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Overview

Alan Latham is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development, Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies, and Transportation.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Data Analysis and Archiving
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Geography Education and Pedagogy

Recent papers authored by Alan Latham include:

  • Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it, 2022, Urban Geography
  • Thinking with method: qualitative research in human geography, 2020, Area

In addition to these works, notable papers in related fields published around the same time include:

  • Social infrastructure and public life - notes on Finsbury Park, London, 2021, Urban Geography
  • Qualitative methods III: On different ways of describing our work, 2020, Progress in Human Geography
  • Working and dwelling in a global city: going-out, public worlds, and the intimate lives of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, 2021, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Alan Latham has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Area (7 publications)
  • Urban Geography (2 publications)
  • Progress in Human Geography (1 publication)
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (1 publication)
  • Cultural Geographies (1 publication)

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Russell Hitchings
  • Jack Layton
  • Julian Leyland
  • Sarah Marie Hall
  • Lauren Wagner

Best Publications

  • “Research, Performance, and doing Human Geography: Some Reflections on the Diary–Photograph, Diary–Interview Method”

    Alan Latham

  • Transnational urbanism: Attending to everyday practices and mobilities

    David Conradson;Alan Latham

  • Moving cities: rethinking the materialities of urban geographies

    Alan Latham;Derek P. McCormack

  • Friendship, networks and transnationality in a world city: Antipodean transmigrants in London

    David Conradson;Alan Latham

  • Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces

    Alan Latham;Jack Layton

  • Urbanity, lifestyle and making sense of the new urban cultural economy: Notes from Auckland, New Zealand

    Alan Latham

  • The Affective Possibilities of London: Antipodean Transnationals and the Overseas Experience

    David Conradson;Alan Latham

  • Thinking with images in non-representational cities: vignettes from Berlin

    Alan Latham;Derek P McCormack

  • On the Hard Work of Domesticating a Public Space

    Regan Koch;Alan Latham

  • Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it

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  • Key Concepts in Urban Geography

    Alan Latham;Derek McCormack;Kim McNamara;Donald McNeill

  • Rethinking urban public space: accounts from a junction in West London

    Regan Koch;Alan Latham

  • Researching and writing everyday accounts of the city: an introduction to the diary-photo diary-interview method

    A Latham

  • Inhabiting Infrastructure: Exploring the Interactional Spaces of Urban Cycling:

    Alan Latham;Peter R H Wood

  • The possibilities of performance

    Alan Latham;David Conradson

  • The history of a habit: jogging as a palliative to sedentariness in 1960s America

    Alan Latham

  • Retheorizing the Scale of Globalization: Topologies, Actor‐Networks, and Cosmopolitanism

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  • Qualitative methods I: On current conventions in interview research:

    Russell Hitchings;Alan Latham

  • Escalator London? A Case Study of New Zealand Tertiary Educated Migrants in a Global City

    David Conradson;Alan Latham

  • The Power of Distraction: Distraction, Tactility, and Habit in the Work of Walter Benjamin

    Alan Latham

  • How 'social' is recreational running? Findings from a qualitative study in London and implications for public health promotion

    Russell Hitchings;Alan Latham

  • Indoor versus outdoor running: understanding how recreational exercise comes to inhabit environments through practitioner talk

    Russell Hitchings;Alan Latham

  • Globalization: The Human Consequences

    Alan Latham

  • Moving Cities: rethinking the materialities of urban geographies

    AM Latham

  • Urban Outcasts: A comparative sociology of advanced marginality

    A Latham

  • Key Methods in Geography

    AR Latham

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Edensor
Tim Edensor Manchester Metropolitan University

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