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Bringing Climate Politics Home: Lived Experiences of Flooding and Housing Insecurity in a Natural Gas Boomtown (2021)
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Lehman, J., & Kinchy, A. (2021). Bringing Climate Politics Home: Lived Experiences of Flooding and Housing Insecurity in a Natural Gas Boomtown. Geoforum, 121, 152-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.02.022

As the extraction of shale gas and oil transforms localities, these places emerge as important if understudied sites of contemporary carbon politics. In this paper, we develop a new approach for examining lived connections between fossil fuel extract... Read More about Bringing Climate Politics Home: Lived Experiences of Flooding and Housing Insecurity in a Natural Gas Boomtown.

The Dys-appearing Fat Body: Bodily Intensities and Fatphobic Sociomaterialities when Flying Whilst Fat (2021)
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Colls, R., Evans, B., & Bias, S. (2021). The Dys-appearing Fat Body: Bodily Intensities and Fatphobic Sociomaterialities when Flying Whilst Fat. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1866485

This paper offers an exploration of the embodied experiences of flying whilst fat, based on research with a significantly larger group of people than any previous research on this topic (795 surveys and 28 interviews with fat people largely, though n... Read More about The Dys-appearing Fat Body: Bodily Intensities and Fatphobic Sociomaterialities when Flying Whilst Fat.

Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem? (2021)
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Hudson, R. (2021). Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem?. Area Development and Policy, 6(2), 123-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1854615

Capitalist economies are structured around two fundamental contradictions. The first lies within the social relations of capital, and the second in the ‘metabolic rift’ between capital accumulation and nature. While the adverse effects of the first d... Read More about Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem?.

On not seeking asylum: migrant masculinities and the politics of refusal (2021)
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Newhouse, L. (2021). On not seeking asylum: migrant masculinities and the politics of refusal. Geoforum, 120, 176-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.01.024

Much contemporary research on precarious mobility starts from the perspective that people moving across borders will seek out opportunities for legal protection, if these are available to them. However, this is not always the case, as some migrants w... Read More about On not seeking asylum: migrant masculinities and the politics of refusal.

Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City (2021)
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Bulkeley, H. (2021). Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City. Environmental Politics, 30(1-2), 266-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1880713

In the 30 years since the journal Environmental Politics was founded, we have witnessed a profound shift in how we understand climate from its initial framing as global problem, to one that is increasingly understood as transnational, personal, urban... Read More about Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City.

Turbulent waters in three parts (2021)
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Lehman, J., Steinberg, P., & Johnson, E. (2021). Turbulent waters in three parts. Theory and Event, 24(1), 192-219

While scientific accounts of ocean dynamics draw public attention to the turbulence of earthly matter, the science alone tells a truncated story. The ocean's turbulent materiality is more than material: practices of scientific knowledge and historica... Read More about Turbulent waters in three parts.

Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama (2021)
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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.

Exploring the Benefits of Small Catchments on Rural Spatial Governance in Wuling Mountain Area, China (2021)
Journal Article
Qiao, J., Crang, M., Hong, L., & Li, X. (2021). Exploring the Benefits of Small Catchments on Rural Spatial Governance in Wuling Mountain Area, China. Sustainability, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020760

China is facing an important period of rural governance innovation and restructuring of territorial spatial patterns. This paper selects catchments as the most closely related spatial units for rural industrial development and rural settlement activi... Read More about Exploring the Benefits of Small Catchments on Rural Spatial Governance in Wuling Mountain Area, China.