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Accounting for Elephants: The (Post)Politics of Carbon Omissions

Posted February 27, 2021March 1, 2021 Joe BlakeyPosted in Climate Change, Geography, Theory

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

Posted November 10, 2020 Joe BlakeyPosted in Geography, Theory

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

Posted November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 Joe BlakeyPosted in Carbon, Climate Change, Policy

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’?

Posted March 19, 2018May 15, 2018 Joe BlakeyPosted in Carbon, Climate Change, Policy

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?

Posted May 9, 2016May 15, 2018 Joe BlakeyPosted in Data, Geography, Policy, Smart Cities

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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