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Dr Anna Lawrence
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Cultural & Historical Geographer | Managing Editor @RGS-IBG (views own) | critical plant studies | 19th C. floriculture
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Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · Oct 5
A very characterful medlar tree
Photo of a medlar tree with wriggly old branches against a blue sky Photo of brown medlar fruit clustered on the tree against a blue sky
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Today on Edge Effects, we take our first dive into Botanical Imaginations with our Spring 2026 Faculty Favorites! Faculty across academic disciplines recommend plant-y books and poems they're excited to read/teach this semester 🌿 📖
Faculty Favorites: Critical Interventions in the Plant Humanities - Edge Effects
Faculty recommend their favorite books and poems at the intersection of plants and the environmental humanities
edgeeffects.net
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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lsepress.bsky.social
Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse by @laurieparsons.bsky.social is out May 2026.

This book will be free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing. @rgsibg.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 9:10 AM
annamlawrence.bsky.social
First spring bulb has flowered & the sun will set after 5pm this Saturday 🌅
A close-up photograph of a purple dwarf iris in a pot, covered with raindrops
February 4, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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tibg.bsky.social
New Intervention in TIBG:

'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Screenshot of an intervention abstract in Transactions by Jay JD Todd & Felicity Callard (2026) entitled: 'A Critical Response to the UK's ‘Sullivan Review’ Into Sex and Gender in Research and Data' with a red banner at the top. This intervention argues that the UK Government-commissioned independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender (the ‘Sullivan Review’) implicitly promotes the erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research and data collection protocols and carries worrying implications for the inclusion of trans people within UK institutions and for critical social science research. Set in a context where trans and gender diverse people's rights are being rolled back in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, the Review attempts to install a singular model of binary, immutable, ‘biological’ sex as incontrovertible across data gathering on sex and gender across public bodies including government, universities, the health service and research organisations. It does so via appeals to science and to ‘clarity’, and by proposing to limit or even in certain cases remove default ethical review processes. The intervention argues that the Review can be situated within broader attempts to erase critical inquiry into the complex, intersectional production of social categories including sex, gender and sexuality, as well as inquiries that extend what ethical principles and governance involve. In sum, we contend that the Review carries deleterious consequences for geography and other social scientific disciplines and call upon scholars to refuse its vision and implications.
February 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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eleanormaybaker.bsky.social
Outside the Level 2 Reading Room in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk there is a wellbeing display. Here are some it's little zines that genuinely made me smile.
January 30, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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lsepress.bsky.social
"Parsons brilliantly unpicks the sophisticated web of lies, metaphors, and hollow promises that allow the fossil fuel industry to maintain its grip on our future."

— @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social, Author of Saving the Planet Without the Bullsh*t
January 27, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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jbrigstocke.bsky.social
Just finished correcting the page proofs for this. Very excited to see it in print shortly 🍾
lsepress.bsky.social LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · Jan 5
🔎 Coming soon

Non-Authoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power

by Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social

This book will be free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing and is published in collaboration with @rgsibg.bsky.social

doi.org/10.31389/lse...
January 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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areajournal.bsky.social
New in Area:

'Witnessing health and place: Sebastião Salgado and the photographic legacy of polio eradication' by @wstaylor87.bsky.social

This paper situates the photographic work of Salgado on polio vaccination within debates on humanitarian visual culture.

doi.org/10.1111/area...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Stephen Taylor (2026) entitled: 'Witnessing Health and Place: Sebastião Salgado and the Photographic Legacy of Polio Eradication' with a black banner at the top. The death of Brazilian photographer and photojournalist Sebastião Salgado in May 2025 invites renewed reflection on photography's role in shaping global health narratives. Celebrated for his evocative black-and-white images that document human suffering and resilience, Salgado's work has addressed international issues, such as labour, migration, indigeneity and environmental degradation. Among an extensive portfolio, his documentation of global polio eradication efforts stands out as a significant yet often overlooked contribution, providing vital insights into the spatial dynamics of a global health campaign. This paper situates Salgado's polio photographs within the context of health geography and visual geography, arguing that these images function not only as humanitarian testimony but also as a visual cartography of care. By analysing the spatial, embodied and ethical dimensions of this work, I examine how visual methodologies can enhance geographies of health, vulnerability and intervention. Salgado's archive of polio photographs constructs a powerful visual grammar of place-based inequality and collective resilience, while also raising questions about power dynamics in image production, institutional commissioning and the ethics of witnessing. The paper offers geographers a critical lens through which to understand global health as a situated, contested and relational phenomenon.
January 23, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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mtslep.bsky.social
Because sharing is caring, below you'll find some calls for papers for this year's @rgsibg.bsky.social conference that have been circulated through the mailing lists I'm suscribed to. I'm leaving deadlines / contact info for each, in case you'd like to know more. #RGS2026
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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thegj.bsky.social
New commentary in The GJ:

'Can the Himalayas speak? Firework art, marketing and posthuman ethics of nature' by Yana Wengel & Ling Ma

This piece examines Arc'teryx's use of Himalayan mountain landscapes for a global branding exercise, the 'Rising Dragon' fireworks in 2025.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
A photograph of a promotional art event in the Himalayas staged by Arc'teryx in collaboration with artist Cai Guo-Qiang showing colourful fireworks exploding in a snaking path pattern up the side of a snow-topped mountain.
January 21, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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thegj.bsky.social
The latest RGS-IBG Research Spotlight focuses on work by Rory Coulter in a recently published GJ paper on housing inequality & ethnic disparities in overcrowding.

Read the original paper here: doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
rgsibg.bsky.social Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgsibg.bsky.social · 20d
🏠 We're living in a time of housing shortages, expensive rents, and poor-quality homes, to which the government’s answer is to “build, baby, build”. But are things that simple?

Our latest research spotlight explores this issue.

Read more👉https://bit.ly/49o8DOS
January 16, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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rgsibg.bsky.social
🏠 We're living in a time of housing shortages, expensive rents, and poor-quality homes, to which the government’s answer is to “build, baby, build”. But are things that simple?

Our latest research spotlight explores this issue.

Read more👉https://bit.ly/49o8DOS
January 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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statesofprecarity.bsky.social
Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography.

Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work.

Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change.

Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT):
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Read report:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography
Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.
www.rgs.org
January 14, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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rgsibg.bsky.social
The call for sessions, papers and posters for our 2026 Annual International Conference is open!

Session organisers can seek sponsorship from one of the Society’s Research Groups.

Find out more and apply 👇
https://ow.ly/wWfr50XLmNq
Calls for Research Group sponsorship | Annual International Conference
Session organisers may wish to seek the sponsorship of one of the Society's Research Groups for their session.
ow.ly
January 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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lsepress.bsky.social
🔎 Coming soon

Non-Authoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power

by Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social

This book will be free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing and is published in collaboration with @rgsibg.bsky.social

doi.org/10.31389/lse...
January 5, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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gailfdavies.bsky.social
New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot of the front page of an article published in the journal Social and Cultural Geography called Remapping the body: an autoethnography of pain, paraesthesia, and the co-production of functional neurological symptoms
December 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Great news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to.

Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
(also available via many standard podcast listening services)
Greenhouse Book Talks. Hosted by Dolly Jørgensen & Finn Arne Jørgensen. A pair of hands holds up a pot with a plant growing into a book
January 1, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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rgsibg.bsky.social
How can sharing real-world experiences from geographers help us better understand how qualitative analysis actually happens? 🌎

Lauren Wagner (Maastricht University) reflects on a recent Area Special Section on 'Digging into Data' in this new Geography Directions blog post 👇
https://bit.ly/49ia5lH
Two hands holding puzzle pieces about to connect against a blurred outdoor background with trees.
December 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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areajournal.bsky.social
📢December Issue of Area📢

