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Sophia’s choice: Debt, social welfare, and racial finance capitalism (2020)
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Torkelson, E. (2021). Sophia’s choice: Debt, social welfare, and racial finance capitalism. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820973680

In this article, I examine normative assumptions about cash transfers as public goods and the lived experience of cash transfers as private debts. Policy makers and social scientists often assume cash transfers are apolitical, value-neutral monetary... Read More about Sophia’s choice: Debt, social welfare, and racial finance capitalism.

Folding Beijing in Houchangcun Road, or, the topology of power density (2020)
Journal Article
Zhao, Y. (2020). Folding Beijing in Houchangcun Road, or, the topology of power density. Urban Geography, 41(10), 1247-1259. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1850046

This paper engages with discussions on geographies of urban density by investigating the enduring power relations that underlie the (de-)forming of urban densities in Beijing. Articulating a topological framework with the infrastructural lives of soc... Read More about Folding Beijing in Houchangcun Road, or, the topology of power density.

Jiehebu or suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies (2020)
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Zhao, Y. (2020). Jiehebu or suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 13(3), 527-542. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsaa032

Engaging with reflections on improper urban vocabularies, this article proposes a trans-lational turn to foreground dialogues-rather than equivalences-between languages. Drawing on the philosophies of language and hermeneutics, I adopt 'the fusion of... Read More about Jiehebu or suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies.

Distribution and seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica (2020)
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Arthur, J., Stokes, C., Jamieson, S., Carr, J., & Leeson, A. (2020). Distribution and seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 14(11), 4103-4120. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4103-2020

Supraglacial lakes (SGLs) enhance surface melting and can flex and fracture ice shelves when they grow and subsequently drain, potentially leading to ice shelf disintegration. However, the seasonal evolution of SGLs and their influence on ice shelf s... Read More about Distribution and seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica.

Communicative interventions for collective action in the management of potato late blight: evidence from a framed field game experiment in Ethiopia (2020)
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Damtew, E., Leeuwis, C., Struik, P. C., Cecchi, F., van Mierlo, B., Lie, R., …Cieslik, K. (2021). Communicative interventions for collective action in the management of potato late blight: evidence from a framed field game experiment in Ethiopia. Food Security, 13(2), 255-271. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-020-01120-0

Potato late blight remains a threat to food security and livelihood of millions of people in Ethiopia. Despite a rapid dispersal of the disease pathogen and farmers’ interdependency in managing it, the literature on agricultural extension and communi... Read More about Communicative interventions for collective action in the management of potato late blight: evidence from a framed field game experiment in Ethiopia.

Discomfort: Transformative encounters and social change (2020)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2020). Discomfort: Transformative encounters and social change. Emotion, Space and Society, 37, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100681

In the context of debates on ontological risk, ‘border work’, and the transformative potentials of encounter, the paper offers a critical examination of the workings of discomfort to ask what is at stake in both its embrace and refusal. Focusing in p... Read More about Discomfort: Transformative encounters and social change.

Assessing the Effectiveness of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS): Interventions, Impacts and Challenges (2020)
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Cotterill, S., & Bracken, L. J. (2020). Assessing the Effectiveness of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS): Interventions, Impacts and Challenges. Water, 12(11), Article 3160. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12113160

Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) can be a key tool in the management of extremes of rainfall, due to their capacity to attenuate and treat surface water. Yet, implementation is a complex process, requiring buy-in from multiple stakeholders. Buy-in... Read More about Assessing the Effectiveness of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS): Interventions, Impacts and Challenges.

DE-densifying knowledge of cityness (2020)
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Ruszczyk, H. (2020). DE-densifying knowledge of cityness. Urban Geography, 41(10), 1267-1273. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1837528

I do not see the city through increasing population density. I do not see tight spaces ruled by horizontal nor vertically densification. I see regional cities, increasingly common spaces throughout the world whose geographic boundaries are expanding,... Read More about DE-densifying knowledge of cityness.

Holocene interactions between glacier retreat, sea‐ice formation and Atlantic Water advection at the inner Northeast Greenland continental shelf (2020)
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Syring, N., Lloyd, J. M., Stein, R., Fahl, K., Roberts, D. H., Callard, L., & O'Cofaigh, C. (2020). Holocene interactions between glacier retreat, sea‐ice formation and Atlantic Water advection at the inner Northeast Greenland continental shelf. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35(11), Article e2020PA004019. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020pa004019

During the past four decades significant decrease in Arctic sea ice and a dramatic ice mass loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) has been coincident with global warming and an increase in atmospheric CO2. In Northeast Greenland significant mass loss... Read More about Holocene interactions between glacier retreat, sea‐ice formation and Atlantic Water advection at the inner Northeast Greenland continental shelf.