Forthcoming workshop in Durham on ‘Historicising the China-Africa relationship’, taking place on August 26th.

Reimagining Disasters: Voices in the Pluriverse Reimagining Disasters builds on the momentum gained by the 2019 Disaster Studies Manifesto, which aims to inspire and inform more respectful, reciprocal and genuine relationships between home and visi...

new book chapter!... 📖

‘Reimagining disaster preparedness in Nepal’

We focus on a pan-Himalayan ritual known as the 𝘉𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘫𝘢
as an articulation of Indigenous disaster theory and disaster prevention active in the Himalayan region, specifically within Nepal.

www.routledge.com/Reimagining-...

Afcon roundup: Mozambique stun Gabon to end 40-year wait for win Faisal Bangal, Geny Catamo and Diogo Calila scored to earn Mozambique a 3-2 victory against Gabon to give them their first win in 17 matches at the tournament

Força, Mambas! 🇲🇿

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This looks like a really important and timely resource with varied perspectives from different backgrounds, disciplines and geographies. Looking forward to reading!

Uneven development and the geographies of energy transition in Mozambique In Mozambique, sustainable energy access is an increasing priority for a diverse range of actors seeking to improve livelihoods and stimulate economic…

Excited to share a new open access article that provides a critical, policy-relevant & geographically grounded analysis of Mozambique's energy transitions. Written with Lorraine Howe, @joshkirshner.bsky.social & Carlos Shenga, just published in Applied Geography www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“If we are honest about Britain’s place in the global strategic landscape today, the idea that it is a prime espionage target stretches credulity”

Pentagon Slams Netflix's 'Woke Garbage' Gay Military Series 'Boots,'  Vows to Restore 'Warrior Ethos' to the Military Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson says the U.S. military does not condone Netflix's "ideological agenda" depicted in "Boots"

Further reason to watch this stunning indictment of military homophobia: www.thewrap.com/pentagon-boo...

The unseen wounds of climate disasters

Interesting article by Anek Rajbhandari on the mental health impacts on survivors of climate induced disasters: nepalitimes.com/news/the-uns...

Zambia Belonging A counter-archive of found and crowd-sourced photographs from Zambia’s past.

The artist Sana Ginwalla has created an online photo archive based on 1000 uncollected negatives, slides and prints that she found in the attic of Lusaka’s oldest photo studios. What a great initiative:

www.zambiabelonging.com

A graphic advertising a new collection of papers in Transactions called 'Geography in the World 3: Area Studies' with the title curved around a black and white image of the globe in the centre, and the Transactions logo next to the Royal Geographical Society logo at the top of the red background. With contributions from: Aya Nassar, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Deen Sharp, Han Cheng, Maano Ramutsindela & Vera Smirnova

New in TIBG!

Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies

Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.

Read all papers here ⬇️

tinyurl.com/5n72yt46

GenZ hopes for an inclusive new Nepal: State of Southasia #32 YouTube video by Himal Southasian

youtu.be/dhuC7zQRNvc?...

‘Washington losing primacy, Beijing preparing to take its place. For Africa, however, this framing is unsatisfactory. It risks reducing the continent to a spectator in a drama staged by others’:

Technoscientific Globalisation from Below

📚BOOK LAUNCH 📚
We’re delighted to announce the publication of

🌍Technoscientific Globalisation from Below🌎

Open access&free to download via @matteringpress.bsky.social

www.matteringpress.org/books/techno...

Edited by Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz & Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar

We welcome much of the #AddisDeclaration, but let’s be clear: “transition fuel” is too often code for gas.

Gas is not a bridge, it’s a dead end.

#ACS2

Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government

Pranaya Rana’s excellent explainer on everything that happened this week in Nepal, including the first woman prime minister in its history, and asks important questions for the future of the country:

www.himalmag.com/politics/nep...

More from Nepal 🇳🇵👀

Nepal officials reject Chinese claim on GSI ‘Why should we issue a statement when we’ve not even discussed GSI and GCI?’ says a Nepali delegate in China.

Interesting claims & counter claims around Nepal’s relations to China’s Global Security Initiative (GSI) following PM’s visit to China: kathmandupost.com/national/202...

Great to attend an event yesterday in Kathmandu on the geopolitical dilemmas created for #Nepal around the Lipulekh pass and the territorial disputes with India. Insightful comments from speakers Sudheer Sharma & Rajib Neupane

Good to be engaged in a thoughtful and enriching discussion today with Rupak Sapkota, former Foreign Affairs Adviser to the PM of Nepal. Our conversation focused on the dynamics around Nepal’s co-operation with foreign partners, delving into wider global and regional drivers and dynamics.

📣 New article w/ @iliasalami.bsky.social & @tomchodor.bsky.social on the return of industrial policy globally @globalpolicy.bsky.social. Does this signal a 'New Washington Consensus'? And does the return of industrial policy 'rebuild the ladder' of economic development? 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/yk2wvttc 1/12

Demilitarizing Conservation Many national parks and other protected areas (PAs) are experiencing an intensification of military actors, logics, and partnerships across the globe. This amounts to one of the most consequential ...

New article🚨 Demilitarizing Conservation
A labour of love w L Lunstrum @ashavin.bsky.social A Dutta @esthermarijnen.bsky.social T Mushonga F Matose

For a more robustly care-full conservation
Demilitarization based on ethics/politics of care/nonviolence @pollenetwork.bsky.social

shorturl.at/Wsl9m

Over the past 2 decades, China has become Laos’s top investor, main creditor, and 2nd-largest trade partner. In a new report, @profjulietlu.bsky.social and I unpack Chinese investment across four land-intensive sectors: agriculture & plantations, mining, infrastructure & SEZs. tinyurl.com/kw5vteem

“I call for a decolonial consciousness that interrogates the historical roots of marginalization in order to reconceptualize, reimagine, and rewrite dominant discourses on resilience in Africa”

The UK Alliance for Disaster Research conference will take place 4-5 September 2025. It will be hosted by the @ihrr.bsky.social at Durham Uni and is titled “Pathways to Practice and Resilience: UK Interdisciplinary Hazard and Disaster Research on the National and Global Stage”: tinyurl.com/62mfc7pw

As well as some loss of life the severe flooding in Rasuwa in #Nepal has caused damage to a number of key infrastructures of China-Nepal co-operation. Interesting to note the militarised discourse around talk of deploying rescue operations on a ‘war footing’:

kathmandupost.com/national/202...

River basins of Africa 🌍

A stunning aerial visual showing the continent’s waterways.

According to UNEP, there are 63 transboundary river basins in Africa, covering 64% of the continent’s land area.

#weekendvibes #water #africa #rivers #climatechange

Credit: Grasshopper Geography

Just published a new investigation into textile waste on @ecoage.bsky.social with my colleague Arun Karki in Nepal:

Sandwiched between manufacturing powerhouses China and India, Nepal faces a relentless influx of cheap, toxic fast fashion exports: eco-age.com/nepal-the-fr...

Angola after dos Santos: An anthology on continuity and change As Angola celebrates its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, it is timely to provide an assessment of the state of political, s...

In Luanda for the launch of this edited volume on #Angola after Dos Santos, produced in record time in Portuguese & English with chapters by Angolan & foreign scholars. Both versions in the link. My chapter is on the politics of public memory 50 years after independence.
www.cmi.no/publications...

Humanitarian Photography: From Mediating Suffering to Visualising Peace — Roland Bleiker This is a blog summary of an essay that Emma Hutchison and Roland Bleiker wrote and that has now come out after Emma’s passing: a chapter on Humanitarian Photography for Tom Allbeson, Pippa Oldfield a...

Here a short blog sumarising a chapter that Emma Hutchison and I wrote and that has now come out: “Humanitarian Photography” in Allbeson (ed) Picturing Peace (Bloomsbury 2024). This has been in the making since 2018 but we hope it remains relevant.
www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/humanit...

Harnessing the sun – addressing sociotechnical barriers to off-grid solar power deployment in Mozambique Mozambique has substantial solar power potential (23,000GWe) yet only 83MWe of installed capacity (representing 2% of the total 3623MWe generation capacity). Meanwhile, 44% of the population has el...

Happy to share an article on green electrification in Mozambique, just published online today... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....