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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Jun 25

📢June Issue of TIBG📢

The latest issue of TIBG is fully #OpenAccess, representing the breadth of the discipline with topics ranging from legal geography & court spaces to Chinese geopolitics, chickens, & dating apps.

Read the whole issue here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661... #geosky

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue.
1) Embodying industrial transitions: Melancholy loss, interrupted habit and transitional memory after the end of a coal mine
Vickie Zhang
2) Digital geographies of miscarriage: A ‘sister-ethnographic’ approach to pregnancy apps and loss
Caroline (Carly) Bagelman & Jen Bagelman
3) Responsive and responsible methodologies. Emplacing care with collaborative filmmaking
Jessica Jacobs & Alice Salimbeni
4) Édouard Glissant and the importance of reading well: Opacitic-reading as geographic method
Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh
5) Data-bility: Endogamous social intimacies on dating apps in Mumbai
Kavita Dattani
6) Dancing with foxes: More-than-human design in ‘the chicken city’
Catherine Oliver
7) Physical and virtual spaces across a continuum of remoteness: Exploring spatial ruptures in remote court hearings
Jo Hynes
8) Postcolonial experiences of Chinese aid: Encountering and welcoming South–South aid from the middle
Gemma Sou, Jennifer Day
9) Contested geopolitics of distribution in the city-region-building: Promoting enclave industrial parks in the Pearl River Delta, China
Xianchun Zhang, Zihang Zhou, Yang Song

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue.
1) Worlding and weirding with beaver: A more-than-human political ecology of ecosystem engineering
Jamie Lorimer
2) Climate-controlled conservation: Remaking ‘the botanical metropolis of the world’
Jonathan Rutherford, Simon Marvin
3) Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands: The Maroon connection
Ana Laura Zavala Guillen
4) Metabolic politics: A comparative synthesis
Maan Barua
5) Conservation beyond biopolitics: Vulnerability and abundance in Chennai's nature-cultures
Krithika Srinivasan
6) Geography and legal expertise: The transgressive nature of research at the boundary of geography and law-making
Alex Jeffrey, Katherine Brickell, Fiona McConnell

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catherine oliver @katiecmoliver.bsky.social · Nov 29

The Animal Geography Working Group is now on Bluesky. Give us a follow @rgs-agwg.bsky.social to keep up with new essays, events, and more!

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COPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · Nov 29

Jacqui's harrowing testimony to the #spycops public inquiry took it to another level. A vulnerable woman just out of her teens, undercover officer Bob Lambert targeted her for sex & had a childwith her, knowing he'd abandon them both when his deployment ended.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Woman’s life ruined after finding son’s father was undercover police officer, inquiry told

More than 20 years after child was born, inquiry hears, woman found out truth about Bob Lambert in newspaper

www.theguardian.com

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RGS Animal Geographies @rgs-agwg.bsky.social · Nov 27

A great blog from Carly Baker about animal methods "without" methods. Have a read here:

www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/met...

Ethnographic shadowing and animal methods "without" methods — RGS Animal Geographies

Carly Baker Pet-food companies are incorporating overpopulated species, insects, and cultured meat as ingredients as a response to increasing environmental impacts of pet food and concerns of animal...

www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk

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Emma Roe @emmajroe.bsky.social · Nov 20

Excited to be advertising this collaborative PhD project idea with @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social

Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Nov 20

We are inviting applications for a PhD project on the theme of 'AI geographies of human-animal relations', supervised by
@emmajroe.bsky.social & I in Geography at Uni of Southampton.

Full details re the project, funding options & how to express interest here: www.thomasdekeyser.com/s/AI-geograp...

Image of sheep with text: AI Geographies of Human-Animal Relations
How are Artificial Intelligence technologies (re)shaping human-animals relations across a range of spheres, including consumption, entertainment, domestication, conservation, farming, research and resource extraction?

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Eva Haifa Giraud @evahaifa.bsky.social · Sep 18

The section engages with a range of controversies and dilemmas related to theoretical, digital, more-than-human and creative archives, and features lovely pieces by @katiecmoliver.bsky.social, Jack Palmer, Molly Drummond, as well as @wrighttom.bsky.social + me (plus a roundtable!)

