Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Outputs (882)

Emergency/Everyday (2016)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B. (2016). Emergency/Everyday. In A. Elias, & J. Burges (Eds.), Time: A Vocabulary of the Present. NYU Press

Conceptualizing Islamic banking and finance: a comparison of its development and governance in Malaysia and Singapore (2016)
Journal Article
Lai, K. P., & Samers, M. (2016). Conceptualizing Islamic banking and finance: a comparison of its development and governance in Malaysia and Singapore. The Pacific Review, 30(3), 405-424. https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2016.1264455

In response to the limited engagement with critical social science concerning the governance of Islamic banking and finance (IBF), this paper compares and conceptualizes the development and governance of IBF in Malaysia and Singapore. We argue that I... Read More about Conceptualizing Islamic banking and finance: a comparison of its development and governance in Malaysia and Singapore.

Green Devaluation: Disruption, Divestment, and Decommodification for a Green Economy (2016)
Journal Article
Knuth, S. (2016). Green Devaluation: Disruption, Divestment, and Decommodification for a Green Economy. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 28(1), 98-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2016.1266001

This paper argues that taking up questions of value can help political ecologists and economists develop a more powerful analysis of the green economy, as it introduces new urban, industrial, and technological dimensions into a self-identified green... Read More about Green Devaluation: Disruption, Divestment, and Decommodification for a Green Economy.

Illicit economies: customary illegality, moral economies and circulation (2016)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., & Crang, M. (2017). Illicit economies: customary illegality, moral economies and circulation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(2), 206-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12158

This paper is concerned with how to think the illicit and illegal as part of economies. Economic geography has only recently begun to address this challenge but in limited ways. The paper shows the difficulties with those approaches, chief among whic... Read More about Illicit economies: customary illegality, moral economies and circulation.

Feminist geographies of digital work (2016)
Journal Article
Richardson, L. (2018). Feminist geographies of digital work. Progress in Human Geography, 42(2), 244-263. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516677177

Feminist thought challenges essentialist and normative categorizations of ‘work’. Therefore, feminism provides a critical lens on ‘working space’ as a theoretical and empirical focus for digital geographies. Digital technologies extend and intensify... Read More about Feminist geographies of digital work.

Using Art to Fight HIV/AIDS in Uganda (2016)
Book Chapter
Nabulime, L., & McEwan, C. (2016). Using Art to Fight HIV/AIDS in Uganda. In P. Stupples, & K. Teaiwa (Eds.), Contemporary perspectives in art and international development (151-164). Routledge

Fairtrade, place and moral economy: between abstract ethical discourse and the moral experience of Northern Cape farmers (2016)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., Hughes, A., & Bek, D. (2017). Fairtrade, place and moral economy: between abstract ethical discourse and the moral experience of Northern Cape farmers. Environment and Planning A, 49(3), 572-591. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16674722

This paper explores the significance of the relationships and disjunctures between the global moral discourses of Fairtrade that are articulated through ethics of fairness in supply chains and the everyday moral experiences, discourses and practices... Read More about Fairtrade, place and moral economy: between abstract ethical discourse and the moral experience of Northern Cape farmers.

Holding together logistical worlds: friction, seams and circulation in the emerging ‘global warehouse’ (2016)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., & Antonopoulos, C. (2017). Holding together logistical worlds: friction, seams and circulation in the emerging ‘global warehouse’. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(3), 381-398. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816671721

This paper examines logistics in the space of action between production and consumption to provide (1) a rethinking of logistical power, not as seamless flow but through seam space and friction, and (2) a re-conceptualisation of cargo mobilities, as... Read More about Holding together logistical worlds: friction, seams and circulation in the emerging ‘global warehouse’.

Urban Living Labs: Governing Urban Sustainability Transitions (2016)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Coenen, L., Frantzeskaki, N., Hartmann, C., Kronsell, A., Mai, L., …Voytenko Palgan, Y. (2016). Urban Living Labs: Governing Urban Sustainability Transitions. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, 13-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.02.003

Urban Living Labs (ULL) are advanced as an explicit form of intervention delivering sustainability goals for cities. Established at the boundaries between research, innovation and policy, ULL are intended to design, demonstrate and learn about the ef... Read More about Urban Living Labs: Governing Urban Sustainability Transitions.

Spatial processes and politics of renewable energy transition: land, zones and frictions in South Africa (2016)
Journal Article
McEwan, C. (2016). Spatial processes and politics of renewable energy transition: land, zones and frictions in South Africa. Political Geography, 56, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.10.001

This paper seeks to make a contribution to on-going debates about how to conceptualise the spatial processes of renewable energy transition. It makes a case for understanding renewable energy transitions as simultaneously spatial and political proces... Read More about Spatial processes and politics of renewable energy transition: land, zones and frictions in South Africa.

Oil (2016)
Book
Bridge, G., & Le Billon, P. Oil. (2nd). Polity

Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities (2016)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., McFarlane, C., & MacLeod, G. (2018). Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities. Urban Studies, 55(4), 702-719. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016663836

As the 21st Century world assumes an increasingly urban landscape, the question of how definitive urban spaces are to be governed intensifies. At the heart of this debate lies a question about the degree and type of autonomy that towns and cities mig... Read More about Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities.

Rising powers and the drivers of uneven global development (2016)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2016). Rising powers and the drivers of uneven global development. Area Development and Policy, 1(3), 279-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2016.1227271

The emergence of the rising powers has been seen as heralding a fundamental shift in global economic geography. It can also be seen as the latest expression of capitalist economic development. I first consider theorizations of this development as com... Read More about Rising powers and the drivers of uneven global development.

Ethics in the Anthropocene: A research agenda (2016)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J., Brown, P. G., & Orr, C. J. (2016). Ethics in the Anthropocene: A research agenda. Anthropocene Review, 3(3), 188-200. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019616662052

The quantitative evidence of human impacts on the Earth System has produced new calls for planetary stewardship. At the same time, numerous scholars reject modern social sciences by claiming that the Anthropocene fundamentally changes the human condi... Read More about Ethics in the Anthropocene: A research agenda.