catherine oliver
@katiecmoliver.bsky.social
geographer. lecturer.
research urban chickens in London, the (disappearing) birds of Morecambe Bay, and the geographies of veganism (not at the same time)
https://catherinecmoliver.com/
research urban chickens in London, the (disappearing) birds of Morecambe Bay, and the geographies of veganism (not at the same time)
https://catherinecmoliver.com/
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📢June Issue of TIBG📢
The latest issue of TIBG is fully #OpenAccess, representing the breadth of the discipline with topics ranging from legal geography & court spaces to Chinese geopolitics, chickens, & dating apps.
Read the whole issue here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661... #geosky
The latest issue of TIBG is fully #OpenAccess, representing the breadth of the discipline with topics ranging from legal geography & court spaces to Chinese geopolitics, chickens, & dating apps.
Read the whole issue here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661... #geosky
June 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📢June Issue of TIBG📢
The latest issue of TIBG is fully #OpenAccess, representing the breadth of the discipline with topics ranging from legal geography & court spaces to Chinese geopolitics, chickens, & dating apps.
Read the whole issue here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661... #geosky
The latest issue of TIBG is fully #OpenAccess, representing the breadth of the discipline with topics ranging from legal geography & court spaces to Chinese geopolitics, chickens, & dating apps.
Read the whole issue here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661... #geosky
The Animal Geography Working Group is now on Bluesky. Give us a follow @rgs-agwg.bsky.social to keep up with new essays, events, and more!
November 29, 2024 at 4:51 PM
The Animal Geography Working Group is now on Bluesky. Give us a follow @rgs-agwg.bsky.social to keep up with new essays, events, and more!
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Jacqui's harrowing testimony to the #spycops public inquiry took it to another level. A vulnerable woman just out of her teens, undercover officer Bob Lambert targeted her for sex & had a childwith her, knowing he'd abandon them both when his deployment ended.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Woman’s life ruined after finding son’s father was undercover police officer, inquiry told
More than 20 years after child was born, inquiry hears, woman found out truth about Bob Lambert in newspaper
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Jacqui's harrowing testimony to the #spycops public inquiry took it to another level. A vulnerable woman just out of her teens, undercover officer Bob Lambert targeted her for sex & had a childwith her, knowing he'd abandon them both when his deployment ended.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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A great blog from Carly Baker about animal methods "without" methods. Have a read here:
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/met...
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/met...
Ethnographic shadowing and animal methods "without" methods — RGS Animal Geographies
Carly Baker Pet-food companies are incorporating overpopulated species, insects, and cultured meat as ingredients as a response to increasing environmental impacts of pet food and concerns of animal...
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk
November 27, 2024 at 11:22 AM
A great blog from Carly Baker about animal methods "without" methods. Have a read here:
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/met...
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/met...
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Excited to be advertising this collaborative PhD project idea with @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social
We are inviting applications for a PhD project on the theme of 'AI geographies of human-animal relations', supervised by
@emmajroe.bsky.social & I in Geography at Uni of Southampton.
Full details re the project, funding options & how to express interest here: www.thomasdekeyser.com/s/AI-geograp...
@emmajroe.bsky.social & I in Geography at Uni of Southampton.
Full details re the project, funding options & how to express interest here: www.thomasdekeyser.com/s/AI-geograp...
November 20, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Excited to be advertising this collaborative PhD project idea with @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social
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The section engages with a range of controversies and dilemmas related to theoretical, digital, more-than-human and creative archives, and features lovely pieces by @katiecmoliver.bsky.social, Jack Palmer, Molly Drummond, as well as @wrighttom.bsky.social + me (plus a roundtable!)
September 18, 2024 at 2:34 PM
The section engages with a range of controversies and dilemmas related to theoretical, digital, more-than-human and creative archives, and features lovely pieces by @katiecmoliver.bsky.social, Jack Palmer, Molly Drummond, as well as @wrighttom.bsky.social + me (plus a roundtable!)
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The first special section to mark 20 years of Cultural Politics - 'Unfamiliar Archives' - has just come out; it was a huge pleasure to work on with some of my favourite academic colleagues: read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-pol...
