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Publications: Prof Jonathan May

Williams A, May J ( 2022 ) . A genealogy of the food bank: historicising the rise of food charity in the UK . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
May J, Williams A, Cloke P, Cherry L ( 2020 ) . Still bleeding: The variegated geographies of austerity and food banking in rural England and Wales . Journal of Rural Studies vol. 79 , 409 - 424 .
Cloke P, May J, Williams A ( 2020 ) . Postsecularities of care: In-common ethics and politics of “the meantime(s)” . Cities vol. 100 , 102667 - 102667 .
May J, Williams A, Cloke P, Cherry L ( 2019 ) . Food banks and the production of scarcity . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers vol. 45 , ( 1 ) 208 - 222 .
May J, Williams A, Cloke P, Cherry L ( 2019 ) . Welfare Convergence, Bureaucracy, and Moral Distancing at the Food Bank . Antipode vol. 51 , ( 4 ) 1251 - 1275 .
Williams A, Cloke P, May J, Goodwin M ( 2016 ) . Contested space: The contradictory political dynamics of food banking in the UK . ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A vol. 48 , ( 11 ) 2291 - 2316 .
Cloke P, May J, Williams A ( 2016 ) . The geographies of food banks in the meantime . Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities1 - 24 .
Ogborn M, Blunt A, Gruffudd P, Pinder D ( 2014 ) . Cultural Geography in Practice . Taylor & Francis
May J, Cloke P ( 2014 ) . Modes of Attentiveness: Reading for Difference in Geographies of Homelessness . ANTIPODE vol. 46 , ( 4 ) 894 - 920 .
MAY JR, Cloke P, Johnsen S ( 2012 ) . Ethical citizenship? Faith-based volunteers and the ethics of providing services for homeless people . Editors: Cloke, P, Beaumont, J, Vranken, J , Policy Press ( Bristol ),
MAY JR, Datta K, McIlwaine C, Herbert J, Evans Y, Wills J ( 2012 ) . Global workers for global cities: low-paid migrant labour in London . International Handbook of Globalisation and World Cities , Editors: Taylor, P, Derudder, B, Hoyler, M, Witlox, F et al. , Edward-Elgar ( London ),
MAY JR, Datta K, McIlwaine C, Wills J ( 2012 ) . Migrants and migration: academic research in the UK . Journal of Poverty and Social Justice ( 1 ) 103 - 106 .
MAY JR, Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, McIlwaine C ( 2011 ) . Immigration, local regional and uneven development . Routledge Handbook of Local and Regional Development , Editors: Pike, A, Rodriguez-Pose, A, Tomaney, J , Routledge ( London ),
Cloke PJ, May J, Johnsen S ( 2010 ) . Swept up lives? Re-Envisioning the Homeless City . Blackwell Pub
May J, Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, McIlwaine C ( 2010 ) . Global Cities at Work: Migrant Labour in Low-Paid Employment in London . LOND J vol. 35 , ( 1 ) 85 - 99 .
Wills J, Datta K, Evans J, Herbert J, May J, McIlwaine C ( 2010 ) . Global Cities at Work . Pluto Press
Wills J, Datta K, May J, McIlwaine C, Evans Y, Herbert J ( 2010 ) . (Im)migration, local, regional and uneven development . Routledge Handbook of Local and Regional Development , Editors: Pike, A, Rodriguez-Pose, A, Tomerey, J , Routledge ( London ),
MAY JR, Datta K, McIlwaine C, Evans Y, Herbert J, Wills J ( 2010 ) . A migrant ethic of care? Negotiating care and caring among migrant workers in London's low-pay economy . Feminist Review93 - 116 .
Datta K, McIlwaine C, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J, Wills J ( 2010 ) . A migrant ethic of care? negotiating care and caring among migrant workers in London's low-pay economy . FEMINIST REV ( 94 ) 93 - 116 .
MAY JR, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, McIlwaine C, Wills J ( 2010 ) . Migrant workers and the global city . Sociology Review ( 2 ) 13 - 16 .
MAY JR, Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, McIlwaine C ( 2010 ) . New migrant divisions of labour . The Economic Geography of the UK , Editors: Coe, N, Jones, A , Routledge ( London ),
DeVerteuil G, May J, von Mahs J ( 2009 ) . Complexity not collapse: recasting the geographies of homelessness in a 'punitive' age . PROG HUM GEOG vol. 33 , ( 5 ) 646 - 666 .
