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Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through 'Imperial Eyes' (2019)
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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'.

Making an Anthropocene Ocean: Synoptic Geographies of the International Geophysical Year (1957‐1958) (2019)
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Lehman, J. (2020). Making an Anthropocene Ocean: Synoptic Geographies of the International Geophysical Year (1957‐1958). Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(3), 606-622. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1644988

Although the notion of the Anthropocene has generated a great deal of literature across disciplines, the geographic critique of this concept is still developing. This article contributes to justice-oriented engagements with the Anthropocene by highli... Read More about Making an Anthropocene Ocean: Synoptic Geographies of the International Geophysical Year (1957‐1958).

Navigating climate’s human geographies: Exploring the whereabouts of climate politics (2019)
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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.

Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance (2019)
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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.

A Regime in the Making? Examining the Geographies of Solar PV Electricity in Southern Africa (2019)
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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.

The moral geography of the Earth system (2019)
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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.

The map is not the territory: A sympathetic critique of energy research’s spatial turn (2017)
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Bridge, G. (2018). The map is not the territory: A sympathetic critique of energy research’s spatial turn. Energy Research and Social Science, 36, 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.09.033

Energy research in the social sciences has embarked on a ‘spatial adventure’ (Castán Broto and Baker, 2017). Those setting out on this journey have started from different disciplinary and theoretical locations, yet a “map” of sorts has begun to emerg... Read More about The map is not the territory: A sympathetic critique of energy research’s spatial turn.

Indebted life and money culture: Payday lending in the United Kingdom (2019)
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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.

Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, And Migration Control (2020)
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Coddington, K., Conlon, D., & Martin, L. (2020). Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, And Migration Control. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(5), 1425-1444. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1715196

In this article, we argue that destitution economies of migration control are specific circuits of exchange and value constituted by migration control practices that produce migrant and refugee destitution. Comparative analysis of three case studies,... Read More about Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, And Migration Control.

Marine Cultural Heritage: Frontier or Centre? (2018)
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Lehman, J. (2018). Marine Cultural Heritage: Frontier or Centre?. International Social Science Journal, 68(229-230), 291-301. https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12155

Marine cultural heritage is an area of emerging international interest among different sectors of society. Drawing together a diverse set of literatures on marine cultural heritage, maritime archaeology, the development of the 2001 UNESCO Convention... Read More about Marine Cultural Heritage: Frontier or Centre?.