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Joe Blakey

@joeblakey.bsky.social

Lecturer, Geography UoM. Political Geographer interested in environmental knowledge politics, post-foundational political theories and aesthetics. Runner. Website: https://joeblakey.com Research: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/joe.blakey

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Joe Blakey@joeblakey.bsky.social · 2w ago

🎙️I recently spoke with Sam Morgan about ‘A Caution on Climate Hope’ (paper by @marchudson.bsky.social and I). We dig into the assumed link between hope and climate progress, the problems with optimism and false hope, and whether hopelessness has its virtues. foresightmedia.com/story/s8Myti...

Hope springs eternal for the climate?

On today’s episode of The Jolt: climate action and decarbonisation success is often intertwined with the need to stay hopeful. Is having hope all it’s cracked up to be though? Or could it be doing mor...

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John Fellowes@jrf66.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Abandoning the assumption that hope is a strategic necessity enables a climate scholarship and politics that is ...receptive to the full range of emotions and affects that can shape action." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A caution on climate hope

In this paper, we caution against the tendency in climate discourse to equate hope with progress. While hope is often framed as essential for motivating change, its uncritical celebration can under...

tandfonline.com

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 2mo ago

Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 25, 2026 ~ Hopeless "Calls for hopefulness often come from sources warranting scepticism, including greenwashed or techno-solutionist corporate messaging and policymakers repeating well-worn promises of ecological modernisation, green-growth and decoupling."

A caution on climate hope

In this paper, we caution against the tendency in climate discourse to equate hope with progress. While hope is often framed as essential for motivating change, its uncritical celebration can under...

tandfonline.com

Joe Blakey@joeblakey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📄 ✨ New paper with @marchudson.bsky.social in @environmentalpol.bsky.social. In 'a caution on climate hope' we challenge the assumption that #hope is always necessary or helpful for progressive climate action. In other words, the idea that if hope is lost, the future is too. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

A caution on climate hope

In this paper, we caution against the tendency in climate discourse to equate hope with progress. While hope is often framed as essential for motivating change, its uncritical celebration can under...

doi.org

ana valdivia@anavaldi.bsky.social · 12mo ago

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

Amy Barron@amycbarron.bsky.social · last yr.

I have a new paper out in Social & Cultural Geography titled: Making sense of ‘middle-age’: thinking from and through the middle. It presents a research agenda on the geographies of middle-age, and the value of thinking around the middle more generally. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2537686

ABSTRACT of paper This paper presents a research agenda on the geographies of middle-age, drawing on life-history interviews with self-identified middle-aged participants from Greater Manchester, UK. The place of middle-age in debates about age within and beyond human geography is explored, including the extension of the category of youth and the deferral of older age. While lived experiences of middle-age are changing and significant, they are frequently overlooked in research. This paper argues that middle-age must be theorized through approaches and concepts of and around the middle. It draws upon more-than-representational theories as one such approach to thinking from and through the middle, emphasizing in-between affective states and forms of change, whilst highlighting a range of concepts and practices of the middle such as impasse, liminality and waiting. Thinking from and through the middle advances relational approaches to age by shifting attention away from the nodes at either end of a relation, towards the middle itself as being invariably in-relation. Geographers interested in ageing are urged to focus on the middle, be these moments of betweenness earlier or later in life, or midlife and middle-age itself. Future research must keep differences in experience at the fore and maintain a distinctly relational vantage point.
Julian Brigstocke@jbrigstocke.bsky.social · last yr.

I have a chapter in the book on Cities and the Sixth Sense: The Aesthetics of Experimental Urbanism. The chapter looks at experimental architecture/urbanism projects on the US/Mexico border through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s politics of aesthetics. www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a... #geosky

Aesthetics and the City

Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience. Drawing on diverse theories and global case studies, this edited collection examines how aesthetics rela...

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Joe Blakey@joeblakey.bsky.social · last yr.

🌍 Mark Usher and I are collaborating to bring professionals working on natural capital in Greater Manchester together for a workshop on Tues 22nd July (bringing together Mark's work on natural capital and my own on environmental accounting). Details below and register here: bit.ly/gmnaturalcap...

An invitation to a Greater Manchester Natural Captital Workshop. Water and aquatic plants are in the background. It details that the event seeks to bring divergent and common perspectives on natural capital accounting frameworks to the fore. It is on Tuesday 22nd June 2025 at the University of Manchester at 10am to 3:30pm. Participants must be a professional in the sector. The registration link is bit.ly/gmnaturalcapital
Joe Blakey@joeblakey.bsky.social · 2y ago

A conversation between Andrea Borsari, Arshia Eghbali and I has been published in The Historical City book. Titled ‘The City Between Geography and Aesthetics’ it discusses the edited book @amycbarron.bsky.social and I have submitted on ‘Aesthetics and the City’. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The City Between Geography and Aesthetics: A Conversation with Joe Blakey

Joe Blakey is an environmental and political geographer, and Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. His work focuses on post-foundational political theories within Human Geograph...

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Kevin Anderson@kevinclimate.bsky.social · 2y ago

Worth doing a bit of maths around the UK's 81% NDC announcement. It comes from the net-zero 2050 pathway, which assumes a typical UK citizen receives 3x more emission space than an 'equal per capita' share of the remaining 50% ≤ 1.5°C carbon budget. Colonialism continues unchecked & even celebrated.

Cities Politics Economies Research Group, UoM@cperguom.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi Everyone. This is the first post of the Cities Politics Economies Research Group from the Department of Geography, University of Manchester. www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/geography/re...

Cities, Politics and Economies (CPEG) - School of Environment, Education and Development - The University of Manchester

The Cities, Politics, and Economies Group brings together scholars working at the interface of urban, political and economic geography.

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Ronald Hartz@ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 2y ago

'The pressure to produce and perform in the short term can come at the expense of scientific progress in the long term. A more critical stance towards metrics and rankings is essential if we want to enhance the quality and credibility of research.' www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-...

How Research Credibility Suffers in a Quantified Society - Social Science Space

To address research credibility issues, we must reform the role of metrics, rankings, and incentives in universities.

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