Mitchell Dean, 'Populism, Governmentality, and Acclamatory Democracy' journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Like maps? art? Combine the two at this workshop! 31 July, 3:30-5pm, @rgs.org and led by Steph Morris and #FREE to all! (registration required). #skystorians 🗃️

This by @gsoh31.bsky.social captures a great deal, especially the sadness

New article! 'From Palmer Street to 28 October Street: Street naming, urban authority and anti-colonial struggle in British Cyprus', by Stella Theocharous, Dionysis Panos and Sebastian Letts.

New article: 'Reframing disciplinary memory: A participatory reckoning with colonial legacies in geography at the University of Bonn', by Tobit Nauheim, Johannes Dittmann, Arne Rieber, Jana Stumpp and the KritGeo Student Collective.

🔊The provisional programme for this year's Annual Conference is now live. We're excited to feature over 600 sessions this year, engaging with the theme of Geographies of inequalities: towards just places. Explore the virtual event space and our programme highlights 👇 https://bit.ly/4uDOpJh

Issues at British universities are often met with the same answer - restructure & centralise. This push towards 'efficiency' has led universities into further crisis. How do we fight back? More from this contribution to our Dispatches series https://isrf.org/blog/dispatch-from-a-middle-manager #UKHE

Check out the latest from our Dispatches series James Brackley examines how the marketisation of UK universities has worsened conditions for staff and students

New review! Martin W. Lewis on 'The West: The History of an Idea', by Georgios Varouxakis.

#skystorians Please sign and share. Petition to save the Humanities at University of Hertfordshire c.org/kK5v9MTdNr

Today, we launch a new featured series called Rethinking Internationalisms. In this introductory article, Ria Kapoor, Jessica Reinisch, Margot Tudor and Daniel Laqua ask, how can marginalised stories of internationalism be recovered?

⬇️ Nearly 2,700 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social staff members at risk of dismissal due to redundancy. Disgraceful.

Conference report! @stephenlegg11.bsky.social on 'Cities and Decolonization: Anti-colonial Struggles, Urban Protest, and Global Solidarities in the Twentieth Century' (Wadham College, University of Oxford, 19–20 March 2026).

New article! 'Continuity and change in urban space: Materiality, commemoration, rhythm and commerce in St Ann’s Square, Manchester', by Tim Edensor and Gary Warnaby.

New article! 'Deforestation processes and (re)forestation practices in southern Brazil in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries', by Samira Peruchi Moretto.

A model of museum repatriation involving my colleague JoAnn McGregor and showing that items need not have been looted for repatriation to be meaningful. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

New article! 'The Augustów Canal as the largest monument in Central and Eastern Europe', by Karol Łopatecki and Dominika Wybult.

New review! David Zeitlyn on 'Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain ', edited by Renée Mussai.

New review article! 'HGIS de las Indias database', by Jeremy Mikecz.

Call for papers! We invite proposals for a special issue on the theme 'Black Historical Geographies: Querying the Archive', co-edited by Mona Domosh & Caroline Bressey. Abstract deadline: 30 April 2026 Accepted submission deadline: September 30 2026 Details here 👇️

On advance access: "Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973" by @riakapoor.bsky.social (@qmul.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

I am incredibly grateful to Chris Philo for organising a book forum to discuss "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities". 50 free downloads of "Writing the anticolonial: between postcolonial and decolonial geographies" at... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/B7CBR...

The writing tips I published one by one here have now been gathered up and published by Ed Simon in the *Pittsburgh Review of Books*. Happy to make them available here: pghrev.com/sixteen-writ... Be sure to check out the relatively new PRoB while you are there!

Paul Harrison, Anna J. Secor and Mikko Joronen eds. Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe – Edinburgh University Press, August 2026 (print and open access) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cultura... @ajsecor.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social

Congratulations @jbrigstocke.bsky.social !

New piece in Progress in Human Geography, 'Crisis-thinking and critical urbanism'. What might crisis-thinking be doing to how the urban is conceived, researched, and politicised? How might it impact how we see urban possibility? Open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New review! Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann on 'Maps and Colours: A Complex Relationship', edited by Diana Lange and Benjamin van der Linde.

❄️The Future of the Arctic Workshop❄️ 12th May 2026 | Newcastle University An interdisciplinary workshop exploring: cryospheric, climatic and oceanic science; science for policy; changing Arctic geopolitics; the decolonisation of Arctic histories. Please register via: tinyurl.com/futureofthea...

New review! Maria José Afanador Llach on Jessica M. Lepler's 'Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions'.

A fantastic piece by Janaki Nair: www.theindiaforum.in/history/walk...

New article! 'More than asparagus: The development of the canning industry in Brunswick, Germany', by Grace Abou Jaoude, Yevheniia Berchul & Vanessa Miriam Carlow.

New review: Alison Bennett on Edward Armston-Sheret's 'On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration'.

Conference report: Petra Codato on historical geography at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers, 26–29 August 2025 (University of Birmingham).

New review! Timothy Boon on Ben Burt's 'The Museum of Mankind: Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department'.

New article! ‘"Fantastic race across the strangest and most desolate landscape": Embodied landscapes and automobiles in Mongolia, 1907–1930', by Tomasz Ewertowski.

New review! Ana Raquel Portugal on Junia Ferreira Furtado's 'L’Amérique Méridionale: The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century'.

New article! 'Hometown bonds, spatial consolidation and socioeconomic transformation of Huiguan in Beijing's modernization', by Wang Changsong & Wang Yitong.

New review essay! 'Land reform in the home of enclosure: How to right historical land ownership & environmental injustice in England & Wales' by Carl Griffin, covering: ● 'The Lie of the Land', by Guy Shrubsole ● 'Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You', by Nick Hayes & Jon Moses

New review! Enrique García Hernán on David Rodríguez Couto's 'Imperio y reputación: El viaje de los hermanos Nodal y su mundo'.

New review! Jesús Israel Baxin Martínez on Kevin Rodríguez Wittmann's 'Mapping Insularity: A Visual History of Islands in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds'.

New article! 'Imperial knowledge-making: Spanish and Russian modern time questionnaires as data collection tools', by Nadezda Konyushikhina & Victoria Tkachenko.

New article! 'Samplers of the marine environment: Knowing the oceans with seabirds, 1958–Present', by Oscar Hartman Davies.

Join us for the 4th Rethinking Internationalisms conference, 19-20 March, the line up is brilliant. The @rshc.bsky.social memorial lecture will be delivered as part of the proceedings by Prof. Sandrine Kott (link in thread) and there will be an ECR event on 18 (1/3) www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Nicely done @areajournal.bsky.social !

important commentary!!! www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

New paper on ‘detachment’ as (non)relation, which is partly an intervention into debates around relations/relationality, and partly the latest in a series on attachment-detachment. In Progress in Human Geography journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

New article! 'From perdition to paradise: Patagonia, Juan Fernández and the Southeastern Pacific in the British geographical imaginary, 1680-1768', by Elizabeth Chant & Natalia Gándara Chacana.

New review! Apurba Chatterjee on 'Moving Crops and the Scales of History', by Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy and Tiago Saraiva.

New article! 'Precarious place, powerful participation: The historicization of floods and community resilience in Pajaro, California', by Ria Mukerji.

Do consider joining us at the RGS-IBG to present some thoughts on maps that mean, or may come to mean, something to you....