I've been wandering, 'urbexing', or 'urban exploring' in a disused factory in Brierley Hill, just outside Dudley. I don't know what this...

In a recent pre-progression supervisory meeting, Paul Evans reminded me that the largest part of my research is, in fact, the writing of...

I've been reading about 'Wounded Landscapes' or 'Traumascapes' which have, in the past, related to places where terrorist activities have...

I've been reading Tim Edensor's 'Industrial Ruins' and taking my daily-government-allowed-walk past this, the site (apparently) of a new...

I have been writing the 'critical' aspects of this PhD, and have discovered Lefebvre's 'Rhythmanalysis', and thinking about how I can...

In On Walking and Thinking: Two Walks across the Page (2018:1-6) Trofimova and Nicholls consider how walking, both imaginary and real,...

I have a 'usual walk' that I take across these fields next to the canal. A couple of days ago, for the second or third time in a year, I...

I've been editing 'God's Country'. Editing, to me, is a bigger task than actually writing. After a positive supervisory meeting on 27th...

Rob Francis regards the Black Country as a ‘liminal space. Not quite urban – not quite rural; it’s made up of a strange mix of green and...

I’ve been looking again at Debord’s Society of the Spectacle (1967, translated 2014) and Csikszentmihaly’s Beyond Boredom & Anxiety...