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Dr Jenny Pickerill

Department of Geography
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester
LE1 7RH

j.pickerill (at) leicester.ac.uk

These are arranged by books, journal articles, magazine articles, book chapters, reports, book reviews, and other writings. For publications by research topic please select ‘Research projects’ on the left-hand list of this screen.

Books

Pickerill, J and Maxey, L (eds.). 2009. Low Impact Development: The future in our hands.

 

Gillan, K, Pickerill, J and Webster, F. 2008. Anti-War Activism: New Media and Protest. Palgrave McMillan [available in paperback from 2011]

 

Pickerill, J. 2003. Cyberprotest: Environmental activism on-line, Manchester University Press [available in paperback from 2010]

Journal articles

Chatterton, P and Pickerill, J. 2010. In, against and beyond capitalism. The messy spaces, practices and identities of everyday activism in the UK. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 35, Issue 4, pages 475–490

 

The Autonomous Geographies Collective. 2010. 'Beyond Scholar activism: Making Strategic Interventions Inside and Outside the Neoliberal University. ACME, 9, 2, http://www.acme-journal.org/Volume9-2.htm

 

Brown, G and Pickerill, J. 2009. 'Editorial: Activism and emotional sustainability. Emotion, Space and Society, 2, 1, 1-3

 

Brown, G and Pickerill, J. 2009. 'Space for emotion in the spaces of activism. Emotion, Space and Society, 2, 1, 24-35

 

Pickerill, J. 2009. Symbolic production, representation, and contested identities: Anti-war activism online. Information, Communication and Society, 12, 7, 969-993

 

Pickerill, J and Maxey, L. 2009. 'Geographies of sustainability: Low Impact Developments and spaces of innovation', Geography Compass 3, 4, 1515-1539

 

Pickerill, J. 2009.'Finding common ground? Spaces of dialogue and the negotiation of Indigenous interests in environmental campaigns in Australia’, Geoforum 40, 1, 66-79

 

Pickerill, J. 2008. 'Open access publishing: Hypocrisy and confusion in geography’, Antipode 40, 5, 719-723

 

Gillan, K, Pickerill, J and Webster, F. 2008. The Information Environment of War. Sociology Compass, 2, 6, 1833-1847

 

Pickerill, J. 2008. ‘A surprising sense of hopeAntipode 40, 3, 719-723 (and Blackwell book: Being and Practicing Public Scholar)

 

Gillan, K and Pickerill, J. 2008. ‘Transnational anti-war activism: solidarity, diversity and the internet in Australia, Britain and the United States after 9/11 Australian Journal of Political Science, 43, 1, 59-78

Pickerill, J. 2008. ‘From Wilderness to WildCountry: The power of language in environmental campaigns in Australia Environmental Politics, vol.17, no.1: 95-104

Pickerill, J. 2007. ‘Autonomy on-line’: Indymedia and practices of alter-globalisation, Environment and Planning A, vol.39

Pickerill, J and Chatterton, P. 2006. ‘Notes towards autonomous geographies: creation, resistance and self management as survival tactics' Progress in Human Geography, Vol.30, No.6: 1-17

Pickerill, J and Webster, F. 2006. ‘The Anti-War/Peace Movement in Britain and the conditions of Information War' International Relations, Vol.20, No.4: 407-423

Pickerill, J. 2006. ‘Radical politics on the net' Parliamentary Affairs, Vol.59, No.2: 266-282

Pickerill, J. 2004.‘Cyberprotest: Environmental activism online’ The Sociologist, no.1, pp.7-11.

Pickerill, J. 2001.Environmentalists’ internet activism in BritainPeace Review, vol.13, no.3, San Francisco, pp.365-370.

Pickerill, J. 2000. ‘Spreading the green word? Using the internet for environmental campaigning ECOS, vol.21, no.1, pp.14-24.

