Outputs (27)

Seabirds in the city: urban futures and fraught coexistence (2021)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. (2022). Seabirds in the city: urban futures and fraught coexistence. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47(4), 1137-1151. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12525

At a time when seabird populations have experienced steep declines and the movement of diverse species into cities has become a globally important issue, the paper examines the contested presence of an urban seabird colony in North East England. Draw... Read More about Seabirds in the city: urban futures and fraught coexistence.

Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin (2021)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., Langley, P., Lewis, S., Painter, J., & Vradis, A. (2023). Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin. Urban Geography, 44(2), 337-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2021.2003586

The relationship between the city and ‘innovation’ is long and varied, but in recent years there has been a new focus on the potential of innovation to catalyse economic, social, and environmental change. This has led to a debate around whether and h... Read More about Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin.

Geographies of Trust: Hitchhiking from Gateshead to Calais (2021)
Journal Article
Nieuwenhuis, M. (2022). Geographies of Trust: Hitchhiking from Gateshead to Calais. Geohumanities, 8(1), 329-343. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2021.1990102

“Trust is the most joyous kind of bond with another living being. But isn't it true that whenever we enjoy being with someone, there is [both] a factor of risk there, and also a factor of trust, which gives our enjoyment an edge of rapture?” (Lingis... Read More about Geographies of Trust: Hitchhiking from Gateshead to Calais.

Negativity: space, politics and affects (2021)
Journal Article
Dekeyser, T., Secor, A., Rose, M., Bissell, D., Zhang, V., & Romanillos, J. L. (2022). Negativity: space, politics and affects. Cultural Geographies, 29(1), 5 - 21. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740211058080

This paper reflects on the status of ‘negativity’ in contemporary social and geographical thought. Based on a panel discussion held at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2021, each contributor discusses what negativity means to th... Read More about Negativity: space, politics and affects.

Adolescent anxiety through the wrong end of the telescope (2021)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. (2021). Adolescent anxiety through the wrong end of the telescope. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 5(11), 777-778. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642%2821%2900313-8

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.

Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement (2021)
Journal Article
Ehrkamp, P., Loyd, J. M., & Secor, A. J. (2022). Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(3), 715-722. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2021.1956296

Trauma does not have a single definition. Within Western paradigms, across humanities and social sciences, it has largely been characterized through temporal and spatial dislocation. Critical studies of trauma, however, suggest that such framings of... Read More about Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement.

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.

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.

Art Spaces (2021)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. (in press). Art Spaces. In G. Andrews, V. Crooks, J. Pearce, & J. Messina. (Eds.), COVID-19 and Similar Futures: Pandemic Geographies. Springer Verlag

Reanimating the radical possibilities of wellbeing: commentary on Part 1 approaching wellbeing (2021)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. (in press). Reanimating the radical possibilities of wellbeing: commentary on Part 1 approaching wellbeing. In B. Searle, J. Pykett, & M. Alfaro-Simmonds (Eds.), The Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research (23-28). Edward Elgar Publishing

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.

Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Bradby, H., Gadebusch Bondio, M., Macnaughton, J., Hallberg, A., & Söderfeldt, Y. (online). Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID-19. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences,

Towards a geography of voice-hearing (2021)
Journal Article
Nieuwenhuis, M., & Knoll, E. (2021). Towards a geography of voice-hearing. Emotion, Space and Society, 40(August), Article 100812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100812

The social psychiatrists Marius Romme and Sandra Escher argue that boundaries are of critical importance in the therapeutic treatment of so-called ‘auditory verbal hallucinations’ (AVH), or, what is better known as, ‘hearing voices’. Limiting voices... Read More about Towards a geography of voice-hearing.

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.

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.

Resilience (2021)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. (2021). Resilience. In M. Botha, & P. Waugh (Eds.), Future theory : a Bloomsbury handbook to critical concepts. Bloomsbury

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.