This issue features Special Sections on 'Gender & Rewilding' and 'Participatory Historical Geographies' alongside papers on topics from Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the pandemic to research methods for legal geography ⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762...
A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are seven tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Gender and Rewilding'. The papers are: 1) Gender and Rewilding: Introduction to the Special Section Nadia Bartolini 2) Rewilding: An emotional nature Sophie Wynne-Jones 3) Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate Ffion Jones 4) Rewilding, gender and the transformation of the Côa Valley Nadia Bartolini, Bárbara Carvalho, Sarah May 5) ‘A canary is supposed to sit in a cage and look at someone else's happiness’: Domestic rewilding in fin-de-siècle St Petersburg Olga Petri 6) The politics of rewilding through an ecofeminist lens Sherilyn MacGregor 7) Rewilding Gender: Towards Relational Understandings of ‘the Wild’ Kim Ward A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 1) Unravelling uneven livelihood transformations in China's multi-ethnic Southeast Asian borderland: Perspectives from spatial interactions Xiaobo Hua, Renshan Luo 2) Milk from the farm, the factory and the future: An ecofeminist reflection on Aotearoa New Zealand's dairy sector Milena Bojovic 3) Research methods for legal geography Francesco Chiodelli 4) Changing jobs, changing landscapes: Do land use patterns reflect occupational shifts? Armina Aktara, Manash Jyoti Bhuyan 5) Displaced attention: Bergson, attentive habits and Tony Conrad's drone music George Burdon 6) What does geography look like? Robert Shaw 7) Multispecies placemaking: Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic Tsering Bum, Shuling Cheng 8) A mixed-methods approach to researching extreme heat: Insights from urban Ghana Katherine V. Gough, Ben M. Roberts, Ebenezer Forkuo Amankwaa, Karim Abdullah, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, Ronald Reagan Gyimah, Raymond Kasei, Kevin J. Lomas, Frederick Wireko Manu, Peter Mensah, Eftychia Spentzou, Robert L. Wilby 9) Climate change sensing across work and home: A research diary experiment Febe De Geest, Carolina Contreras, Todd Denham, Patrick Bonney, Ashleigh Stokes, Blanche Verlie, Oluwadunsin Ajulo, Lauren Rickards A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Participatory historical geographies'. The papers are: 1) Participatory historical geographies: Introduction Ruth Slatter, Edward Brookes 2) The Victoria County History and participatory historical geography Ruth Slatter 3) Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory historical geography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities Sarah Linn, Jina Lee, Mariam Zorba, Caitlin Nunn, Jennifer Cromwell 4) Dancing in the archive: Bodily encounters, memory, and more-than-representational participatory historical geographies Lucy Thompson 5) Youth-led theatre for climate resilience and action at COP26 Kate Smith, Briony McDonagh, Sukhmandeep Dhillon 6) Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street Aled Singleton, Edward Brookes, Ruth Slatter 7) Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement Hannah Worthen, Claire Weatherall 8) ‘A series of abject failures’: Navigating the pitfalls of place-based participatory histories Juliette Desportes A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are five tiles with the names three commentaries and two 'Ethics in/or geographical research' papers. The papers are: 1) ‘Good farming’ in a polycrisis: What could arts-led research offer? Agatha Herman, Liz Roberts 2) Reflecting on the restless volumetric place (re)naming race Sergei Basik 3) The architecture of whiteness Rhianna Garrett 4) Ethical mediation: Navigating research ethics and frictions in overseas fieldwork Sandra Hiari, Maiss Razem 5) Questions of power and ethics: Doing feminist research in methodological contexts that let the body lead Gabriel Baker
December 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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tibg.bsky.social
📢December Issue of TIBG📢

Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series.

