Paul Cloke

University of Exeter | UoE · Department of Geography

This paper builds on a nascent literature on rural austerity to explore the variegated geographies of austerity and food banking in rural areas of England and Wales. The paper makes three key contributions. First, drawing on a range of existing and newly updated datasets on local authority spending power and service spending, changes to welfare ben...

This paper contributes to critical discussions of austerity by examining the constructions of scarcity that underpin it. Specifically, it shows how notions of scarcity (re)emergent in a period of austerity have shaped materially insufficient and stigmatising welfare systems. We do this through the example of UK food banks. We suggest that under aus...

The 2010 and 2011 earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, resulted in significant loss of life and injury and in the devastation of much of the center and east of the city. They also shook the foundations, structures, and assumed relations that had previously made the city legible, and in their aftermath the city was marked not only by a mournful...

This paper seeks to extend geographic thinking on the changing constitution of the UK welfare state, suggesting the need to supplement ideas of the “shadow state” with an analysis of the blurring of the bureaucratic practices through which welfare is now delivered by public, private and third sector providers alike. Focusing on the growing converge...

We investigated the effects of recreational exposure to the natural environment on mood and psychophysiological responses to stress. We hypothesized that walking in nature has restorative effects over and above the effects of exposure to nature scenes (viewing nature on TV) or physical exercise alone (walking on a treadmill in a gym) and that these...

Introduction In this chapter we trace the contribution of geographers to the reimagination of religion and belief. Any claim that Geography has made such a contribution may come as something of a surprise to scholars both outside and inside Geography, given the staunchly secular nature of most geographical endeavour in which acceptance of religion...

With reference to the post‐disaster urban landscape of Christchurch, New Zealand, this paper examines the emergence of particular forms of nongovernmental organisation after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, and the kinds of transitional activities in which they have been engaged. Two sets of conceptual apparatus are deployed. First, we suggest that t...

Reflecting on ‘Consuming ethics: articulating the subjects and spaces of ethical consumption’ (2005).

This paper reports on inter-disciplinary research designed to investigate the stress-buffering effects of green exercise, and the importance of the context in which exercise takes place. This investigation of context effects examines both individual physiological responses (salivary cortisol) and the phenomenological interpretation of lived experie...

This study provides a commentary of the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 as a theoretical (as well as empirical) event. Drawing on the ideas of Alain Badiou, it represents the earthquakes and their aftershocks as a rupturing of the established order of things; a distinctive space in which fidelity to the event has the potential to unleash...

Background Lifestyle factors (e.g. regular exercise) have been shown to impact the health and lifespan of individuals by affecting telomere length. There is also increasing evidence for the health benefits of nature experience, although previous studies often confound the effects of exercise and nature experience. It remains unclear, therefore, whe...

This paper offers a critical reappraisal of the politics of food banking in the UK. Existing work has raised concerns about the institutionalisation of food banks, with charitable assistance apparently - even if inadvertently – undermining collectivist welfare and deflecting attention from fundamental injustices in the food system. This paper prese...

Geographies of food banks have focused predominantly on issues of neoliberal political-economy and food insecurity. In this paper, we trace alternative understandings of food banking – as spaces of care, and as liminal spaces of encounter capable of incubating political and ethical values, practices and subjectivities that challenge neoliberal aust...

Recent research in human geography offers some significant and fresh expressions of partnership between faith-motivated actors and others in the emerging landscapes of third sector activity. These often arise from shrinkage of the formal state and engagement with, or resistance to, different welfare regimes. I discuss three avenues for discerning k...

This paper examines and critically interprets the interrelations between religion and the Occupy movements of 2011. It presents three main arguments. First, through an examination of the Occupy Movement in the UK and USA—and in particular of the two most prominent Occupy camps (Wall Street and London Stock Exchange)—the paper traces the emergence o...

In the UK the current Coalition government has introduced an unprecedented set of reforms to welfare, public services, and local governance under the rubric of ‘localism’. Conventional analytics of neoliberalism have commonly portrayed the impacts of these changes in the architectures of governance in blanket terms: as an utterly regressive dilutio...

