Dr Alice Butler
Research Fellow (Connecting Generations Community Resilience Project)
Research areas
I joined the School of Geography and Sustainable Development in September 2024 as part of the Connecting Generations project looking at community resilience and social coherence.
My previous research has focused on perceptions of place, online and offline communities, critical heritage, and place-based (territorial) stigma. I am interested in why people live where they do and how they perceive their community and the communities beyond. My work draws on my background in critical human geography and critical discourse analysis as I seek to understand the forces that determine perceptions of place. My PhD thesis from the University of Leeds examined the formation and production of place-based stigma using Toxteth, Liverpool as a case study. I have experience in a range of qualitative data collection and analysis methods including critical discourse analytic approaches and archival methods.
Selected publications
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Foundational stigma: Place-based stigma in the age before advanced marginality
Butler-Warke, A., 1 Jan 2020, In: British Journal of Sociology. 71, 1, p. 140-152 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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There's a time and a place: temporal aspects of place-based stigma
Butler-Warke, A., 1 Apr 2021, In: Community Development Journal. 56, 2, p. 203-219 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Constructing Britain’s hated landscapes: the linguistic and ideological construction of Toxteth
Butler-Warke, A., 28 Sept 2022, Landscapes of hate: tracing spaces, relations and responses. Hall, E., Clayton, J. & Donovan, C. (eds.). Bristol: Bristol University Press, p. 58–77 20 p. (Spaces and practices of justice).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Foundation stone of empire: The role of Portland stone in ‘heritage’, commemoration, and identity
Butler-Warke, A. & Warke, M. R., Dec 2021, In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 46, 4, p. 958-972 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Toxic Toxteth: Understanding press stigmatization of Toxteth during the 1981 uprising
Butler, A., 1 Apr 2020, In: Journalism. 21, 4, p. 541-556 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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What does it mean when people call a place a shithole? Understanding a discourse of denigration in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
Butler, A., Schafran, A. & Carpenter, G., Sept 2018, In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 43, 3, p. 496-510 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review