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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 7d

New in The GJ:

'What's coming out of those chimneys? Energy-from-waste incineration in Teesside, UK' by Jay Sinclair

This commentary examines how Teesside's role in UK Net Zero Strategy facilitates ongoing industrial pollution through 'green' industrial projects.

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Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Jay Sinclair (2025) entitled 'What's coming out of those chimneys? Energy-from-waste incineration in Teesside, UK' with a blue banner at the top.

Once an industrial powerhouse, Teesside is positioned as a key player in the UK's Net Zero Strategy, with plans to revitalise its deindustrialised industrial clusters through decarbonisation and green energy projects. Using a series of proposed energy-from-waste incinerators in Teesside as a lens, I examine how the UK's green industrial strategy legitimises ongoing pollution under the guise of sustainability, enabled by regulatory frameworks that define harm within narrow, scientifically provable parameters. This limited framing fails to capture the full scope of harm, allowing chemical toxicity to disproportionately impact marginalised communities. In this piece, I advocate for epistemic justice that expands how harm is recognised beyond measurable metrics and takes seriously community knowledges of the lived and embodied experience of industrial pollution in Teesside. This approach supports the development of an affective politics of resistance that draws from a collective awareness of how environmental harm reshapes bodily capacities and subjectivities to catalyse new forms of political action.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 9d

New in The GJ:

'Ethnic disparities in overcrowding across England and Wales: Postracial patterns or persistent inequalities?' by Rory Coulter

This paper reveals the persistence of stark ethnic disparities in overcrowding, & explores how these are ignored in housing policy.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Rory Coulter (2025) entitled: 'Ethnic disparities in overcrowding across England and Wales: Postracial patterns or persistent inequalities?' with a blue banner at the top.

In Britain, ethnic minorities have long been disproportionately likely to live in overcrowded homes and to experience other forms of housing disadvantage. However, in recent years, housing policy across Great Britain has retreated away from acknowledging and seeking to address these ethnic disparities. This study critically assesses the evidence for this policy shift by examining the contemporary magnitude and geography of ethnic disparities in overcrowding across England and Wales. This is achieved by analysing 2021 Census microdata using multilevel logistic regressions. The results show that even after controlling for differences in the demographic and socio-economic attributes of ethnic groups, almost all ethnic minorities have a substantially higher propensity to live in overcrowded homes than comparable White Britons. In addition, while overcrowding is generally more common in places where housing constraints are more acute, ethnic disparities in overcrowding vary geographically in more complex and group-specific ways. Taken together, these findings indicate that longstanding patterns of ethnic housing disparity have not faded away. Greater recognition of these persistent inequalities and renewed efforts to address them thus need to be built back into local and national housing policies.

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

📢New Issue of The GJ!📢

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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 ⬇️

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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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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 12d

This special section, edited by @smhall.bsky.social and @sanvanlan.bsky.social, looks like essential reading:

The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 13d

Special Section in The GJ:

'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social

This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️

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A blue tile with a quote from the editorial introduction to the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section by S. van Lanen & S.M. Hall (2025): "As political discourse transforms and the period of fierce austerity implementation moves into history, we believe critical geographers should remain attentive to its traces in everyday practices, policy realities and material conditions. To imagine alternative futures, austerity's legacies should not be forgotten".

A blue tile sharing the titles of 8 open access papers within the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section:
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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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 12d

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

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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...

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

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Quantifying a decadal driver of ecological environment in Jamuna River basin using geospatial techniques' by Md. Naimur Rahman et al.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Md. Naimur Rahman, Md. Rakib Hasan Rony & Kevin Lo (2025) entitled: 'Quantifying a decadal driver of ecological environment in Jamuna River basin using geospatial techniques' with a blue banner at the top.

