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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 · Sep 17
New in TIBG!

Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies

Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.

Read all papers here ⬇️

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A graphic advertising a new collection of papers in Transactions called 'Geography in the World 3: Area Studies' with the title curved around a black and white image of the globe in the centre, and the Transactions logo next to the Royal Geographical Society logo at the top of the red background. With contributions from: Aya Nassar, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Deen Sharp, Han Cheng, Maano Ramutsindela & Vera Smirnova
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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
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Crafting the Ocean: The Geographies of Environmental World-Making - a new paper by Kim Peters and I in @tibg.bsky.social. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Huge thanks to the team at Transactions for such a constructive process.
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The paper departs from existing analyses of ‘world making’, bringing cultural and environmental geographies into further conversation through linking theories of crafting and world-making together, t....
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November 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Our recent article reflecting on neighbohood play during the first covid-19 lockdown, using Donald Winnicott (and Bonnie Honig and Joanna Kellond) to think about play, space, and care, both in the pandemic and beyond, now has a home in @tibg.bsky.social's December issue.

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In this paper, we explore what the experiences of some children and families in their neighbourhoods during the first UK COVID-19 lockdown can tell us about the value and importance of neighbourhood ...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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'Re-spiritualising geographies of subjectivity through Daoism' by Yu-Shan Tseng

This intervention draws on Daoist philosophy to provide an alternative account of spiritual selfhood, re-spiritualising the bodily geographies of subjectivity.

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Screenshot of an intervention abstract in Transactions by Yu-Shan Tseng (2025) entitled: 'Re-spiritualising geographies of subjectivity through Daoism' with a red banner at the top. This intervention seeks to advance geographical interpretations of the body as the ‘usual’ and ‘universal’ site for understanding subjectivity and spirituality in human geography. Affective and emotional geographies have predominantly located subjective experiences within the lived body—the site where bodies actively engage with the world through embodied practices such as sensing, affecting and feeling. Through these bodily engagements with the world, geographers have mapped the landscapes of embodied subjective experiences and space-making. However, the geographies of subjectivity face significant challenges in understanding spirituality beyond worldly embodiments and without equating it with religious faiths and their spatial productions. Drawing on Daoist philosophy, I propose an alternative account that re-spiritualises the geographies of subjectivity. In Daoist thought, re-spiritualisation is seen as processes of relocation, reconnection and respatialisation of subjectivity in the Universe. Subjective experiences are relocated from the lived experiences of bodies to the spiritual place—the Heavenly heart in the Universe. They are reconnected within its mind, body and spirit, and with the Universe as Oneness, through the spiritual, understood as vital and life-giving energies. They are respatialised through spiritual energies making different spiritual spaces (e.g. the empty, the unbounded, the transcendental) in the Heavenly heart. Such spatial–spiritual processes are animated by three actions: emptying, resonating and awakening. Daoist geography makes a cosmological call for an ethical–political movement that harmonises spiritual disconnections through invoking the cosmological in selfhood without subjectivisation.
October 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The joy of a fabulously collective “et al.” writing experience with @mhoussayh.cpesr.fr @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social >> to think & write about how we muddle on making sense of the world with & across languages, concepts & theories, including in our teaching, writing & speaking #geography
tibg.bsky.social TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 20d
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'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary et al.

This intervention responds to the 'Geography in the World' series, shifting focus to the process of worlding geographies & practices of multilingualism in the academy.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Cheikh Abdoul Ahad Mbacké Ba, Sophie Buhnik, Marine Duc, Juliet J. Fall, Marie Gibert-Flutre, Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch, Renaud Le Goix, Laura Péaud & Charlotte Ruggeri entitled: 'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' with a red banner at the top.
October 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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That’s us!
With @mariegibertflutre.bsky.social @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social and others !

Viva multilingual geographies viva!
tibg.bsky.social TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 20d
New in TIBG:

'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary et al.

This intervention responds to the 'Geography in the World' series, shifting focus to the process of worlding geographies & practices of multilingualism in the academy.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Cheikh Abdoul Ahad Mbacké Ba, Sophie Buhnik, Marine Duc, Juliet J. Fall, Marie Gibert-Flutre, Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch, Renaud Le Goix, Laura Péaud & Charlotte Ruggeri entitled: 'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' with a red banner at the top.
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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New in TIBG:

'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary et al.

