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Books
NA (eds)(2016). Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: the more-than-human condition. London, UK, Routledge.
Asdal K, Druglitro T, Hinchliffe SJ (2016).
Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: the more-than-human condition. Abingdon, UK, Routledge.
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Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: the more-than-human condition
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Hinchliffe S, Bingham N, Allen J, Carter S (2016).
Pathological Lives Disease, Space and Biopolitics., Wiley-Blackwell.
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Pathological Lives Disease, Space and Biopolitics
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Hinchliffe S, Woodward K (2015).
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Hinchliffe S, Woodward K (2015).
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Introduction
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Hinchliffe S, Woodward K (2015). Series Preface.
Hinchliffe S, Woodward K (2015).
The natural and the social: Uncertainty, risk, change.Abstract:
The natural and the social: Uncertainty, risk, change
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Hinchliffe S (2007).
Geographies of nature: Societies, environments, ecologies.Abstract:
Geographies of nature: Societies, environments, ecologies
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Hinchliffe S, Woodward K (2004).
The Natural and the Social., Routledge.
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The Natural and the Social
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Morris D, Freeland J, Hinchliffe S, Smith S (2003).
Changing environments., Wiley.
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Changing environments
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Blowers A, Hinchliffe S (2003).
Environmental Responses., Wiley.
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Environmental Responses
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Hinchliffe S, Blowers A, Freeland J (2003).
Understanding environmental issues., Wiley.
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Understanding environmental issues
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Journal articles
Hinchliffe SJ (In Press). Book review forum: Vibrant Matter: a Political Ecology of Things.
Dialogues in Human Geography,
3(1), 396-399.
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Book review forum: Vibrant Matter: a Political Ecology of Things
hat matter is lively, that matters deserve lavish attention, that human and non-human things
are politically important all may seem both familiar and, still, a little strange. Familiar
because it is been a common refrain for geographers, drawing on a long history of debate
within feminist science studies and STS (science, technology and society). Strange because,
despite all, affirming the powers of matter remains a slightly marginal pursuit, and one that
has not really taken off in political theory or been given much more than lip service in most.
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Garnett E, Balayannis A, Hinchliffe S, Davies T, Gladding T, Nicholson P (2022). The work of waste during COVID-19: logics of public, environmental, and occupational health. Critical Public Health, 32(5), 630-640.
Butcher A, Rahman MM, Hinchliffe S (2021). A Model Innovation: Improving Disease Management for Meeting the Challenges of Bangladesh’s Aquaculture Hatchery Sector.
International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food,
27(2), 39-54.
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A Model Innovation: Improving Disease Management for Meeting the Challenges of Bangladesh’s Aquaculture Hatchery Sector
Reducing disease within shrimp and prawn production is a key policy aim for Bangladesh’s export aquaculture. Hatcheries that supply the farms with seed — or larvae — are potential hotspots for disease and the production of antimicrobial resistance traits. Disease pathogens and antibiotic resistant bacteria or genes can easily be transferred to farms via infected larvae. Efforts to reduce disease and transmission have focused on testing all hatchery output, improving hatchery production techniques and management practices, and generating markets for pathogen-free seed. Whilst the intrinsic value of the innovations for reducing disease and improving quality appeared evident, uptake of improvements in the hatcheries has been low. Disease remains a key production challenge, and despite some evidence of reduction in antibiotic use, antibiotics remain a necessary component of disease control. To test the viability of the new technologies and management practices we have developed a sociotechnical method of analysis, inspired by Actor Network Theory. The method utilizes interessement to analyse the role different actors/actants play in determining the destiny of the hatchery production innovations. Our approach has highlighted how the multifaceted socioeconomic and biological elements of hatchery production combine to create a weak innovation and investment environment. We therefore advocate the development of models that combine social and technical analysis for the purposes of assessing the viability of an innovation and improving the prospects of successful implementation.
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Moya S, Chan KWR, Hinchliffe S, Buller H, Espluga J, Benavides B, Diéguez FJ, Yus E, Ciaravino G, Casal J, et al (2021). Influence on the implementation of biosecurity measures in dairy cattle farms: Communication between veterinarians and dairy farmers. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 190, 105329-105329.
Hinchliffe S, Manderson L, Moore M (2021). Planetary healthy publics after COVID-19 (vol 5, pg e230, 2021).
LANCET PLANETARY HEALTH,
5(6), E336-E336.
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Hinchliffe S, Manderson L, Moore M (2021). Planetary healthy publics after COVID-19.
Lancet Planet Health,
5(4), e230-e236.
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Planetary healthy publics after COVID-19.
COVID-19 is a sign of a global malaise. The pandemic is an outcome of what we term a planetary dysbiosis, for which underlining drivers include inequality and the exploitation and extraction of human and non-human labours. The implication is that the usual fixes to outbreaks of infectious diseases (ie, surveillance, pharmaceutical measures, and non-pharmaceutical measures) will be insufficient without a thorough reappraisal of and investment in planetary health. Given the heterogeneity and diversity of environments and populations, we envisage these actions as a matter for the generation of new kinds of public, requiring widespread and multiple forms of engagement to generate lasting solutions. We use and extend the concept of healthy publics to suggest a movement that can start to reclaim planetary health as a collective and ongoing issue.
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Hinchliffe S (2021). Postcolonial Global Health, Post-Colony Microbes and Antimicrobial Resistance.
Theory, Culture & Society,
39(3), 145-168.
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Postcolonial Global Health, Post-Colony Microbes and Antimicrobial Resistance
Rather than ‘superbugs’ signifying recalcitrant forms of life that withstand biomedical treatment, drug resistant infections emerge within and are intricate with the exercise of social and medical power. The distinction is important, as it provides a means to understand and critique current methods employed to confront the threat of widespread antimicrobial resistance. A global health regime that seeks to extend social and medical power, through technical and market integration, risks reproducing a form of triumphalism and exceptionalism that resistance itself should have us pause to question. An alternative approach, based on a postcolonial as well as a ‘post-colony’ approach to health and microbes, provides impetus to challenge the assumptions and norms of global health. It highlights the potential contribution that vernacular approaches to human and animal health can play in altering the milieu of resistance.
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Partington G, Salisbury L, Hinchliffe S, Michael M, Choksey L (2021). The Index of Evidence: speculative methodologies in response to the post-truth era.
Wellcome Open Research,
6, 318-318.
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The Index of Evidence: speculative methodologies in response to the post-truth era
The past year has shown that even the fundamental idea of ‘evidence’ – in health contexts, but also more broadly - is coming under increasing strain. This open letter argues that the current crises of evidence and knowledge in which we find ourselves demands new speculative methodologies. It introduces the Index of Evidence – a Beacon Project funded by Exeter University’s Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health - as one example of such a methodology, outlining its theoretical foundations and process. The key innovation of this project is to rethink the form and presentation that research can take. Using the conceptual and material affordances of the index, it merges the creative and critical in ways that aim to make an important contribution to more inter-connected, theoretically sophisticated thinking around evidence.
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Hasan NA, Haque MM, Hinchliffe SJ, Guilder J (2020). A sequential assessment of WSD risk factors of shrimp farming in Bangladesh: Looking for a sustainable farming system.
Aquaculture,
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A sequential assessment of WSD risk factors of shrimp farming in Bangladesh: Looking for a sustainable farming system
White Spot Disease (WSD) caused by White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV), is responsible for widespread mortality and economic losses across almost the entire Asian shrimp farming industry. The distribution of disease prevalence is however uneven, and is likely dependent on a range of management, environmental and socio-ecological factors. In this study, 233 farms were surveyed in southwest Bangladesh, the main shrimp farming zone, to produce a dataset from a range of pond types, culture techniques and farming practices. Four categories of data (site/farm characteristics, environmental variables, disease history, and management variables) with associated risk factors were selected following the development of a conceptual framework and a participatory rural appraisal tool. Factors potentially contributing to WSD prevalence in the current shrimp crop were first screened using univariate analysis and subsequently analyzed using a multivariate logistic regression to highlight significant risk factors. Association of the selected factors with WSD prevalence was examined using multivariate stepwise removal. The multivariate analysis revealed that farms operated by a tenant worker (p: 0.03), mixed use of fertilizer (p: 0.009), poor quality water source (p: 0.001), lack of reservoir for water purification (p: < 0.001), and frequent exchange of water during a single crop culture (p: < 0.001) were significantly associated with WSD prevalence. The results suggest that, where possible, better farm management practices including improving water quality, controlling water exchange and/or maintaining constant salinity, will reduce WSD prevalence.
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Chan KW, Bard AM, Adam KE, Rees GM, Morgans L, Cresswell L, Hinchliffe S, Barrett DC, Reyher KK, Buller H, et al (2020). Diagnostics and the challenge of antimicrobial resistance: a survey of UK livestock veterinarians’ perceptions and practices. Veterinary Record, 187(12), e125-e125.
Thornber K, Verner-Jeffreys D, Hinchliffe S, Rahman MM, Bass D, Tyler CR (2020). Evaluating antimicrobial resistance in the global shrimp industry.
Reviews in Aquaculture,
12(2), 966-986.
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Evaluating antimicrobial resistance in the global shrimp industry
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing threat to global public health, and the overuse of antibiotics in animals has been identified as a major risk factor. With high levels of international trade and direct connectivity to the aquatic environment, shrimp aquaculture may play a role in global AMR dissemination. The vast majority of shrimp production occurs in low- and middle-income countries, where antibiotic quality and usage is widely unregulated, and where the integration of aquaculture with family livelihoods offers many opportunities for human, animal and environmental bacteria to come into close contact. Furthermore, in shrimp growing areas, untreated waste is often directly eliminated into local water sources. These risks are very different to many other major internationally-traded aquaculture commodities, such as salmon, which is produced in higher income countries where there are greater levels of regulation and well-established management practices. Assessing the true scale of the risk of AMR dissemination in the shrimp industry is a considerable challenge, not least because obtaining reliable data on antibiotic usage is very difficult. Combating the risks associated with AMR dissemination is also challenging due to the increasing trend towards intensification and its associated disease burden, and because many farmers currently have no alternatives to antibiotics for preventing crop failure. In this review, we critically assess the potential risks the shrimp industry poses to AMR dissemination. We also discuss some of the possible risk mitigation strategies that could be considered by the shrimp industry as it strives for a more sustainable future in production.
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Keenan C, Saunders C, Price S, Hinchliffe S, McDonald RA (2020). From Conflict to Bridges: Towards Constructive Use of Conflict Frames in the Control of Bovine Tuberculosis.
Sociologia Ruralis,
60(2), 482-504.
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From Conflict to Bridges: Towards Constructive Use of Conflict Frames in the Control of Bovine Tuberculosis
Control of bovine tuberculosis in cattle (bTB) in England and Wales is characterised by conversational and policy impasses, particularly in relation to badger culling. We created four online discussion groups comprising of badger cull supporters, cull-opponents, aligned antagonists (mixing supporters and opponents affiliated with farming or an environmental/conservation group) and non-aligned antagonists (mixing supporters and opponents who were not affiliated with a particular group). We held five different discussions with each grouping over the course of a week. We aimed to identify frames held by the opposing groupings within the bTB control controversy, which could either contribute to conflict and impasse, or alternatively could provide a potential conversational bridge between those who differed. Our analysis identified elements of the framings of the bTB control problem, which, particularly in the mixed groupings, lead to deadlock. We also identified some aspects of the framings which allowed those who differed to communicate together more effectively. We argue that these more transformative frames can be used to bridge conflict.
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Hinchliffe S, Butcher A, Rahman MM, Guilder J, Tyler C, Verner‐Jeffreys D (2020). Production without medicalisation: Risk practices and disease in Bangladesh aquaculture. The Geographical Journal, 187(1), 39-50.
Kirchhelle C, Atkinson P, Broom A, Chuengsatiansup K, Ferreira JP, Fortané N, Frost I, Gradmann C, Hinchliffe S, Hoffman SJ, et al (2020). Setting the standard: multidisciplinary hallmarks for structural, equitable and tracked antibiotic policy.
BMJ Glob Health,
5(9).
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Setting the standard: multidisciplinary hallmarks for structural, equitable and tracked antibiotic policy.
There is increasing concern globally about the enormity of the threats posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to human, animal, plant and environmental health. A proliferation of international, national and institutional reports on the problems posed by AMR and the need for antibiotic stewardship have galvanised attention on the global stage. However, the AMR community increasingly laments a lack of action, often identified as an 'implementation gap'. At a policy level, the design of internationally salient solutions that are able to address AMR's interconnected biological and social (historical, political, economic and cultural) dimensions is not straightforward. This multidisciplinary paper responds by asking two basic questions: (A) is a universal approach to AMR policy and antibiotic stewardship possible? (B) If yes, what hallmarks characterise 'good' antibiotic policy? Our multistage analysis revealed four central challenges facing current international antibiotic policy: metrics, prioritisation, implementation and inequality. In response to this diagnosis, we propose three hallmarks that can support robust international antibiotic policy. Emerging hallmarks for good antibiotic policies are: Structural, Equitable and Tracked. We describe these hallmarks and propose their consideration should aid the design and evaluation of international antibiotic policies with maximal benefit at both local and international scales.