This study investigates the ecological environment quality within Bangladesh's Jamuna River Basin from 2003 to 2023, using Landsat imagery analysed through Google Earth Engine (GEE) to create the Remote Sensing Ecological Index (RSEI) for the districts of Kurigram, Sirajganj and Tangail. The analysis reveals significant spatial and temporal variations in ecological health, driven by both anthropogenic and natural factors. The findings show that whilst Kurigram's ecological quality fluctuates between good and moderate states, Sirajganj has experienced a continuous decline, and Tangail shows marked ecological degradation, especially in urban areas. The study demonstrates that the integration of RSEI with spatial autocorrelation techniques, such as Moran's I and Local Indicator of Spatial Autocorrelation (LISA), effectively captures spatial clustering of ecological quality. The clustering patterns indicate that ecological degradation is unevenly distributed, influenced by both human activities and natural processes. These results emphasise the importance of sustainable land management practices to mitigate further ecological decline and provide a foundation for targeted conservation efforts. The study's use of geospatial tools offers a scalable approach for assessing ecological health in other river basins and regions facing environmental pressures. This research underscores the critical role of monitoring long-term ecological changes to inform policy interventions and promote sustainable development in vulnerable ecosystems.

The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 13d

Special Section in The GJ:

'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social

This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 16d

New in The GJ:

'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao

This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China.

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This is a graphical abstract for this paper in The Geographical Journal. It is a photograph of three 'lifestyle migrants' in China celebrating a dog's birthday with seven large dogs gathered around them.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 19d

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Translating sanctuary: Politics of solidarity in a bilingual and plurinational context' by @catrineds.bsky.social & Rhys Dafydd Jones

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Language and Migration'

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Catrin Wyn Edwards & Rhys Dafydd Jones (2025) entitled 'Translating sanctuary: Politics of solidarity in a bilingual and plurinational context' with a blue banner at the top.

This paper explores the rescaling of sanctuary to the national scale, distinct from the state scale. While scholarship has largely focussed on how sanctuary, hospitality and citizenship are provided at city scales, we analyse how substate nations respond to people seeking sanctuary by focussing on the case of Wales, an officially bilingual nation (multilingual in practice) within a plurinational state. By unpacking different meanings of Nation of Sanctuary (NoS)/Cenedl Noddfa (CN) in English and Welsh, we demonstrate the importance of adopting a ‘national gaze’ for complex, nuanced and heterogeneous understandings, rather than singular and homogenous assumptions (often associated with national perspectives). In interrogating etymology and meanings of sanctuary and delving into the (subtly) different meanings of lloches and noddfa, we illustrate the nuances and complexities of sanctuary politics and practices in a bilingual nation. This highlights the significance of considering the presence of competing, contrasting or complementary understandings of sanctuary in multilingual nations along with the various histories, cultures and ideas of belonging that shape sanctuary practices, rather than leaving translation as an afterthought. In uncovering the complexities and different meanings of NoS/CN, we develop a novel perspective on understandings of host/guest relations and provide an alternative way of understanding this dyadic distinction central to extant hospitality scholarship.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 20d

New in The GJ:

'Regional variations in aerosol-temperature coupling over the Indo-Gangetic Plains and Central India: A vector autoregression analysis (2005–2023)' by Mansi Janmaijaya & Pankaj Kumar

This paper is part of a Special Section on 'Climate Change & Variability'.

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This study explores the temporal link between absorbing aerosols and maximum surface temperature over the Indo-Gangetic Plains and Central India during the pre-monsoon season (2005–2023). Using UVAI ...

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 22d

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Everywhere Islamophobia' by @kawtarnajib.bsky.social

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Kawtar Najib (2025) entitled: 'Everywhere Islamophobia' with a blue banner at the top.

The multi-scalar nature of Islamophobia highlights how it spares no spatial scale (from the globe to the body). However, Islamophobia is also a multi-dimensional nature that affects all places and sectors of our societies (whether political, institutional, educational, etc.). This article aims to reinforce this dual nature by using the notion of ‘Everywhere Islamophobia’, in light of theories showing that racism is everywhere. The everywhereness of Islamophobia even within the discipline of geography has been recognised late, compared to its everydayness, and this contribution shows precisely that Islamophobia is everywhere but manifests itself differently in each locality.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 26d

New commentary in The GJ:

'The digitization of economic geography's infrastructure: Implications of the information overload' by José Luis Sánchez-Hernández

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Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by José Luis Sánchez-Hernández (2025) entitled 'The digitization of economic geography's infrastructure: Implications of the information overload' with a blue banner at the top.

