and consumers’ reactions to systems of food provision. It concludes that a structural ambivalence can be identified, such that consumers have both a need to know and an impulse to forget the origins of the foods they eat.
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Cook IJ, Crang P (1996). 'The world on a plate': culinary culture, displacement and geographical knowledges.
Journal of material culture,
1(2), 131-153.
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'The world on a plate': culinary culture, displacement and geographical knowledges
This article uses claims about the local globalization of culinary culture to stage an argument about the character of material cultural geographies and their spaces of identity practice. It approaches these geographies in two ways. First, it views foods not only as placed cultural artefacts, but also as dis-placed materials and practices, inhabiting many times and spaces which, far from being neatly bounded, bleed into and mutually constitute each other. Second, it considers the geographical knowledges, or understandings, of foods’ geographies, mobilized within circuits of culinary culture, outlining their production through processes of commodity fetishism, and arguing for forms of critical intervention that work with the fetish rather than attempt to reach behind it.
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Chapters
Tolia-Kelly D, Cook I (2021). Géographies matérielles. In Hancock C (Ed) Géographies anglophones, nouveaux défis, Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 285-304.
Cook I, Bagelman J (2020). Public Geographies, Enacting. In (Ed) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier, 79-86.
Cook et al I (2019). Ethnography in human geography. In Atkinson P, Delamont S, Cernat A, Sakshaug JW, Williams RA (Eds.) SAGE Research Methods Foundations, London: Sage.
Thrift N (2018). Introduction. In (Ed) Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns, Taylor & Francis, 1-6.
Cook I, Crang P, Thorpe M (2018). Regions to be cheerful. In (Ed) Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns, Routledge, 109-139.
Cook et al I (2017). followthethings.com: analysing relations between the making, reception and impact of commodity activism in a transmedia world. In Söderström O, Kloetzer L (Eds.)
Innovations sociales: comment les sciences sociales transforment la société, Neuchátel, Switzerland: University of Neuchátel, 46-60.
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Cook IJ, Crang P (2016). Consumption and its geographies. In Daniels P, Bradshaw M, Shaw D, Sidaway J, Hall T (Eds.) An introduction to human geography, Harlow: Pearson, 379-398.
Cook IJ, Crang P (2014). The World on a Plate: Culinary Culture, Displacement and Geographical Knowledges. In Pilcher J (Ed)
Food History: Critical and Primary Sources, London: Bloomsbury.
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The World on a Plate: Culinary Culture, Displacement and Geographical Knowledges
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Cook IJ, Jackson P, Hayes-Conroy A, Abrahamsson S, Sandover R, Sheller M, Henderson H, Hallett IV L, Imai S, Maye D, et al (2013). Food’s cultural geographies: texture, creativity & publics. In Johnson N, Schein R, Winders J (Eds.)
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 343-354.
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Cook IJ, Crang, P. (2012). Consumption & its geographies. In Daniels P, Bradshaw M, Shaw D, Sidaway J (Eds.) An introduction to human geography, Harlow: Pearson, 396-415.
Cook IJ, Woodyer T (2012). Lives of things. In Sheppard E, Barnes T, Peck J (Eds.)
Wiley-Blackwell companion to economic geography, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 226-241.
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Cook IJ, Crang P (2012). The world on a plate: culinary culture, displacement and geographical knowledges. In Steger M (Ed) Globalization & culture: volume 1, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 230-252.
Allsop D, Allen H, Clare H, Cook IJ, Raxter H, Upton C, Williams A (2010). Ethnography & participant observation. In Gomez B, III JPJ (Eds.)
Research methods in geography: a critical introduction, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
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Ethnography & participant observation
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Cook IJ, Tolia-Kelly DP (2010). Material geographies. In Hicks D, Beaudry M (Eds.)
Oxford handbook of material culture studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Material geographies
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Cook et al I (2008). Geographies of food: following. In Tucker L (Ed) Bioneering: hybrid investigations of food, Irvine, California: University of California, Irvine, 126-139.
Cook et al I (2008). Pozicioniranost / situirano znanje. In Atkinson D, Jackson P, Sibley D, Washbourne N (Eds.) Kulturna geografija: kriticki rjecnik klucnih pojmova, Zagreb: Disput, 41-53.
Cook IJ, Harrison M, Lacey C (2006). The power of shopping. In Wilson R (Ed) Post party politics, London: Involve, 42-46.
Cook IJ (2005). Participant Observation. In Flowerdew R, Martin D (Eds.) Methods in human geography: a guide for new students, Harlow: Prentice Hall, 167-188.
Cook et al I (2005). Positionality / situated knowledge. In Atkinson D, Jackson P, Sibley D, Washbourne N (Eds.) Cultural geography: a critical dictionary of key ideas, London: IB Tauris, 16-26.
Cook IJ (2004). Trade. In Harrison S, Pile S, Thrift N (Eds.) Patterned ground: ecologies of culture and nature, London: Reaktion, 124-126.
Cook IJ, Crang P, Thorpe M (2004). Tropics of consumption: getting with the fetish of ‘exotic’ fruit?. In Reimer S, Hughes A (Eds.) Geographies of commodity chains, London: Routledge, 173-192.
Cook IJ, Crang P (2004). ‘The world on a plate: culinary culture, displacement & geographical knowledges’. In Thrift N, Whatmore S (Eds.) Cultural geography: critical concepts in the social sciences (volume 1), Routledge.
Cook IJ, Crang P (2003). ‘The world on a plate: culinary culture, displacement & geographical knowledges’. In Clarke D, Doel M, Housiaux K (Eds.) The consumption reader, London: Routledge, 113-116.
Cook IJ (2001). ‘You want to be careful you don’t end up like Ian. He’s all over the place’: autobiography in/of an expanded field. In Moss P (Ed) Placing autobiography in geography, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 99-120.
Cook IJ, Crang P, Thorpe M (2000). 'Have you got the customer's permission?' Category management and circuits of knowledge in the UK food business. In Bryson J, Daniels P, Henry N, Pollard J (Eds.) Knowledge, space, economy, London: Routledge, 242-260.
