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Property and the Right to Water: Toward a Non-Liberal Commons (2013)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J., & Mitchell, K. R. (2014). Property and the Right to Water: Toward a Non-Liberal Commons. Review of Radical Political Economics, 46(1), 54-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613413488069

This paper examines the turn to considerations of property in arguments regarding the commons and the human right to water. It identifies commitments to liberalism in political economy approaches to property and human rights and develops a matrix for... Read More about Property and the Right to Water: Toward a Non-Liberal Commons.

Modern Water Ethics: Implications for Shared Governance. (2013)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J., & Shrubsole, D. (2013). Modern Water Ethics: Implications for Shared Governance. Environmental Values, 22(3), 359-379. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327113x13648087563746

It has been suggested that water and social values were divorced in modernity. This paper argues otherwise. First, it demonstrates the historical link between ethics and politics using the case of American water governance. It engages theories regard... Read More about Modern Water Ethics: Implications for Shared Governance..

The Intermediary Organisation of Low Carbon Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Transitions in Greater London and Greater Manchester (2013)
Journal Article
Hodson, M., Marvin, S., & Bulkeley, H. (2013). The Intermediary Organisation of Low Carbon Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Transitions in Greater London and Greater Manchester. Urban Studies, 50(7), 1403-1422. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013480967

Making a low carbon economic future for the UK has been declared a key priority by both the previous Labour government and also the current coalition government. Yet there is a large gap between the symbolic representations of a low carbon future and... Read More about The Intermediary Organisation of Low Carbon Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Transitions in Greater London and Greater Manchester.

Toxic assets, turbulence and biopolitical security: Governing the crisis of global financial circulation (2013)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2013). Toxic assets, turbulence and biopolitical security: Governing the crisis of global financial circulation. Security Dialogue, 44(2), 111-126. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010613479425

Focusing on a highly significant governmental intervention in the global financial market crisis – the US Treasury Department’s Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) of autumn 2008 – this article makes a threefold contribution to the growing literatu... Read More about Toxic assets, turbulence and biopolitical security: Governing the crisis of global financial circulation.

Ethics and water governance (2013)
Journal Article
Groenfeldt, D., & Schmidt, J. J. (2013). Ethics and water governance. Ecology and Society, 18(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.5751/es-04629-180114

Ethics and values are important dimensions of water governance. We show how a "values approach" contributes to an understanding of global water governance, and how it complements other perspectives on governance, namely management, institutional capa... Read More about Ethics and water governance.

Retailers, Supply Networks and Changing Articulations of Ethicality: Lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa (2013)
Journal Article
Hughes, A., McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2013). Retailers, Supply Networks and Changing Articulations of Ethicality: Lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa. Journal of Economic Geography, 13(2), 211-230. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbs049

This article advances debate on retailers’ supply networks and ethical trade using the case of sustainably harvested wildflower bouquets supplied from South Africa to domestic and UK retailers. It illustrates three developments concerning: an evolvin... Read More about Retailers, Supply Networks and Changing Articulations of Ethicality: Lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa.

Geographies of energy transition: Space, place and the low-carbon economy (2013)
Journal Article
Bridge, G., Bouzarovski, S., Bradshaw, M., & Eyre, N. (2013). Geographies of energy transition: Space, place and the low-carbon economy. Energy Policy, 53, 331-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.066

This paper makes a case for examining energy transition as a geographical process, involving the reconfiguration of current patterns and scales of economic and social activity. The paper draws on a seminar series on the ‘Geographies of Energy Transit... Read More about Geographies of energy transition: Space, place and the low-carbon economy.

Revisiting the urban politics of climate change (2013)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., & Betsill, M. (2013). Revisiting the urban politics of climate change. Environmental Politics, 22(1), 136-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2013.755797

In our 2005 paper, Rethinking Sustainable Cities, we made a case for the increasing significance of climate change in the urban politics of sustainability. Taking a multilevel governance perspective, we argued that the ‘urban’ governance of climate p... Read More about Revisiting the urban politics of climate change.

Reappraising Geopolitical Traditions. (2013)
Book Chapter
Sidaway, J., Mamadouh, V., & Power, M. (2013). Reappraising Geopolitical Traditions. In K. Dodds, M. Kuus, & J. Sharp (Eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics (165-188). Ashgate Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315612874.ch9

This chapter reworks some material from Sidaway and Mamadouh (2012) and Mamadouh (1998). We are grateful to Pearson and Kluwer for permission to rework and incorporate that material here. We are also grateful to Klaus Dodds and Merje Kuus for their h... Read More about Reappraising Geopolitical Traditions..

Souvenirs, salvage and storied things: remembering community (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crang, M. (2013, December). Souvenirs, salvage and storied things: remembering community. Presented at I am seeing things, Edinburgh, Scotland

What I am talking about comes from a much larger set of projects with a number of collaborators so I will be ventriloquising along the way today. What effect does it have if we take that supply chain and value chain and take it even further, into the... Read More about Souvenirs, salvage and storied things: remembering community.

Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks (2013)
Journal Article
Crang, M., Hughes, A., Gregson, N., Norris, L., & Ahamed, F. (2013). Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(1), 12-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00515.x

The dominant political-economic approaches to global trade flows known as global value chains and global production networks offer powerful insights into the coordination and location of globally stretched supply chains, in particular from global Sou... Read More about Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks.

Fuelling Global Production Networks with Slave Labour?: Migrant Sugar Cane Workers in the Brazilian Ethanol GPN (2013)
Journal Article
McGrath, S. (2013). Fuelling Global Production Networks with Slave Labour?: Migrant Sugar Cane Workers in the Brazilian Ethanol GPN. Geoforum, 44, 32-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.06.011

This article presents an analysis of slave labour (as it is known in Brazil) among sugar cane workers within a globalising production network. It employs the Global Production Network (GPN) framework to argue that the dynamics of production networks... Read More about Fuelling Global Production Networks with Slave Labour?: Migrant Sugar Cane Workers in the Brazilian Ethanol GPN.

Oil (2013)
Book
Bridge, G., & Le Billon, P. (2013). Oil. Polity

Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power, and market growth. The legacy of this age of plenty includ... Read More about Oil.

Timespaces in the Debris of Globalisation. (2012)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2012). Timespaces in the Debris of Globalisation. In J. Rugg, & C. Martin (Eds.), Spatialities: The Geographies of Art and Architecture (25-34). Intellect

A good place to start this chapter is by thinking about Anne Tallentire's Dimora works and how they fit in the overall arc of work that addresses displacement, globalization and so forth. What I think the Dimora series offers is pictures that are spe... Read More about Timespaces in the Debris of Globalisation..

Mary Kingsley. (2012)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2012). Mary Kingsley. In H. Gates, & E. Akyeampong (Eds.), Dictionary of African Biography. OUP