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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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Azarja Harmanny @azarja.bsky.social · 6d

Inspiring inaugural lecture by @susieprotschky.bsky.social today at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social with the captivating title "A monument to Westerling, and other possible futures"

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Framer Framed @framerframed.nl · 26d

Tonight opening at Framer Framed, #Amsterdam presenting new work by the Udeido Artist collective from West-Papua.

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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · Jul 1

New article! Susie Protschky and Pepijn Brandon, ‘ON “EXTREME VIOLENCE” AND “IMPUNITY’ in #Indonesia 1945-9 🇮🇩

Open access 👇

bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...

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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · Jun 19

CfP for a special issue that draws attention to the important but often overlooked gendered elements of ‘global China’

Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · Jun 19

The next Global China Pulse CfP is out!
A Gendered Lens on Global China
@globalchinamap.bsky.social

globalchinapulse.net/calls-for-pa...

Calls for Papers - Global China Pulse

Calls for Papers Here you can find the call for papers for the journal issues we are currently working on. The initial pitches should be no longer than 300 words and explain the key argument of your p...

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Abbie Yunita 🍉 @ayunita.bsky.social · Jun 16

My paper "Rendering transparent and opaque: the materiality of green, social and sustainability bonds" is now out (open access 😊) in the Journal of Cultural Economy! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rendering transparent and opaque: the materiality of green, social and sustainability bonds

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are increasingly seen as financially material or relevant to investments. In this paper, I explore how the SDGs come to be, or shape what becomes, financial...

www.tandfonline.com

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · May 31

“Water as Method: Space, Place & the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images is a two-day symposium (19–20 June 2025 at the Glasgow School of Art) exploring the poetics and politics of water in contemporary artist moving image (AMI) practices and methods.”

Water As Method Symposium

'Water as Method: Space, Place & the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images'

waterasmethod.cargo.site

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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · May 30

Consumers defer payments on 'Buy Now Pay Later' purchases, suggesting an affordability crunch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

In our new article @dcockayne.bsky.social & I explore how fintech affects relations to payment, wages & debt. Check it out!
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Geographies of Fintech and Everyday Life: Reconfiguring Spaces, Practices, and Scales of Digital Money and Finance

Financial and monetary technologies, understood both through their digital platforms and the materiality of mobile devices, are increasingly pervasive, and now shape the economic practices of individ...

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · May 25

Learn about the power of a map in the Dutch East Indies at KITLV’s seminar “Ghost from the past: The Grondkaart and politics of transforming railway land assets in Indonesia” with Dianto Bachriadi, researcher at the Agrarian Resource Center. Details below!

May 27 @ 4 pm CET
tinyurl.com/2xsruex8

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Fenneke Sysling @fsysling.bsky.social · May 26

Postdoc positions (one in Environmental Heritage and another in Identity and Popular Culture) at Tilburg

Job opening: Two postdoctoral fellows (22786)

career5.successfactors.eu

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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · May 23

Really excited to see this massive collection of work on financial infrastructures ed. by @c-westermeier.bsky.social, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, finally out! 30+ chapters and an incredible list of contributors. And it's all open access.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure

Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure

www.cambridge.org

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · May 19

Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026.

Our ICTA-UAB researchers are actively involved—help them spread the word and submit your articles!

@pollenetwork.bsky.social

More info: ➡️pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/

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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · May 9

Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture.

For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...

Unbankable Transitions | Rosie Collington

How the politics of investability determine climate financing

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Abbie Yunita 🍉 @ayunita.bsky.social · May 9

Join us in Leiden on May 16th for a workshop on heritage reparations! My contribution asks what Dutch water heritage looks like when viewed from Jakarta.

Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · Apr 8

🚨 Save the date! 🚨 Can we repair the loss of cultural heritage caused by climate change? On 16 May 2025, @gakturk.bsky.social and I are bringing together scholars and practitioners in Leiden for an interdisciplinary workshop. Programme and registration 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20....

An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate Change-Induced Damages

We are delighted to announce the upcoming workshop 'An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate-Induced Damages’, hosted with the support of the Leiden University F...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Museum of British Colonialism @museumofbc.bsky.social · May 6

Starting this week, MBC's website will host an online exhibition exploring the afterlives of colonial incarceration sites in Africa.

Poster image displaying an image of Ussher Fort with information on the exhibition below

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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · Apr 30

#LiquidUrbanisms 12-13 June in Basel urbanstudies.philhist.unibas.ch/en/studies/e.... Register at: forms.gle/6JDL4sN4qeZ9....

Conference poster for the Liquid Urbanisms Conference, 12-13 June. Register at: https://forms.gle/6JDL4sN4qeZ9ZztK6.

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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · May 3

Dutton, Abbott and Howard in a game of musical chairs. Called by Antony Green. Fantasy ABC broadcast.

Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · May 3

For me Antony Green announcing Dutton is set to lose his seat will be the image of the night.

Antony Green announcing Dutton will lose his seat.

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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · Apr 29

Pluto has a whole bunch of great books on political economy (including mine) 40 percent off for a couple more days:

www.plutobooks.com/978074534889...

Fictions of Financialization

For decades, many people on the left have decried the finance sector as the main culprit for the toxic effects of capitalism. Financialization is commonly in...

www.plutobooks.com

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Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · Apr 25

📣 Finance & Space's Annual Lecture 2024 'The Waterworks of Money' from Martijn van der Linden, Thomas Bollen and Carlijn Kingma, online now:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · Apr 24

📆‼️‼️Join the cohosted #ViennaSTSTalk & #IPWLecutres by Kean Birch (York University) on Do Artefacts Have Political Economy? @univie.ac.at‼️‼️
🔽🔽🔽
sts.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

Invitation Vienna STS Talks x IPW Talks by Kean Birch on May 08, 2025, 17:00-18:30

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Framer Framed @framerframed.nl · Apr 28

#booklaunch "Legacies of colonialism in museum collections". What are the structural patterns inherited from colonialism that result in silences today? The book addresses the enduring impacts of colonialism and offers pathways for the decolonization of museums today.

www.kitlv.nl/event-shatan...

Book presentation | Legacies of colonialism in museum collections: The (un)making of Indonesian I...

www.kitlv.nl

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · Apr 21

📣 Workshop CFP: Spatialising Urban Crisis
📍 University of Manchester, UK
📅 June 26–27, 2025
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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · Apr 10

📢 Applications are open for the Pathways Autumn School 2025! 🗓️ Oct 13–17 | 🏔️ Aussois, French Alps
Theme: Towards Sustainable & Just Futures 🌍
For early-career researchers in Europe.
Apply by 12 May: www.google.com/url?q=https:...
#SustainabilityScience #Pathways2025 #JustFutures

Pathways Autumn School - Fostering Transformative Research

The Pathways Autumn School brings together early career researchers working in sustainability science to reflect on current research practices and learn to better engage inter- and transdisciplinary c...

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