Julian Holloway
Manchester Metropolitan University, Natural sciences, Department Member
- Geographies of embodiment, practice, affect and materiality., Geographies of spectrality, the occult and Forteana., The work of Mikhail Bakhtin and human geography, Geographies of religion and spirituality, Religion, Popular Culture, and 6 moreMagic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion), Noise And Music, Soundscape (Music), Soundscape Studies, Space and Music, and Folk Horroredit
- My main research expertise lie in the geographies of religion, spirituality and the occult. Alongside these major int... moreMy main research expertise lie in the geographies of religion, spirituality and the occult. Alongside these major interests I have published on spectrality, haunting and monstrosity. In more recent work I have become interested in geographies of sound and the sonic apprehension of space and place.
Each of these research topics are connected by my theoretical interest in embodiment, practice, affect and materiality.edit
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In this paper I examine different forms of spiritual practice which seek to (re)enchant the everyday and the ordinary. By considering the duality of sacred and profane as the relational outcome of both embodied action and the action of... more
In this paper I examine different forms of spiritual practice which seek to (re)enchant the everyday and the ordinary. By considering the duality of sacred and profane as the relational outcome of both embodied action and the action of other objects or things that are nominally valued as profane, an account is sought which acknowledges the corporeal enacting and sensing of the sacred both in and of the everyday. Taking empirical examples from New Age spiritual seekers, I trace the ways in which profane spatialities and temporalities are reconfigured into sacred topologies and how these seekers realise spiritual enlightenment through a reinhabited appropriation or articulation of the world. The source of signification of this spiritual comportment lies in embodied practices of the everyday that are sensed as the spiritually 'correct' or 'true' way of doing things. New ways of thinking everyday spiritual practice are thus sought and elaborated upon.
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This paper investigates how sound produces and transforms space and place as it moves and travels. In charting the movement of sound from field recording to music studio, and from rehearsal to performance space, this paper examines the... more
This paper investigates how sound produces and transforms space and place as it moves and travels. In charting the movement of sound from field recording to music studio, and from rehearsal to performance space, this paper examines the aesthetic and affective geographies that are developed and the consequences of this travel. This argument is illustrated through the example of an artistic project that sought to explore the anti- or non-idyllic practice and experience of the British countryside in sonic and musical form. The notion that there are stranger and eerie, less bucolic, and more unnerving, versions of rurality formed the artistic impulse for this project. The paper explores the creative, emotional, and technical labour involved in translating this idea into sound and music. Through inspecting the processes of achieving this project, and the geographies it generated, the paper argues that it was in the translation and movement of sound through space and through different pla...
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... EndNote. SFX Query. Title: Tracing the emergent in geographies of religion and belief. Authors: Holloway, Julian. Citation: Holloway, J. Tracing the emergent in geographies of religion and belief. In C. Brace et al, eds. Emerging... more
... EndNote. SFX Query. Title: Tracing the emergent in geographies of religion and belief. Authors: Holloway, Julian. Citation: Holloway, J. Tracing the emergent in geographies of religion and belief. In C. Brace et al, eds. Emerging Geographies of Belief. ...
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© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Nadia Bartolini, Sara MacKian and Steve Pile; individual chapters, the contributors. Where the geography of religion and political geography meet, a productive range of writings have emerged around... more
© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Nadia Bartolini, Sara MacKian and Steve Pile; individual chapters, the contributors. Where the geography of religion and political geography meet, a productive range of writings have emerged around the theme of religious geopolitics (see Dijkink 2006; Dittmer 2007, 2009; Dittmer and Sturm 2010; Megoran 2010). In his agenda setting piece on this conjunction, Sturm (2013) sets out a distinction between ‘the geopolitics of religion’ and ‘religious geopolitics’. The former refers to actors who view the geopolitical map of the world through theological spatial divisions and religious discourses of valued significance; here one may cite the contrasting contemporary examples of Daesh’s self-declared caliphate or the Dali Lama’s vision of Tibet as a regional ‘zone of peace’ facilitating a ‘scalar jump’ to world peace (McConnell 2013: 164). On the other hand, ‘religious geopolitics’ demarcates how manifestly secular geopolitical discourse often deploys ...
