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Trajectories in mental health and socio-spatial conditions in a time of economic recovery and austerity: a longitudinal study in England, 2011-2017 (2020)
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Curtis, S., Cunningham, N., Pearce, J., Congdon, P., Cherrie, M., & Atkinson, S. (2021). Trajectories in mental health and socio-spatial conditions in a time of economic recovery and austerity: a longitudinal study in England, 2011-2017. Social Science & Medicine, 270, Article 113654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113654

This paper examines trends in mental health among adults in England during the period of economic recovery and austerity following the 2008 ‘great recession’. We report analysis of data on 17,212 individuals living in England, from the longitudinal U... Read More about Trajectories in mental health and socio-spatial conditions in a time of economic recovery and austerity: a longitudinal study in England, 2011-2017.

The Dys-appearing Fat Body: Bodily Intensities and Fatphobic Sociomaterialities when Flying Whilst Fat (2021)
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Colls, R., Evans, B., & Bias, S. (2021). The Dys-appearing Fat Body: Bodily Intensities and Fatphobic Sociomaterialities when Flying Whilst Fat. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1866485

This paper offers an exploration of the embodied experiences of flying whilst fat, based on research with a significantly larger group of people than any previous research on this topic (795 surveys and 28 interviews with fat people largely, though n... Read More about The Dys-appearing Fat Body: Bodily Intensities and Fatphobic Sociomaterialities when Flying Whilst Fat.

Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets (2021)
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Langley, P., Bridge, G., Bulkeley, H., & van Veelen, B. (2021). Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets. Economy and Society, 50(3), 494-516. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1860335

rivate investment capital is now widely regarded as strategically significant to the governance of climate change. A dedicated and dynamic carbon finance sector has emerged that features techniques and practices for decarbonizing capital, facilitatin... Read More about Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets.

Being Earthbound: Arendt, Process, and Alienation in the Anthropocene (2020)
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Belcher, O., & Schmidt, J. J. (2020). Being Earthbound: Arendt, Process, and Alienation in the Anthropocene. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(1), 103-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820953855

Hannah Arendt developed a twofold account of ‘being earthbound’ directly relevant to Anthropocene debates regarding the political. For Arendt, both senses of ‘being earthbound’ arose as humans began to act into nature, not merely upon it. The first s... Read More about Being Earthbound: Arendt, Process, and Alienation in the Anthropocene.

Central banks: Climate governors of last resort? (2020)
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Langley, P., & Morris, J. H. (2020). Central banks: Climate governors of last resort?. Environment and Planning A, 52(8), 1471-1479. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x20951809

The global and regional leadership of central banks in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened public and political debates over their role in the governance of an arguably more fundamental planetary crisis: the climate crisis. Strategically... Read More about Central banks: Climate governors of last resort?.

Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism (2020)
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Langley, P. (2021). Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism. Review of International Political Economy, 28(2), 382-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1830828

In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007–09, political economists have typically identified and interrogated speculative logics and credit-debt relations as the markers of financialized capitalism. This paper argues that assets, and the con... Read More about Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism.

Covid-19 and the Politics of Sustainable Energy Transitions (2020)
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Kuzemko, C., Bradshaw, M., Bridge, G., Goldthau, A., Jewell, J., Overland, I., …Westphal, K. (2020). Covid-19 and the Politics of Sustainable Energy Transitions. Energy Research and Social Science, 68, Article 101685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101685

In this perspectives piece, an interdisciplinary team of social science researchers considers the implications of Covid-19 for the politics of sustainable energy transitions. The emergency measures adopted by states, firms, and individuals in respons... Read More about Covid-19 and the Politics of Sustainable Energy Transitions.

Industrial Dynamics on the Commodity Frontier: managing time, space and form in mining, tree plantations and intensive aquaculture (2020)
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Banoub, D., Bridge, G., Bustos, B., Ertör, I., González-Hidalgo, M., & de los Reyes, J. (2021). Industrial Dynamics on the Commodity Frontier: managing time, space and form in mining, tree plantations and intensive aquaculture. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 4(4), 1533-1559. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620963362

Research in political ecology and agrarian political economy has shown how commodity frontiers are constituted through the appropriation and transformation of nature. This work identifies two broad processes of socio-metabolism associated with commod... Read More about Industrial Dynamics on the Commodity Frontier: managing time, space and form in mining, tree plantations and intensive aquaculture.

