Danny McNally

@dannymcnally.bsky.social

Cultural geographer working on climate adaptation and creative methods GeoHumanities Editorial Board Forthcoming books: Aesthetic Encounters: Cultural Geographies of Participatory Art (LSE Press, RGS-IBG) Routledge Handbook for Geohumanities

📄New article from me! 📄 'Walrus Skins and Weet-o-Weet: Uncomfortable Encounters in the Yupik Yaranga' in Annals of the @geographers.bsky.social Probably my most 'theory-driven' one so far - a cautious step into the world of non-rep and the geogs of dis/comfort. As ever, feedback welcome!

Walrus Skins and Weet-o-Weet: Uncomfortable Encounters in the Yupik Yaranga

This article analyzes a series of Arctic colonial encounters that took place between British naval officers and members of the Indigenous Yupik community in the mid-nineteenth century. Using a crit...

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Dear all, especially those attending the RGS-IBG 2026 conference. You are welcome to join us on Thursday, 3rd September 2026 at 19:30 for the SCGRG Social. Our location will be at Zetland Arms Kensington (2 Bute Street, Kensington, SW7 3EX)! SCGRG Committee.

📢From now, reference lists will no longer be counted in the 10,000 word limit for papers submitted to TIBG In our latest editorial, we lay out the reasons behind this decision & encourage prospective authors to reflect on their citational practices. Available to read here ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of an editorial abstract in Transactions by Anna Lawrence, James Esson, Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell & Beth Greenhough (2026) entitled: 'Citational politics in Transactions' with a red banner at the top.

From now on, authors writing in Transactions will no longer be expected to count their reference lists within the 10,000-word limit. In this editorial, we take the opportunity to lay out the reasons behind this decision. Our purpose in removing references from the word limit is not to encourage authors to cram in as many references as they can to the detriment of their own voice, but rather to encourage practices of careful, conscious, and capacious citational generosity. Picking up on threads running through past editorials (Bailey et al. 2023; Esson et al. 2024), here we continue discussions of ‘care’ in scholarly publishing and what constitutes a ‘landmark paper’ within the discipline, this time through the lens of citational politics. This editorial proceeds by locating the decision within current debates around citational justice and citation as a reproductive technology (Ahmed 2013; Kim 2020), before considering the broader landscape of source discovery, reading and referencing in the digital/AI-crowded world, following the publication of the last ever print volume of Transactions in December 2023. We end with a discussion of how the practice of citation might be imagined differently, from the teaching of citation as a joyful praxis (Quave and Ohbi 2024) and the reflective insights collected around the #CiteBlackWomen movement (Smith 2022) to the rethinking of citation templates to better account for knowledge that sits outside of the Western episteme (MacLeod 2021). We encourage authors writing in Transactions to reflect on their own practices of reading and citing, and we highlight the role that journals, reviewers, and editors must play in moving forward with more inclusive citational practices.

Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are. By @borenbears.bsky.social & Annika Hammerschlag @apnews.com apnews.com/article/sea-...

The sea is higher than we thought and millions more are at risk, study finds

A new study in the journal Nature says most sea level rise research may have underestimated coastal water heights by an average of 1 foot or about 30 centimeters.

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@benandersongeog.bsky.social @amyrobson.bsky.social and I are running a session on intensity and geography at the RGS-IBG this year - cfp details below

Ben Anderson@benandersongeog.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Session on The Geographies of Intensity at RGS-IBG 2026, with @amyrobson.bsky.social & @dannymcnally.bsky.social Themes include theorising intensity, cultures and economies of intensity, and the politics of intensity. Abstracts due to me for 20th feb

DIGITAL ECOLOGIES is available for just £15 in paperback until the end of January; discount applied automatically unless you're in North America, where you need to type "JAN40" at payment this also applies to ALL @manchesterup.bsky.social books!!! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/

Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies

Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull

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Latest e-Special issue - Painting / Knowledge - is now available with articles from the archives of TCS and BOD positioned across four thematic strands: Painting and the Political; Affect, Body, Gesture; Word, Image, Mediation; and Memory, Trauma, Image. journals.sagepub.com/page/tcs/sun...

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