Outputs (184)

Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe (2022)
Journal Article

The notion that pathways can be identified and followed towards more sustainable futures has become an increasingly prevalent idea across the science and policy of global environmental change. Focusing on the debate within literatures on socio-techni... Read More about Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe.

Mainstreaming sustainable innovation: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity (2022)
Journal Article

Sustainable innovation has been widely acknowledged as the key driver for societal transitions towards sustainability. Recently, there have been widespread calls to mainstream nature-based solutions (NBS), a form of socio-ecological-technical innovat... Read More about Mainstreaming sustainable innovation: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity.

Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change (2022)
Journal Article

Multiple visions for how urbanism can respond to the climate crisis and foster sustainability have emerged on the international agenda, including the ecocity, low-carbon city, smart city, and resilient city. These competing visions have been joined b... Read More about Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change.

Urban health challenges: Lessons from COVID-19 responses (2022)
Journal Article

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a re-examination of our societies and in particular urban health. We argue that urban health needs to address three inter-related challenge areas – the unequal impacts of climate change, changing patterns of urbanizat... Read More about Urban health challenges: Lessons from COVID-19 responses.

UK street art and the meaning of masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020-21 (2022)
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TThis paper contributes to social and cultural geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic through an exploration of the role of UK street art in documenting the remarkable shifts in the practice of wearing facemasks, the tensions and emotions involved, and... Read More about UK street art and the meaning of masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020-21.

Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic (2022)
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Every discourse on right-wing populism is, more or less explicitly, a discourse on affect. From claims that right-wing populism emerges from a background of racialized resentment or the anger of the ‘left behind’, through to analyses of how populist... Read More about Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic.

Negativity: space, politics and affects (2021)
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This paper reflects on the status of ‘negativity’ in contemporary social and geographical thought. Based on a panel discussion held at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2021, each contributor discusses what negativity means to th... Read More about Negativity: space, politics and affects.

Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement (2021)
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Trauma does not have a single definition. Within Western paradigms, across humanities and social sciences, it has largely been characterized through temporal and spatial dislocation. Critical studies of trauma, however, suggest that such framings of... Read More about Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement.

Undoing mastery: With ambivalence? (2021)
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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?.

Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin (2021)
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The relationship between the city and ‘innovation’ is long and varied, but in recent years there has been a new focus on the potential of innovation to catalyse economic, social, and environmental change. This has led to a debate around whether and h... Read More about Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin.

Demonic Possession: Narratives of Domestic Abuse and Trauma in Malaysia (2021)
Journal Article

Every society deploys narratives concerning the phenomenon of domestic abuse which serve to downplay and normalise it. Drawing on qualitative research with survivors in Malaysia, and working from a feminist postcolonial framework, this paper explores... Read More about Demonic Possession: Narratives of Domestic Abuse and Trauma in Malaysia.

The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19 (2021)
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic strains conventional temporal imaginaries through which emergencies are typically understood and governed. Rather than a transparent and linear temporality, which envisions a smooth transition across the series event/dis... Read More about The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19.

Repopulating density: Covid-19 and the politics of urban value (2021)
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How might concepts of ‘value’ and ‘population’ illuminate the present and future of urban density? The Covid-19 pandemic prompted a public debate on density in the city. While some initially blamed density for the spread of the virus, others rightly... Read More about Repopulating density: Covid-19 and the politics of urban value.

The Crowd and Citylife: Materiality, Negotiation, and Inclusivity at Tokyo’s Train Stations (2021)
Journal Article

In the history of urban thought, density has been closely indexed to the idea of citylife. Drawing on commuters’ experiences and perception of crowds in and around Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station, this article offers an ethnographic perspective on the relat... Read More about The Crowd and Citylife: Materiality, Negotiation, and Inclusivity at Tokyo’s Train Stations.

Affect and Critique: A Politics of Boredom (2021)
Journal Article

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.

Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City (2021)
Journal Article

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.

Exploring the Benefits of Small Catchments on Rural Spatial Governance in Wuling Mountain Area, China (2021)
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China is facing an important period of rural governance innovation and restructuring of territorial spatial patterns. This paper selects catchments as the most closely related spatial units for rural industrial development and rural settlement activi... Read More about Exploring the Benefits of Small Catchments on Rural Spatial Governance in Wuling Mountain Area, China.

Leaving no one behind (2020)
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The Dys-appearing Fat Body: Bodily Intensities and Fatphobic Sociomaterialities when Flying Whilst Fat (2021)
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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.

Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm (2020)
Journal Article

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.