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Eva Haifa Giraud @evahaifa.bsky.social · Sep 18

The first special section to mark 20 years of Cultural Politics - 'Unfamiliar Archives' - has just come out; it was a huge pleasure to work on with some of my favourite academic colleagues: read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-pol...
@dukepress.bsky.social

Volume 20 Issue 2 | Cultural Politics | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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Lucas Pohl @lucaspohl.bsky.social · Nov 14

"Apocalyptic nothingness" has recently been published in Social & Cultural Geography (open access). In it, I investigate two shades of nothingness as they appear in both fictional and non-fictional apocalyptic imaginaries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Apocalyptic nothingness: lacks, holes, and the limits of the geographical imagination

This paper addresses the relationship between space, negativity, and apocalypses. Following Jacques Lacan, I introduce the distinction between ‘lack’ and ‘hole’, whereby the lack is considered in s...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Nov 26

🐄🌬️ Our new paper on bovine #metabolism is out today in the new issue of Environmental Humanities!

Adam Searle, Katie Oliver & I discuss how cows figure in metabolic interventions into the climate writ large.

read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... @admsrl.bsky.social @katiecmoliver.bsky.social

Climate Cattle | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Nov 27

Feat. @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @katiecmoliver.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social, Olivia Ange, Viola Schreer, @alicerudge.bsky.social, Columba Gonzalez-Duarte, Jan van der Valk, Christos Lynteris. + Thanks to Paul Thung, Anna Stepien, @sophiah.bsky.social, Candie Furber!

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Nov 27

Our @GLO_ERC special section, '#Heroes and #Villains in the #Anthropocene', is finally out in @EnvHumanities! We explore ideas of heroism & villainy + politics of blame in an age of planetary crisis and ask how these can be reworked for the present read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Introduction | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · Nov 8

“Aldrovandi’s herbarium preserves the memory of the first signs of a radical transformation of the European flora and habitats.”

The living stories these pressed plants still tell of climate, migrations and time.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Inestimable importance’: 500-year-old cache of pressed flowers reveals new secrets

Thousands of specimens from the 1500s show huge changes to Bologna’s flora due to climate crisis and migration, say researchers

www.theguardian.com

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catherine oliver @katiecmoliver.bsky.social · Nov 4

been making dips @cgold.bsky.social 👀🇵🇸

Three bowls of dips. One is hummus topped with olives, one is baba ganoush topped with dukkah and the third is red pepper topped with tomatoes. In the middle is a bottle of zaytoun, Palestinian olive oil

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Cat @cgold.bsky.social · Nov 4

Lancaster against genocide 🕊️🇵🇸

Pictured: the daughter of a Kindertransport child addressing the crowd.

Now children are reciting the names of murdered Palestinians. 💔

Backs of vigil attendees in a town square, looking toward a stage with a Jewish speaker and an Arab speaker standing together, on an overcast day.

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catherine oliver @katiecmoliver.bsky.social · Oct 26

This was some point between 2015 and 2019, i think (because I distinctly remember considering quitting my PhD to become a vegan cheese maker)

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catherine oliver @katiecmoliver.bsky.social · Oct 26

I need some (UK) vegan memory help!

Does anyone remember a few years ago, Bute Island Sheese advertising for people to go work for them on Bute? Was there an organised job marketing campaign?

I don't think I'm imagining it, but I also can't find any evidence of it

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Oct 23

Scholars, students, activists in the UK, please sign this letter:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Scholars, students and activists in the UK stand in solidarity with Palestinians and call for an end...

18 October 2023 We, concerned scholars, students, and activists in the UK, affirm our unequivocal support with the Palestinian people. We heed the calls from Palestinian universities, trade unions an...

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · Oct 23

We keep doing this. The next London march for Palestine is on Saturday. Ceasefire now. End the siege. End the occupation.
(Poster by Tom Greenwood)

Poster for the National March for Palestine. London, Saturday 28 October, meeting at 12pm at Embankment, Victoria

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Oct 23

Registration is now live! Durham Trans Ecologies Symposium, 22-23 Nov 2023, online only. Visit tinyurl.com/TransEcologiesRegistration to see the full programme and reserve your place by 15 Nov

Flyer with drawing of birthing seahorse. All info available at link in post

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catherine oliver @katiecmoliver.bsky.social · Oct 17

Omg top work - book the secret cinema, let’s screen this!

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catherine oliver @katiecmoliver.bsky.social · Oct 17

I haven’t seen it but something in the back of my mind says there might be a video copy in Ryder’s archive at the British Library. Don’t quote me on it - I’d have to check my notes! Would love to see it though - hope Kate knows more

catherine oliver @katiecmoliver.bsky.social · Oct 12

Don’t mean to brag but a student just told me I am an icon 💅

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catherine oliver @katiecmoliver.bsky.social · Oct 12

Omg that looks JUST like parsley!

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catherine oliver @katiecmoliver.bsky.social · Oct 6

Yes, it’s October, but they have SINGING YETIS

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catherine oliver @katiecmoliver.bsky.social · Oct 6

Putting on my out of office for a day of “research commitments” (going to the garden centre to look at the Christmas displays)

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