During the last two decades, digitization has deeply transformed the ‘infrastructure’ of economic geography: the quantity and variety of available data, the techniques for retrieving and the tools for processing such data, and the practices of academic research. This commentary argues that the digitization process burdens economic geographers with an information overload, which is commonly addressed through various scholarly practices: coordinated research projects, direct technique-based research design, and increasing participation in multidisciplinary research networks. However, both information overload and adaptive practices include a risk of fragmentation of the research community, since only large and/or well-funded universities and research groups may adapt to the new research context depicted by the digitization of the ‘infrastructure’ of economic geography. Mixed methods and methodological polyglossia emerge, then, as a potential fix for pushing research ahead in economic geography.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 28d

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Potential impact of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection on horticultural crop suitability in Africa' by Temitope S. Egbebiyi et al.

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Climate Change and Variability'.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Temitope S. Egbebiyi, Christopher Lennard, Kwesi A. Quagraine, Romaric C. Odoulami, Babatunde J. Abiodun & Simone Tilmes (2025) entitled: 'Potential impact of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection on horticultural crop suitability in Africa' with a blue banner at the top.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 29d

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Community engagement courses and feminist participatory action research: Pedagogies of sacrifice and refusal' by Kamalini Ramdas & Menusha De Silva

This commentary draws on experiences of partnering with NGOs in Singapore for research.

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Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Kamalini Ramdas & Menusha De Silva (2025) entitled: 'Community engagement courses and feminist participatory action research: Pedagogies of sacrifice and refusal' with a blue banner at the top.

This commentary seeks to unpack the politics of community engagement and collaboration, which is an increasingly common practice in neoliberal universities. By centring feminist participatory action research, we examine the disjunction between extractive forms of collaboration for education and feminist pedagogy's aims to work against oppressive structures. Drawing from our teaching experiences at the National University of Singapore, we discuss how feminist educators navigate the risks associated with conducting community engagement courses and the sacrifices and refusals this entails. We reveal the challenges of enacting meaningful feminist participatory community research at the nexus of three intersecting spaces – community, classroom, and university. We support our arguments by drawing from our experiences of partnering with two non-governmental organisations in Singapore, Sayoni (an LGBTQ+ group) and the Young Sikh Association. We argue that the path ahead calls for more feminist pedagogical tactics that reinstate the radical potential for collaborating with community groups.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Sep 4

New in The GJ:

'"We live in fear and face endless physical and emotional health problems": Perceived health implications of floods among urban households in Ghana' by Kabila Abass et al.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Kabila Abass, Gift Dumedah, Aminu Dramani, Andrews Ofosu, Lawrence Guodaar, Emmanuel Nyaaba, Alex Yao Segbefia, Kwadwo Afriyie, Hubert Bimpeh Asiedu, George Appiah, Samuel Awuni Azinga & Razak M. Gyasi entitled: "‘We live in fear and face endless physical and emotional health problems’: Perceived health implications of floods among urban households in Ghana"

Urban flooding significantly affects the health and well-being of populations, yet its health impacts remain underexplored in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper investigates the health effects of recurring floods on households in Greater Kumasi through a qualitative study involving 55 purposively selected household heads. The findings reveal substantial negative health consequences, including immediate and medium-term issues such as injuries, bodily pain, fatigue, skin infections, upper respiratory diseases, diarrhoea, typhoid fever, and fatalities from drowning. Additionally, the study highlights a high prevalence of long-term psychological distress among affected households. The findings highlight the under-researched nexus between flooding and health in SSA and underscore the need for more vigorous institutional enforcement of land-use regulations, public education and collaborative health interventions involving the Ministry of Health and other key stakeholders. These measures are critical for reducing the health risks of floods and building resilience in vulnerable communities.

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Sep 2

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Jul 24

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' by @paulgriffin1.bsky.social et al.

This piece forms part of a collection of commentaries reflecting on the UK riots which followed last July's Southport attack.

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Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Paul Griffin, John Clayton & Edith Adamson (2025) entitled 'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' with a blue banner at the top.