This intervention responds to the 'Geography in the World' series, shifting focus to the process of worlding geographies & practices of multilingualism in the academy.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Cheikh Abdoul Ahad Mbacké Ba, Sophie Buhnik, Marine Duc, Juliet J. Fall, Marie Gibert-Flutre, Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch, Renaud Le Goix, Laura Péaud & Charlotte Ruggeri entitled: 'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' with a red banner at the top.
October 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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New commentary in TIBG:

'Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention' by @tylerb.bsky.social & @dcockayne.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in TIBG by Tyler Blackman & Daniel Cockayne (2025) entitled: 'Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention' with a red banner at the top. In this commentary, we draw on research on working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada, to expand on Bissell, Crovara, Gorman-Murray and Straughan's (2025) paper ‘What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home’. We corroborate and add to their analysis of attention in relation to working from home in two ways. First, we develop further how their analysis of attention relates to social difference in working from home settings. Second, we consider through additional examples how attention relates to a working from home politics. These points lead us to push for the importance of the multiplicious theory of attention that the authors outline in their paper, against the declension narratives that often accompany solely subtractive theories of attention that they critique in their conclusion. We emphasise a theory of attention that is ambient, bifurcated, open, complex and multifaceted, as well as one that is, under certain circumstances, subtractive. We see these former ideas of attention as more central to notions of presence and better foreground the broad range of subjective experiences of work and working.
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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New Commentary w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social in @tibg.bsky.social.

Daniel and I comment further on the politics of attention at work, building from @davidjbissell.bsky.social, @lillicrovara.bsky.social, Andrew Gorman-Murray, and @lstraughan.bsky.social excellent recent article.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...
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This commentary responds to and extends recent research by Bissell al. (2025). We add to their analysis of attention, focusing on social difference and workplace politics by drawing on examples from ....
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October 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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New paper in @tibg.bsky.social:

High-resolution property: drone enclosures in digital India

In it I examine how mass digitized enclosures rely upon a new regime of perception - able to speculatively extract private ownership from collectivised land
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Svamitva drone survey in Rajasthan. Source: Author.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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'Root metaphors in cartography: Bridging critical and quantitative approaches' by Ruizhe Hong et al.

This article uses Anne Buttimer's 4 root metaphors - mosaic, mechanism, organism, & arena - to bridge the gap between critical and quantitative cartography.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Ruizhe Hong, Bo Zhao & Shangyi Zhou (2025) entitled: 'Root metaphors in cartography: Bridging critical and quantitative approaches' with a red banner at the top. The evolution of contemporary cartography has long been attributed to two significant trajectories: the adoption of new technologies like computers, the Internet, and Artificial Intelligence into the map-making process, and the critical examination of cartographic methods and practices. Existing literature has rarely explored the potential of bridging these specialised parallel developments because of their seemingly inconsistent epistemological basis. This article argues that Anne Buttimer's four root metaphors—mosaic, mechanism, organism, and arena—provide a valuable lens to scrutinise these dynamics. These root metaphors, deeply embedded in the understanding of human–environment interactions, present a multifaceted framework for exploring the nexus of map representation, socio-spatial inequalities and spatial justice, all within the context of evolving technological shifts, marked by recent advances in spatial data science and geospatial artificial intelligence. We further examine the potential of these metaphors to foster a deeper appreciation of the interplay between established geographical and cartographic knowledge systems, to critically assess their limitations and to probe the synergy between cartography and emerging metaphorical constructs. This article encourages a flexible adoption of these metaphors to address the unique cartographic challenges of our time, advocating for a broader, more inclusive cartographic discourse.
October 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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'High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India' by @termcern.bsky.social

This paper examines how drone & geospatial technologies are being deployed to enclose rural customary lands across India.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Thomas Cowan (2025) entitled: 'High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India' with a red banner at the top. Drawing from ethnographic research on the implementation of Svamitva, one of the largest digitalized property titling schemes in the world, this paper examines how new drone and geospatial technologies are being deployed to enclose rural customary lands across contemporary India. Focusing on the initial processes of droney survey, GIS mapping and data-creation under the scheme, the paper argues that the creation of ‘high-resolution property’ is achieved not through simple technological observation, but rather via the imposition of a new regime of perception. One coordinated through the speculative and ideological property-making practices of drone surveyors, GIS technicians, and local residents. This new regime of perception aims to extract individual ownership lurking within collectivity, subdivide collectivised lands, and cleanly link rural property to global asset markets and digital public infrastructures. In doing so the paper seeks to provincialise contemporary geographical scholarship on property technology or PropTech, drawing from the diverse property systems and emerging technological apparatus of the Global South, and examine the lively and mediated sociotechnical practices required to convert hundreds of thousands of rural territories into high-resolution private titles and data-points. In doing so, the paper seeks to challenge the overt techno-determinism and solutionism within official debates concerning property digitalization, highlighting instead the ways digitialized property remains socially, ecologically and institutionally mediated.
October 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Such a nice paper on feature extraction as a project of perception - drone enclosures in digital India. “Feature extraction is an entirely speculative endeavour” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Svamitva drone survey in Rajasthan. Source: Author.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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A great issue!
tibg.bsky.social TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Oct 1
📢New issue of TIBG📢

Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine.

22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️

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 eight tiles with 2 interventions and 6 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'On limit and love in times of environmental crises' by Ihnji Jon 2) 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo 3) '‘My body was no longer a problem’: Electric mountain biking, disability, and the cultural politics of green exercise' by Jim Cherrington & James Brighton 4) '‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain' by Michael Holden & Peter Adey 5) '‘Smartness’ narratives: A critical discourse analysis of smart eldercare in urban China' by Yi Yu 6) 'Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss' by David Chandler & Jonathan Pugh 7) 'Poetics in the work of three urban photographers: Love for the chaotic city from the site of urban rooftops' by Paulina Nordstrom 8) 'Places as refrains: A non-constructive alternative to assemblage thinking' by Peter Merriman 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) Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu Liam Saddington 2) Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation Alexandra Palmer 3) The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela Daniel Robins 4) ‘One school, two systems’: Navigating the geographies of alternative education in an elite primary school in China Zhenjie Yuan, Huiyu Xie, Hong Zhu 5) Translating India to India: Travelling translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the visual language of spiritual consumerism Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett 6) Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater 7) Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Katarina Schwarz 8) Translations, translocations, and pluralism: A transnational and multilingual analysis of the circulation of radical geographical knowledge Federico Ferretti 9) From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves Valerio Donfrancesco, Chris Sandbrook 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 eight tiles with 6 standard articles and 2 commentaries, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries Deborah P. Dixon, Carina J. Fearnley, Mark Pendleton 2) Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales Caitlin Robinson, Lenka Hasova, Lin Zhang 3) Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling Laura Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan Reades, Richard P. J. Freeman 4) The (non-)performance of the financial frontier: Building investment pipelines for the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana Abbie Yunita 5) Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements Alan Latham, Russell Hitchings, Michael Nattrass 6) (Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics Jonathon Turnbull, Tom Fry, Jamie Lorimer 7) Resilient education: The role of digital technology in supporting geographical education in Ukraine Simon M. Hutchinson, Elizabeth R. Hurrell, Kateryna Borysenko, Vladyslav Popov, Dariia Kholiavchuk, Yana Popiuk 8) Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction Constance Carr, Olga Kryvets
October 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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My paper on SDG investment pipelines in Ghana is now in the latest @tibg.bsky.social issue, in great company with other excellent works!
tibg.bsky.social TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Oct 1
📢New issue of TIBG📢

Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine.

22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️

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 eight tiles with 2 interventions and 6 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'On limit and love in times of environmental crises' by Ihnji Jon 2) 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo 3) '‘My body was no longer a problem’: Electric mountain biking, disability, and the cultural politics of green exercise' by Jim Cherrington & James Brighton 4) '‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain' by Michael Holden & Peter Adey 5) '‘Smartness’ narratives: A critical discourse analysis of smart eldercare in urban China' by Yi Yu 6) 'Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss' by David Chandler & Jonathan Pugh 7) 'Poetics in the work of three urban photographers: Love for the chaotic city from the site of urban rooftops' by Paulina Nordstrom 8) 'Places as refrains: A non-constructive alternative to assemblage thinking' by Peter Merriman 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) Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu Liam Saddington 2) Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation Alexandra Palmer 3) The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela Daniel Robins 4) ‘One school, two systems’: Navigating the geographies of alternative education in an elite primary school in China Zhenjie Yuan, Huiyu Xie, Hong Zhu 5) Translating India to India: Travelling translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the visual language of spiritual consumerism Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett 6) Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater 7) Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Katarina Schwarz 8) Translations, translocations, and pluralism: A transnational and multilingual analysis of the circulation of radical geographical knowledge Federico Ferretti 9) From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves Valerio Donfrancesco, Chris Sandbrook 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 eight tiles with 6 standard articles and 2 commentaries, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries Deborah P. Dixon, Carina J. Fearnley, Mark Pendleton 2) Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales Caitlin Robinson, Lenka Hasova, Lin Zhang 3) Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling Laura Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan Reades, Richard P. J. Freeman 4) The (non-)performance of the financial frontier: Building investment pipelines for the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana Abbie Yunita 5) Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements Alan Latham, Russell Hitchings, Michael Nattrass 6) (Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics Jonathon Turnbull, Tom Fry, Jamie Lorimer 7) Resilient education: The role of digital technology in supporting geographical education in Ukraine Simon M. Hutchinson, Elizabeth R. Hurrell, Kateryna Borysenko, Vladyslav Popov, Dariia Kholiavchuk, Yana Popiuk 8) Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction Constance Carr, Olga Kryvets
October 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Now published

Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss

David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

v50, Issue 3 e12724

#openaccess

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This paper seeks to outline an alternative mode of critique, one that places both relational and negative approaches under the scrutiny of an ‘abyssal’ approach. Here, after Fanon, the world violentl....
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September 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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📢New issue of TIBG📢

Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine.

22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️

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 eight tiles with 2 interventions and 6 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'On limit and love in times of environmental crises' by Ihnji Jon 2) 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo 3) '‘My body was no longer a problem’: Electric mountain biking, disability, and the cultural politics of green exercise' by Jim Cherrington & James Brighton 4) '‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain' by Michael Holden & Peter Adey 5) '‘Smartness’ narratives: A critical discourse analysis of smart eldercare in urban China' by Yi Yu 6) 'Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss' by David Chandler & Jonathan Pugh 7) 'Poetics in the work of three urban photographers: Love for the chaotic city from the site of urban rooftops' by Paulina Nordstrom 8) 'Places as refrains: A non-constructive alternative to assemblage thinking' by Peter Merriman 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) Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu Liam Saddington 2) Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation Alexandra Palmer 3) The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela Daniel Robins 4) ‘One school, two systems’: Navigating the geographies of alternative education in an elite primary school in China Zhenjie Yuan, Huiyu Xie, Hong Zhu 5) Translating India to India: Travelling translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the visual language of spiritual consumerism Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett 6) Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater 7) Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Katarina Schwarz 8) Translations, translocations, and pluralism: A transnational and multilingual analysis of the circulation of radical geographical knowledge Federico Ferretti 9) From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves Valerio Donfrancesco, Chris Sandbrook 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 eight tiles with 6 standard articles and 2 commentaries, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries Deborah P. Dixon, Carina J. Fearnley, Mark Pendleton 2) Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales Caitlin Robinson, Lenka Hasova, Lin Zhang 3) Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling Laura Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan Reades, Richard P. J. Freeman 4) The (non-)performance of the financial frontier: Building investment pipelines for the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana Abbie Yunita 5) Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements Alan Latham, Russell Hitchings, Michael Nattrass 6) (Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics Jonathon Turnbull, Tom Fry, Jamie Lorimer 7) Resilient education: The role of digital technology in supporting geographical education in Ukraine Simon M. Hutchinson, Elizabeth R. Hurrell, Kateryna Borysenko, Vladyslav Popov, Dariia Kholiavchuk, Yana Popiuk 8) Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction Constance Carr, Olga Kryvets
October 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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#OpenAccess in TIBG

'Infra-culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast' by Julian Clark

This paper explores the concept of 'infra-culture', illustrating how cultural practices & material interactions influence the development of physical infrastructures
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This is the graphical abstract to this paper in Transactions. It shows a historical map of the Alde and Ore estuary, drawn by Ananias Appleton in 1588.
September 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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ankitkumar.bsky.social
Keen to hear what people here think: Is our work on #climatechange facing a #crisis of #imagination?
I certainly feel that. you?
tibg.bsky.social TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Sep 11
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'Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis' by @ankitkumar.bsky.social et al.

This collection comes out of a Chair's Plenary at the 2023 RGS-IBG conference, asking the question 'is our work on climate change facing a crisis of imagination?'

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Screenshot of a Themed Intervention abstract in Transactions by Ankit Kumar, Chandni Singh, Lauren Hermanus, Lalitha Kamath, Wangui Kimari, Mark Pelling & Harriet Bulkeley (2025) entitled: 'Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis' with a red banner at the top.
September 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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'Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography' by James Esson et al.

