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Digital Interface Design and Power: Friction, Threshold, Transition (2018)
Journal Article
Ash, J., Anderson, B., Gordon, R., & Langley, P. (2018). Digital Interface Design and Power: Friction, Threshold, Transition. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(3), 1136-1153. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818767426

This paper draws upon the example of High-Cost Short-Term Credit products accessed via digital interfaces and devices to examine practices of interface design and the operation of digitally mediated power. Utilising interviews with High-Cost Short-Te... Read More about Digital Interface Design and Power: Friction, Threshold, Transition.

Digital Territories: Google Maps as a Political Technique in the Re-making of Urban Informality (2018)
Journal Article
Luque-Ayala, A., & Neves Maia, F. (2019). Digital Territories: Google Maps as a Political Technique in the Re-making of Urban Informality. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(3), 449-467. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818766069

This article examines the mobilisation of spatial media technologies for digitally mapping informal settlements. It argues that digital mapping operates politically through a re-configuration of circulation, power, and territorial formations. Drawing... Read More about Digital Territories: Google Maps as a Political Technique in the Re-making of Urban Informality.

Cultural Geography II: The Force of Representations (2018)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2019). Cultural Geography II: The Force of Representations. Progress in Human Geography, 43(6), 1120-1132. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518761431

Cultural geography is once again concerned with representations. In this report I focus on how, in the wake of various non-representational theories, recent work stays with what texts, images, words, and other representations do. I argue that this wo... Read More about Cultural Geography II: The Force of Representations.

Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco (2018)
Book
Anthias, P. (2018). Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco. Cornell University Press

Penelope Anthias’s Limits to Decolonization addresses one of the most important issues in contemporary indigenous politics: struggles for territory. Based on the experience of thirty-six Guaraní communities in the Bolivian Chaco, Anthias reveals how... Read More about Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco.

From state to system: financialization and the water-energy-food-climate nexus (2018)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J., & Matthews, N. (2018). From state to system: financialization and the water-energy-food-climate nexus. Geoforum, 91, 151-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.03.001

The water-energy-food-climate nexus has risen rapidly in global water governance over the past decade. This article examines the role of global financial networks in articulating the nexus and in connecting it to sustainability programs. It provides... Read More about From state to system: financialization and the water-energy-food-climate nexus.

Planning working futures: precarious work through carceral space (2018)
Journal Article
Richardson, L., & Thieme, T. (2020). Planning working futures: precarious work through carceral space. Social and Cultural Geography, 21(1), 25-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1446216

Geographies of precarious work are advanced through an eight month qualitative study of prisoners nearing release from HMP Brixton in London, providing a spatial rendering of working uncertainty. This builds on geographical scholarship highlighting t... Read More about Planning working futures: precarious work through carceral space.

Travelling People and Things:The Creation of Differentiated Mobilities in a World on the Move (2018)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2018). Travelling People and Things:The Creation of Differentiated Mobilities in a World on the Move. Kankogaku hyoron, 6(1), 49-54

This short paper will just try and pick apart a couple of examples to reveal how mobilities are both differentiated and differentiate among people. That is they are both a function of social status but also help enact social status. Slightly against... Read More about Travelling People and Things:The Creation of Differentiated Mobilities in a World on the Move.

Brexit and shifting geographies of financial centres in Asia (2018)
Journal Article
Lai, K. P., & Pan, F. (2021). Brexit and shifting geographies of financial centres in Asia. Geoforum, 125, 201-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.004

Brexit could have profound impacts on the global financial landscape, as the global economy and financial markets are increasingly inter-connected. London’s role as the top international financial centre in Europe could be threatened due to the uncer... Read More about Brexit and shifting geographies of financial centres in Asia.

Financialisation of everyday life (2018)
Book Chapter
Lai, K. P. (2018). Financialisation of everyday life. In G. L. Clark, M. P. Feldmann, M. Gertler, & D. Wojcik (Eds.), The new Oxford handbook of economic geography (611-627). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755609.013.29

Over the past few decades, there has been a broad expansion of financial power in which the biopolitical terrain of individual subjectivity, aspiration and forms of conduct at an individual level is increasingly tied to global financial structures. T... Read More about Financialisation of everyday life.

Bureaucratic territory: First Nations, private property, and “turn-key” colonialism in Canada (2018)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2018). Bureaucratic territory: First Nations, private property, and “turn-key” colonialism in Canada. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(4), 901-916. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2017.1403878

Since 2006, successive Canadian governments have worked to create private property regimes on lands reserved for First Nations. This article examines how the state framed the theory and history of Aboriginal property rights to achieve this goal. It t... Read More about Bureaucratic territory: First Nations, private property, and “turn-key” colonialism in Canada.

The folds of social finance: Making markets, remaking the social (2018)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2020). The folds of social finance: Making markets, remaking the social. Environment and Planning A, 52(1), 130-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x17752682

The global financial crisis acted as a spur to ‘social finance’, a loose grouping of markets demarcated on the grounds of their ostensible social purpose. This article’s critical analysis of social finance contributes to cultural economy research int... Read More about The folds of social finance: Making markets, remaking the social.

Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation (2017)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., & Bulkeley, H. (2018). Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(2), 350-369. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775817747885

Seeking to govern the city in relation to climate change is a political project that at once imagines the present in terms of the future and the future in terms of the present. The urban politics of climate change has brought multiple visions of the... Read More about Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation.