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Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem? (2021)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2021). Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem?. Area Development and Policy, 6(2), 123-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1854615

Capitalist economies are structured around two fundamental contradictions. The first lies within the social relations of capital, and the second in the ‘metabolic rift’ between capital accumulation and nature. While the adverse effects of the first d... Read More about Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem?.

On not seeking asylum: migrant masculinities and the politics of refusal (2021)
Journal Article
Newhouse, L. (2021). On not seeking asylum: migrant masculinities and the politics of refusal. Geoforum, 120, 176-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.01.024

Much contemporary research on precarious mobility starts from the perspective that people moving across borders will seek out opportunities for legal protection, if these are available to them. However, this is not always the case, as some migrants w... Read More about On not seeking asylum: migrant masculinities and the politics of refusal.

Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City (2021)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2021). Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City. Environmental Politics, 30(1-2), 266-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1880713

In the 30 years since the journal Environmental Politics was founded, we have witnessed a profound shift in how we understand climate from its initial framing as global problem, to one that is increasingly understood as transnational, personal, urban... Read More about Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City.

Turbulent waters in three parts (2021)
Journal Article
Lehman, J., Steinberg, P., & Johnson, E. (2021). Turbulent waters in three parts. Theory and Event, 24(1), 192-219

While scientific accounts of ocean dynamics draw public attention to the turbulence of earthly matter, the science alone tells a truncated story. The ocean's turbulent materiality is more than material: practices of scientific knowledge and historica... Read More about Turbulent waters in three parts.

Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama (2021)
Journal Article
Gallardo, B., Bridge, G., & Prieto, M. (2021). Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama. Geoforum, 119, 177-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.01.001

Geographical research on lithium and other renewable energy materials explores the geopolitical dimensions of resource supply and the 'new geographies' associated with an expanding resource frontier. The material characteristics and environmental con... Read More about Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama.

Exploring the Benefits of Small Catchments on Rural Spatial Governance in Wuling Mountain Area, China (2021)
Journal Article
Qiao, J., Crang, M., Hong, L., & Li, X. (2021). Exploring the Benefits of Small Catchments on Rural Spatial Governance in Wuling Mountain Area, China. Sustainability, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020760

China is facing an important period of rural governance innovation and restructuring of territorial spatial patterns. This paper selects catchments as the most closely related spatial units for rural industrial development and rural settlement activi... Read More about Exploring the Benefits of Small Catchments on Rural Spatial Governance in Wuling Mountain Area, China.

Water ethics: philosophy in practice (guest statement) (2020)
Book Chapter
Schmidt, J. J. (2020). Water ethics: philosophy in practice (guest statement). In P. Dearden, B. Mitchell, & E. O'Connell (Eds.), Environmental Change and Challenge: A Canadian Perspective (420-421). (6th ed.). Oxford University Press

'Brexit Betrayal' and other Post Crisis Affects (2020)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B. (2020). 'Brexit Betrayal' and other Post Crisis Affects. In M. Kesting, & S. Witzgall (Eds.), Politics of Emotion/Power of Affects. The University of Chicago Press

Impact investors: The ethical financialization of development, society and nature (2020)
Book Chapter
Langley, P. (2021). Impact investors: The ethical financialization of development, society and nature. In J. Knox-Hayes, & D. Wojcik (Eds.), Routledge handbook of financial geography. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351119061

With increasing numbers of investors rejecting the notion that they face a binary choice between investing for maximum risk-adjusted returns or donating for social purpose, the impact investment market is at a significant turning point as it enters t... Read More about Impact investors: The ethical financialization of development, society and nature.

FinTech: The dis/re-intermediation of finance? (2020)
Book Chapter
Lai, K. P. (2020). FinTech: The dis/re-intermediation of finance?. In J. Knox-Hayes, & D. Wójcik (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography (440-458). Routledge

FinTech encompasses a new wave of companies developing new products and platforms to change the way businesses and consumers make payments, lend, borrow and invest. This chapter examines the ways in which FinTech products and services are reshaping t... Read More about FinTech: The dis/re-intermediation of finance?.

Urban real estate technologies: genealogies, frontiers, & critiques (2020)
Journal Article
Payne, W., Knuth, S., & Mahmoudi, D. (2020). Urban real estate technologies: genealogies, frontiers, & critiques. Urban Geography, 41(8), 1033-1036. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1820678

The production, perception, and representation of urban space and urban property relations have been urgent “technological” questions since before the birth of urban geography as a discipline. The growth and differentiation of cities worldwide has be... Read More about Urban real estate technologies: genealogies, frontiers, & critiques.

Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale (2020)
Journal Article
Knuth, S., Stehlin, J., & Millington, N. (2020). Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale. Urban Geography, 41(10), 1335-1343. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1850024

In the face of climate destabilizations and breakdowns, debates about (de)growth and scale have been particularly significant within critical scholarship. These debates counterpose radically different political positionings, with implications for how... Read More about Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale.

The making of ethnic territories: Governmentality and counter-conducts (2020)
Journal Article
Anthias, P., & Hoffmann, K. (2021). The making of ethnic territories: Governmentality and counter-conducts. Geoforum, 119, 218-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.06.027

“Ethnic territories” were a central political technology of colonial rule, which also shaped strategies of anti-colonial resistance in diverse contexts. Today, in former colonies, the making of ethnic territories remains a key site of both government... Read More about The making of ethnic territories: Governmentality and counter-conducts.

Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm (2020)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2021). Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm. European Urban and Regional Studies, 28(1), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776420965639

Following the confirmation by the UK Parliament that the UK would leave the European Union on 1 January 2021, this article analyses the likely impact of BREXIT on socio-spatial inequalities in the UK. It argues that inequalities will be further ampli... Read More about Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm.

Industrial Dynamics on the Commodity Frontier: managing time, space and form in mining, tree plantations and intensive aquaculture (2020)
Journal Article
Banoub, D., Bridge, G., Bustos, B., Ertör, I., González-Hidalgo, M., & de los Reyes, J. (2021). Industrial Dynamics on the Commodity Frontier: managing time, space and form in mining, tree plantations and intensive aquaculture. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 4(4), 1533-1559. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620963362

Research in political ecology and agrarian political economy has shown how commodity frontiers are constituted through the appropriation and transformation of nature. This work identifies two broad processes of socio-metabolism associated with commod... Read More about Industrial Dynamics on the Commodity Frontier: managing time, space and form in mining, tree plantations and intensive aquaculture.

Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism (2020)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2021). Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism. Review of International Political Economy, 28(2), 382-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1830828

In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007–09, political economists have typically identified and interrogated speculative logics and credit-debt relations as the markers of financialized capitalism. This paper argues that assets, and the con... Read More about Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism.