Austin Read
@austinread.bsky.social
Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the University of Oxford. occasionalgeographer.substack.com
In case you missed it: see our CfP for the AAG 2026 below 👇
CfP #AAG2026 New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice and activism.
We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
CfP AAG 2026: New Fluvial Geographies
AAG 2026: New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice & activism Human geography is currently experiencing a river moment. Over the past decade, as the discipline has em...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
In case you missed it: see our CfP for the AAG 2026 below 👇
CfP #AAG2026 New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice and activism.
We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
CfP AAG 2026: New Fluvial Geographies
AAG 2026: New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice & activism Human geography is currently experiencing a river moment. Over the past decade, as the discipline has em...
docs.google.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
CfP #AAG2026 New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice and activism.
We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
Reposted by Austin Read
#OpenAccess in TIBG:
'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by @austinread.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo
'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by @austinread.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo
August 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
#OpenAccess in TIBG:
'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by @austinread.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo
'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by @austinread.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo
my new paper is now published open access in @rgsibg.bsky.social Transactions journal: doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper begins by looking at a biodiversity conservation project on the River Severn (UK) and argues that dominant technocratic framings of it ignore the colonial legacies that shape the river. It...
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July 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
my new paper is now published open access in @rgsibg.bsky.social Transactions journal: doi.org/10.1111/tran...
my first post on substack is available to read now! Newsletter #1: May 2025 open.substack.com/pub/occasion...
Newsletter #1: May 2025
The Green Party leadership election, Britain’s postimperial spatial politics & reading, watching and listening digest
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May 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
my first post on substack is available to read now! Newsletter #1: May 2025 open.substack.com/pub/occasion...
hello ! i have started a substack (mainly as a fun project to disrupt writer's block). please follow it at occasionalgeographer.substack.com if you're interested. first proper post (where i'm going to be discussing the spatial politics of the green party leadership election) is coming this sunday!
occasional geographer | austin | Substack
My personal Substack. Click to read occasional geographer, by austin, a Substack publication. Launched 4 hours ago.
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May 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
hello ! i have started a substack (mainly as a fun project to disrupt writer's block). please follow it at occasionalgeographer.substack.com if you're interested. first proper post (where i'm going to be discussing the spatial politics of the green party leadership election) is coming this sunday!
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That's why I'm running to be the next leader of the Green Party.
Join our campaign: backzack.com
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Arrived in Detroit for the #AAG! Geographers, please check out our session “Making space for anticolonial geographies of and from the metropole?” which is running tomorrow morning in the 10am slot (please refer to the program for location info). In the meantime, I’m hitting up Trading Joe’s!!
March 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Arrived in Detroit for the #AAG! Geographers, please check out our session “Making space for anticolonial geographies of and from the metropole?” which is running tomorrow morning in the 10am slot (please refer to the program for location info). In the meantime, I’m hitting up Trading Joe’s!!
Reposted by Austin Read
Excited to be presenting my paper about salmon conservation, river infrastructures and the River Severn's hidden colonial histories this Thursday in Oxford (and online). And in great company!!
This week, we have two speakers!
Tuesday, 4pm: Dr Jared Margulies will be presenting A political ecology of desire: loving plants into extinction?
Thursday, 4pm: Dr Austin Read will be presenting Infrastructure as archive: examining the hidden colonial histories of the River Severn, UK.
Tuesday, 4pm: Dr Jared Margulies will be presenting A political ecology of desire: loving plants into extinction?
Thursday, 4pm: Dr Austin Read will be presenting Infrastructure as archive: examining the hidden colonial histories of the River Severn, UK.
January 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Excited to be presenting my paper about salmon conservation, river infrastructures and the River Severn's hidden colonial histories this Thursday in Oxford (and online). And in great company!!