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Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective (2023)
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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.

Density as a politics of value: regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism (2023)
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Habermehl, V., & McFarlane, C. (2023). Density as a politics of value: regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism. Progress in Human Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231189824

Density is at the centre of urban change, and is often politicised. Building on Geographical and Urban scholarship, we set out a critical approach to understanding density through a focus on value. Following a review of key approaches to density, we... Read More about Density as a politics of value: regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism.

Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives (2023)
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Rahman, M. F., Lewis, D., Kuhl, L., Baldwin, A., Ruszczyk, H., Nadiruzzaman, M., & Mahid, Y. (2023). Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2228094

In response to narratives of the mass movement of people triggered by climate change, a number of “managed retreat” models have been proposed as policy options, especially for densely populated urban areas in the Global South. Reviewing a case study... Read More about Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives.

Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity (2023)
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Lavell, A., McFarlane, C., Moore, H. L., Woodcraft, S., & Yap, C. (2023). Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 15(1), 215-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2023.2226099

There has been a tendency for debates around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to focus on particular Goals or Targets. What tends to get lost, however, is the bigger picture. In this paper we ask: to what extent and under what conditions do t... Read More about Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity.

Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme (2023)
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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.

Boredom and the politics of climate change (2023)
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Anderson, B. (2023). Boredom and the politics of climate change. Scottish Geographical Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2197869

In this position paper, I speculate on what we might learn about the politics of climate change if we stay with the possibility that boredom might be part of how subjects encounter and make sense of climate change. I argue that boredom enacts an ethi... Read More about Boredom and the politics of climate change.

Lockdown time, time loops, and the crisis of the future (2023)
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Secor, A. J., & Blum, V. (2023). Lockdown time, time loops, and the crisis of the future. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 28, 250–267. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-023-00379-4

Amidst the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 in the United States and United Kingdom, a fantasy took hold that life under lockdown was like living in a time loop. The time loop quickly became the genre of the moment. And yet, however “timely” they... Read More about Lockdown time, time loops, and the crisis of the future.

The condition of urban climate experimentation (2023)
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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.

Post-Pandemic Cities: An Urban Lexicon of Accelerations/Decelerations (2023)
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Guma, P., Hodson, M., Lockhart, A., Marvin, S., McFarlane, C., McGuirk, P., …Wiig, A. (2023). Post-Pandemic Cities: An Urban Lexicon of Accelerations/Decelerations. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(3), 452-473. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12607

COVID-19 has stimulated renewed societal and academic debate about the future of cities and urban life. Future visons have veered from the ‘death of the city’ to visual renderings and limited experiments with 15-minute neighbourhoods. Within this con... Read More about Post-Pandemic Cities: An Urban Lexicon of Accelerations/Decelerations.

Machine learning, meaning making: On reading computer science texts (2023)
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Amoore, L., Campolo, A., Jacobsen, B., & Rella, L. (2023). Machine learning, meaning making: On reading computer science texts. Big Data and Society, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231166887

Computer science tends to foreclose the reading of its texts by social science and humanities scholars – via code and scale, mathematics, black box opacities, secret or proprietary models. Yet, when computer science papers are read in order to better... Read More about Machine learning, meaning making: On reading computer science texts.

FinTech platform regulation: Regulating with/against platforms in the United Kingdom and China (2023)
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Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2023). FinTech platform regulation: Regulating with/against platforms in the United Kingdom and China. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 16(2), 257–268. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad005

This paper develops case studies of the United Kingdom (UK) and China to analyse divergent national financial regulatory approaches to FinTech as a novel political economy of platforms. Regulating with platforms is core to the approach taken in the U... Read More about FinTech platform regulation: Regulating with/against platforms in the United Kingdom and China.

Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge (2023)
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Loyd, J. M., Secor, A. J., & Ehrkamp, P. (2023). Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge. Geopolitics, https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2185139

Although it has rarely been addressed as such, the regulation of disability within migration governance is a geopolitical issue. This article examines how refugee resettlement intersects with ablenationalism, an ideology that treats disability as exc... Read More about Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge.

Sanitation challenges in Dar es salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems (2023)
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Yap, C., McFarlane, C., Ndezi, T., & Makoba, F. D. (2023). Sanitation challenges in Dar es salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems. Environment and Urbanization, 35(1), 12-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478221146722

In the context of growing urbanization, sanitation in many cities is in acute crisis with severe social and environmental consequences. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of sanitation for all by 2030 is increasingly elusive. Municipalities have... Read More about Sanitation challenges in Dar es salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems.

Nigel Dodd: An appreciation (2023)
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Langley, P., Ashenden, S., Barry, A., Bear, L., Kelly, A., McGoey, L. J., …Weszkalnys, G. (2023). Nigel Dodd: An appreciation. Economy and Society, 52(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2023.2157584

Professor Nigel Dodd was a long-standing and much-loved member of the Editorial Board of Economy and Society. He sadly passed away in August 2022. In this short piece, we express our heartfelt gratitude for Nigel’s contributions to the journal and br... Read More about Nigel Dodd: An appreciation.

Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains (2022)
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Bridge, G., & Faigen, E. (2022). Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains. Energy Research and Social Science, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102659

The increasing role of electricity as an energy carrier in decarbonising economies is driving a growing demand for electrical energy storage in the form of battery systems. Two battery applications driving demand growth are electric vehicles and stat... Read More about Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains.