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The National Cyber Force that Britain Needs? (2021)
Report
Devanny, J., Dwyer, A., Ertan, A., & Stevens, T. (2021). The National Cyber Force that Britain Needs?. [No known commissioning body]

Cyber operations are increasingly important to state power projection in the contested and competitive defence and security environments of the globalised 21st century. The United Kingdom has created a National Cyber Force (NCF) to assist in its ambi... Read More about The National Cyber Force that Britain Needs?.

Affect and Critique: A Politics of Boredom (2021)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2021). Affect and Critique: A Politics of Boredom. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(2), 197-217

What are the politics of boredom? And how should we relate to boredom? In this paper, I explore these questions through cases where the disaffection and restlessness of boredom have become a matter of concern in the UK and USA at the junctures betwee... Read More about Affect and Critique: A Politics of Boredom.

Economy and society in COVID times (2021)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2021). Economy and society in COVID times. Economy and Society, 50(2), 149-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1900653

The Editorial Board of Economy and Society has assembled a virtual collection of 12 free access papers to mark a very significant anniversary – Volume 50 of the journal is being published during 2021. This overview explains the rationale for the coll... Read More about Economy and society in COVID times.

Ripe to be Heard: Worker Voice in the Fair Food Programme (2021)
Journal Article
Mieres, F., & McGrath, S. (2021). Ripe to be Heard: Worker Voice in the Fair Food Programme. International Labour Review, 160(4), 631-647. https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12204

The Fair Food Program (FFP) provides a mechanism through which agricultural workers’ collective voice is expressed, heard and responded to within global value chains. The FFP's model of worker-driven social responsibility presents an alternative to t... Read More about Ripe to be Heard: Worker Voice in the Fair Food Programme.

Undoing mastery: With ambivalence? (2021)
Journal Article
Linz, J., & Secor, A. J. (2021). Undoing mastery: With ambivalence?. Dialogues in Human Geography, 11(1), 108-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820621995626

In this commentary, we respond to Derek Ruez and Daniel Cockayne’s article ‘Feeling Otherwise: Ambivalent Affects and the Politics of Critique in Geography’. We do so by picking up ambivalence—or more precisely, ambivalence about ambivalence—as a too... Read More about Undoing mastery: With ambivalence?.

Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem? (2021)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2021). Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem?. Area Development and Policy, 6(2), 123-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1854615

Capitalist economies are structured around two fundamental contradictions. The first lies within the social relations of capital, and the second in the ‘metabolic rift’ between capital accumulation and nature. While the adverse effects of the first d... Read More about Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem?.

A Place More Void (2021)
Book
Kingsbury, P., & Secor, A. J. (Eds.). (2021). A Place More Void. University of Nebraska Press

Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City (2021)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2021). Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City. Environmental Politics, 30(1-2), 266-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1880713

In the 30 years since the journal Environmental Politics was founded, we have witnessed a profound shift in how we understand climate from its initial framing as global problem, to one that is increasingly understood as transnational, personal, urban... Read More about Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City.

Turbulent waters in three parts (2021)
Journal Article
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.

Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama (2021)
Journal Article
Gallardo, B., Bridge, G., & Prieto, M. (2021). Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama. Geoforum, 119, 177-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.01.001

Geographical research on lithium and other renewable energy materials explores the geopolitical dimensions of resource supply and the 'new geographies' associated with an expanding resource frontier. The material characteristics and environmental con... Read More about Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama.

'Brexit Betrayal' and other Post Crisis Affects (2020)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B. (2020). 'Brexit Betrayal' and other Post Crisis Affects. In M. Kesting, & S. Witzgall (Eds.), Politics of Emotion/Power of Affects. The University of Chicago Press

Introduction: rethinking urban density (2020)
Journal Article
Chen, H., Chowdhury, R., McFarlane, C., & Tripathy, P. (2020). Introduction: rethinking urban density. Urban Geography, 41(10), 1241-1246. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1854531

In this piece, we introduce a special issue on “Rethinking Urban Density” which asks: what are the meanings and implications of density in cities today? How might we understand and research it? This collection offers a set of reflections on urban den... Read More about Introduction: rethinking urban density.

Impact investors: The ethical financialization of development, society and nature (2020)
Book Chapter
Langley, P. (2021). Impact investors: The ethical financialization of development, society and nature. In J. Knox-Hayes, & D. Wojcik (Eds.), Routledge handbook of financial geography. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351119061

With increasing numbers of investors rejecting the notion that they face a binary choice between investing for maximum risk-adjusted returns or donating for social purpose, the impact investment market is at a significant turning point as it enters t... Read More about Impact investors: The ethical financialization of development, society and nature.

Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm (2020)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2021). Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm. European Urban and Regional Studies, 28(1), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776420965639

Following the confirmation by the UK Parliament that the UK would leave the European Union on 1 January 2021, this article analyses the likely impact of BREXIT on socio-spatial inequalities in the UK. It argues that inequalities will be further ampli... Read More about Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm.

The force of density: political crowding and the city (2020)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C. (2020). The force of density: political crowding and the city. Urban Geography, 41(10), 1310-1317. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1837527

This commentary examines the politics of density in urban protest and social movements, drawing on examples from Hong Kong and Mumbai. The ‘force’ of density, I argue, is an emergent property shaped through the combinatory relations and forms of pres... Read More about The force of density: political crowding and the city.

Industrial Dynamics on the Commodity Frontier: managing time, space and form in mining, tree plantations and intensive aquaculture (2020)
Journal Article
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.

Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism (2020)
Journal Article
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.

Scenes of Emergency: Dis/Re-Assembling the Promise of the UK Emergency State (2020)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2021). Scenes of Emergency: Dis/Re-Assembling the Promise of the UK Emergency State. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(7), 1356-1374. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420954214

The paper traces the development of UK ‘state of emergency’ legislation through three ‘scenes of emergency’: the introduction of the Emergency Powers Act in 1920, a revision to the Act in 1964, and discussion within government departments about possi... Read More about Scenes of Emergency: Dis/Re-Assembling the Promise of the UK Emergency State.