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June 7, 2021June 8, 2021Theory

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 […]

February 27, 2021March 1, 2021Climate Change, Geography, Theory

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 […]

November 10, 2020Geography, Theory

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 […]

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020Carbon, Climate Change, Policy

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 […]

March 19, 2018May 15, 2018Carbon, Climate Change, Policy

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 […]

May 9, 2016May 15, 2018Data, Geography, Policy, Smart Cities

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 […]

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