Papers, Talks and Other Output

This page lists papers and talks on tides by Owain Jones, in some cases working with Bettina Van Hoven;  Antony Lyons; and Michaela Palmer.  My thanks to these collaborators.

List of publaihed academic papers and book chapters.

Jones, Owain and Green, Heather (2021) RIVERS—MOUTHS—TIDES—MEMORIES. A creative, inter-deep-mapping of two river/tidal places. Love of place, memory and affect; movements, patterns, marks, and practices of care. The River Severn Estuary UK; Bahía Adair, Sonora, Mexico; River Research and Applications, Volume 38, Issue3 Special Issue: Voicing Rivers Pages 453-469.

Jones, Owain, and Denning, Laura (2018) Views over the Sound. Imagining (Northern) Isles as Grounds for Alternative Narratives of becoming Non-modern. In (eds)  Ysanne Holt, David Martin-Jones and Owain Jones  Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago: Imagining Islands,  London: Routledge.

Jones, Owain and Fairclough, Louisa (2016)  Sounding Grief: The Severn Estuary as an Emotional Soundscape in ’emotional geographies of sound’. Emotion, Space and Society, 20, pp 98-110.

Jones, Owain (2015) “Not promising a landfall…”. An autotopographical account of loss of place, memory and landscape, Journal of Environmental Humanities, 6, pp 1-27.

Palmer (née Reiser), Michela and Jones Owain (2014) “On breathing and geography: explorations of data sonifications of timespace processes with illustrating examples from a tidally dynamic landscape (Severn Estuary, UK)” Environment and Planning A, 46, (1), pp 222 – 240. Pdf here By Mic Palmer (née Reiser) and Owain  Jones O. Riser Jones Sonification.

Jones, Owain (2014) ‘The horizon holding the edge of the known world’: Placing the sea’, in, Janette Kerr and Christiana Payne (eds), The Power of the Sea; making waves in British art 1790–2014, Bristol: Sansom & Co Ltd, pp 36-44.

Jones, Owain (2011) Lunar-solar ryhthmpatterns: towards the material cultures of tides, Environment and Planning A, 43, 2285-2303. Pdf here Jones tides epa

Jones, Owain (2010)  ‘The Breath of the Moon’: The Rhythmic and Affective Time-spaces of UK Tides, in T. Edensor (ed.) Geographies of Rhythm, Oxford: Ashgate, pp 189-203. PDF here. The Breath of the Moon

Jones, Owain (2010) The Temporal Ecologies of (the Severn) Landscape, in Tidal Severn: measure of time, season, ecology. (eds) Suze Adams; Walking the Land, pp 24-27.

Jones, Owain (2005) ‘An Emotional Ecology of Memory, Self and Landscape’, in J. Davidson, L. Bondi and M. Smith (eds.) Emotional Geographies,  Oxford,  Ashgate, pp 205-218.


Conference Papers and Other Things

Tidal Connections. Comparative Ecologies of Tidal Places in the UK, Holland and Beyond   by Owain Jones and Bettina Van Hoven  (opens as pdf)

Paper presented at the  RGS-IBG  International Conference, London, 28-30 August 2013. Connecting Elements: Connecting Geographies session, sponsored by HPGRG and  SCGRG


A Conversational Essay on Tides by Linda Cracknell and Owain Jones

This is on another page of this blog. Added here as output. Link.

By Linda Cracknell[1] and Owain Jones[2]

[1] Writer: www.lindacracknell.com. New book  Doubling Back. Ten Paths Trodden in Memory (2014)   http://www.freightbooks.co.uk/doubling-back-by-linda-cracknell.html

[2] Professor of Environmental Humanities; University of Bath Spa

This developed out of the Arts and humanities Research Council Landscape and Environment Programme funded network, ‘Values of Environmental Writing’. We are grateful for the opportunity to take part in this series of events run by  Dr Hayden Lorimer – link to webpage; Dr Rhian Williams – link to webpage; Dr Alex Benchimol – link to webpage.


The (Bristol) Tide Machines. The role of machines in understanding, monitoring, and predicting the complex tidal rhythms of the earth’s oceans for scientific, political and commercial purposes.

By Owain Jones RGS-IBG Conference 2012


Traces of Tide & Time in Bristol With Antony Lyons

Paper given at ‘A Second City Remembered: Rethinking Bristol’s History, 1400-2000’. A conference organized by the Regional History Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol, in partnership with M-Shed, the Museum of Bristol, University of the West of England, Bristol, 23-24 July 2010.


“Another Place”: affective time-spaces of tidal processes as rendered in literature and art By Owain Jones RGS-IBG Conference 2008


A Short document on Bristol’s Tides for the 2012 Bristol Festival of Nature17 facts about the Bristol Tides


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