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Stentiford GD, Bateman IJ, Hinchliffe S, Bass D, Hartnell R, Santos EM, Delvin M, Taylor N, Verner-Jeffreys D, Van Aerle R, et al (2020). Sustainable aquaculture through the One Health lens. Nature Food
Buller H, Adam K, Bard A, Bruce A, (Ray) Chan KW, Hinchliffe S, Morgans L, Rees G, Reyher KK (2020). Veterinary Diagnostic Practice and the Use of Rapid Tests in Antimicrobial Stewardship on UK Livestock Farms. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7
Crowley SL, Hinchliffe S, McDonald RA (2019). The parakeet protectors: Understanding opposition to introduced species management.
Journal of Environmental Management,
229, 120-132.
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The parakeet protectors: Understanding opposition to introduced species management
The surveillance and control of introduced and invasive species has become an increasingly important component of environmental management. However, initiatives targeting ‘charismatic’ wildlife can be controversial. Opposition to management, and the subsequent emergence of social conflict, present significant challenges for would-be managers. Understanding the substance and development of these disputes is therefore vital for improving the legitimacy and effectiveness of wildlife management. It also provides important insights into human-wildlife relations and the 'social dimensions’ of wildlife management. Here, we examine how the attempted eradication of small populations of introduced monk parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus) from England has been challenged and delayed by opposition from interested and affected communities. We consider how and why the UK Government's eradication initiative was opposed, focusing on three key themes: disagreements about justifying management, the development of affective attachments between people and parakeets, and the influence of distrustful and antagonistic relationships between proponents and opponents of management. We draw connections between our UK case and previous management disputes, primarily in the USA, and suggest that the resistance encountered in the UK might readily have been foreseen. We conclude by considering how management of this and other introduced species could be made less conflict-prone, and potentially more effective, by reconfiguring management approaches to be more anticipatory, flexible, sensitive, and inclusive.
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Sandover R, Kinsley SP, Hinchliffe S (2018). A very public cull – the anatomy of an online issue public.
Geoforum,
97, 106-118.
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A very public cull – the anatomy of an online issue public
Geographers and other social scientists have for some time been interested in how scientific and environmental controversies emerge and become public or collective issues. Social media are now key platforms through which these issues are publically raised and through which groups or publics can organise themselves. As media that generate data and traces of networking activity, these platforms also provide an opportunity for scholars to study the character and constitution of those groupings. In this paper we lay out a method for studying these ‘issue publics’: emergent groupings involved in publicising an issue. We focus on the controversy surrounding the state-sanctioned cull of wild badgers in England as a contested means of disease management in cattle. We analyse two overlapping groupings to demonstrate how online issue publics function in a variety of ways – from the ‘echo chambers’ of online sharing of information, to the marshalling of agreements on strategies for action, to more dialogic patterns of debate. We demonstrate the ways in which digital media platforms are themselves performative in the formation of issue publics and that, while this creates issues, we should not retreat into debates around the ‘proper object’ of research but rather engage with the productive complications of mapping social media data into knowledge (Whatmore, 2009). In turn, we argue that online issue publics are not homogeneous and that the lines of heterogeneity are neither simple or to be expected and merit study as a means to understand the suite of processes and novel contexts involved in the emergence of a public.
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Doherty S, Reyher K, Barrett D, Bard A, Buller H, Hinchliffe S, Chan R, Tait J, Bruce A, Adam K, et al (2018). Diagnostic technologies and antimicrobial use in livestock systems. Veterinary Record, 183(20), 626-627.
Hinchliffe S, Jackson M, Wyatt K, Barlow A, Barreto M, Clare L, Deplege M, Durie R, Fleming L, Groom N, et al (2018). Healthy publics: Enabling cultures and environments for health. Palgrave Communications, 4, n/a-n/a.
Crowley SL, Hinchliffe SJ, McDonald RA (2018). Killing squirrels: Exploring motivations and practices of lethal wildlife management. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Hinchliffe SJ, Butcher A, Rahman MM (2018). The AMR problem: demanding economies, biological margins, and co-producing alternative strategies. Palgrave Communications, 4
Hockenhull J, Turner AE, Reyher KK, Barrett DC, Jones L, Hinchliffe S, Buller HJ (2017). Antimicrobial use in food-producing animals: a rapid evidence assessment of stakeholder practices and beliefs.
Vet Rec,
181(19).
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Antimicrobial use in food-producing animals: a rapid evidence assessment of stakeholder practices and beliefs.
Food-producing animals throughout the world are likely to be exposed to antimicrobial (AM) treatment. The crossover in AM use between human and veterinary medicine raises concerns that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) may spread from food-producing animals to humans, driving the need for further understanding of how AMs are used in livestock practice as well as stakeholder beliefs relating to their use. A rapid evidence assessment (REA) was used to collate research on AM use published in peer-reviewed journals between 2000 and 2016. Forty-eight papers were identified and reviewed. The summary of findings highlights a number of issues regarding current knowledge of the use of AMs in food-producing animals and explores the attitudes of interested parties regarding the reduction of AM use in livestock. Variation between and within countries, production types and individual farms demonstrates the complexity of the challenge involved in monitoring and regulating AM use in animal agriculture. Many factors that could influence the prevalence of AMR in livestock are of concern across all sections of the livestock industry. This REA highlights the potential role of farmers and veterinarians and of other advisors, public pressure and legislation to influence change in the use of AMs in livestock.
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Crowley SL, Hinchliffe S, McDonald RA (2017). Conflict in invasive species management. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 15(3), 133-141.
Crowley SL, Hinchliffe S, Redpath SM, McDonald RA (2017). Disagreement About Invasive Species Does Not Equate to Denialism: a Response to Russell and Blackburn.
Trends Ecol Evol,
32(4), 228-229.
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Price S, Saunders C, Hinchliffe S, McDonald RA (2017). From contradiction to contrast in a countryside conflict: Using Q Methodology to reveal a diplomatic space for doing TB differently.
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space,
49(11), 2578-2594.
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From contradiction to contrast in a countryside conflict: Using Q Methodology to reveal a diplomatic space for doing TB differently
Environmental conflicts are often framed by an assumption that there are clear divisions between interested parties. As a result, there is a tendency to polarise debates, simplify arguments and miss opportunities for constructive engagement. While these conflicts are rarely amenable to resolution through direct dialogue, diplomacy may offer a means to generate possible political settlements. In this paper, we seek to identify the scope for such diplomacy in the seemingly entrenched conflict that surrounds the case of bovine tuberculosis and badger culling in England. First, we use Q methodological techniques to map prevailing views among concerned publics about this highly contentious and apparently intractable issue. Second, we combine this method with diplomatic theory in order to identify areas in which diplomatic modes of engagement may be constructive. Our results show that there are predictable conflictual elements within two positions organised around opposition to, and support for, the culling of badgers. These positions, which we label ‘ethical empiricist’ and ‘nostalgic autonomist’, respectively, are not always straightforwardly oppositional. Their points of contact, as well as intersections with a third, alternative, subject position, which we label ‘liberal pragmatist’, suggest starting-points for diplomacy.
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Crowley SL, Hinchliffe S, McDonald RA (2017). Nonhuman citizens on trial: the ecological politics of a beaver reintroduction.
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space,
49(8), 1846-1866.
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Nonhuman citizens on trial: the ecological politics of a beaver reintroduction
Wildlife reintroductions can unsettle social and ecological norms, and are often controversial. In this paper, we examine the recent (re)introduction of Eurasian beavers to England, to analyse responses to an unauthorised release of a formerly resident species. Although the statutory response to the introduction was to attempt to reassert ecological and political order by recapturing the beavers, this action was strongly opposed by a diverse collective, united and made powerful by a common goal: to protect England’s ‘new’ nonhuman residents. We show how this clash of state resolve and public dissent produced an uneasy compromise in the form of a formal, licensed ‘beaver reintroduction trial’, in which the new beaver residents have been allowed to remain, but under surveillance. We propose that although the trial is unorthodox and risky, there is an opportunity for it to be treated as a ‘wild experiment’ through which a more open-ended, experimental approach to co-inhabiting with wildlife might be attempted.
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Broughan JM, Maye D, Carmody P, Brunton LA, Ashton A, Wint W, Alexander N, Naylor R, Ward K, Goodchild AV, et al (2016). Farm characteristics and farmer perceptions associated with bovine tuberculosis incidents in areas of emerging endemic spread.
Preventive Veterinary Medicine,
129, 88-98.
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Farm characteristics and farmer perceptions associated with bovine tuberculosis incidents in areas of emerging endemic spread
While much is known about the risk factors for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in herds located in high incidence areas, the drivers of bTB spread in areas of emerging endemicity are less well established. Epidemiological analysis and intensive social research identified natural and social risk factors that may prevent or encourage the spread of disease. These were investigated using a case-control study design to survey farmers in areas defined as recently having become endemic for bTB (from or after 2006). Telephone surveys were conducted for 113 farms with a recent history of a bTB incident where their officially tuberculosis free status had been withdrawn (OTFW) (cases) and 224 controls with no history of a bTB incident, matched on location, production type and the rate of endemic bTB spread. Farmers were questioned about a range of farm management strategies, farm characteristics, herd health, wildlife and biosecurity measures with a focus on farmer attitudes and behaviours such as farmers' perception of endemicity and feelings of control, openness and social cohesion. Data generated in the telephone surveys was supplemented with existing herd-level data and analysed using conditional logistic regression. Overall, herd size (OR 1.07), purchasing an animal at a cattle market compared to purchasing outside of markets (OR 2.6), the number of contiguous bTB incidents (2.30) and the number of inconclusive reactors detected in the 2 years prior to the case incident (OR 1.95) significantly increased the odds of a bTB incident. Beef herds using a field parcel more than 3.2 km away from the main farm and dairy herds reporting Johne's disease in the previous 12 months were 3.0 and 4.7 times more likely to have a recent history of a bTB incident, respectively. Beef herds reporting maize growing near, but not on, their farm were less likely to be case herds. Operating a closed farm in the two years prior to the case breakdown did not reduce the odds of a bTB incident. Farmers that had recently experienced a bTB incident were more likely to have implemented badger biosecurity in the previous year, but no more likely than control farms to have implemented cattle biosecurity. Case farmers felt significantly less likely to be influenced by government, vets or other farmers compared to those with no history of bTB. This suggests that alternative methods of engaging with farmers who have recently had a breakdown may need to be developed.
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Crowley SL, Hinchliffe S, McDonald RA (2016). Invasive species management will benefit from social impact assessment. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(2), 351-357.
Enticott G, Maye D, Carmody P, Naylor R, Ward K, Hinchliffe S, Wint W, Alexander N, Elgin R, Ashton A, et al (2015). Farming on the edge: farmer attitudes to bovine tuberculosis in newly endemic areas.
Vet Rec,
177(17).
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Farming on the edge: farmer attitudes to bovine tuberculosis in newly endemic areas.
Defra's recent strategy to eradicate bovine tuberculosis (bTB) establishes three spatial zones: high-risk areas (HRAs) and low-risk areas, and an area referred to as 'the edge', which marks the areas where infection is spreading outwards from the HRA. Little is known about farmers in the edge area, their attitudes towards bTB and their farming practices. This paper examines farmers' practices and attitudes towards bTB in standardised epidemiologically defined areas. A survey was developed to collect data on farmer attitudes, behaviours, practices and environmental conditions as part of an interdisciplinary analysis of bTB risk factors. Survey items were developed from a literature review and focus groups with vets and farmers in different locations within the edge area. A case-control sampling framework was adopted with farms sampled from areas identified as recently endemic for bTB. 347 farmers participated in the survey including 117 with bTB, representing a 70per cent response rate. Results show that farmers believe they are unable to do anything about bTB but are keen for the government intervention to help control the spread of bTB.
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Hinchliffe S (2015). More than one world, more than one health: Re-configuring interspecies health.
Social Science and Medicine,
129, 28-35.
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More than one world, more than one health: Re-configuring interspecies health
'One World One Health' (OWOH), 'One Medicine' and 'One Health' are all injunctions to work across the domains of veterinary, human and environmental health. In large part they are institutional responses to growing concerns regarding shared health risks at the human, animal and environmental interfaces. Although these efforts to work across disciplinary boundaries are welcome, there are also risks in seeking unity, not least the tendency of one health visions to reduce diversity and to under-value the local, contingent and practical engagements that make health possible. This paper uses insights from Geography and Science and Technology Studies along with multi-sited and multi-species qualitative fieldwork on animal livestock and zoonotic influenzas in the UK, to highlight the importance of those practical engagements. After an introduction to one health, I argue that there is a tendency in OWOH visions to focus on contamination and transmission of pathogens rather than the socio-economic configuration of disease and health, and this tendency conforms to or performs what sociologist John Law calls a one world metaphysics. Following this, three related field cases are used to demonstrate that health is dependent upon a patchwork of practices, and is configured in practice by skilled people, animals, micro-organisms and their social relations. From surveillance for influenza viruses to tending animals, good health it turns out is dependent on an ability to construct common sense from a complex of signs, responses and actions. It takes, in other words, more than one world to make healthy outcomes. In light of this, the paper aims to, first, loosen any association between OWOH and a one world-ist metaphysics, and, second, to radicalize the inter-disciplinary foundations of OWOH by both widening the scope of disciplinarity as well as attending to how different knowledgesare brought together.
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Craddock S, Hinchliffe S (2015). One world, one health? Social science engagements with the one health agenda.
Soc Sci Med,
129, 1-4.
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Hinchliffe S, Levidow L, Oreszczyn S (2014). Engaging cooperative research.
Environment and Planning A,
46(9), 2080-2094.
