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Urban governance and climate change experiments. (2013)
Book Chapter
Bulkeley, H., & Caston Broto, V. (2013). Urban governance and climate change experiments. In H. Mieg, & K. Topfer (Eds.), Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development (72-87). Routledge

The retreating state: Political geographies of the object and the proliferation of space (2013)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2014). The retreating state: Political geographies of the object and the proliferation of space. Political Geography, 39, 58-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2013.11.004

In their article, “Political geographies of the object,” Meehan, Shaw, and Marston (2013) introduce and explore some of the implications of object-oriented ontology (OOO) for political geography. Their analysis uses The Wire – a television drama abou... Read More about The retreating state: Political geographies of the object and the proliferation of space.

Left in the waiting room of history? Provincializing the European child. (2013)
Journal Article
Finn, M., & McEwan, C. (2015). Left in the waiting room of history? Provincializing the European child. Interventions, 17(1), 113-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2013.858984

This paper highlights an important lacuna within critiques of infantilizing (neo-)colonial European discourses: the failure to question whom or what was the ‘child’ against which non-Europeans were gauged. The premise is that the unacknowledged figur... Read More about Left in the waiting room of history? Provincializing the European child..

Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure (2013)
Journal Article
Castán Broto, V., & Bulkeley, H. (2013). Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(6), 1934-1948. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12050

Climate change governance is increasingly being conducted through urban climate change experiments, purposive interventions that seek to reconfigure urban sociotechnical systems to achieve low-carbon and resilient cities. In examining how experiments... Read More about Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure.

Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories (2013)
Journal Article
Hadjimichalis, C., & Hudson, R. (2013). Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories. Regional Studies, 48(1), 208-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2013.834044

Hadjimichalis C. and Hudson R. Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories, Regional Studies. This paper explores the prima facie puzzling issue of why so much contemporary theory in economic geography and region... Read More about Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories.

Climate justice and global cities: Mapping the emerging discourses (2013)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Carmin, J., Castán Broto, V., Edwards, G. A., & Fuller, S. (2013). Climate justice and global cities: Mapping the emerging discourses. Global Environmental Change, 23(5), 914-925. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.010

Ever since climate change came to be a matter of political concern, questions of justice have been at the forefront of academic and policy debates in the international arena. Curiously, as attention has shifted to other sites and scales of climate ch... Read More about Climate justice and global cities: Mapping the emerging discourses.

Anticipating uncertainty, reviving risk? On the stress testing of finance in crisis (2013)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2013). Anticipating uncertainty, reviving risk? On the stress testing of finance in crisis. Economy and Society, 42(1), 51-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2012.686719

Widely regarded as a watershed moment in the governance of the present global financial crisis, the US Treasury's Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) of spring 2009 undertook to ‘stress test’ the solvency of the largest American banks by pr... Read More about Anticipating uncertainty, reviving risk? On the stress testing of finance in crisis.

Many Chains to Break: The Multi-dimensional Concept of Slave Labour in Brazil (2013)
Journal Article
McGrath, S. (2013). Many Chains to Break: The Multi-dimensional Concept of Slave Labour in Brazil. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 45(4), 1005-1028. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01024.x

This article examines the concept of slave labour through two case studies from Brazil. One involves internal migrant workers and the other cross-border migrant workers. There have been accusations of slave labour in both cases. I argue that slave la... Read More about Many Chains to Break: The Multi-dimensional Concept of Slave Labour in Brazil.

Making space for fat bodies?: A critical account of ‘the obesogenic environment’ (2013)
Journal Article
Colls, R., & Evans, B. (2014). Making space for fat bodies?: A critical account of ‘the obesogenic environment’. Progress in Human Geography, 38(6), 733-753. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132513500373

A key focus for geographical and policy work on obesity has involved interrogating the concept of an ‘obesogenic environment’ – an environment with particular physical, social and economic characteristics considered to contribute towards the propensi... Read More about Making space for fat bodies?: A critical account of ‘the obesogenic environment’.