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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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Crowdfunding: new spatial media to fund education
by Fiona Ferbrache Two issues have caught my attention this week: the headline that “Universities fell short of recruitment targets by almost 30,000 students this year” (The Telegraph), and...
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Place-naming: designing city narratives
by Fiona Ferbrache Gliding up the escalator of Station Jean Jaurès, the lively activity of Place (du Président Thomas) Wilson comes into view in the centre of Toulouse, SW France. I’m introducing a...
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Knowing ‘Terroir': a Sense of Place
by Fiona Ferbrache ‘Terroir’ near Castelnau de Montmiral, South West France ‘Terroir’ is not a word to be found in my Dictionary of Human Geography, but geographer Tim Unwin (2012) locates the notion...
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Opening Spatial Secrets and Closed Spaces: Urban Exploration
by Fiona Ferbrache Robert Macfarlane (author of The Old Ways and other adventures on foot) focused his attention on Urban Exploration last month with an article in The Guardian. Macfarlane’s piece...
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Historical Geographies: creating geography in 18th century France
by Fiona Ferbrache Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845-1918) commands an especially important position in the history of modern geography, as the acknowledged ‘founding father’ of the French School of Human...
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Glocal Finance: bounded forms of global financial capitalism
By Fiona Ferbrache Warehouses being built adjacent to airport runways may be used as ‘freeports’ to store valuable goods Entrepôts, freeports, bonded warehouses… these terms refer to special economic...
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