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Franklin Ginn
Research interests
Environmental ethics and politics
Everyday (sub)urban nature-cultures
Colonial and post-colonial histories of nature
- Social theory
Archival and qualitative methods
The end is nigh! We've heard it all before, but this time it's really true. Just maybe. The world certainly faces unprecedented stress: global climate change, mass extinctions, growing inequalities, economic crises. My work is based on the idea that to get us out of this mess what we don't need is more of the same thinking. We need a radical shift in the ways we live with, imagine and think about the non-human world. My recent work has focused on how history and time are implicated in our ecological consciousness. I am currently finishing a book, 'Gardening life: exploring nature, culture and memory in London', an ethnographic history of how memory, plants and people circulate and mingle in the gardens of London suburbia. The book brings together existing concerns within geography on more-than-human relations, memory, and landscape temporality, but grounds these in often overlooked 'ordinary' spaces. I have also researched the relationships between invasive species, eco-nationalism and colonial history in Aotearoa New Zealand. I am currently developing research on geographies of apocalypse, which encompasses how emergencies at various scales, from the planetary (geo-engineering) to the local (island conservation) are generating new relations between culture and nature.
Publications
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Work in progress
- Ginn F (under contract) Gardening suburbia: exploring nature, culture and memory in London, Aldershot, Ashgate
- Ginn F (in progress) The quick the the dead: slugs, slime and the more-than-human ethics of gardening, tbc
- U. Beisel, F Ginn, M Buara (in progress) More-than-human geographies: a review, tbc
- Ginn F (under revision) Putaringamotu: ecological restoration and the politics of time, Cultural Geographies
Published articles
- Ginn F (2012) Dig for Victory! New histories of wartime gardening in Britain, Journal of Historical Geography
- Mustafa D, T A Smucker, F Ginn, R Johns, S Connely (2010) Xeriscape people and the cultural politics of turf-grass transformation, Environment and Planning D: Society & Space (28)600-617
- Ginn F (2009) Colonial transformations: nature, progress and science in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, New Zealand Geographer (65)35-47
- Ginn F (2008) Extension, subversion, containment: eco-nationalism and (post)colonial nature in Aotearoa New Zealand, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (33)335-53
Book chapters
- Ginn F and Demeritt D (2009) Nature, in Key concepts in Geogaphy, Clifford N, Holloway S, Rice S and Valentine G eds, Sage, London, pp 300-11
Book reviews
- Ginn F (forthcoming) Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders - by T Fenster and H Yacobi, Emotion, Society & Space
- Ginn F (2010) Spaces for nature - by Steve Hinchliffe, Cultural Geographies 17(286-287)
- Ginn F (2010) Backyard - by L Head & P Muir, Social & Cultural Geography 11(511-512)
- Ginn F (2009) Spaces of colonialism: Delhi's urban governmentalities - by S Legg, Area 41(109-110)
- Ginn F (2007) Lawn people: how grasses, weeds and chemicals make us who we are - by P Robbins, Environment and Planning A (39)3031-3032
- Ginn F (2007) Home - by A Blunt and R Dowling, Environment and Planning A (39)2288-2289