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Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 3d

A very characterful medlar tree

Photo of a medlar tree with wriggly old branches against a blue sky

Photo of brown medlar fruit clustered on the tree against a blue sky

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liz cox @lizcox.bsky.social · 3d

excited & terrified that the first formal piece of work from my PhD is coming into the world in a book chapter in May '26! it sits alongside some amazing pieces & brilliant minds, and I'm very lucky! take a goosey: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-infra...

Social Infrastructure in Neighbourhoods and Cities

Social Infrastructure in Neighbourhoods and Cities - Studying the Facilities That Sustain Community, Social Networks and Trust; From parks to pubs, social infrastructures are the everyday places that ...

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 5d

‘Plant Perspectives’ 2.2 is now available online – entirely #openaccess thanks to our #subscribetoopen supporters and our generous individual donors. #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social

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Abbie Yunita 🍉 @ayunita.bsky.social · 5d

My paper on SDG investment pipelines in Ghana is now in the latest @tibg.bsky.social issue, in great company with other excellent works!

TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 7d

📢New issue of TIBG📢

Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine.

22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...

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 eight tiles with 2 interventions and 6 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue.

1) 'On limit and love in times of environmental crises' by Ihnji Jon
2) 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo
3) '‘My body was no longer a problem’: Electric mountain biking, disability, and the cultural politics of green exercise' by Jim Cherrington & James Brighton
4) '‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain' by Michael Holden & Peter Adey
5) '‘Smartness’ narratives: A critical discourse analysis of smart eldercare in urban China' by Yi Yu
6) 'Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss' by David Chandler & Jonathan Pugh
7) 'Poetics in the work of three urban photographers: Love for the chaotic city from the site of urban rooftops' by Paulina Nordstrom
8) 'Places as refrains: A non-constructive alternative to assemblage thinking' by Peter Merriman

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) Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu
Liam Saddington
2) Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation
Alexandra Palmer
3) The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela
Daniel Robins
4) ‘One school, two systems’: Navigating the geographies of alternative education in an elite primary school in China
Zhenjie Yuan, Huiyu Xie, Hong Zhu
5) Translating India to India: Travelling translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the visual language of spiritual consumerism
Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett
6) Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater
7) Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation
Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Katarina Schwarz
8) Translations, translocations, and pluralism: A transnational and multilingual analysis of the circulation of radical geographical knowledge
Federico Ferretti
9) From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves
Valerio Donfrancesco, Chris Sandbrook

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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 6d

In Nonauthoritarian Authority @jbrigstocke.bsky.social introduces the idea of nonauthoritarian authority: a form of power that pluralises marginalised and hidden voices and recognises diverse agencies.

📚 Publishing #OpenAccess in Spring 2026.

🔗https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.noa

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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 6d

In Climate Hegemony, @laurieparsons.bsky.social brings us a human’s-eye view of the climate crisis, drawing on two decades’ research at the frontline of global development in Cambodia.

📚 Publishing via #OpenAccess in Spring 2026.

Find out more: press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...

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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢 New on the LSE Press blog!

How can geography publishing reflect today’s diverse and complex world?

📍Five minutes with Margath Walker and @jakehodder.bsky.social on the @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series publishing #OpenAccess later this year with LSE Press.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...

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Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 6d

If you want to find out about publishing #OpenAccess in the RGS-IBG Book Series, take a look at this recent interview with our Co-Editors, Margath Walker & @jakehodder.bsky.social ⬇️

LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢 New on the LSE Press blog!

How can geography publishing reflect today’s diverse and complex world?

📍Five minutes with Margath Walker and @jakehodder.bsky.social on the @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series publishing #OpenAccess later this year with LSE Press.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...

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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 6d

We're delighted to share two upcoming books from our RGS-IBG Book Series! These books will be publishing via #OpenAccess in Spring 2026.