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Engaging cooperative research
Cooperative research involves upstream engagement of practitioners, introducing diverse knowledges and expertise in ways that can, in theory at least, generate new knowledge that is socially robust and publicly accountable. and yet, judging cooperative research solely in terms of accountability may underplay the transformative and nonaccountable/nonconvergent nature of research—the production, in other words, of the new when collectives are drawn together. Using examples from research that sought to provide environmental civil society organisations (CSOs) with the resources to shape cooperative research, this paper argues that cooperative research may not simply mark an extension of public engagement with science but can also seed an anticipatory and thus creative research process. For cooperative research to play this role there is a need to highlight the human and nonhuman attachments that underpin cooperative research activity. We argue that such activity might best have as its aim the empowerment, not simply of participants, but of the political situations that CSOs can help to foment.
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Hinchliffe S, Ward KJ (2014). Geographies of folded life: How immunity reframes biosecurity.
Geoforum,
53, 136-144.
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Geographies of folded life: How immunity reframes biosecurity
Biosecurity, in broad terms, aims to reduce the impact and incidence of threats to life through regulatory means. For reasons we raise in this paper, such regulation can often lead to the specification of disease free processes within the food and farming industry, with biosecurity success measured in terms of the degree of compliance with and allegiance to modern farming practice. We counter this progressive narrative in three ways. First we draw on UK-based qualitative fieldwork with vets, farmers and pigs to demonstrate how biosecure farming and disease freedom are translated and qualified, in practice, to pathogen free, pathogen management and ultimately to configuring health through immunity management. Second, these translations demonstrate how building health is dependent on spatial and microbiological diversity rather than uniformity. Crucially, health involves patch-. work and situated knowledge practices that are under threat within an industry increasingly marked by control and homogeneity. Third, in conceptual terms, we argue that while pig farming is organised through both biosecurity and a biopolitical regulation of life, immunity opens up political space for exploring an alternative politics of life, one where farmers and others are not so much made responsible for disease prevention, but make valued contributions to understandings of animal health and food security. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
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Hinchliffe SJ, Allen JR, Lavau S (2014). Safe to eat?.
Society Now(20), 22-23.
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Safe to eat?
Food saftey is in the news, but is the answer.
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Hinchliffe SJ (2014). The Arbitrage of non-knowledge: a response to Caduff's Pandemic Prophecy. Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 55(3), 307-308.
Hinchliffe S, Allen J, Lavau S, Bingham N, Carter S (2013). Biosecurity and the topologies of infected life: from borderlines to borderlands.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
38(4), 531-543.
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Biosecurity and the topologies of infected life: from borderlines to borderlands
Biosecurity, as a response to threats from zoonotic, food-borne and emerging infectious diseases, implies and is often understood in terms of a spatial segregation of forms of life, a struggle to separate healthy life from diseased bodies. While an ensuing will to closure in the name of biosecurity is evident at various sites, things are, in practice and in theory, more intricate than this model would suggest. There are transactions and transformations that defy easily segmented spaces. Using multi-species ethnographic work across a range of sites, from wildlife reserves to farms and food processing plants, we argue for a shift of focus in biosecurity away from defined borderlines towards that of borderlands. The latter involves the detachment of borders from geographic territory and highlights the continuous topological interplay and resulting tensions involved in making life live. We use this spatial imagination to call for a different kind of biopolitics and for a shift in what counts as a biosecurity emergency. As a means to re-frame the questions concerning biosecurity, we argue for a change of discourse and practice away from disease 'breach points' towards the 'tipping points' that can arise in the intense foldings that characterise pathological lives. © 2012 the Author(s). Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers © 2012 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).
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Hinchliffe S, Lavau S (2013). Differentiated circuits: the ecologies of knowing and securing life.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
31(2), 259-274.
Abstract:
Differentiated circuits: the ecologies of knowing and securing life
The question of how to make life secure in a world of zoonotic disease threats is often answered in terms of an ever-tighter regulation of wild, domestic, and human life, as a means to control disease. Conversely, in both theoretical and practical engagements with the business of making life safe, there is recognition of the circulatory and excessive qualities of life, its ability to overflow grids of intelligibility, and a requirement for knowledge practices to be responsive to a mutable world. In this paper we use empirical work on the field and laboratory practices involved in knowing life, specifically within the UK's avian influenza wild bird survey, in order to argue strongly for a form of biosecurity that does not seek to integrate life or the practices that make it intelligible into grids and closed circuits. Extending work by Latour, we argue that the truth-value of life science not only stems from the circulation of references along a single chain of reference; it is also dependent upon the productive alliance of knowledge forms and practices that are loosely brought together in this process. By demonstrating the range of practices, materials, and movements involved in making life knowable, we claim that it is the spatial configurations of knowledge practices, organisms, and materials, their ongoing differentiation and not their integration, that make safe life a possibility. © 2013 Pion and its Licensors.
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Hinchliffe S (2013). The insecurity of biosecurity: Remaking emerging infectious diseases. , 199-214.
Hinchliffe SJ (2012). Affects Animaliers. Travaux de Sciences Sociales(218), 247-261.
Hinchliffe SJ (2012). Sensing with Others: the Five Senses: a Philosophy of Mingled Bodies.
The Senses and Society,
7(1), 111-114.
Abstract:
Sensing with Others: the Five Senses: a Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
With the heat, smoke, and flames on board a ship, the fear of asphyxia is matched by the
possibility of drowning or freezing to death in a Winter sea. Enclosed, shrouded in smoke,
the body needs to keep low, feel its way, and manage to push itself through a tiny porthole.
Like the first passage, birth. This is the birth of the I, an embodied soul, where the body
knows or is alert to its passage and how to say I. So starts Serres' rich, enigmatic, certainly
uneven, but poetic tale of sensing. Replace the sea and smoke with the suffocations of.
Abstract.
Hinchliffe SJ (2012). Vivre avec des oiseaux: Frontieres de la biosecurite en Angleterre. Cahiers d’anthropologie sociale, 77-87.
Hinchliffe SJ (2011). Book review forum: Vibrant Matter: a Political Ecology of Things.
Dialogues in Human Geography,
3(1), 396-399.
Abstract:
Book review forum: Vibrant Matter: a Political Ecology of Things
hat matter is lively, that matters deserve lavish attention, that human and non-human things
are politically important all may seem both familiar and, still, a little strange. Familiar
because it is been a common refrain for geographers, drawing on a long history of debate
within feminist science studies and STS (science, technology and society). Strange because,
despite all, affirming the powers of matter remains a slightly marginal pursuit, and one that
has not really taken off in political theory or been given much more than lip service in most.
Abstract.
Lorimer J, Davies G, Hinchliffe S, Hird MJ, Greenhough B, Roe E, Beisel U, Loftus A, Haraway D (2010). When species meet.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE,
28(1), 32-55.
Author URL.
Hinchliffe S (2010). Where species meet. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28(1), 34-35.
Hinchliffe S, Whatmore S (2009). Living cities: Toward a politics of conviviality. , 105-122.
Hinchliffe S (2009). Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities and Modernities.
RADICAL PHILOSOPHY(157), 51-54.
Author URL.
Bingham N, Enticott G, Hinchliffe S (2008). Guest editorial: Biosecurity: Spaces, practices, and boundaries. Environment and Planning A, 40(7), 1528-1533.
Hinchliffe S (2008). Reconstituting nature conservation: Towards a careful political ecology.
Geoforum,
39(1), 88-97.
Abstract:
Reconstituting nature conservation: Towards a careful political ecology
This paper is about the relationship between nature conservation in theory and nature conservation in practice. I argue that in theory nature conservation is concerned with revealing presence and rendering the present eternal. In practice, the spaces and times of conservation are less clear. Conservationists work with matters of concern that are neither self-evident nor unproblematically co-present. Presence has to be made and re-made. These matters of concern, like rare species, do not always announce themselves to political ecology and they do not always perform to type. Such difficulties are analysed through discussion of practical work conducted in a UK city with field ecologists and nonhuman inhabitants. It is argued that a careful political ecology is one that is intent on making spaces for others that are not simply about presence, inclusion or accumulation. It also involves uncertainties, precautionary measures and looser forms of assemblage. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Bingham N, Hinchliffe S (2008). Reconstituting natures: Articulating other modes of living together. Geoforum, 39(1), 83-87.
Hinchliffe S, Bingham N (2008). Securing life: the emerging practices of biosecurity.
Environment and Planning A,
40(7), 1534-1551.
Abstract:
Securing life: the emerging practices of biosecurity
In this paper we review recent social science work on the issue of biosecurity and suggest ways in which geographers and social scientists can approach and intervene in current biosecurity practices. Our argument is that it is both useful and necessary to locate and intervene at sites where the ordering of biomatters is open to doubt and/or contestation. We pitch discourses of biological immanence and emergence against forms of social science thinking which tend to trace overarching logics or seemingly unstoppable forces in matters of power and politics. While acknowledging the import of both literatures, our aim is to engage with the fraught empirical practicalities of making biomatters secure in order to bring to the fore the ways in which life matters are patterned by any number of processes and the ways in which these patterns are always conditional on sociomaterial contingencies. © 2008 Pion Ltd and its Licensors.
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Hinchliffe SJ, Kearnes MB, Degen M, Whatmore S (2007). Ecologies and economies of action - Sustainability, calculations, and other things.
Environment and Planning A,
39(2), 260-282.
Abstract:
Ecologies and economies of action - Sustainability, calculations, and other things
In ecological, environmental, and urban-regeneration terms, the participatory turn and the turn to action have been written about at length in both academic and official literatures. From neighbourhood renewal to lay ecologies, people are being 'given' all kinds of agency in the making of economy and ecology. Yet relatively little has been said regarding the financial organisation of this new populism, which is often achieved through calculation and audit, and the framing of a return. In this paper we look at the uneasy coalition of civic action and its calculability. It focuses on the funding and running of a British Pakistani and Bangladeshi women's gardening initiative in inner city Birmingham, England. We fuse empirical work with gardeners and funding agencies with theoretical understandings of calculation in order to argue for a mode of organisation that not only includes a responsibility to act but also a responsibility to otherness. Rather than arguing for or against calculation, we describe a more diverse ecology of action and in so doing open arguments for reconfiguring the ways in which sustainable activities are funded. © 2007 a Pion publication printed in Great Britain.
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Hinchliffe S, Whatmore S (2006). Living Cities: Towards a Politics of Convivality. Science as Culture, 15(2), 123-138.
Hinchliffe S, Kearnes MB, Degen M, Whatmore S (2005). Urban wild things: a cosmopolitical experiment.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
23(5), 643-658.
Abstract:
Urban wild things: a cosmopolitical experiment
Cities are inhabited by all manner of things and made up of all manner of practices, many of which are unnoticed by urban politics and disregarded by science. In this paper we do two things. First, we add to the sense that urban living spaces involve much more than human worlds and are often prime sites for human and nonhuman ecologies. Second, we experiment with what is involved in taking these nonhuman worlds and ecologies seriously and in producing a politics for urban wilds. In order to do this we learn how to sense urban wildlife. In learning new engagements we also learn new things and in particular come to see urban wilds as matters of controversy. For this reason we have borrowed and adapted Latour's language to talk of wild things. Wild things become more rather than less real as people learn to engage with them. At the same time, wild things are too disputed, sociable, and uncertain to become constant objects upon which a stable urban politics can be constructed. So a parliament of wild things might be rather different from the house of representatives that we commonly imagine. It may be closer to what Stengers (1997, Power and Invention University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN) has characterised as cosmopolitics, a politics that is worked out without recourse to old binaries of nature and society. Using empirical work with urban wildlife-trust members we muddy the clean lines of representational politics, and start to grapple with issues that a reconvened wild politics might involve. © 2005 a Pion publication printed in Great Britain.
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Hinchliffe S (2002). Sociology and the Environment: a critical introduction to society, nature and knowledge.
SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION,
36(3), 783-785.
Author URL.
Hinchliffe S (2001). A world of difference: society, nature, development.
PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY,
25(3), 499-500.
Author URL.
Hinchliffe S (2001). Indeterminacy in-decisions - Science, policy and politics in the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) crisis.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
26(2), 182-204.
Abstract:
Indeterminacy in-decisions - Science, policy and politics in the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) crisis
Increasingly, non-human geographies have unfastened nature from its foundational moorings. In a parallel development, the benefits of adhering to precautionary and participatory forms of decision-making have become common place in environmental geography and in government policy. and yet, on closer inspection, there is a danger in these latter approaches that old certainties regarding non-human natures remain unquestioned. The result can be a tendency to gravitate towards bureaucratic and technical solutions to, or closures on, what are, first and foremost, political and open-ended problems. This paper uses an empirical engagement with BSE-related scientific and policy practices, along with insights from non-human geographies, science studies and poststructuralism to suggest that such certainties and resolutions are misplaced.
Abstract.
Hinchliffe S (2001). The nature of cities: ecocriticism and urban environments.
PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY,
25(4), 665-667.
Author URL.
Hinchliffe S (2000). Bioregionalism.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH,
24(3), 724-726.
Author URL.
Hinchliffe S (2000). Performance and experimental knowledge: Outdoor management training and the end of epistemology.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
18(5), 575-595.
