Home Extensions in the United Kingdom: Space, Time, and Practice

This paper begins with two observations: that UK homes appear to have accumulated increasing numbers of domestic technologies, yet new houses are smaller, on average, than those built before 1980. The spatial pressures placed on homes that result from the accumulation of technologies are explored by drawing upon forty household interviews which enquired into the domestic organisation of kitchen and bathroom technologies and practices. Many households have responded to such spatial pressures by extending or reformulating their domestic spaces: such that kitchens are becoming increasingly multifunctional spaces and bathrooms are multiplying. It is argued that these trends are not simply driven by an unstoppable tide of material possession but reflect context-specific arrangements related to the temporal and ideological structuring of domestic practices. Technologies and practices coevolve with the result that new demands are made on homes—the commodities and objects with which we live our lives influence our experience of space and the value placed on different physical configurations. Domestic technologies are therefore implicated in the structure and reproduction of practice and hence in the choreography of things and people in time and space.

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Clustering of equine grass sickness cases in the United Kingdom: a study considering the effect of position-dependent reporting on the space–time K-function

Epidemiology and Infection ◽

10.1017/s0950268804003322 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 133 (2) ◽

pp. 343-348 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

N. P. FRENCH ◽

H. E. McCARTHY ◽

P. J. DIGGLE ◽

C. J. PROUDMAN

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Management Practices ◽

Space Time ◽

Pasture Management ◽

Local Climate ◽

Temporal Properties ◽

Time Interaction ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Grass Sickness ◽

Type C

Equine grass sickness (EGS) is a largely fatal, pasture-associated dysautonomia. Although the aetiology of this disease is unknown, there is increasing evidence that Clostridium botulinum type C plays an important role in this condition. The disease is widespread in the United Kingdom, with the highest incidence believed to occur in Scotland. EGS also shows strong seasonal variation (most cases are reported between April and July). Data from histologically confirmed cases of EGS from England and Wales in 1999 and 2000 were collected from UK veterinary diagnostic centres. The data did not represent a complete census of cases, and the proportion of all cases reported to the centres would have varied in space and, independently, in time. We consider the variable reporting of this condition and the appropriateness of the space–time K-function when exploring the spatial-temporal properties of a ‘thinned’ point process. We conclude that such position-dependent under-reporting of EGS does not invalidate the Monte Carlo test for space–time interaction, and find strong evidence for space–time clustering of EGS cases (P<0·001). This may be attributed to contagious or other spatially and temporally localized processes such as local climate and/or pasture management practices.

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Review: Place and Placelessness, Paths in Space—Time Environments: A Time-Geographic Study of Movement Possibilities of Individuals, Industrial Location and Planning in the United Kingdom, New-Town Planning: Principles and Practice, Methods of Describing Physical Access to Supply Points, Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a090961 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 9 (8) ◽

pp. 961-972 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

D Seamon ◽

I G Cullen ◽

D R Mainz ◽

P Hall ◽

M Taylor ◽

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Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Space Time ◽

Industrial Location ◽

Town Planning ◽

New Town ◽

Peasant Movements ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Practice Methods ◽

Physical Access

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The spectacle of research assessment systems: insights from New Zealand and the United Kingdom

Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal ◽

10.1108/aaaj-01-2019-3865 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 33 (6) ◽

pp. 1219-1246 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Bikram Chatterjee ◽

Carolyn J. Cordery ◽

Ivo De Loo ◽

Hugo Letiche

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

New Zealand ◽

Academic Staff ◽

Research Assessment ◽

Content Type ◽

Cultural Aspects ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Research Activities ◽

Context Specific ◽

The Impact

PurposeIn this paper, we concentrate on the use of research assessment (RA) systems in universities in New Zealand (NZ) and the United Kingdom (UK). Primarily we focus on PBRF and REF, and explore differences between these systems on individual and systemic levels. We ask, these days, in what way(s) the systemic differences between PBRF and REF actually make a difference on how the two RA systems are experienced by academic staff.Design/methodology/approachThis research is exploratory and draws on 19 interviews in which accounting researchers from both countries offer reflections on their careers and how RA (systems) have influenced these careers. The stories they tell are classified by regarding RA in universities as a manifestation of the spectacle society, following Debord (1992) and Flyverbom and Reinecke (2017).FindingsBoth UK and New Zealand academics concur that their research activities and views on research are very much shaped by journal rankings and citations. Among UK academics, there seems to be a greater critical attitude towards the benefits and drawbacks of REF, which may be related to the history of REF in their country. Relatively speaking, in New Zealand, individualism seems to have grown after the introduction of the PBRF, with little active pushback against the system. Cultural aspects may partially explain this outcome. Academics in both countries lament the lack of focus on practitioner issues that the increased significance of RA seems to have evoked.Research limitations/implicationsThis research is context-specific and may have limited applicability to other situations, academics or countries.Practical implicationsRA and RA systems seem to be here to stay. However, as academics we can, and ought to, take responsibility to try to ensure that these systems reflect the future of accounting (research) we wish to create. It is certainly not mainly or solely up to upper management officials to set this in motion, as has occasionally been claimed in previous literature. Some of the academics who participated in this research actively sought to bring about a different future.Originality/valueThis research provides a unique contextual analysis of accounting academics' perspectives and reactions to RA and RA systems and the impact these have had on their careers across two countries. In addition, the paper offers valuable critical reflections on the application of Debord's (1992) notion of the spectacle society in future accounting studies. We find more mixed and nuanced views on RA in academia than many previous studies have shown.

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New Materialism, Ethnography, and Socially Engaged Practice: Space-Time Folds and the Agency of Matter

Praxis Educativa ◽

10.19137/praxiseducativa-2021-250104 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody ◽

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Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Space Time ◽

New Materialism ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Impact Processes ◽

The Social

This article is an investigation of the agency of matter and an exposition of the new materialist methods I have been developing as part of a muti-sited trans-national ethnography that features socially engaged arts practices alongside more traditional ethnographic and qualitative techniques. I think through the agency of matter and consider the temporality of matter as part of its agency, understanding these agents as constitutive features of the research assemblage. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from the United Kingdom, I examine how matter’s space-time can impact processes of making the social. I develop theoretical resources for moving the field forward.

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Spatiotemporal Stochastic Simulation of Monthly Rainfall Patterns in the United Kingdom (1980–87)

Journal of Climate ◽

10.1175/jcli4233.1 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 20 (16) ◽

pp. 4194-4210 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Marie Ekström ◽

Phaedon C. Kyriakidis ◽

Adrian Chappell ◽

Philip D. Jones

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Temporal Trend ◽

Monthly Rainfall ◽

Spatial Uncertainty ◽

Time And Space ◽

Rain Gauges ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Residual Component ◽

Average Rainfall ◽

Gaussian Simulation

Abstract With few exceptions, spatial estimation of rainfall typically relies on information in the spatial domain only. In this paper, a method that utilizes information in time and space and provides an assessment of estimate uncertainty is used to create a gridded monthly rainfall dataset for the United Kingdom over the period 1980–87. Observed rainfall profiles within the region were regarded as the sum of a deterministic temporal trend and a stochastic residual component. The parameters of the temporal trend components established at the rain gauges were interpolated in space, accounting for their auto- and cross correlation, and for relationships with ancillary spatial variables. Stochastic Gaussian simulation was then employed to generate alternative realizations of the spatiotemporal residual component, which were added to the estimated trend component to yield realizations of rainfall (after distributional corrections). In total, 40 realizations of rainfall were generated for each month of the 8-yr period. The methodology resulted in reasonably accurate estimates of rainfall but underestimated in northwest and north Scotland and northwest England. The cause for the underestimation was identified as a weak relationship between local rainfall and the spatial area average rainfall, used to estimate the temporal trend model in these regions, and suggestions were made for improvement. The strengths of this method are the utilization of information from the time and space domain, and the assessment of spatial uncertainty in the estimated rainfall values.

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New Materialism, Ethnography, and Socially Engaged Practice: Space-Time Folds and the Agency of Matter

Qualitative Inquiry ◽

10.1177/1077800418810728 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (7) ◽

pp. 724-732 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Space Time ◽

New Materialism ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Impact Processes ◽

The Social

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Diversity Monitoring in the Library

The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) ◽

10.33137/ijidi.v5i4.36022 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 6-20

Author(s):

Kevin Guyan

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Public Libraries ◽

Time And Space ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Library Users ◽

Sex And Sexuality ◽

History Of

The collection of data about the identity characteristics of library users is the latest development in a long history of contested categorisation practices. In this article, I highlight how the collection of data about lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) people has implications for the undertaking of diversity monitoring exercises in academic and public libraries. Based on experiences in the United Kingdom, I argue that recuperative efforts to ‘fix’ categorisation practices are not enough and overlook how categories of gender, sex and sexuality are constructed through the practice of diversity monitoring, how categories are positioned in time and space, and who is involved in decision-making about who to include and exclude from the category of ‘LGBTQ’.

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To fail an asylum seeker: Time, space and legal events

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1177/02637758211032623 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 026377582110326

Author(s):

Dan Fisher ◽

Nick Gill ◽

Natalia Paszkiewicz

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Common Sense ◽

Asylum Seeker ◽

Time And Space ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Time Space ◽

Industrialised Countries ◽

Spatiotemporal Processes

Legal geographers have recently highlighted the importance of attending to the interaction of time and space to understand law and its enactment. We build on these efforts to examine the spatiotemporal influences over the processes by which asylum claim determination procedures in Western industrialised countries seek to reconstruct past events for the purposes of deciding refugee claims. Two ‘common-sense’ beliefs underpin this reconstruction: that the occurrences leading to a fear of persecution can be isolated and that the veracity of an asylum claim is objectively independent from the process of uncovering it. We critically interrogate these assumptions by conceptualising the fears of people seeking asylum as Deleuzian ‘events’. Basing our argument on 41 interviews with people who have previously claimed asylum in the United Kingdom and firsthand accounts of asylum appeals, we explore the folding together of asylum ‘truths’ and the spatiotemporal processes by which they are arrived at, arguing that refused asylum claims are not simply detected by the process – they are produced by it.

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The Politics of Exceptionalism: Securitization and COVID-19

Global Studies Quarterly ◽

10.1093/isagsq/ksab024 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Jessica Kirk ◽

Matt McDonald

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

New Zealand ◽

Police Powers ◽

Significant Variability ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Emergency Responses ◽

Context Specific ◽

Emergency Measures

Abstract The suggestion that we “are at war” with the coronavirus pandemic was not uncommon in national representations of the challenge posed by the virus. Such a representation was in turn frequently linked to the imperative of emergency responses, including expanded police powers, national lockdowns, and border closures. For theorists of securitization, this is not surprising. For them, the language of security and existential threat enables extraordinary and exceptional practices. This paper interrogates these assumptions about the performative and enabling role of securitizing language by beginning with emergency measures and asking how these were justified, how they became possible, and how prominent the language of “security” was to this politics of exceptionalism. It examines justifications for emergency responses—national lockdown and/or border closures—in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand in March 2020. Ultimately, the cases examined demonstrate significant variability in justifications for similar extreme measures. In the process, this analysis challenges core assumptions about the conditions in which extraordinary measures become possible, suggesting, in turn, the need for a context-specific understanding of both securitization and the conditions of exceptionalism.

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