Hegemonic accounts of urban homelessness, focusing on attempts to restrict homeless people's presence in public space, stress the punitive nature of current homelessness policy. In contrast, in this paper we explore the “messy middle ground” of the UK homeless services system. Examining Stacey Murphy's (2009) (Antipode 41(2):305–325) arguments rega...

Authors' response to reviews of Globalising Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption (Wiley-Blackwell).

Landscape is about feeling, emotional investment, and rhythms of involvement; it is both a site of cultural meaning and a sensorium of experience. This chapter briefly discusses how rural landscapes have been differently understood in terms of history, cultural politics, performance, and assemblage. In using these categories, the author merely seek...

This paper explores the emergence of urban spaces of partnership between people of faith and those of no religious faith who come together to offer care, welfare and justice to socially excluded people. The activities of such groups are understood in terms of adjustments to the secularization thesis pointing to the possibilities of a series of emer...

Four authors, including the current and founding editors, have collaborated to write this editorial that marks the 40th anniversary of Annals of Tourism Research. It has three objectives. The first is to look back and encourage reflection on the last 40 years of its development. This is done by recounting the twists and turns of the history and tra...

The concept of the postsecular is addressed, referring to emergent spaces where faith-based and secular interests collaborate. The chapter sets out the argument that FBOs are not tools of neoliberalism, supported by case material including empirical examples of London citizens (UK) and CARF (The Netherlands). The cases are connected with the politi...

The chapter addresses the changing landscape of Christian faith motivation, referring to the UK. Two questions are posed relating to the increase in faith groups becoming involved in issues of justice, welfare and care, and the factors responsible. The second question incorporates Christian faith motivation and involvement in action for social just...

This chapter uses interview data with faith-motivated volunteers to question the role faith plays in their participation of voluntary care work. Qualitative data reveals religious groups are social networks, through which the validity of faith-based works can be taught and maintained. At a local level, the connection between FBOs and religious netw...

Introduction: organisations, volunteers and ethics One of the key questions underlying the work of faith-based organisations (FBOs) is about the precise role of ‘faith’ in the working and achievement of non-governmental organisations (NGOs). In other words, what is the significance of the ‘f ‘ in FBOs? In this chapter, we introduce some research in...

Introduction This book on faith-based organisations (FBOs) and exclusion in European cities has a long history. The core idea came about in 2000 when one of us (Justin Beaumont) first came across and was immediately gripped by Norman Lewis’ The honoured society (Lewis, 1984). The British travel writer's non-sensationalist yet sensitive and acutely...

Introduction The principal focus of this book is to chart the significance of faith-based organisations (FBOs) and individuals in tackling various forms of social injustice and exclusion in the city. Underlying this trend is a double-edged question stemming from the changing context of interconnectivity between politics and religion. First, how do...

We would like to conclude with a summary of the central themes of state/society/religion relations addressed by the contributions in this volume. We allude to the faith-based organisation (FBO) phenomenon as a notion or idea that has evoked a series of dilemmas but that also signifies a fascinating and still relatively under-explored area of resear...

Introduction Postsecularism presents an opportunity – for a space in which religious and secular worldviews can co-exist and enter into dialogue (Gorski and Altinordu, 2008), a ‘rapprochement of ethical praxis’ (Cloke, 2011, p 381). In this chapter, we engage with postsecularism through the spatial lens of the city because we consider that a postse...

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to examine the role of FBOs in overcoming poverty and social exclusion in European cities. At a time of uniquely European controversies and neoliberal globalisation, this volume explores the defining relations of FBOs and contains sectoral studies to explore how FBOs are growing in importance in the pro...

The increasing prominence of faith-based organisations (FBOs) in providing welfare in the UK has typically been regarded as a by-product of neoliberalism, as the gaps left by shrinking public service provision and the contracting out of service delivery have been filled by these and other Third Sector organisations. In this way, FBOs have been repr...

At a time of heightened neoliberal globalisation and crisis, welfare state retrenchment and desecularisation of society, amid uniquely European controversies over immigration, integration and religious-based radicalism, this timely book explores the role played by faith-based organisations (FBOs), which are growing in importance in the provision of...

