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Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check (2023)
Journal Article
Blondeel, M., Price, J., Bradshaw, M., Pye, S., Dodds, P., Kuzemko, C., & Bridge, G. (2024). Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check. Global Environmental Change, 84, Article 102781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102781

The ongoing Global Energy System Transformation (GEST) has attracted the attention of multiple academic disciplines and practitioners, approaching the process with different analytical and conceptual tools. We explore the ‘integration gap’ that exist... Read More about Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check.

Extractive Orientations (2023)
Book Chapter
Bridge, G. (2023). Extractive Orientations. In S. Postar, N. Elodie Behzadi, & N. Doering (Eds.), Extraction/Exclusion: Beyond Binaries of Exclusion and Inclusion in Natural Resource Extraction. Rowman & Littlefield

Lithium, Brexit and Global Britain: Onshoring battery production networks in the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Bridge, G., & Faigen, E. (2023). Lithium, Brexit and Global Britain: Onshoring battery production networks in the UK. The Extractive Industries and Society, 16, Article 101328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101328

As demand for electrical energy storage scales, production networks for lithium-ion battery manufacturing are being re-worked organisationally and geographically. The UK - like the US and EU - is seeking to onshore lithium-ion battery production and... Read More about Lithium, Brexit and Global Britain: Onshoring battery production networks in the UK.

Speculating on shale: Resource-making and the ‘politics of possibility’ in Poland and the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Kuchler, M., & Bridge, G. (2023). Speculating on shale: Resource-making and the ‘politics of possibility’ in Poland and the UK. Political Geography, 107, Article 102978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102978

This paper focuses on the speculative character of knowledge and action in relation to subterranean resources, drawing on the curtailed histories of shale gas development in Poland and the UK. It adopts a political-economic orientation towards specul... Read More about Speculating on shale: Resource-making and the ‘politics of possibility’ in Poland and the UK.

Time for oil: competing petrotemporalities in Norway's Lofote/Vesteralen/Senja Archipelago (2022)
Book Chapter
Kristoffersen, B., Bridge, G., & Steinberg, P. (2022). Time for oil: competing petrotemporalities in Norway's Lofote/Vesteralen/Senja Archipelago. In F. Polack, & D. Farquharson (Eds.), Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures (176-193). Routledge

This chapter analyses how the petroleum industry operates across multiple temporal frames. The authors then go on to illustrate how, when communities debate their petroleum futures, the “anticipatory temporalities” of petroleum abundance, technology,... Read More about Time for oil: competing petrotemporalities in Norway's Lofote/Vesteralen/Senja Archipelago.

Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains (2022)
Journal Article
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.

Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil (2022)
Journal Article
Bridge, G., & Dodge, A. (2022). Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsac016

Evolutionary approaches to strategic coupling show how regions harness and match assets, then negotiate their alignment with lead firms. For regions intersected by multiple networks in the same industry, however, the reconfiguration of network-territ... Read More about Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil.

The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: A Review (2021)
Journal Article
Blondeel, M., Bradshaw, M., Bridge, G., & Kuzemko, C. (2021). The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: A Review. Geography Compass, 15(7), Article e12580. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12580

In 2009, Geography Compass published a paper on ‘The Geopolitics of Global Energy Security’ that reviewed research on the key geographical factors influencing the secure and affordable supply of energy resources. Now, just over a decade later, the en... Read More about The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: A Review.

Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets (2021)
Journal Article
Langley, P., Bridge, G., Bulkeley, H., & van Veelen, B. (2021). Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets. Economy and Society, 50(3), 494-516. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1860335

rivate investment capital is now widely regarded as strategically significant to the governance of climate change. A dedicated and dynamic carbon finance sector has emerged that features techniques and practices for decarbonizing capital, facilitatin... Read More about Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets.

Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama (2021)
Journal Article
Gallardo, B., Bridge, G., & Prieto, M. (2021). Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama. Geoforum, 119, 177-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.01.001

Geographical research on lithium and other renewable energy materials explores the geopolitical dimensions of resource supply and the 'new geographies' associated with an expanding resource frontier. The material characteristics and environmental con... Read More about Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama.

Industrial Dynamics on the Commodity Frontier: managing time, space and form in mining, tree plantations and intensive aquaculture (2020)
Journal Article
Banoub, D., Bridge, G., Bustos, B., Ertör, I., González-Hidalgo, M., & de los Reyes, J. (2021). Industrial Dynamics on the Commodity Frontier: managing time, space and form in mining, tree plantations and intensive aquaculture. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 4(4), 1533-1559. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620963362

Research in political ecology and agrarian political economy has shown how commodity frontiers are constituted through the appropriation and transformation of nature. This work identifies two broad processes of socio-metabolism associated with commod... Read More about Industrial Dynamics on the Commodity Frontier: managing time, space and form in mining, tree plantations and intensive aquaculture.

