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Creative fictions: Incentive work and humanitarian labour in South Sudan (2024)
Journal Article
Newhouse, L. S. (2024). Creative fictions: Incentive work and humanitarian labour in South Sudan. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Article e12682. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12682

The career of the incentive has been meteoric and global, cropping up in peace‐building, state‐building, global health, and humanitarian contexts across the world. In this paper, I consider incentive work from the vantage point of independence‐era So... Read More about Creative fictions: Incentive work and humanitarian labour in South Sudan.

From Integration to Intersectionality: A Review of Water Ethics (2023)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2023). From Integration to Intersectionality: A Review of Water Ethics. Water alternatives, 16(2), 321-345

The field of water ethics focuses on the judgments affecting water use and decision making, as well as their normative justification. These justifications can take many forms. Consequently, water ethics grapple with philosophical considerations, law,... Read More about From Integration to Intersectionality: A Review of Water Ethics.

Climate finance (2023)
Book Chapter
Knuth, S., & Taylor, Z. (2023). Climate finance. In International Encyclopedia of Geography. Wiley

Mapping the subaltern (2023)
Book Chapter
Anthias, P. (2023). Mapping the subaltern. In A. J. Kent, & D. Specht (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855765-11

‘Counter-mapping’ refers to efforts by indigenous peoples and others to map against dominant colonial power structures and geographical representations. This chapter considers the historical evolution, varied methodologies and real-world applications... Read More about Mapping the subaltern.

Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Fransen, A., & Bulkeley, H. (online). Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective. Global Environmental Politics, 24(1), 76–99. 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.

Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown (2023)
Journal Article
Knuth, S., Cox, S., Hofmann, S., Morris, J., Taylor, Z., & McElvain, B. (online). Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown. Journal of Urban Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2229462

As intensifying climate-related disasters strike cities across the United States, they are provoking rising concern for the stability of the US housing market and broader financial system. How homeowners, mortgage lenders, federal institutions/regula... Read More about Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown.

An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city (2023)
Journal Article
van Veelen, B., & Knuth, S. (online). An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(2), 904 - 927. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231179815

What will the low-carbon cities of tomorrow be made from? We see an unexpected answer today in the return of ‘premodern’/‘preindustrial’ materials to central cities and skylines. Champions of new mass timber materials have driven a race on iconic ‘pl... Read More about An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city.

Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression (2023)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2023). Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression. Progress in Human Geography, 47(6), 859-869. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231174965

This report on geography and ethics focusses on the justification of normative evaluations. Justifying why actions are right or wrong often relies on appeals to high-order principles, such as the common good. But this is not always the case, as this... Read More about Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression.

Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought (2023)
Journal Article
Anthias, P. (2023). Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought. Dialogues in Human Geography, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231171202

In this commentary, I extend Derickson's (2020) conception of the ‘annihilation of time by space’ to reflect on an experience of making a documentary about women-led resistance to hydrocarbon development in Southern Bolivia, where the forging of new... Read More about Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought.

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.

Pennsylvania’s Housing Justice Campaign’s Promising Win (2023)
Other
Bigger, P., & Knuth, S. (2023). Pennsylvania’s Housing Justice Campaign’s Promising Win

A Pennsylvania program builds a foundation for a just, low-carbon future by making home repair and retrofitting a public priority.

Financial geography I: The state-finance nexus (2023)
Journal Article
Lai, K. P. (2023). Financial geography I: The state-finance nexus. Progress in Human Geography, 47(4), 591-603. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231170756

In the first of my reports on financial geography, I focus on a growing body of work that engages with the state as a vital and strategic actor in financial markets and in the global economy. After the 2008 global financial crisis, austerity measures... Read More about Financial geography I: The state-finance nexus.

Boredom and the politics of climate change (2023)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (online). 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.

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.

FinTech platform regulation: Regulating with/against platforms in the United Kingdom and China (2023)
Journal Article
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.

Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security (2023)
Journal Article
Harrington, C., Montana, P., Schmidt, J. J., & Swain, A. (2023). Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security. Global Environmental Politics, 23(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00702

This Forum article reports on a meta-review of more than 19,000 published works on water security, of which less than 1 percent explicitly focus on race or ethnicity. This is deeply concerning, because it indicates that race and ethnicity—crucial fac... Read More about Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security.