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The Port of Hull, 1945-2000 : change, adaptation and memory (2015)
Thesis
Ombler, A. D. (2015). The Port of Hull, 1945-2000 : change, adaptation and memory. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223568

In this study, which draws on a large body of archival and oral history material, I outline the economic shifts, technological development and political factors that impacted the British port system after 1945 and transformed its spaces, practices an... Read More about The Port of Hull, 1945-2000 : change, adaptation and memory.

After the trawl : memory and afterlife in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery from 1976 (2015)
Thesis
Byrne, J. (2015). After the trawl : memory and afterlife in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery from 1976. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218622

From the late nineteenth century the city of Hull became synonymous with trawling. For almost a century its distant-water fishery developed as a strongly place-centered industry, concentrated in the western port district of Hessle Road. Here, amid... Read More about After the trawl : memory and afterlife in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery from 1976.

The formation, implementation and reception of gender and sexualities education in English primary schools (2015)
Thesis
Hall, J. J. (2015). The formation, implementation and reception of gender and sexualities education in English primary schools. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217674

This thesis examines the formation of gender and sexualities education and its implementation and reception in two state-funded English primary schools. The first part identifies how childhood discourses circulating in Section 28 debates influenced t... Read More about The formation, implementation and reception of gender and sexualities education in English primary schools.

Geographical imaginations, public education and the everyday worlds of Fascist Italy (2013)
Journal Article
Atkinson, D. (2013). Geographical imaginations, public education and the everyday worlds of Fascist Italy. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 18(5), 561-579. https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2013.839487

This article explores the phenomena of geographical imaginations and their seldom-noted promotion within various corners of Fascist Italy. Imagined geographies are socially constructed understandings of other places and regions and, as such, they are... Read More about Geographical imaginations, public education and the everyday worlds of Fascist Italy.

A human geographical exploration of adventure motorcycling : freedom to move, freedom to feel, freedom to choose (2013)
Thesis
Wolferink, G. S. (2013). A human geographical exploration of adventure motorcycling : freedom to move, freedom to feel, freedom to choose. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215967

Freedom is a term that is used often when an adventure motorcyclist is asked what it is all about and when asked what it is what he or she experiences and why he or she engages in this activity. This thesis explores what adventure motorcycling is all... Read More about A human geographical exploration of adventure motorcycling : freedom to move, freedom to feel, freedom to choose.

Effective policy making for establishing sustainable local food systems : the East Riding of Yorkshire and the Abruzzo region, Italy. (2012)
Thesis
O'Neill, K. (2012). Effective policy making for establishing sustainable local food systems : the East Riding of Yorkshire and the Abruzzo region, Italy. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212755

This thesis investigates the ways in which local food has increasingly been seen as an integral part of rural development, and explored the increasing interest in local food from academics, policy-makers, businesses and consumers. The overall questio... Read More about Effective policy making for establishing sustainable local food systems : the East Riding of Yorkshire and the Abruzzo region, Italy..

Classical traditions and cultural geographies (2011)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, D. (2011). Classical traditions and cultural geographies. In Visual and historical geography: essays in honour of Denis E. Cosgrove (44075). Historical Geography Research Series, Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers

Hybrid climbing bodies: the climbing assemblage and the technologically mediated engagements and ascensions of rock climbers (2010)
Thesis
Barratt, P. R. (2010). Hybrid climbing bodies: the climbing assemblage and the technologically mediated engagements and ascensions of rock climbers. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4211457

This thesis contributes an Actor Network Theory inspired approach to the study of rock climbing to argue that climbers are more-than-human fusions comprised of the human and non-human. The research explores this notion of hybrid climbers, which I te... Read More about Hybrid climbing bodies: the climbing assemblage and the technologically mediated engagements and ascensions of rock climbers.

Walking and talking : topographies of memory in Kingston-upon-Hull (2010)
Thesis
Roberts, T. (2010). Walking and talking : topographies of memory in Kingston-upon-Hull. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212896

This thesis explores the relationships between different memory narratives within the unglamorous, everyday spaces of the city, drawing upon ideas of memory as a fluid and dynamic process that is under constant negotiation. It is increasingly argued... Read More about Walking and talking : topographies of memory in Kingston-upon-Hull.

Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba Death Camp, Trieste (2009)
Journal Article
Purvis, M., & Atkinson, D. (2009). Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba Death Camp, Trieste. Social & cultural geography, 10(3), 337-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360902756648

The paper examines contest over one of Trieste's most emotive sites of memory, the former Nazi death camp at the Risiera di San Sabba. Attention is paid to the Risiera as a site for ceremonial recollection of World War Two, and to the enmeshing of th... Read More about Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba Death Camp, Trieste.

Reconstituting troublesome youth in Newcastle upon Tyne : theorising exclusion in the night-time economy (2009)
Thesis
Hesslewood, A. (2009). Reconstituting troublesome youth in Newcastle upon Tyne : theorising exclusion in the night-time economy. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4209834

Following economic stagnation and deindustrialisation in 1970s and 1980s Britain, the shift toward neoliberalism and entrepreneurial urbanism has had profound effects on the ways in which cities are experienced by different socio-cultural groups. As... Read More about Reconstituting troublesome youth in Newcastle upon Tyne : theorising exclusion in the night-time economy.

Kitsch geographies and the everyday spaces of social memory (2007)
Journal Article
Atkinson, D. (2007). Kitsch geographies and the everyday spaces of social memory. Environment & planning. A, 39(3), 521-540. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3866

Given recent developments in retheorising the spatialities of memory, in this study I move beyond established foci upon monuments and fixed sites of memory to consider some of the more ordinary places where memory erupts. In contrast to the high-prof... Read More about Kitsch geographies and the everyday spaces of social memory.

Feeling nature: naturism, camping, environment and the body in Britain, 1920-1960 (2003)
Thesis
Morris, N. J. (2003). Feeling nature: naturism, camping, environment and the body in Britain, 1920-1960. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212217

This thesis considers the interaction of human beings with the natural environment. In particular, it addresses the ways that naturists and light-weight campers encountered, understood and reflected upon the spaces, places and environments around the... Read More about Feeling nature: naturism, camping, environment and the body in Britain, 1920-1960.