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@austinread.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the University of Oxford. occasionalgeographer.substack.com
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An exciting early Christmas present has just arrived !! The New Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology - featuring a chapter I co-authored on queer political ecology - is out in 2026. Can’t wait to read through all the other chapters…
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🚨new paper🚨 excited to publish this paper on salmon, archives & more-than-human historical geography in geographical research!! the article will appear in a special issue on nature in/and/of the archive that has been put together by
@ayanassar.bsky.social
& Jessica Lehman.
doi.org/10.1111/1745...
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Assemblage, archive, and ancestor: Developing more‐than‐human historical geography with salmon
This paper interrogates recent geographic literature on the more-than-human archive and argues that there needs to be more specificity when conceptualising and researching the more-than-human. It the...
https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70044
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Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid politics
On his centenary, Bauman’s pessimistic utopianism is a lesson for the left – and the Labour Party
https://magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/11/19/zygmunt-baumans-liquid-politics/content.html
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new naomi klein in equator magazine is great - and making me rethink my tepid response to this surrealism exhibition !
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
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Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
https://www.equator.org/articles/surrealism-against-fascism?utm_source=brevo&utm_campaign=Email+blast+3-+261125&utm_medium=email
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amazingly produced zine from queer patch - group of sinophone queer / feminist researchers. look out for launches in various cities across 2026
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In case you missed it: see our CfP for the AAG 2026 below 👇
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CfP
#AAG2026
New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice and activism. We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CfP AAG 2026: New Fluvial Geographies
AAG 2026: New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice & activism Human geography is currently experiencing a river moment. Over the past decade, as the discipline has em...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GsdN0fDc0sey80FXADDu5jhJ60gLgAnAL52Qh5YqEnA/edit?usp=sharing
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TIBG
4 months ago
#OpenAccess
in TIBG: 'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by
@austinread.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
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my new paper is now published open access in
@rgsibg.bsky.social
Transactions journal:
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper begins by looking at a biodiversity conservation project on the River Severn (UK) and argues that dominant technocratic framings of it ignore the colonial legacies that shape the river. It...
https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.70020
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my first post on substack is available to read now! Newsletter #1: May 2025
open.substack.com/pub/occasion...
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Newsletter #1: May 2025
The Green Party leadership election, Britain’s postimperial spatial politics & reading, watching and listening digest
https://open.substack.com/pub/occasionalgeographer/p/newsletter-1-may-2025?r=8ch90&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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hello ! i have started a substack (mainly as a fun project to disrupt writer's block). please follow it at
occasionalgeographer.substack.com
if you're interested. first proper post (where i'm going to be discussing the spatial politics of the green party leadership election) is coming this sunday!
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occasional geographer | austin | Substack
My personal Substack. Click to read occasional geographer, by austin, a Substack publication. Launched 4 hours ago.
https://occasionalgeographer.substack.com
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reading buddy
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reposted by
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Zack Polanski
8 months ago
We need bold leadership. Now. That's why I'm running to be the next leader of the Green Party. Join our campaign:
backzack.com
#BackZack
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Northey Island
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Arrived in Detroit for the
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! Geographers, please check out our session “Making space for anticolonial geographies of and from the metropole?” which is running tomorrow morning in the 10am slot (please refer to the program for location info). In the meantime, I’m hitting up Trading Joe’s!!
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Aya Nassar
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Excited to be presenting my paper about salmon conservation, river infrastructures and the River Severn's hidden colonial histories this Thursday in Oxford (and online). And in great company!!
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