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53
Citations
15352
World Ranking
2257
National Ranking
400

Overview

Rachel Pain is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their scholarly work is concentrated within the social sciences, with particular engagement in subfields such as sociology and political science, gender studies, geography, planning and development, clinical psychology, and health.

Their research addresses diverse topics including geographies of human-animal interactions, gender, security and conflict, environmental justice and health disparities, intimate partner and family violence, migration, health and trauma, migration, refugees and integration, as well as Hannah Arendt's political philosophy.

Recent academic publications by Rachel Pain include:

  • "Geotrauma: Violence, place and repossession" (2020), published in Progress in Human Geography
  • "Critical political geographies of slow violence and resistance" (2022), published in Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
  • "Collective trauma? Isolating and commoning gender-based violence" (2021), published in Gender Place & Culture
  • "WITHDRAWN - Administrative Duplicate Publication: Critical political geographies of slow violence and resistance" (2021), published in Environment and Planning C Politics and Space

Rachel Pain has also collaborated with other researchers on relevant topics. Frequent co-authors include Caitlin Cahill, Nahid Rezwana, Zuriatunfadzliah Sahdan, Cheryl McEwan, and Sonja Marzi.

Their work is published across several academic venues, notably:

  • Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
  • Progress in Human Geography
  • Gender Place & Culture
  • Disasters
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

The combination of topics and publication venues indicates a multidisciplinary approach that intersects geography, gender studies, violence and trauma, as well as political and social theory. The focus on slow violence, gender-based violence, and environmental justice highlights key thematic interests in their research portfolio.

Best Publications

  • Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place

    Sara Louise Kindon;Rachel Pain;Mike Kesby

  • Gender, Race, Age and Fear in the City

    Rachel Pain

  • Place, social relations and the fear of crime: a review

    Rachel Pain

  • Social geography: participatory research

    Rachel Pain

  • Geographies of age: thinking relationally

    Peter Hopkins;Rachel Pain

  • Social geographies of women's fear of crime

    Rachel H Pain

  • Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life

    Rachel Pain;Susan J. Smith

  • Globalized Fear? : Towards an Emotional Geopolitics

    Rachel Pain

  • Space, sexual violence and social control: integrating geographical and feminist analyses of women's fear of crime:

    Rachel Pain

  • Reflections on participatory research

    Rachel Pain;Peter Francis

  • Contact Zones: Participation, Materiality, and the Messiness of Interaction

    Kye Askins;Rachel Pain

  • Everyday terrorism: Connecting domestic violence and global terrorism

    Rachel Pain

  • Introduction: intimacy‐geopolitics and violence

    Rachel Pain;Lynn Staeheli

  • Intervention: Critical physical geography.

    Rebecca Lave;Matthew W. Wilson;Elizabeth S. Barron;Christine Biermann

  • Participatory action research.

    S. Kindon;R. Pain;M. Kesby

  • Paranoid parenting? Rematerializing risk and fear for children

    Rachel Pain

  • Evaluating qualitative research: dealing with the tension between ‘science’ and ‘creativity’

    Cathy Bailey;Catherine White;Rachel Pain

  • Social geography: on action- orientated research

    Rachel Pain

  • Participatory Ethics: Politics, Practices, Institutions

    Caitlin Cahill;Farhana Sultana;Rachel Pain

  • Participatory action research : origins, approaches and methods.

    Sara Kindon;Rachel Pain;Mike Kesby

  • Geographies of impact: power, participation and potential

    Rachel Pain;Mike Kesby;Kye Askins

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan J. Smith
Susan J. Smith University of Cambridge
Sarah Curtis
Sarah Curtis Durham University
Bruce L. Rhoads
Bruce L. Rhoads University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gillian Rose
Gillian Rose University of Oxford
Lynn A. Staeheli
Lynn A. Staeheli Durham University
Clare Bambra
Clare Bambra Newcastle University
Parvati Raghuram
Parvati Raghuram The Open University
Roger Burrows
Roger Burrows Newcastle University

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