Abstract:
Performance and experimental knowledge: Outdoor management training and the end of epistemology
In this paper I am concerned with experimental learning and knowing. By experimental I refer to a broad set of performances that have the potential to bring about something new. In this view experiments are not, even in their more restricted sense in scientific laboratories, limited to the corroboration or representation of an idea or thought. Experiments are on going. They are considered in this paper to be thought-in-action. This concern with experimentation and experimental knowledge is developed through an engagement with training activities on outdoor management courses in Britain Meanwhile, and in addition to this empirical focus, the paper serves as an appraisal of some current themes in social science thinking and practice. So, in part 1 of the paper, I detail some of the recent shifts in academic approaches to knowledge, focusing in particular on the much-vaunted decline of epistemology. This partial review of academic practice then allows me, in part 2 of the paper, to discuss the changes in knowledge practices and styles that have been set in motion in the management professions. Particular emphasis is given in this paper to the changing roles of corporate training with respect to the production of 'new' kinds of knowing and organising. Picking outdoor management training as a useful case with which to explore these shifts, I trace some of the ways in which large organisations set about the task of creating knowledgeable employees. Three themes of outdoor training are developed (embodiment, play, and experimental learning). In part 3 I develop an analysis of the ways in which a training course is conducted. The paper ends by drawing together some of the characteristic features of a performative geography of performance.
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Hinchliffe S (1999). Remaking reality: nature at the millennium.
AREA,
31(4), 399-400.
Author URL.
Hinchliffe S (1998). Planning as persuasive storytelling: the rhetorical construction of Chicago's electric future.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING B-PLANNING & DESIGN,
25(2), 314-315.
Author URL.
Hinchliffe S (1997). Justice, nature and the geography of difference - Harvey,D.
SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW,
45(4), 726-729.
Author URL.
Hinchliffe S (1997). Locating risk: Energy use, the 'ideal' home and the non-ideal world.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
22(2), 197-209.
Abstract:
Locating risk: Energy use, the 'ideal' home and the non-ideal world
In view of the supposed growth in recognition and public discussion of socio-environmental threats, this paper attempts to locate contemporary writings on risk within geographical debates. The focus is on risks associated with energy-using activities, especially those in the home and on the ways in which (what are construed as) 'non-local' or 'distant' risks are understood and acted upon. Understanding the complex and contradictory ways in which people live risks can provide informative perspectives upon the ways in which they feel able to participate in a politics of risk abatement. A framework for thinking about these social and political changes is introduced through an analysis of the production and consumption of ideal homes. These discussions are grounded in fieldwork carried out in Bristol in 1992 and 1993. Contrary to-some of Beck's arguments, living in a risk society does not provide automatic impetus for new forms of democratic organization. A spatial politics which emphasizes connections and relationships between 'local' actions and 'global' issues needs a more proactive agenda. key words Bristol/England socio-economic politics geographies of consumption ethnography Beck's risk society © Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 1997.
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Crang MA, Hudson AC, Reimer SM, Hinchliffe SJ (1997). Software for qualitative research: 1. Prospectus and overview.
Environment and Planning A,
29(5), 771-787.
Abstract:
Software for qualitative research: 1. Prospectus and overview
In recent years there has been growing interest in the use of computers within qualitative geography. In this paper we review the types of software packages that have been adopted and outline some of their distinctive features. We discuss the intellectual and institutional reasons for the interest in the software and highlight the ways in which such reasons have shaped the use made of these packages. We argue that only a contextual account of how packages are adopted, adapted, and used can explain the situation in geography. Furthermore we suggest that the archaeologies underlying the packages-their theoretical presuppositions-are remarkably homogeneous and need to be clearly understood before deciding how the packages might be used. We outline how some of these presuppositions have affected the ways in which the packages have been used, and develop-from our own experiences-some points about informal networks of adoption and institutional contexts. The point of this is to suggest the minimal role played by formal software guides and manuals in choosing whether and how to use a package. The paper outlines the current 'state of play' and raises issues of future use to be addressed in a second paper on this theme. Our intention is neither to sell a particular package, nor to say "to do X, use package Y", because such recommendations are often misleading. Rather, our aim is to provoke discussion about the use of software packages in qualitative geography.
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Hinchliffe SJ, Crang MA, Reimer SM, Hudson AC (1997). Software for qualitative research: 2. Some thoughts on 'aiding' analysis.
Environment and Planning A,
29(6), 1109-1124.
Abstract:
Software for qualitative research: 2. Some thoughts on 'aiding' analysis
In this paper we reject accounts which portray computer aided qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) as neutral and benign. We argue that applying computer software to qualitative projects raises a number of important issues that go to the heart of ethnography. Although we initially work with a distinction between tactile and digital ethnographics, the issues that we raise are not unique to computer-aided analyses. Indeed, we argue that the adoption of computers marks a useful moment in which to think critically about the means and ends of qualitative analysis. In this paper we urge qualitative researchers to avoid both an outright rejection and an unquestioning adoption of computer software packages. Rather, we work towards a 'crafty' approach to ethnography where computers are incorporated into the body of research in a critically reflexive and creative manner. We end the paper with some thoughts on the potential of such incorporation.
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Hinchliffe S (1996). Helping the earth begins at home. The social construction of socio-environmental responsibilities.
Global Environmental Change,
6(1), 53-62.
Abstract:
Helping the earth begins at home. The social construction of socio-environmental responsibilities
This paper evaluates the British government's current (and five-year old) campaign for energy conservation, 'Helping the Earth Begins at Home'. The paper starts by reviewing some of the arguments which can be use to support this type of policy initiative which, on the face of it, urges people to consider the global implications of local actions. The argument then turns to focus upon the ideological work that was invested into the production of the campaign, and in particular the redefinition of legitimate concern (for the global) and legitimate sites of activity (the local). Following this, the paper investigates the ways in which the campaign was consumed (read, ignored, rejected, acted upon) by members of the public. Long interview transcripts with householders in Bristol, UK, are analysed and represented to illustrate the weaknesses of the campaign. The paper finishes by drawing together some of the implications of this work for socio-environmental action.
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Hinchliffe S (1996). Mapping the subject: Geographies of cultural transformation - Pile,S, Thrift,N.
SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW,
44(2), 350-352.
Author URL.
Hinchliffe S (1996). Technology, power, and space - the means and ends of geographies of technology.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
14(6), 659-682.
Abstract:
Technology, power, and space - the means and ends of geographies of technology
This paper is about the means and ends of geographical inquiries into technology and technoscience. In working through a body of literature commonly grouped together under the collective phrase 'science, technology, and society', and in seeking to work upon empirical research on electricity networks, the author draws attention to the ontological and representational issues that are confronted when thinking through geographies of technology and geographies of technoscientific knowledge. In the first part of the paper the ontological status of nonhumans and the politics of representation are discussed as a consequence of a rejection of technical and social determinisms. In the second part, the author turns to review some of the analytical metaphors that are conjured with in order to address the issues raised in the first part. In the third part of the paper the more overtly spatial metaphors of the literature of science, technology, and society are confronted and the move from a measured and ordered managerialist approach to the spatiality of technologies and technoscience is reviewed. In the fourth section, some lessons for the politics of a reconfigured geographical engagement with technology and technoscience are raised.
Abstract.
HINCHLIFFE S (1995). ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY - AN INTRODUCTION - MARTELL,L.
ANTIPODE,
27(4), 435-437.
Author URL.
Hinchliffe S (1995). Missing culture: energy efficiency and lost causes.
Energy Policy,
23(1), 93-95.
Abstract:
Missing culture: energy efficiency and lost causes
Largely to the credit of Brookes, this journal has, over the past few years, carried a discussion that challenges the complacency of environmentalists and others over the role that improvements in energy efficiency can play as policy tools designed to mitigate the eco-social costs of energy production, transmission and consumption. In this communication I will briefly review the main arguments in this debate with the intention of highlighting their reliance upon a 'self-limiting set of assumptions' that make any informed analysis of the relationship between people and energy technologies highly questionable. This is particularly the case in the domestic and transport sectors. Here, only a more culturally sensitive investigation of the possibilities and problems afforded by various technologies and of the public's growing awareness of socio-environmental problems can support or counter the arguments raised by Brookes and his adversaries. © 1995.
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HINCHLIFFE S (1995). POSTMODERN CITIES AND SPACES - WATSON,S, GIBSON,C.
SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW,
43(4), 892-895.
Author URL.
Chapters
Hinchliffe S (2022). The Lure of One Health. In Braverman I (Ed)
More-Than-One Health Humans, Animals, and the Environment Post-Covid, London and New York: Routledge, ix-xxxvii.
Abstract:
The Lure of One Health
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Hinchliffe S (2021). Surveillance, Control and Containment (Biopolitics). In (Ed) COVID-19 and Similar Futures, 173-178.
Hinchliffe SJ (2018). Biosecurity. In Castree N, Hulme M, Proctor JD (Eds.)
Companion to Environmental Studies, Routledge.
Abstract:
Biosecurity
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Hinchliffe SJ (2017). Biosecurity. In Richardson D, Castree N, Goodchild MF, Kobayashi A, Weidong L, Marston RA (Eds.) The International Encyclopaedia of Geography, UK: John Wiley and Sons.
Hinchliffe S (2017). Indeterminacy in-decisions - science, policy and politics in the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) crisis. In (Ed)
Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography, 479-501.
Abstract:
Indeterminacy in-decisions - science, policy and politics in the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) crisis
Abstract.
Hinchliffe S, Whatmore S (2017). Living cities: Towards a politics of conviviality. In (Ed) Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography, 555-570.
Hinchliffe SJ (2017). More than one world more than one health: reconfiguring inter-species health. In Herrick C, Reubi D (Eds.) Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 159-175.
Hinchliffe SJ (2017). Technology. In Richardson D, Castree N, Goodchild MF, Kobayashi A, Weidong L, Marston RA (Eds.) The International Encyclopaedia of Geography, UK: John Wiley and Sons, 1-3.
Hinchliffe S, Keames MB, Degen M, Whatmore S (2017). Urban wild things: a cosmopolitical experiment. In (Ed)
Contemporary Movements in Planning Theory: Critical Essays in Planning Theory: Volume 3, 501-516.
Abstract:
Urban wild things: a cosmopolitical experiment
Abstract.
Hinchliffe SJ (2016). Sensory biopolitics: Knowing birds and a politics of life. In Asdal K, Druglitro T, Hinchliffe SJ (Eds.) Humans, animals and biopolitics: the more than human condition, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 152-170.
Asdal K, Druglitro T, Hinchliffe SJ (2016). The more than human condition: sentient creatures and versions of biopolitics. In Asdal K, Druglitro T, Hinchliffe SJ (Eds.) Humans, animals and biopolitics: the more than human condition, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 1-29.
Hinchliffe S (2015). Living with risk: the unnatural geography of environmental crises. In (Ed)
The Natural and the Social: Uncertainty, Risk, Change, 115-151.
Abstract:
Living with risk: the unnatural geography of environmental crises
Abstract.
Hinchliffe SJ (2014). Securing Life: New Hazards and Biosecurity. In Cloke P, Crang P, Goodwin M (Eds.) Introducing Human Geographies, London: Routledge, 864-878.
Hinchliffe SJ (2013). The Insecurity of Biosecurity. In Dobson, Andrew, Barker, Kezia, Taylor, Sarah (Eds.)
Biosecurity: the socio-politics of invasive species and infectious diseases, London: Earthscan/ Routledge.
Abstract:
The Insecurity of Biosecurity
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Hinchliffe S (2012). A Physical Sense of World. In Painter J (Ed) Spatial Politics, Wiley Blackwell, 178-188.
Whatmore SJ, Hinchliffe SJ (2010). Ecological landscapes. In Hicks D, Beaudry MC (Eds.)
The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies, OUP Oxford, 440-458.
Abstract:
Ecological landscapes
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Hinchliffe S (2010). Working with multiples - a non representational approach to environmental issues. In Anderson B, Harrison P (Eds.)
Taking Place.
Abstract:
Working with multiples - a non representational approach to environmental issues
Abstract.
Hinchliffe S (2010). Working with multiples: a non-representational approach to environmental issues. In (Ed) Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography, 303-320.
Hinchliffe S, Whatmore S (2009). Living Cities. In White DF (Ed)
Technonatures, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr.
Abstract:
Living Cities
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Hinchliffe S, Bingham N (2009). People, Animals, and Biosecurity in and through Cities. In (Ed) Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City, 214-227.
Bingham N, Hinchliffe S (2008). Mapping the multiplicities of Biosecurity. In Lakoff A, Collier SJ (Eds.)
Biosecurity interventions, Columbia Univ Pr, 173-194.
Abstract:
Mapping the multiplicities of Biosecurity
Abstract.
Hinchliffe S (2005). Cities and natures: Intimate strangers. In (Ed) Unsettling Cities: Movement/Settlement, 141-185.
Hinchliffe S (2003). ‘Inhabiting’ - landscapes and natures. In (Ed) Handbook of Cultural Geography, 207-226.
Hinchliffe S (1997). Home-made space and the will to disconnect. In (Ed)
, 200-219.
Author URL.
Publications by year
In Press
Hinchliffe SJ (In Press). Book review forum: Vibrant Matter: a Political Ecology of Things.
Dialogues in Human Geography,
3(1), 396-399.
Abstract:
Book review forum: Vibrant Matter: a Political Ecology of Things
hat matter is lively, that matters deserve lavish attention, that human and non-human things
are politically important all may seem both familiar and, still, a little strange. Familiar
because it is been a common refrain for geographers, drawing on a long history of debate
within feminist science studies and STS (science, technology and society). Strange because,
despite all, affirming the powers of matter remains a slightly marginal pursuit, and one that
has not really taken off in political theory or been given much more than lip service in most.
