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Mark has presented his research in a variety of conferences in both Britain and North America. Below is a selection of some of Mark's most recent conference presentations:
· Whitehead, M. Jones, R and Pykett, J. (2010) 'Soft-Paternalism in the UK: On the Rescientisation of Decision-Making in British Public Policy' School of Geography, earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham.
· Pykett, J. Jones, R. and Whitehead, M. (2010) 'Governing Behaviour and the Re-scientisation of Decision-Making' Policy and Politics Conference, University of Bristol.
· Whitehead, M. Pykett, J. and Jones, R. (2010) 'Governing Irrationality: On the Rescientisation of Decision-Making in British Public Policy' Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), London.
· Jones, R. Pykett, J and Whitehead, M. (2009) 'Governing Temptation: On the Rise of Libertarian Paternalism in the UK' Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Manchster.
· Whitehead, M (2009) 'The Politics of the Metropocene: Shades of Grey, Blue and Green' Social Polis Conference, Manchester University February.
· Mason, K. and Whitehead, M (2008) 'Transition Urbanism and Practices of Ethical Place-Making' Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), London - Cities in the World Session.
· Whitehead, M (2008) 'Genealogies of urban-regional governance: Journeys in (post)socialist city-region' International Urban-Regional Governance Workshop, Le centre de recherche politique de Sciences, Paris.
· Keil, R. and Whitehead, M (2008) 'Metro-ecologies in the urban green belt: environmental politics in Birmingham and Toronto' International Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.
· Whitehead, M (2008) 'States, Socialism and Sustainability' Centre for Central and Eastern European Studies, Glasgow University.
· Whitehead, M (2008) 'State, Sciences and the Skies: A History of British Atmospheric Governmentality' Department of Geography, Combined Universities of Cornwall.
· Whitehead, M (2008) 'Researching Sustainable Urbanism: Living and Work in a Transition Town' Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.
· Whitehead, M (2007) 'Re-thinking the Sustainable City: Adventures in Transition Urbanism' paper presented to the Department of Geography, Kings College London.
· Whitehead, M (2007) 'The Sustainable City in Critical Geographical Context' paper presented in the Geography Colloquium Series of the Department of Geography, York University Toronto.
· Whitehead, M (2007) 'Archiving the Air: Environmental Governmentality and the British Atmosphere' presented to the Department of Geography, Open University.
· Whitehead, M (2006) ‘The Wood for the Trees: Ordinary Environmental Evil and the Black Country Urban Forest’ Presented at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), London.
· Whitehead, M (2006) '(Re)Thinking the Sustainable City: From Fuzzy Concept to Relational Space' Presented to the Department of Environment, Geography and Planning, University College Dublin.
· Whitehead, M (2006) '(Re)Thinking the Sustainable City' Presented to the Department of Geography, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
· Whitehead, M (2006) 'An archive for the Air' Presented to the Department of Geography, University of Exeter.
· Whitehead, M (2005) 'An archive for the air: environmental surveillance and simulation in the UK' Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), London
· Whitehead, M (2004) 'From moral space to the morality of scale' Presented to the Centre for Rural Research, University of Exeter.
· Whitehead, M and Scott, A (2003) '(Dis)integrating urban and rural policy: the spaces of sustainable development in post-devolution Wales' Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), London.
· Bullen, A and Whitehead, M (2003) 'Distanciated citizenship: the new times and spaces of the sustainable citizen' Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), London.
· Whitehead, M (2003) 'Between the Marvellous and the Mundane' Department of Geography, University of Wales Swansea seminar series.
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Whitehead, M and Johnstone, C (2002) 'New Horizons or old Barriers?
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Whitehead, M; Jones, M; and Jones, R (2001) ‘The Nature of the state:
periodizing and contextualising environmental relations in the UK,
Annual
Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British
Geographers), Plymouth,
and the Annual Conference of the Associations of American Geographers, New York.
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Whitehead (2000) Lessons for an ‘Urban Renaissance’: emerging forms of
governance and the new challenges facing localities
Annual
Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British
Geographers) Brighton.
· Whitehead, M (2000) Challenging governance: (dis)empowering citizens and emerging forms of governance in the UK. Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh.
· Whitehead, M (2000) ‘In pursuit of an environmental geography: emerging spaces of environmental politics in the UK and the case of the English Regional Sustainability Fora’, University of Wales Young Researchers' Forum.
· Whitehead, M (1999) Emerging forms of governance and the new ‘challenges’ facing localities: partnerships, competitive discourses and the state University of Wales Young Researchers' Forum.
-------- Mark also co-convened the successful New Horizons in British Urban Policy Session at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in Belfast, 2002.
-------- Mark is currently co-organization (with Dr Deborah Dixon, UWA) a session entitled 'Spatial Technologies/Technological Spaces' which is being held at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in London (2005).
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