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ABSTRACT This paper seeks to contribute to an emerging debate in human geography concerning the spatialities of the future, and aims to address a gap in work on the geography of religion regarding the temporalities of faith. Through a... more
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to contribute to an emerging debate in human geography concerning the spatialities of the future, and aims to address a gap in work on the geography of religion regarding the temporalities of faith. Through a focus on religious prophecy, the paper seeks to examine how different spaces, temporalities, identities, practices and dispositions (both religious and secular-scientific) are generated through and generate this religious future. The paper argues that prophecy is a particular form of making the future, and advances the dual notions cosmic-divine time and preparatory assured readiness in order to understand and underline this specificity. Through the example of the prophetess Joanna Southcott (1750–1814) and an event involving a box of her prophecies publically opened in 1927, it argues that prophetic space-times presence the future through multiple and intersecting ‘not-yets’, hesitancies and assurances.
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This paper is set in the context of the increased prevalence of environmental direct action in the United Kingdom. After delimiting 'radical' enviromentalism, and briefly describing the impetus for this turn to direct action, I... more
This paper is set in the context of the increased prevalence of environmental direct action in the United Kingdom. After delimiting 'radical' enviromentalism, and briefly describing the impetus for this turn to direct action, I focus on the radical environmental movement's use of different media. Thus parallel to the increase in direct action has been the emergence of a variety of radical environmental news texts (in both video and print form). These texts carry different representations and cultural - political mappings of the rural and rurality. Three themes of such a depiction are described: the rural as 'nature's refuge', as a local space but potentially global in its consequence, and a space of a radical history of Englishness. In the second half of the paper I draw insight from actor - network theory to argue for a relational - materialist approach to the production and consumption of these texts. By taking this approach I describe a 'moment' wherein it becomes difficult and problematic to separate these two processes. The notion of chains of production - consumption is suggested in order to overcome this difficulty.
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... EndNote. SFX Query. Title: Tracing the emergent in geographies of religion and belief. Authors: Holloway, Julian. Citation: Holloway, J. Tracing the emergent in geographies of religion and belief. In C. Brace et al, eds. Emerging... more
... EndNote. SFX Query. Title: Tracing the emergent in geographies of religion and belief. Authors: Holloway, Julian. Citation: Holloway, J. Tracing the emergent in geographies of religion and belief. In C. Brace et al, eds. Emerging Geographies of Belief. ...
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Introduction How commodities circulate in and through different spatial contexts and the relations and meanings of production and consumption that are engendered through this move-ment have become key concerns for human geographers.... more
Introduction How commodities circulate in and through different spatial contexts and the relations and meanings of production and consumption that are engendered through this move-ment have become key concerns for human geographers. Appadurai's (1986, page 5) now ...
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... stay awake all night. The ghost hunt I undertook was organised by one of the longer established companies, Fright Nights.(2) The third aspect of ghost tourism is ghost tours or ghost walks. These involve organised walks around ...
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Conclusion: the paradoxes of cosmopolitan urbanism Jon Binnie, Julian Holloway, Steve Millington and Craig Young It has been the intention of this collection to understand and critically explore the ways in which the term cosmopolitanism... more
Conclusion: the paradoxes of cosmopolitan urbanism Jon Binnie, Julian Holloway, Steve Millington and Craig Young It has been the intention of this collection to understand and critically explore the ways in which the term cosmopolitanism is deployed and mobilised in a variety of ...
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Chapter 22 Spiritual Life Julian Holloway Introduction How can we make sense and attend to the spiritual life? One immediate response would be to suggest that the spiritual is a way of ordering and acting towards space and time. Another... more
Chapter 22 Spiritual Life Julian Holloway Introduction How can we make sense and attend to the spiritual life? One immediate response would be to suggest that the spiritual is a way of ordering and acting towards space and time. Another answer would be to reflect upon how ...
3 MIKHAIL BAKHTIN Dialogics of space Julian Holloway and James Kneale Introduction The aim of this chapter is twofold. Firstly we seek to describe and delimit the ways in which the Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin... more
3 MIKHAIL BAKHTIN Dialogics of space Julian Holloway and James Kneale Introduction The aim of this chapter is twofold. Firstly we seek to describe and delimit the ways in which the Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin 'thinks' space: to draw out and exemplify ways in which he ...