Episode 2: Lisa Freeman & Nick Blomley, 'Enacting property'

In this episode, Lisa Freeman, an urban geographer with a doctorate from the University of Toronto who is a researcher at a healthcare union and Nick Blomley, a professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, tell the inside story of researching, writing, and publishing their article, “Enacting property: Making space for the public in the municipal library.” Introduction to the podcast: 00:00 The authors & their article: 2:35 Creating the conceptual framework: 8:31 Intended audience(s): 12:27 Drafting the manuscript: 14:03 Life intervening & keeping going, slowly: 17:59 Choosing a journal & handling a rejection: 21:18 Addressing reviewers’ & editor’s comments: 24:52 Wise advice for fellow authors: 36:35 Authors’ hopes for their article, once published: 4013 Podcast credits & further information: 43:41 The article was published in 2019, in Volume 37 Issue 2 of Politics & Space. It’s free to access, so you can read along: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399654418784024

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Minor Revisions is a podcast that demystifies the process of writing for academic journals. It is produced by the editors of Politics & Space, an international journal of critical, interdisciplinary research into the political and the spatial. Each episode features authors who tell the ‘behind the curtain’ story of how they developed their article and succeeded in the review process.