23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles sharing 6 papers in a Themed Intervention and 3 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area Han Cheng, Deen Sharp 2) Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations Aya Nassar 3) Constructing and contesting meta-geographies in Russian area studies debates Vera Smirnova 4) Geography and area studies as critical bedfellows? The view from Singapore Brenda S. A. Yeoh 5) Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography Han Cheng 6) Beyond the Limpopo: Geography and the worlding of South(ern) Africa Maano Ramutsindela 7) Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities Kaya Barry 8) Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis Zuhri James 9) Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining Yamini Narayanan A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Before it's too late: The extinction script, multi-species reproductive futurism and Extinction Rebellion Amy Robson 2) Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers Austin Read 3) Infra-culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast Julian Clark 4) Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality Jonathan Darling, Andrew Burridge 5) On the natural border: A bio-geo-political reading Matteo Proto, Francesco Buscemi 6) Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London Saskia Papadakis 7) Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK Sarah M. Hughes 8) On the politics of movement: Borderscapes, choreopolicing and choreopolitics Charlotte Veal 9) High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India Thomas Cowan A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with 4 standard articles, 1 commentary, and a Themed Intervention with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Post-pandemic geographies of working from home: More of the same for spatial inequalities? David McCollum 2) The place where we live: Children, families, play, neighbourhoods and spaces of care during and after the pandemic Alison Stenning, Wendy Russell 3) Living a ‘shadow life’: The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough Victoria J. E. Jones 4) What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home David Bissell, Elisabetta Crovara, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Elizabeth Straughan 5) Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention 6) Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis Ankit Kumar, Chandni Singh, Lauren Hermanus, Lalitha Kamath, Wangui Kimari, Mark Pelling, Harriet Bulkeley
December 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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thegj.bsky.social
Are you a physical geographer looking for an editorial opportunity? Join the wonderful team at The Geographical Journal - details below⬇️
thegj.bsky.social The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Nov 25
📢New Editor sought📢

We are seeking to appoint a Physical Geography Editor to The Geographical Journal. The GJ publishes work which engages with public issues and policy-relevant agendas.

🗓️Deadline: 7 January 2026

For more information, please see this page: www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
Editor role available at Society journal
Advert for a new Physical Geography Editor for the Geographical Journal.
www.rgs.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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areajournal.bsky.social
'Participatory Historical Geographies' Special Section - out now in Area!

This collection, guest edited by @ruthslatter.bsky.social & @ed-brookes.bsky.social, reflects on the increasing use of participatory methods in historical geography.

Read here⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
A graphic publicising a new Special Section in Area called 'Participatory Historical Geographies'. There are eight tiles with the names of papers and authors as follows: 1) Participatory historical geographies: Introduction Ruth Slatter, Edward Brookes 2) The Victoria County History and participatory historical geography Ruth Slatter 3) Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory historical geography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities Sarah Linn, Jina Lee, Mariam Zorba, Caitlin Nunn, Jennifer Cromwell 4) Dancing in the archive: Bodily encounters, memory, and more-than-representational participatory historical geographies Lucy Thompson 5) Youth-led theatre for climate resilience and action at COP26 Kate Smith, Briony McDonagh, Sukhmandeep Dhillon 6) Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street Aled Singleton, Edward Brookes, Ruth Slatter 7) Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement Hannah Worthen, Claire Weatherall 8) ‘A series of abject failures’: Navigating the pitfalls of place-based participatory histories Juliette Desportes A black tile publicising the new 'Participatory Historical Geographies' Special Section in Area. There is a quote from Ruth Slatter & Ed Brookes' (2025) introduction. It reads: "The production of participatory historical knowledge is contingent on a wide variety of skills and labour, including communities themselves that often go unacknowledged. The challenge of navigating these pitfalls and barriers serve to highlight the many reasons why researchers, practitioners or members of the public may be reluctant to engage in participatory historical research".
December 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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rgsibg.bsky.social
📣Work with us! The Society is seeking an Editorial Assistant to support the publication of its academic journals (part time, fixed term contract).

Application deadline: 11 December.

Find out more: https://ow.ly/8tZU50XCI4w
Editorial Assistant for RGS-IBG Journals | Job vacancy
An exciting opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the academic peer review and publishing process. Part time, six-month fixed term contract.
ow.ly
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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annamlawrence.bsky.social
Come & work with me at the @rgsibg.bsky.social!

Closing date for this fixed-term Editorial Assistant role is 11th December - get in touch with any questions ⬇️

www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...
Editorial Assistant for RGS-IBG Journals | Job vacancy
An exciting opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the academic peer review and publishing process. Part time, six-month fixed term contract.
www.rgs.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
annamlawrence.bsky.social
Come & work with me at the @rgsibg.bsky.social!

Closing date for this fixed-term Editorial Assistant role is 11th December - get in touch with any questions ⬇️

www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...
Editorial Assistant for RGS-IBG Journals | Job vacancy
An exciting opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the academic peer review and publishing process. Part time, six-month fixed term contract.
www.rgs.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM