Publications and Popular Outputs
It’s raining MMMEN: My time as an intern on the Making Music for Managing El Niño project
Blog
As an intern on the Making Music for Managing El Niño (MMMEN) project, Millie McCallum explored how integrating music and research can address climate change and cultural narratives. Led by Professor Nina Laurie and Ellen Thomson, MMMEN investigates the positive impacts of El Niño in Northern Peru, where increased rainfall has created new opportunities for arid communities. Through collaboration with the Daniel Alcidez Carrión School, which produced folk songs about El Niño’s benefits, and a cultural exchange with Scotland’s St Andrews Music Participation (StAMP) choir, the project highlights the intersection of music and climate research. This experience has deepened McCallum’s understanding of how music can enhance climate research and foster global connections, reinforcing her passion for sustainability and academic inquiry.
Date: 09/09/2024
Harvard Citation: McCallum, M., 2024. It’s raining MMMEN: My time as an intern on the Making Music for Managing El Niño project. [blog] School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews. Available at: [https://impact.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/its-raining-mmmen-my-time-as-an-intern-on-the-making-music-for-managing-el-nino-project/] (Accessed 10 September 2024)
Soundscapes and Natural Histories: Listening to Portmoak
Blog
In her post “Soundscapes and Natural Histories: Listening to Portmoak,” Natasha Currie explores how Scottish music can illuminate the historic connections between people and landscape, focusing on Portmoak Moss in west Fife. Currie highlights the evolution of Scottish music to include soundscapes—natural ‘found’ sounds integrated into compositions that emphasize the acoustic environment. This approach ranges from high-fidelity field recordings to the use of natural sounds in folk songs by artists like Karine Polwart and Jenny Sturgeon. She discusses how these soundscapes can serve as a form of ‘love song’ to the land, aiding in the appreciation of ecosystems like Portmoak Moss, a raised peat bog with a history spanning over 6000 years. Currie’s work, as part of a BIRCH project, combines environmental sounds, local voices, and folk music to illustrate how human and natural histories intersect, underscoring the importance of conservation efforts and community involvement in preserving such valuable landscapes
Date: 06/09/2024
Harvard Citation: Currie, N. (2024) ‘Soundscapes and Natural Histories: Listening to Portmoak’, [blog] Available at: [https://soundyngs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/soundscapes-and-natural-histories-listening-to-portmoak/] (Accessed 11 September 2024).
Critical Historical Geography
Article
This is an interesting entry to compile in that while most work in historical geography—the subdiscipline of geography concerned with the past and its relations with the present—might now be called “critical historical geography,” the term is scarcely defined. Its story involves changing geographies of environmental and social change (encompassing problems of capitalism, modernity, empire, nation, globalization, violence, and planetary peril, to name just the most prominent) and thus serves as a commentary on changing times and current predicaments from a specific (if eclectic) area of inquiry.
Date: 05/06/2023
Harvard Citation: Clayton, D. (2024) Critical historical geography. Oxford Bibliographies (Geography) Available at: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199874002/obo-9780199874002-0281.xml#obo-9780199874002-0281-div1-004
Creating stories of educational change in and for geography: what can we learn from Bolivia and Peru?
Article
This article will explore the potential for embedding education outputs within contemporary geographical scholarship to provide a disciplinary resource for school teachers’ curriculum thinking and pathways to impact for academic geographers. In particular, the article will draw upon two projects to show the empirical depth that can be achieved by developing resources that give teachers and students insight into the particularities of places (in this case Bolivia and Peru) in relation to sustainable development agendas via a focus on the co-production of geographical knowledge. Through engaging with research pursued by geographers, this article sheds light on the relationship between environmental justice and sustainable development, which can play an important role in shaping geography teachers’ curricular decision-making. It also recasts expertise where Indigenous leaders and others with first-hand experience of their local environment are at the forefront of complex decisions and conflicts to determine trajectories of sustainability.
Date: 05/06/2023
Harvard Citation: Healy, G. Laurie, N. and Hope, J. (2023) Creating stories of educational change in and for geography: what can we learn from Bolivia and Peru? Geography, 108:2, 64-73. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00167487.2023.2217629
Empire
Encyclopedia entry
“Empire” is one of the most potent words in the English language and the subject of a vast and eclectic literature. Empire’s core (transhistorical) attributes are expansion, hierarchy, and order, which give spatiality to the organization of empires. Geographers have been concerned with how the development of their discipline has dovetailed that of empire. But the liaison between geography and empire is not just a disciplinary affair. The spatiality of empire can be projected on to a much larger screen.
Date: 06/03/2017
Harvard Citation: Clayton, D. (2017) Empire in Wiley-AAG International Encyclopaedia of Geography. Available at: https://www.oxfordbibliogarphies.com/display/document/obo-9780199874002-0281-div1-004
Transformations
Handbook entry
Clayton D 2014 Transformations (15,000 words). In R. Lee ed., The Sage Handbook of Human Geography (London and New Delhi: Sage), 148-180
Date: 2014
Colonizing, settling and the origins of academic geography
Handbook entry
Clayton D 2011b Colonizing, settling and the origins of academic geography (7000 words). In J. Agnew and J. Duncan eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to human geography (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell), 50-70.
Date: 2011
Subaltern space
Handbook entry
Clayton D 2011a Subaltern space (7000 words). In J. Agnew and D. Livingstone eds, Handbook of geographical knowledge (London: Sage), 246-260.
Date: 01/01/2011