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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?.

The road to Brexit on the British coalfields (2018)
Book Chapter
Beynon, H., & Hudson, R. (2018). The road to Brexit on the British coalfields. In M. Traub-Werner, J. Peck, R. Lave, & B. Christophers (Eds.), Doreen Massey: Critical Dialogues (161-172). Agenda Publishing. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv5cg810.16

The late 1960s/early 1970s was a turbulent time. Although it may seem hard for those who weren’t around at the time to believe it now, there was then quite a lively debate in geography about how best to understand uneven development and which theoret... Read More about The road to Brexit on the British coalfields.

Singapore: Connecting Asian markets with global finance (2018)
Book Chapter
Lai, K. P. (2018). Singapore: Connecting Asian markets with global finance. In Y. Cassis, & D. Wojcik (Eds.), International Financial Centres: After the Global Financial Crisis and Brexit (154-181). Oxford University Press

Affectve materialism (2018)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2018). Affectve materialism. Dialogues in Human Geography, 8(2), 229-231

Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to special issue (2018)
Journal Article
Bridge, G., Özkaynak, B., & Turhan, E. (2018). Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to special issue. Energy Research and Social Science, 41, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.029

In this article we introduce a Special Issue of Energy Research and Social Science focused on energy infrastructure and the political economy of national development. Many countries are experiencing transformational growth in energy infrastructure, s... Read More about Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to special issue.

Frontier financialization: Urban infrastructure in the United Kingdom (2018)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2018). Frontier financialization: Urban infrastructure in the United Kingdom. Economic Anthropology, 5(2), 172-184. https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12115

This article contributes to critical social scientific understanding of the significance of state power to the furtherance of the financialization of socioeconomic life. Drawing on the poststructural theories of power of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Fou... Read More about Frontier financialization: Urban infrastructure in the United Kingdom.

“Breakthroughs” for a Green Economy? Financialization and Clean Energy Transition (2018)
Journal Article
Knuth, S. (2018). “Breakthroughs” for a Green Economy? Financialization and Clean Energy Transition. Energy Research and Social Science, 41, 220-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.024

Reimagining energy infrastructures for the 21st century increasingly means choosing between competing economic futures, a dilemma that is now provoking conflicts across many places and realms. In the United States, one critical clash is unfolding amo... Read More about “Breakthroughs” for a Green Economy? Financialization and Clean Energy Transition.

Anti-slavery as development: a global politics of rescue (2018)
Journal Article
McGrath, S., & Watson, S. (2018). Anti-slavery as development: a global politics of rescue. Geoforum, 93, 22-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.04.013

Trafficking, forced labour and ‘slavery’ (TFLS) have become a central cause for our time, but anti-TFLS efforts have also come under forceful criticism. Amidst these ongoing debates, we observe that TFLS is currently being reframed as a problem of an... Read More about Anti-slavery as development: a global politics of rescue.

Down the black hole: Sustaining national socio-technical imaginaries of coal in Poland (2018)
Journal Article
Kuchler, M., & Bridge, G. (2018). Down the black hole: Sustaining national socio-technical imaginaries of coal in Poland. Energy Research and Social Science, 41, 136-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.014

This paper explores the socio-technical imaginaries surrounding infrastructures of coal mining and coal combustion in Poland. Contemporary policy makers in Poland mobilise a national imaginary inherited from communist times – encapsulated in the slog... Read More about Down the black hole: Sustaining national socio-technical imaginaries of coal in Poland.