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London 2012 Paralympics – Spectatorship Through the Body
By Jen Turner The opening week of the London 2012 Paralympic Games has witnessed an array of grit, determination, and World-Record-breaking sport from competitors across the globe. As I write,...
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The Digital Gravestone: Technology, Temporality and Memorial
By Jen Turner Less than a week ago, people across the world remembered events of 9/11 in all manner of ways, ranging from simple recognition of the date to a minute of silent reflection. Two days...
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Classrooms for the 21st Century: Geographies of Alternative Education
By Jen Turner On the 20th September, 15-year-old school girl Megan Stammers boarded a ferry bound for Calais with her maths teacher. Far from any regular school trip, a European warrant was issued for...
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Capturing the Soul of Seoul: ‘Gangnam Style’ and the Profits of Place-making
By Jen Turner In recent years, Geographers have paid more and more attention to the ways in which wealth can be generated through the images of and associations people make with particular places....
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Travelling Identities: Further Attention to Mobility and Nationality
by Jen Turner When the referendum on Scottish independence is held in the autumn of 2014, only residents of Scotland will be eligible to vote. A recent BBC article found that as a result, almost...
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Pirates of the Web or the Waves: A Conundrum of Governance
by Jen Turner At the end of October, The Finnish Supreme Court rejected a case from an Internet Service Provider (ISP) fighting an enforced ban of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay. The BBC reported...
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Changing the Space of Islam: France’s First ‘Gay Mosque’
by Jen Turner Last week, the Jerusalem Post reported that a French-Algerian homosexual man is planning to open a ‘mosque for gays’ in France and hopes to eventually conduct same-sex Muslim marriages....
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Symbols of Art and/or Crime: The Complexities of Prison Tattoos and Other...
by Jen Turner I was recently struck by the incredible images displayed in a recent article online in The Daily Mail. The images, taken in the early 1990s by photographer Sergei Vasiliev after he...
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Reproducing ‘Authenticity': The Politics of Restoration and Preservation
by Jen Turner A recent BBC News report explained how English Heritage and Bradford Council are offering grants of up to 80% to recreate “lost” historical features along the village of Haworth, West...
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Aviation Sagas: When Human and Physical Collide
by Jen Turner On Wednesday 16th January, two people were killed and 13 injured when a helicopter crashed into a crane in central London. Police said the helicopter had hit the crane on top of The...
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Bloodshed Behind Bars: Venezuelan Prison Riots
by Jen Turner Venezuelan authorities finished removing inmates from one of the country’s biggest prisons last week, after more than two days of gunfights and rioting that left 61 people dead and more...
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Affecting Our Physique: The Place of Obesity
by Jen Turner Research carried out with people living in Colorado, US, has found that Americans who lived well above sea level were less likely to be obese than those in low-lying areas. Reported in...
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A Response to Anglo-Centric Geography: The Possibilities of Universal...
by Jen Turner Backers of a universal alphabet say it will make pronunciation easy and foster international understanding by using phonetic methods of spelling. But what might phonetic spelling systems...
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The Crossrail ‘Black Death Pit': Corpses and Dead Body Politics
by Jen Turner Excavations for London’s Crossrail project have unearthed bodies believed to date from the time of the Black Death. The £14.8bn Crossrail project aims to establish a 118km-long (73-mile)...
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Google Street View: Spatial Technology and Behavioural Change
by Jen Turner Google Street View is a tool that many people will likely have used at some point in their lives. I myself have ‘dragged and dropped’ the little orange man onto a map of the street where...
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Eco-House Not ‘At Home': The Crisis of Post-political Spatial Planning
by Jen Turner Similar to the one exemplified, the unusual structure “with its higgledy-piggledy walls and turf roof”, of the home of Sculptor Charlie Hague and his wife Megan Williams has been likened...
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Converging Body and Technology: The Case of Google Glass
by Jen Turner “It’s either the most exciting technology product of recent years, or the 21st Century equivalent of the Sinclair C5″ (Cellan-Jones, 2013, n.p.). Google Glass (styled as “Google GLΛSS”)...
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Junction JD Wetherspoon: The Changing Space of Britain’s Motorways
by Jen Turner The BBC announced today that JD Wetherspoon will open its first motorway pub at Extra services on the M40 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. After a successful application to the local...
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Filling University Places: The Demand for Contextual Data
By Jen Turner Following on from my colleague Fiona Ferbrache’s previous posting on funding in higher education, it is clear that the future of Universities is a hot press topic this week. Today, the...
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The Target of Tall Buildings: The Shard Climb Protest
by Jen Turner In a 2007 Area article Igal Charney explains the politics surrounding debates over the building of structures in London. Challenging the well-established planning practices in central...
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