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Trainspaces: Shaping Transnational Spaces
by Fiona Ferbrache High speed train Cisalpino (Source: Eurail Group G.I.E.) This week I write from Germany and a media event to mark the 40th anniversary of the InterRail pass: a rail ticket allowing...
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‘Green and Pleasant’ Cultural Geographies: London 2012
by Fiona Ferbrache London 2012 – this summer’s Olympic Games – may be drawing the eyes of the world to the UK’s capital city. However, details released last week confirmed that the UK’s four nations...
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Restoring Nature to the Urban Environment
by Fiona Ferbrache Last week I happened upon an exhibition: La Ville Fertile: vers une nature urbaine (The Fertile City: Greening Urban Environments), which shared much with a TIBG paper on...
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Labour Geography: Labour Markets at Different Scales
By Fiona Ferbrache Recently, the airline manufacturer Airbus has been catching my eye via online and printed advertisements, and also through the news. The world’s largest passenger airliner, the...
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I Predict a Riot: A Research Agenda One Year On
By Fiona Ferbrache It was a year ago last week that riots broke out in several English cities and our television screens portrayed scenes of violence, looting and arson. Last week, journalists were...
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Visualising History: Geography, Art and Exhibitions
by Fiona Ferbrache Emigration, Plymouth Cattewater (oil painting by Gordon Frickers, (www.frickers.co.uk/art/home-page/) reproduced with his kind permission). Many different forms of representation...
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GIScience, Neogeography and Culturally Sensitive Websites
By Fiona Ferbrache The opening paper to the current edition of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers introduced me to a geographical concept that I had not encountered before:...
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Open Borders: outsiders, immigration and moral politics
by Fiona Ferbrache The Statue of Liberty on which a plaque displays the following: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of you teamming...
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Visual Geographies: Auto-photography and the Earth at Night
by Fiona Ferbrache New images of the Earth at night have been released by scientists at NASA. With lighting levels recording 250 times better resolution, these are said to be the most detailed images...
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Geographies Becoming Ship-shape: Maritime Wine Trading and Ships in Geography
by Fiona Ferbrache Last August, visitors strolling along Copenhagen’s quayside would have seen a rather unusual sight as 8,000 bottles of French wine were unloaded onto the quay. As “approximately 95%...
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Directions for Geography: towards better public engagement
by Fiona Ferbrache As a geography lecturer, I often hear students enthuse about the diverse opportunities the discipline presents to them in terms of future careers. Geography embraces so much between...
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Avenues (The World School): the road to a global geography of education?
by Fiona Ferbrache As I walk by my former primary school on a Tuesday early morning, the current pupils must be gathered in assembly for I can hear the School hymn. Schooled in Guernsey, I studied the...
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Minding the Gap in Cartography: from maps to mapping practices
by Fiona Ferbrache World Map from 1664 If the biologist’s iconic tool of the trade is a microscope, then the geographer’s might well be a map. Both tools offer an alternative perspective of the world,...
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Academic (corporate) Futures: teaching and research
by Fiona Ferbrache A billboard outside Beacon College, Hong Kong: the type that promotes celebrity tutors Fulfilling roles as facilitators of learning, impassioned ambassadors and professionals of...
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Accommodating Students: recent trends and the University of the Channel Islands
by Fiona Ferbrache Queen Margaret University Accommodation Like many Channel Islanders, I attended university in the UK as there is no such establishment in the islands. Proposals are in place,...
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Sustainable Urbanism: Transport Hubs and City Exchanges
by Fiona Ferbrache Rotterdam’s Centraal Station as a gateway to the city Travel by train through Reading or Northampton and you will be able to observe the construction works of the station...
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Academic Writing and Geography Narrated
by Fiona Ferbrache The ruins of Erskine Beveridge, is Fraser MacDonald’s (2013) narrative essay available as an early view article in Transactions. It tells the story of a house – Taigh Mòr, built by...
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Relational Geographies: Sea – shore and the Super-rich
by Fiona Ferbrache Super yachts at St Tropez (author’s own image) In 2012, the Economist noted that even in troubling economic times it was still possible to discern rich people, alongside the poor. It...
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“Dear Diary…”: Qualitative Methods & Geographies of Love
by Fiona Ferbrache “Cupid, please hear my cry….” This time of year is associated with love and fertility and it is today, 14 February, that Saint Valentine’s Day is celebrated in honour of a martyred...
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A View from Above: Geography explores the outdoors
by Fiona Ferbrache Originally photographed by Nathan Dexter, but with no residual rights, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. The scientific method has close connections to ideas about progress and...
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International Women’s Achievements: geographies of female entrepreneurship in...
by Fiona Ferbrache International Women’s Day, 8th March, marks the many achievements of diverse women (past and present) around the globe. However, this day contrasts with the poignant reminder that...
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Death by Geography: reviewing spaces of death
by Fiona Ferbrache Pick up a daily newspaper and you will find an obituary section providing biographical sketches of recently deceased individuals. Last week, these included Coptic Christian Pope...
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Exploring Geography
by Fiona Ferbrache Captain Scott in 1911, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Royal Geographical Society (-IBG) has a strong historical association with exploration. Famous explorers such as...
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Urban Exploration
by Fiona Ferbrache Urban Exploring in verlassenen Bunkeranlagen, © Pascal Dihé / https://www.dihe.eu / CC BY-SA 4.0. A fortnight ago, Geography Directions reported on exploration and adventure in...
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Be Prepared: scouting out good citizens
by Fiona Ferbrache http://www.chavagnes.org, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Ging gang goolie goolie goolie goolie watcha, Ging gang goo, ging gang...
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