Wills J, May J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, McIlwaine C ( 2009 ) . LONDON'S MIGRANT DIVISION OF LABOUR . EUR URBAN REG STUD vol. 16 , ( 3 ) 257 - 271 .
MAY J ( 2009 ) . Homelessness . International Encyclopedia of Human Geography , Editors: Kitchin, R, Thrift, N , Elsevier ( London ),
Datta K, McIlwaine C, Herbert J, Evans Y, May J, Wills J ( 2009 ) . Men on the move: narratives of migration and work among low-paid migrant men in London . SOC CULT GEOGR vol. 10 , ( 8 ) 853 - 873 .
Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J, McIlwaine C ( 2009 ) . Religion at work: the role of faith-based organizations in the London living wage campaign . The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society vol. 2 , ( 3 ) 443 - 461 .
Johnsen S, May J, Cloke P ( 2008 ) . Imag(in)ing 'homeless places': using auto-photography to (re)examine the geographies of homelessness . AREA vol. 40 , ( 2 ) 194 - 207 .
Herbert J, May J, Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, McIlwaine C ( 2008 ) . Multicultural living? Experiences of everyday racism among Ghanaian migrants in London . EUROPEAN URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES . vol. 15 , 103 - 117 .
Cloke P, May J, Johnsen S ( 2008 ) . Performativity and affect in the homeless city . ENVIRON PLANN D vol. 26 , ( 2 ) 241 - 263 .
MAY JR, Herbert J, Datta K, Evans Y, McIlwaine C, Wills J ( 2008 ) . Multicultural living? Experiences of everyday racism amongst Ghanaian migrants in London . European Urban and Regional Studies ( 2 ) 103 - 117 .
MAY J, May J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, McIlwaine C, Wills J ( 2008 ) . Travelling neoliberalism: Polish and Ghanaian migrant workers in London . Social Justice and Neoliberalism , Editors: Smith, A, Stenning, A et al. , Zed ( London ),
Cloke P, Johnsen S, May J ( 2007 ) . Ethical citizenship? Volunteers and the ethics of providing services for homeless people . GEOFORUM vol. 38 , ( 6 ) 1089 - 1101 .
Cloke P, Johnsen S, May J ( 2007 ) . Periphery of care: Emergency services for homeless people in rural areas . J RURAL STUD vol. 23 , ( 4 ) 387 - 401 .
Datta K, McIlwaine C, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J, Wills J ( 2007 ) . From coping strategies to tactics: London's low-pay economy and migrant labour . BRIT J IND RELAT vol. 45 , ( 2 ) 404 - 432 .
May J, Cloke P, Johnsen S ( 2007 ) . Alternative cartographies of homelessness: Rendering visible British women's experiences of 'visible' homelessness . GENDER PLACE CULT vol. 14 , ( 2 ) 121 - 140 .
May J, Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, McIlwaine C ( 2007 ) . Keeping London working: global cities, the British state and London's new migrant division of labour . T I BRIT GEOGR vol. 32 , ( 2 ) 151 - 167 .
MAY JR ( 2007 ) . Of nomads and vagrants: Single homelessness and narratives of home as place . The Cultural Geography Reader , Editors: Oakes, TS, Price, PL , Routledge ( London ),
Evans Y, Wills J, Datta K, Herbert J, McIlwaine C, May J ( 2007 ) . Subcontracting by stealth in London's hotels: Impacts and implementation for labour organising . Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society vol. 10 , 85 - 98 .
Datta K, McIlwaine C, Wills J, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J ( 2007 ) . The new development finance or exploiting migrant labour? Remittance sending among low-paid migrant workers in London . INT DEV PLANN REV vol. 29 , ( 1 ) 43 - 67 .
May J, Cloke P, Johnsen S ( 2006 ) . Shelter at the margins: New Labour and the changing state of emergency accommodation for single homeless people in Britain . POLICY POLIT vol. 34 , ( 4 ) 711 - 729 .
Cloke P, May J ( 2006 ) . Home . Dictionary of Human Geography , Sage
MAY JR, Cloke P ( 2006 ) . Homelessness . Dictionary of Human Geography , Sage
Johnsen S, Cloke P, May J ( 2005 ) . Day centres for homeless people: spaces of care or fear? . SOC CULT GEOGR vol. 6 , ( 6 ) 787 - 811 .
Johnsen S, Cloke P, May J ( 2005 ) . Transitory spaces of care: serving homeless people on the street . HEALTH & PLACE vol. 11 , ( 4 ) 323 - 336 .
