Das Buch-Cover von »Contingencies in Urban Future-Making« vor orangefarbenem Hintergrund.

How can cities be shaped in times of uncertainty? Through a range of case studies, this volume explores how contingency influences urban future-making. 

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7900-7/

@lucaspohl.bsky.social 
#City #Future #UrbanStudies #Environment

Honoured to co-convene this panel with Mary Lawhon and @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social (The University of Edinburgh), Sören Weißermel (Kiel University) and @lucaspohl.bsky.social (Universität Innsbruck).

Got questions or ideas? Feel free to reach out to us at: Alejandro.DeCoss@ed.ac.uk

“Drill, Baby, Drill”: The Pitfalls of Politicizing the Climate in a Society of Enjoyment illiberalism.org | Lucas Pohl and Erik Swyngedouw on the concept of "enjoyment," the right and left wings' response to climate change, and what a truly emancipatory climate politics must look like.

First up, read Lucas Pohl and Erik Swyngedouw on the concept of "enjoyment," the right and left wings' response to climate change, and what a truly emancipatory climate politics must look like.

@lucaspohl.bsky.social

Geographical Sensemaking: Situating, Relating, and Positioning as Spatial Practices Between Self and World How people attach meaning to space is one of the most central questions of human geography. Space has no meaning in itself but must be made meaningful through human action. The aim of this article ...

New paper out!
"Geographical Sensemaking: Situating, Relating, and Positioning as Spatial Practices Between Self and World"

#Sfb1265 members Ilse Helbrecht and @lucaspohl.bsky.social draw on international research to analyse geographical sensemaking⬇️
#openaccess
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congrats, Harry! Excellent news!

Thanks, Harry! :)

In defence of maladaptation and its emancipatory promises - Lucas Pohl, Erik Swyngedouw, 2025 The eco-emancipatory project is hegemonically predicated upon the signifier of socioecological “adaptation.” Given the importance of adaptation, maladaptation u...

"In defence of maladaptation and its emancipatory promises" has just been published in the European Journal of Social Theory - a paper exploring the limits of adaptation and the promise of maladaptation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Last call for Fantasies of Escape at the RGS-IBG 2025 conference! Deadline for abstracts is Friday.

Neue Podcast-Folge! 🎙️🎧
In dieser Ausgabe von #SpaceOddity spricht Host Christopher Heidecke mit dem SFB-assoziierten Humangeographen @lucaspohl.bsky.social über Zukunftsnarrative Bangkoks angesichts des steigenden Meeresspiegel im #Anthropozän⬇️
sfb1265.de/einblicke/sp...

Excited to share that Anna Secor (@ajsecor.bsky.social) and I are organizing a session at the upcoming RGS-IBG conference (@rgsibg.bsky.social) on "Fantasies of escape." Join us in exploring the imaginative landscapes and socio-political dimensions of escape! The deadline is 14 February.

Kampf an den Rändern: Urbane Politische Ökologien und externalisierte Desaster · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE Spätestens seit der kolonial-kapitalistischen Globalisierung ist der Zugang zu den Lebensgrundlagen systematisch ungleich verteilt. Bisher hat diese Ungerechtigkeit keine Weltrevolution ausgelöst. Doc...

I published a short piece in @berlinergazette.bsky.social on the urban political ecologies and externalized disasters that shape Bangkok's coastline in times of rising sea levels (both in German and English).
berlinergazette.de/de/kampf-an-...

Welcome, Ben!

That sounds great. I’m glad to hear that you can use the paper in your course. There are some good books on this issue that you probably already know of. Send me your email address in a DM if you like and I can send you a list.

New paper in Political Geography, ‘What Repoliticisation Means and Requires: Creating the Climate for Disagreement’. t.co/hsCpZ8J0s5

Welcome to all the new bluesky users! So great to see that the migration is actually happening!

Thanks to @katiecmoliver.bsky.social and @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute this paper to their exciting special issue on geographies of nothingness.

Apocalyptic nothingness: lacks, holes, and the limits of the geographical imagination This paper addresses the relationship between space, negativity, and apocalypses. Following Jacques Lacan, I introduce the distinction between ‘lack’ and ‘hole’, whereby the lack is considered in s...

"Apocalyptic nothingness" has recently been published in Social & Cultural Geography (open access). In it, I investigate two shades of nothingness as they appear in both fictional and non-fictional apocalyptic imaginaries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From today until April 1, I'm Hallsworth Visiting Professor at University of Manchester. I will give a seminar on psychoanalysis, geography, and the environment and organize a symposium on "enjoying climate change" with Erik Swyngedouw. I'm excited to get to know the colleagues and explore the city.

It's published open access and here is the link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What’s the matter with the unconscious? - My commentary on Anna Secor's (@ajsecor.bsky.social) paper "Spacetimeunconscious" has been published in Dialogues in Human Geography (@dialogueshg.bsky.social). I am delighted to have been invited to respond to this excellent piece of work.

Call for Contributions: »Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung. Soziologische, psychoanalytische und sozialphilosophische Beiträge zur Aktualisierung der Kritischen Theorie«, 16.-17. Mai 2024,
@ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social: Call und weitere Infos hier entlang: tinyurl.com/53dsnp24

You can find more information here: events.sfu.ca/event/37233-1

Today starts our conference on apocalyptic anxieties, hosted by the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. The conference brings together psychoanalysts, political theorists, and social scientists from various orientations to examine contemporary apocalyptic anxieties.