Outputs (882)

Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): research agendas beyond the “debt-trap” discourse (2020)
Journal Article
Lai, K. P., Lin, S., & Sidaway, J. D. (2020). Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): research agendas beyond the “debt-trap” discourse. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 61(2), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2020.1726787

By way of introduction to the four papers that follow, we chart some key parameters of debate about finance and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In particular, we argue that the rise of discourses about “predatory lending” and “debt trap” (that fe... Read More about Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): research agendas beyond the “debt-trap” discourse.

Impact Investing, Social Enterprise and Global Development (2020)
Book Chapter
Stolz, D., & Lai, K. P. (2020). Impact Investing, Social Enterprise and Global Development. In P. Mader, D. Mertens, & N. van der Zwan (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of financialization (288-300). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315142876-24

The financialization of life (2020)
Book Chapter
Langley, P. (2020). The financialization of life. In P. Mader, D. Mertens, & N. van der Zwan (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of financialization. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315142876-6

The purpose of this chapter is to elaborate upon financialization research that draws on the post-structural theorizations of contemporary power relations provided by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. The intertwined theoretical projects of Foucaul... Read More about The financialization of life.

Blue Legalities: Untangling Ocean Laws in the Anthropocene (2020)
Book Chapter
Johnson, E. R., & Braverman, I. (2020). Blue Legalities: Untangling Ocean Laws in the Anthropocene. In Blue legalities: the life and law of the sea. Duke University Press

Blue Legalities: The Life and Law of the Sea (2020)
Book
Braverman, I., & Johnson, E. R. (Eds.). (2020). Blue Legalities: The Life and Law of the Sea. Duke University Press

Blue Legalities is inspired by the emerging “blue turn” in social sciences and the humanities about oceans and their inhabitants. But as important and comprehensive as this “blue turn” has been, it has yet to substantively and creatively take up ques... Read More about Blue Legalities: The Life and Law of the Sea.

(Luso)tropicality and the materiality of decolonization (2020)
Journal Article
Power, M. (2020). (Luso)tropicality and the materiality of decolonization. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 41(1), 154-158. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12310

Pop-up infrastructure: Water ATMs and new delivery networks in India (2020)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2020). Pop-up infrastructure: Water ATMs and new delivery networks in India. Water alternatives, 13(1), 119-140

Over the last decade, thousands of water ATMs have been installed across the Global South. In India, these vending machines increasingly augment both formal and informal networks of water supply and delivery. This article examines media reports on wa... Read More about Pop-up infrastructure: Water ATMs and new delivery networks in India.

Spon End: A Local Guide (2019)
Book
Nieuwenhuis, M., Nassar, A., & Leach, C. (2019). Spon End: A Local Guide. Independent Publishing Network

Debjani Bhattacharyya: Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (2019)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2019). Debjani Bhattacharyya: Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta. Environmental Values, 28(4), 516-517. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327119x15576762300802

The Hydra and Leviathan: Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and the Militarized Seaspace (2019)
Book Chapter
Johnson, E. R. (2020). The Hydra and Leviathan: Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and the Militarized Seaspace. In I. Braverman, & E. R. Johnson (Eds.), Blue legalities : the life and law of the sea. Duke University Press

Just as aerial drones precipitated a shift in the logics and spaces of war, the rise of sea-going autonomous vehicles are changing military engagement in the ocean. In this chapter, Johnson considers how the rise of machinic warfare is reconstituting... Read More about The Hydra and Leviathan: Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and the Militarized Seaspace.

Rethinking territory and property in indigenous land claims (2019)
Journal Article
Anthias, P. (2021). Rethinking territory and property in indigenous land claims. Geoforum, 119, 268-278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.09.008

The recent proliferation of indigenous land titling processes has generated debate around the possibilities and limits of indigenous engagements with modern forms of cartography, territory and property. This paper makes a novel contribution to these... Read More about Rethinking territory and property in indigenous land claims.

Settler geology: Earth's deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta (2019)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2020). Settler geology: Earth's deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta. Political Geography, 78, Article 102132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102132

Alberta's bitumen industry is frequently identified as a key site of environmental politics in the Anthropocene owing to the scale of its fossil fuel extraction operations. While popular images of surface mining activities often focus these discussio... Read More about Settler geology: Earth's deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta.

Endurance in the city victorious (Book review forum: Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South) (2019)
Journal Article
Nassar, A. (2020). Endurance in the city victorious (Book review forum: Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South). Dialogues in Human Geography, 10(1), 78-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619895888

New Financial Geographies of Asia (2019)
Journal Article
Lai, K. P., Pan, F., Sokol, M., & Wójcik, D. (2020). New Financial Geographies of Asia. Regional Studies, 54(2), 143-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1689549

This special issue examines the recent trends and impacts of financial development in Asia and its implications for regional studies in this rapidly growing region. This editorial introduces the dynamics of the financial landscape in Asia and its gro... Read More about New Financial Geographies of Asia.

Affective Life and Cultural Economy: Payday Loans and the Everyday Space-Times of Credit-Debt in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Langley, P., Ash, J., & Gordon, R. (2020). Affective Life and Cultural Economy: Payday Loans and the Everyday Space-Times of Credit-Debt in the UK. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(2), 420-433. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12355

Analysing the affective geographies of digitally mediated payday loans in the UK, this paper advocates and exemplifies an approach to cultural economy that focuses on how economic worlds are affectively animated and lived. Supplementing the two versi... Read More about Affective Life and Cultural Economy: Payday Loans and the Everyday Space-Times of Credit-Debt in the UK.

Digital and platform economies (2019)
Book Chapter
Richardson, L. (2019). Digital and platform economies. In A. Kobayashi (Ed.), International encyclopedia of human geography (317-321). Elsevier

Book Review: Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco (2019)
Journal Article
Correia, J. E., McEwan, C., Bryan, J., & Anthias, P. (2019). Book Review: Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco. Human geography, 12(3), 57-58. https://doi.org/10.1177/194277861901200301

This book review symposium critically evaluates Penelope Anthias’ recent text Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco (Cornell University Press 2018). Through deep ethnographic attention, Anthi... Read More about Book Review: Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco.

Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse (2019)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Wilson, H., Foreman, P., Heslop, J., Ormerod, E., & Maestri, G. (2020). Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(2), 256-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12348

Alongside the emergence of various populisms, Brexit and other contemporary geopolitical events have been presented as symptomatic of a generalizing and intensifying sense of uncertainty in the midst of a crisis of (neo)liberalism. In this paper we d... Read More about Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse.

Catalyzing political momentum for the effective implementation of decarbonization for urban buildings (2019)
Journal Article
Tozer, L., & Bulkeley, H. (2020). Catalyzing political momentum for the effective implementation of decarbonization for urban buildings. Energy Policy, 136, Article 111042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111042

This paper expands the toolkit available to consider the effectiveness of urban climate responses by examining political effectiveness in the implementation of urban decarbonization initiatives. By focusing on the politics of implementation, this app... Read More about Catalyzing political momentum for the effective implementation of decarbonization for urban buildings.

Constructing Freshness: The Vitality of Wet Markets in Urban China (2019)
Journal Article
Zhong, S., Crang, M., & Zeng, G. (2020). Constructing Freshness: The Vitality of Wet Markets in Urban China. Agriculture and Human Values, 37, 175-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09987-2

Wet markets, a ‘traditional’ form of food retail, have maintained their popularity in urban China despite the rapid expansion of ‘modern’ supermarket chains. Their continued popularity rests in the freshness of their food. Chinese consumers regard fr... Read More about Constructing Freshness: The Vitality of Wet Markets in Urban China.