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Mapping trauma: topography to topology (2014)
Book Chapter
Blum, V., & Secor, A. (2014). Mapping trauma: topography to topology. In S. Pile, & P. Kingsbury (Eds.), Psychoanalytic Geographies (103-116). Ashgate Publishing

Smart urbanism: cities, grids and alternatives? (2014)
Book Chapter
Luque, A., McFarlane, C., & Marvin, S. (2014). Smart urbanism: cities, grids and alternatives?. In M. Hodson, & S. Marvin (Eds.), After Sustainable Cities? (74-90). Routeldge

‘The Medical’ and ‘health’ in a critical medical humanities (2014)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Evans, B., Woods, A., & Kearns, R. (2015). ‘The Medical’ and ‘health’ in a critical medical humanities. Journal of Medical Humanities, 36(1), 71-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-014-9314-4

As befits an emerging field of enquiry, there is on-going discussion about the scope, role and future of the medical humanities. One relatively recent contribution to this debate proposes a differentiation of the field into two distinct terrains, ‘me... Read More about ‘The Medical’ and ‘health’ in a critical medical humanities.

Liquidity Lost: The Governance of the Global Financial Crisis (2014)
Book
Langley, P. (2014). Liquidity Lost: The Governance of the Global Financial Crisis. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199683789.001.0001

•Extensive empirical coverage of the financial crisis management interventions in US and UK in 2007 and 2011 •Provides an innovative contribution to conceptual debates in cultural economy and social studies of finance. •A multidisciplinary source of... Read More about Liquidity Lost: The Governance of the Global Financial Crisis.

“Over our dead bodies”: Placing necropolitical activism (2014)
Journal Article
Leshem, N. (2015). “Over our dead bodies”: Placing necropolitical activism. Political Geography, 45, 34-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.09.003

Analysing a struggle between Palestinian campaigners and Israeli authorities over an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, this paper explores the role of necrogeography in contesting urban boundaries, asserting historical legitimacy and realizing em... Read More about “Over our dead bodies”: Placing necropolitical activism.

Energy (in)security: world-making in an age of scarcity (2014)
Journal Article
Bridge, G. (2015). Energy (in)security: world-making in an age of scarcity. The Geographical Journal, 181(4), 328-339. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12114

‘Energy security’ has quickly assumed a significant place in the lexicon of policy. Like other handy couplets for characterising socio-natural relations (such as carrying capacity and resource scarcity), energy security is a powerful framing device:... Read More about Energy (in)security: world-making in an age of scarcity.

Biomimicry: New Natures, New Enclosures (2014)
Journal Article
Goldstein, J., & Johnson, E. (2015). Biomimicry: New Natures, New Enclosures. Theory, Culture and Society, 32(1), 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276414551032

Advocates of biomimicry encourage a new industrial paradigm that ostensibly leaves behind the crude violence of Francis Bacon, the domination of nature-as-machine, and a history of toxic production processes that have given rise to a present and comi... Read More about Biomimicry: New Natures, New Enclosures.

An urban politics of climate change: experimentation and the governing of socio-technical transitions (2014)
Book
Bulkeley, H., Castan Broto, V., & Edwards, G. (2014). An urban politics of climate change: experimentation and the governing of socio-technical transitions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315763040

The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as ‘an urgent agenda’ (World Bank 2010). The contribution of c... Read More about An urban politics of climate change: experimentation and the governing of socio-technical transitions.

Repositioning urban governments? Energy efficiency and Australia’s changing climate and energy governance regimes (2014)
Journal Article
McGuirk, P., Dowling, R., & Bulkeley, H. (2014). Repositioning urban governments? Energy efficiency and Australia’s changing climate and energy governance regimes. Urban Studies, 51(13), 2717-2734. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098014533732

Urban local governments are important players in climate governance, and their roles are evolving. This review traces the changing nexus of Australia’s climate policy, energy policy and energy efficiency imperatives and its repositioning of urban loc... Read More about Repositioning urban governments? Energy efficiency and Australia’s changing climate and energy governance regimes.

Stable and destabilised states of subjective wellbeing: dance and movement as catalysts of transition (2014)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., & Scott, K. (2015). Stable and destabilised states of subjective wellbeing: dance and movement as catalysts of transition. Social and Cultural Geography, 16(1), 75-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2014.950689

The pursuit of subjective well-being has become an important object of policy and personal action, which within geography has been engaged largely by those with an interest in health. But to date, geography has given little attention to the ways in w... Read More about Stable and destabilised states of subjective wellbeing: dance and movement as catalysts of transition.

Water ethics on a human-dominated planet: rationality, context and values in global governance (2014)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J., & Peppard, C. Z. (2014). Water ethics on a human-dominated planet: rationality, context and values in global governance. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 1(6), 533-547. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1043

A discourse on water ethics has emerged as a field linking practical water demands, social practices, and hydrological constraints to philosophic norms. The field arose parallel to growing, global understandings of the interconnected nature of water... Read More about Water ethics on a human-dominated planet: rationality, context and values in global governance.