Find out more: https://press.lse.ac.uk/rgs-ibg-series

@laurieparsons.bsky.social @jbrigstocke.bsky.social @annamlawrence.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social

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Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social · 6d

We are thrilled to be partnering with RGS-IBG on their book series and seeing the first @lsepress.bsky.social books publish next year.

Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 9d

Pleased to share the first two RGS-IBG Book Series titles to be published fully open access with @lsepress.bsky.social, available early 2026...

@laurieparsons.bsky.social
@jbrigstocke.bsky.social

press.lse.ac.uk/books/coming...

A book cover for Julian Brigstocke's forthcoming book 'Non-Authoritarian Authority: Cities, Materially and the Aesthetics of Power' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white aerial photograph of a large crowd in the background.

A book cover for Laurie Parson's forthcoming book 'Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white photograph of three people riding on a scooter above a body of water filled with litter.

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Laurie Parsons @laurieparsons.bsky.social · 8d

Very excited to announce a NEW BOOK coming at the start of next year, with the RGS-IBG book series/ @lsepress.bsky.social

𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲: 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞

More info to come, but take a peek at the cover and overview here 👇

press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 12d

📢New Issue of The GJ!📢

𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡

September's Issue features the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section alongside 9 papers, 3 commentaries, and records of the 2025 RGS-IBG Medals and Awards ceremony.

Take a look here ⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754959...

A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles showing the Special Section 'Legacies of Austerity', with the names of papers in the issue. The names of the papers and authors are as follows:

1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall
2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al.
3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock
4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou
5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali
6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al.
7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull
8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy

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Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 9d

Pleased to share the first two RGS-IBG Book Series titles to be published fully open access with @lsepress.bsky.social, available early 2026...

@laurieparsons.bsky.social
@jbrigstocke.bsky.social

press.lse.ac.uk/books/coming...

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 9d

The web page for my forthcoming book "Nonauthoritarian Authority:
Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power", part of the @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series, is now live:
press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3... It should be out around January 2026 🤞 #geosky #sociology #socialtheory

Nonauthoritarian Authority | LSE Press

This book is part of the <a href="https://press.lse.ac.uk/rgs-ibg-series" target="_blank">RGS-IBG Book Series</a> ISSN: Print: 2996...

press.lse.ac.uk

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Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social · 21d

The journal is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging'

Join us for some wonderful research on plants by writers, artists, and academics

Register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... #envhist #envhum #PlantStudies

Poster for the event Plants, Memory Belonging

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 21d

New in TIBG!

Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies

Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.

Read all papers here ⬇️

tinyurl.com/5n72yt46

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · 22d

Registration for our hybrid autumn seminar programme—"Bad Habits"—is now live! Full details and registration links here: eepurl.com/jnswZs

A hand-coloured, nineteenth-century lithograph of an engraving by Johann Peter Hasenclever entitled "Weinverkoster in einem Keller".

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Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 28d

An interesting case study on the climate mitigation potential of sacred forests on Ethiopian Orthodox Church land ⬇️

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 28d

🌴New in Geo!🌴

'Assessing the carbon sequestration potential of church forest and their implication for climate change mitigation in Jabitehinan District, Ethiopia' by Addisu Bitew Birhanie et al.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

A graphical abstract for an article published in Geo about the contribution of church forests in Ethiopia to climate change mitigation. The graphic outlines a carbon stock assessment of church forests in three agroecological zones: semi-arid, sub-humid, and temperate highland. It highlights that a stratified systematic sampling approach was used in the paper, 60 sample plots were used with quadrants, and DBH (diameter at breast height) was measured at 1.3m.

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MHoussayH @mhoussayh.cpesr.fr · Sep 5

This is REALLY A GOOD IDEA, @rgsibg.bsky.social. Thank you.

cc @claireplacial.bsky.social

adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · Sep 5

I didn't notice that the RGS journals are making space to host translated versions of articles (which are importantly open access). This is a wonderful initiative!!