Covid-19 and the Politics of Sustainable Energy Transitions (2020)
Journal Article
Kuzemko, C., Bradshaw, M., Bridge, G., Goldthau, A., Jewell, J., Overland, I., …Westphal, K. (2020). Covid-19 and the Politics of Sustainable Energy Transitions. Energy Research and Social Science, 68, Article 101685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101685

In this perspectives piece, an interdisciplinary team of social science researchers considers the implications of Covid-19 for the politics of sustainable energy transitions. The emergency measures adopted by states, firms, and individuals in respons... Read More about Covid-19 and the Politics of Sustainable Energy Transitions.

Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance (2019)
Journal Article
Bridge, G., Bulkeley, H., Langley, P., & van Veelen, B. (2020). Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance. Progress in Human Geography, 44(4), 724-742. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519856260

Growing emphasis on finance as key to decarbonization requires social science research that critically attends to the emergent and diverse forms taken by carbon finance. First, we pluralize research into carbon finance, building on existing work to i... Read More about Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance.

Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to special issue (2018)
Journal Article
Bridge, G., Özkaynak, B., & Turhan, E. (2018). Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to special issue. Energy Research and Social Science, 41, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.029

In this article we introduce a Special Issue of Energy Research and Social Science focused on energy infrastructure and the political economy of national development. Many countries are experiencing transformational growth in energy infrastructure, s... Read More about Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to special issue.

Down the black hole: Sustaining national socio-technical imaginaries of coal in Poland (2018)
Journal Article
Kuchler, M., & Bridge, G. (in press). Down the black hole: Sustaining national socio-technical imaginaries of coal in Poland. Energy Research and Social Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.014

This paper explores the socio-technical imaginaries surrounding infrastructures of coal mining and coal combustion in Poland. Contemporary policy makers in Poland mobilise a national imaginary inherited from communist times – encapsulated in the slog... Read More about Down the black hole: Sustaining national socio-technical imaginaries of coal in Poland.

The map is not the territory: A sympathetic critique of energy research’s spatial turn (2017)
Journal Article
Bridge, G. (2018). The map is not the territory: A sympathetic critique of energy research’s spatial turn. Energy Research and Social Science, 36, 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.09.033

Energy research in the social sciences has embarked on a ‘spatial adventure’ (Castán Broto and Baker, 2017). Those setting out on this journey have started from different disciplinary and theoretical locations, yet a “map” of sorts has begun to emerg... Read More about The map is not the territory: A sympathetic critique of energy research’s spatial turn.

Making a Global Gas Market: Territoriality and Production Networks in Liquefied Natural Gas (2017)
Journal Article
Bridge, G., & Bradshaw, M. (2017). Making a Global Gas Market: Territoriality and Production Networks in Liquefied Natural Gas. Economic Geography, 93(3), 215-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2017.1283212

Energy markets are an important contemporary site of economic globalization. In this article we use a global production network (GPN) approach to examine the evolutionary dynamics of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector and its role in an emerging... Read More about Making a Global Gas Market: Territoriality and Production Networks in Liquefied Natural Gas.

Oil (2016)
Book
Bridge, G., & Le Billon, P. (in press). Oil. (2nd). Polity

Deepening Globalisation: economies, trade and energy systems. (2015)
Book Chapter
Bridge, G., & Bradshaw, M. (2015). Deepening Globalisation: economies, trade and energy systems. In P. Ekins, M. Bradshaw, & J. Watson (Eds.), Global Energy: Issues, Potentials and Policy Implications (52-72). Oxford University Press

The geopolitical economy of a globalising gas market. (2015)
Book Chapter
Bradshaw, M., Dutton, J., & Bridge, G. (2015). The geopolitical economy of a globalising gas market. In P. Ekins, M. Bradshaw, & J. Watson (Eds.), Global Energy: Issues, Potentials and Policy Implications (291-305). Oxford University Press

Industrialisation and environmental change (2015)
Book Chapter
Barca, S., & Bridge, G. (2015). Industrialisation and environmental change. In T. Perreault, G. Bridge, & J. McCarthy (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of political ecology (366-377). Routledge

Energy (in)security: world-making in an age of scarcity (2014)
Journal Article
Bridge, G. (2015). Energy (in)security: world-making in an age of scarcity. The Geographical Journal, 181(4), 328-339. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12114

‘Energy security’ has quickly assumed a significant place in the lexicon of policy. Like other handy couplets for characterising socio-natural relations (such as carrying capacity and resource scarcity), energy security is a powerful framing device:... Read More about Energy (in)security: world-making in an age of scarcity.

Geographies of energy transition: Space, place and the low-carbon economy (2013)
Journal Article
Bridge, G., Bouzarovski, S., Bradshaw, M., & Eyre, N. (2013). Geographies of energy transition: Space, place and the low-carbon economy. Energy Policy, 53, 331-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.066

This paper makes a case for examining energy transition as a geographical process, involving the reconfiguration of current patterns and scales of economic and social activity. The paper draws on a seminar series on the ‘Geographies of Energy Transit... Read More about Geographies of energy transition: Space, place and the low-carbon economy.

Oil (2013)
Book
Bridge, G., & Le Billon, P. (2013). Oil. Polity

Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power, and market growth. The legacy of this age of plenty includ... Read More about Oil.