What would it mean to think about cities marked by past structures of violence and exclusion
as wounded but also as environments that offer its residents care? My current book in …

Experience is conceptualised in both academic and policy circles as a more-or-less direct
effect of the design of the built environment. Drawing on findings from a research project that …

Over the past two decades, geographers have probed the intersection of collective memory
and urban space. Their sustained interest in the subject reflects an understanding of the …

An Introduction to Political Geography continues to provide a broad-based introduction to
contemporary political geography for students following undergraduate degree courses in …

During the last two decades, the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
have attempted to address the numerous human rights abuses that characterized the …

On the ninetieth anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland this year, a large and well-
attended parade worked its way through the streets of Dublin. Commencing at the city castle …

Memorials are more diverse in design and subject matter than ever before. No longer limited
to statues of heroes placed high on pedestals, contemporary memorials engage visitors in …

Numerous studies have highlighted the importance of street naming as a strategy for
constructing 'places of memory'. This paper draws upon Bourdieu's theory of symbolic …

In this paper I seek to review the literature regarding the spaces of memory and forgetting
outside the geographical core of the Western discipline. This takes in two bodies of …

The critical study of toponymy has paid considerable attention to the renaming of urban
places following revolutionary political change. Such renaming is intended to institutionalize …