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Miles Ogborn

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Historical geographer at Queen Mary University of London | writes books | reads books | working on working on the 1831-2 Uprising in Jamaica | picture from Keith Piper (2007) Lost Vitrines.

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Miles Ogborn is a human geographer at Queen Mary, University of London.

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 10d

New review:

@milesogborn.bsky.social on 'Tropical Leviathan: Slavery, Society, and Security in Jamaica, 1770–1840', by Aaron Graham.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.003

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Jamaica’s Next Big Bet: Turning Red Mud into a New Future

Jamaica Rare Earth Project (JamREP) — a values-based U.S.–Jamaica partnership convened by Rare Earth Advisors, LLC Jamaica stands at a hinge moment. For generations the island powered the world’s aluminum industry; today, the very residues of that era—vast red-mud repositories—could help power something entirely new: a clean, resilient, Caribbean-centered critical-minerals supply chain that serves Jamaica, the wider region, and the United States.

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · May 20

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: a panel discussion of 'Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination,' by Chris Philo. Featuring @milesogborn.bsky.social, @stuartelden.bsky.social, and @feli-k.bsky.social. ‬Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan...

27 May 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[online only via Zoom]

A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (2025), by Chris Philo (University of Glasgow), involving:

Stuart Elden (University of Warwick)
Felicitas Kübler (Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt)

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Felicitas Kuebler @feli-k.bsky.social · Mar 26

www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan... 👉 registration now open

A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination

www.history.ac.uk

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Politics of Red Mud and Rare Earth in Jamaica

Mineral Rights and Legal Framework in Jamaica’s Mining Sector

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JISCO/Alpart’s Collapse: A Story of Broken Promises and Missed Opportunities

Despite soaring aluminum prices, the refinery remains shuttered—not because of U.S. tariffs, but due to unfulfilled commitments from China and Jamaica. Last Sunday, The Gleaner, Jamaica’s most widely read newspaper, published an editorial titled Trump’s Tariffs Bury Alpart. The article suggests that the failure of the Alpart Alumina Refinery in Nain, St. Elizabeth, is due to U.S. tariffs on aluminum imports from China. While it is true that the U.S. has imp…

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Mining in Jamaica Must Respect Maroon Rights and Benefit All Jamaicans

Can the Americans do better than the "slash and burn" tactics of the Chinese and Russians? In January of 2023, the Supreme Court of Jamaica issued an injunction halting mining activities by Discovery Bauxite Partners, a joint venture between Atlantic Alumina (ATALCO) and the Government of Jamaica (GoJ), in parts of St. Ann and Trelawny. This legal order was meant to remain in ef…

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Critical Minerals and Strategic Infrastructure in Jamaica: China vs. USA

Should the USA pressure Jamaica to resist the Chinese Belt & Road Initiative? Should the USA pressure Jamaica to resist the Chinese Belt & Road Initiative?

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Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social · Jan 7

17.15 on 28 January 2025: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), ‘In Search of Francis Williams’

Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building Room 1.01.1.

*IN-PERSON ONLY*

Please read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... or view (www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZEA... before the seminar.

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due

The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Nov 21

New review article!

'Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism': A roundtable with @milesogborn.bsky.social, Herman L. Bennett, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Bill Schwarz and Catherine Hall.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

@lghgseminar.bsky.social
@ihr.bsky.social

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Nov 13

Welcome to Blue Sky to Queen Mary's Centre for Modern British Studies. First conference coming in May next year... @qmcbs.bsky.social

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Mar 28

We are delighted to share details of our summer seminar programme; please save the date(s): mailchi.mp/588bf032e477...

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Tessa Murphy @murphyte.bsky.social · Nov 19

Looking for some history the Tuesday before American Thanksgiving? (Who wouldn’t be?) Register to attend; registration is free but closes 24 hours before the talk! www.history.ac.uk/events/slave...

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Oct 17

Remember to register for next week's seminar: J.T. Roane on "The practical prophet: on June Jordan’s intellectual thought and political vision" www.history.ac.uk/events/pract...

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Innes M. Keighren @inneskeighren.bsky.social · Sep 7

With apologies for cross-posting, the autumn seminar programme for the London Group of Historical Geographers, “Possession and Dispossession,” is now live: t.co/HtbSweDWEg

"Bluefields, Jamaica" (1793), by George Tobin. State Library of New South Wales, SAFE/PXA 563.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Sep 7

"Wars within Wars: Black History's Warning to the World", Prof. Vincent Brown at QMUL, 6PM, 17 October 2023:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lec...

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