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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]