Prof Katherine Brickell @kbrickell.bsky.social · Sep 5

I had the pleasure of being handling editor for Ana Laura Zavala Guillen's @tibg.bsky.social paper "Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands"

Read the Spanish version here:

blog.geographydirections.com/2025/08/12/t...

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is the first translation of a Transactions paper hosted on one of our platforms, and we hope that it might be the first of many.

Ana has provided an introduction to her translation, both in English and Spanish, reflecting on the interpretation process and the tensions it raised.

Translation: ‘Geografías de la esclavitud en Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands: La conexión cimarrona/quilombola’ by Ana Zavala Guillen, TIBG

By Ana Laura Zavala Guillen, Northumbria University The translation of the article ‘Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falkland Islands: The Maroon connection’, published in T…

blog.geographydirections.com

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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · Sep 5

I didn't notice that the RGS journals are making space to host translated versions of articles (which are importantly open access). This is a wonderful initiative!!

Prof Katherine Brickell @kbrickell.bsky.social · Sep 5

I had the pleasure of being handling editor for Ana Laura Zavala Guillen's @tibg.bsky.social paper "Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands"

Read the Spanish version here:

blog.geographydirections.com/2025/08/12/t...

Translation: ‘Geografías de la esclavitud en Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands: La conexión cimarrona/quilombola’ by Ana Zavala Guillen, TIBG

By Ana Laura Zavala Guillen, Northumbria University The translation of the article ‘Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falkland Islands: The Maroon connection’, published in T…

blog.geographydirections.com

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Sep 3

#OpenAccess in TIBG:

'Hide and rule: Accumulation by disappearance and necro-periurbanisation in Brazil' by @jshutta.bsky.social

This paper examines the governance of peri-urban spaces near Rio de Janeiro, connecting land fraud to the systemic hiding of violence.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Jan Simon Hutta (2025) entitled 'Hide and rule: Accumulation by disappearance and necro-periurbanisation in Brazil' with a red banner at the top.

This paper examines how peri-urban spaces are governed through practices of concealment and obfuscation, thus undermining and displacing techniques of making things legible. Focusing on the Baixada Fluminense region north of Rio de Janeiro, it connects clandestine practices of ‘grilagem’, or state-sponsored land fraud, to the obfuscation of violence as part of territorial strategies. Methodologically, the article combines a genealogical approach to analysing obfuscation as a multi-pronged technology of power with empirical research on the violent control of peri-urban neighbourhoods. In Rio de Janeiro's hinterland, it is argued, the obfuscation of land entitlements has long been linked to the invisibilisation of violence and atrocities, facilitated by racialised conditions of willed ignorance and opacity. At a conceptual level, the paper contributes to nascent works in urban geography and anthropology that are committed to developing context-sensitive approaches to necropolitics in peri-urban and fringe spaces of the Global South. Moreover, it draws on work on uneven spatial development, control grabbing and forced disappearance to develop the notion of ‘accumulation by disappearance’. Such an approach complicates assumptions around modern power being built on ‘state projects of legibility’ (James Scott) and violent spectacles, while also extending engagements with racialised opacity by drawing attention to cunning techniques of obfuscation that traverse the governance of people and spaces. What emerges is a context-sensitive approach to interrogating powerful, yet contested processes of ‘necro-periurbanisation’.

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Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · Sep 3

Some more beauties in the rain

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Sep 1

The Royal Society's Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is still open for applications. This scheme offers early-career scholars the opportunity to use history of science collections, including our own, as part of their research. Find out more:

#RSGrants

https://royalsociety.org/grants/lisa-jardine/

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Mingcan Rong @mingcan-rong.bsky.social · Sep 1

My first time organising a session at @rgsibg.bsky.social! Huge thanks to my amazing co-organisers Matthew Beach and Franklin Ginn, all the brilliant speakers across three panels, and everyone coming to our HPGRG-sponsored ‘Practicing Vegetal Geographies: Creativities and Beyond’ session!💚🪴🌺 #RGS

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