@dukepress.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
Volume 20 Issue 2 | Cultural Politics | Duke University Press
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September 18, 2024 at 2:31 PM
The first special section to mark 20 years of Cultural Politics - 'Unfamiliar Archives' - has just come out; it was a huge pleasure to work on with some of my favourite academic colleagues: read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-pol...
@dukepress.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
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"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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:26 AM
"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....
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🐄🌬️ Our new paper on bovine #metabolism is out today in the new issue of Environmental Humanities!
Adam Searle, Katie Oliver & I discuss how cows figure in metabolic interventions into the climate writ large.
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... @admsrl.bsky.social @katiecmoliver.bsky.social
Adam Searle, Katie Oliver & I discuss how cows figure in metabolic interventions into the climate writ large.
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... @admsrl.bsky.social @katiecmoliver.bsky.social
Climate Cattle | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press
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November 26, 2024 at 11:30 AM
🐄🌬️ Our new paper on bovine #metabolism is out today in the new issue of Environmental Humanities!
Adam Searle, Katie Oliver & I discuss how cows figure in metabolic interventions into the climate writ large.
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... @admsrl.bsky.social @katiecmoliver.bsky.social
Adam Searle, Katie Oliver & I discuss how cows figure in metabolic interventions into the climate writ large.
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... @admsrl.bsky.social @katiecmoliver.bsky.social
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Feat. @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @katiecmoliver.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social, Olivia Ange, Viola Schreer, @alicerudge.bsky.social, Columba Gonzalez-Duarte, Jan van der Valk, Christos Lynteris. + Thanks to Paul Thung, Anna Stepien, @sophiah.bsky.social, Candie Furber!
November 27, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Feat. @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @katiecmoliver.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social, Olivia Ange, Viola Schreer, @alicerudge.bsky.social, Columba Gonzalez-Duarte, Jan van der Valk, Christos Lynteris. + Thanks to Paul Thung, Anna Stepien, @sophiah.bsky.social, Candie Furber!
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Our @GLO_ERC special section, '#Heroes and #Villains in the #Anthropocene', is finally out in @EnvHumanities! We explore ideas of heroism & villainy + politics of blame in an age of planetary crisis and ask how these can be reworked for the present read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
Introduction | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press
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November 27, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Our @GLO_ERC special section, '#Heroes and #Villains in the #Anthropocene', is finally out in @EnvHumanities! We explore ideas of heroism & villainy + politics of blame in an age of planetary crisis and ask how these can be reworked for the present read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
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“Aldrovandi’s herbarium preserves the memory of the first signs of a radical transformation of the European flora and habitats.”
The living stories these pressed plants still tell of climate, migrations and time.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The living stories these pressed plants still tell of climate, migrations and time.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Inestimable importance’: 500-year-old cache of pressed flowers reveals new secrets
Thousands of specimens from the 1500s show huge changes to Bologna’s flora due to climate crisis and migration, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2023 at 9:17 AM
“Aldrovandi’s herbarium preserves the memory of the first signs of a radical transformation of the European flora and habitats.”
The living stories these pressed plants still tell of climate, migrations and time.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The living stories these pressed plants still tell of climate, migrations and time.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
been making dips @cgold.bsky.social 👀🇵🇸
November 4, 2023 at 5:05 PM
been making dips @cgold.bsky.social 👀🇵🇸
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Lancaster against genocide 🕊️🇵🇸
Pictured: the daughter of a Kindertransport child addressing the crowd.
Now children are reciting the names of murdered Palestinians. 💔
Pictured: the daughter of a Kindertransport child addressing the crowd.
Now children are reciting the names of murdered Palestinians. 💔
November 4, 2023 at 1:29 PM
Lancaster against genocide 🕊️🇵🇸
Pictured: the daughter of a Kindertransport child addressing the crowd.
Now children are reciting the names of murdered Palestinians. 💔
Pictured: the daughter of a Kindertransport child addressing the crowd.
Now children are reciting the names of murdered Palestinians. 💔
I need some (UK) vegan memory help!
Does anyone remember a few years ago, Bute Island Sheese advertising for people to go work for them on Bute? Was there an organised job marketing campaign?