Carceral Economies of Migration Control (2020)
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Martin, L. L. (2021). Carceral Economies of Migration Control. Progress in Human Geography, 45(4), 740-757. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132520940006

This article conceptualises carceral economies of migration control. First, I argue that “privatization” signals a reorganization of authority, rather than a relocation of ownership from public to private domains. Second, I argue for greater attentio... Read More about Carceral Economies of Migration Control.

Climate Smart City: New Cultural Political Economies in the Making in Malmö, Sweden (2020)
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Bulkeley, H., & Stripple, J. (2021). Climate Smart City: New Cultural Political Economies in the Making in Malmö, Sweden. New Political Economy, 26(6), 937-950. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2020.1810219

The question of how the urgent transformation in fossil fuel based economies might be realised has come to occupy an increasingly prominent place within the social sciences. The challenge here is often cast in terms of how one or more existing system... Read More about Climate Smart City: New Cultural Political Economies in the Making in Malmö, Sweden.

The Toxic Effects of Subjective Wellbeing and Potential Tonics (2020)
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Atkinson, S. (2021). The Toxic Effects of Subjective Wellbeing and Potential Tonics. Social Science & Medicine, 288, Article 113098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113098

The paper offers a provocation to the geographies of health in relation to one of our governing concepts, that of wellbeing. The paper brings together government survey data from the United Kingdom with other published research into a critical argume... Read More about The Toxic Effects of Subjective Wellbeing and Potential Tonics.

Nature-based Solutions for Urban Biodiversity Governance (2020)
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Xie, L., & Bulkeley, H. (2020). Nature-based Solutions for Urban Biodiversity Governance. Environmental Science and Policy, 110, 77-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.04.002

In this paper, we examine how cities are working with nature-based solutions for biodiversity. Drawing on a sample of 199 nature-based solutions across Europe, we identify how cities work with nature-based solutions to conserve nature, restore nature... Read More about Nature-based Solutions for Urban Biodiversity Governance.

Taking on the tweed suits: Reflections on the ‘How the other half lives’ and its critique of masculinist geography (2020)
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McEwan, C. (2020). Taking on the tweed suits: Reflections on the ‘How the other half lives’ and its critique of masculinist geography. Area, 52(4), 770-777. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12647

In this commentary I explore the groundbreaking interventions of Jacky Tivers’ (1978) ‘How the other half lives’ (Area 10, 4, 302‐6). I recount both the context in which I first read and was inspired by the paper and the significance of the context i... Read More about Taking on the tweed suits: Reflections on the ‘How the other half lives’ and its critique of masculinist geography.

Crowdfunding cities: Social entrepreneurship, speculation and solidarity in Berlin (2020)
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Langley, P., Lewis, S., McFarlane, C., Painter, J., & Vradis, A. (2020). Crowdfunding cities: Social entrepreneurship, speculation and solidarity in Berlin. Geoforum, 115, 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.06.014

Situated at the intersection of urban and economic geography, this paper develops and illustrates a three-step research agenda to further critical understanding of relations between crowdfunding and cities. First, we explore how crowdfunding is enrol... Read More about Crowdfunding cities: Social entrepreneurship, speculation and solidarity in Berlin.

The platform political economy of FinTech: Reintermediation, consolidation and capitalisation (2020)
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Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2021). The platform political economy of FinTech: Reintermediation, consolidation and capitalisation. New Political Economy, 26(3), 376-388. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2020.1766432

‘FinTech’ is the digital sector of retail money and finance widely proclaimed to be transforming banking in the global North and ‘banking the unbanked’ in the global South. This paper develops a perspective for critically understanding FinTech as a p... Read More about The platform political economy of FinTech: Reintermediation, consolidation and capitalisation.

Doing more with movement: constituting healthy publics in a movement volunteering programme (2020)
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Tupper, E., Atkinson, S., & Pollard, T. (2020). Doing more with movement: constituting healthy publics in a movement volunteering programme. Palgrave communications, 6, Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0473-9

The recent phenomenon of movement volunteering programmes is a form of ‘fitness philanthropy’ that combines exercise with volunteering in order for physical activity to generate a more widely shared set of benefits. These newest practices of fitness... Read More about Doing more with movement: constituting healthy publics in a movement volunteering programme.