Geography and ‘The New’ Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell, David Bissell, Beth Greenhough, Harriet Hawkins, Jenny Pickerill, Nathaniel Télémaque, Tatiana Thieme #openaccess rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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This Intervention reflects on the multiple, contradictory and ambivalent relations human geography has with ‘the new’. Some sort of relation with the new is an inescapable and necessary part of all p...

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(Im)possibility of Redress: Mega-Infrastructuresand the Voided Politics of Contestation Gediminas Lesutis rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Making repair reparative: Towards expanded geographies of repair. Nate Millington et al journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Erotic Subtraction and Posthuman Death: subjectivity minus the minus David Roden May 29, 2026 davidroden3.substack.com/p/erotic-sub...

Really great read, charting the shift in early modernity toward autopoiesis. Worlding the world in the absence of ground.

Geographies of nothingness: towards void-thinking Thomas Dekeyser & Catherine Oliver www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Geographies of nothingness: towards void-thinking

Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Vol. 27, No. 5, 2026)

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Elemental exposure: Ontolocational politics and the limits of negative ontology Elaine Stratford journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... Hold/held/holding Rachael Squire journals.sagepub.com/home/DHG

Archipelagic technonatures: The urbanisation of the ‘global biodiversity hotspot’ Simon Marvin and Jonathan Rutherford journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Archipelagic technonatures: The urbanisation of the ‘global biodiversity hotspot’ - Simon Marvin, Jonathan Rutherford, 2026

This paper develops the concept of archipelagic technonatures to analyse how urban infrastructures are reshaping the geographies of global conservation. We focu...

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Looking forward to being at #MythicalArchipelagos2026 14-15th May!

“The vanishing forest that does not disappear: On finitude and worldings” Mario Blaser journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... Everything always already available to worlding

'The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind', by Dan Davies, is brilliant. In my humble opinion, probably the most important book to have been written in decades. Yet, it's not engaged by many academics.

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Minima Relata: A reflection on negative geographic life Chris Lawer journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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This looks so interesting! The Metamodernist Abyss in China Miéville's Kraken and This Census-Taker Ewa Rychter. Forthcoming in Chalupský and Topolovská. Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures. Routledge. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

The Metamodernist Abyss in China Miéville's Kraken and This Census-Tak

This chapter examines Miéville’s Kraken (2010) and This Census-Taker (2016) against the backdrop of two recent reinvestments in depth-related modalities, which

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1/3 CFP: Islandness in Contemporary Critique Online Conference | 1–2 Feb 2027 We invite 15-minute papers advancing one clear conceptual provocation about how islandness is generative for contemporary critical thought 500-word abstracts due 1 May 2026

Between endings and beginnings: ‘Detachment’ and (non)relations in contemporary human geography Ben Anderson journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge Ben Bowsher #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge - Ben Bowsher, 2026

This paper responds to debates over the politics of knowledge in the Anthropocene, which often centres on affirmational and negative approaches to posthuman the...

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With thanks to the editors and reviewers @proghumgeog.bsky.social, as well as my thesis supervisors @whatisrobshaw.bsky.social, @jonpughislands.bsky.social, and Matt Davies. Once again really pleased my first article is out. It can be found here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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'Anthropocene Islands' section of Island Studies Journal islandstudiesjournal.org/post/2137-an...

Next Island Studies Reading Group Friday 30th Jan, 3pm London Time Reading Yusoff’s A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Email me if want to join: Jonathan.Pugh@ncl.ac.uk #islands

Climate change and the limits of urban thought Savannah Cox journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Slow Ontologies and Letting Be: Insights from Island Academics, Activists, and Artists Elaine Stratford, Carol Farbotko, Phillipa Watson, Taukiei Kitara, Juno Berthelsen, Christopher Cozier, Ayano Ginoza, Julie Edel Hardenberg & Maria Hnraki www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #islands

Slow Ontologies and Letting Be: Insights from Island Academics, Activists, and Artists

Geographers are increasingly interested in islands as sites of critical and creative transformation, their works often characterized by deep commitments to collaborative research and decolonizing a...

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Excited to give the keynote at the Lucknow Summit 2025 The Geopolitics of Climate Change: the genesis of ecological doom loops, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. 19-21 Dec, 2025. The title of my talk is:- Three ways of thinking with islandness in contemporary critique

Really looking forward to talking at the Conference - Reimagining Island Borders - held at Beijing Normal Hong Kong Baptist University, 16 January 2026

Rethinking Relational Geopolitics in Contested Islands and Seas: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations Takashi Yamazakia and Sasha Davis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Quite a lot of interest in idea of online #islandness theory conference. A few folks want it more expansive, incl oceanic and various related geographies as generative of contemporary critique. Just in the scoping stage, so message me if this interests you.

Really excited to be part of the teaching team for this new summer school #islands #islandness

Making mainland: settlement designs in/against archipelagic Kenya Kenny Cupers www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

The Shepherd’s Black Sheep: African American Pastoral Theology in the Age of Afropessimism Jay-Paul Hinds Plenary address given at the 2024 Society of Pastoral Theology Annual Study Conference. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Shepherd’s Black Sheep: African American Pastoral Theology in the Age of Afropessimism

In this plenary address given at the 2024 Society of Pastoral Theology Annual Study Conference, I argue that African American pastoral theology, and the broader field of pastoral theology, cannot i...

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