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From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies (2015)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., & Crang, M. (2015). From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 40(1), 151-176. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102014-021105

We outline the frameworks that shape and hold apart waste debates in and about Global North and South and that hinder analysis of flows between them. Typically waste is addressed as municipal waste, resulting in a focus on domestic consumption and ur... Read More about From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies.

Boredom, excitement and other security affects (2015)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2015). Boredom, excitement and other security affects. Dialogues in Human Geography, 5(3), 271-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820615607759

Expanding from Barnett’s critique of the emphasis in critical security work on ‘subjectivity through subjectification’, this response explores some of the ways in which geographers and others might attend to the diversity of security affects. Fear an... Read More about Boredom, excitement and other security affects.

The maintenance of urban circulation: An operational logic of infrastructural control (2015)
Journal Article
Luque-Ayala, A., & Marvin, S. (2016). The maintenance of urban circulation: An operational logic of infrastructural control. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34(2), 191-208. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775815611422

This paper examines the increased visibility of urban infrastructures occurring through a close coupling of information technologies and the selective integration of urban services. It asks how circulatory flow is managed in the contemporary city, by... Read More about The maintenance of urban circulation: An operational logic of infrastructural control.

Configuring urban carbon governance: insights from Sydney, Australia (2015)
Journal Article
McGuirk, P., Bulkeley, H., & Dowling, R. (2016). Configuring urban carbon governance: insights from Sydney, Australia. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(1), 145-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2015.1084670

In the political geography of responses to climate change, and the governance of carbon more specifically, the urban has emerged as a strategic site. Although it is recognized that urban carbon governance occurs through diverse programs and projects—... Read More about Configuring urban carbon governance: insights from Sydney, Australia.

Accomplishing Climate Governance (2015)
Book
Bulkeley, H. (2015). Accomplishing Climate Governance. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139839204

Governing Emergencies: The Politics of Delay and the Logic of Response (2015)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2016). Governing Emergencies: The Politics of Delay and the Logic of Response. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41(1), 14-26. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12100

The paper focuses on the problematisation of delay in state response to the event of 7/7 in the UK in 2005 as a way of understanding how emergencies are governed. It argues that the widespread political, public and organisational concern in the UK wi... Read More about Governing Emergencies: The Politics of Delay and the Logic of Response.

Water: an ethical opportunity for Canada (2015)
Book Chapter
Schmidt, J. J. (2015). Water: an ethical opportunity for Canada. In S. Davidson, J. Linton, & W. Mabee (Eds.), Water as social opportunity (29-51). McGill-Queens University Press

Financial advisors, financial ecologies and the variegated financialisation of everyday investors (2015)
Journal Article
Lai, K. P. (2016). Financial advisors, financial ecologies and the variegated financialisation of everyday investors. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41(1), 27-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12101

While recent work on financialisation of everyday life has elucidated the reshaping of everyday consumers as risk‐taking investors, the role of financial advisors (FAs) has been overlooked, even though they are key intermediaries in articulating hous... Read More about Financial advisors, financial ecologies and the variegated financialisation of everyday investors.

Governance traps in climate change politics: re-framing the debate in terms of responsibilities and rights (2015)
Journal Article
Newell, P., Bulkeley, H., Turner, K., Shaw, C., Caney, S., Shove, E., & Pidgeon, N. (2015). Governance traps in climate change politics: re-framing the debate in terms of responsibilities and rights. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 6(6), 535-540. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.356

There is a strong sense of malaise surrounding climate politics today. This has been created at least in part by factors such as the chasm between the scale of action required and the adequacy of current political commitments, stalemate in global neg... Read More about Governance traps in climate change politics: re-framing the debate in terms of responsibilities and rights.

Sociality and electricity in the United Kingdom: The influence of household dynamics on everyday consumption (2015)
Journal Article
Bell, S., Judson, E., Bulkeley, H., Powells, G., Capova, K., & Lynch, D. (2015). Sociality and electricity in the United Kingdom: The influence of household dynamics on everyday consumption. Energy Research and Social Science, 9, 98-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2015.08.027

Our paper investigates household practices that use electricity, their relation to systems of provision and the enactment of domestic sociality. The results of this research conducted in the UK shed light on puzzling variations in electricity consump... Read More about Sociality and electricity in the United Kingdom: The influence of household dynamics on everyday consumption.

