📢December Issue of Area📢 This issue features Special Sections on 'Gender & Rewilding' and 'Participatory Historical Geographies' alongside papers on topics from Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the pandemic to research methods for legal geography ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762...

An added bonus to the last day of work for me this year - my latest article has just been published online 🎉 It's all about urban heritage and the politics of the listing campaign associated with the Robin Hood Gardens Estate - please feel free to give it a read 👉 tinyurl.com/y3ykx6sk

'Participatory Historical Geographies' Special Section - out now in Area! This collection, guest edited by @ruthslatter.bsky.social & @ed-brookes.bsky.social, reflects on the increasing use of participatory methods in historical geography. Read here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

2/ First up @ed-brookes.bsky.social and I have written an introduction outlining what participatory historical geography is/could be and why it's important. Read more here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!

Delighted to share our AREA special issue on Participatory Historical Geographies 🎉 Co-edited with the brilliant @ruthslatter.bsky.social - exploring the rewards & challenges of collaborative historical research. Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #Geography #AREAjournal

Yes it was 16-odd years ago, and he's grown politically since then, but it exposes his Blairite roots. RHG was an icon; a brutalist manifesto that deserved to be preserved and cherished, not fed to the gentrifying wolves (I wrote about it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) /3

He ignored appeals and listening only to the private real estate developers instead of the community groups. There were plenty of options available and he chose the most Thatcherite one possible, you can read work by @ed-brookes.bsky.social on the process here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... /2

Andy Burnham, when he was culture secretary back in 2009, refused listing for Robin Hood Gardens in London, affectively demolishing it. RHG was one the finest example of brutalist architecture and a really important social housing block, and he went all Alice Coleman on it. /1

Transphobe arrested: "we need to look at the laws, clearly something's not right" 80 year old vicars and disabled people carried off parliament square because they said genocide is bad: "these laws need to be tightened if anything"

I don't really understand the weird binary that the BBC #r4today and other media seem to be trying to create between books and audio books. Can't we just enjoy both without pitting one against the other?

Join us for a unique opera experience! Funded by the AHRC for the #FromNoahToNow project @uniofhull.bsky.social, this *free* event aims to raise awareness about flooding. Book for: Grimsby Minster 24.03.2025 lnkd.in/dwPpGfyz Hull Minster 26.03.2025 lnkd.in/dJaWTV36 #ArtsEducation #OperaInSchools

In Gaza we witnessed material scholasticide with the physical destruction of universities and people. In the US, we're seeing ideological scholasticide via pulling any critical funding, censoring keywords. In the UK, it's economical scholasticide via total starvation of funds and gov't inaction.

Check out this short piece by Stewart Mottram, Lisa Coates and I which talks about our work on the Noah to Now project at the University of Hull and using Opera to explore flooding with young people 🎭 tinyurl.com/7u3b2485 #arts #opera #flooding #climatechange #noahtonow

New paper in Area: 'Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement' by @hannahworthen.bsky.social & Claire Weatherall This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Participatory Historical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area...

Car park operators can get in the bin Rentier capital at its absolute worst BBC News - Parking fines: Woman faces £1,906 bill over five-minute payment rule - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thrilled to see 2 more articles online from the Area special section on participatory historical geography I am editing with @edbrooks.bsky.social Congrats @hannahworthen.bsky.social (rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) & Lucy Thompson (rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

I'm excited to be involved with this year's Flood Awareness Centre in Hull, in partnership with Living with Water 🌊 Come visit for: Free exhibition on Hull's Watery Histories Free postcards & info on our projects Free events & workshops all week More info: tinyurl.com/y8k2x9s2 tinyurl.com/y8k2x9s2

Waking up to -1° and then 15° in the space of 48 hours is genuinely insane. Is environmental whiplash a thing?

First post! I had a new paper published in Area @areajournal.bsky.social yesterday 🥳 "Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement" co-authored with my wonderful Archivist colleague Claire Weatherall doi.org/10.1111/area...

We're co-hosting our first pop-up Flood Awareness Centre with Living with Water partners in Hull city centre next week. Open 10am-4pm, Mon 25-Fri 29 Nov and 10am-2pm, Sat 30 Nov Drop-in or book on a free workshop, inc games, chat and a visit from Bear the dog! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flood-awar...

It was really great to attend the 2024 Centre for Water Cultures Conference today. With some excellent panels and exciting research being done! @universityofhull.bsky.social #centreforwatercultures #water

Late to the party, but finally made the jump from X/Twitter/Elon's hellscape. Here's a picture of my cat, Dave.