READING GROUP

Every other Friday during semester time, PEP’s Reading Group meets to unpack two readings that have been selected by postgraduate students. Here you can find what we’ve tackled so far and some related readings.

2024 Semester Two
20.9.24
August, M., Cohen, D., Danyluk, M., Kass, A., Ponder, C., & Rosenman, E. (2022). Reimagining geographies of public finance. Progress in Human Geography, 46(2), 527–548. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325211054963 

13.9.24

Karakuş, E. (2024). Queer debt: The affective politics of security and intimacy in the sex work economy of Kurdish Turkey. American Ethnologist, 51(3), 421–432. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13300 

30.8.24
De Craene, V. (2017). F*cking geographers! Or the epistemological consequences of neglecting the lusty researcher’s body. Gender, Place & Culture, 24(3), 449–464. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1314944 

16.8.24

Lees, L. (2024). What constitutes engaged dialogue in urban research? Thoughts from a long time “outside-insider”. Dialogues in Urban Research, 2(1), 7-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/27541258231210201

 

2.8.24

Lauermann, J. (2020). Visualising sustainability at the Olympics. Urban Studies, 57(11), 2339–2356. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018808489 

 

Cottrell, M. P., & Nelson, T. (2011). Not just the Games? Power, protest and politics at the Olympics. European Journal of International Relations, 17(4), 729–753. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066110380965 

 

Ren, X. (2017). Aspirational urbanism from Beijing to Rio de Janeiro: Olympic cities in the Global South and contradictions. Journal of Urban Affairs, 39(7), 894–908. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2017.1345553 

 

 

2023 Semester Two
29.9.23
Amoore, L. (2023). Machine learning political orders. Review of International Studies, 49(1), 20–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210522000031

25.8.23
Roast, A. (2023). To whom does geography owe a future? Lessons from urban studies. Dialogues in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231177062 
18.8.23

Scobie, M., Heyes, A., Evans, R., & Fukofuka, P. (2023). Resourcing rangatiratanga as part of constitutional transformation: Taking equity and sovereignty seriously. Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1177083X.2023.2199057

4.8.23

Walsh, S. (2017). What Divides? The ‘Academic–Activist Divide’ and the Equality of Intelligence. Counterfutures, 4, 85–106. https://doi.org/10.26686/cf.v4i0.6406 

2023 Semester One
3.6.23
Naylor, L., & Thayer, N. (2022). Between paranoia and possibility: Diverse economies and the decolonial imperative. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47(3), 791–805. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12534
5.5.23
    Wakefield, S., Chandler, D., & Grove, K. (2022). The asymmetrical anthropocene: Resilience and the limits of posthumanism. Cultural Geographies, 29(3), 389–404. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740211029278
    19.5.23
      Boyd, C. P. (2022). Postqualitative geographies. Geography Compass, 16(10), e12661. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12661
      17.3.23
        Bissell, D. (2022) Questioning quotation: Writing about interview experiences without using quotes. Area. https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/area.12854 
         

        Hitchings, R., & Latham, A. (2020). Qualitative methods I: On current conventions in interview research. Progress in Human Geography, 44(2), 389–398. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519856412 

        2022 Semester Two

        For our 2022 Semester one reading group we decided not to go with a guiding theme. Instead, we crowdsourced readings from students and staff. Come along and suggest a reading.

        23.9.22

          Holdsworth, C., & Hall, S. M. (2022). A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday. Progress in Human Geography, 03091325221093639.

           

          26.8.22

          Mei-Singh, L. (2021). Accompaniment Through Carceral Geographies: Abolitionist Research Partnerships with Indigenous Communities. Antipode, 53: 74-94. https://doi-org.ezproxy.auckland.ac.nz/10.1111/anti.12589 

           

          12.8.22
          Barber, S. (2019). Māori Mārx: Some Provisional Materials. Counterfutures, 8, 43-71. https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/counterfutures/article/download/6348/5505

           

          Barber, S. (2020). In Wakefield’s laboratory: Tangata Whenua into property/labour in Te Waipounamu. Journal of Sociology, 56(2), 229–246. https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783319893522

           

          29.7.22
          Brigstocke, J., Bresnihan, P., Dawney, L., & Millner, N. (2021). Geographies of authority. Progress in Human Geography, 45(6), 1356–1378. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132520986227

           

          2022 Semester One

          For our 2022 Semester one reading group theme we decided to explore geographies of utopia and dystopia. Each week had its own variation on the theme including anti-capitalist utopias, utopian social science, economic dystopias, urban utopias and dystopias, hopeful critical scholarship in and with ‘the State’ and hope and utopias in/from Aotearoa.

            9.03.22 – Introducing utopian social science

            Olin Wright, E. (2010) Envisioning Real Utopias

            Ch. 1 – ‘Introduction: Why real utopias?’ (pp. 1-9)

            Ch. 2 – ‘The tasks of emancipatory social science’ (pp. 10-29)

            23.03.22 – Anti-capitalist Utopias 

            Harvey, D. (2020) The Anti-capitalist Chronicles

            Ch 18. Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19

            Ch 19. The Collective Response to a Collective Dilemma

              6.04.22 – Economic utopias and dystopias

                Olin Wright (2010) Envisioning real utopias, Ch. 8 ‘Elements of a theory of transformation’ 

                Ebner, N., & Peck, J. (2022). FANTASY ISLAND: Paul Romer and the Multiplication of Hong Kong. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 46(1), 26-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13060

                 

                11.05.22 – Urban utopias and dystopias

                  Pow, C. P. (2015). Urban dystopia and epistemologies of hope. Progress in Human Geography, 39(4), 464-485. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132514544805

                  Peck, J. (2016). Economic rationality meets celebrity urbanology: exploring Edward Glaeser’s city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12321

                   

                  25.05.22 – Hopeful critical scholarship in and with ‘the state’

                    Tadaki, M. (2020). Is there space for politics in the environmental bureaucracy? Discretion and constraint in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment. Geoforum, 111, 229-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.02.021

                    McGuirk, P., & O’Neill, P. (2012). Critical geographies with the state: The problem of social vulnerability and the politics of engaged research. Antipode, 44(4), 1374-1394. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00976.x

                     

                    2020
                    15.10.20
                    Ey, M., Mee, K., Allison, J., Caves, S., Crosbie, E., Hughes, A., Curtis, F., Doney, R., Dunstan, P., Jones, R., Tyndall, A., Baker, T., Cameron, J., Duffy, M., Dufty-Jones, R., Dunn, K., Hodge, P., Kearnes, M., McGuirk, P., … Wright, S. (2020). Becoming Reading Group: Reflections on assembling a collegiate, caring collective. Australian Geographer, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2020.1759181

                    Dombroski, K., Watkins, A. F., Fitt, H., Frater, J., Banwell, K., Mackenzie, K., Mutambo, L., Hawke, K., Persendt, F., Turković, J., Ko, S. Y., & Hart, D. (2018). Journeying from “I” to “we”: Assembling hybrid caring collectives of geography doctoral scholars. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 42(1), 80–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2017.1335295

                    29.10.20
                    Whitehead, M., Jones, R., Lilley, R., Howell, R., & Pykett, J. (2019). Neuroliberalism: Cognition, context, and the geographical bounding of rationality. Progress in Human Geography, 43(4), 632–649. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518777624

                    Barua, M. (2017). Nonhuman labour, encounter value, spectacular accumulation: The geographies of a lively commodity. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(2), 274–288. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12170

                    24.03.21
                    Kinkaid, E. (2020). Can assemblage think difference? A feminist critique of assemblage geographies. Progress in Human Geography, 44(3), 457–472. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519836162

                    Buchanan, I. (2017). Assemblage theory, or, the future of an illusion. Deleuze Studies, 11(3), 457–474. https://doi.org/10.3366/dls.2017.0276

                    24.03.21

                    Pow, C. P. (2015). Urban dystopia and epistemologies of hope. Progress in Human Geography, 39(4), 464–485. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132514544805

                    Peck, J. (2016). Economic rationality meets celebrity urbanology: Exploring Edward Glaeser’s city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40(1), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12321

                     

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