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Transactions is a geography journal which publishes high-quality papers and interventions that make a substantial theoretical or empirical contribution to the discipline. Edited by Beth Greenhough, @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @kbrickell.bsky.social.
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Dec 19
📢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
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New article for @tibg.bsky.social. Through the case of digital snake rescue, I merge @digicologies.bsky.social and disease ecology work to develop the lens of 'digital disease ecologies' - a way to analyse how digital encounter and datafication configure disease emergence and multispecies health.
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Through the case of Snake Awareness Rescue Protection App (SARPA), a digital snake translocation and snakebite prevention mobile phone application in Kerala, India, this paper extends recent geograph...
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January 23, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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New papers - on events, with some wonderful collaborators!
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New in TIBG:

'The life of events: Exception and everyday life in Acapulco, Mexico' by Hector Becerril, @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social

This paper draws on Berlant to consider how certain events, such as storms, become exceptions to ordinary life.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Hector Becerril, Ben Anderson & Alejandro de Coss Corzo (2026) entitled: 'The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico' with a red banner at the top. The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid-and-Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named and felt as an exception to ordinary life. By focusing on how exceptionality was and is produced, the paper supplements how human geography understands and relates to events, arguing for an approach that focuses on the ‘life of events’: following how events begin, happen, change, end and live on. This approach sits between social constructivist and realist approaches to events, orientating inquiry to the ongoing mediation of impactive experience, via Lauren Berlant's work. Through this approach, the paper tracks the affective-material variations through which Ingrid-and-Manuel became and remains an exception: excess, (dis)connection, loss and damage, recovery.
January 22, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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New in TIBG:

'The life of events: Exception and everyday life in Acapulco, Mexico' by Hector Becerril, @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social

This paper draws on Berlant to consider how certain events, such as storms, become exceptions to ordinary life.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Hector Becerril, Ben Anderson & Alejandro de Coss Corzo (2026) entitled: 'The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico' with a red banner at the top. The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid-and-Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named and felt as an exception to ordinary life. By focusing on how exceptionality was and is produced, the paper supplements how human geography understands and relates to events, arguing for an approach that focuses on the ‘life of events’: following how events begin, happen, change, end and live on. This approach sits between social constructivist and realist approaches to events, orientating inquiry to the ongoing mediation of impactive experience, via Lauren Berlant's work. Through this approach, the paper tracks the affective-material variations through which Ingrid-and-Manuel became and remains an exception: excess, (dis)connection, loss and damage, recovery.
January 22, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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hannobrankamp.bsky.social
🚨*New publication alert*🚨

My new article is a true labour of love that grapples with the fugitive mobilities of migrants in Kenya. Through their stories, I think about escape, im/mobility, life-seeking, freedom and border abolitionism at the margins.

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December 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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New in TIBG:

'Fugitive junctures: Life-seeking, route-finding and the mobile ensemble at Kenya's borders' by @hannobrankamp.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Hanno Brankamp (2025) entitled: 'Fugitive Junctures: Life-Seeking, Route-Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders' with a red banner at the top. Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants. Their furtive movements in the shadows of modern border regimes echo enslaved people's historical lines of flight and enact similar spatial praxes through which they aim to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on qualitative research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers, this article critically intervenes in these debates by offering an analysis of ‘fugitive junctures’: decisional moments in time when individual flightpaths conjoin, are renegotiated and reworked by migrants on the run. Drawing on recent debates in Black geographies, critical migration studies and abolitionist scholarship, the article develops a detailed understanding of these junctures to give more texture to the notion of ‘fugitivity’ whose relative mutability has often limited its analytical value in migration research. While their locus may be shifting depending on context, fugitive junctures are nonetheless recognisable by the three existential pursuits that they mediate during migrant journeys: life-seeking, route-finding and the mobile ensemble. In examining what structures different stages of escape mobilities, this article ultimately sheds light on the building blocks of a living counter-cartography of freedom which lays bare the difficult and circuitous road to abolition.
January 5, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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benandersongeog.bsky.social
Final issue of the year - and so much great work! More next year : )
tibg.bsky.social TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Dec 19
📢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 1:18 PM
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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New in TIBG:

'Finding stars: Mapping the geography of the world's scientific elites' by @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social et al.

This paper presents a systematic city-level mapping of global scientific talent, revealing clusters in New York, Boston, London & San Francisco.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Leiboyu Xiang & Neil Lee (2025) entitled: 'Finding Stars: Mapping the Geography of the World's Scientific Elites' with a red banner at the top. This paper presents the first systematic city-level mapping of global scientific talent, analysing the top 200,000 star scientists across 3635 cities worldwide annually between 2019 and 2023. We use a novel Knowledge Generation Index (KGI) that combines researcher quantity with research impact to reveal extreme spatial concentration in knowledge production. Just four cities—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—host 12% of the world's star scientists, while much of the Global South remains virtually excluded from frontier research. Beijing's ascent into the global top 10 represents a rare challenge to established hierarchies. Our analysis uncovers striking disciplinary variations. Resource-intensive fields like clinical medicine cluster heavily, and traditionally dispersed disciplines are increasingly gravitating towards major hubs. Despite these differences, concentration is intensifying across most scientific fields. Even the pandemic's remote collaboration experiment failed to level the playing field. Established innovation centres continued strengthening their advantages while peripheral regions fell further behind. Overall, we find that geography remains destiny, with profound implications for innovation policy confronting widening spatial inequalities in global scientific capacity.
December 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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New in TIBG!

'Evictability—A relational comparison: Fears, manoeuvres and regimes of housing insecurity in rapidly urbanising cities' by JoAnn McGregor et al.

This paper develops the concept of 'evictability' drawing on research in Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe & Somaliland.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by JoAnn McGregor, Mohamed Alikhan, George Masimba, Ahmed Omer & Michael Collyer (2025) entitled: 'Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities' with a red banner at the top.
December 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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New in TIBG!

'Evictability—A relational comparison: Fears, manoeuvres and regimes of housing insecurity in rapidly urbanising cities' by JoAnn McGregor et al.

This paper develops the concept of 'evictability' drawing on research in Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe & Somaliland.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by JoAnn McGregor, Mohamed Alikhan, George Masimba, Ahmed Omer & Michael Collyer (2025) entitled: 'Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities' with a red banner at the top.
December 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
tibg.bsky.social
New in TIBG:

'Green space production as a state project in urban China' by Handuo Deng et al.

This paper explores the politics of Chengdu's greenway project in the context of Chinese state entrepreneurialism and territorial logics.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu & Fangzhu Zhang (2025) entitled: 'Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China' with a red banner at the top. This study investigates the production of urban spaces shaped by political intentions that transcend capitalist imperatives. We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by operationalising state entrepreneurialism—a perspective of territorial logic and capitalist logic in urban governance—through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. Strategic embeddedness refers to the institutional integration of the market into the state apparatus to achieve the state's strategic goals, while tactical mobilisation refers to the constrained manoeuvres employed by state agencies to mobilise external interests. In Chengdu, state actions strategically embedded market finance into the ecological project of political significance through large-scale state–capital coordination and tactically mobilised a pro-growth coalition for financialised housing development. The state politics differ markedly from the new urban politics that mainly serve global mobile capital. In this context, capitalist logic becomes secondary to the contextualised territorial logic underpinning China's ecological agendas. This study contributes to the literature on entrepreneurial cities and state-led ecological spaces by foregrounding the intentional dimension of statecraft and advancing state entrepreneurialism as a conceptual and analytical framework.
December 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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📣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.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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New in TIBG:

'Geopower, Geos and the colonisation of Palestine' by @casesofyou.bsky.social

This paper draws on Grosz, Povinelli & Yusoff to examine how geopower underpins the conceptualisation of Palestinian space as either life-sustaining or life-threatening.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Screenshot of a paper in Transactions by Mark Griffiths (2025) entitled: 'Geopower, Geos and the colonisation of Palestine' with a red banner at the top. While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth Povinelli and Kathryne Yusoff) that addresses the idea that political order and subjectivities grow from geological formations and life/non-life divisions. Following this work, I make an argument with obvious significance for geographers: the geos is a theoretically under-explored spatial unit that may predicate manifold spatial relations (e.g., the practices and politics that produce ‘land’ or ‘territory’). The second section considers historical accounts of early Zionist and Israeli settlement to show how geopower underpins the conceptualisation of Palestinian space as alternatively life-sustaining or life-threatening in ways that predicate the sequester of land and territorial claims. The stakes are not merely historical or theoretical: the third section focuses on three contemporary sites—(i) the war-affected soils of Gaza, (ii) the cultivation of olive trees in the West Bank (iii) and practices of agri-resistance in Bethlehem—to explicate how geopower and geos remain central to ongoing colonial control and struggles in Palestine.
December 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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annamlawrence.bsky.social
🚨 Job opportunity🚨

We are looking for an editorial assistant to work with me on the RGS journals (TIBG, The GJ, Area & Geo) as we move online systems.

