Staff profile

Is supervised by

Professor Ben Anderson  

Dr. Aya Nassar

Project Description

In a consumer society where wants and needs may be instantly fulfilled, waiting for anything seems increasingly like an anachronism. And yet whether in relation to flows of people or things, or the work of bureaucracies, spaces of waiting proliferate and are integral to how our society of connections and circulations functions. The study examines how the practice of waiting is embodied, with a particular focus on the lived experience of furlough. It will attempt to move forward conceptualisations of waiting as an interruption, towards considering waiting as a form of affective-sensorial-material feeling. It is intended that the study will have impact within and outside the mobilities literature.

• Waiting, affect, materiality, sensory responses

Book review

• Jones, V. J. (2020). Timescapes of waiting: spaces of stasis, delay and deferral. Social and Cultural Geography, 21(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2020.1736890

Chapter in book

• Jones, V. (2017). Smell the City: A Participatory Art Installation. In V. Henshaw, M. D, M. K, P. C, & W. G (Eds.), Designing with Smell: Practices, Techniques And Challenges (9-18). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315666273
• Jones, V. (2013). Space Travelling Invisible Scotland. In M. Modeen (Ed.), Invisible Scotland: Revealing a Process of Interdisciplinary Discovery. Moray School of Art Press

Journal Article

• Jones, V. J. (2022). Feeling in Suspension: Waiting in COVID-19 Shopping Queues. Geohumanities, 8(2), 537-554. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2021.2014928

Presentation

• Jones, V. (2021, December). Feeling in Suspension: Waiting in COVID-19 Shopping Queues. Paper presented at Material Life of Time, Virtual Conference
• Jones, V. (2021, December). Feeling, Sensating in Suspension: Waiting in COVID-19 Shopping Queues. Paper presented at Uncommon Senses III, Virtual Conference, Concordia University, Montreal
• Jones, V. (2021, December). Feeling and Writing in Suspension: Waiting in COVID-19 Shopping Queues. Paper presented at American Association of Geographers, Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference
• Jones, V. (2019, December). Moments of Collective Delight: A Paper of Two Halves Plus Extra Time. Paper presented at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London
• Brigstocke, J., & Jones, V. (2018, December). Harena: Sand, Suspension, and Aesthetics. Paper presented at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff
• Jones, V. (2015, December). In Search of Vibrant Matter: A Polar Exploration. Paper presented at Third Annual Land2/ PLaCE , International Postgraduate Event, Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art & Design, Dundee
• Jones, V. (2014, December). Smell The City a Participatory Narrative: or Eight Lumps of Lard Down the Pub. Paper presented at Design Practices and Principles, University of British Colombia, Vancouver