ordinary life
as it happens

PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
Reeves, S., Brown, B. & Laurier E. (2009) Experts at
Play: Understanding Skilled Expertise, Games and Culture 4: 205-227
Laurier, E, Strebel, I & Brown B. (2008) Video Analysis: Lessons from Professional
Video Editing Practice, Forum: Qualitative Social
Research, 9, 3 Article 37
Knoblauch, H., Baer, A. Laurier, E., Petschke, S. &
Schnettler, B. (2008) Visual Analysis. New Developments in the
Interpretative Analysis of Video and Photography,
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 9, 3 Article 14
Laurier, E. & Brown, B. (2008) Rotating maps and readers: praxiological
aspects of alignment and orientation, Transactions
of the Institute of British Geographers, 33, 201-21
Laurier, E. (2008) Drinking up endings: conversational
resources of the cafe, Language &
Communication, 28, 2, 165-181
Laurier, E. (2008) How breakfast happens in the cafe,
Time & Society, 17,1 119-143
Laurier, E., Lorimer, H, Brown, B., Owain Jones, Oskar
Juhlin, Allyson Noble, Mark Perry, Daniele Pica, Philippe
Sormani, Ignaz Strebel, Laurel Swan, Alex S. Taylor, Laura
Watts & Alexandra Weilenmann (2008) Driving and passengering: notes on the
ordinary organisation of car travel,
Mobilities, 3, 1, 1-23
Laurier, E. & Philo, C. (2007) 'A Parcel of Muddling Muckworms':
revisiting Habermas and the English Coffee House,
Social and Cultural Geography, 8, 2, 259-281
Laurier, E. & Philo, C. (2006) Possible geographies: a passing encounter
in a cafe, AREA, 38, 4 353-363
Laurier, E. & Philo, C. (2006) Cold shoulders and napkins handed:
gestures of responsibility, Transactions of the
Institute of British Geographers, 31, 2, 193- 208
Laurier, E., Maze, R & Lundin, J. (2006) Putting the dog back in the park: animal
and human mind-in-action, Mind, Culture &
Activity, 13, 2-24
Brown, B. & Laurier, E. (2005) Maps and Journeys: an Ethnomethodological
Investigation, Cartographica 4,3, 17-33
Laurier, E. (2005) Searching for a parking space,
Intellectica, 2-3, 41-42, 101-116
Laurier, E. (2004) Doing Office Work on the Motorway,
Theory, Culture & Society, 21, 4/5, 261-277
Laurier, E. (2004) The spectacular showing: Houdini and the
wonder of ethnomethodology, Human Studies, Vol
27, 4, 377-399
Laurier, E.and Philo, C. (2004) Ethnoarchaeology and undefined
investigations, Environment and Planning A,
volume 36(3) March, pages 421 - 436
Laurier, E. and Philo, C. (2003) The region in the boot: mobilising lone
subjects and multiple objects, Environment and
Planning D, 11,1, 85-106
McKie, L., Laurier, E., Taylor, R. J., and Lennox, A. S.
(2003) Eliciting the Smoker's Agenda:
Implications for Policy and Practice, Social Science
and Medicine, 56, 83-94
Laurier, E., Whyte, A. & Buckner, K. (2002) Neighbouring as an occasioned activity :
"Finding a lost cat", space & culture 5, 4, 346-367
Laurier, E. (2002) Notes on dividing the attention of a car
driver, Team Ethno Online
Laurier, E. & Whyte, A. (2001)' "I Saw You": searching for lost love via
practices of reading,writing and responding',
Sociological Research Online, 4, 4
Laurier, E. (2001) 'Why people say where they are during
mobile phone calls', Environment and Planning D:
Society & Space, 485-504
Laurier, E, Whyte, A. & Buckner, K. (2001) An ethnography of a cafe, Journal of
Mundane Behaviour, 2, 2.
Laurier, E., Mckie, L. and Goodwin, N. (2000) 'Daily and
lifecourse contexts of smoking', Sociology of Health
and Illness, 22, 2.
Laurier, E. and Parr, H. (2000) 'Emotions and interviewing:
position paper', Ethics, Place and Environment, 3,
2, 61-102
Laurier, E. (1999) 'Talking about cigarettes: conversational
narratives about health and illness', Health,
3, 2, 189-207.
Laurier, E. and Philo, C. (1999) 'X-morphising: a review essay of Bruno
Latour's 'Aramis or the love of technoloy'.',
Environment and Planning A, 31, 6 1047 - 1071
Laurier, E. (1999) 'Geographies of talk: 'max left a message
for you.'', Area, 31, 1, 35-48.
Laurier, E. (1998) 'Replication and Restoration: ways of
making maritime heritage', Journal of Material
Culture, 3, 1, 21-50.
Laurier, E. & Atkinson, D. (1998) 'A Sanitised City?
Social Exclusion at Bristol's 1996 International Festival
of the Sea', Geoforum, 29, 2, 199-206.
Book Chapters
Laurier, E. (2009) Being there/seeing there, in Ben Fincham,
Mark McGuinness and Lesley Murray ‘Mobile
Methodologies’, Palgrave
Laurier, E (forthcoming) How to feel things with words, to appear
in Taking Place: Non-representational theories and
geography, ed.s Ben Anderson and Paul Harrison, London,
Berg
Laurier, E (2008) Ethnomethodological geographies, in the
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, ed.s
Nigel Thrift & Rob Kitchin
Reeves, S., Laurier, E. & Brown, B. (2007) L'art de
jouer a Counter Strike, 130-140. in 'Culure d'Univers',
edited by Frank Beau & Nicolas Auray, Editions fyp,
Limoges
Reeves, S., Laurier, E. & Brown, B. (2006) The skilful work of play in
Counter-Strike, to appear in 'The sociological
analysis of Multiplayer Games', edited by Frank Beau
& Nicolas Auray, ENST, FING, Paris
Esbjörnsson, M., Brown, B., Juhlin, O., Normark, D.,
Östergren, M. and Laurier, E. (2006) Watching the cars go round and round:
designing for active spectating, in Proceedings of CHI
2006. ACM Press, pp. 1221-1224.
Laurier, E. & Philo C. (2006) ‘Natural problems of naturalistic video
data', pp 183-192 in H. Knoblauch, J. Raab, H.-G.
