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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers by William Monteith (2026) entitled: 'Green Refrontierisation: Critical Cartographies of the Hydrogen Rush in Africa' with a red banner at the top. Land is a critical requirement of low-carbon energy transitions, driving global land acquisitions on an unprecedented scale. Under pressure to diversify and decarbonise their energy mix, European states and investors have begun to map the ‘green hydrogen potential’ of territories on the African continent, producing powerful new visualisations of energy space. This article provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen (GH2) maps present within the reports of European states, lobby groups and investment bodies to examine the role of geographical knowledge in the production of low-carbon energy frontiers. It identifies three spatio-political strategies present within these maps: spatialising hydrogen potential, territorialising hydrogen space and (re)mobilising fossil fuel infrastructure. Together, these strategies form part of a broader process that I term ‘green refrontierisation’: the assembling of low-carbon energy frontiers atop the remnants of colonial and carbon frontiers. Through a particular focus on the Namibian case, the article's findings advance debates at the intersection of energy geographies and critical cartography by demonstrating how low-carbon energy frontiers (re)spatialise land around a series of dynamic environmental processes rather than the subterranean resources that have historically guided geographical thinking.

New in TIBG:

'Green refrontierisation: Critical cartographies of the hydrogen rush in Africa' by William Monteith

This paper provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen maps within the reports of European states, lobby groups & investment bodies.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo

NEW - Speculative connections: Port authorities, littoral territories and the assembling of the green hydrogen frontier, by @willmonteith.bsky.social and Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Race, Profit, and Algorithms: How iBuyers Leverage Neighbourhood Inequality — CLaSP Blog How do algorithm-driven business models interact with historical patterns of segregation, property devaluation, and racial capitalism? Wonyoung So addresses this question in new research into iBuyers—...

New on the CLaSP blog: 'Race, Profit, and Algorithms', @wonyoungso.bsky.social details his research on iBuyers, a new class of real estate actors generating profits in racialized housing markets

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New article that seeks to challenge and extend antiwork thinking through an engagement with postcolonial studies and the radical Black tradition. Open access in @antipodeonline.bsky.social

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Speculative connections: Port authorities, littoral territories and the assembling of the green hydrogen frontier This article examines the role of European port authorities in assembling the green hydrogen frontier through the production of speculative connection…

New article with Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar examining the role of port authorities in the production of the green hydrogen frontier in the global South, open access in @politicalgeography.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Does anyone know of any recent examples of collective work refusal outside of US/EUR/UK contexts beyond the tang ping movement in China?