Pickerill, J and Malthus, T, M. 1998. ‘Leak detection from rural aqueducts using airborne remote sensing techniques’, The International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol.19, no.12, pp.2427-2433.

Book Chapters

Pickerill, J. 2012. ‘Environment and Environmentalism’ in P.Daniels, M.Bradshaw, D.Shaw and J.Sidaway, Human Geography: issues for the 21st Century. 4th Edition. Pearson Education Limited, Essex

 

Pickerill, J. forthcoming. Permaculture in practice: Low Impact Development in Britain. J. Lockyer and J. Veteto (eds.) Localizing Environmental Anthropology: Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillage Design for a Sustainable Future. Berghahn Books.

 

Pickerill, J. 2011. We have to adapt culturally to climate change, in Firth, L (ed.) Issues: Tackling Climate Change, Key Stage 3, Independence Educational Publishers. GCSE and A-Level textbook.

 

Pickerill, J and Maxey, L. 2011. Low Impact Development: radical housing solutions from the grassroots. A.Davies (ed.) Enterprising communities: grassroots sustainability innovations. Emerald.

 

Pickerill, J, Gillan, K and Webster, F. 2011. Scales of Activism: New Media and Transnational Connections in Anti-War Movements. Cottle, S and Lester, L (eds.) Transnational Protests and the Media. Peter Land Publishing

 

Pickerill, J. 2010. Building liveable cities; urban Low Impact Developments as low carbon solutions? In Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Castán Broto, Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin, Cities and Low Carbon Transitions, Routledge.

 

Gillan, K, Pickerill, J and Webster, F. 2010. ‘Campaigning in a Changing Information Environment: the Anti-War and Peace Movement in Britain’ in Jeremy Husinger, Matthew Allen and Lisbeth Klastrup (eds), International Handbook of Internet Research (Springer). Chapter 27.

 

Pickerill, J. 2010. Geographies of Difference. Encyclopaedia of Geography, Sage, London.

Pickerill, J. 2008. ‘Valuing the Environment’ in P.Daniels, M.Bradshaw, D.Shaw and J.Sidaway, Human Geography: issues for the 21st Century. 3rd Edition. Pearson Education Limited, Essex.

Millington, A and Pickerill, J. 2004. ‘Environment and Environmentalism’ in P.Daniels, M.Bradshaw, D.Shaw and J.Sidaway, Human Geography: issues for the 21st Century. 2nd Edition. Pearson Education Limited, Essex.

Pickerill, J. 2004.Rethinking political participation: Experiments in internet activism in Australia and Britain in R.Gibson, A.Roemmele and S.Ward, Electronic Democracy: Mobilisation, Organisation and Participation via new ICTs. Routledge, London.

Pickerill, J. 2001.Weaving a green web: Environmental protest and computer mediated communication in Britain, in F.Webster, Culture and Politics in the Information Age, Routledge, London, pp.142-166.

Pickerill, J. 2000. ‘Pressure Groups, New Social Movements and New ICTs: Greens and the Net’, in S.Ward and R.Gibson, Reinvigorating Government? British Politics and the Internet, Ashgate, Aldershot.

Magazine articles

Pickerill, J. 2009. ‘Reclaiming Radical Politics’ in Radical Politics Today Magazine, May. Available at: http://www.spaceofdemocracy.org/resources/publications/magazine/magazine.html

 

Pickerill, J. 2009. ‘A simple eco-house … a C-Change sustainable home’ Ecology Building Society News, March

 

Gillan, K and Pickerill, J. 2009. ‘Only connect’. Peace News, March, 10

 

Interview. 2008. Dr Jenny Pickerill on: New Media and Protest. Oxford Internet Institute Newsletter, September.

 

Pickerill, J and Farrant, M. 2008. ‘A self build ecohouseGreen Building Magazine, 18, 3, 62-63.

