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Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise (2022)
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In Part 1 of ‘Encountering Berlant’, we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter... Read More about Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise.
The space of encounter and the making of difference: The entangled lives of Alevi and Sunni neighbours in Turkey (2022)
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The concept of encounter has long been central to a cosmopolitan ethos in which coming together in urban public space is expected to yield tolerance and pluralism. More recently scholars have reworked this concept to account for not only what is pote... Read More about The space of encounter and the making of difference: The entangled lives of Alevi and Sunni neighbours in Turkey.
Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms (2022)
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Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential concept of ‘cruel optimism’. Cruel optimism names a double-bind in which attachment to an ‘object’ holds out the promise of sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneo... Read More about Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms.
乡村小流域空间治理: 理论逻辑、实践基础和 实现路径 (2021)
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Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities (2022)
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By implementing nature-based solutions (NBS), cities generate value for their residents, such as health and wellbeing. We estimate the aggregate social value to urban residents of 85 NBS projects implemented across Europe and find that the majority y... Read More about Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities.
The Global Biodiversity Framework Needs a Robust Action Agenda (2022)
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Forms and Scenes of Attachment: A Cultural Geography of Promises (2022)
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Attachment is everywhere and nowhere in contemporary cultural geography. Cultural geography is full of relations which look like attachments. But attachment as a concept is mostly absent, used interchangeably with association, connection or simply re... Read More about Forms and Scenes of Attachment: A Cultural Geography of Promises.
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides (2022)
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Traditional interventions to “bring nature into the city” were often motivated by a concern to create forms of public space which would provide a public good. Despite such well-intentioned motivations, these public forms of urban nature have always b... Read More about Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides.
Problematising density: COVID-19, the crowd, and urban life (2022)
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The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically transformed the fundamentals of city management and everyday life. Density has been at the centre of this transformation. But how were densities managed during the pandemic? What are the political implications? And... Read More about Problematising density: COVID-19, the crowd, and urban life.
Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature (2022)
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Transcending initial efforts to make cities ‘climate smart’ by focusing on the potential of new technologies and infrastructural interventions, various actors are increasingly interested in deploying nature to help achieve urban resilience. In this c... Read More about Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature.
Fragmentary embeddedness: Challenges for alternative food networks in Guangzhou, China (2022)
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Alternative food networks (AFNs) have been viewed as being more deeply embedded in the fabric of places and the social relations of their food systems than conventional food networks, and have been regarded as ‘spaces of hope’ for addressing sustaina... Read More about Fragmentary embeddedness: Challenges for alternative food networks in Guangzhou, China.
Moving to a Green Economy? The Story of an “Unjust” Transition in the UK (2022)
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Coal played a central part in the discussions at the COP26 conference on climate change held in Glasgow in 2021. Here it was established as the most deadly of the carbon fuels with the future of the planet depending upon its eradication. This was a c... Read More about Moving to a Green Economy? The Story of an “Unjust” Transition in the UK.
‘Levelling up’ in post-Brexit United Kingdom: Economic realism or political opportunism? (2022)
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Following the 2019 general election, the Prime Minister claimed that leaving the EU would enable him to ‘get Brexit done’ and introduce policies to “level up” inequalities in a post-EU UK. There still is, however, considerable uncertainty as to exact... Read More about ‘Levelling up’ in post-Brexit United Kingdom: Economic realism or political opportunism?.
Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique (2022)
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Off-grid and decentralized energy systems have emerged as an alternative to facilitate energy access and resilience in a flexible, adaptable way, particularly for communities that do not have reliable access to centralized energy networks both in rur... Read More about Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique.
Public-making in a pandemic: the role of street art in East Africa (2022)
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Street artists around the world have been prominent in depicting issues concerning COVID-19, but the role of street art in public-making during the pandemic is unexplored. Despite burgeoning street art scenes in many African countries since the early... Read More about Public-making in a pandemic: the role of street art in East Africa .
Multispecies storytelling in botanical worlds: the creative agencies of plants in contested ecologies (2022)
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This paper argues for engaging in multispecies storytelling with plants to better conceptualise the ethics and contested ecologies associated with biodiversity loss. It focuses specifically on proteas, the iconic species of South Africa's threatened... Read More about Multispecies storytelling in botanical worlds: the creative agencies of plants in contested ecologies.
Perceptions of atmosphere: air, waste, and narratives of life and work in Mumbai (2022)
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How do residents on the socioeconomic margins of the city experience and perceive atmosphere? How does the concept of atmosphere change when we write it from a context of impoverished and stigmatized residents? Drawing on research in neighborhoods ne... Read More about Perceptions of atmosphere: air, waste, and narratives of life and work in Mumbai.
Uneasy Neighbors: The Making of Sectarian Difference and Alevi Precarity in Urban Turkey (2022)
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This study takes a critical perspective on the making of sectarian difference and Alevi precarity in contemporary Turkey. Drawing on our research from 2013 to 2016, we present an analysis of stories and conversations that took place amongst Alevi and... Read More about Uneasy Neighbors: The Making of Sectarian Difference and Alevi Precarity in Urban Turkey.
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S (2022)
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How do the lost futures of forced displacement converge with the impasse of being resettled to a “post-future” society such as the U.S.? Based on interviews conducted between 2016 and 2019 with resettlement agents, service providers and Iraqis resett... Read More about The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S.