Cook IJ (2000). Culture and political economy: introduction. In Cook IJ, Crouch D, Naylor S, Ryan J (Eds.) Cultural turns / geographical turns: perspectives on cultural geography, London: Pearson.
Cook IJ, Crang P, Thorpe M (2000). Regions to be cheerful? Culinary authenticity & its geographies. In Cook I, Crouch D, Naylor S, Ryan J (Eds.) Cultural turns / geographical turns: perspectives on cultural geography, Harlow: Longman, 109-139.
Cook IJ, Crang P, Thorpe M (1999). Eating into Britishness: multicultural imaginaries and the identity politics of food. In Roseneil S, Seymour J (Eds.) Practising identities: power & resistance, Oxford: Macmillan, 223-248.
Cook IJ (1999). New fruits and vanity: symbolic production in the global food economy. In Bryson J, Henry N, Keeble D, Martin R (Eds.) The economic geography reader: producing & consuming global capitalism, Chichester: Wiley, 301-306.
Cook IJ (1997). Participant observation. In Flowerdew R, Martin D (Eds.) Methods in human geography: a guide for students doing research projects, Harlow: Longman, 127-149.
Cook IJ (1995). Constructing the exotic: the case of tropical fruit. In Allen J, Massey D (Eds.) Geographical worlds, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 137-149.
Cook IJ (1994). New fruits and vanity: symbolic production in the global food economy. In Bonanno A, Busch L, Friedland WH, Gouveia L, Mingione E (Eds.) From Columbus to ConAgra: the globalisation of agriculture and food, Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 232-248.
Reports
Parsons L, Safra De Campos R, Moncaster A, Cook I, Siddiqui T, Abenayake C, Jayasinghe AB, Pratik M, Scungio L, Billah T, et al (2021). Disaster trade: the hidden footprint of UK production overseas. Egham, Royal Holloway, University of London. 111 pages.
Publications by year
2023
Mareková M, Peterová K, Szalai V, Tomášková R (eds)(2023).
Design mentoring manual., Fashion Revolution.
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Design mentoring manual
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Nečasová S, Maraková M, Tomasková R (eds)(2023).
Manual for organising a sustainable event., Fashion Revolution.
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Manual for organising a sustainable event
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Mareková M, Cook I, Tomášková R, Ryšavá Z (2023).
Manual for organising fashion education activities., Fashion Revolution.
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Manual for organising fashion education activities
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2022
Crutchlow P, Cook I (2022). Museum of Contemporary Commodities / MoCC zine. Exeter, Museum of Contemporary Commodities.
Parsons L, Safra De Campos R, Moncaster A, Siddiqui T, Cook I, Jayasinghe AB, Billah T, Pratik M, Abenayake C (2022). Trading disaster: containers & container thinking in the production of climate precarity.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
47(4), 990-1008.
Abstract:
Trading disaster: containers & container thinking in the production of climate precarity.
This. paper. examines. how. global. trade. shapes. and. intensifies. disasters. Juxtaposing three basic, everyday consumer goods –. a t- shirt, a brick, and a tea bag –. with disasters manifesting in their respective global supply chains, it high-lights. how. climate. change. local. environmental. degradation. and. carbon. emis-sions are dynamically shaped by consumption. Analysis of data collected in South and. Southeast. Asia. reveals. that. local. environmental. degradation. linked. to. in-ternational trade interacts with global climate change and the policies intended to mitigate it, influencing how and where disasters manifest. Underpinning this analysis is the physical and conceptual presence of the container. With more and more of the natural environment packaged and redistributed for global trade, the container thinking that underpins these logistics is increasingly imbricated in en-vironmental. processes. Indeed. as. this. paper. aims. to. show. the. container. logic. that frames analysis of these processes –. linked to and drawn from the logistics of. global. trade. –. serves. as. both. obfuscator. and. actor. in. the. global. landscape. of. environmental risk.
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2021
Parsons L, Safra De Campos R, Moncaster A, Cook I, Siddiqui T, Abenayake C, Jayasinghe AB, Pratik M, Scungio L, Billah T, et al (2021). Disaster trade: the hidden footprint of UK production overseas. Egham, Royal Holloway, University of London. 111 pages.
Tolia-Kelly D, Cook I (2021). Géographies matérielles. In Hancock C (Ed) Géographies anglophones, nouveaux défis, Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 285-304.
2020
CHGRG ->, Sugg B, DeSilvey C, Cartwright C, Asker C, Freeman C, Curtis D, Harvey D, Ryfield F, Lucas G, et al (2020).
Academic Life in Lockdown Activity Book. San Francisco, Blurb.
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Academic Life in Lockdown Activity Book
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Cook et al I (2020). Bananas!.
Web link.
Cook et al I (2020). Handprint.
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Cook I (2020). Jamelia: whose hair is it anyway?.
Web link.
Cook I, Bagelman J (2020). Public Geographies, Enacting. In (Ed) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier, 79-86.
2019
Cook et al I (2019). A new vocabulary for cultural-economic geography?.
Dialogues in Human Geography,
9(1), 83-87.
Abstract:
A new vocabulary for cultural-economic geography?
Ibert et al.’s (2019) paper is a welcome stimulus to, and a re-focusing on, what seem to us to be reasonably well-established problematics and debates. It seems familiar to us because of our work, since 2011, on the followthethings.com project. From this perspective, their remit for new cultural-economic geography research doesn’t seem cultural enough (what about cultural geography’s recent ‘turn’ towards creative practice?), the publications drawn upon seem unnecessarily traditional (what about geography’s ongoing turn towards digital practice and ‘natively digital’ outputs?), and the research practices needed for the work that is outlined seem undeveloped (what can we learn about capitalism’s ‘dark’ places and strategies of association and dissociation from, among others, creative digital practice?). Digital outputs such as followthethings.com risk being bypassed by more traditional practices of academic review, and our insistence that it should ‘stand on its own’ without accompanying academic papers doesn’t, admittedly, help. So, in this response, we have chosen to engage with the paper’s main themes and arguments by sketching out our parallel world of ongoing research in which strategies and vocabularies of dissociation feature strongly. What we conclude is that both of our projects could be seen to be working towards the same goal: to assemble a new vocabulary that is better suited for the analysis of this area of cultural economic geography. We’d like to collaborate on this with Ibert et al. (2019) and anyone else who’s interested.
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Cook et al I (2019). Ethnography in human geography. In Atkinson P, Delamont S, Cernat A, Sakshaug JW, Williams RA (Eds.) SAGE Research Methods Foundations, London: Sage.
2018
Naylor S, Ryan J, Cook I, Crouch D (eds)(2018). Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns., Routledge.
Ditty S, Cook IJ, Hunter L, Futerra, Blanchard T (2018).
How to be a fashion revolutionary. Ashbourne, Fashion Revolution.
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How to be a fashion revolutionary
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Thrift N (2018). Introduction. In (Ed) Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns, Taylor & Francis, 1-6.
Cook et al I (2018). Inviting construction: Primark, Rana Plaza and political LEGO.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
43(3), 477-495.
Abstract:
Inviting construction: Primark, Rana Plaza and political LEGO
Toys protest political corruption in Siberia, critique ISIS worldviews in London and illustrate Greece's financial and migrant crises. Geographers disagree about whether playing with things distracts us from, or helps us to more critically engage with, questions of justice, poverty, exploitation, environment and the commodity. Art activists in the academy say that working in creative ways can enliven and enhance our practices of research, publication and impact. Drawing together these debates about art, activism and geography, this paper asks what can be learned from recreating in LEGO and posting online scenes from the tense and changing socio‐economic relationships between investigative journalists, corporate executives and garment workers making clothes for a high street fashion retailer Primark before, during and after the catastrophic Rana Plaza garment complex collapse in April 2013. It also experiments with the composition of academic outputs, in the hope that that its arguments leap up from the page. and it finishes by inviting readers to try this approach for themselves.
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Cook I, Crang P, Thorpe M (2018). Regions to be cheerful. In (Ed) Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns, Routledge, 109-139.
2017
Cook et al I (2017). From 'follow the thing: papaya' to followthethings.com. Journal of Consumer Ethics, 1(1), 22-29.
Cook et al IJ, Crutchlow P, Mikayla, et al (2017). Museum of Contemporary Commodities, Pavilion Gallery, Royal Geographical Society, Exhibition Road, London (24-27 August).
Cook IJ, Kemppainen E (2017). Tarvitsemme Lisää Tutkimusta.
Voima,
7, 24-25.
Author URL.
Cook et al I (2017). What to do if you find a cry for help in your Christmas presents this year. The Conversation 22 December.
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Cook et al I (2017). followthethings.com: analysing relations between the making, reception and impact of commodity activism in a transmedia world. In Söderström O, Kloetzer L (Eds.)
Innovations sociales: comment les sciences sociales transforment la société, Neuchátel, Switzerland: University of Neuchátel, 46-60.
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2016
Cook IJ, Crang P (2016). Consumption and its geographies. In Daniels P, Bradshaw M, Shaw D, Sidaway J, Hall T (Eds.) An introduction to human geography, Harlow: Pearson, 379-398.
Cook et al I (2016). Les géographies du numérique: on en veut encore! | More digital geographies, please. Justice Spatiale | Spatial Justice, 10
Crutchlow P, Cook IJ, et al (2016). Museum of Contemporary Commodities, shop-gallery, 87 Fore Street, Exeter (4 - 21 May).
Abstract:
Museum of Contemporary Commodities, shop-gallery, 87 Fore Street, Exeter (4 - 21 May)
The Museum of Contemporary Commodities (MoCC) is a participatory digital arts & social science project that uses processes of digital interaction and conversation to explore connections between data, trade, places, and values in relation to contemporary commodity culture. MoCC was sited for three weeks in central Exeter, open Weds-Sat 4th-21st May 2016, and consisted of a city centre shop-gallery space hosting a number of digital art-conversation works: the still active online database or MoCC collection to which members of the public can upload their own commodities and interpret them like a museum curator would, a set of designed/hacked objects for display and interaction including a digital quiz and internet connected talking doll, and a collection of documentation that will be used to present the project in other arts and academic settings. The project collaborated with artists, technologists, academics and members of the public to produce the museum, leaving a legacy of materials that can be toured in future to city centre retail sites, gallery spaces and outdoor events.
Abstract.
Crutchlow P, Cook IJ, et al (2016). Museum of Contemporary Commodities, shop-gallery, 87 Fore Street, Exeter (4 - 21 May).
Abstract:
Museum of Contemporary Commodities, shop-gallery, 87 Fore Street, Exeter (4 - 21 May)
The Museum of Contemporary Commodities (MoCC) is a participatory digital arts & social science project that uses processes of digital interaction and conversation to explore connections between data, trade, places, and values in relation to contemporary commodity culture. MoCC was sited for three weeks in central Exeter, open Weds-Sat 4th-21st May 2016, and consisted of a city centre shop-gallery space hosting a number of digital art-conversation works: the still active online database or MoCC collection to which members of the public can upload their own commodities and interpret them like a museum curator would, a set of designed/hacked objects for display and interaction including a digital quiz and internet connected talking doll, and a collection of documentation that will be used to present the project in other arts and academic settings. The project collaborated with artists, technologists, academics and members of the public to produce the museum, leaving a legacy of materials that can be toured in future to city centre retail sites, gallery spaces and outdoor events.
Abstract.
Crutchlow P, Cook IJ, et al (2016). The Museum of Contemporary Commodities, online collection and website.
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The Museum of Contemporary Commodities, online collection and website
MoCC is neither a building nor a permanent collection of stuff – it’s an invitation. To consider every shop, online store and warehouse full of stuff as if it were a museum, and all the things in it part of our collective future heritage. To create a different kind of imaginary, a new conversation, to ask or answer questions and consider the values we associate with the things and stuff that help to make us who we are, and to shape the places in which we live.
