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Creative fictions: Incentive work and humanitarian labour in South Sudan (2024)
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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)
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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.

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

Financial geography I: The state-finance nexus (2023)
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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)
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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)
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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.

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.

Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security (2023)
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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.

Nigel Dodd: An appreciation (2023)
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Langley, P., Ashenden, S., Barry, A., Bear, L., Kelly, A., McGoey, L. J., Molyneux, M., Neyland, D., Parry, B., Tonkiss, F., & 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.

Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa (2022)
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Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2022). Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa. Journal of Cultural Economy, 15(4), 401-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2022.2028652

This paper makes a three-fold contribution to social science research into FinTech in Africa. First, we build on existing research into mobile payments to show how FinTech providers offer unsecured short-term credit products via mobile wallets. Secon... Read More about Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa.

Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise (2022)
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Anderson, B., Aitken, S., Bacevic, J., Callard, F., Chung, K. D. (., Coleman, K. S., Hayden, R. F., Healy, S., Irwin, R. L., Jellis, T., Jukes, J., Khan, S., Marotta, S., Seitz, D. K., Snepvangers, K., Staples, A., Turner, C., Tse, J., Watson, M., & Wilkinson, E. (2023). Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise. The Geographical Journal, 189(1), 117-142. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12494

In Part 1 of ‘Encountering Berlant’, we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter... Read More about Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise.

Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms (2022)
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Anderson, B., Awal, A., Cockayne, D., Greenhough, B., Linz, J., Mazumdar, A., Nassar, A., Pettit, H., Roe, E. J., Ruez, D., Salas Landa, M., Secor, A., & Williams, A. (2023). Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms. The Geographical Journal, 189(1), 143-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12493

Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential concept of ‘cruel optimism’. Cruel optimism names a double-bind in which attachment to an ‘object’ holds out the promise of sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneo... Read More about Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms.