Articles

Journal articles

'Songlines are for singing: un/mapping the lived spaces of travelling memory', in Hazel Andrews and Les Roberts (eds.), Special Issue on 'The Phenomenology of Travel and Tourism', in Humanities (in press, 2023).

‘“The news where you are: putting the geo in media studies’ (review essay), in European Journal of Communication, 33 (6): 673-686 (2018). DOI: 10.1177/0267323118811690 [Access here]

‘Spatial bricolage: the art of poetically making do’, in Les Roberts (ed.), Special Issue of Humanities on 'Spatial Bricolage: Methodological Eclecticism and the Poetics of "Making Do"', Humanities, 7 (2) (2018). DOI: 10.3390/h7020043 [Access here]

‘The Question of Space: a review essay’, in Les Roberts (ed.), Special Issue of Humanities on 'Spatial Bricolage: Methodological Eclecticism and the Poetics of "Making Do"', Humanities, 7 (2) (2018). DOI: 10.3390/h7020042 [Access here]

‘Landscapes in the Frame: Exploring the Hinterlands of the British Procedural Drama’, in New Review of Film and Television, 14 (3): 364-38 (2016). DOI: 10.1080/17400309.2016.1189712 [Access here]

‘Deep Mapping and Spatial Anthropology’ in Les Roberts (ed.), Special Issue on ‘Deep Mapping’, Humanities, 5 (1): vii-xv (2016). DOI:10.3390/h5010005 [Access here]

‘The Rhythm of Non-places: Marooning the Embodied Self in Depthless Space’, in Les Roberts (ed.), Special Issue on ‘Deep Mapping’, Humanities, 4 (4): 569–599 (2015). DOI:10.3390/h4040569 [Access here]

‘Of Time, Dissonance and the Symphonic-Poetic City’, in Eselsohren: Journal of the History of Art, Architecture and Urbanism, 2 (1-2): 87-104 (2015). [Access here]

‘Navigating the “Archive City”: Digital Spatial Humanities and Archival Film Practice’, in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 21 (1): 100-115 (2015). DOI: 10.1177/1354856514560310 [Access here]

‘The Bulger Case: a Spatial Story’, in The Cartographic Journal, 51 (2): 141-151 (2014). DOI:10.1179/1743277413Y.0000000075 [Access here]

‘Marketing Musicscapes, or, the Political Economy of Contagious Magic’, in Tourist Studies, 14 (1): 10-29 (2014). DOI: 10.1177/1468797613511683 [Access here]

‘Talkin Bout My Generation: Popular Music and the Culture of Heritage’, in International Journal of Heritage Studies, 20 (3): 262-280 (2014). DOI:10.1080/13527258.2012.740497 [Access here]

‘Unauthorizing Popular Music Heritage: Outline of a Critical Framework’, (co-authored with Sara Cohen), in International Journal of Heritage Studies, 20 (3): 241-261 (2014). DOI:10.1080/13527258.2012.750619 [Access here]

‘Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity’, Guest editorial to Special Issue on ‘Popular Music and Cultural Heritage’, (co-authored with Amanda Brandellero, Sara Cohen, and Susanne Janssen), International Journal of Heritage Studies, 20 (3): 219-223 (2014). DOI:10.1080/13527258.2013.821624 [Access here]

‘(Un)Doing Tourism Anthropology: Outline of a Field of Practice’, (co-authored with Hazel Andrews), Journal of Tourism Challenges and Trends, VI (2): 13-38 (2013). [Access here]

‘In Search of Pleasures Past’, (co-authored with Ryan Shand), practice-based publication (documentary film and supporting article), Screenworks 4 (2013).

