New Online 1st Article “After critical geopolitics” by Ian Klinke doi.org/10.1177/2043...

My book, Unruly Subjects, is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social 📘✨ For the last decade, I’ve been researching Europe’s border struggles in Greece, in the Aegean archipelago. It's a look at how people - citizens and non-citizens - carve out spaces of hope amidst state violence and abandonment. (1/4)

From research funding and event support to conference access and prizes, SLAS offers opportunities for scholars at every career stage. Whether you're a postgraduate, early-career researcher, or established academic, we offer support. www.slasuk.org/funding

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Last call for expressions of interest to join the DevGRG Committee of the RGS! If you're interested, please fill out the form below (closes 11:59pm BST, 8 September) 👋

Development Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG)@devgeogsrg.bsky.social · 3w ago

We are seeking expressions of interest for new members of the DevGRG Committee! Specifically, we seek to fill the roles of Postgraduate Research & Travel Prize Coordinator and Postgraduate Representative(s). If you are interested, please let us know here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/qpVPN8e6fZ 🙌

Last call for expressions of interest to join the DevGRG Committee of the RGS! If you're interested, please fill out the form below (closes 11:59pm BST, 8 September) 👋

Development Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG)@devgeogsrg.bsky.social · 3w ago

We are seeking expressions of interest for new members of the DevGRG Committee! Specifically, we seek to fill the roles of Postgraduate Research & Travel Prize Coordinator and Postgraduate Representative(s). If you are interested, please let us know here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/qpVPN8e6fZ 🙌

Our last sponsored session at the RGS starts soon: Making Sense of Unstable Ground: Living On with Disaster (2). Royal School of Mines Building Room 1.51, Imperial College London, 11:10-12:50, 03/09/2026. 🙂

We have our second sponsored session of the day starting soon: Violent Transitions: Environmental Crime, Energy Justice, and Resistance in Latin America. Sunley Room, RGS-IBG, at 14:25-16:00. 02/09/2026 😃

If you're at the RGS conference today, come join us for our first sponsored session: "Environment and development futures - living productively with climate, extraction and biodiversity in Latin America". Skempton Building Lecture Theatre 201, Imperial College London at 09:00-10:40 02/09/2026.

At the RGS Conference? Come and join us at the DevGRG social on Wednesday, 2nd September at 6.30pm: a chance to meet old & new friends, chat about Development Geographies, and explore DevGRG-supported work on creativity and development. 🙂

We are seeking expressions of interest for new members of the DevGRG Committee! Specifically, we seek to fill the roles of Postgraduate Research & Travel Prize Coordinator and Postgraduate Representative(s). If you are interested, please let us know here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/qpVPN8e6fZ 🙌

NEW: How the language of climate change obscures responsibility and limits action @wafarasheeq.bsky.social reviews Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of the Environmental Impasse by @laurieparsons.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social @rgs.org @devgeogsrg.bsky.social

How the language of climate change obscures responsibility and limits action - LSE Review of Books

Climate Hegemony by Laurie Parsons explains why governments and corporations have failed to take meaningful action on the climate crisis, & how to drive change

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New article! 'Remembering Social Democracy: Monumentalization, political infrastructures, and stories of "the people",' by Erik Jönsson.

Remembering Social Democracy: Monumentalization, political infrastructures, and stories of 'the people'

Journal of Historical Geography

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New in The GJ: 'Exploring perceptions of plastic pollutions amongst subsistence livestock farmers in subtropical rural communities' by Nomcebo C. Madonsela This paper examines the perceptions of farmers in South Africa on the negative impacts of plastic pollution. doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

📢 Geography postgraduates: our new Postgraduate LinkedIn Group is now live! Connect with researchers, share ideas, seek advice, and discover opportunities in a supportive network for geography and related disciplines. Join the community 👇 https://ow.ly/Kzee50ZlrGZ

Very happy to share that our paper, "Solar Imaginaries: Territorial Enclosures and Renewable Energy Politics in Puglia," is now out in Geoforum! @erc.europa.eu @carlettissimo.bsky.social @julian-lovreglio.bsky.social & Riccardo Martinelli. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Solar imaginaries: territorial enclosures and renewable energy politics in Puglia

This article investigates the photovoltaic energy transition in Puglia, a southern region of Italy that in recent decades experienced massive investme…

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🔁 @erc.europa.eu The ERC Work Programme 2027 has been adopted. Planning to apply for an ERC grant? The first call, Starting Grants, opens on 22 July. Read more 👉 erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

"Numerous restoration initiatives have attempted to reclaim mined land, but most fail to prevent miners from returning to extractive activities or to transition them into viable agricultural livelihoods" ✍️ From our EADI/IOB conference blog series www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2549

Reversing Agrarian Change and Restoring Hope in Ghana’s Mining‑Affected Communities

By Gyinadu Abubakar and Evans Odoom / Shaping Sustainable Futures conference series From Cocoa to Gold: What’s at Stake When classical agrarian theory points to rising food prices as the driver of …

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New editorial on how places are contesting the privatisation of local public services — and what remunicipalisation means for regional development. The debate on what works, where and why is far from over. Read the full editorial here: doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

💻 Join the Society’s Geography Career Hub and Opportunities group on LinkedIn We share posts highlighting geography career pathways, insights from graduates and professionals, and resources to support university study and research. Join the community 👇 https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13090096/

How can placemaking provide a means through which Black geographers claim belonging and reshape structures within Geography? Zenzo Sibanda (King's College London) talks to our Geography for All Coordinator Jasmine Roberts in a new Geography Directions post 👇 https://ow.ly/e5VP50ZauKx

Congratulations to this year’s Society medal and award recipients, recognised for their outstanding contributions to geographical research. Learn more about some of this year’s recipients, working across the geography academic community, below 👇

Completed your registration for Annual Conference 2026? Take a closer look at this year’s conference theme, 'Geographies of inequalities: towards just places', by exploring our virtual issue, showcasing recent papers from across our journals that align with the topic 👇 https://ow.ly/nH8Y50YQxWZ

Lancaster U History hiring 2 x 1-year posts: Lecturer in Global Environmental History - hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Lecturer in Modern British History - hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Stay tuned also for a permanent position in Late Medieval/Early Modern. #skyhistorians #envhist

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Global Environmental History

The School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Global Environmental History. This is a 1.0 FTE post for 12 months starting on 1 August 2026, or as soon as pos...

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🚨 Call for submissions! 🚨 The Progress in Environmental Geography editorial collective is seeking Original Research Articles and Themed Interventions on important topics and issues in environmental geography See below for details of our current and previous themed issues 👇

📢 Launch Day! We're delighted to celebrate the publication of Laurie Parsons's new book, 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘺: 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦, in the RGS-IBG Book Series. Read the full #OpenAccess book (LSE Press) ⬇️ https://ow.ly/5OkH50YV4O9

Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison New @urbanstudiesjournal.com article with a great team of authors We draw on research in six cities to discuss the changing relationship between housing, finance and the state journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison - Tom Gillespie, Glyn Williams, Raffael Beier, Antoine Gosnet, Margherita Grazioli, Thomas F. Purcell, Jie Shen, Callum War...

The scale of the 21st-century urban housing challenge has prompted state actors in both the Global North and South to adopt increasingly interventionist approac...

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Welcome to our research and higher education Bluesky! 👋 Follow us to stay up to date with our work in geographical research, including events, funding opportunities, new publications and more. Learn more about how we promote geography in higher education and beyond: https://ow.ly/CMgN50YI795

Looking to enhance your geography teaching? Explore our Higher Education resources for innovative teaching approaches, practical guidance, and best practice 🔗👇 https://www.rgs.org/research/higher-education-resources?filter=teaching-7536

Higher Education resources for geography

Supporting high quality teaching and learning in geography through resources, events, programmes, exhibitions, consultation responses and briefings.

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🗺️New in Geo🗺️ 'Hydrocartography in times of menacing waters: Xokleng mapping and the politics of floods in Southern Brazil' by Paul Schweizer et al. This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Mapping Climate Change Perceptions'. doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

New in Area: 'Doing geography amidst precarity' by @oliviamason.bsky.social This short piece is part of the ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky