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 […]
Author: Joe Blakey
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 […]