‘Another Space: Gleaning the Urban Littoral’, article in support of practice-based publication (documentary film), in Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice, Vol 4 (1), Special Issue on ‘Liminal Landscapes’, H. Andrews (ed), pp. 94-100 (2012). [Access here]

‘Mapping, Memory and the City: Archives, Databases and Film Historiography’, (co-authored with Julia Hallam), in European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol 14 (3), pp. 355-372 (2011). DOI: 10.1177/1367549411399939 [Access here]

‘Dis/embedded Geographies of Film: Virtual Panoramas and the Touristic Consumption of Liverpool Waterfront’, in Space and Culture, Vol 13 (1), pp. 54-74 (2010). DOI: 10.1177/1206331209353691[Access here]

‘Making Connections: Crossing Boundaries of Place and Identity in Liverpool and Merseyside Amateur Transport Films’, in Mobilities, Vol 5 (1), pp. 83-109 (2010). DOI:10.1080/17450100903435052 [Access here]

‘Hospitality and Eroticism’, (co-authored with Hazel Andrews and Tom Selwyn), in International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, Vol 1 (3), pp. 247-262 (2007). DOI: 10.1108/17506180710817774 [Access here]

‘“Welcome to Dreamland”: From Place to Non-place and Back Again in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Last Resort’, in New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, Vol 1 (2), pp. 78-90 (2002). DOI: 10.1386/ncin.1.2.78 [Access here]

‘From Sarajevo to Didcot: An Interview with Pawel Pawlikowski’, in New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, Vol 1 (2), pp. 91-97 (2002). DOI: 10.1386/ncin.1.2.91 [Access here]

Book chapters

‘Spatial Anthropology and Deep Mapping’, in Tania Rossetto and Laura Lo Presti (eds.), The Routledge Companion of Cartographic Humanities. Routledge (in preparation, 2023).

‘Spatial Anthropology: Understanding Deep Mapping as a Form of Visual Ethnography’, in AJ Kent and D Specht (eds.),Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society. Abingdon: Routledge (2022).

‘Territory Glimpsed Through Lache Eyes: A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Excursions in Liminal Space’, in Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm (eds.), Territories, Environments, Politics: Explorations in Territoriology. Abingdon: Routledge (2022).

‘Liminality and the Stranger: Understanding tourists and their landscapes through True Detective’, (co-authored with Hazel Andrews), in Maria Månsson et al (eds), Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism. Abingdon: Routledge (2020).

‘Navigating Cinematic Geographies: Reflections on Film as Spatial Practice’, in T Edensor, A Kalandides and U Kothari (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Place. Abingdon: Routledge (2020).

‘Oil is the Devil’s Excrement: Hellmouth on the Mersey’, (co-authored with David Jacques), in Elaine Speight (ed.), Practising Place: Creative and Critical Reflections on Place. Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications (2019).

‘The Cestrian Book of the Dead: a Necrogeographic Survey of the Dee Estuary’, in D Cooper, C Donaldson, and P Murrieta-Flores (eds.), Literary Mapping in the Digital Age. Abingdon: Routledge (2016).

‘On Location: Film-related Tourism and the Consumption of Place’, in P Long and ND Morpeth (eds.), Tourism and the Creative Industries: Theories, Policies and Practice. Abingdon: Routledge (2016).

‘Mapping Cultures: Spatial Anthropology and Popular Cultural Memory’, (co-authored with Sara Cohen), in D MacLennan, WF Garrett-Petts, and N Duxbury (eds.), Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry. New York: Routledge (2015).

''Preface', in L Roberts (ed.), Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2015).

‘Mapping Cultures: a Spatial Anthropology’, (revised version in paperback edition) in L Roberts (ed.), Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2015).

‘Introduction: Locating Popular Music Heritage’, (co-authored with Sara Cohen, Rob Knifton and Marion Leonard), in S Cohen, M Leonard, R Knifton and L Roberts (eds.), Sites of Popular Music Heritage. London: Routledge (2014).

‘Unveiling Memory: Blue Plaques as In/tangible Markers of Popular Music Heritage’, (co-authored with Sara Cohen), in S Cohen, M Leonard, R Knifton and L Roberts (eds.), Sites of Popular Music Heritage. London: Routledge (2014).

‘The Archive City: Film as Critical Spatial Practice’, in B Fraser (ed.), Marxism and Urban Culture. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2014).

‘Liminality’, (co-authored with Hazel Andrews), in NJ Smelser and PB Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier (2014).

‘The Violence of Non Places’, in H Andrews (ed.), Tourism and Violence. London: Ashgate (2014).

‘Mapping the City in Film’, (co-authored with Julia Hallam), in I Gregory and A Geddes (eds.), Towards Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2014).

‘Locating the Moving Image: Outline of a New Empiricism’, (co-authored with Julia Hallam), in L Roberts and J Hallam (eds.), Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2014).

‘Heritage Rocks! Mapping Spaces of Popular Music Tourism’, (co-authored with Sara Cohen), in S Kruger and R Trandafoiu (eds.), The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Musical Migration and Tourism. London: Routledge (2013).

‘The Last of Liverpool: Liminal Journeys Around the Port City’, in J Conolly and C Whelan (eds.), World Film Locations: Liverpool. Bristol: Intellect (2013).

‘Mapping Cultures: a Spatial Anthropology’, in L Roberts (ed.), Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2012). [Access here]

‘Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film’, in L Roberts (ed.), Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2012).

‘Walking, Witnessing, Mapping: An Interview with Iain Sinclair’, (co-authored with David Cooper), in L Roberts (ed.), Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2012).

‘Introduction: Re-mapping Liminality’, (co-authored with Hazel Andrews), in L Roberts and H Andrews (eds.), Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between. London: Routledge (2012).

‘The Sands of Dee: Estuarine Excursions in Liminal Space’, in L Roberts and H Andrews (eds.), Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between. London: Routledge (2012). [Access here]

‘Regeneration, Mobility and Contested Space: Cultural Reflections on a City in Transition’, in J Harris and R Williams (eds.), Regenerating Culture and Society: Art, Architecture and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City-Branding. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press (2011). [Access here]

‘Projecting Place: Location Mapping, Consumption and Cinematographic Tourism’, in L Roberts and R Koeck (eds.), The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2010).

‘Introduction: Projecting the Urban’, (co-authored with Richard Koeck), in L Roberts and R Koeck (eds.), The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2010).

‘World in One City: Surrealist Geography and Time-Space Compression in Alex Cox’s Liverpool’, in P Burns and J Lester (eds.), Tourism and Visual Culture Volume 1: Theories and Concepts. Wallingford: CABI (2010).

‘The Archive City: Reading Liverpool’s Urban Landscape Through Film’, (co-authored with Richard Koeck), in C. Grunenberg and R. Knifton (eds.), Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press (2007). [Access here]

‘Non-places in the Mist: Mapping the Spatial Turn in Theo Angelopoulos’ Peripatetic Modernism’, in W. Everett and A. Goodbody (eds.), Revisiting Space: Space and Place in European Cinema. Oxford: Peter Lang (2005). [Access here]

Misc

'Triangulation: A Spatial Story in Three Parts' (2019) [Access here]

'"Covert autoethnography" and other research ethics anomalies: making the case for ethics-in-practice', Media/Pool: Dept of Communication and Media Blog (2018). [Access here]

‘Inhabiting the Edge: Tricksterism and Radical Liminality’, The Double Negative (2016). [Access here]

‘Popular Cultural Memory Post-Savile’, Media/Pool: Dept of Communication and Media Blog (2014). [Access here]

‘Liquifruta’ (2014). [Access here]

Book review: ‘Flirting with Space: Journeys and Creativity’, by David Crouch. Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice, Vol 3 (2) (2011). [Access here]

Book review: ‘Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern From Reel to Real’ by Nezar AlSayyad. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Vol 36 (3): 68 – 57 (2009). [Access here]

BFI Screenonline, British Film Institute: film synopses, commentary, and thematic summaries for Liverpool: a City on Screen website (2007). [Access here]

Book review: ‘Oblivion’ by Marc Augé. Culture Machine, Sept 2005. [Access here]