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Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies (2021)
Journal Article
Knuth, S. (2023). Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies. Environment and Planning A, 55(6), 1548–1564. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x211062601

Progressive movements today call for transformative state-led investment in renewable energy and other climate infrastructures—in the United States, a vision that confronts inherited legacies of austerity. I argue that a significant obstacle is the n... Read More about Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies.

Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction (2021)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2021). Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction. Environmental Humanities, 13(2), 281-300. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9320156

In 2019, several funerals were held for glaciers. If enough glaciers die, could they go extinct? Is there geologic extinction? Yes. This article develops three arguments to support this claim. The first revisits Georges Cuvier’s original argument for... Read More about Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction.

Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights (2021)
Journal Article
Jenkins, W., Rosa, L., Schmidt, J., Band, L., Beltran-Peña, A., Clarens, A., Doney, S., Emanuel, R. E., Glassie, A., Quinn, J., Rulli, M. C., Shobe, W., Szeptycki, L., & D'Odorico, P. (2021). Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights. Bioscience, 71(11), 1157-1170. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab088

Although a wide body of scholarly research recognizes multiple kinds of values for water, water security assessments typically employ just some of them. In the present article, we integrate value scenarios into a planetary water security model to inc... Read More about Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights.

Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia (2021)
Journal Article
Liu, F. H., & Lai, K. P. (2021). Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia. Environment and Planning A, 53(8), 1896-1914. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x211038349

In this paper, we analyse the recent development of green sukuk (often referred to as an Islamic green bond) since its issuance in Malaysia in 2017, and critically evaluate whether it addresses some of the existing contradictions of green finance. Us... Read More about Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia.

The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Grove, K., Rickards, L., Anderson, B., & Kearnes, M. (2022). The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19. Geographical Research, 60(1), 6-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12501

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic strains conventional temporal imaginaries through which emergencies are typically understood and governed. Rather than a transparent and linear temporality, which envisions a smooth transition across the series event/dis... Read More about The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19.

Demonic Possession: Narratives of Domestic Abuse and Trauma in Malaysia (2021)
Journal Article
Sahdan, Z., Pain, R., & McEwan, C. (2022). Demonic Possession: Narratives of Domestic Abuse and Trauma in Malaysia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47(2), 286-301. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12485

Every society deploys narratives concerning the phenomenon of domestic abuse which serve to downplay and normalise it. Drawing on qualitative research with survivors in Malaysia, and working from a feminist postcolonial framework, this paper explores... Read More about Demonic Possession: Narratives of Domestic Abuse and Trauma in Malaysia.

The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: A Review (2021)
Journal Article
Blondeel, M., Bradshaw, M., Bridge, G., & Kuzemko, C. (2021). The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: A Review. Geography Compass, 15(7), Article e12580. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12580

In 2009, Geography Compass published a paper on ‘The Geopolitics of Global Energy Security’ that reviewed research on the key geographical factors influencing the secure and affordable supply of energy resources. Now, just over a decade later, the en... Read More about The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: A Review.

Geopoetics as Disruptive Aesthetics: Vignettes from Cairo (2021)
Journal Article
Nassar, A. (2021). Geopoetics as Disruptive Aesthetics: Vignettes from Cairo. Geohumanities, 7(2), 455-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2021.1913436

In this paper, I perform an approach for a material and affective geography of the postcolonial city that is developed from within the spaces of Cairo and its archives. I propose storytelling the city through its geopoetics, where geopoetics emphasiz... Read More about Geopoetics as Disruptive Aesthetics: Vignettes from Cairo.

Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university (2021)
Journal Article
Hindle, C., McEwan, C., Boliver, V., Maclarnon, A., Simpson, B., & Brown, H. (2021). Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university. Learning and Teaching, 14(2), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2021.140202

Targets set by the UK Office for Students require highly academically selective UK universities to enrol a greater percentage of students identified as least likely to participate in higher education. Such students are typically at a disadvantage in... Read More about Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university.

Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets (2021)
Journal Article
Langley, P., Bridge, G., Bulkeley, H., & van Veelen, B. (2021). Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets. Economy and Society, 50(3), 494-516. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1860335

rivate investment capital is now widely regarded as strategically significant to the governance of climate change. A dedicated and dynamic carbon finance sector has emerged that features techniques and practices for decarbonizing capital, facilitatin... Read More about Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets.

