Over Researched Places

Cat Button is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, UK. She creates interdisciplinary and international research on the global challenges of water. She is currently a co-investigator on two UKRI GCRF Hubs: Water Security and Sustainable Development and Living Deltas. Gerald Taylor Aiken is a research associate at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. He researches the role of community in pursuing low-carbon futures, particularly how community is used to understand, value, and relate to the environment.

Introduction: Over-research: what, why, when, where, how? 1. Towards a theory of over-researched places 2. Overcoming over-research? Reflections from Sydney’s ‘Petri dish’ 3. Epistemological, decolonial, and critical reflections in constructing research in former Yugoslavia 4. Ghosts of researchers past, present, and future in Mumbai 5. La Duchère, Lyon, France: an over-researched place that ignores itself 6. ‘Research has killed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’: navigating the over-researched field of the West Bank 7. Overlooked cities and under researched Bharatpur, Nepal 8. When over-researchedness is invisibilised in bibliographic databases: insights from a case study about the Arctic region 9. Confessions of an ‘academic tourist’: reflections on accessibility, trust, and research ethics in the ‘Grandhotel Cosmopolis’ 10. Locating climate change research: the privileges and pitfalls of choosing over- and under-researched places