This paper suggests that the vocabulary and meaningfulness of ‘evil’ can be re-articulated, and to some extent redeemed from the extremes of fundamentalism and relativism. It uses intellectual resources from Nigel Wright, Walter Wink and Rene Girard to reconstruct some foundations for a reworking of evil in human geography. It then presents an acco...

Questioning the Normative “We”Social Geographical TurnsMapping A Companion to Social GeographyReferences

Beyond the ConsumerDoing Responsibility

The Moralization of ConsumptionJustice, Responsibility and the Politics of ConsumptionRelocating Agency in Ethical ConsumptionProblematizing Consumption

Consumer Choice and Citizenly ActsArticulating Consumption and the ConsumerMobilizing the Ethical ConsumerArticulating the Ethical ConsumerConclusion

Locating the Fair Trade ConsumerRe-evaluating Fair Trade ConsumptionManaging Fair Trade, Mobilizing NetworksDoing Fair Trade: Buying, Giving, CampaigningConclusion

The Antinomies of Consumer ChoiceTheorizing Consumption PracticesProblematizing ChoiceArticulating Background Conclusion

Justifying PracticesResearching the (Ir)responsible ConsumerVersions of ResponsibilityDilemmas of ResponsibilityConclusion

Rethinking the Spatialities of Fair TradeRe-imagining Bristol: From Slave Trade to Fair TradePutting Fair Trade in PlaceFair Trade and ‘The Politics of Place Beyond Place’Conclusion

Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption. *Develops a theoretically informed new approach to shape our understanding of the pragmatic nature of ethical action in consumption processes. *Provides e...

This chapter traces significant interconnections between faith-motivated activists and the widening participation in fair-trade activities in and around the city of Bristol in the UK. Despite the attempts of institutionalised religion to demonstrate the contrary (see, for example, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission on Urban Priority Areas, 1...

This chapter traces significant interconnections between faith-motivated activists and the widening participation in fair trade activities in and around the city of Bristol in the UK.

Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption. Develops a theoretically informed new approach to shape our understanding of the pragmatic nature of ethical action in consumption processes. Provides emp...

Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts to care for homeless people. Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests an important shift in perspective in the analysis and understanding of urban homelessness. Emphasizes the et...

IntroductionStrategies and Tactics in the Homeless CityThe Performative and Affective Geographies of HomelessnessPlaces to SleepPlaces to EatPlaces to EarnPlaces to ‘Hang Out’Conclusions: Remapping the Homeless City

Urban Revanchism, Neoliberal Governance and the Voluntary AttitudeThe Role of Emergency Services for Homeless PeopleEthical Citizenship and the Postsecular City

IntroductionHomelessness and RevanchismQuestioning the Revanchist OrthodoxyThe Homeless Places ProjectThe Structure of the Book

IntroductionSustaining Street Lifestyles?Extraordinary Acts of KindnessA Performative Ethics of CareOpenness and Difference, Inclusion and ExclusionThe Politics of VisibilitySurvival at the MarginsConclusions

IntroductionRephasing Neoliberalism: From Governance to ‘Governmentality’Neoliberalism and Britain's Crisis of Street HomelessnessRevanchist Neoliberalisms?An Emerging Context of PostsecularismBeyond SecularismPostsecular Caritas and Serving Homeless PeopleConclusions

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IntroductionRural HomelessnessGoverning HomelessnessConclusions

Introduction: Uneven Landscapes of ProvisionDifferent Histories of ProvisionAccounting for Different Service DevelopmentsDifferent Service UsersDifferent Experiences of Consuming ServicesDifferent Homeless ScenesConclusions

IntroductionContainment or Care? The Changing Contours of the US Shelter SystemFrom Less Eligibility to ‘High Support’: A Brief History of Hostel Accommodation in BritainBritain's Night Shelters and the Limits to CompassionThe Failure of ‘Housing Plus’The Myth of High SupportAutonomy, Professionalism … and KindnessConclusions