Material matters and the search for resilience: Re-thinking and urban development strategies in the context of global environmental change.
(2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hudson, R. (2008). Material matters and the search for resilience: Re-thinking and urban development strategies in the context of global environmental change.
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Urban attractions: returnee youth, mobility and the search for a future in South Sudan's regional towns (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper
Newhouse, L. Urban attractions: returnee youth, mobility and the search for a future in South Sudan's regional towns
Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown (2023)
Journal Article
Knuth, S., Cox, S., Hofmann, S., Morris, J., Taylor, Z., & McElvain, B. (2023). Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown. Journal of Urban Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2229462As intensifying climate-related disasters strike cities across the United States, they are provoking rising concern for the stability of the US housing market and broader financial system. How homeowners, mortgage lenders, federal institutions/regula... Read More about Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown.
An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city (2023)
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van Veelen, B., & Knuth, S. (2023). An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231179815What will the low-carbon cities of tomorrow be made from? We see an unexpected answer today in the return of ‘premodern’/‘preindustrial’ materials to central cities and skylines. Champions of new mass timber materials have driven a race on iconic ‘pl... Read More about An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city.
Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective (2023)
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Fransen, A., & Bulkeley, H. (2023). Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective. Global Environmental Politics, https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00726Transnational governance initiatives (TGIs) are increasingly recognized as central actors in the governing of climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet, their role in linking these domains has yet to be explored. As the climate crisis comes to be inc... Read More about Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective.
Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression (2023)
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Schmidt, J. J. (2023). Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression. Progress in Human Geography, 47(6), 859-869. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231174965This report on geography and ethics focusses on the justification of normative evaluations. Justifying why actions are right or wrong often relies on appeals to high-order principles, such as the common good. But this is not always the case, as this... Read More about Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression.
Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought (2023)
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Anthias, P. (2023). Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought. Dialogues in Human Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231171202In this commentary, I extend Derickson's (2020) conception of the ‘annihilation of time by space’ to reflect on an experience of making a documentary about women-led resistance to hydrocarbon development in Southern Bolivia, where the forging of new... Read More about Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought.
Financial geography I: The state-finance nexus (2023)
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Lai, K. P. (2023). Financial geography I: The state-finance nexus. Progress in Human Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231170756In the first of my reports on financial geography, I focus on a growing body of work that engages with the state as a vital and strategic actor in financial markets and in the global economy. After the 2008 global financial crisis, austerity measures... Read More about Financial geography I: The state-finance nexus.
Boredom and the politics of climate change (2023)
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Anderson, B. (2023). Boredom and the politics of climate change. Scottish Geographical Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2197869In this position paper, I speculate on what we might learn about the politics of climate change if we stay with the possibility that boredom might be part of how subjects encounter and make sense of climate change. I argue that boredom enacts an ethi... Read More about Boredom and the politics of climate change.
From Integration to Intersectionality: A Review of Water Ethics (2023)
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Schmidt, J. J. (2023). From Integration to Intersectionality: A Review of Water Ethics. Water alternatives, 16(2), 321-345The field of water ethics focuses on the judgments affecting water use and decision making, as well as their normative justification. These justifications can take many forms. Consequently, water ethics grapple with philosophical considerations, law,... Read More about From Integration to Intersectionality: A Review of Water Ethics.
Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security (2023)
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Harrington, C., Montana, P., Schmidt, J. J., & Swain, A. (2023). Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security. Global Environmental Politics, 23(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00702This Forum article reports on a meta-review of more than 19,000 published works on water security, of which less than 1 percent explicitly focus on race or ethnicity. This is deeply concerning, because it indicates that race and ethnicity—crucial fac... Read More about Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security.
The condition of urban climate experimentation (2023)
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Bulkeley, H. (2023). The condition of urban climate experimentation. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 19(1), Article 2188726. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2023.2188726As the trend of urban climate experimentation continues, many accounts now seek to identify how it can be harnessed towards responses of sufficient scale and magnitude for the crises at hand. The imperative is to move beyond experimentation. Yet some... Read More about The condition of urban climate experimentation.
Nigel Dodd: An appreciation (2023)
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Langley, P., Ashenden, S., Barry, A., Bear, L., Kelly, A., McGoey, L. J., …Weszkalnys, G. (2023). Nigel Dodd: An appreciation. Economy and Society, 52(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2023.2157584Professor Nigel Dodd was a long-standing and much-loved member of the Editorial Board of Economy and Society. He sadly passed away in August 2022. In this short piece, we express our heartfelt gratitude for Nigel’s contributions to the journal and br... Read More about Nigel Dodd: An appreciation.
Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme (2023)
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Kavonic, J., & Bulkeley, H. (2023). Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme. Local Environment, 28(7), 900-917. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2190349Over the past five years, there have been growing calls for transformative responses to sustainability challenges, supported by increased transformative action in the pursuit of environmental justice. In parallel to this development within the policy... Read More about Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme.
FinTech platform regulation: Regulating with/against platforms in the United Kingdom and China (2023)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2023). FinTech platform regulation: Regulating with/against platforms in the United Kingdom and China. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 16(2), 257–268. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad005This paper develops case studies of the United Kingdom (UK) and China to analyse divergent national financial regulatory approaches to FinTech as a novel political economy of platforms. Regulating with platforms is core to the approach taken in the U... Read More about FinTech platform regulation: Regulating with/against platforms in the United Kingdom and China.
Can you Standardize Transformation? Reflections on the Transformative Potential of Benchmarking as a Mode of Governance (2023)
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Lecavalier, E., Arroyo-Currás, T., Bulkeley, H., Borgström Hansson, C., Chowdhury, S., Lenhart, J., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2023). Can you Standardize Transformation? Reflections on the Transformative Potential of Benchmarking as a Mode of Governance. Local Environment, 28(7), 918-933. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2165053
Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise (2022)
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Anderson, B., Aitken, S., Bacevic, J., Callard, F., Chung, K. D. (., Coleman, K. S., …Wilkinson, E. (2023). Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise. The Geographical Journal, 189(1), 117-142. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12494In Part 1 of ‘Encountering Berlant’, we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter... Read More about Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise.
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., …Williams, A. (2023). Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms. The Geographical Journal, 189(1), 143-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12493Part 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.
Strange witness: Rachel Whiteread’s art of the immemorial (2022)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2022). Strange witness: Rachel Whiteread’s art of the immemorial. Scottish Geographical Journal, 138(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2137734The 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.
乡村小流域空间治理: 理论逻辑、实践基础和 实现路径 (2021)
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Jie], 乔. [., Lianping], 洪. [., Crang], 克. [., & Xiaofeng], 李. [. (2021). 乡村小流域空间治理: 理论逻辑、实践基础和 实现路径. Chengshi guihua, 45(10), 31-77