Outputs (133)

Mainstreaming sustainable innovation: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity (2022)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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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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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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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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)
Journal Article

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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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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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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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)
Journal Article

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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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)
Journal Article

“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.