Recently published: 'Speaking through land: territoriality, identity and legitimacy in Jammu and Kashmir', by Muzamil Yaqoob & Aijaz Ashraf Wani.
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Newly published online: 'From home to planet. Grounding planetary futures in Frankfurt’s technopolitical landscape of water scarcity' by Valentin Meilinger.
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Newly published: 'Between blueprint and bricolage: how sectoral logics shape regional governance in Flanders' by Pieterjan Schraepen & Joris Voets

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Newly published and '#opneaccess 'At the limits of choice: how the Netherlands handles Dublin transfers using behavioural strategies' by Imen El Amouri

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Living between Macau and Zhuhai: The Shift, Drift and Dilution of Territories and Borders - RSA Main The two cities of Macau and Zhuhai, located on the south-east coastline of China, have long been entangled. Both were administered by Xiangshan County for centuries before Macau came under Portuguese ...

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Living Between Macau & Zhuhai
✍️Siyi Huang
How does everyday border-crossing reshape “home” & territory?
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New and #openaccess: 'Gaining trust through consultation? How intergovernmental interactions influences citizens’ political trust in times of crisis' by Jakob Frateur, Patricia Popelier, Peter Bursens & Susana Duarte Coroado.

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New #openaccess article ‘But we are a rich nation!': the persistent extractivist development myth in Algeria and Venezuela, by Luíza Cerioli
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Carbon lock-in: why international financial centres matter for post-carbon transitions International financial centres (IFCs) are not merely sites where global capital concentrates; they are legal-economic architectures that actively reproduce carbon lock-in. This commentary conceptu...

Why are international finance centres absent from debates on post-carbon transitions?

In this new commentary, Sabine Dörry calls for forensic research into the institutional structures through which IFCs constrain rapid and just transitions.

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Recently published #openaccess 'Spatial imaginaries and the construction of regions: a cultural political economy approach' by Philip O'Brien
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Recently published #openacess 'Gaining trust through consultation? How intergovernmental interactions influences citizens’ political trust in times of crisis' by Jakob Frateur, Patricia Popelier, Peter Bursens & Susana Duarte Coroado.

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From a forthcoming special issue, the newly published article: "The contentious politics of renewable energy: territorial cleavages in Italy’s ‘green’ transition," by Daniela Chironi and Donatella della Porta

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New Special Issue with the free-to-read editorial 'Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa', guest edited by Theo Aalders, Prince Guma, Evelyne Owino & Dr Gideon Tups.
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Image of the TPG journal cover and the abstract of the article: This article provides a spatial justice critique of the urban sustainability agenda. Reflecting on the apparent growing discontent against urban sustainability policies, we argue that this backlash can partly be traced to how this agenda has favoured city centres and overlooked spatial dynamics and injustices that fuel core–periphery polarisation. The urban sustainability agenda tends towards ‘urban triumphalism’, while framing suburban areas and spaces as inherently problematic. We propose to widen the geographical scope of the urban sustainability agenda, and discuss policy directions that may contribute to this, with the view to achieving greater legitimacy, more inclusivity and value pluralism.

Read this #openaccess TPG article by Håvard Haarstad and Mahir Yazar, 'Urban sustainability: a spatial justice critique' which reflects on the apparent growing discontent against urban sustainability policies. doi.org/10.1080/2162...

Image of the TPG journal cover and the abstract of the article: This article provides a spatial justice critique of the urban sustainability agenda. Reflecting on the apparent growing discontent against urban sustainability policies, we argue that this backlash can partly be traced to how this agenda has favoured city centres and overlooked spatial dynamics and injustices that fuel core–periphery polarisation. The urban sustainability agenda tends towards ‘urban triumphalism’, while framing suburban areas and spaces as inherently problematic. We propose to widen the geographical scope of the urban sustainability agenda, and discuss policy directions that may contribute to this, with the view to achieving greater legitimacy, more inclusivity and value pluralism.

Read this #openaccess TPG article by Håvard Haarstad and Mahir Yazar, 'Urban sustainability: a spatial justice critique' which reflects on the apparent growing discontent against urban sustainability policies. doi.org/10.1080/2162...

My afterword "The Material Politics of Labour in Africa" to the SI "Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa" edited is now freely available. @rsa-tpg.bsky.social @rsablog.bsky.social #geosky

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Casting doubts on the growth machine? Doughnut economics, an ambiguous innovation in Amsterdam governance The institutional uptake of Doughnut economics in Amsterdam in 2020 marks a notable departure from growth-centred governance. Drawing on qualitative research, this paper mobilises the instrument co...

Thrilled to share my new article is now published in @rsa-tpg.bsky.social! It traces how #DoughnutEconomics politicised growth in Amsterdam governance with an ambiguous yet powerful policy innovation.

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#UrbanGovernance #PostGrowth #PolicyProcess #Sustainability

Prosperity and neglect are equally potent politically radicalising agents. As Adamiak, Churski, thers & I show in @rsa-tpg.bsky.social, #Poland’s spatial duel means that the ‘places that matter’ have mobilised to shield their interests from the 'places that don't matter'.
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#Green agenda success in #city cores may breed resentment in the periphery.
As @havardhaarstad.bsky.social & @mahiryazar.bsky.social argue in @rsa-tpg.bsky.social, a moral hierarchy that punishes car-dependent suburbanites —often on lower incomes— is a recipe for #populism.
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A tale of two ports: relational power in COSCO’s European port investments China’s increasing presence in international port ownership and management has excited political anxieties among Western commentators based on a geopolitical framing that equates this international...

Just published with REDEFINE (ERC-funded)! @rsa-tpg.bsky.social
We compare COSCO's port investments in Greece vs Germany, using relational power.
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“Uneven benefits? Territorial divides in perceptions of devolution in Scotland and Wales" in @rsa-tpg.bsky.social

➡️ Where within devolved nations are the benefits of devolved power actually felt? With what political implications?

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the release of an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities Warren Magnusson, who passed away earlier this year. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/walter-magnu...

Embedding payments for ecosystem services within the conservation-development nexus in China's Qingshan Village This study develops an integrative analytical framework to analyse payments for ecosystem services (PES) dynamics within the conservation-development nexus in China's Qingshan Village. Combining PE...

Why do Payments for Ecosystem Services work differently on the ground? My new Open Access article uncovers how PES in China's Qingshan Village is shaped by local development, power, & culture. Read it now! #PES #Conservation #Development @rsa-tpg.bsky.social
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Honoured to be named @rsa-tpg.bsky.social’s 2025 Best Referee.
But the genius is the reviewer corps; those who toil in silence to improve manuscripts that will never bear their names.
They are scaffolding that keeps scholarship upright.
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The @rsa-tpg.bsky.social Best Paper Award goes to Gonzalo Álvarez and Cristian Ovando Santana for 'Indigenous People and Paradiplomacy: Confronting the State-centric Order from Latin American Transborder Spaces’. Watch the recording ww.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-tpg-best-paper/

We are delighted that @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social has won the 2025 @rsa-tpg.bsky.social Best Referee Award. Watch the recording with EiC @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social here www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-tpg-best-referee/

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