I don't think I'm imagining it, but I also can't find any evidence of it
Does anyone remember a few years ago, Bute Island Sheese advertising for people to go work for them on Bute? Was there an organised job marketing campaign?
I don't think I'm imagining it, but I also can't find any evidence of it
October 26, 2023 at 9:42 AM
I need some (UK) vegan memory help!
Does anyone remember a few years ago, Bute Island Sheese advertising for people to go work for them on Bute? Was there an organised job marketing campaign?
I don't think I'm imagining it, but I also can't find any evidence of it
Does anyone remember a few years ago, Bute Island Sheese advertising for people to go work for them on Bute? Was there an organised job marketing campaign?
I don't think I'm imagining it, but I also can't find any evidence of it
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Scholars, students, activists in the UK, please sign this letter:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Scholars, students and activists in the UK stand in solidarity with Palestinians and call for an end...
18 October 2023
We, concerned scholars, students, and activists in the UK, affirm our unequivocal support with the Palestinian people. We heed the calls from Palestinian universities, trade unions an...
docs.google.com
October 23, 2023 at 4:33 PM
Scholars, students, activists in the UK, please sign this letter:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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We keep doing this. The next London march for Palestine is on Saturday. Ceasefire now. End the siege. End the occupation.
(Poster by Tom Greenwood)
(Poster by Tom Greenwood)
October 23, 2023 at 4:54 PM
We keep doing this. The next London march for Palestine is on Saturday. Ceasefire now. End the siege. End the occupation.
(Poster by Tom Greenwood)
(Poster by Tom Greenwood)
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Registration is now live! Durham Trans Ecologies Symposium, 22-23 Nov 2023, online only. Visit tinyurl.com/TransEcologiesRegistration to see the full programme and reserve your place by 15 Nov
October 23, 2023 at 3:42 PM
Registration is now live! Durham Trans Ecologies Symposium, 22-23 Nov 2023, online only. Visit tinyurl.com/TransEcologiesRegistration to see the full programme and reserve your place by 15 Nov
Don’t mean to brag but a student just told me I am an icon 💅
October 12, 2023 at 3:02 PM
Don’t mean to brag but a student just told me I am an icon 💅
Putting on my out of office for a day of “research commitments” (going to the garden centre to look at the Christmas displays)
October 6, 2023 at 8:22 AM
Putting on my out of office for a day of “research commitments” (going to the garden centre to look at the Christmas displays)
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Always remember what keir starmer said about brianna ghey: absolutely nothing
October 6, 2023 at 7:43 AM
Always remember what keir starmer said about brianna ghey: absolutely nothing
The pre-semester anxiety is really starting to hit now. I hate being busy! I was not made to work, I was made to sit and stare at the sea all day
October 4, 2023 at 4:16 PM
The pre-semester anxiety is really starting to hit now. I hate being busy! I was not made to work, I was made to sit and stare at the sea all day
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Geographers and geography adjacent folks: what are the most interesting, most fun, most creative methodologies you've seen recently? Looking for examples to show students beginning their dissertation process.
October 4, 2023 at 10:03 AM
Geographers and geography adjacent folks: what are the most interesting, most fun, most creative methodologies you've seen recently? Looking for examples to show students beginning their dissertation process.
There aren’t many things I can confidently say that I do well, but I am 100% confident in my ability to write an excellent letter of complaint about university processes
October 3, 2023 at 4:49 PM
There aren’t many things I can confidently say that I do well, but I am 100% confident in my ability to write an excellent letter of complaint about university processes
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I’m fundraising to pay my solicitors fees following a conviction for failing to leave the road during an anti-fascist counter-demo at the Honor Oak Pub in June. Please share widely and contribute if you feel able to 💕 opencollective.com/south-london...
South London Love Fundraising - Open Collective
Opposing the far-right in South London
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October 2, 2023 at 3:54 PM
I’m fundraising to pay my solicitors fees following a conviction for failing to leave the road during an anti-fascist counter-demo at the Honor Oak Pub in June. Please share widely and contribute if you feel able to 💕 opencollective.com/south-london...