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- Publications
- Influence
Expanding worlds: place and collaboration in (and after) the ‘text-as-spatial-event’
- James Thurgill, J. Lovell
- Sociology
- 28 August 2019
This short position paper seeks to explore the collaborative role of place in the unfolding of the ‘text-as-spatial-event’ (Hones 2008) via the expansion of the extra-textual. The work presented here… Expand
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Extra-Textual Encounters: Locating Place in the Text-as-Event: An Experiential Reading of M.R. James’ ‘A Warning to the Curious’
- James Thurgill
- History
- 28 November 2018
Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a British historian, archaeologist and writer. He is widely known for his short tales of the supernatural, many of which are set in the actual-world landscape of… Expand
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Narrative Research in Practice: stories from the Field, Rachael Dwyer, Ian Davis, Elke Emerald (Eds.). Springer, Singapore (2016), v and 243pp., notes and index. £66.99 hardback, ISBN 9789811015779
- James Thurgill
- Art
- 1 May 2017
Un/Mapping Sacrality in Kamakura: Towards a (Meaningful) Spiritual Cartography
- James Thurgill
- Sociology
- 5 April 2019
This short auto-ethnographic paper seeks to examine the tension between meaning and encounter in the spiritual experience. Taking Japan’s historic coastal capital of Kamakura as a site for analysis,… Expand
A Strange Cartography: Leylines, Landscape and “Deep Mapping” in the Works of Alfred Watkins
- James Thurgill
- History
- 16 October 2015
In 1921 the photographer, antiquarian and amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, delivered his newly formed thesis on the origins of ancient alignments in the west of England to the Woolhope… Expand
Mapping cultures: place, practice, performance
- James Thurgill
- Sociology
- 22 June 2016
Further, the book engages with visual media to add to the discussion, starting with the cover done by Pred’s daughter, Michelle. Trevor Paglen’s photographs placed at the start of each section reveal… Expand