Aesthetics and the City
Aesthetics and the City (edited by myself and Amy Barron) engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience. Drawing on diverse theories and global case studies, this edited collection examines how […]
Author: Joe Blakey
What Repoliticisation Means and Requires: Creating the Climate for Disagreement
New paper in Political Geography, ‘What Repoliticisation Means and Requires: Creating the Climate for Disagreement’. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103222 The paper conceptualises repoliticisation within post-foundational political geography. Noting repoliticisation tends to be equated with politicisation, it argues that […]
CfP – RGS IBG 2024 – Geography and Contingency
CfP for session: Geography and Contingency Sponsored by the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group Joe Blakey (The University of Manchester) Ruth Machen (Newcastle University) This session explores contingency’s evolving conceptual significance and role […]
Rancière on Art – Glossary of Terms
The below are my own notes which I used to help make sense of Rancière’s work on art. There is an excellent – more general – glossary at the back of the english translation of […]
Accounting for Elephants: The (Post)Politics of Carbon Omissions
I’ve a new paper published in Geoforum entitled Accounting for Elephants: The (Post)Politics of Carbon Omissions. It’s accessible here and it is free to read until April 18th 2021 using this link. The paper considers […]
The Politics of Scale Through Rancière
I have a new open-access paper published in Progress in Human Geography. The paper takes stock of Human Geography’s scale debate: observing how it has arrived at somewhat of an impasse surrounding scale’s relation to both […]
Rethinking offsetting for a Net Zero world
I recently contributed to Policy@Manchester’s On Net Zero publication, where John Broderick, Matthew Patterson and I consider the role of offsetting in a net-zero world. We argue that offsetting should be limited to evidenceable, permanent […]
Can Cities Be Truly ‘Carbon Neutral’?
By Joe Blakey and Sherilyn MacGregor. Upon becoming Greater Manchester’s first elected mayor, Andy Burnham announced his ambition to make the city-region one of the greenest in Europe. In his Mayor’s manifesto, the former MP […]
Could Smart Cities Be Smarter About Inequality?
Our cities are unequal – in wealth, quality of life and our carbon footprints, amongst other factors. In the race to use technology to build so-called ‘smart cities’, I argue we run the risk of […]