Soeffner & B. Schnettler (Eds.), Video-Analysis
Methodology and Methods, Qualitative Audiovisual Data
Analysis in Sociology. Oxford: Peter Lang.
Brown, B. and E. Laurier (2005) Designing electronic maps: an
ethnographic approach. 247-252 in: L. Meng, A. Zipf, T.
Reichenbacher (Eds.), Map-based mobile services –
Theories, Methods and Implementations. Berlin, Springer
Verlag
Laurier. E. (2004) Bruno Latour, in Key Thinkers on Space
and Place, ed. Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin & Gill
Valentine, London, Sage
Laurier. E. (2003) Participant Observation, in Research
Methods in Human and Physical Geography, ed. Nick
Clifford & Gill Valentine, London, Sage.
Laurier, E. (2002) 'This wreckless landscape', in Car Crash
Culture, ed. Mikita Brotman, New York, Palgrave
Laurier, E., Whyte, A. & Buckner, K. (2002) 'I Saw You' or, Love's labour lost: the
spatial work of finding someone to love via practices of
reading and writing, pp114-132, Constructions sociales
de l'espace, Les Territoires de l'anthropologie de la
communication, ed. A. Dumont, Les Editions de
l'Universitié de Liege, Belgium
Laurier, E. (2001) 'The region as a socio-technical
accomplishment', pp46-60 in Wireless World, Social
and Interactional Aspects of the Mobile Age, ed.s Barry
Brown, Nicola Green & Richard Harper, Springer
Verlag, London
Laurier, E. (2001) "Where is the artist in all of this?" in
Echo, Wendy Kirkup, Locus+, Newcastle
Laurier, E. (1999) 'That sinking feeling: elitism, working
leisure and yachting', in Crouch, D. (ed.), Leisure
Practices and Geographical Knowledge, London, Routledge.
Laurier, E. (1999) 'Ultra-sound, art and geography, or, On
the difficulties of taking pictures of the insides of
your body.', in Brind, S. (ed.), Curious Artists, Visual
Arts Projects, Glasgow, Scottish Arts Council.
Articles under consideration or in progress
Laurier, E & Lorimer, H. (accepted subject to revision)
Other ways: landscapes of commuting,
Landscape Studies
Laurier, E., Brown, B. & Lorimer, H. (submitted) The
family finding the way, journey located environmental talk,
Semiotica
Laurier, E. (rejected (ho hum)) Editing experience: sharing adventures
through home movies, Media, Culture & Society
Laurier, E. & Wiggins, S. (accepted subject
to revisions) Finishing the family meal: the interactional
organisation of satiety, Appetite
Laurier, E., Strebel, I. & Brown, B. (in progress)
The reservations of the editor,
Journal of Social Semiotics
Brown, B. & Laurier, E (in progress) Word of mouth,
Laurier, E & Brown, B. (rejected (sigh)) Cultures of seeing: pedagogies of the
riverbank, Visual Studies
Laurier, E. (in progress) The cat in the shed: pets as moral and
spatial features of a community.
Final Reports and PhD Thesis
Laurier, E, Lorimer, H. & Brown B. (2007) Habitable Cars: the organisation of
collective car travel, Final Report to the ESRC,
School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
Laurier, E. & Philo C. (2005) The Cappuccino Comunity: Cafes and civic
life in the contemporary city, Final Report to the ESRC.
Department of Geography, University of Glasgow
Laurier, E. (2005) What customers do, Field Report 3.
Department of Geography, University of Glasgow
Laurier, E. (2004) One or several cafés: an ethnographic
report, Field Report 2. Department of Geography &
Geomatics, University of Glasgow
Laurier, E. (2003) The basics of becoming a barista. Field
Report 1. Department of Geography & Geomatics,
University of Glasgow
Buckner, K., Laurier, E., Shearer, T. & Whyte, A.
(2000) Living Memory Methodological Archive,
European Commission i3 Project, ESPRIT 25621,
Deliverable 2.4 (Public Version)
Laurier, E., Buckner, K. & Whyte, A. Shearer, T. &
Bates, K. (2000) A Case Study of User-profiling in Living
Memory, European Commission i3 Project, ESPRIT
25621, Deliverable 2.5
Laurier, E., Goodwin, N. and Mckie, L. (1999) 'Smoking
Cessation and the Notion of 'Benefit': Eliciting the
Smoker's Agenda', Aberdeen, UK, Department of General
Practice - Primary Care.
Laurier, E. and McKendrick, J. (1999) 'Drumchapel Youth
Services', Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian University.
Laurier, E., McKendrick, J. and Scott, G. (1999) 'Young
People in Drumchapel', Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian
University.
Laurier, E., & Philo, C. (1998) 'Meet You At Junction 17: A
socio-technical and spatial study of the mobile office',
Glasgow, Dept. of Geography, University of Glasgow &
ESRC, Swindon.
Laurier, E. (1996) 'City of Glas/z', Geography, Lampeter,
University of Wales.