This paper examines how older people navigate African cities, focusing on Ghana, & contributes to reimagining how knowledge is produced with & about cities in the Majority World.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by James Esson, Ebenezer F. Amankwaa, Katherine V. Gough, Peter Mensah, Katie McQuaid & Ross Wignall (2025) entitled: 'Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography' with a red banner at the top. The projected increase in older people within the African population, alongside rapid urbanisation, points to the growing importance of understanding how older people navigate towns and cities across the continent. This aligns with wider concerns that geographical scholarship needs to pay more sustained attention to ageing in Global South contexts. Rather than treating these developments as problems or absences, we approach them as opportunities to explore how geographies of later life can generate new ways to conceptualise the urban experience. To this end, the paper draws on the local vernacular of older residents in the Ghanaian cities of Accra and Sekondi-Takoradi to decentre, contextualise and expand the vocabulary used to depict and interpret urban mobilities. The findings reveal ‘hidden geographies of ageing’ through three forms of mobility practice: Mpanyinfo ho hia (respectful mobilities), YƐ mboa nkoa (collective mobilities) and Me te fie (retired mobilities). These insights enrich conceptual understandings of city life by showing how older people navigate, engage with and shape social hierarchies, communal support networks and economic rationalities. By amplifying the voices of a population often overlooked in epistemological and policy deliberations, this intervention supports interdisciplinary efforts to reimagine how knowledge is produced with and about cities in the Global South. Crucially, the paper challenges the Southern urban critique to better reflect the plurality of marginality that influences everyday life in the Majority World.
September 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies

Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.

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A graphic advertising a new collection of papers in Transactions called 'Geography in the World 3: Area Studies' with the title curved around a black and white image of the globe in the centre, and the Transactions logo next to the Royal Geographical Society logo at the top of the red background. With contributions from: Aya Nassar, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Deen Sharp, Han Cheng, Maano Ramutsindela & Vera Smirnova
September 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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ayanassar.bsky.social
"Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations " a short intervention, part of a set, out and open access in case of use.

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The aim of this intervention is to respond to the provocation of how different worlds and regions are imagined from the non-west. To do this from the vantage point of Egypt, I start with the specific....
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September 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies

Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.

Read all papers here ⬇️

tinyurl.com/5n72yt46
A graphic advertising a new collection of papers in Transactions called 'Geography in the World 3: Area Studies' with the title curved around a black and white image of the globe in the centre, and the Transactions logo next to the Royal Geographical Society logo at the top of the red background. With contributions from: Aya Nassar, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Deen Sharp, Han Cheng, Maano Ramutsindela & Vera Smirnova
September 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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eepwrites.bsky.social
The 'spatiotemporal politics of the asylum system linger well after an ‘end’ point of the state decision has been reached...the fragmented governance of the asylum system is made visible in its temporal margins [& in] the extension of this system beyond its legal edges' @sarahhughes90.bsky.social
tibg.bsky.social TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Sep 9
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'Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK' by @sarahhughes90.bsky.social

This paper explores the '28-day gap' between the approval of an asylum claim and the ending of government support.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Sarah M. Hughes (2025) entitled 'Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK' with a red banner at the top. For many asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, being awarded refugee status signals the end of a prolonged period of waiting. At this point, they and their dependants are predominantly given permission to stay in the United Kingdom for five years. However, when a positive decision is granted, a new refugee has limited time before their existing government support (housing, finance) terminates. This transition is termed the ‘move-on period’, and, at the time of research, new refugees had only 28 days to navigate this change. Whilst civil society groups argue that the period following a positive decision poses urgent political questions, the legal gap between these two systems of governance has yet to garner significant academic attention. Scholarship has often been epistemically siloed into research looking at the governance and lived experiences of asylum seekers or the challenges and integration of refugees; the transition, or ‘gap’ between these legal categories has yet to receive sustained analysis. Building upon work on legal edges (Jeffrey 2019) this paper proposes a geographical reading of legal gaps, emerging from and speaking beyond the specifics of new refugees. It explores the construction and governance of the move-on period, together with the role of material technologies in paradoxically mediating and creating this gap. Bringing these two themes together, the paper contributes to debates on the role of materials in the governance of forced migrants and puts forward a relational theorising of legal ‘gaps’.
September 17, 2025 at 6:02 AM