This short intervention offers a historical geography-informed approach to shape understandings of the events and racialised violence of summer 2024 in the United Kingdom. We draw upon Black British Cultural Studies to foreground the importance of temporality and spatial relations for understanding racialised violence. In doing so, we identify continuities across 100 years of racialised violence in Britain whilst also noting important differences. We revisit riotous events from 1919, 1981 and 2001 to illustrate the persistence of exclusionary racism within Britain, whilst also pointing towards the endurance of anti-racist resistance and alternative world views. Our argument points towards the immediacy of violence, in both mundane and spectacular forms, as well as the longer lasting realm of the everyday where racialised violence is (re)produced.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Sep 2

New in The GJ:

'Interwoven on-site and online: A geographical analysis of the significance and determinants of digital library services' by Kunyang Lin & Jiebing Wu

This paper explores access to information through the distribution of digital library services in China.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Kunyang Lin & Jiebing Wu (2025) entitled: 'Interwoven on-site and online: A geographical analysis of the significance and determinants of digital library services' with a blue banner at the top.

The provision of digital services is crucial for libraries to promote broader and more equitable access to information. Prior research has demonstrated that digital services including those provided by libraries are significantly shaped by socioeconomic influences, resulting in geo-graphic disparities analogous to those observed in the real world. However, current research has not fully addressed which regions rely most heavily on digital libraries. This study aims to address this gap by analysing city-level data on library services in China to delineate the spatial patterns that characterise the significance of digital library services. Furthermore, the research integrates both internal and external factors to explore the determinants influencing the perceived importance of library services across diverse regions. The findings indicate that the significance of digital library services is affected by enhancements in internal service quality, as well as external variables, such as users' digital literacy and their readiness to engage with these services. This suggests that, although digital library spaces reflect the socioeconomic dynamics present in the real world, their non-spatial nature enables them to cater to a wider audience. By elucidating the key factors that shape the importance of digital library services, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of the complex interplay between digital and physical environments.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Sep 1

The fourth and final commentary in this collection is by @kawtarnajib.bsky.social who frames the 2024 UK riots as anti-Muslim pogroms:

'The United Kingdom's first anti-Muslim pogroms in a context of genocidal Islamophobia in Gaza'

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Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Kawtar Najib (2025) entitled: 'The United Kingdom's first anti-Muslim pogroms in a context of genocidal Islamophobia in Gaza' with a blue banner at the top.

In summer 2024, the United Kingdom was the scene of several days of horrific public attacks against Muslim populations. While some have described these attacks as spontaneous riots between far-right groups and anti-racist activists, these were in fact the United Kingdom's first anti-Muslim pogroms, occurring in a very specific genocidal context against the Muslim populations of Gaza. In this commentary, I explore why such pogroms happened by analysing the nature of British Islamophobia, its specific geographies and the political context in which they were able to develop to better understand how to combat anti-Muslim racism and thus better protect Muslims in Britain.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Sep 1

The fourth and final commentary in this collection is by @kawtarnajib.bsky.social who frames the 2024 UK riots as anti-Muslim pogroms:

'The United Kingdom's first anti-Muslim pogroms in a context of genocidal Islamophobia in Gaza'

doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Aug 29

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Understanding place-to-place interactions using flow patterns derived from in-app mobile phone location data' by Mikaella Mavrogeni et al.

This paper analyses individual-level GPS data to explore origin-destination flows in London neighbourhoods.

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Functional roles of neighbourhoods change throughout the day, as both a cause and consequence of human mobility fluctuations. Here we review how neighbourhoods can be characterised by origin–destinat...

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you're at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference today, stop by our 'Meet the Editors' session at 13:10 in the Muirhead Building today to hear about our new editorial team's vision for the The GJ ⬇️

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Aug 21

Are you a geographer researching issues of public relevance?

Join us for The GJ's 'Meet the Editors' event at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference!

13:10, Wednesday 27 August, Muirhead Room 113

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgsibg.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our Annual Conference kicks off on 26 August! We can’t wait to welcome over 2,000 of our colleagues from around the world to discuss the geographies of creativity. 🌍

Make sure you’ve checked our mobile guide so you can get the most out of this year’s programme: http://bit.ly/4fDqKSk📲

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you're at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference today, stop by our 'Meet the Editors' session at 13:10 in the Muirhead Building today to hear about our new editorial team's vision for the The GJ ⬇️

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