Written in response to this insightful and timely paper by @tomptak.bsky.social @ryanjstock.bsky.social @ankitkumar.bsky.social @sidsareen.bsky.social in @dialogueshg.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2043...

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

New paper out in #openaccess on role of infrastructure in territorial stigmatisation Available here: www.ijurr.org/article/infr...

Fantastic new paper from @nabmed.bsky.social on 'INFRASTRUCTURE AS TERRITORIAL STIGMA: Labour Migrant Exclusions in the Indian City' In what ways does infrastructure fuel, but also substantially reshape, forms of territorial stigmatization? Read this to find out! 👇

This brilliant paper that I had the privilege of reading an advance copy & discussing in details with @nabmed.bsky.social is finally out. A must read for those interested in Infrastructure & Southern thought.

Working on creative methods around urban protest and resistance from a geography perspective? If so consider submitting to our CfP - "Making space for protest" for #RGS2025. More info 👇 Deadline - 28th February 2025. With Architecture colleagues Goran Vodick and Stany Babu ✊

Important paper that offers an evaluation and critique regarding the current state of energy geographies before outlining a few pathways that the authors think can help "move the needle" and advance the subdiscipline. How do you think we can move the subdiscipline forward? doi.org/10.1177/2043...

We are advertising for a New Research Associate position for JustGESI Project www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

This baby is out in paperback. #GreenSky Go get your copy and use the discount code GLR BD8 to save 20% www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...

Good times were had writing this important paper

Delighted to announce a special online panel event 3-4 PM (GMT), 28/01. It addresses the question – how can we decolonise energy research? Speakers @ankitkumar.bsky.social , @cymene.bsky.social , @idalinabaptista.bsky.social & William Monteith. Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1a0bb9...

Jugaad infrastructure - improvisational infrastructures in everyday life UI Associate @ankitkumar.bsky.social research, exploring infrastructure as both a material and social concept, is showcased by the Royal Geographical Society www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Great work from @ankitkumar.bsky.social on jugaad infrastructure featured by RGS

@sheffielduni.bsky.social #Geography and #planning I teach on a module called Environmental Justice at a time of crisis. Today we designed student cafe spaces with #lego. There were circular economies, sharing spaces, accessibility and transport links, and an energy producing dance floor with a DJ.

This was such a fun activity. Great to hear laughter and talk as the students designed their spaces. It can be heavy and grim talking about justice and crisis. @ankitkumar.bsky.social also teaches on this module.

We're so proud to announce that our latest open access book is now ready to read! It presents contributions to decolonize development studies & seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards social justice 🔎 bit.ly/46WFRAL

Important new paper by our very own @hamstertowers.bsky.social

Interested in cities, care and infrastructure? Check out our call for papers on Rethinking cities as spaces of care @ IGU conference in Dublin, Aug 2024. Scroll to p.62 for more details 👇Session organised with Nina Goldman @ Manchester Urban Institute. igc2024dublin.org/wp-content/u...

This is a huge showdown! I am all for flying less but highly entrenched institutional practices of time, energy & money need to change. Ideally, this scientist doesn't even need to travel. Also, let's not forget, common but differential responsibilities

Yes, agree with this. As a social scientist working on climate change and society, it can be frustrating to see so little understanding of the role social science can play here. Not all scientists are the same and no one scientist is an expert on everything.

My research group H2POLITICS just published a piece on green extractivism vis-à-vis South Africa's race for green hydrogen. Based on interviews & activist research the article highlights alternative transition pathways in line with energy justice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

this is indeed a key problem with climate change work. The privilege given to 'science' for all questions related to society. I imagine journalists look for 'objective' & 'credible' voices, & social scientists do not fit the bill?

Geo is currently inviting papers around four curated themes: 🌍Decolonising Climate Geography 🖥️Climate Change, AI & Sustainability 🪁Geographies of Energy Futures 🌊Place & Politics of Marine Governance If you want to contribute to any of the themes above, look at our website for more info ⬇️ #geosky

Check this great list of climate folk out

useful analysis of state of publishing. In last weeks, I received special issue invites, an invite to edit special issue from MDPI journals & of course several others from random publishers. did not respond. Are institutions developing predatory publishing policies? arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884 #geosky

The RGS journals have joined the fun! 🌍🌎🌏 Introducing: Area @areajournal.bsky.social Transactions @tibg.bsky.social The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social Soon to be posting the latest geographical scholarship... #geo #geosky

Introducing Geo: Geography and Environment to the world of the blue sky! We publish work on issues of environment, sustainability, and climate change from a geographical perspective. Have a read of one of our recent papers by @farhana.bsky.social on planetary boundaries ⬇️ doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

CFP via Matthew Edney on Mastodon: The Journal of Historical Geography editors invite you to submit a proposal for [...] the virtual special issue “Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea” guest edited by Federico Ferretti: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

"History Repeating Itself? Ghana, Financial Dependency and the Political Economy of Africa's Debt". Excellent new open-access paper by Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo in Development and Change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A hugggee update to GreenSky; more than 60 new accts added, up to 392 ppl It's a list of climate folks (science, energy, justice, activism, data, academia etc) + a feed Pls subscribe, hit like on the feed and ask to join if you want in! ❤️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets... bsky.app/profile/did:...

In case you missed it, there's now a recording of the 2023 Antipode @RGS_IBG Lecture, “Decommissioning Anti-Racism: Police Power, State Capture, and Black Radical Traditions”, presented by Adam Elliott-Cooper. at antipodeonline.org/2023/08/24/2... #geosky #geography #geo #sociology #socialtheory

At the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter we are starting a virtual seminar series, inaugurated by Mohammed Al Sudairi (24 October, 17:00 London time). You can sign up here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This is worth a read, although I don't fully subscribe to the difference between IIC & JLF as much as the author does lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Manuel Aalbers is looking for a PhD candidate to work on a Horizon Europe project. The successful candidate would work on the Financial and Fiscal Influences on Housing Inequality in Europe. Link to job posting below.

Review essay on squatting and the city as a place of possibility (with a generous reading of La ciudad autónoma) by Aldo Conway: www.jotdown.es/2023/09/poco...

If you're wondering why carbon market world persists, despite decades of scandals + a recent drumbeat of revelations of fraud and inefficacy, it's because there are a very large number of middlemen who make a pretty massive amount of cash from the whole thing: carbonmarketwatch.org/publications...

Also, your periodic reminder: it's not rocket science. It's social science! which happens to be much more complicated than rocket science. You need climate social scientists for this.

Registration is now open: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/lon...

The Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series is back in business! Join us over Zoom on Tuesday, September 26, 10:30 am ET for Lin Zhang's talk, "The Labor of Reinvention: Rural E-Commerce and the China Paradigm!" Virtual, free, open to all! scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia #sts 🧪

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JOB: tenure-track Assistant Professor in Environmental Literary Studies and Environmental Humanities, New York University (USA) #envhum apply.interfolio.com/129779

The first country to declare a #climateemergency back in 2020 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Two headlines that sum up the state of my country

I was on a 20 Yr stocktaking panel for this iconic book recently. I realised, when the book came out in 2003, I was on my way to first yr Botany classes in Delhi University. I had seen my first computer 5 yr ago & would learn about a thing called #climatechange 2.5 yr later. How times have changed!

If you are in Bonn on Thursday this hot week, come and join us to talk about maladaptation at 13.30h at ZEF. www.zef.de/media-center...

I have always found the range of emotions that people differently experience for motivating action fascinating. Currently working on a project with Ankit Kumar on the role of hopelessness in climate justice action (+ we are presenting on this at the RGS conf in London next week if anyone interested)