Abstract.
2022
Hinchliffe S (2022). The Lure of One Health. In Braverman I (Ed)
More-Than-One Health Humans, Animals, and the Environment Post-Covid, London and New York: Routledge, ix-xxxvii.
Abstract:
The Lure of One Health
Abstract.
Garnett E, Balayannis A, Hinchliffe S, Davies T, Gladding T, Nicholson P (2022). The work of waste during COVID-19: logics of public, environmental, and occupational health. Critical Public Health, 32(5), 630-640.
2021
Butcher A, Rahman MM, Hinchliffe S (2021). A Model Innovation: Improving Disease Management for Meeting the Challenges of Bangladesh’s Aquaculture Hatchery Sector.
International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food,
27(2), 39-54.
Abstract:
A Model Innovation: Improving Disease Management for Meeting the Challenges of Bangladesh’s Aquaculture Hatchery Sector
Reducing disease within shrimp and prawn production is a key policy aim for Bangladesh’s export aquaculture. Hatcheries that supply the farms with seed — or larvae — are potential hotspots for disease and the production of antimicrobial resistance traits. Disease pathogens and antibiotic resistant bacteria or genes can easily be transferred to farms via infected larvae. Efforts to reduce disease and transmission have focused on testing all hatchery output, improving hatchery production techniques and management practices, and generating markets for pathogen-free seed. Whilst the intrinsic value of the innovations for reducing disease and improving quality appeared evident, uptake of improvements in the hatcheries has been low. Disease remains a key production challenge, and despite some evidence of reduction in antibiotic use, antibiotics remain a necessary component of disease control. To test the viability of the new technologies and management practices we have developed a sociotechnical method of analysis, inspired by Actor Network Theory. The method utilizes interessement to analyse the role different actors/actants play in determining the destiny of the hatchery production innovations. Our approach has highlighted how the multifaceted socioeconomic and biological elements of hatchery production combine to create a weak innovation and investment environment. We therefore advocate the development of models that combine social and technical analysis for the purposes of assessing the viability of an innovation and improving the prospects of successful implementation.
Abstract.
Moya S, Chan KWR, Hinchliffe S, Buller H, Espluga J, Benavides B, Diéguez FJ, Yus E, Ciaravino G, Casal J, et al (2021). Influence on the implementation of biosecurity measures in dairy cattle farms: Communication between veterinarians and dairy farmers. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 190, 105329-105329.
Hinchliffe S, Manderson L, Moore M (2021). Planetary healthy publics after COVID-19 (vol 5, pg e230, 2021).
LANCET PLANETARY HEALTH,
5(6), E336-E336.
Author URL.
Hinchliffe S, Manderson L, Moore M (2021). Planetary healthy publics after COVID-19.
Lancet Planet Health,
5(4), e230-e236.
Abstract:
Planetary healthy publics after COVID-19.
COVID-19 is a sign of a global malaise. The pandemic is an outcome of what we term a planetary dysbiosis, for which underlining drivers include inequality and the exploitation and extraction of human and non-human labours. The implication is that the usual fixes to outbreaks of infectious diseases (ie, surveillance, pharmaceutical measures, and non-pharmaceutical measures) will be insufficient without a thorough reappraisal of and investment in planetary health. Given the heterogeneity and diversity of environments and populations, we envisage these actions as a matter for the generation of new kinds of public, requiring widespread and multiple forms of engagement to generate lasting solutions. We use and extend the concept of healthy publics to suggest a movement that can start to reclaim planetary health as a collective and ongoing issue.
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Hinchliffe S (2021). Postcolonial Global Health, Post-Colony Microbes and Antimicrobial Resistance.
Theory, Culture & Society,
39(3), 145-168.
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Postcolonial Global Health, Post-Colony Microbes and Antimicrobial Resistance
Rather than ‘superbugs’ signifying recalcitrant forms of life that withstand biomedical treatment, drug resistant infections emerge within and are intricate with the exercise of social and medical power. The distinction is important, as it provides a means to understand and critique current methods employed to confront the threat of widespread antimicrobial resistance. A global health regime that seeks to extend social and medical power, through technical and market integration, risks reproducing a form of triumphalism and exceptionalism that resistance itself should have us pause to question. An alternative approach, based on a postcolonial as well as a ‘post-colony’ approach to health and microbes, provides impetus to challenge the assumptions and norms of global health. It highlights the potential contribution that vernacular approaches to human and animal health can play in altering the milieu of resistance.
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Hinchliffe S (2021). Surveillance, Control and Containment (Biopolitics). In (Ed) COVID-19 and Similar Futures, 173-178.
McCauley J (2021). Sustainable and Secure Fish Farms: Understanding the Social Practices and Processes Relating to Aquaculture and Biosecurity.
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Sustainable and Secure Fish Farms: Understanding the Social Practices and Processes Relating to Aquaculture and Biosecurity
This thesis examines what it means to do biosecurity and fish farming well, on freshwater finfish (trout) farms in England and Wales. At the core of this question is what biosecurity means as attention shifts from disease pathways to animal health matters.
A mixed-method approach of survey data, embedded participant research
alongside a Q-methodology was utilised to uncover a new understanding of what it really means to practice biosecurity on fish farms. By framing the research question with the conceptual lens of social practice theory, this research argues for a new understanding of why practices related to biosecurity occur and persist.
Consequently, this thesis offers five new contributions to biosecurity and
aquaculture knowledge. Firstly, this thesis identifies the unique relationship
between agents of the state tasked with monitoring and enforcing biosecurity policies and those fish farmers who must comply with such policies. Secondly, the omnipresent threat of endemic disease is highlighted as the most significant influencing factor for fish farmers across the industry. How they approach endemic disease issues reflects how they conceptualise the broader issues of biosecurity within the industry. Thirdly, the examination and argument for the important role that care occupies within the industry as a pillar of successful disease management. Fourthly, the suitability of social practice theory as a conceptual lens to examine this industry and the theoretical question of biosecurity provide a nuanced understanding of the subjectivities in doing biosecurity well. Fifthly, the importance of practices of care and how they relate to biosecurity practices on farms.
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Partington G, Salisbury L, Hinchliffe S, Michael M, Choksey L (2021). The Index of Evidence: speculative methodologies in response to the post-truth era.
Wellcome Open Research,
6, 318-318.
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The Index of Evidence: speculative methodologies in response to the post-truth era
The past year has shown that even the fundamental idea of ‘evidence’ – in health contexts, but also more broadly - is coming under increasing strain. This open letter argues that the current crises of evidence and knowledge in which we find ourselves demands new speculative methodologies. It introduces the Index of Evidence – a Beacon Project funded by Exeter University’s Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health - as one example of such a methodology, outlining its theoretical foundations and process. The key innovation of this project is to rethink the form and presentation that research can take. Using the conceptual and material affordances of the index, it merges the creative and critical in ways that aim to make an important contribution to more inter-connected, theoretically sophisticated thinking around evidence.
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2020
Hasan NA, Haque MM, Hinchliffe SJ, Guilder J (2020). A sequential assessment of WSD risk factors of shrimp farming in Bangladesh: Looking for a sustainable farming system.
Aquaculture,
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A sequential assessment of WSD risk factors of shrimp farming in Bangladesh: Looking for a sustainable farming system
White Spot Disease (WSD) caused by White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV), is responsible for widespread mortality and economic losses across almost the entire Asian shrimp farming industry. The distribution of disease prevalence is however uneven, and is likely dependent on a range of management, environmental and socio-ecological factors. In this study, 233 farms were surveyed in southwest Bangladesh, the main shrimp farming zone, to produce a dataset from a range of pond types, culture techniques and farming practices. Four categories of data (site/farm characteristics, environmental variables, disease history, and management variables) with associated risk factors were selected following the development of a conceptual framework and a participatory rural appraisal tool. Factors potentially contributing to WSD prevalence in the current shrimp crop were first screened using univariate analysis and subsequently analyzed using a multivariate logistic regression to highlight significant risk factors. Association of the selected factors with WSD prevalence was examined using multivariate stepwise removal. The multivariate analysis revealed that farms operated by a tenant worker (p: 0.03), mixed use of fertilizer (p: 0.009), poor quality water source (p: 0.001), lack of reservoir for water purification (p: < 0.001), and frequent exchange of water during a single crop culture (p: < 0.001) were significantly associated with WSD prevalence. The results suggest that, where possible, better farm management practices including improving water quality, controlling water exchange and/or maintaining constant salinity, will reduce WSD prevalence.
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Chan KW, Bard AM, Adam KE, Rees GM, Morgans L, Cresswell L, Hinchliffe S, Barrett DC, Reyher KK, Buller H, et al (2020). Diagnostics and the challenge of antimicrobial resistance: a survey of UK livestock veterinarians’ perceptions and practices. Veterinary Record, 187(12), e125-e125.
Thornber K, Verner-Jeffreys D, Hinchliffe S, Rahman MM, Bass D, Tyler CR (2020). Evaluating antimicrobial resistance in the global shrimp industry.
Reviews in Aquaculture,
12(2), 966-986.
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Evaluating antimicrobial resistance in the global shrimp industry
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing threat to global public health, and the overuse of antibiotics in animals has been identified as a major risk factor. With high levels of international trade and direct connectivity to the aquatic environment, shrimp aquaculture may play a role in global AMR dissemination. The vast majority of shrimp production occurs in low- and middle-income countries, where antibiotic quality and usage is widely unregulated, and where the integration of aquaculture with family livelihoods offers many opportunities for human, animal and environmental bacteria to come into close contact. Furthermore, in shrimp growing areas, untreated waste is often directly eliminated into local water sources. These risks are very different to many other major internationally-traded aquaculture commodities, such as salmon, which is produced in higher income countries where there are greater levels of regulation and well-established management practices. Assessing the true scale of the risk of AMR dissemination in the shrimp industry is a considerable challenge, not least because obtaining reliable data on antibiotic usage is very difficult. Combating the risks associated with AMR dissemination is also challenging due to the increasing trend towards intensification and its associated disease burden, and because many farmers currently have no alternatives to antibiotics for preventing crop failure. In this review, we critically assess the potential risks the shrimp industry poses to AMR dissemination. We also discuss some of the possible risk mitigation strategies that could be considered by the shrimp industry as it strives for a more sustainable future in production.
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Keenan C, Saunders C, Price S, Hinchliffe S, McDonald RA (2020). From Conflict to Bridges: Towards Constructive Use of Conflict Frames in the Control of Bovine Tuberculosis.
Sociologia Ruralis,
60(2), 482-504.
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From Conflict to Bridges: Towards Constructive Use of Conflict Frames in the Control of Bovine Tuberculosis
Control of bovine tuberculosis in cattle (bTB) in England and Wales is characterised by conversational and policy impasses, particularly in relation to badger culling. We created four online discussion groups comprising of badger cull supporters, cull-opponents, aligned antagonists (mixing supporters and opponents affiliated with farming or an environmental/conservation group) and non-aligned antagonists (mixing supporters and opponents who were not affiliated with a particular group). We held five different discussions with each grouping over the course of a week. We aimed to identify frames held by the opposing groupings within the bTB control controversy, which could either contribute to conflict and impasse, or alternatively could provide a potential conversational bridge between those who differed. Our analysis identified elements of the framings of the bTB control problem, which, particularly in the mixed groupings, lead to deadlock. We also identified some aspects of the framings which allowed those who differed to communicate together more effectively. We argue that these more transformative frames can be used to bridge conflict.
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Hinchliffe S, Butcher A, Rahman MM, Guilder J, Tyler C, Verner‐Jeffreys D (2020). Production without medicalisation: Risk practices and disease in Bangladesh aquaculture. The Geographical Journal, 187(1), 39-50.
Kirchhelle C, Atkinson P, Broom A, Chuengsatiansup K, Ferreira JP, Fortané N, Frost I, Gradmann C, Hinchliffe S, Hoffman SJ, et al (2020). Setting the standard: multidisciplinary hallmarks for structural, equitable and tracked antibiotic policy.
BMJ Glob Health,
5(9).
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Setting the standard: multidisciplinary hallmarks for structural, equitable and tracked antibiotic policy.
There is increasing concern globally about the enormity of the threats posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to human, animal, plant and environmental health. A proliferation of international, national and institutional reports on the problems posed by AMR and the need for antibiotic stewardship have galvanised attention on the global stage. However, the AMR community increasingly laments a lack of action, often identified as an 'implementation gap'. At a policy level, the design of internationally salient solutions that are able to address AMR's interconnected biological and social (historical, political, economic and cultural) dimensions is not straightforward. This multidisciplinary paper responds by asking two basic questions: (A) is a universal approach to AMR policy and antibiotic stewardship possible? (B) If yes, what hallmarks characterise 'good' antibiotic policy? Our multistage analysis revealed four central challenges facing current international antibiotic policy: metrics, prioritisation, implementation and inequality. In response to this diagnosis, we propose three hallmarks that can support robust international antibiotic policy. Emerging hallmarks for good antibiotic policies are: Structural, Equitable and Tracked. We describe these hallmarks and propose their consideration should aid the design and evaluation of international antibiotic policies with maximal benefit at both local and international scales.
