I am incredibly grateful to Chris Philo for organising a book forum to discuss "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities". 50 free downloads of "Writing the anticolonial: between postcolonial and decolonial geographies" at...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/B7CBR...
The writing tips I published one by one here have now been gathered up and published by Ed Simon in the *Pittsburgh Review of Books*. Happy to make them available here:
pghrev.com/sixteen-writ...
Be sure to check out the relatively new PRoB while you are there!
Paul Harrison, Anna J. Secor and Mikko Joronen eds. Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe – Edinburgh University Press, August 2026 (print and open access) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cultura... @ajsecor.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social
Congratulations @jbrigstocke.bsky.social !
New piece in Progress in Human Geography, 'Crisis-thinking and critical urbanism'. What might crisis-thinking be doing to how the urban is conceived, researched, and politicised? How might it impact how we see urban possibility?
Open access here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New review!
Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann on 'Maps and Colours: A Complex Relationship', edited by Diana Lange and Benjamin van der Linde.
Dear colleague, We would like to invite you to an interdisciplinary workshop held at Newcastle University on 12th May 2026, 1200-1700. Location: Room HDB 2.13 and HBD 2.12, Henry Daysh Building, Claremont Road. Please sign up to attend by 23rd March. This workshop will feature speakers from a range of backgrounds covering the future research priorities for the Arctic across the cryospheric, climatic and oceanic realms, science for policy, the changing geopolitical environment of the Arctic, and progress and best practice in the decolonisation of Arctic science, history and exploration. We will offer opportunities for networking, interdisciplinary collaboration, and expert insights into future research priorities across the Arctic. The workshop is funded by the NERC Arctic Bursary award for the “Greenland Connection” project and is limited to 50 people, with places allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis. The workshop is free to attend.
❄️The Future of the Arctic Workshop❄️
12th May 2026 | Newcastle University
An interdisciplinary workshop exploring: cryospheric, climatic and oceanic science; science for policy; changing Arctic geopolitics; the decolonisation of Arctic histories.
Please register via: tinyurl.com/futureofthea...
New review!
Maria José Afanador Llach on Jessica M. Lepler's 'Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions'.
New article!
'More than asparagus: The development of the canning industry in Brunswick, Germany', by Grace Abou Jaoude, Yevheniia Berchul & Vanessa Miriam Carlow.
New review:
Alison Bennett on Edward Armston-Sheret's 'On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration'.
Conference report:
Petra Codato on historical geography at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers, 26–29 August 2025 (University of Birmingham).
New review!
Timothy Boon on Ben Burt's 'The Museum of Mankind: Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department'.
New article!
‘"Fantastic race across the strangest and most desolate landscape": Embodied landscapes and automobiles in Mongolia, 1907–1930', by Tomasz Ewertowski.
New review!
Ana Raquel Portugal on Junia Ferreira Furtado's 'L’Amérique Méridionale: The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century'.
New article!
'Hometown bonds, spatial consolidation and socioeconomic transformation of Huiguan in Beijing's modernization', by Wang Changsong & Wang Yitong.
New review essay!
'Land reform in the home of enclosure: How to right historical land ownership & environmental injustice in England & Wales' by Carl Griffin, covering:
● 'The Lie of the Land', by Guy Shrubsole
● 'Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You', by Nick Hayes & Jon Moses
New review!
Enrique García Hernán on David Rodríguez Couto's 'Imperio y reputación: El viaje de los hermanos Nodal y su mundo'.
New review!
Jesús Israel Baxin Martínez on Kevin Rodríguez Wittmann's 'Mapping Insularity: A Visual History of Islands in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds'.
New article!
'Imperial knowledge-making: Spanish and Russian modern time questionnaires as data collection tools', by Nadezda Konyushikhina & Victoria Tkachenko.
New article!
'Samplers of the marine environment: Knowing the oceans with seabirds, 1958–Present', by Oscar Hartman Davies.
Join us for the 4th Rethinking Internationalisms conference, 19-20 March, the line up is brilliant. The @rshc.bsky.social memorial lecture will be delivered as part of the proceedings by Prof. Sandrine Kott (link in thread) and there will be an ECR event on 18 (1/3)
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Nicely done @areajournal.bsky.social !
New paper on ‘detachment’ as (non)relation, which is partly an intervention into debates around relations/relationality, and partly the latest in a series on attachment-detachment. In Progress in Human Geography
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
New article!
'From perdition to paradise: Patagonia, Juan Fernández and the Southeastern Pacific in the British geographical imaginary, 1680-1768', by Elizabeth Chant & Natalia Gándara Chacana.
New review!
Apurba Chatterjee on 'Moving Crops and the Scales of History', by Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy and Tiago Saraiva.
New article!
'Precarious place, powerful participation: The historicization of floods and community resilience in Pajaro, California', by Ria Mukerji.
Do consider joining us at the RGS-IBG to present some thoughts on maps that mean, or may come to mean, something to you....
It was such an honour working with Katie, the map presenters, and the engaged audiences in these Map Room Conversations. Follow the thread for a CFP for a similar venture at this year's RGS-IBG conference!
