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Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets (2021)
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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.
Scenes of Emergency: Dis/Re-Assembling the Promise of the UK Emergency State (2020)
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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.
Climate Smart City: New Cultural Political Economies in the Making in Malmö, Sweden (2020)
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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.
Nature-based Solutions for Urban Biodiversity Governance (2020)
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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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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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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.
Failures of Interest (2020)
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What kind of failure is it to lose interest and detach from a project, empirical scene, or cause? Should we always stay interested in our work and attempt to interest others? Through discussion of two ongoing but perhaps failed projects alongside ref... Read More about Failures of Interest.
De/re-densification: a relational geography of urban density (2020)
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In this article, I set out an approach to cities and urbanization through a relational geography of urban density. While density has long been central to the urban question, I argue for a focus on the relationship between densification, de-densificat... Read More about De/re-densification: a relational geography of urban density.
Relational Housing Across the North-South Divide: Learning Between Albania, Uganda, and the UK (2020)
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In this paper we examine how to understand housing as a relational process. Drawing on research in three diverse cities, we stage an unlikely dialogue that brings together narratives of housing across the global North-South divide. In doing so, we ar... Read More about Relational Housing Across the North-South Divide: Learning Between Albania, Uganda, and the UK.
The Affects of the Disaster (2020)
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(Luso)tropicality and the materiality of decolonization (2020)
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Catalyzing political momentum for the effective implementation of decarbonization for urban buildings (2019)
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This paper expands the toolkit available to consider the effectiveness of urban climate responses by examining political effectiveness in the implementation of urban decarbonization initiatives. By focusing on the politics of implementation, this app... Read More about Catalyzing political momentum for the effective implementation of decarbonization for urban buildings.
Introduction: rethinking urban density (2020)
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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.
Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university (2021)
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Targets set by the UK Office for Students require highly academically selective UK universities to enrol a greater percentage of students identified as least likely to participate in higher education. Such students are typically at a disadvantage in... Read More about Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university.
Islamist politics: Antisystemic or post‐modern movements? (2001)
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Belaboring Gender: The Spatial Practice of Work and the Politics of ‘Making Do’ in Istanbul (2003)
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Psychotopologies: Closing the Circuit between Psychic and Material Space (2011)
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