New in TIBG: 'Re-spiritualising geographies of subjectivity through Daoism' by Yu-Shan Tseng This intervention draws on Daoist philosophy to provide an alternative account of spiritual selfhood, re-spiritualising the bodily geographies of subjectivity. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

The joy of a fabulously collective “et al.” writing experience with @mhoussayh.cpesr.fr @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social >> to think & write about how we muddle on making sense of the world with & across languages, concepts & theories, including in our teaching, writing & speaking #geography

That’s us! With @mariegibertflutre.bsky.social @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social and others ! Viva multilingual geographies viva!

New in TIBG: 'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary et al. This intervention responds to the 'Geography in the World' series, shifting focus to the process of worlding geographies & practices of multilingualism in the academy. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo

New commentary in TIBG: 'Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention' by @tylerb.bsky.social & @dcockayne.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

New Commentary w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social in @tibg.bsky.social. Daniel and I comment further on the politics of attention at work, building from @davidjbissell.bsky.social, @lillicrovara.bsky.social, Andrew Gorman-Murray, and @lstraughan.bsky.social excellent recent article. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

New paper in @tibg.bsky.social: High-resolution property: drone enclosures in digital India In it I examine how mass digitized enclosures rely upon a new regime of perception - able to speculatively extract private ownership from collectivised land rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New in TIBG: 'Root metaphors in cartography: Bridging critical and quantitative approaches' by Ruizhe Hong et al. This article uses Anne Buttimer's 4 root metaphors - mosaic, mechanism, organism, & arena - to bridge the gap between critical and quantitative cartography. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

New in TIBG! 'High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India' by @termcern.bsky.social This paper examines how drone & geospatial technologies are being deployed to enclose rural customary lands across India. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Such a nice paper on feature extraction as a project of perception - drone enclosures in digital India. “Feature extraction is an entirely speculative endeavour” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A great issue!

My paper on SDG investment pipelines in Ghana is now in the latest @tibg.bsky.social issue, in great company with other excellent works!

Now published Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers v50, Issue 3 e12724 #openaccess rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢New issue of TIBG📢 Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine. 22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...

#OpenAccess in TIBG 'Infra-culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast' by Julian Clark This paper explores the concept of 'infra-culture', illustrating how cultural practices & material interactions influence the development of physical infrastructures doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Keen to hear what people here think: Is our work on #climatechange facing a #crisis of #imagination? I certainly feel that. you?

#OA in TIBG: 'Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography' by James Esson et al. This paper examines how older people navigate African cities, focusing on Ghana, & contributes to reimagining how knowledge is produced with & about cities in the Majority World. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

New in TIBG! Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies. Read all papers here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/5n72yt46

"Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations " a short intervention, part of a set, out and open access in case of use. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New in TIBG! Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies. Read all papers here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/5n72yt46

The 'spatiotemporal politics of the asylum system linger well after an ‘end’ point of the state decision has been reached...the fragmented governance of the asylum system is made visible in its temporal margins [& in] the extension of this system beyond its legal edges' @sarahhughes90.bsky.social

New commentary in Transactions: 'Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution' by James D. Sidaway In this commentary, Sidaway responds to @hamishkallin.bsky.social's recent TIBG paper on the reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches in geography. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

#readinglist, OBVIOUSLY!

This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social

#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'On the politics of movement: Borderscapes, choreopolicing and choreopolitics' by Charlotte Veal doi.org/10.1111/tran...

New in TIBG! 'Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis' by @ankitkumar.bsky.social et al. This collection comes out of a Chair's Plenary at the 2023 RGS-IBG conference, asking the question 'is our work on climate change facing a crisis of imagination?' doi.org/10.1111/tran...

New in Transactions: 'The spatiality of encounters: Contesting planning decisions in Tehran' by Mojgan Taheri Tafti This paper examines resistance to top-down urban planning and governance in Tehran's middle-class neighbourhoods. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK' by @sarahhughes90.bsky.social This paper explores the '28-day gap' between the approval of an asylum claim and the ending of government support. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

This is the first translation of a Transactions paper hosted on one of our platforms, and we hope that it might be the first of many. Ana has provided an introduction to her translation, both in English and Spanish, reflecting on the interpretation process and the tensions it raised.

I didn't notice that the RGS journals are making space to host translated versions of articles (which are importantly open access). This is a wonderful initiative!!

I had the pleasure of being handling editor for Ana Laura Zavala Guillen's @tibg.bsky.social paper "Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands" Read the Spanish version here: blog.geographydirections.com/2025/08/12/t...

#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'Hide and rule: Accumulation by disappearance and necro-periurbanisation in Brazil' by @jshutta.bsky.social This paper examines the governance of peri-urban spaces near Rio de Janeiro, connecting land fraud to the systemic hiding of violence. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by @austinread.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo

Don't miss our TIBG keynote: 'Geography and the New' at RGS-IBG AC2025! 📆Thursday 28th August, 11:10 📍Teaching & Learning Building: Lecture Theatre 1 - LG18 📣Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell & Beth Greenhough with Harriet Hawkins, Jenny Pickerill, David Bissell, Tatiana Thieme & Nathaniel Télémaque

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"

New in Transactions: 'Gaming the system through temporary housing: Real estate intermediaries and the law in short-term rental markets by @ifidimi.bsky.social This paper explores how rental regulation is strategically engaged with in Zurich's temporary housing market. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏 🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August. Geographers please share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

📝Translation📝 Nos complace compartir una traducción en español de un artículo de Ana Zavala Guillen publicado en TIBG el año pasado. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘐𝘉𝘎 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘯𝘢 𝘡𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘢 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯 ⬇️ blog.geographydirections.com/2025/08/12/t...

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📝Translation📝 Nos complace compartir una traducción en español de un artículo de Ana Zavala Guillen publicado en TIBG el año pasado. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘐𝘉𝘎 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘯𝘢 𝘡𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘢 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯 ⬇️ blog.geographydirections.com/2025/08/12/t...

Don't miss our TIBG keynote: 'Geography and the New' at RGS-IBG AC2025! 📆Thursday 28th August, 11:10 📍Teaching & Learning Building: Lecture Theatre 1 - LG18 📣Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell & Beth Greenhough with Harriet Hawkins, Jenny Pickerill, David Bissell, Tatiana Thieme & Nathaniel Télémaque

This week the first article from my PhD was published! This piece explores the belief that our planet is hurtling towards self-inflicted extinction. By working closely with Extinction Rebellion, I examine how demands to halt planetary extinction shape the future. doi.org/10.1111/tran... 🐞🌱

#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'Before it's too late: The extinction script, multi-species reproductive futurism and Extinction Rebellion' by @amyrobson.bsky.social This paper examines the urgency of extinction narratives across public performances of climate activism. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

I thank TIBG again for providing a home for my first English paper.

New in Transactions: 'Negative geographies of craft-making in heritagisation: Dai women's paper-cutting in southwestern rural China' by @chhsgj.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

my new paper is now published open access in @rgsibg.bsky.social Transactions journal: doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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This looks fascinating - excited to check out more of Smith's work! Her recent paper from Transactions also looks excellent: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

this Transactions piece had been in the slow cooker for many years I'm so glad that it's out!

New in Transactions: 'Edward Curtis & the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899: Thinking beyond the portrait for land and landscape' by @sprucehen.bsky.social This paper analyses the career of photographer Edward Curtis & his relationship with naturalist George Bird Grinnell doi.org/10.1111/tran...