 

Pickerill, J. 2008. ‘Two women, an ecobuild and a full time job’. Permaculture Magazine. 58, 15-18

 

Pickerill, J. 2007. ‘Frontline: Reduce your carbon footprint by living in an ecovillage’. Resurgence. July/ August, 243

Chatterton, P, Maxey, L and Pickerill, J. 2007. ‘Alternative home sweet home' Red Pepper, April, 28

Pickerill, J and Maxey, L. 2007. ‘The Lammas Low Impact Housing Development' Sustainability: The practical journal for green building, renewable energy and sustainable communities, 1, 18-19.

Maxey, L, and Pickerill, J. 2007. Lammas: Land and Liberty' The Land, 3, 35-36.

Maxey, L, Pickerill, J and Wimbush, P. 2006. ‘New Planning Opportunities For Low Impact Settlements' Permaculture Magazine, No.50: 32

Reports

Pickerill, J. 2010. Social and Economic Status Report for Mid Devon, Canonsleigh and Holcombe Rogus Parish. Report prepared for Ecological Land Cooperative.

Pickerill, J, Webster, F and Gillan, K. 2007. ‘Muslim anti-war activism as positive political engagement’ Chatham House Briefing Paper ISP/NSC Briefing Paper 07/01, pp.2-5

Pickerill, J. 2007. Produce marketing report. Report prepared for Lammas as part of ESRC-funded Autonomous Geographies Project, 29th March.

Pickerill, J. 2006. Report on local economic activity in Glandwr and its surrounds, version 2. Report prepared for Lammas as part of ESRC-funded Autonomous Geographies Project, 17th December

Pickerill, J. 2006. Report on Lammas public meeting, Glandwr, Wales. Report prepared for Lammas as part of ESRC-funded Autonomous Geographies Project, 21st June

Pickerill, J. 2006. Social and Economic Status of Crymych area, Wales. Report prepared for Lammas as part of ESRC-funded Autonomous Geographies Project, 4th May

Pickerill, J and Szerszynski, B. 1999. E Contact from the consumer perspective: Qualitative Research Report. Unpublished report by CSEC, Lancaster University, July.

Malthus, T and Pickerill, J. 1997. An evaluation of the use of airborne remote sensing to detect water leaks from rural aqueducts. Report prepared for North West Water, January.

Book Reviews

Pickerill, J. 2010. Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks by Featherstone. Social Movement Studies, 9, 3, 331-340

 

Pickerill, J. 2010. A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster. Environmental Politics, 19, 4, 667-688

 

Pickerill, J. 2010. Backyard: Nature and Culture in Suburban Australia by Lesley Head and Pat Muir. Landscape Research, 35, 3, 386-388

 

Pickerill, J 2005. Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital by James DeFilippis. Cities vol.22, no.4, pp.331-336.

 

Pickerill, J. 2003. Deglobalization: Ideas for a new world economy by Walden Bello. Environmental Politics, vol.12, no.4, p.149

 

Pickerill, J. 2002. Future Active: Media activism and the internet by Graham Meikle. First Monday, November.

 

Pickerill, J. 2002. Anti-GenetiX: The emergence of the anti-GM movement by Derrick Purdue. Environmental Politics, vol.11, no.4, p.147-8.

Other writings

* Caring for Country Calendar 2007: Images from Australia , 2006

* Participatory research and internet activism. Available from http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/orm/ethics/ethdebriefing.htm, 2006

* Savings the trees? Protest spaces in Tasmania, Leicester Latitude, 2004

* Coral Coast Resort vs Coral Reef article for Act Up Perth, June 2002

* Positive outcomes of the Woomera2002 actions posted onto Melbourne Indymedia, 31st March 2002

* Book review of 'A Friend of the Earth' by T.C.Boyle, 2001 February 2002

* 'Doing your own thing (with a little book of help)' Happenings (Curtin University Humanities Postgraduate newsletter), vol.3, no.3, July 2001

Last updated: 8th November 2011