Ian Cook

TL;DR: The authors used claims about the local globalization of culinary culture to stage an argument about the character of material cultural geographies and their spaces of identity practice, and argued for forms of critical intervention that work with the fetish rather than attempt to reach behind it.

TL;DR: In a recent round table about Antipode's radical geographies, contributors argued that the journal needed more papers which stimulated debate, were accessible to academics and non-academics alike, didn't “preach to the cognoscenti, were written to fit into radical teaching agendas, and were diverse and eclectic in style as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Politics of Practising Human Geography: The Changing Practices of Human Geographies as discussed by the authors is a good starting point for a discussion of the role of geography in the politics of human geography.

TL;DR: In this article, Cook et al. traced relations between one North London family cooking fishcakes on a Friday night, and the changing fortunes of a group of farmers in a rural Jamaica town ripping up sugar cane to grow hot peppers: a key ingredient in a bottle of Pepup 'West Indian Hot Pepper Sauce' that connected their lives.