All Outputs (5)

Clutter and place (2020)
Book Chapter
Potts, T. (2020). Clutter and place. In T. Edensor, A. Kalandides, & U. Kothari (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Place. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter explores the complex relationship between stuff and place as a way of interrogating the contemporary media obsession with decluttering. While the very idea of place connotes order (as in the maxim ‘a place for everything and everything i... Read More about Clutter and place.

A Feminist Menagerie (2018)
Journal Article
Giraud, E., Hollin, G., Potts, T., & Forsyth, I. (2018). A Feminist Menagerie. Feminist Review, 118(1), 61-79. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-018-0103-1

This paper appraises the role of critical-feminist figurations within the environmental humanities, focusing on the capacity of figures to produce situated environmental knowledges and pose site-specific ethical obligations. We turn to four environme... Read More about A Feminist Menagerie.

(Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics (2017)
Journal Article
Hollin, G., Forsyth, I., Giraud, E., & Potts, T. (2017). (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics. Social Studies of Science, 47(6), 918-941. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312717728344

In the wake of the widespread uptake of and debate surrounding the work of Karen Barad, this article revisits her core conceptual contributions. We offer descriptions, elaborations, problematizations and provocations for those intrigued by or investe... Read More about (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics.

Tidy House, Tidy Mind? Nonhuman Agency in the Hoarding Situation (2015)
Journal Article
Potts, T. (2015). Tidy House, Tidy Mind? Nonhuman Agency in the Hoarding Situation. Subjectivity, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2015.1

This article aims to disturb the received wisdom ‘tidy house, tidy mind’ by tracing its emergence and consolidation: from psychoanalysis to clinical psychology through to philosophy and reality television. The contention here is that the commanding p... Read More about Tidy House, Tidy Mind? Nonhuman Agency in the Hoarding Situation.

‘Dark Tourism’ and the ‘Kitschification’ of 9/11 (2012)
Journal Article
Potts, T. (2012). ‘Dark Tourism’ and the ‘Kitschification’ of 9/11. Tourist Studies, 12(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797612461083

This paper aims to interrogate the framing of New York’s Ground Zero as a ‘dark tourist’ destination, with particular reference to the entanglement of notions of kitsch in academic discussions of the events of September 11th 2001. What makes Ground Z... Read More about ‘Dark Tourism’ and the ‘Kitschification’ of 9/11.