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Stentiford GD, Bateman IJ, Hinchliffe S, Bass D, Hartnell R, Santos EM, Delvin M, Taylor N, Verner-Jeffreys D, Van Aerle R, et al (2020). Sustainable aquaculture through the One Health lens. Nature Food
Buller H, Adam K, Bard A, Bruce A, (Ray) Chan KW, Hinchliffe S, Morgans L, Rees G, Reyher KK (2020). Veterinary Diagnostic Practice and the Use of Rapid Tests in Antimicrobial Stewardship on UK Livestock Farms. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7
2019
Crowley SL, Hinchliffe S, McDonald RA (2019). The parakeet protectors: Understanding opposition to introduced species management.
Journal of Environmental Management,
229, 120-132.
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The parakeet protectors: Understanding opposition to introduced species management
The surveillance and control of introduced and invasive species has become an increasingly important component of environmental management. However, initiatives targeting ‘charismatic’ wildlife can be controversial. Opposition to management, and the subsequent emergence of social conflict, present significant challenges for would-be managers. Understanding the substance and development of these disputes is therefore vital for improving the legitimacy and effectiveness of wildlife management. It also provides important insights into human-wildlife relations and the 'social dimensions’ of wildlife management. Here, we examine how the attempted eradication of small populations of introduced monk parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus) from England has been challenged and delayed by opposition from interested and affected communities. We consider how and why the UK Government's eradication initiative was opposed, focusing on three key themes: disagreements about justifying management, the development of affective attachments between people and parakeets, and the influence of distrustful and antagonistic relationships between proponents and opponents of management. We draw connections between our UK case and previous management disputes, primarily in the USA, and suggest that the resistance encountered in the UK might readily have been foreseen. We conclude by considering how management of this and other introduced species could be made less conflict-prone, and potentially more effective, by reconfiguring management approaches to be more anticipatory, flexible, sensitive, and inclusive.
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2018
Sandover R, Kinsley SP, Hinchliffe S (2018). A very public cull – the anatomy of an online issue public.
Geoforum,
97, 106-118.
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A very public cull – the anatomy of an online issue public
Geographers and other social scientists have for some time been interested in how scientific and environmental controversies emerge and become public or collective issues. Social media are now key platforms through which these issues are publically raised and through which groups or publics can organise themselves. As media that generate data and traces of networking activity, these platforms also provide an opportunity for scholars to study the character and constitution of those groupings. In this paper we lay out a method for studying these ‘issue publics’: emergent groupings involved in publicising an issue. We focus on the controversy surrounding the state-sanctioned cull of wild badgers in England as a contested means of disease management in cattle. We analyse two overlapping groupings to demonstrate how online issue publics function in a variety of ways – from the ‘echo chambers’ of online sharing of information, to the marshalling of agreements on strategies for action, to more dialogic patterns of debate. We demonstrate the ways in which digital media platforms are themselves performative in the formation of issue publics and that, while this creates issues, we should not retreat into debates around the ‘proper object’ of research but rather engage with the productive complications of mapping social media data into knowledge (Whatmore, 2009). In turn, we argue that online issue publics are not homogeneous and that the lines of heterogeneity are neither simple or to be expected and merit study as a means to understand the suite of processes and novel contexts involved in the emergence of a public.
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Hinchliffe SJ (2018). Biosecurity. In Castree N, Hulme M, Proctor JD (Eds.)
Companion to Environmental Studies, Routledge.
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Biosecurity
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Doherty S, Reyher K, Barrett D, Bard A, Buller H, Hinchliffe S, Chan R, Tait J, Bruce A, Adam K, et al (2018). Diagnostic technologies and antimicrobial use in livestock systems. Veterinary Record, 183(20), 626-627.
Hinchliffe S, Jackson M, Wyatt K, Barlow A, Barreto M, Clare L, Deplege M, Durie R, Fleming L, Groom N, et al (2018). Healthy publics: Enabling cultures and environments for health. Palgrave Communications, 4, n/a-n/a.
Crowley SL, Hinchliffe SJ, McDonald RA (2018). Killing squirrels: Exploring motivations and practices of lethal wildlife management. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Hinchliffe SJ, Butcher A, Rahman MM (2018). The AMR problem: demanding economies, biological margins, and co-producing alternative strategies. Palgrave Communications, 4
2017
Hockenhull J, Turner AE, Reyher KK, Barrett DC, Jones L, Hinchliffe S, Buller HJ (2017). Antimicrobial use in food-producing animals: a rapid evidence assessment of stakeholder practices and beliefs.
Vet Rec,
181(19).
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Antimicrobial use in food-producing animals: a rapid evidence assessment of stakeholder practices and beliefs.
Food-producing animals throughout the world are likely to be exposed to antimicrobial (AM) treatment. The crossover in AM use between human and veterinary medicine raises concerns that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) may spread from food-producing animals to humans, driving the need for further understanding of how AMs are used in livestock practice as well as stakeholder beliefs relating to their use. A rapid evidence assessment (REA) was used to collate research on AM use published in peer-reviewed journals between 2000 and 2016. Forty-eight papers were identified and reviewed. The summary of findings highlights a number of issues regarding current knowledge of the use of AMs in food-producing animals and explores the attitudes of interested parties regarding the reduction of AM use in livestock. Variation between and within countries, production types and individual farms demonstrates the complexity of the challenge involved in monitoring and regulating AM use in animal agriculture. Many factors that could influence the prevalence of AMR in livestock are of concern across all sections of the livestock industry. This REA highlights the potential role of farmers and veterinarians and of other advisors, public pressure and legislation to influence change in the use of AMs in livestock.
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Hinchliffe SJ (2017). Biosecurity. In Richardson D, Castree N, Goodchild MF, Kobayashi A, Weidong L, Marston RA (Eds.) The International Encyclopaedia of Geography, UK: John Wiley and Sons.
Crowley SL, Hinchliffe S, McDonald RA (2017). Conflict in invasive species management. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 15(3), 133-141.
Crowley SL, Hinchliffe S, Redpath SM, McDonald RA (2017). Disagreement About Invasive Species Does Not Equate to Denialism: a Response to Russell and Blackburn.
Trends Ecol Evol,
32(4), 228-229.
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Price S, Saunders C, Hinchliffe S, McDonald RA (2017). From contradiction to contrast in a countryside conflict: Using Q Methodology to reveal a diplomatic space for doing TB differently.
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space,
49(11), 2578-2594.
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From contradiction to contrast in a countryside conflict: Using Q Methodology to reveal a diplomatic space for doing TB differently
Environmental conflicts are often framed by an assumption that there are clear divisions between interested parties. As a result, there is a tendency to polarise debates, simplify arguments and miss opportunities for constructive engagement. While these conflicts are rarely amenable to resolution through direct dialogue, diplomacy may offer a means to generate possible political settlements. In this paper, we seek to identify the scope for such diplomacy in the seemingly entrenched conflict that surrounds the case of bovine tuberculosis and badger culling in England. First, we use Q methodological techniques to map prevailing views among concerned publics about this highly contentious and apparently intractable issue. Second, we combine this method with diplomatic theory in order to identify areas in which diplomatic modes of engagement may be constructive. Our results show that there are predictable conflictual elements within two positions organised around opposition to, and support for, the culling of badgers. These positions, which we label ‘ethical empiricist’ and ‘nostalgic autonomist’, respectively, are not always straightforwardly oppositional. Their points of contact, as well as intersections with a third, alternative, subject position, which we label ‘liberal pragmatist’, suggest starting-points for diplomacy.
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Hinchliffe S (2017). Indeterminacy in-decisions - science, policy and politics in the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) crisis. In (Ed)
Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography, 479-501.
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Indeterminacy in-decisions - science, policy and politics in the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) crisis
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Hinchliffe S, Whatmore S (2017). Living cities: Towards a politics of conviviality. In (Ed) Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography, 555-570.
Hinchliffe SJ (2017). More than one world more than one health: reconfiguring inter-species health. In Herrick C, Reubi D (Eds.) Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 159-175.
Crowley SL, Hinchliffe S, McDonald RA (2017). Nonhuman citizens on trial: the ecological politics of a beaver reintroduction.
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space,
49(8), 1846-1866.
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Nonhuman citizens on trial: the ecological politics of a beaver reintroduction
Wildlife reintroductions can unsettle social and ecological norms, and are often controversial. In this paper, we examine the recent (re)introduction of Eurasian beavers to England, to analyse responses to an unauthorised release of a formerly resident species. Although the statutory response to the introduction was to attempt to reassert ecological and political order by recapturing the beavers, this action was strongly opposed by a diverse collective, united and made powerful by a common goal: to protect England’s ‘new’ nonhuman residents. We show how this clash of state resolve and public dissent produced an uneasy compromise in the form of a formal, licensed ‘beaver reintroduction trial’, in which the new beaver residents have been allowed to remain, but under surveillance. We propose that although the trial is unorthodox and risky, there is an opportunity for it to be treated as a ‘wild experiment’ through which a more open-ended, experimental approach to co-inhabiting with wildlife might be attempted.
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Hinchliffe SJ (2017). Technology. In Richardson D, Castree N, Goodchild MF, Kobayashi A, Weidong L, Marston RA (Eds.) The International Encyclopaedia of Geography, UK: John Wiley and Sons, 1-3.
Hinchliffe S, Keames MB, Degen M, Whatmore S (2017). Urban wild things: a cosmopolitical experiment. In (Ed)
Contemporary Movements in Planning Theory: Critical Essays in Planning Theory: Volume 3, 501-516.
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Urban wild things: a cosmopolitical experiment
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2016
Broughan JM, Maye D, Carmody P, Brunton LA, Ashton A, Wint W, Alexander N, Naylor R, Ward K, Goodchild AV, et al (2016). Farm characteristics and farmer perceptions associated with bovine tuberculosis incidents in areas of emerging endemic spread.
Preventive Veterinary Medicine,
129, 88-98.
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Farm characteristics and farmer perceptions associated with bovine tuberculosis incidents in areas of emerging endemic spread
While much is known about the risk factors for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in herds located in high incidence areas, the drivers of bTB spread in areas of emerging endemicity are less well established. Epidemiological analysis and intensive social research identified natural and social risk factors that may prevent or encourage the spread of disease. These were investigated using a case-control study design to survey farmers in areas defined as recently having become endemic for bTB (from or after 2006). Telephone surveys were conducted for 113 farms with a recent history of a bTB incident where their officially tuberculosis free status had been withdrawn (OTFW) (cases) and 224 controls with no history of a bTB incident, matched on location, production type and the rate of endemic bTB spread. Farmers were questioned about a range of farm management strategies, farm characteristics, herd health, wildlife and biosecurity measures with a focus on farmer attitudes and behaviours such as farmers' perception of endemicity and feelings of control, openness and social cohesion. Data generated in the telephone surveys was supplemented with existing herd-level data and analysed using conditional logistic regression. Overall, herd size (OR 1.07), purchasing an animal at a cattle market compared to purchasing outside of markets (OR 2.6), the number of contiguous bTB incidents (2.30) and the number of inconclusive reactors detected in the 2 years prior to the case incident (OR 1.95) significantly increased the odds of a bTB incident. Beef herds using a field parcel more than 3.2 km away from the main farm and dairy herds reporting Johne's disease in the previous 12 months were 3.0 and 4.7 times more likely to have a recent history of a bTB incident, respectively. Beef herds reporting maize growing near, but not on, their farm were less likely to be case herds. Operating a closed farm in the two years prior to the case breakdown did not reduce the odds of a bTB incident. Farmers that had recently experienced a bTB incident were more likely to have implemented badger biosecurity in the previous year, but no more likely than control farms to have implemented cattle biosecurity. Case farmers felt significantly less likely to be influenced by government, vets or other farmers compared to those with no history of bTB. This suggests that alternative methods of engaging with farmers who have recently had a breakdown may need to be developed.
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NA (eds)(2016). Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: the more-than-human condition. London, UK, Routledge.
Asdal K, Druglitro T, Hinchliffe SJ (2016).
Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: the more-than-human condition. Abingdon, UK, Routledge.
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Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: the more-than-human condition
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Crowley SL, Hinchliffe S, McDonald RA (2016). Invasive species management will benefit from social impact assessment. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(2), 351-357.
Hinchliffe S, Bingham N, Allen J, Carter S (2016).
Pathological Lives Disease, Space and Biopolitics., Wiley-Blackwell.
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Pathological Lives Disease, Space and Biopolitics
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Hinchliffe SJ (2016). Sensory biopolitics: Knowing birds and a politics of life. In Asdal K, Druglitro T, Hinchliffe SJ (Eds.) Humans, animals and biopolitics: the more than human condition, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 152-170.
Asdal K, Druglitro T, Hinchliffe SJ (2016). The more than human condition: sentient creatures and versions of biopolitics. In Asdal K, Druglitro T, Hinchliffe SJ (Eds.) Humans, animals and biopolitics: the more than human condition, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 1-29.
2015
Hinchliffe S, Woodward K (2015).
Afterword.Abstract:
Afterword
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Enticott G, Maye D, Carmody P, Naylor R, Ward K, Hinchliffe S, Wint W, Alexander N, Elgin R, Ashton A, et al (2015). Farming on the edge: farmer attitudes to bovine tuberculosis in newly endemic areas.
Vet Rec,
177(17).
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Farming on the edge: farmer attitudes to bovine tuberculosis in newly endemic areas.