🗓6 months fixed term
🕑0.4 FTE
📍Remote working option
❗️Closing date 11th Dec

Please share & apply! Happy to answer Qs.
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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.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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New in TIBG:

'AI Authoritarianism: Towards an analytical framework' by
@thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social et al.

This Intervention calls for greater attention to the deepening alignment of artificial intelligence and authoritarian politics.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
Screenshot of an Intervention abstract in Transactions by Thomas Dekeyser, Casey R. Lynch & Sophia Maalsen (2025) entitled: 'AI Authoritarianism: Towards an Analytical Framework' with a red banner at the top. This intervention offers a call for investigating the deepening alignment of artificial intelligence and authoritarian politics. The paper highlights three key features of AI that inflect the workings and logics of authoritarianism: (selective) inhumanisation, the cult of intelligence and scaling. We argue that AI, through these features, is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism. To account for this, we propose a flexible analytical framework designed to grapple with the rapidly changing materialisations of the confluence of AI and authoritarianism and suggest focusing on how what we call ‘authoritarian tendencies’ are introduced on the level of the techno-material, the ideological and the everyday. The framework recognises that both AI and authoritarianism are relational practices and thus requires geographers to trace these relations across multiple sites and actors while being attentive to the ways AI and authoritarianism mutually shape one another in ever-shifting ways.
December 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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casesofyou.bsky.social
for anyone interested, here's a new article (open-access) on geopower and Palestine:

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. It shows how geopower....
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November 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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New in TIBG:

'Climate data agency: Intra-active knowledge production between the human and non-human world' by Stefan Brönnimann & Jeannine Wintzer

This Intervention uses Barad's agential-realist concept of intra-action to explore the production of climate knowledge.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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tibg.bsky.social
Statement on academic freedom in Geography

This statement from the Editors and representatives of the RGS-IBG RHE Committee acknowledges the (geo)political tensions of the current moment & asks geographers to be mindful of how we make use of our academic freedom.

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Screenshot of the abstract for a 'Statement on Academic Freedom in Geography' from Jenny Pickerill, Peter Hopkins, Beth Greenhough, Ben Anderson & Katherine Brickell "A short statement on academic freedom in the current political climate as it relates to academic geographers, from representatives of the RGS-IBG RHE Committee and the Editors of TIBG."
November 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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"We collectively want to recognise these intensely difficult and fraught political moments, defend academic freedom, and encourage a culture of mutual care and respect."

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers - Wiley Online Library rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
A short statement on academic freedom in the current political climate as it relates to academic geographers, from representatives of the RGS-IBG RHE Committee and the Editors of TIBG.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
tibg.bsky.social
Statement on academic freedom in Geography

This statement from the Editors and representatives of the RGS-IBG RHE Committee acknowledges the (geo)political tensions of the current moment & asks geographers to be mindful of how we make use of our academic freedom.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Screenshot of the abstract for a 'Statement on Academic Freedom in Geography' from Jenny Pickerill, Peter Hopkins, Beth Greenhough, Ben Anderson & Katherine Brickell "A short statement on academic freedom in the current political climate as it relates to academic geographers, from representatives of the RGS-IBG RHE Committee and the Editors of TIBG."
November 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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benandersongeog.bsky.social
A great example of our 5000 word revamped Intervention format!
thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Nov 24
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥

We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥

We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
tibg.bsky.social
New in TIBG:

'Asylum as artifice: Race, law and capital as regimes of abstractions in the United Kingdom's asylum accommodation system' by Anna Pearce