Thirty states of renewability: Controversial energies and the politics of incumbent industry (2021)
Journal Article
Behrsin, I., Knuth, S., & Levenda, A. (2022). Thirty states of renewability: Controversial energies and the politics of incumbent industry. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(2), 762-786. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211006340

Renewable energy advocates have positioned a wide array of technologically novel energy sources as fossil fuel alternatives. These efforts to usher in renewable energy transitions have long been shaped by definitional contestations. Political ecologi... Read More about Thirty states of renewability: Controversial energies and the politics of incumbent industry.

Affect and Critique: A Politics of Boredom (2021)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2021). Affect and Critique: A Politics of Boredom. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(2), 197-217

What are the politics of boredom? And how should we relate to boredom? In this paper, I explore these questions through cases where the disaffection and restlessness of boredom have become a matter of concern in the UK and USA at the junctures betwee... Read More about Affect and Critique: A Politics of Boredom.

Water as Global Social Policy—International Organizations, Resource Scarcity, and Environmental Security (2021)
Book Chapter
Schmidt, J. J. (2021). Water as Global Social Policy—International Organizations, Resource Scarcity, and Environmental Security. In K. Martens, D. Niemann, & A. Kaash (Eds.), International Organizations in Global Social Governance (275-296). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65439-9_12

Water is an important area of global social policy. This chapter provides historical context for understanding how international organizations developed a distinctly global orientation to water policy alongside the emergence of global hydrology in th... Read More about Water as Global Social Policy—International Organizations, Resource Scarcity, and Environmental Security.

Economy and society in COVID times (2021)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2021). Economy and society in COVID times. Economy and Society, 50(2), 149-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1900653

The Editorial Board of Economy and Society has assembled a virtual collection of 12 free access papers to mark a very significant anniversary – Volume 50 of the journal is being published during 2021. This overview explains the rationale for the coll... Read More about Economy and society in COVID times.

Ripe to be Heard: Worker Voice in the Fair Food Programme (2021)
Journal Article
Mieres, F., & McGrath, S. (2021). Ripe to be Heard: Worker Voice in the Fair Food Programme. International Labour Review, 160(4), 631-647. https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12204

The Fair Food Program (FFP) provides a mechanism through which agricultural workers’ collective voice is expressed, heard and responded to within global value chains. The FFP's model of worker-driven social responsibility presents an alternative to t... Read More about Ripe to be Heard: Worker Voice in the Fair Food Programme.

Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence (2021)
Journal Article
Wei Zheng, H., Bouzarovski, S., Knuth, S., Panteli, M., Schindler, S., Ward, K., & Williams, J. (2023). Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence. Geopolitics, 28(1), 310-332. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2021.1901084

This paper examines the socio-economic and geopolitical outcomes associated with infrastructure development across multiple scales. Starting from the premise that planetary socio-technical transformations in this vein have distinctly national drivers... Read More about Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence.

Bringing Climate Politics Home: Lived Experiences of Flooding and Housing Insecurity in a Natural Gas Boomtown (2021)
Journal Article
Lehman, J., & Kinchy, A. (2021). Bringing Climate Politics Home: Lived Experiences of Flooding and Housing Insecurity in a Natural Gas Boomtown. Geoforum, 121, 152-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.02.022

As the extraction of shale gas and oil transforms localities, these places emerge as important if understudied sites of contemporary carbon politics. In this paper, we develop a new approach for examining lived connections between fossil fuel extract... Read More about Bringing Climate Politics Home: Lived Experiences of Flooding and Housing Insecurity in a Natural Gas Boomtown.

The Dys-appearing Fat Body: Bodily Intensities and Fatphobic Sociomaterialities when Flying Whilst Fat (2021)
Journal Article
Colls, R., Evans, B., & Bias, S. (2021). The Dys-appearing Fat Body: Bodily Intensities and Fatphobic Sociomaterialities when Flying Whilst Fat. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1866485

This paper offers an exploration of the embodied experiences of flying whilst fat, based on research with a significantly larger group of people than any previous research on this topic (795 surveys and 28 interviews with fat people largely, though n... Read More about The Dys-appearing Fat Body: Bodily Intensities and Fatphobic Sociomaterialities when Flying Whilst Fat.