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Emergency/Everyday (2016)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B. (2016). Emergency/Everyday. In A. Elias, & J. Burges (Eds.), Time: A Vocabulary of the Present. NYU Press

Alive and afloat. (2016)
Other
Baldwin, W., Turhan, E., & Armiero, M. (2016). Alive and afloat

Securing with Algorithms: Knowledge, Decision, Sovereignty (2016)
Journal Article
Amoore, L., & Raley, R. (2017). Securing with Algorithms: Knowledge, Decision, Sovereignty. Security Dialogue, 48(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010616680753

Amid the deployment of algorithmic techniques for security – from the gathering of intelligence data to the proliferation of smart borders and predictive policing – what are the political and ethical stakes involved in securing with algorithms? Takin... Read More about Securing with Algorithms: Knowledge, Decision, Sovereignty.

Spaces of Abandonment: Genealogies, Lives and Critical Horizons (2016)
Journal Article
Leshem, N. (2017). Spaces of Abandonment: Genealogies, Lives and Critical Horizons. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(4), 620-636. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816683189

Abandonment has a long presence in Western cultural, philosophical and legal canon, though most contemporary critical debates focus on its sovereign and juridico-political functions. This article considers the concept of abandonment through its more... Read More about Spaces of Abandonment: Genealogies, Lives and Critical Horizons.

Cities within Cities: Intra-Urban Comparison of Infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town (2016)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., Silver, J., & Truelove, Y. (2017). Cities within Cities: Intra-Urban Comparison of Infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town. Urban Geography, 38(9), 1393-1417. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1243386

Comparison is now taken as vital to the constitution of knowledge about cities and urbanism. However, debate on comparative urbanism has been far more attentive to the merits of comparisons between cities than it has been to the potential and challen... Read More about Cities within Cities: Intra-Urban Comparison of Infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town.

Using Art to Fight HIV/AIDS in Uganda (2016)
Book Chapter
Nabulime, L., & McEwan, C. (2016). Using Art to Fight HIV/AIDS in Uganda. In P. Stupples, & K. Teaiwa (Eds.), Contemporary perspectives in art and international development (151-164). Routledge

Fairtrade, place and moral economy: between abstract ethical discourse and the moral experience of Northern Cape farmers (2016)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., Hughes, A., & Bek, D. (2017). Fairtrade, place and moral economy: between abstract ethical discourse and the moral experience of Northern Cape farmers. Environment and Planning A, 49(3), 572-591. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16674722

This paper explores the significance of the relationships and disjunctures between the global moral discourses of Fairtrade that are articulated through ethics of fairness in supply chains and the everyday moral experiences, discourses and practices... Read More about Fairtrade, place and moral economy: between abstract ethical discourse and the moral experience of Northern Cape farmers.

Resilience and race, or climate change and the uninsurable migrant: towards an anthroporacial reading of ‘race’ (2016)
Journal Article
Baldwin, W. (2017). Resilience and race, or climate change and the uninsurable migrant: towards an anthroporacial reading of ‘race’. Resilience (Abingdon, U.K. : Online), 5(2), 129-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2016.1241473

Migration is now often conceived as a legitimate adaptive response to climate change. Numerous critiques have been made of this so-called ‘migration-as-adaptation’ discourse, arguing that the discourse is consistent with the political rationality of... Read More about Resilience and race, or climate change and the uninsurable migrant: towards an anthroporacial reading of ‘race’.

Oil (2016)
Book
Bridge, G., & Le Billon, P. Oil. (2nd). Polity

Urban Living Labs: Governing Urban Sustainability Transitions (2016)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Coenen, L., Frantzeskaki, N., Hartmann, C., Kronsell, A., Mai, L., …Voytenko Palgan, Y. (2016). Urban Living Labs: Governing Urban Sustainability Transitions. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, 13-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.02.003

Urban Living Labs (ULL) are advanced as an explicit form of intervention delivering sustainability goals for cities. Established at the boundaries between research, innovation and policy, ULL are intended to design, demonstrate and learn about the ef... Read More about Urban Living Labs: Governing Urban Sustainability Transitions.

Spatial processes and politics of renewable energy transition: land, zones and frictions in South Africa (2016)
Journal Article
McEwan, C. (2016). Spatial processes and politics of renewable energy transition: land, zones and frictions in South Africa. Political Geography, 56, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.10.001

This paper seeks to make a contribution to on-going debates about how to conceptualise the spatial processes of renewable energy transition. It makes a case for understanding renewable energy transitions as simultaneously spatial and political proces... Read More about Spatial processes and politics of renewable energy transition: land, zones and frictions in South Africa.

Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities (2016)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., McFarlane, C., & MacLeod, G. (2018). Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities. Urban Studies, 55(4), 702-719. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016663836

As the 21st Century world assumes an increasingly urban landscape, the question of how definitive urban spaces are to be governed intensifies. At the heart of this debate lies a question about the degree and type of autonomy that towns and cities mig... Read More about Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities.

Rising powers and the drivers of uneven global development (2016)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2016). Rising powers and the drivers of uneven global development. Area Development and Policy, 1(3), 279-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2016.1227271

The emergence of the rising powers has been seen as heralding a fundamental shift in global economic geography. It can also be seen as the latest expression of capitalist economic development. I first consider theorizations of this development as com... Read More about Rising powers and the drivers of uneven global development.

Cloud Geographies: Computing, Data, Sovereignty (2016)
Journal Article
Amoore, L. (2018). Cloud Geographies: Computing, Data, Sovereignty. Progress in Human Geography, 42(1), 4-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516662147

The architecture of cloud computing is becoming ever more closely intertwined with geopolitics – from the sharing of intelligence data, to border controls, immigration decisions, and drone strikes. Developing an analogy with the cloud chamber of earl... Read More about Cloud Geographies: Computing, Data, Sovereignty.

Life at the urban margins: sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison (2016)
Journal Article
Lancione, M., & McFarlane, C. (2016). Life at the urban margins: sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison. Environment and Planning A, 48(12), 2402-2421. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16659772

How is life at the urban margins made and remade? In this paper, we examine this question in relation to ‘sanitation urbanism’, and through attention to what we call ‘infra-making’, defined as the interstitial labour of human and non-human agencies a... Read More about Life at the urban margins: sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison.

The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town (2016)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., & Silver, J. (2017). The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 49(1), 125-148. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12264

In an urbanizing world, the inequalities of infrastructure are increasingly politicized in ways that reconstitute the urban political. A key site here is the politicization of human waste. The centrality of sanitation to urban life means that its pol... Read More about The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town.