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Rethinking urban transitions: an analytical framework (2018)
Book Chapter
Luque-Ayala, A., Bulkeley, H., & Marvin, S. (2018). Rethinking urban transitions: an analytical framework. In A. Luque-Ayala, S. Marvin, & H. Bulkeley (Eds.), Rethinking Urban Transitions: Politics in the Low Carbon City (13-36). Routledge

Introduction (2018)
Book Chapter
Luque-Ayala, A., Marvin, S., & Bulkeley, H. (2018). Introduction. In A. Luque-Ayala, S. Marvin, & H. Bulkeley (Eds.), Rethinking Urban Transitions: Politics in the Low Carbon City (1-12). Routledge

Culturalisation and devices: what is culture in cultural economy? (2018)
Journal Article
Richardson, L. (2019). Culturalisation and devices: what is culture in cultural economy?. Journal of Cultural Economy, 12(3), 228-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2018.1542608

Theorisation of culture is often absent from research on production in the creative and cultural sector. Further, cultural production has been largely untouched by the insights of the cultural economy approach. Culturalisation is a means of addressin... Read More about Culturalisation and devices: what is culture in cultural economy?.

On right-wing movements, spheres, and resonances: an interview with Ben Anderson and Rainer Mühlhoff (2018)
Journal Article
Kemmer, L., Peters, C. H., Weber, V., Anderson, B., & Mühlhoff, R. (2019). On right-wing movements, spheres, and resonances: an interview with Ben Anderson and Rainer Mühlhoff. Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 20(1), 25-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910x.2018.1544577

This interview began in Hamburg and Berlin and continued virtually, as an active email exchange, between November 2017 and April 2018. Our conversation was sparked by the recent and ongoing turn to the right in global politics. It departs from explor... Read More about On right-wing movements, spheres, and resonances: an interview with Ben Anderson and Rainer Mühlhoff.

Sharing Economy (2018)
Book Chapter
Richardson, L. (2018). Sharing Economy. In J. Ash, R. Kitchin, & A. Leszczynski (Eds.), Digital geographies (200-209). SAGE Publications

Agency, power, and state-firm relations in global financial networks (2018)
Journal Article
Lai, K. P. (2018). Agency, power, and state-firm relations in global financial networks. Dialogues in Human Geography, 8(3), 285-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820618797463

In response to Töpfer’s incisive critique of how current work on global production networks and global financial networks (GFNs) have been too firm-centric and reliant on neoliberal market framings, this commentary highlights three key points for dev... Read More about Agency, power, and state-firm relations in global financial networks.

The illegal, the illicit and new geographies of uneven development (2018)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2020). The illegal, the illicit and new geographies of uneven development. Territory, Politics, Governance, 8(2), 161-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2018.1535998

There have been significant changes in the geographies of uneven development and a considerable literature documenting these, at varying spatial scales. There is, however, a significant absence in the urban and regional development literature as to t... Read More about The illegal, the illicit and new geographies of uneven development.

Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Kumar, A., Ferdous, R., Luque-Ayala, A., McEwan, C., Power, M., Turner, B., & Bulkeley, H. (2019). Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Energy Research and Social Science, 48, 166-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.005

Lanterns, homes systems, hot water systems and micro-grids based on small-scale solar have become prominent ways to address the energy access challenge. As momentum grows for this form of energy transition this paper draws together research on small-... Read More about Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

Marine Cultural Heritage: Frontier or Centre? (2018)
Journal Article
Lehman, J. (2018). Marine Cultural Heritage: Frontier or Centre?. International Social Science Journal, 68(229-230), 291-301. https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12155

Marine cultural heritage is an area of emerging international interest among different sectors of society. Drawing together a diverse set of literatures on marine cultural heritage, maritime archaeology, the development of the 2001 UNESCO Convention... Read More about Marine Cultural Heritage: Frontier or Centre?.

Speculations on the postnatural: Restoration, accumulation, and sacrifice at the Salton Sea (2018)
Journal Article
Cantor, A., & Knuth, S. (2019). Speculations on the postnatural: Restoration, accumulation, and sacrifice at the Salton Sea. Environment and Planning A, 51(2), 527-544. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18796510

Using a regional political ecology lens, this paper explores emerging geographies and politics of a “postnatural” ecomodernist turn in mainstream environmentalism. We examine the unfolding case of ecological restoration and renewable energy developme... Read More about Speculations on the postnatural: Restoration, accumulation, and sacrifice at the Salton Sea.

Urban transformative potential in a changing climate (2018)
Journal Article
Romero-Lankao, P., Bulkeley, H., Pelling, M., Burch, S., Gordon, D., Gupta, J., Johnson, C., Kurian, P., Lecavalier, E., Simon, D., Tozer, L., Ziervogel, G., & Munshi, D. (2018). Urban transformative potential in a changing climate. Nature Climate Change, 8(9), 754-756. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0264-0

The SDGs and CitiesIPCC offer an unprecedented opportunity for urban transformation, but bold, integrated action to address the constraints imposed by economic, cultural and political dynamics is needed. We move beyond a narrow, technocentric view an... Read More about Urban transformative potential in a changing climate.

Cities and Planetary Repair: The Problem with Climate Retrofitting (2018)
Journal Article
Knuth, S. (2019). Cities and Planetary Repair: The Problem with Climate Retrofitting. Environment and Planning A, 51(2), 487-504. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18793973

In the 2010s, major US initiatives framed urban retrofitting as a decarbonization solution. These programs address an obtrusive legacy of industrial capitalism: its built environments shed energy and emissions when they fall into disrepair. Political... Read More about Cities and Planetary Repair: The Problem with Climate Retrofitting.

Powering the State: The political geographies of electrification in Mozambique (2018)
Journal Article
Power, M., & Kirshner, J. (2019). Powering the State: The political geographies of electrification in Mozambique. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(3), 498-518. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654418784598

This paper explores the role of electricity infrastructures in helping to create, expand or limit the contours of the state in post-colonial Mozambique. Through a focus on recent electrification campaigns and attempts to improve sustainable energy ac... Read More about Powering the State: The political geographies of electrification in Mozambique.

Urban Living Laboratories: conducting the experimental city? (2018)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Marvin, S., Palgan, Y. V., McCormick, K., Breitfuss-Loidl, M., Mai, L., von Wirth, T., & Frantzeskaki, N. (2019). Urban Living Laboratories: conducting the experimental city?. European Urban and Regional Studies, 26(4), 317-335. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776418787222

The recent upsurge of interest in the experimental city as an arena within and through which urban sustainability is governed marks not only the emergence of the proliferation of forms of experimentation – from novel governance arrangements to demons... Read More about Urban Living Laboratories: conducting the experimental city?.