Defra's recent strategy to eradicate bovine tuberculosis (bTB) establishes three spatial zones: high-risk areas (HRAs) and low-risk areas, and an area referred to as 'the edge', which marks the areas where infection is spreading outwards from the HRA. Little is known about farmers in the edge area, their attitudes towards bTB and their farming practices. This paper examines farmers' practices and attitudes towards bTB in standardised epidemiologically defined areas. A survey was developed to collect data on farmer attitudes, behaviours, practices and environmental conditions as part of an interdisciplinary analysis of bTB risk factors. Survey items were developed from a literature review and focus groups with vets and farmers in different locations within the edge area. A case-control sampling framework was adopted with farms sampled from areas identified as recently endemic for bTB. 347 farmers participated in the survey including 117 with bTB, representing a 70per cent response rate. Results show that farmers believe they are unable to do anything about bTB but are keen for the government intervention to help control the spread of bTB.
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Hinchliffe S, Woodward K (2015).
Introduction.Abstract:
Introduction
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Hinchliffe S (2015). Living with risk: the unnatural geography of environmental crises. In (Ed)
The Natural and the Social: Uncertainty, Risk, Change, 115-151.
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Living with risk: the unnatural geography of environmental crises
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Hinchliffe S (2015). More than one world, more than one health: Re-configuring interspecies health.
Social Science and Medicine,
129, 28-35.
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More than one world, more than one health: Re-configuring interspecies health
'One World One Health' (OWOH), 'One Medicine' and 'One Health' are all injunctions to work across the domains of veterinary, human and environmental health. In large part they are institutional responses to growing concerns regarding shared health risks at the human, animal and environmental interfaces. Although these efforts to work across disciplinary boundaries are welcome, there are also risks in seeking unity, not least the tendency of one health visions to reduce diversity and to under-value the local, contingent and practical engagements that make health possible. This paper uses insights from Geography and Science and Technology Studies along with multi-sited and multi-species qualitative fieldwork on animal livestock and zoonotic influenzas in the UK, to highlight the importance of those practical engagements. After an introduction to one health, I argue that there is a tendency in OWOH visions to focus on contamination and transmission of pathogens rather than the socio-economic configuration of disease and health, and this tendency conforms to or performs what sociologist John Law calls a one world metaphysics. Following this, three related field cases are used to demonstrate that health is dependent upon a patchwork of practices, and is configured in practice by skilled people, animals, micro-organisms and their social relations. From surveillance for influenza viruses to tending animals, good health it turns out is dependent on an ability to construct common sense from a complex of signs, responses and actions. It takes, in other words, more than one world to make healthy outcomes. In light of this, the paper aims to, first, loosen any association between OWOH and a one world-ist metaphysics, and, second, to radicalize the inter-disciplinary foundations of OWOH by both widening the scope of disciplinarity as well as attending to how different knowledgesare brought together.
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Craddock S, Hinchliffe S (2015). One world, one health? Social science engagements with the one health agenda.
Soc Sci Med,
129, 1-4.
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Hinchliffe S, Woodward K (2015). Series Preface.
Hinchliffe S, Woodward K (2015).
The natural and the social: Uncertainty, risk, change.Abstract:
The natural and the social: Uncertainty, risk, change
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2014
Hinchliffe S, Levidow L, Oreszczyn S (2014). Engaging cooperative research.
Environment and Planning A,
46(9), 2080-2094.
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Engaging cooperative research
Cooperative research involves upstream engagement of practitioners, introducing diverse knowledges and expertise in ways that can, in theory at least, generate new knowledge that is socially robust and publicly accountable. and yet, judging cooperative research solely in terms of accountability may underplay the transformative and nonaccountable/nonconvergent nature of research—the production, in other words, of the new when collectives are drawn together. Using examples from research that sought to provide environmental civil society organisations (CSOs) with the resources to shape cooperative research, this paper argues that cooperative research may not simply mark an extension of public engagement with science but can also seed an anticipatory and thus creative research process. For cooperative research to play this role there is a need to highlight the human and nonhuman attachments that underpin cooperative research activity. We argue that such activity might best have as its aim the empowerment, not simply of participants, but of the political situations that CSOs can help to foment.
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Hinchliffe S, Ward KJ (2014). Geographies of folded life: How immunity reframes biosecurity.
Geoforum,
53, 136-144.
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Geographies of folded life: How immunity reframes biosecurity
Biosecurity, in broad terms, aims to reduce the impact and incidence of threats to life through regulatory means. For reasons we raise in this paper, such regulation can often lead to the specification of disease free processes within the food and farming industry, with biosecurity success measured in terms of the degree of compliance with and allegiance to modern farming practice. We counter this progressive narrative in three ways. First we draw on UK-based qualitative fieldwork with vets, farmers and pigs to demonstrate how biosecure farming and disease freedom are translated and qualified, in practice, to pathogen free, pathogen management and ultimately to configuring health through immunity management. Second, these translations demonstrate how building health is dependent on spatial and microbiological diversity rather than uniformity. Crucially, health involves patch-. work and situated knowledge practices that are under threat within an industry increasingly marked by control and homogeneity. Third, in conceptual terms, we argue that while pig farming is organised through both biosecurity and a biopolitical regulation of life, immunity opens up political space for exploring an alternative politics of life, one where farmers and others are not so much made responsible for disease prevention, but make valued contributions to understandings of animal health and food security. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
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Hinchliffe SJ, Allen JR, Lavau S (2014). Safe to eat?.
Society Now(20), 22-23.
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Safe to eat?
Food saftey is in the news, but is the answer.
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Hinchliffe SJ (2014). Securing Life: New Hazards and Biosecurity. In Cloke P, Crang P, Goodwin M (Eds.) Introducing Human Geographies, London: Routledge, 864-878.
Hinchliffe SJ (2014). The Arbitrage of non-knowledge: a response to Caduff's Pandemic Prophecy. Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 55(3), 307-308.
2013
Hinchliffe S, Allen J, Lavau S, Bingham N, Carter S (2013). Biosecurity and the topologies of infected life: from borderlines to borderlands.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
38(4), 531-543.
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Biosecurity and the topologies of infected life: from borderlines to borderlands
Biosecurity, as a response to threats from zoonotic, food-borne and emerging infectious diseases, implies and is often understood in terms of a spatial segregation of forms of life, a struggle to separate healthy life from diseased bodies. While an ensuing will to closure in the name of biosecurity is evident at various sites, things are, in practice and in theory, more intricate than this model would suggest. There are transactions and transformations that defy easily segmented spaces. Using multi-species ethnographic work across a range of sites, from wildlife reserves to farms and food processing plants, we argue for a shift of focus in biosecurity away from defined borderlines towards that of borderlands. The latter involves the detachment of borders from geographic territory and highlights the continuous topological interplay and resulting tensions involved in making life live. We use this spatial imagination to call for a different kind of biopolitics and for a shift in what counts as a biosecurity emergency. As a means to re-frame the questions concerning biosecurity, we argue for a change of discourse and practice away from disease 'breach points' towards the 'tipping points' that can arise in the intense foldings that characterise pathological lives. © 2012 the Author(s). Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers © 2012 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).
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Hinchliffe S, Lavau S (2013). Differentiated circuits: the ecologies of knowing and securing life.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
31(2), 259-274.
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Differentiated circuits: the ecologies of knowing and securing life
The question of how to make life secure in a world of zoonotic disease threats is often answered in terms of an ever-tighter regulation of wild, domestic, and human life, as a means to control disease. Conversely, in both theoretical and practical engagements with the business of making life safe, there is recognition of the circulatory and excessive qualities of life, its ability to overflow grids of intelligibility, and a requirement for knowledge practices to be responsive to a mutable world. In this paper we use empirical work on the field and laboratory practices involved in knowing life, specifically within the UK's avian influenza wild bird survey, in order to argue strongly for a form of biosecurity that does not seek to integrate life or the practices that make it intelligible into grids and closed circuits. Extending work by Latour, we argue that the truth-value of life science not only stems from the circulation of references along a single chain of reference; it is also dependent upon the productive alliance of knowledge forms and practices that are loosely brought together in this process. By demonstrating the range of practices, materials, and movements involved in making life knowable, we claim that it is the spatial configurations of knowledge practices, organisms, and materials, their ongoing differentiation and not their integration, that make safe life a possibility. © 2013 Pion and its Licensors.
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Hinchliffe SJ (2013). The Insecurity of Biosecurity. In Dobson, Andrew, Barker, Kezia, Taylor, Sarah (Eds.)
Biosecurity: the socio-politics of invasive species and infectious diseases, London: Earthscan/ Routledge.
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The Insecurity of Biosecurity
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Hinchliffe S (2013). The insecurity of biosecurity: Remaking emerging infectious diseases. , 199-214.
2012
Hinchliffe S (2012). A Physical Sense of World. In Painter J (Ed) Spatial Politics, Wiley Blackwell, 178-188.
Hinchliffe SJ (2012). Affects Animaliers. Travaux de Sciences Sociales(218), 247-261.
Hinchliffe SJ (2012). Sensing with Others: the Five Senses: a Philosophy of Mingled Bodies.
The Senses and Society,
7(1), 111-114.
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Sensing with Others: the Five Senses: a Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
With the heat, smoke, and flames on board a ship, the fear of asphyxia is matched by the
possibility of drowning or freezing to death in a Winter sea. Enclosed, shrouded in smoke,
the body needs to keep low, feel its way, and manage to push itself through a tiny porthole.
Like the first passage, birth. This is the birth of the I, an embodied soul, where the body
knows or is alert to its passage and how to say I. So starts Serres' rich, enigmatic, certainly
uneven, but poetic tale of sensing. Replace the sea and smoke with the suffocations of.
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Hinchliffe SJ (2012). Vivre avec des oiseaux: Frontieres de la biosecurite en Angleterre. Cahiers d’anthropologie sociale, 77-87.
2011
Hinchliffe SJ (2011). Book review forum: Vibrant Matter: a Political Ecology of Things.
Dialogues in Human Geography,
3(1), 396-399.
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Book review forum: Vibrant Matter: a Political Ecology of Things
hat matter is lively, that matters deserve lavish attention, that human and non-human things
are politically important all may seem both familiar and, still, a little strange. Familiar
because it is been a common refrain for geographers, drawing on a long history of debate
within feminist science studies and STS (science, technology and society). Strange because,
despite all, affirming the powers of matter remains a slightly marginal pursuit, and one that
has not really taken off in political theory or been given much more than lip service in most.
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2010
Whatmore SJ, Hinchliffe SJ (2010). Ecological landscapes. In Hicks D, Beaudry MC (Eds.)
The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies, OUP Oxford, 440-458.
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Ecological landscapes
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Lorimer J, Davies G, Hinchliffe S, Hird MJ, Greenhough B, Roe E, Beisel U, Loftus A, Haraway D (2010). When species meet.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE,
28(1), 32-55.
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Hinchliffe S (2010). Where species meet. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28(1), 34-35.
Hinchliffe S (2010). Working with multiples - a non representational approach to environmental issues. In Anderson B, Harrison P (Eds.)
Taking Place.
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Working with multiples - a non representational approach to environmental issues
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Hinchliffe S (2010). Working with multiples: a non-representational approach to environmental issues. In (Ed) Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography, 303-320.
2009
Hinchliffe S, Whatmore S (2009). Living Cities. In White DF (Ed)
Technonatures, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr.
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Living Cities
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Hinchliffe S, Whatmore S (2009). Living cities: Toward a politics of conviviality. , 105-122.
Hinchliffe S, Bingham N (2009). People, Animals, and Biosecurity in and through Cities. In (Ed) Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City, 214-227.
Hinchliffe S (2009). Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities and Modernities.
RADICAL PHILOSOPHY(157), 51-54.
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2008
Bingham N, Enticott G, Hinchliffe S (2008). Guest editorial: Biosecurity: Spaces, practices, and boundaries. Environment and Planning A, 40(7), 1528-1533.
Bingham N, Hinchliffe S (2008). Mapping the multiplicities of Biosecurity. In Lakoff A, Collier SJ (Eds.)
Biosecurity interventions, Columbia Univ Pr, 173-194.
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Mapping the multiplicities of Biosecurity
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Hinchliffe S (2008). Reconstituting nature conservation: Towards a careful political ecology.
Geoforum,
39(1), 88-97.
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Reconstituting nature conservation: Towards a careful political ecology
This paper is about the relationship between nature conservation in theory and nature conservation in practice. I argue that in theory nature conservation is concerned with revealing presence and rendering the present eternal. In practice, the spaces and times of conservation are less clear. Conservationists work with matters of concern that are neither self-evident nor unproblematically co-present. Presence has to be made and re-made. These matters of concern, like rare species, do not always announce themselves to political ecology and they do not always perform to type. Such difficulties are analysed through discussion of practical work conducted in a UK city with field ecologists and nonhuman inhabitants. It is argued that a careful political ecology is one that is intent on making spaces for others that are not simply about presence, inclusion or accumulation. It also involves uncertainties, precautionary measures and looser forms of assemblage. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Bingham N, Hinchliffe S (2008). Reconstituting natures: Articulating other modes of living together. Geoforum, 39(1), 83-87.
Hinchliffe S, Bingham N (2008). Securing life: the emerging practices of biosecurity.
Environment and Planning A,
40(7), 1534-1551.
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Securing life: the emerging practices of biosecurity
In this paper we review recent social science work on the issue of biosecurity and suggest ways in which geographers and social scientists can approach and intervene in current biosecurity practices. Our argument is that it is both useful and necessary to locate and intervene at sites where the ordering of biomatters is open to doubt and/or contestation. We pitch discourses of biological immanence and emergence against forms of social science thinking which tend to trace overarching logics or seemingly unstoppable forces in matters of power and politics. While acknowledging the import of both literatures, our aim is to engage with the fraught empirical practicalities of making biomatters secure in order to bring to the fore the ways in which life matters are patterned by any number of processes and the ways in which these patterns are always conditional on sociomaterial contingencies. © 2008 Pion Ltd and its Licensors.
