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Greig, Dr Alastair

Bissell, Dr David BA (Hons) Cambridge, MA, PhD Durham
Lecturer in Sociology

 

Office: Haydon-Allen 2156
Contact Number:
6125 4209
Email:
David.Bissell@anu.edu.au


Research Interests:

Mobilities, particularly mobile publics; affect and emotion; phenomenology, corporeality and embodiment; materiality and post-humanism; qualitative methods.

Publications:

Books

2010 with G. Fuller (eds.) Stillness in a mobile world. London: Routledge.

Articles

2010 ‘Passenger mobilities: affective atmospheres and the sociality of public transport’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, forthcoming

2009 ‘Vulnerable quiescence: mobile timespaces of sleep’, Cultural Geographies, 17(1), forthcoming

2009 with G. Fuller ‘The revenge of the still’, M/C Journal, 12(1)

2009 ‘Obdurate pains, transient intensities: affect and the chronically-pained body’, Environment and Planning A, 41(4), 911–928

2009 ‘Conceptualising differently-mobile passengers: geographies of everyday encumbrance in the railway station’, Social and Cultural Geography, 10(2), 173–195

2009 ‘Visualising everyday geographies: practices of vision through travel-time’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34(1), 42–60

2009 ‘Inconsequential materialities: the movements of lost effects’, Space and Culture, 12(1), 95-115

2008 ‘Comfortable bodies: sedentary affects’, Environment and Planning A, 40(7), 1697–1712

2007 ‘Animating suspension: waiting for mobilities’, Mobilities, 2(2), 277–298

Chapters

2010 ‘ Placing affective relations: uncertain geographies of pain’ in B. Anderson and P. Harrison (eds.) Taking Place: Non-representational theories and geography. Aldershot: Ashgate

2009 ‘Narrating mobile methodologies: reactive and responsive empiricisms’ in L. Murray, M. McGuinness and B. Fincham (eds.) Mobile Methodologies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

2009 ‘Moving with others: the sociality of the railway journey’ in P. Vannini (ed.) Routes less Travelled: The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities. Aldershot: Ashgate

2009 ‘Railroad stations’ in R. Hutchinson (ed.) Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, forthcoming

Other Refereed Articles, Monographs and Book Reviews etc

2009 ‘The world beyond the windshield: roads and landscapes in the United States and Europe’ by Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller, Planning Perspectives, 24(4), forthcoming

2009 ‘On Waiting’ by Harold Schweizer, Time and Society, forthcoming

2009 'Driving Germany’ by Thomas Zeller, Cultural Geographies, forthcoming

2009 ‘Transport Geographies: mobilities, flows and spaces’ by Richard Knowles, Jon Shaw and Iain Docherty (eds.), The Geographical Journal, 175(2), 162-163