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Porous skin: Breathing through the prism of the holey body (2019)
Journal Article
Nieuwenhuis, M. (2019). Porous skin: Breathing through the prism of the holey body. Emotion, Space and Society, 33, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2019.100595

The skin is a body's largest organ and both a metaphor and a materiality. It constitutes a person's exteriority through which and on which social meaning is negotiated and constructed. My contribution challenges the modern idea of the skin's imagined... Read More about Porous skin: Breathing through the prism of the holey body.

GeoHumanities and Health (2019)
Book Chapter
Hunt, R., & Atkinson, S. (2020). GeoHumanities and Health. In S. Atkinson, & R. Hunt (Eds.), GeoHumanities and Health (1-19). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21406-7_1

This is an introduction to the themes and contributions in the book. The essay discusses the potential and characteristics of the hybrid space of the GeoHumanities and the placing of health with this space. We consider the ways in which openings and... Read More about GeoHumanities and Health.

Multiplicity and Encounters of Cultures of Care in Advanced Ageing (2019)
Book Chapter
Tan, M., & Atkinson, S. (2019). Multiplicity and Encounters of Cultures of Care in Advanced Ageing. In S. Atkinson, & R. Hunt (Eds.), Geohumanities and health (241-259). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21406-7_14

The demographic of an ageing population in many countries is increasing the numbers of elderly who are resident in care homes especially in parts of South East Asia. The investments made into care-related activities in residential homes for the elder... Read More about Multiplicity and Encounters of Cultures of Care in Advanced Ageing.

Extreme Events and Climate Adaptation-Mitigation Linkages: Understanding Low-Carbon Transitions in the Era of Global Urbanization (2019)
Journal Article
Solecki, W., Zimmerman, R., Bruns, A., Lobo, J., Boone, C., Marcotulio, P., Grimm, N., Young, A., Griffith, C., Breitzer, R., Romero-Lankao, P., & Luque-Ayala, A. (2019). Extreme Events and Climate Adaptation-Mitigation Linkages: Understanding Low-Carbon Transitions in the Era of Global Urbanization. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 10(6), Article e616. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.616

Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through 'Imperial Eyes' (2019)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2019). Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through 'Imperial Eyes'. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2(4), 712-731. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619862191

The contact zone is described as the space of imperial encounter. Against a backdrop of work that has used Mary Louise Pratt's concept of the contact zone to examine culture-making, and destabilize normative understandings of division, distinction, a... Read More about Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through 'Imperial Eyes'.

Being well together: individual subjective and community wellbeing (2019)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Bagnall, A.-M., Corcoran, R., South, J., & Curtis, S. (2020). Being well together: individual subjective and community wellbeing. Journal of Happiness Studies, 21(5), 1903-1921. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00146-2

This paper explores the ways in which community wellbeing is, and could be, related to individual subjective wellbeing by mapping current practice, teasing out the assumptions underlying a dominant approach and flagging neglected issues. The notion o... Read More about Being well together: individual subjective and community wellbeing.

Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance (2019)
Journal Article
Bridge, G., Bulkeley, H., Langley, P., & van Veelen, B. (2020). Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance. Progress in Human Geography, 44(4), 724-742. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519856260

Growing emphasis on finance as key to decarbonization requires social science research that critically attends to the emergent and diverse forms taken by carbon finance. First, we pluralize research into carbon finance, building on existing work to i... Read More about Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance.

Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making (2019)
Journal Article
Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., Collier, M. J., Kendal, D., Bulkeley, H., Dumitru, A., Walsh, C., Noble, K., van Wyk, E., Ordóñez, C., Oke, C., & Pintér, L. (2019). Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making. Bioscience, 69(6), 455-466. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz042

Nature-based solutions offer an exciting prospect for resilience building and advancing urban planning to address complex urban challenges simultaneously. In this article, we formulated through a coproduction process in workshops held during the firs... Read More about Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making.

A Regime in the Making? Examining the Geographies of Solar PV Electricity in Southern Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Kirshner, J., Baker, L., Smith, A., & Bulkeley, H. (2019). A Regime in the Making? Examining the Geographies of Solar PV Electricity in Southern Africa. Geoforum, 103, 114-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.04.013

The rapid global deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies since the early 2000s has attracted sustained attention. Solar PV has become an increasingly established, widespread and flexible form of electricity generation. In the research lang... Read More about A Regime in the Making? Examining the Geographies of Solar PV Electricity in Southern Africa.

Towards a material politics of socio-technical transitions: Navigating decarbonisation pathways in Malmö (2019)
Journal Article
Stripple, J., & Bulkeley, H. (2019). Towards a material politics of socio-technical transitions: Navigating decarbonisation pathways in Malmö. Political Geography, 72, 52-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.04.001

As the politics of climate change shift from the design of international institutions to the pursuit of decarbonisation across multiple sites, researchers are increasingly calling attention to the geography and politics of transitions. We suggest tha... Read More about Towards a material politics of socio-technical transitions: Navigating decarbonisation pathways in Malmö.

The moral geography of the Earth system (2019)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2019). The moral geography of the Earth system. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44(4), 721-734. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12308

Human impacts on the Earth system have profound moral consequences. The uneven generation and distribution of harms, and the acceleration of human forces now altering how the Earth system functions, also trouble moral accounts of belonging. This arti... Read More about The moral geography of the Earth system.

Indebted life and money culture: Payday lending in the United Kingdom (2019)
Journal Article
Langley, P., Anderson, B., Ash, J., & Gordon, R. (2019). Indebted life and money culture: Payday lending in the United Kingdom. Economy and Society, 48(1), 30-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2018.1554371

Critical social scientific research holds that credit–debt is a principal economic and governing relation in contemporary economy and society, but largely neglects money’s role in indebted life. Drawing on qualitative research in the payday loan mark... Read More about Indebted life and money culture: Payday lending in the United Kingdom.

Navigating climate’s human geographies: Exploring the whereabouts of climate politics (2019)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2019). Navigating climate’s human geographies: Exploring the whereabouts of climate politics. Dialogues in Human Geography, 9(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619829920

Just as global institutions and environmental assessment processes embark on the latest effort to integrate more social science into global environmental change research, it appears that the social sciences of climate change are unable or unwilling t... Read More about Navigating climate’s human geographies: Exploring the whereabouts of climate politics.