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A political geographer researching political change, aesthetics, and environmental knowledge politics.

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August 21, 2026August 21, 2026Climate Change

A Caution on Climate Hope

I’ve a new paper with Marc Hudson titled A Caution on Climate Hope in the journal Environmental Politics. It is available open access […]

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February 25, 2026February 25, 2026Uncategorized

CFP RGS-IBG Accounting for nature, or holding nature to account? Critical geographies of environmental accounting 

Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026. London.   Accounting for nature, or holding nature to account? Critical geographies of environmental accounting  Mark […]

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February 18, 2026February 18, 2026Uncategorized

Call for Papers – Two Sessions on Post-Foundational Geographies (at NGM and RGS)

We are hosting two sessions on the challenge of applying post-foundational geographies and post-foundational geographies in a turbulent and polarised world at RGS-IBG […]

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low angle photo of yellow wall paint building under white sky at daytime
October 27, 2025October 27, 2025aesthetics, Theory

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 […]

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October 21, 2024October 27, 2024Carbon, Climate Change, Geography, Theory, Uncategorized

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 […]

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February 5, 2024February 5, 2024Uncategorized

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 […]

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June 7, 2021October 27, 2024Theory

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 – […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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