Publications

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Journal Articles

• Collins, R. and Hitchings, R. 2012. A tale of two teens: disciplinary boundaries and geographical opportunities in youth consumption and sustainability research. Area currently available online
• Hitchings, R. 2012. People can talk about their practices. Area. 44.1. 61-67.
• Hitchings, R. 2011. Researching air-conditioning addiction and ways of puncturing practice: professional office workers and the decision to go outside. Environment and Planning A. 43.12. 2838-2856
• Hitchings, R. and Day, R. 2011. How older people relate to the private winter warmth practices of their peers and why we should be interested. Environment  and Planning A. 43.10. 2457-2467.
• Day, R. and Hitchings, R. 2011. 'Only old ladies would do that': age stigma and older people's ways of dealing with winter cold. Health and Place. 17.4. 885-894
• Hitchings, R. 2011. Coping with the immediate experience of climate: regional variations and indoor trajectories. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 2.2. 170-184
• Hitchings, R. 2011. Do you ever disagree with your students? Avoiding personal politics in human geography teaching. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 31.5. 85-101
• Hitchings, R. 2010. Urban green space from the inside out: an argument for the approach and a study with city workers. Geoforum 41. 855-864
• Hitchings, R. 2010. Seasonal climate change and the indoor city worker. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35.2. 282-298
• Hitchings, R. 2009. How to forget about urban nature Greenspaces. March. 24-27
• Hitchings, R. 2009. Studying thermal comfort in context. Building Research and Information 37.1. 89-94
• Hitchings, R. and Lee, S-J. 2008. Air conditioning and the material culture of routine human encasement The Journal of Material Culture 13. 251-265
• Hitchings, R. 2007. How awkward encounters could influence the future form of many gardens. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32.3. 363-376
• Hitchings, R. 2007. Geographies of embodied outdoor experience and the arrival of the patio heater. Area 39.3. 340-348
• Hitchings, R. 2007. Approaching life in the London garden centre: providing products and acquiring entities. Environment and Planning A 39.2. 242-259
• Hitchings, R. 2006. Keep it Green Garden Design Journal November. 34-35
• Hitchings, R. 2006. Expertise and inability: cultured materials and the reason for some retreating lawns in London. The Journal of Material Culture 11.3. 364-381
• Hitchings, R. and Jones, V. 2004. Living with plants and the exploration of botanical encounter in human geography research. Ethics, Place and Environment 7.1. 3-19
• Hitchings, R. 2004. At home with someone nonhuman. Home Cultures 1.2. 169-186
• Hitchings, R. 2003. People, plants and performance: on actor network theory and the material pleasures of the private garden. Social and Cultural Geography 4.1. 99-113

Reports and book chapters

• Hitchings, R. 2012. Sharing conventions: communities of practice and thermal comfort. in Shove, E. And Spurling. N. (eds) Sustainable practices: social theory and climate change. London: Routledge (forthcoming)
• Hitchings, R. 2012. Plants and animals. Introducing Human Geographies. Hodder and Arnold (forthcoming)
• Hitchings, R. 2011. Gardening. in Southerton, D. (ed) The encyclopedia of consumer culture. CQ Press.
• Hitchings, R. 2010. Studying thermal comfort in context in Shove, E., Chappells, H and Lutzehiser, L. (eds) Comfort in a lower carbon society. London: Routledge. 119-124.
• Hitchings, R. 2010. Indoor office workers and outdoor nature. End of project report for the ESRC
• Day, R. and Hitchings, R. 2009. Older people and their winter warmth behaviours. Policy Report for the Nuffield Foundation
• Hitchings, R. 2003. Aspects of the changing role of horticultural knowledge in the London garden economy Funding report for the Royal Horticultural Society