This paper charts the history of the category of 'asylum seeker' from 1993 to 2023.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Anna Pearce (2025) entitled: 'Asylum as Artifice: Race, Law and Capital as Regimes of Abstraction in the United Kingdom's Asylum Accommodation System' with a red banner at the top. Taking as its case study the category of the ‘asylum seeker’ in UK law, this paper develops on latent concerns in legal geographies with processes of abstraction. Following Bhandar and Toscano, race, law and capital are here understood as different, co-articulating modalities of abstraction, through which the ‘asylum seeker’ is constituted and reconstituted by spatial practice and law over time. The case study charts the history of the category in UK law with the corresponding developments in the material and spatial infrastructures of asylum accommodation, from the point at which the ‘asylum seeker’ was first codified in UK law in 1993 to the delegitimisation of asylum itself in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and the Illegal Migration Act 2023. As well as providing the application of Bhandar and Toscano's innovative methodology to a new empirical area, I further make the case that, as well as functioning as organisational nodes for race and capital, legal objects may also serve as conduits. In this way, these differing regimes of abstraction are put into mutually influential relationships with one another, with particularly concerning implications for the independence of law from capital. Though the case study and its legislative context are necessarily narrow in order to properly trace the contours of this particular legal object, the potential application of the theoretical arguments developed from this tight focus is broad, contributing to studies of immigration law, asylum reception and processing, as well as legal geographies more widely.
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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'Towards geographies of silence: Unspoken boundaries' by @dorasampaio.bsky.social

This paper examines silence as a boundary-making practice in geographically distant relationships within transnational families living across Brazil & the U.S.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Dora Sampaio (2025) entitled: 'Towards Geographies of Silence: Unspoken Boundaries' with a red banner at the top. Despite its social and spatial significance, silence remains an under-explored and under-theorised subject in geography. This paper addresses this lacuna by examining silence as a boundary-making practice in geographically distant relationships. Silence as boundary-making is used as a new frame for conceptualising transnational intergenerational acts of care and the complexity that characterises transnational family life. These conceptual discussions are empirically examined through the experiences of transnational families whose lives stretch between Brazil and the United States. The analysis shows how research participants conceal, select, avoid, redirect and reframe conversations in order to sustain and protect relationships embedded in, and strongly affected by, broader structures of inequality. The paper puts forth a fourfold typology of silence as boundary-making and shows how these evolving boundaries, shaped by tacit agreements, tactics of withdrawal and self-disciplining, function as acts of care and ways to avoid negative emotions, self-preservation, controlling self-image and as forms of resistance and empowerment. The paper's conceptual discussion and typology lay the foundation for a broader research agenda that attends to the significance of silence in geographical research.
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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'Crafting the Ocean: The Geographies of Environmental World-Making' by @squirerachael.bsky.social & Kimberley Peters

This paper explores more-than-human crafting and marine world-making, drawing on fieldwork conducted across six UK aquariums.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Rachael Squire & Kimberley Peters (2025) entitled: 'Crafting the Ocean: The Geographies of Environmental World-Making' with a red banner at the top. This paper brings cultural and environmental geographies into further conversation by linking theories of crafting and world-making together, via the lens of the contemporary public aquarium and nascent oceanic geographies. Far from a niche example, the public aquarium—which represents, and in some form aims to replicate (and preserve), the ocean ‘out there’—demonstrates how crafting aims to establish particular connections with environmental worlds amidst change. Drawing on fieldwork from six UK aquariums, both privately run and those with charitable status, the paper unpacks the politics of crafting in the making of aquarium tanks as well as the oceans they represent. Building on interviews with key actors (aquarists, curators, outreach and education officers, managers), visual and discourse analysis of promotional materials (websites, flyers, information boards, documentaries, memoirs, etc.) and ethnographic observations at each site, the paper offers a critical examination of three distinct modes of marine world-making behind the glass: (1) exploring how water is itself crafted, (2) the crafting of more-than-human worlds in the storying of species selection and (3) crafting light in dark, fabricated, ocean worlds. This paper thus enables a deeper understanding of craft and world-making in the context of the aquarium, also situating this space within broader geographical thought and ocean geographies. Finally, the paper draws together work on aquariums, craft and oceans in excess to argue for renewed attention on analogue worlds. It explicates how, through processes of replication, preservation and remaking, they might hold space for an ocean (and planet) undergoing profound change both now and in the future.
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM