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Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains (2022)
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Bridge, G., & Faigen, E. (2022). Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains. Energy Research and Social Science, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102659

The increasing role of electricity as an energy carrier in decarbonising economies is driving a growing demand for electrical energy storage in the form of battery systems. Two battery applications driving demand growth are electric vehicles and stat... Read More about Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains.

Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms (2022)
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Anderson, B., Awal, A., Cockayne, D., Greenhough, B., Linz, J., Mazumdar, A., Nassar, A., Pettit, H., Roe, E. J., Ruez, D., Salas Landa, M., Secor, A., & Williams, A. (2023). Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms. The Geographical Journal, 189(1), 143-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12493

Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential concept of ‘cruel optimism’. Cruel optimism names a double-bind in which attachment to an ‘object’ holds out the promise of sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneo... Read More about Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms.

Arrival cities and the mobility of concepts (2022)
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Wilson, H. F. (2022). Arrival cities and the mobility of concepts. Urban Studies, 59(16), 3459-3468. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221135820

The status of any arrival city is far from stable, being continuously reworked by state policy, geopolitics, economic fluctuations or localised events that rupture or destabilise what came before. The diversifications and differential inclusions that... Read More about Arrival cities and the mobility of concepts.

The Global Biodiversity Framework Needs a Robust Action Agenda (2022)
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Chan, S., Bauer, S., Betsill, M. M., Biermann, F., Boran, I., Bridgewater, P., Bulkeley, H., Bustamente, M. M., Deprez, A., Dodds, F., Hoffmann, M., Hornidge, A.-K., Hughes, A., Imbach, P., Ivanova, M., Köberle, A., Kok, M. T., Lwasa, S., Morrison, T., Pörtner, H. .-O., …Pettorelli, N. (2023). The Global Biodiversity Framework Needs a Robust Action Agenda. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 7(2), 172-173. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01953-2

Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities (2022)
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Bockarjova, M., Botzen, W. W., Bulkeley, H. A., & Toxopeus, H. (2022). Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities. Scientific Reports, 12(2022), Article 19833. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23983-3

By implementing nature-based solutions (NBS), cities generate value for their residents, such as health and wellbeing. We estimate the aggregate social value to urban residents of 85 NBS projects implemented across Europe and find that the majority y... Read More about Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities.

The politics of subterranean atmospheres in China: a study of contemporary chinese mining art (2022)
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Nieuwenhuis, M. (2022). The politics of subterranean atmospheres in China: a study of contemporary chinese mining art. Ambiances (En ligne), https://doi.org/10.4000/ambiances.4409

Every five seconds someone dies prematurely from air pollution (UN, 2019). Environmental degradation, however, is not limited to the air above alone, but also affects the conditions of life underneath the surface. Black lung disease (pneumoconiosis),... Read More about The politics of subterranean atmospheres in China: a study of contemporary chinese mining art.

The space of encounter and the making of difference: The entangled lives of Alevi and Sunni neighbours in Turkey (2022)
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Gökarıksel, B., & Secor, A. J. (2023). The space of encounter and the making of difference: The entangled lives of Alevi and Sunni neighbours in Turkey. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(2), 380-394. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12584

The concept of encounter has long been central to a cosmopolitan ethos in which coming together in urban public space is expected to yield tolerance and pluralism. More recently scholars have reworked this concept to account for not only what is pote... Read More about The space of encounter and the making of difference: The entangled lives of Alevi and Sunni neighbours in Turkey.

Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature (2022)
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Tozer, L., Bulkeley, H., Kiss, B., Luque-Ayala, A., Voytenko Palgan, Y., McCormick, K., & Wamsler, C. (2023). Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1113(3), 599-615. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2130867

Transcending initial efforts to make cities ‘climate smart’ by focusing on the potential of new technologies and infrastructural interventions, various actors are increasingly interested in deploying nature to help achieve urban resilience. In this c... Read More about Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature.

Strange witness: Rachel Whiteread’s art of the immemorial (2022)
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Harrison, P. (2022). Strange witness: Rachel Whiteread’s art of the immemorial. Scottish Geographical Journal, 138(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2137734

The paper offers a reading of the work of the artist Rachel Whiteread. The reception of Whiteread's work has focused on its site-specific, symbolic and memorial nature, the work understood as a series of mediations of and metonymies for hidden social... Read More about Strange witness: Rachel Whiteread’s art of the immemorial.

Who is the climate-induced trapped figure? (2022)
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Ayeb-Karlsson, S., & Baldwin, A. (2022). Who is the climate-induced trapped figure?. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 13(6), Article e803. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.803

Many will remember the 1990s alarmist narratives of how a human tide of up to a billion climate refugees would flood “our” borders by 2050. By 2011, a new character joined the discourse: the trapped figure. No longer would climatically vulnerable peo... Read More about Who is the climate-induced trapped figure?.

Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides (2022)
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Armstrong, A., Bulkeley, H., Tozer, L., & Kotsila, P. (2023). Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides. Urban Geography, 44(8), 1747-1767. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2125669

Traditional interventions to “bring nature into the city” were often motivated by a concern to create forms of public space which would provide a public good. Despite such well-intentioned motivations, these public forms of urban nature have always b... Read More about Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides.

Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies (2022)
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Tilley, L., Ranawana, A., Baldwin, A., & Tully, T. (2023). Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies. Politics, 43(2), 141-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957221127166

Global South scholars have long documented and theorised their communities’ struggles against the ecological degradation, toxic contamination, and climate change–related extreme weather events which result from the overlapping ills of colonialism, im... Read More about Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies.

Environmental Geography and the Inheritance of Western Technoscience (2022)
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Lehman, J. S., & Johnson, E. (2022). Environmental Geography and the Inheritance of Western Technoscience. Progress in Environmental Geography, 1(1-4), 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/27539687221124613

How has environmental geography grappled with the inheritances of Western technoscience? On one hand, as a discipline, we are now well aware of science's entanglements with imperial projects and racist logics, not to mention the omissions and silence... Read More about Environmental Geography and the Inheritance of Western Technoscience.

Multispecies storytelling in botanical worlds: the creative agencies of plants in contested ecologies (2022)
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McEwan, C. (2023). Multispecies storytelling in botanical worlds: the creative agencies of plants in contested ecologies. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 6(2), 1114–1137. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221110755

This paper argues for engaging in multispecies storytelling with plants to better conceptualise the ethics and contested ecologies associated with biodiversity loss. It focuses specifically on proteas, the iconic species of South Africa's threatened... Read More about Multispecies storytelling in botanical worlds: the creative agencies of plants in contested ecologies.

FinTech in Africa: An Editorial Introduction (2022)
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Langley, P., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (2022). FinTech in Africa: An Editorial Introduction. Journal of Cultural Economy, 15(4), 387-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2022.2092193

Applications of digital technologies to retail money and finance have gathered pace across the globe over the last decade or so, constituting novel ‘FinTech’ economies. Although FinTech is registering across critical social scientific research, insuf... Read More about FinTech in Africa: An Editorial Introduction.

Public-making in a pandemic: the role of street art in East Africa   (2022)
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McEwan, C., Szablewska, L., Lewis, K., & Nabulime, L. (2022). Public-making in a pandemic: the role of street art in East Africa  . Political Geography, 98, Article 102692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102692

Street artists around the world have been prominent in depicting issues concerning COVID-19, but the role of street art in public-making during the pandemic is unexplored. Despite burgeoning street art scenes in many African countries since the early... Read More about Public-making in a pandemic: the role of street art in East Africa  .

Geography and Ethics I: Placing Injustice in the Anthropocene (2022)
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Schmidt, J. J. (2022). Geography and Ethics I: Placing Injustice in the Anthropocene. Progress in Human Geography, 46(4), 1086-1094. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325221097104

This report on geography and ethics focuses on the conditions of ethics. It identifies the ethical stakes of how accounts of unequal anthropogenic impacts on the Earth are specified with respect to both injustice and to what are deemed viable futures... Read More about Geography and Ethics I: Placing Injustice in the Anthropocene.