Become one of this museums curators. Add something to our online collection that you think is important, interesting or essential. Something that we can learn from or talk about. Maybe it's something that's part of your daily life? Something throwaway or irreplaceable. Something made specifically for you, or that you share with someone else. Something that was a gift or that you collect. A commodity that's alive, something that's been stolen or lost, something intangible? Why is it important? How do you feel about it?
By adding something to MoCC you are engaging in a data collection and processing exercise that is also an experiment in collective re-valuing. Our use and interpretation of the information in this database will be different from those of online retailers and direct marketing companies. We will not monetize it or use it to predict and manipulate your behaviour. However we will process this data using algorithms which have been written, like all algorithms, to interpret and present information with a specific agenda. How does knowing this affect your experience of the Museum? How does data collection and processing more widely affect our choices and limitations as well as those of other people?
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2015
Philo C, Askins K, Cook IJ (2015). 'Civic Geographies: pictures and other things at an exhibition.'.
Acme: an international e-journal for critical geographies,
14(2), 355-366.
Abstract:
'Civic Geographies: pictures and other things at an exhibition.'
This paper introduces an Interventions theme section of ACME exploring the possibilities raised by the notion of ‘civic geographies’, inquiring what it might mean to rework an older, sometimes conservative and even reactionary version of ‘civics’ into alternative ways of intervening in the world, ‘counter civics’ perhaps, with a potentially critical and transformative edge. Taking seriously the connective or associational dimensions of civics, coupled to a sensibility of engaging with theplaces, buildings and wider infrastructures of civic life, this collection does n ot seek to settle the matter of what civic geographies might entail, neither in the world nor as lens for critical-geographical theory-and-praxis. Nonetheless, it seeks to ask fresh questions through the medium of academic papers that initially grew from what might itself be deemed a practical civic intervention, namely contributions to an exhibition held in 2012 at an international Geography conference. The introductory paper that now follows will critically review the notion of civic geographies, underlining its unsettled and maybe unsettling dimensions, as well as elaborating the rationale for an exhibition that now becomes this theme section in ACME.
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Ditty S, Cook IJ, Hunter L, Futerra (2015).
Como ser um revolucionário da moda. Ashbourne, Fashion Revolution.
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Como ser um revolucionário da moda
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Ditty S, Cook IJ, Hunter L (2015).
Cómo ser un revolucionario de la moda. Ashbourne, Fashion Revolution.
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Gabie N, Gabie J, Cook IJ (2015). Dust, in 'Bideford Black, the Next Generation' exhibition, Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Bideford, UK (3 October - 13 November).
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Dust, in 'Bideford Black, the Next Generation' exhibition, Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Bideford, UK (3 October - 13 November).
Joan and Neville Gabie have been working on a collaborative commission with Geographer Ian Cook on a series of film based drawings, working with the pigment Bideford Black, a naturally occurring carboniforous pigment, once mined in the area. The body of work entitled ‘Dust’ includes a five screen video installation, a ‘cabinet of Curiosities’ containing some of the experimental work with plastic and rubber, and a suit worn by the artist.
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Ditty S, Cook IJ, Hunter L (2015).
How to be a fashion revolutionary., Ashbourne: Fashion Revolution.
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How to be a fashion revolutionary
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Crutchlow P, Cook IJ, Foote G, Garbelotto C, Ballard A, et al (2015). Museum of Contemporary Commodities 'Free Market', Furtherfield Gallery, Finsbury Park, London (17-19 July).
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Museum of Contemporary Commodities 'Free Market', Furtherfield Gallery, Finsbury Park, London (17-19 July)
Leave your money at home and use your personal data to buy, sell, or barter for a delicious range of commodity experiences at the MoCC Free Market. Local residents, park visitors, and online participants are invited to share how they value shopping and trading, in the street, and on their devices. | Add your valued commodities to Museum of Contemporary Commodities and help us test out our interaction prototype.Warm up with a Virtual Shopping trip, where you can map and discuss your trade and exchange habits with family, friends and strangers. Find out detailed information on the provenance, materials and trade-justice issues contained within your chosen commodity through a Live Chat with our expert Commodity Consultants. Upload your commodity to the MoCC database, and help curate MoCC in Finsbury Park. | Discover your future through the Forebuy service. We will scientifically predict your next most urgent desire and discover in real time which affordable and amazing product is ready and waiting for you. Stop by and discover unexpected treasures from Finsbury Park surroundings whilst chatting about needs and algorithms. | Use LEGO re-creations to turn your data and commodity stories into animated gifs, whilst sharing your experiences of local trade and exchange with Finsbury Park locals. | ever fancied your having your portrait drawn by a street artist? Go one better with our hacked scanner. A truly individualised datafication process, and a great souvenir of the Free Market! Our hacked scanner was built with advice from artist Nathaniel Stern. | Take a quiz! Match your shopping habits to our detailed guidelines and share your results with your social network. | More details http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/museum-contemporary-commodities-free-market
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Crutchlow P, Cook IJ, Foote G, Garbelotto C, Ballard A, et al (2015). Museum of Contemporary Commodities 'Free Market', Furtherfield Gallery, Finsbury Park, London (17-19 July).
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Museum of Contemporary Commodities 'Free Market', Furtherfield Gallery, Finsbury Park, London (17-19 July)
Leave your money at home and use your personal data to buy, sell, or barter for a delicious range of commodity experiences at the MoCC Free Market. Local residents, park visitors, and online participants are invited to share how they value shopping and trading, in the street, and on their devices. | Add your valued commodities to Museum of Contemporary Commodities and help us test out our interaction prototype.Warm up with a Virtual Shopping trip, where you can map and discuss your trade and exchange habits with family, friends and strangers. Find out detailed information on the provenance, materials and trade-justice issues contained within your chosen commodity through a Live Chat with our expert Commodity Consultants. Upload your commodity to the MoCC database, and help curate MoCC in Finsbury Park. | Discover your future through the Forebuy service. We will scientifically predict your next most urgent desire and discover in real time which affordable and amazing product is ready and waiting for you. Stop by and discover unexpected treasures from Finsbury Park surroundings whilst chatting about needs and algorithms. | Use LEGO re-creations to turn your data and commodity stories into animated gifs, whilst sharing your experiences of local trade and exchange with Finsbury Park locals. | ever fancied your having your portrait drawn by a street artist? Go one better with our hacked scanner. A truly individualised datafication process, and a great souvenir of the Free Market! Our hacked scanner was built with advice from artist Nathaniel Stern. | Take a quiz! Match your shopping habits to our detailed guidelines and share your results with your social network. | More details http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/museum-contemporary-commodities-free-market
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Cook IJ, Crutchlow P, Foote G, Garbelotto C, Ballard A, et al (2015). Museum of Contemporary Commodities, in 'The Human Face of Cryptoeconomics' exhibition, Furtherfield Gallery, Finsbury Park, London (17 October - 22 November).
Hudson C, Cook IJ (2015). Occupy RGS(IBG) 2012. Acme: an international e-journal for critical geographies, 14(2), 413-421.
2014
Cook et al I (2014). 'Afters': 26 authors, a blog and a 'workshop imagination geared to writing'. Cultural geographies, 21(1), 135-140.
Cook et al I (2014). 'Organic Public Geographies and REF Impact'. Acme: an international e-journal for critical geographies, 13(1), 47-51.
Cook et al I (2014). Fabrication critique et web 2.0: les géographies matérielles de followthethings.com.
Géographie et cultures,
91-92, 23-48.
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Fabrication critique et web 2.0: les géographies matérielles de followthethings.com.
Recent reviews of new media scholarship have criticised it for paying little attention to the social and environmental (in)justices in its technical infrastructure. At the same time, scholars of social and environmental (in)justice are experimenting with web2.0, using wikis, blogs, twitter and other social media to conduct and disseminate their research. These strands have collided in the making of a website called followthethings.com which simultaneously critiques the injustices embedded in everyday things, whilst also being made and maintained using everyday things, most notably a laptop, its software and the technical infrastructure of web2.0. Drawing on an emerging literature on critical making, this paper explains what has been learned about the material geographies of web2.0 and commodity activism through this making process.
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Cook IJ, Crang P (2014). The World on a Plate: Culinary Culture, Displacement and Geographical Knowledges. In Pilcher J (Ed)
Food History: Critical and Primary Sources, London: Bloomsbury.
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The World on a Plate: Culinary Culture, Displacement and Geographical Knowledges
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2013
Cook IJ, Thorogood J, Franklin M, Angell S, Flint F, Board B, Swadling T, Saxton J, Pincock J, Hargreaves E, et al (2013). Ethical Trade Trumps card game (make-it-yourself card game with instructions, card template and sample cards, scanned & uploaded to flickr.com).
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Cook IJ, Jackson P, Hayes-Conroy A, Abrahamsson S, Sandover R, Sheller M, Henderson H, Hallett IV L, Imai S, Maye D, et al (2013). Food’s cultural geographies: texture, creativity & publics. In Johnson N, Schein R, Winders J (Eds.)
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 343-354.
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2012
Cook IJ, Crang, P. (2012). Consumption & its geographies. In Daniels P, Bradshaw M, Shaw D, Sidaway J (Eds.) An introduction to human geography, Harlow: Pearson, 396-415.
Cook IJ, Woodyer T (2012). Lives of things. In Sheppard E, Barnes T, Peck J (Eds.)
Wiley-Blackwell companion to economic geography, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 226-241.
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Kemppainen E, Parkin J, Skau S, Bird E, Cook I, Cook R, Scotford N, Shifrina D (2012). Made in Lego (re-creations of scenes from followthethings.com pages in Lego, photographed & published on flickr.com).
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Cook IJ, Crang P (2012). The world on a plate: culinary culture, displacement and geographical knowledges. In Steger M (Ed) Globalization & culture: volume 1, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 230-252.
2011
Cook IJ (2011). @followthethings (the followthethings.com twitter feed).
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Cook IJ, Hobson K, Hallett L, Guthman J, Murphy A, Hulme A, Sheller M, Crewe L, Nally D, Roe E, et al (2011). Geographies of food: afters.
Progress in human geography,
35(1), 104-120.
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Geographies of food: afters
This third and final ‘Geographies of food’ review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series (Cook et al. 2006; 2008a). Authors of the work featured in these reviews – plus others whose work was not but should have been featured – were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people’s work, and to enter into conversations about – and in the process review – other/new work within and beyond what could be called ‘food geographies’. These conversations were
coded, edited, arranged, discussed and rearranged to produce a fragmentary, multi-authored text aiming to convey the rich and multi-stranded content, breadth and character of ongoing food studies research within and beyond geography.
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Cook et al I (2011). Hartmut Bitomsky's 'Dust': a reaction more than a review. Science as culture, 20(1), 115-119.
Cook IJ, Elesedy A, LeGrand G, Woolford R (2011). Moving stuff: de-carbonising maritime logistics, international wind transport & material geographies: 'Ahead of the curve' radio show, Phonic FM.
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Cook IJ, Shakes, Lizzie, Audaye, Abdulla, Emma (2011). Occupied:'Ahead of the curve' radio show, Phonic FM.
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Cook IJ, Hawkins H, Sacks S, Rawling E, Griffiths H, Swift D, Evans J, Rothnie G, Wilson J, Williams A, et al (2011). Organic public geographies: 'making the connection'.
Antipode,
43(3), 909-926.
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Organic public geographies: 'making the connection'
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.
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Cook IJ, Hawkins H, Sacks S, Rawling E, Griffiths HG, Swift D, Evans J, Rothnie G, Wilson J, Williams A, et al (2011). Organic public geographies: 'making the connection'. Antipode, 43(4), 909-926.
Cook IJ (2011). What would you say to the person who made your shirt? Eden Project Blog.
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Cook et al IJ (2011). followtheblog.org (the followthethings.com blog).
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Cook IJ, Parkinson A (2011). followthethings champion shopper missions (a series of online missions on the website missionexplore.net).
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Cook et al I (2011). followthethings.com.
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2010
Allsop D, Allen H, Clare H, Cook IJ, Raxter H, Upton C, Williams A (2010). Ethnography & participant observation. In Gomez B, III JPJ (Eds.)
Research methods in geography: a critical introduction, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
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Ethnography & participant observation
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Cook IJ, Tolia-Kelly DP (2010). Material geographies. In Hicks D, Beaudry M (Eds.)
Oxford handbook of material culture studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Material geographies
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2009
Cook et al I (2009). Writing collaboration: a work in progress.
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Writing collaboration: a work in progress
This website / paper was initially put together for Ian Cook et al’s presentation at the Doing collaboration differently: challenging an unequal academy workshop at Leeds University on January 12th, 2009, organised by Shona Hunter.
It was designed both to serve as an alternative to a powerpoint display on the day - this was not a great success! - and to provide a space for discussion after the event. It is presented, and will evolve as, a collaboratively written paper on collaborative writing. That’s the idea.
All of those involved in the collaborations described have, as much as is possible, been contacted and asked to comment on the paper as a whole and on the parts in which they are mentioned. Each page has a comments box at its foot for suggestions and feedback through which a number have had their say about the collaborations described.
Anyone who comes across this paper is welcome to add their comments and, thereby, to become a co-author.
There are no plans to turn this into a published paper. It will remain, grow and change as an ongoing online experiment in collaborative writing.
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2008
Cook et al I (2008). Geographies of food: following. In Tucker L (Ed) Bioneering: hybrid investigations of food, Irvine, California: University of California, Irvine, 126-139.
Cook et al I (2008). Geographies of food: mixing. Progress in Human Geography, 32(6), 821-833.
Griffiths H, Cook IJ, Evans J (2008). Making the connection. mobile phone geographies.
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Cook et al I (2008). Pozicioniranost / situirano znanje. In Atkinson D, Jackson P, Sibley D, Washbourne N (Eds.) Kulturna geografija: kriticki rjecnik klucnih pojmova, Zagreb: Disput, 41-53.
Griffiths H, Cook IJ (2008). Think-piece on children and Young People’s Geographies.
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Anderson J, Askins K, Cook IJ, Desforges L, Evans J, Fannin M, Fuller D, Griffiths H, Lambert D, Lee R, et al (2008). What is geography's contribution to making citizens.
Geography,
93(1), 34-39.
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What is geography's contribution to making citizens
A Citizenship Working Group (CWG) was established in September 2006 to support members of the Geographical Association in the development of the citizenship dimension of geography education. One of the group’s first initiatives was to invite a number of academic geographers (in one case, with their students) to write short ‘viewpoint’ essays responding to the question: what is geography’s contribution to making citizens? These have been made available unedited on the CWG website. and this paper is an attempt to condense out their main arguments through a question and answer format which addresses what we mean by ‘citizenship’, how it is ‘geographical’, how it is changing, what’s new about ‘citizenship education’ in the UK, what this means for school pupils and their teachers, and what we therefore believe geography’s contribution to making citizens might be.
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2007
Cook IJ, Evans J, Griffiths H, Morris R, Wrathmell S (2007). 'It's more than just what it is': defetishising commodities, expanding fields, mobilising change….
Geoforum,
38(6), 1113-1126.
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'It's more than just what it is': defetishising commodities, expanding fields, mobilising change…
Commodity geographies are politically weak. Geographical pedagogy isn’t particularly engaging. Radical geography should make connections. But it rarely leaves room for interpretation. Too much seems to be too didactic. and to preach to the converted. That’s a problem that needs attention. So, is it possible to develop a radical, less didactic, geography? with research funding, publication and teaching the way they are? to engage more students, more heartily, in the issues studied? to promote social justice, critical citizenship, and participatory democracy? But not by setting out the right ways to think, be, or act. Some film-makers, artists and writers have been able to do this. It seems. Subtly and cleverly. Through projects attempting to de-fetishise commodities. But their politics have been placed largely in the background, between the lines of, or separated out from, the presentation of scenes, things, relations, bodies, lives and voices. Seen and unseen elements of their audiences’ lives. Re-connected. Perhaps. Through communication strategies giving audiences something to think about and to think with, to argue about and to argue with. Putting themselves in the picture, in the process. These less didactic materials may be difficult to master for an exam or an essay. They may not make it clear who or what’s right or wrong or what audiences are supposed to do. But they could engage them in less direct ways. When they’re shopping for petrol or fish, or when they’re doing or thinking about completely different things. Things that may not even come under the heading of ‘production’ or ‘consumption’. This approach might be labelled as ‘weak’, ‘relativist’, a bit too ‘cultural’ ‘post-modern’, or ‘defunct’. But it’s an approach that may be radical in effect because its ‘politics’ aren’t so straightforward or ‘up front’. This paper is about changing relationships between research, writing, teaching, learning and assessment; expanding fields of commodity geographies to include classrooms as sites not only of ‘instruction’, but also of learning, for researchers and their students1; showing how such learning might usefully shape research and writing elsewhere in these fields for those engaged in this defetishising project.
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Evans J, Cook IJ, Griffiths H (2007). Creativity, group pedagogy & social action: a departure from Gough. Educational philosophy and theory, 40(2), 330-345.
Crang MA, Cook IJ (2007).
Doing ethnographies. London, Sage.
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Doing ethnographies
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ICook, Harrison M (2007). Follow the thing: West Indian hot pepper sauce. Space and Culture, 10(1), 40-63.
Cook IJ, Harrison M (2007). Follow the thing: ‘West Indian hot pepper sauce’.
Space and culture,
10(1), 40-63.
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Follow the thing: ‘West Indian hot pepper sauce’.
This article adds to the food studies literature by tracing relations between one North London family cooking fishcakes on a Friday night and the changing fortunes of a group of farmers in a rural Jamaica town ripping up sugar cane to grow hot peppers, a key ingredient in a bottle hot pepper sauce that connected their lives. The article draws on and contributes to political and academic
debates about (a) conducting “follow the thing” ethnographies in which commodities and their biographies are the organizing principles of postdisciplinary research; (b) producing detailed case studies that illustrate how capitalist relations not only could be,but are,diverse,different,surprising; (c) presenting evocative, engaging, affecting, but jarring accounts of connected lives with which readers can hopefully identify and get wrapped up in as they read; and (d) theorizing together, between the lines, Marxist, poststructuralist,and postcolonial approaches to food and its globalized, uneven geographies.
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Cook IJ, Evans J, Griffiths H, Mayblin L, Payne R, Roberts D (2007). ‘Made in… ?’ appreciating the everyday geographies of connected lives?. Teaching geography(Summer), 80-83.
2006
Cook et al I (2006). Geographies of food: following. Progress in human geography, 30(5), 655-666.
Cook IJ, Williams A, Motamedi M (2006). Stuff geography. Primary Geographer(Autumn), 38-39.
Cook IJ, Harrison M, Lacey C (2006). The power of shopping. In Wilson R (Ed) Post party politics, London: Involve, 42-46.
2005
Cook IJ (2005). Participant Observation. In Flowerdew R, Martin D (Eds.) Methods in human geography: a guide for new students, Harlow: Prentice Hall, 167-188.
Cook et al I (2005). Positionality / situated knowledge. In Atkinson D, Jackson P, Sibley D, Washbourne N (Eds.) Cultural geography: a critical dictionary of key ideas, London: IB Tauris, 16-26.
2004
Cook et al I (2004). Follow the thing: papaya.
Antipode,
36(4), 642-664.
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Follow the thing: papaya.
In a recent round table about Antipode’s radical geographies, contributors argued that the journal needed more papers which stimulated debate, were accessible to academics and non-academics alike, didn’t ‘‘preach to the cognoscenti’’, were written to fit into radical teaching agendas, and were diverse and eclectic in style (Waterstone 2002:663; Hague 2002). This paper has been written to fit this bill. It outlines the findings of multi-locale ethnographic research into the globalization of food, focusing on a supply chain stretching from UK supermarket shelves to a Jamaican farm, and concluding in a North London flat. It addresses perspectives and critiques from the growing literature on the geographies of commodities, but presents these academic arguments ‘‘between the lines’’ of a series of overlapping vignettes about people who were (un)knowingly connected to each other through the international trade in fresh papaya, and an entangled range of economic, political, social, cultural, agricultural and other processes also shaping these connections in the early 1990s. The research on which it is based was initially energized by David Harvey’s (1990:422) call for radical geographers to ‘‘get behind the veil, the fetishism of the market’’, to make powerful, important, disturbing connections between Western consumers and the distant strangers whose contributions to their lives were invisible, unnoticed, and largely unappreciated. Harvey argued that radical geographers should attempt to de-fetishise commodities, re-connect consumers and producers, tell fuller stories of social reproduction, and thereby provoke moral and ethical questions for participants in this exploitation who might think they’re decent people. This paper has been written to provoke such questions, to provide material s to think through and with, for geography’s ongoing debates about the politics of consumption.
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Cook IJ, Cloke P, Crang P, Philo C, Goodwin M, Painter J (2004). Practising human geography. London, Sage.
Cook IJ (2004). Trade. In Harrison S, Pile S, Thrift N (Eds.) Patterned ground: ecologies of culture and nature, London: Reaktion, 124-126.
Cook IJ, Crang P, Thorpe M (2004). Tropics of consumption: getting with the fetish of ‘exotic’ fruit?. In Reimer S, Hughes A (Eds.) Geographies of commodity chains, London: Routledge, 173-192.
Cook IJ, Crang P (2004). ‘The world on a plate: culinary culture, displacement & geographical knowledges’. In Thrift N, Whatmore S (Eds.) Cultural geography: critical concepts in the social sciences (volume 1), Routledge.
2003
Cook IJ, Harrison M (2003). ‘Cross over food: re-materialising postcolonial geographies’.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
28(3), 296-331.
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‘Cross over food: re-materialising postcolonial geographies’.
Recent geographical discussions of postcolonialism have highlighted its emphasis on texts and discourses, its neglect of more material aspects of (post)imperial/colonial domination and the need for detailed empirical research articulating postcolonialism
and global capitalism. This paper addresses these issues by reporting on research based in a recent debate in the UK trade press over the ‘failure’ of Caribbean food to ‘cross over’ into the UK ‘mainstream’. It outlines the contrasting manufacturing and marketing practices of two Jamaican food companies whose accounts of (not) attempting this ‘cross-over’ illustrate postcolonialism’s hybrid, resistant, ambivalent, scale-jumping, boundary-crossing, material cultural politics.
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Cook IJ, Crang P (2003). ‘The world on a plate: culinary culture, displacement & geographical knowledges’. In Clarke D, Doel M, Housiaux K (Eds.) The consumption reader, London: Routledge, 113-116.
2002
Cook et al I (2002). Commodities: the DNA of capitalism.
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Commodities: the DNA of capitalism
This paper was written to accompany Shelley Sacks’ Exchange Values installation at the South African National Gallery, Johannesburg, timed to coincide with the Earth Summit.
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2001
Cook IJ (2001). Review of L. Grossman (1998) 'The political ecology of bananas'. Professional Geographer, 53(1), 137-138.
Cook et al I (2001). Social sculpture and connective aesthetics: Shelley Sacks’s ‘Exchange values’.
Ecumene,
7(3), 337-343.
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Social sculpture and connective aesthetics: Shelley Sacks’s ‘Exchange values’
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Cook IJ, Angus T, Evans J (2001). ‘A manifesto for cyborg pedagogy’. International research in geographical & environmental education, 10(2), 195-201.
Cook IJ (2001). ‘You want to be careful you don’t end up like Ian. He’s all over the place’: autobiography in/of an expanded field. In Moss P (Ed) Placing autobiography in geography, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 99-120.
2000
Cook IJ, Crang P, Thorpe M (2000). 'Have you got the customer's permission?' Category management and circuits of knowledge in the UK food business. In Bryson J, Daniels P, Henry N, Pollard J (Eds.) Knowledge, space, economy, London: Routledge, 242-260.
Cook IJ (2000). 'Nothing can ever be a case of us and them again': exploring the politics of difference through border pedagogy & student journal writing.
Journal of geography in higher education,
24(1), 13-27.
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'Nothing can ever be a case of us and them again': exploring the politics of difference through border pedagogy & student journal writing
Linda McDowell (1994) has called for styles of teaching which put into practice arguments about the 'politics of difference' which has become an increasingly central part of human geographical research. This paper draws on a number of years’ experience of teaching an undergraduate course on multicultural historical geography, in which this was attempted. Here students were encouraged to get more involved in these debates, to take them more personally, and to develop 'situated knowledges' about the UK as a multicultural society. The approach to teaching, learning and assessment which made this possible was based on the principles of. ‘border pedagogy’ and on students writing journals throughout the course which charted the development of their understandings of the materials they encountered.
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Cook IJ, Naylor S, Ryan J, Crouch D (2000). Cultural turns / geographical turns: perspectives on cultural geography. Harlow, Longman.
Cook IJ (2000). Culture and political economy: introduction. In Cook IJ, Crouch D, Naylor S, Ryan J (Eds.) Cultural turns / geographical turns: perspectives on cultural geography, London: Pearson.
Cook IJ, Crang P, Thorpe M (2000). Regions to be cheerful? Culinary authenticity & its geographies. In Cook I, Crouch D, Naylor S, Ryan J (Eds.) Cultural turns / geographical turns: perspectives on cultural geography, Harlow: Longman, 109-139.
1999
Cook IJ, Crang P, Thorpe M (1999). Eating into Britishness: multicultural imaginaries and the identity politics of food. In Roseneil S, Seymour J (Eds.) Practising identities: power & resistance, Oxford: Macmillan, 223-248.
Cook IJ (1999). New fruits and vanity: symbolic production in the global food economy. In Bryson J, Henry N, Keeble D, Martin R (Eds.) The economic geography reader: producing & consuming global capitalism, Chichester: Wiley, 301-306.
Cook IJ (1999). Review of D. Goodman & M. Watts (eds) (1997) Globalising food. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 24(4), 515-516.
Cook IJ (1999). Review of J. Walvin (1997) 'Fruits of Empire: exotic produce and British taste, 1660-1800'. Journal of Historical Geography, 25(2), 250-251.
1998
Cook et al I, Cook I (1998). 'You want to be careful you don't end up like Ian. He's all over the place.' Autobiography in/of an expanded field (the Director's Cut). Falmer: University of Sussex Research Papers in Geography No.34.
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'You want to be careful you don't end up like Ian. He's all over the place.' Autobiography in/of an expanded field (the Director's Cut). Falmer: University of Sussex Research Papers in Geography No.34.
This working paper was originally written as a chapter in a forthcoming book called Autobiography in geography edited by Pamela Moss. The book chapter is a heavily edited version of what follows. In fact, it's little more than the first 7,000 words of what follows. There wasn't room in the book for any more. What you've got here, then, is the 'director's cut', or the 'full monty' if you like. and I don't want to summarise either of these versions here. What each is 'about' has a lot to do with you and what you think about while you're reading them. That's the point. I hope you don't mind. See what you think. It's all very 'autobiographical' and 'geographical', of course. and that's where this idea of the 'expanded field' pops up. Honest. What is a Baxi Bermuda, though?
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Cook IJ, Crang P, Thorpe M (1998). Biographies & geographies: consumer understandings of the origins of foods.
British food journal,
100(3), 162-167.
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Biographies & geographies: consumer understandings of the origins of foods.
This article argues for a biographical and geographical understanding of foods and food choice. It suggests that such an approach highlights one of the most compelling characteristics of food - that being the way in which it connects the wide worlds of an increasingly internationalised food system into the intimate space of the home and the body. More specifically, and based on ongoing empirical research with 12 households in inner north London, the article explores one aspect of food biographies, through an interlinked consideration of what consumers know of the origins of foods and consumers’ reactions to systems of food provision. It concludes that a structural ambivalence can be identified, such that consumers have both a need to know and an impulse to forget the origins of the foods they eat.
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Cook IJ (1998). Review of J. Allen & C. Hamnett (eds) (1995) 'A shrinking world'. Area, 30(1), 95-96.
Cook IJ (1998). Review of P. Camporesi (1994) 'The anatomy of the senses'. Journal of Historical Geography, 24(1), 104-105.
1997
Cook IJ (1997). Participant observation. In Flowerdew R, Martin D (Eds.) Methods in human geography: a guide for students doing research projects, Harlow: Longman, 127-149.
1996
Cook IJ, Crang P (1996). 'The world on a plate': culinary culture, displacement and geographical knowledges.
Journal of material culture,
1(2), 131-153.
Abstract:
'The world on a plate': culinary culture, displacement and geographical knowledges
This article uses claims about the local globalization of culinary culture to stage an argument about the character of material cultural geographies and their spaces of identity practice. It approaches these geographies in two ways. First, it views foods not only as placed cultural artefacts, but also as dis-placed materials and practices, inhabiting many times and spaces which, far from being neatly bounded, bleed into and mutually constitute each other. Second, it considers the geographical knowledges, or understandings, of foods’ geographies, mobilized within circuits of culinary culture, outlining their production through processes of commodity fetishism, and arguing for forms of critical intervention that work with the fetish rather than attempt to reach behind it.
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1995
Cook IJ (1995). Constructing the exotic: the case of tropical fruit. In Allen J, Massey D (Eds.) Geographical worlds, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 137-149.
Cook IJ, Crang M (1995).
Doing ethnographies. Norwich, Geobooks.
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1994
Cook IJ (1994). New fruits and vanity: symbolic production in the global food economy. In Bonanno A, Busch L, Friedland WH, Gouveia L, Mingione E (Eds.) From Columbus to ConAgra: the globalisation of agriculture and food, Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 232-248.