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2007
Hinchliffe SJ, Kearnes MB, Degen M, Whatmore S (2007). Ecologies and economies of action - Sustainability, calculations, and other things.
Environment and Planning A,
39(2), 260-282.
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Ecologies and economies of action - Sustainability, calculations, and other things
In ecological, environmental, and urban-regeneration terms, the participatory turn and the turn to action have been written about at length in both academic and official literatures. From neighbourhood renewal to lay ecologies, people are being 'given' all kinds of agency in the making of economy and ecology. Yet relatively little has been said regarding the financial organisation of this new populism, which is often achieved through calculation and audit, and the framing of a return. In this paper we look at the uneasy coalition of civic action and its calculability. It focuses on the funding and running of a British Pakistani and Bangladeshi women's gardening initiative in inner city Birmingham, England. We fuse empirical work with gardeners and funding agencies with theoretical understandings of calculation in order to argue for a mode of organisation that not only includes a responsibility to act but also a responsibility to otherness. Rather than arguing for or against calculation, we describe a more diverse ecology of action and in so doing open arguments for reconfiguring the ways in which sustainable activities are funded. © 2007 a Pion publication printed in Great Britain.
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Hinchliffe S (2007).
Geographies of nature: Societies, environments, ecologies.Abstract:
Geographies of nature: Societies, environments, ecologies
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2006
Hinchliffe S, Whatmore S (2006). Living Cities: Towards a Politics of Convivality. Science as Culture, 15(2), 123-138.
2005
Hinchliffe S (2005). Cities and natures: Intimate strangers. In (Ed) Unsettling Cities: Movement/Settlement, 141-185.
Hinchliffe S, Kearnes MB, Degen M, Whatmore S (2005). Urban wild things: a cosmopolitical experiment.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
23(5), 643-658.
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Urban wild things: a cosmopolitical experiment
Cities are inhabited by all manner of things and made up of all manner of practices, many of which are unnoticed by urban politics and disregarded by science. In this paper we do two things. First, we add to the sense that urban living spaces involve much more than human worlds and are often prime sites for human and nonhuman ecologies. Second, we experiment with what is involved in taking these nonhuman worlds and ecologies seriously and in producing a politics for urban wilds. In order to do this we learn how to sense urban wildlife. In learning new engagements we also learn new things and in particular come to see urban wilds as matters of controversy. For this reason we have borrowed and adapted Latour's language to talk of wild things. Wild things become more rather than less real as people learn to engage with them. At the same time, wild things are too disputed, sociable, and uncertain to become constant objects upon which a stable urban politics can be constructed. So a parliament of wild things might be rather different from the house of representatives that we commonly imagine. It may be closer to what Stengers (1997, Power and Invention University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN) has characterised as cosmopolitics, a politics that is worked out without recourse to old binaries of nature and society. Using empirical work with urban wildlife-trust members we muddy the clean lines of representational politics, and start to grapple with issues that a reconvened wild politics might involve. © 2005 a Pion publication printed in Great Britain.
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2004
Hinchliffe S, Woodward K (2004).
The Natural and the Social., Routledge.
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The Natural and the Social
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2003
Morris D, Freeland J, Hinchliffe S, Smith S (2003).
Changing environments., Wiley.
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Changing environments
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Blowers A, Hinchliffe S (2003).
Environmental Responses., Wiley.
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Environmental Responses
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Hinchliffe S, Blowers A, Freeland J (2003).
Understanding environmental issues., Wiley.
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Understanding environmental issues
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Hinchliffe S (2003). ‘Inhabiting’ - landscapes and natures. In (Ed) Handbook of Cultural Geography, 207-226.
2002
Hinchliffe S (2002). Sociology and the Environment: a critical introduction to society, nature and knowledge.
SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION,
36(3), 783-785.
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2001
Hinchliffe S (2001). A world of difference: society, nature, development.
PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY,
25(3), 499-500.
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Hinchliffe S (2001). Indeterminacy in-decisions - Science, policy and politics in the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) crisis.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
26(2), 182-204.
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Indeterminacy in-decisions - Science, policy and politics in the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) crisis
Increasingly, non-human geographies have unfastened nature from its foundational moorings. In a parallel development, the benefits of adhering to precautionary and participatory forms of decision-making have become common place in environmental geography and in government policy. and yet, on closer inspection, there is a danger in these latter approaches that old certainties regarding non-human natures remain unquestioned. The result can be a tendency to gravitate towards bureaucratic and technical solutions to, or closures on, what are, first and foremost, political and open-ended problems. This paper uses an empirical engagement with BSE-related scientific and policy practices, along with insights from non-human geographies, science studies and poststructuralism to suggest that such certainties and resolutions are misplaced.
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Hinchliffe S (2001). The nature of cities: ecocriticism and urban environments.
PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY,
25(4), 665-667.
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2000
Hinchliffe S (2000). Bioregionalism.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH,
24(3), 724-726.
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Hinchliffe S (2000). Performance and experimental knowledge: Outdoor management training and the end of epistemology.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
18(5), 575-595.
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Performance and experimental knowledge: Outdoor management training and the end of epistemology
In this paper I am concerned with experimental learning and knowing. By experimental I refer to a broad set of performances that have the potential to bring about something new. In this view experiments are not, even in their more restricted sense in scientific laboratories, limited to the corroboration or representation of an idea or thought. Experiments are on going. They are considered in this paper to be thought-in-action. This concern with experimentation and experimental knowledge is developed through an engagement with training activities on outdoor management courses in Britain Meanwhile, and in addition to this empirical focus, the paper serves as an appraisal of some current themes in social science thinking and practice. So, in part 1 of the paper, I detail some of the recent shifts in academic approaches to knowledge, focusing in particular on the much-vaunted decline of epistemology. This partial review of academic practice then allows me, in part 2 of the paper, to discuss the changes in knowledge practices and styles that have been set in motion in the management professions. Particular emphasis is given in this paper to the changing roles of corporate training with respect to the production of 'new' kinds of knowing and organising. Picking outdoor management training as a useful case with which to explore these shifts, I trace some of the ways in which large organisations set about the task of creating knowledgeable employees. Three themes of outdoor training are developed (embodiment, play, and experimental learning). In part 3 I develop an analysis of the ways in which a training course is conducted. The paper ends by drawing together some of the characteristic features of a performative geography of performance.
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1999
Hinchliffe S (1999). Remaking reality: nature at the millennium.
AREA,
31(4), 399-400.
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1998
Hinchliffe S (1998). Planning as persuasive storytelling: the rhetorical construction of Chicago's electric future.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING B-PLANNING & DESIGN,
25(2), 314-315.
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1997
Hinchliffe S (1997). Home-made space and the will to disconnect. In (Ed)
, 200-219.
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Hinchliffe S (1997). Justice, nature and the geography of difference - Harvey,D.
SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW,
45(4), 726-729.
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Hinchliffe S (1997). Locating risk: Energy use, the 'ideal' home and the non-ideal world.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
22(2), 197-209.
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Locating risk: Energy use, the 'ideal' home and the non-ideal world
In view of the supposed growth in recognition and public discussion of socio-environmental threats, this paper attempts to locate contemporary writings on risk within geographical debates. The focus is on risks associated with energy-using activities, especially those in the home and on the ways in which (what are construed as) 'non-local' or 'distant' risks are understood and acted upon. Understanding the complex and contradictory ways in which people live risks can provide informative perspectives upon the ways in which they feel able to participate in a politics of risk abatement. A framework for thinking about these social and political changes is introduced through an analysis of the production and consumption of ideal homes. These discussions are grounded in fieldwork carried out in Bristol in 1992 and 1993. Contrary to-some of Beck's arguments, living in a risk society does not provide automatic impetus for new forms of democratic organization. A spatial politics which emphasizes connections and relationships between 'local' actions and 'global' issues needs a more proactive agenda. key words Bristol/England socio-economic politics geographies of consumption ethnography Beck's risk society © Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 1997.
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Crang MA, Hudson AC, Reimer SM, Hinchliffe SJ (1997). Software for qualitative research: 1. Prospectus and overview.
Environment and Planning A,
29(5), 771-787.
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Software for qualitative research: 1. Prospectus and overview
In recent years there has been growing interest in the use of computers within qualitative geography. In this paper we review the types of software packages that have been adopted and outline some of their distinctive features. We discuss the intellectual and institutional reasons for the interest in the software and highlight the ways in which such reasons have shaped the use made of these packages. We argue that only a contextual account of how packages are adopted, adapted, and used can explain the situation in geography. Furthermore we suggest that the archaeologies underlying the packages-their theoretical presuppositions-are remarkably homogeneous and need to be clearly understood before deciding how the packages might be used. We outline how some of these presuppositions have affected the ways in which the packages have been used, and develop-from our own experiences-some points about informal networks of adoption and institutional contexts. The point of this is to suggest the minimal role played by formal software guides and manuals in choosing whether and how to use a package. The paper outlines the current 'state of play' and raises issues of future use to be addressed in a second paper on this theme. Our intention is neither to sell a particular package, nor to say "to do X, use package Y", because such recommendations are often misleading. Rather, our aim is to provoke discussion about the use of software packages in qualitative geography.
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Hinchliffe SJ, Crang MA, Reimer SM, Hudson AC (1997). Software for qualitative research: 2. Some thoughts on 'aiding' analysis.
Environment and Planning A,
29(6), 1109-1124.
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Software for qualitative research: 2. Some thoughts on 'aiding' analysis
In this paper we reject accounts which portray computer aided qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) as neutral and benign. We argue that applying computer software to qualitative projects raises a number of important issues that go to the heart of ethnography. Although we initially work with a distinction between tactile and digital ethnographics, the issues that we raise are not unique to computer-aided analyses. Indeed, we argue that the adoption of computers marks a useful moment in which to think critically about the means and ends of qualitative analysis. In this paper we urge qualitative researchers to avoid both an outright rejection and an unquestioning adoption of computer software packages. Rather, we work towards a 'crafty' approach to ethnography where computers are incorporated into the body of research in a critically reflexive and creative manner. We end the paper with some thoughts on the potential of such incorporation.
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1996
Hinchliffe S (1996). Helping the earth begins at home. The social construction of socio-environmental responsibilities.
Global Environmental Change,
6(1), 53-62.
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Helping the earth begins at home. The social construction of socio-environmental responsibilities
This paper evaluates the British government's current (and five-year old) campaign for energy conservation, 'Helping the Earth Begins at Home'. The paper starts by reviewing some of the arguments which can be use to support this type of policy initiative which, on the face of it, urges people to consider the global implications of local actions. The argument then turns to focus upon the ideological work that was invested into the production of the campaign, and in particular the redefinition of legitimate concern (for the global) and legitimate sites of activity (the local). Following this, the paper investigates the ways in which the campaign was consumed (read, ignored, rejected, acted upon) by members of the public. Long interview transcripts with householders in Bristol, UK, are analysed and represented to illustrate the weaknesses of the campaign. The paper finishes by drawing together some of the implications of this work for socio-environmental action.
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Hinchliffe S (1996). Mapping the subject: Geographies of cultural transformation - Pile,S, Thrift,N.
SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW,
44(2), 350-352.
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Hinchliffe S (1996). Technology, power, and space - the means and ends of geographies of technology.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
14(6), 659-682.
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Technology, power, and space - the means and ends of geographies of technology
This paper is about the means and ends of geographical inquiries into technology and technoscience. In working through a body of literature commonly grouped together under the collective phrase 'science, technology, and society', and in seeking to work upon empirical research on electricity networks, the author draws attention to the ontological and representational issues that are confronted when thinking through geographies of technology and geographies of technoscientific knowledge. In the first part of the paper the ontological status of nonhumans and the politics of representation are discussed as a consequence of a rejection of technical and social determinisms. In the second part, the author turns to review some of the analytical metaphors that are conjured with in order to address the issues raised in the first part. In the third part of the paper the more overtly spatial metaphors of the literature of science, technology, and society are confronted and the move from a measured and ordered managerialist approach to the spatiality of technologies and technoscience is reviewed. In the fourth section, some lessons for the politics of a reconfigured geographical engagement with technology and technoscience are raised.
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1995
HINCHLIFFE S (1995). ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY - AN INTRODUCTION - MARTELL,L.
ANTIPODE,
27(4), 435-437.
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Hinchliffe S (1995). Missing culture: energy efficiency and lost causes.
Energy Policy,
23(1), 93-95.
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Missing culture: energy efficiency and lost causes
Largely to the credit of Brookes, this journal has, over the past few years, carried a discussion that challenges the complacency of environmentalists and others over the role that improvements in energy efficiency can play as policy tools designed to mitigate the eco-social costs of energy production, transmission and consumption. In this communication I will briefly review the main arguments in this debate with the intention of highlighting their reliance upon a 'self-limiting set of assumptions' that make any informed analysis of the relationship between people and energy technologies highly questionable. This is particularly the case in the domestic and transport sectors. Here, only a more culturally sensitive investigation of the possibilities and problems afforded by various technologies and of the public's growing awareness of socio-environmental problems can support or counter the arguments raised by Brookes and his adversaries. © 1995.
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HINCHLIFFE S (1995). POSTMODERN CITIES AND SPACES - WATSON,S, GIBSON,C.
SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW,
43(4), 892-895.
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