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Mainstreaming sustainable innovation: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity (2022)
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Xie, L., Bulkeley, H., & Tozer, L. (2022). Mainstreaming sustainable innovation: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity. Environmental Science and Policy, 132, 119-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.02.017

Sustainable innovation has been widely acknowledged as the key driver for societal transitions towards sustainability. Recently, there have been widespread calls to mainstream nature-based solutions (NBS), a form of socio-ecological-technical innovat... Read More about Mainstreaming sustainable innovation: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity.

Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change (2022)
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Tozer, L., Bulkeley, H., & Xie, L. (2022). Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change. Global Environmental Politics, 22(3), 81-103. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00658

Multiple visions for how urbanism can respond to the climate crisis and foster sustainability have emerged on the international agenda, including the ecocity, low-carbon city, smart city, and resilient city. These competing visions have been joined b... Read More about Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change.

UK street art and the meaning of masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020-21 (2022)
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McEwan, C., Szablewska, L., & Lewis, K. (2022). UK street art and the meaning of masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020-21. Social and Cultural Geography, 24(3-4), 503-523. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2065695

TThis paper contributes to social and cultural geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic through an exploration of the role of UK street art in documenting the remarkable shifts in the practice of wearing facemasks, the tensions and emotions involved, and... Read More about UK street art and the meaning of masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020-21.

Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic (2022)
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Anderson, B., & Secor, A. (2022). Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic. Political Geography, 96, Article 102608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102608

Every discourse on right-wing populism is, more or less explicitly, a discourse on affect. From claims that right-wing populism emerges from a background of racialized resentment or the anger of the ‘left behind’, through to analyses of how populist... Read More about Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic.

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.

Of Kin and System: Rights of Nature and the UN Search for Earth Jurisprudence (2022)
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Schmidt, J. J. (2022). Of Kin and System: Rights of Nature and the UN Search for Earth Jurisprudence. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12538

Since 2009, the United Nations programme on Harmony with Nature has sought a new philosophy of global environmental governance known as Earth jurisprudence. This paper examines how Harmony with Nature has advanced Earth jurisprudence to unite Indigen... Read More about Of Kin and System: Rights of Nature and the UN Search for Earth Jurisprudence.

The Pluri-Extractivist State: Regional Autonomy and the Limits of Indigenous Participation in Gran Chaco Province (2022)
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Anthias, P. (2022). The Pluri-Extractivist State: Regional Autonomy and the Limits of Indigenous Participation in Gran Chaco Province. Journal of Latin American Studies, 54(1), 125-154. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x21000997

On 20 November 2016, residents of Gran Chaco Province in south-east Bolivia voted by popular referendum to approve a statute that established Gran Chaco as Bolivia's first autonomous region. This article examines regional autonomy in the Chaco as an... Read More about The Pluri-Extractivist State: Regional Autonomy and the Limits of Indigenous Participation in Gran Chaco Province.

Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies (2021)
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Knuth, S. (2023). Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies. Environment and Planning A, 55(6), 1548–1564. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x211062601

Progressive movements today call for transformative state-led investment in renewable energy and other climate infrastructures—in the United States, a vision that confronts inherited legacies of austerity. I argue that a significant obstacle is the n... Read More about Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies.

The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’ (2021)
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McGrath, S., & Mieres, F. (2022). The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’. Development and Change, 53(1), 3-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12701

This article conceptualizes contemporary abolitionism as a commodifying cause characterized by multiple processes of marketization. It demonstrates how concerns about the unethical commodification of labour form the basis of a variety of marketizatio... Read More about The Business of Abolition: Marketizing ‘Anti‐slavery’.

Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa (2022)
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Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2022). Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa. Journal of Cultural Economy, 15(4), 401-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2022.2028652

This paper makes a three-fold contribution to social science research into FinTech in Africa. First, we build on existing research into mobile payments to show how FinTech providers offer unsecured short-term credit products via mobile wallets. Secon... Read More about Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa.

Dispossession by municipalization: property, pipelines, and divisions of power in settler colonial Canada (2022)
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Schmidt, J. J. (2022). Dispossession by municipalization: property, pipelines, and divisions of power in settler colonial Canada. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40(5), 1182-1199. https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544211065654

In Canada, Indigenous activists and scholars critique municipalization as a threefold process that subverts Indigenous authority to the state, then delegates forms of state authority to Indigenous peoples, and concludes by asserting that delegated au... Read More about Dispossession by municipalization: property, pipelines, and divisions of power in settler colonial Canada.

Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin (2021)
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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.

The making of ethnic territories: Governmentality and counter-conducts (2020)
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Anthias, P., & Hoffmann, K. (2021). The making of ethnic territories: Governmentality and counter-conducts. Geoforum, 119, 218-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.06.027

“Ethnic territories” were a central political technology of colonial rule, which also shaped strategies of anti-colonial resistance in diverse contexts. Today, in former colonies, the making of ethnic territories remains a key site of both government... Read More about The making of ethnic territories: Governmentality and counter-conducts.

Demonic Possession: Narratives of Domestic Abuse and Trauma in Malaysia (2021)
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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.

Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights (2021)
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Jenkins, W., Rosa, L., Schmidt, J., Band, L., Beltran-Peña, A., Clarens, A., …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.

Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia (2021)
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Liu, F. H., & Lai, K. P. (2021). Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia. Environment and Planning A, 53(8), 1896-1914. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x211038349

In this paper, we analyse the recent development of green sukuk (often referred to as an Islamic green bond) since its issuance in Malaysia in 2017, and critically evaluate whether it addresses some of the existing contradictions of green finance. Us... Read More about Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia.

Thirty states of renewability: Controversial energies and the politics of incumbent industry (2021)
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Behrsin, I., Knuth, S., & Levenda, A. (2022). Thirty states of renewability: Controversial energies and the politics of incumbent industry. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(2), 762-786. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211006340

Renewable energy advocates have positioned a wide array of technologically novel energy sources as fossil fuel alternatives. These efforts to usher in renewable energy transitions have long been shaped by definitional contestations. Political ecologi... Read More about Thirty states of renewability: Controversial energies and the politics of incumbent industry.

The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19 (2021)
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Grove, K., Rickards, L., Anderson, B., & Kearnes, M. (2022). The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19. Geographical Research, 60(1), 6-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12501

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic strains conventional temporal imaginaries through which emergencies are typically understood and governed. Rather than a transparent and linear temporality, which envisions a smooth transition across the series event/dis... Read More about The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19.

The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: A Review (2021)
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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.

Turbulent waters in three parts (2021)
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Lehman, J., Steinberg, P., & Johnson, E. (2021). Turbulent waters in three parts. Theory and Event, 24(1), 192-219

While scientific accounts of ocean dynamics draw public attention to the turbulence of earthly matter, the science alone tells a truncated story. The ocean's turbulent materiality is more than material: practices of scientific knowledge and historica... Read More about Turbulent waters in three parts.