May J, Cloke P, Johnsen S ( 2005 ) . Re-phasing neoliberalism: New labour and Britain's crisis of street homelessness . ANTIPODE vol. 37 , ( 4 ) 703 - 730 .
Cloke P, Johnsen S, May J ( 2005 ) . Exploring ethos? Discourses of 'charity' in the provision of emergency services for homeless people . ENVIRON PLANN A vol. 37 , ( 3 ) 385 - 402 .
MAY JR ( 2005 ) . Exclusion . Introducing Human Geography , Arnold
MAY JR ( 2004 ) . 'Location, location, location: emergency accommodation provision and the introduction of local connection criteria' . Connect vol. 16 , 25 - 27 .
MAY JR ( 2003 ) . Book Review: The Tramp in America by Tim Cresswell . Progress in Human Geography vol. 26 , ( 5 ) 687 - 689 .
Blunt A, Gruffudd P, May J, Ogborn M, Pinder D ( 2003 ) . Cultural Geography in Practice . Arnold ( London ),
Blunt A, Gruffudd P, May J, Ogborn M, Pinder D ( 2003 ) . Introduction: cultural geography in practice . Cutural Geography in Practice , Arnold
May J ( 2003 ) . Local connection criteria and single homeless people's geographical mobility: Evidence from Brighton and Hove . HOUSING STUD vol. 18 , ( 1 ) 29 - 46 .
MAY JR ( 2003 ) . The view from the streets: geographies of homelessness in the British newspaper press’ . Cutural Geography in Practice , Arnold
MAY JR, Thrift N ( 2003 ) . TimeSpace: geographies temporality . Routledge
MAY JR ( 2002 ) . Book Review: Single homeless people by Suzanne Fitzpatrick . Urban Studies vol. 36 , ( 1 ) 216 - 218 .
MAY JR, Thrift N ( 2001 ) . Practising and imagining time-space, a conceptual framework’ . TimeSpace: geographies temporality , Routledge
May J ( 2000 ) . Of nomads and vagrants: single homelessness and narratives of home as place . ENVIRON PLANN D vol. 18 , ( 6 ) 737 - 759 .
MAY JR ( 2000 ) . Housing histories and homeless careers . Housing Studies vol. 15 , ( 4 ) 613 - 638 .
MAY JR ( 1999 ) . Book Review: On Hobos and Homelessness by Nels Anderson . Urban Studies vol. 37 , ( 2 ) 424 - 425 .
MAY JR ( 1999 ) . Developing field work in social and cultural geography: Illustrations from a field class to Los Angeles and Las Vegas . Journal Geography in Higher Education vol. 23 , ( 2 ) 207 - 225 .
Crang M, Crang P, May J ( 1999 ) . Introduction . Virtual Geographies: Bodies, space, relations , Editors: Crang, M, Crang, P et al. , Routledge ( London ),
Crang M, Crang P, May J ( 1999 ) . Virtual Geographies: Bodies, space, relations . Editors: Crang, M, Crang, P et al. , Routledge ( London ),
MAY JR ( 1998 ) . Book Review: Homelessness and Social Policy by Burrows et al . Regional Studies vol. 32 , ( 8 ) 792 - 793 .
MAY JR ( 1997 ) . An observer's view of Land Use UK . Land Use UK: A survey for the twenty first century , Editors: Walford, R , The Geographical Association ( Sheffield ),
MAY JR ( 1996 ) . A little taste of something more exotic: The imaginative geographies of everyday life . Geography vol. 81 , 57 - 64 .
MAY JR ( 1996 ) . Book Review: Postmodern Cities and Spaces by Watson, S. and Gibson, K. (eds) . The Geographical Journal vol. 162 , 228 - 229 .
MAY JR ( 1996 ) . Book Review: Selling Places: the city as cultural capital past and present by Sadler, D and Philo, C (eds) . Environment and Planning A vol. 28 , 373 - 376 .
MAY JR ( 1996 ) . Globalization and the politics of place: Place and identity in an inner London neighbourhood . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers vol. 21 , 194 - 215 .
MAY JR ( 1996 ) . In search of authenticity off and on the beaten track . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space vol. 14 , 709 - 736 .
MAY JR ( 1992 ) . Book Review: Places on the Margin: Alternative geographies of modernity by Rob Shields . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space vol. 10 , 234 - 236 .
MAY JR ( 1991 ) . Putting some space back in to time: The spatio-temporal self and the turn to the postmodern . New Words, New Worlds: Reconceptualising social and cultural geography , Editors: Philo, C , Cambrian ( Aberystwyth ),