dc.contributor.author | Davies, Gail | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-12-10T09:35:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2000-11 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper develops a conceptualisation of institutional geographies through participation observation and interviews in the BBC’s Natural History Unit (NHU), and the approach of actor network theory. The methodological and theoretical tenets of actor network theory are examined for the insights they offer for understanding the achievements of this pre-eminent centre for the production of natural history films. The scope, scale and longevity of the NHU are analysed through the means by which localised institutional modes of ordering extend through space and over time. Drawing on empirical material, the paper outlines three different modes of ordering, which organise relations between actors in the film-making processes in different ways: prioritising different kinds of institutional arrangements, material resources and spatial strategies in the production of natural history films. Through these three modes of ordering, and through the topological insights of actor network theory, a series of overlapping and interlinked institutional geographies are revealed, through which the identity of the Unit as a centre of excellence for wildlife film-making is performed. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Geoforum, 2000, Vol. 31, Issue 4, pp. 539 - 551 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/S0016-7185(00)00022-1 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14223 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718500000221 | en_GB |
dc.title | Narrating the Natural History Unit: institutional orderings and spatial strategies | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-12-10T09:35:03Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0016-7185 | |
exeter.article-number | 4 | |
dc.description | Copyright © 2000 Elsevier. NOTICE: This is the author’s version of a work accepted for publication by Elsevier. Changes resulting from the publishing process, including peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting and other quality control mechanisms, may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Geoforum, 2000, Vol. 31, Issue 4, pp. 539 – 551 DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7185(00)00022-1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Geoforum | en_GB |