Oona Morrow,Anna Davies
Oona Morrow
While matters of food waste and soil have become vital research arenas, compost remains the Cinderella of human geographical enquiry. In response, this paper brings compost to the centre of debates at the intersection of diverse economies a...
Clare Herrick,Ann Kelly,Jeanne Soulard
Clare Herrick
COVID-19 is a multi-spectral crisis that has added an acute layer over a panoply of complex emergencies across the world. In the process, it has not only exposed actually-existing emergencies, but also exacerbated them as the global gaze ha...
Atmospheric conditioning: Airport automation, labour and the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情下的机场自动化、劳动力问题及应对措施
Weiqiang Lin
Weiqiang Lin
This paper contributes to debates on human-technologies relations and labour geographies. It thinks through how the adoption of automation is mediated by the conditioning effects of atmospheres in space. Taking the occassion of the COVID-19...
The evolution and stability of multi-ethnic residential neighbourhoods in England [0.03%]
英格兰多民族居民区的演变与稳定性分析
Gemma Catney,Richard Wright,Mark Ellis
Gemma Catney
This paper analyses the most ethnically diverse spaces in England. We define multi-ethnic neighbourhoods as spaces where no one group is in a majority and at least five ethnic groups have representation. Around 4% of all English neighbourho...
Assembling the Healthopolis: Competitive city-regionalism and policy boosterism pushing Greater Manchester further, faster [0.03%]
健康都市的构建：竞争性的城市区域主义和政策促进论在推动大曼彻斯特进一步、更快发展中的作用
Colin Lorne,Anna Coleman,Ruth McDonald et al.
Colin Lorne et al.
Health and care policy is increasingly promoted within visions of the competitive city-region. This paper examines the importance of policy boosterism within the political construction of city-regions in the context of English devolution. B...
How to survive the end of the future: Preppers, pathology, and the everyday crisis of insecurity [0.03%]
如何在未来的终点幸存下来：生存主义者、病理和日常的不安全危机
Kezia Barker
Kezia Barker
Emergency preparedness is a distinctive feature of contemporary anticipatory politics, yet "preppers," a sub-culture who prepare to survive a range of possible crisis events through practices including stockpiling and survival skill develop...
The fly that tried to save the world: Saproxylic geographies and other-than-human ecologies [0.03%]
试图拯救世界的苍蝇——木栖性地理和非人类生态学
Matthew Gandy
Matthew Gandy
The discovery of a rare fly in a North London cemetery marks my entry point into a wider reflection on the value and significance of urban biodiversity. Using different indices of ecological endangerment, along with a critical reading of ne...
Stefan Bouzarovski,Håvard Haarstad
Stefan Bouzarovski
Scale is an emergent theme in current scientific and policy debates on low-carbon urban transformations. Yet notions of scale employed in such contexts are typically based on linear and hierarchical ontologies, and miss out on the long-stan...
Encountering energy precarity: Geographies of fuel poverty among young adults in the UK [0.03%]
英国年轻人燃料贫困的地理分布及其对能源不安全的影响
Saska Petrova
Saska Petrova
This paper develops the notion of "energy precarity" in order to uncover the governance practices and material conditions that drive and reproduce the inability of households to secure socially- and materially-necessitated levels of energy ...
Jens Kandt,James A Cheshire,Paul A Longley
Jens Kandt
Following the increasing availability of DNA-sequenced data, the genetic structure of populations can now be inferred and studied in unprecedented detail. Across social science, this innovation is shaping new bio-social research agendas, at...