working group
each month we meet to reflect on existing work in the field and share work in progress
december 2022
group writing session We will brainstorm and outline a short article summarising themes in our work to date. |
november 2022
work in progress Gavin Brown will lead a session on monkeypox vaccine supply chains. Brown. G. In press. Monkeypox, sexual health, gay bisexual and men who have sex with other men. Commentary. The Geographical Journal. Iglesias, J. et al. 2022. Is monkeypox an STI. The sociwetal aspects and healthcare implciations of a key question. Wellcome Open Research. |
october 2022
book launch Stephanie Sodero will launch her forthcoming book. Using two Atlantic Canadian case studies as a springboard, the book contributes to pressing cultural and policy discussions about community resilience by imagining human mobility that works with, rather than against, the climate in ways that benefit local communities. |
april 2022
work in progress Kufakurinani, U. 2022. Do fake sex enhancers exist? Discoursing efficacy of sex tonics in Harare's Avenues streets. |
march 2022
work in progress Sekalah. S. and A. Zbyszewska. 2022. Towards a feminist geo legal ethic of caring within medical supply chains: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. |
february 2022
teachout / ethical academic mobilities As this session falls on a date on which many UK universities are striking, we will hold a reflective teachout focusing on academic mobilities and how we can reduce and change our travel in light of the climate crisis. Volden, J. and A. Hansen. 2022. Practical aeromobilities: making sense of environmentalist air-travel. Mobilities. |
january 2022
readings Grove, J. 2019. 'Blood: Vital Logistics.' In: Savage Ecologies: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World. Durham: Duke University Press. and Redfield, P. 2008 Vital Mobility and the Humanitarian Kit. In: Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question, eds. A. Lakoff and S. Collier, 147-172. New York: Columbia University Press. |
november 2021
work in progress Calkin, S. 2021. Do-It-Yourself Sexual and Reproductive Health. Sydney Calkin will share a grant application for feedback and discussion. The grant application is inspired by the work of several 3M members, as well as our readings and discussion. T. Draft application to be circulated closer to the time. |
october 2021
work in progress Tso, L.S. 2021. The movement of uncertified cottage-industry pharmaceuticals from China into Hong Kong—Heritage as a marker of quality assurance in the clandestine sharing of medications and health strategies within cross-border informal networks of domestic and international patients in South China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA). Following from our RGS panel, we will have a Q&A by panel members Gavin Brown, Rory Horner, and Lise Bjerke, plus group discussion. |
june 2021
knowledge translation brainstorm Join the final session of the academic year to discuss creative and arts-based approaches to researching and comunicating Mobile Medical Materials. |
may 2021
work in progress Tso, Lai Sze. 2021. "Can we connect on WeChat?" Dynamics of healthcare professionals networking across social media for informal access to technology transfers, diagnostics equipment, and medical resources. |
april 2021
readings Brown, G. and C. 2021. Ahead of Print. Di Feliciantonio. Geographies of PrEP, TasP and undetectability: Reconceptualising HIV assemblages to explore what else matters in the lives of gay and bisexual men. Dialogues in Human Geography. Pienaar, K. et al. 2020. Drugs as technologies of the self: Enhancement and transformation in LGBTQ cultures. International Journal of Drug Policy 78: 102673. |
march 2021
work in progress Cordelia Freeman and Sandra Rodríguez. 2021. Chemical geographies of misoprostol. Barry, A. 2005. Pharmaceutical Matters: The Invention of Informed Materials. Theory, Culture & Society 22(1): 51-69. Balayannis, A. and E. Garnett. 2020. Chemical kinship: Interdisciplinary experiments with pollution. Catalyst 6(1): 1-10. |
february 2021
readings Boyer, K. 2010. Of care and commodities: Breast milk and the new politics of mobile biosubstances. Progress in Human Geography 34(1):5-20. Fannin, M. 2011. Personal stem cell banking and the problem with property. Social & Cultural Geography 12(04):339-356. |
january 2021
work in progress Sodero, S. 2021. 'I can't breathe: Vital mobilities of oygen. Chapter in: Pandemic Politics: Interrogating the Social Life of Covid-19 and its Aftermaths. Edited by B. Tusker Haworth, N. O’Grady, S. Roborgh, M. Turner, B. Taithe. In development. |
december 2020
readings Mason, K. 2012. Mobile migrants, mobile germs: Migration, contagion, and boundary-building in Shenzhen, China after SARS. Medical Anthropology 31(2): 113-131. and Lim Chua, J. 2020. Pharmaceutical creep: US military power and the global and transnational mobility of psychopharmaceuticals. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 34(1): 41-58. or Budd, L., Bell, M., & T. Brown. 2009. Of plagues, planes and politics: Controlling the global spread of infectious diseases by air. Political Geography 28(7): 426-435. |
november 2020
readings Gereffi, G. 2020. What does the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about global value chains? The case of medical supplies. Journal of International Business Policy 3(3): 287-301. Cowen, D. 2014. Conclusion: Rough Trade? Sex, Death, and the Queer Nature of Circulation. In: The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. |
october 2020
readings Cowen, D. 2014. Introduction: The Citizenship of Stuff in the Global Social Factory. In: The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. |