Uneven development, socio-spatial polarisation and political responses (2015)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2015). Uneven development, socio-spatial polarisation and political responses. In T. Lang, S. Henn, W. Sgibnev, & K. Ehrlich (Eds.), Understanding geographies of polarisation and peripheralisation : perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond (25-39). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137415080_2

Although the causal mechanisms and processes are specific to different forms of societal organization, uneven development is a characteristic common to more advanced forms of societal development. Uneven development is therefore integral to the crisi... Read More about Uneven development, socio-spatial polarisation and political responses.

Fostering active network management through SMEs’practises (2015)
Journal Article
Powells, G., Bell, S., Judson, E. P., Lyon, S. M., Wardle, R., Capova, K. A., & Bulkeley, H. (2016). Fostering active network management through SMEs’practises. Energy Efficiency, 9(3), 591-604. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-015-9382-y

Managing the electricity network through ‘smart grid’ systems is a key strategy to address challenges of energy security, low carbon transitions and the replacement of ageing infrastructure networks in the UK. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have... Read More about Fostering active network management through SMEs’practises.

The Rise of the BRICS (2015)
Book Chapter
Power, M. (2015). The Rise of the BRICS. In J. Agnew, V. Mamadouh, A. Secor, & J. Sharp (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to political geography (379-392). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118725771.ch28

Coined in 2001 by an economist at the multinational global investment firm Goldman Sachs, the “BRICs” acronym (referring to Brazil, Russia, India, and China) identified a group of four countries that were, due to their scale, population size, and gro... Read More about The Rise of the BRICS.

Smart grids and the constitution of solar electricity conduct (2015)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Powells, G., & Bell, S. (2016). Smart grids and the constitution of solar electricity conduct. Environment and Planning A, 48(1), 7-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x15596748

In the face of challenges of energy security, low carbon transitions and the replacement of aging infrastructure networks, new logics for the development of smart electricity systems are emerging amongst utility providers and public authorities. Whil... Read More about Smart grids and the constitution of solar electricity conduct.

Global Finance and the Land Grab: Mapping Twenty-First Century Strategies (2015)
Journal Article
Knuth, S. E. (2015). Global Finance and the Land Grab: Mapping Twenty-First Century Strategies. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 36(2), 163-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2015.1046373

Understanding global land transformations today requires greater attention to finance, and how financial institutions are making land and property into financial assets. Drawing on geographical political economy and scholarship on financialisation, I... Read More about Global Finance and the Land Grab: Mapping Twenty-First Century Strategies.

After affirmation, or, being a loser. On vitalism, sacrifice, and cinders (2015)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2015). After affirmation, or, being a loser. On vitalism, sacrifice, and cinders. Geohumanities, 1(2), 285-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2015.1109469

What could it mean to hesitate before life? To be unwilling or unable to affirm existence? And who or what would suggest such a thing? What type of monster would embrace sadness over joy, despair over hope, failure over success? And yet this is what... Read More about After affirmation, or, being a loser. On vitalism, sacrifice, and cinders.

Travelling ethics: Valuing harmony, habitat and heritage while consuming people and places (2015)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2015). Travelling ethics: Valuing harmony, habitat and heritage while consuming people and places. Geoforum, 67, 194-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.010

A variety of ethical tourism initiatives have arisen which look at the distribution of benefits and costs arising from the movement of western tourists who are consuming places in the Global South. This paper troubles those positions. Taking the case... Read More about Travelling ethics: Valuing harmony, habitat and heritage while consuming people and places.

Making material memories: Kinmen’s bridging objects and fractured places between China and Taiwan (2015)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., & Crang, M. (2016). Making material memories: Kinmen’s bridging objects and fractured places between China and Taiwan. Cultural Geographies, 23(3), 421-439. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474015591488

The post-war material culture of Kinmen, a former military outpost in Taiwan, reveals a biography moving from conflict to hope for rapprochement, from matériel to militaria to souvenir. By experimenting with the concept of sensuous materialism, this... Read More about Making material memories: Kinmen’s bridging objects and fractured places between China and Taiwan.

Industrialisation and environmental change (2015)
Book Chapter
Barca, S., & Bridge, G. (2015). Industrialisation and environmental change. In T. Perreault, G. Bridge, & J. McCarthy (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of political ecology (366-377). Routledge

Solar hot water and housing systems in São Paulo, Brazil (2015)
Book Chapter
Luque-Ayala, A. (in press). Solar hot water and housing systems in São Paulo, Brazil. In H. Bulkeley, V. Castan Broto, & G. Edwards (Eds.), An Urban Politics of Climate Change: Experimentation and the Governing of Socio-Technical Transitions (157-176). Routledge