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Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Fransen, A., & Bulkeley, H. (2023). Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective. Global Environmental Politics, https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00726

Transnational governance initiatives (TGIs) are increasingly recognized as central actors in the governing of climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet, their role in linking these domains has yet to be explored. As the climate crisis comes to be inc... Read More about Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective.

‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis (2023)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. C., Porter, G., Aouidet, H., Dungey, C., Han, S., Houiji, R., …Zaghoud, H. (2023). ‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis. Geoforum, 142, Article 103753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103753

Drawing on an innovative peer researcher method, this paper uses mobility diaries and in-transit interviews to examine the everyday travel experiences of women from socio-economically marginalised neighbourhoods in metropolitan Grand Tunis. It situat... Read More about ‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis.

Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme (2023)
Journal Article
Kavonic, J., & Bulkeley, H. (2023). Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme. Local Environment, 28(7), 900-917. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2190349

Over the past five years, there have been growing calls for transformative responses to sustainability challenges, supported by increased transformative action in the pursuit of environmental justice. In parallel to this development within the policy... Read More about Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme.

The condition of urban climate experimentation (2023)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2023). The condition of urban climate experimentation. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 19(1), Article 2188726. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2023.2188726

As the trend of urban climate experimentation continues, many accounts now seek to identify how it can be harnessed towards responses of sufficient scale and magnitude for the crises at hand. The imperative is to move beyond experimentation. Yet some... Read More about The condition of urban climate experimentation.

Why Should Guilty Pleas Matter? (2023)
Book Chapter
Brooks, T. (2023). Why Should Guilty Pleas Matter?. In J. V. Roberts, & J. Ryberg (Eds.), Sentencing the Self-Convicted: The Ethics of Pleading Guilty. Hart Publishing

Most offenders plead guilty without a trial. Their guilty plea typically earns a reduced punishment. It raises the issue of why should guilty pleas matter. This chapter considers the use of plea bargaining in the United States and guilty plea discoun... Read More about Why Should Guilty Pleas Matter?.

The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity (2023)
Journal Article
MacDonald, R., King, H., Murphy, E., & Gill, W. (2023). The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity. Journal of Youth Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2022.2163884

Young people have faced some of the hardest social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. Taking a critical Youth Studies perspective, we draw on research with nearly 1,000 16-to-30-year olds in North East England in... Read More about The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity.

Punitive Restoration (2023)
Book Chapter
Brooks, T. (2023). Punitive Restoration. In M. C. Altman (Ed.), Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Punishment (639-656). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11874-6_29

Restorative justice is highly promising as an effective approach to better support victims, reduce reoffending, and lower costs. The challenge it faces is a dual hurdle of limited applicability and lack of public confidence. The issue is how we might... Read More about Punitive Restoration.

The eternal return: Imagining security futures at the Doomsday Vault (2022)
Journal Article
Harrington, C. (2023). The eternal return: Imagining security futures at the Doomsday Vault. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 6(4), 2614–2635. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221145365

This article examines how imaginaries of security in the Anthropocene function at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV), otherwise known as the ‘Doomsday Vault’. Recent explorations by scholars of security have suggested that different ways of seeing... Read More about The eternal return: Imagining security futures at the Doomsday Vault.

Law and governance in the Anthropocene (2022)
Journal Article
Woolley, O., & Harrington, C. (2022). Law and governance in the Anthropocene. Global Policy, 13(S3), 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13168

This special issue on ‘Law and Governance in the Anthropocene’ brings together scholars from the disciplines of law and international relations to examine the ramifications of the Anthropocene for global governance and international law. The predomin... Read More about Law and governance in the Anthropocene.

Cruel and Unusual Punishment (2022)
Book Chapter
Brooks, T. (in press). Cruel and Unusual Punishment. In J. Ryberg (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Punishment Theory and Philosophy. Oxford University Press

The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Cao, Q., & Nitschke, C. (2023). The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree. Life Writing, 20(3), 563-581. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2022.2151847

This work examines Han Suyin’s representation of her Eurasian identity in relation to her maternal inheritance, focusing on her autobiography The Crippled Tree, the first volume in the series China: Autobiography, History. Drawing on Paul John Eakin’... Read More about The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree.

Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities (2022)
Journal Article
Bockarjova, M., Botzen, W. W., Bulkeley, H. A., & Toxopeus, H. (2022). Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities. Scientific Reports, 12(2022), Article 19833. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23983-3

By implementing nature-based solutions (NBS), cities generate value for their residents, such as health and wellbeing. We estimate the aggregate social value to urban residents of 85 NBS projects implemented across Europe and find that the majority y... Read More about Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities.

Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature (2022)
Journal Article
Tozer, L., Bulkeley, H., Kiss, B., Luque-Ayala, A., Voytenko Palgan, Y., McCormick, K., & Wamsler, C. (2023). Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1113(3), 599-615. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2130867

Transcending initial efforts to make cities ‘climate smart’ by focusing on the potential of new technologies and infrastructural interventions, various actors are increasingly interested in deploying nature to help achieve urban resilience. In this c... Read More about Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature.

Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides (2022)
Journal Article
Armstrong, A., Bulkeley, H., Tozer, L., & Kotsila, P. (2022). Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2125669

Traditional interventions to “bring nature into the city” were often motivated by a concern to create forms of public space which would provide a public good. Despite such well-intentioned motivations, these public forms of urban nature have always b... Read More about Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides.

"It is very difficult in this business if you want to have a good conscience": pharmaceutical governance and on-the-ground ethical labour in Ghana (2022)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Mariwah, S., Amoako-Sakyi, D., & Hamill, H. (2022). "It is very difficult in this business if you want to have a good conscience": pharmaceutical governance and on-the-ground ethical labour in Ghana. Global Bioethics, 33(1), 103 - 121. https://doi.org/10.1080/11287462.2022.2103899

The governance of pharmaceutical medicines entails complex ethical decisions that should, in theory, be the responsibility of democratically accountable government agencies. However, in many Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), regulatory and he... Read More about "It is very difficult in this business if you want to have a good conscience": pharmaceutical governance and on-the-ground ethical labour in Ghana.