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Peaks in climate change newspaper coverage have been attributed to key events, such as major international climate change summits, on the basis that these are reported. This approach overlooks the possibility that unreported events have capacity to focus journalists’ and editors’ attention on climate change. This study considers the extent to which meteorological and political events – derived externally...
A nascent subfield within food geographies research investigates edibility, or how things ‘become food’. In the context of efforts to create more sustainable foodways in Europe and the US (the ‘West’), this question is pertinent. One proposed contribution to these efforts is the Western adoption of insects as human food. Related scientific and commercial activity in the Netherlands has been prominent...
This critical review aims to facilitate explicit, ongoing consideration for how post-human geographies and political ecology stand to benefit one another empirically and theoretically. In it, we argue that post-human political ecologies are well-equipped to ensure that the broader post-human turn in geographical thought engages critically with the roles that humans and non-humans play in enactments...
Climate change and unplanned urban growth remain two emerging environmental and health threats with widespread implications for poor countries. Yet, despite attempts by governments and international organisations at addressing these challenges, they remain unabated. Understanding the challenges through a resilience lens can support actions for addressing these impacts. Regardless of this potential,...
This article extends recent micro-political debates on how market rationality reworks water users’ social relationships in rural water supply governmentality. Based on empirical research in Peeth village of Rajasthan, the article looks into water users’ principal repertoire, i.e. accounts of discourses, with a core emphasis on particular forms of meanings, subjectivities and social relations produced...
The influence of tourism on biodiversity consumption is massive, yet poorly understood. We investigate the emergence of the thatched hut as an icon of tropical tourism, exploring linkages between widespread conceptions of paradise, tourism architecture and tropical forest management. Drawing on fieldwork in Mexico, cross-disciplinary literature review and web-based research, we globally examined how...
As the night-time economy gains relevance in discourses on Berlin's urban development, ‘the night' has become a contested term. Night-time use of public space is the object of growing public dissatisfaction, especially in certain areas of the borough Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. This paper looks at the governance arrangement that evolves in response to this problematization through the lens of one specific...
Western environmentalism and conservation are deeply entangled with histories of colonialism. This entanglement has marginalised Indigenous and migrant perspectives on the environment to protect settler norms and interests. This paper approaches those two types of othering together in the context of environmental debate, using the lens of a mainstream conservation magazine. We analyse representations...
The article presents results of research (N = 2173) on the reasons for choosing geography degree programmes as declared by geography students. The objective of the analysis was to examine the significance of specific motivations and to attempt to clarify the changes behind these motivations in the context of social and political transformations in Poland in the last twenty years.The study identified...
It is deeply ironic that the social movement perspective has so far scarcely been utilised to analyse local protests against establishments of human service enterprises, as the perspective was originally formulated in just such a context. The social movement approach could inject new vitality into a field of research that has become increasingly marginalised and enable human geographers and other...
In the far northeastern corner of the Afram Plains, Ghana, a history of large-scale developmental interventions has led to the emergence of a dynamic ecological and economic assemblage that underpins the formation of emergent livelihood strategies among farming and fishing communities in the region. The cornerstone of these livelihood strategies are local bartering institutions, which have been maintained...
The UK’s exit from the EU is unlikely to challenge the City of London’s position as Europe’s leading international financial centre (IFC). However, Brexit does create opportunities for alternative financial centres located inside the remaining EU member states. In this article, we assess the strategic positioning of private and public actors within two European IFCs - Frankfurt and Paris - in the...
There is a rich literature on environmental governance that provides critiques and conceptual tools on how various environmental ‘arenas’ or overlapping global systems should be governed e.g. climate, energy, oceans (Cherp et al., 2011; Berkes, 2006; Underdal, 2010). In this paper we argue that the geological subsurface should be considered as a new arena for governance in its own right. The arguments...
Restaurants are an important part of the cultural economy of, cities. Ramen noodle shops are Japan's most popular type of restaurant. This paper provides a geographical analysis of ramen restaurant noodle supply in the Kansai region centred on Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe. Theconceptual point of departure is the age old question in transaction cost theory: to make or buy? By drawing on theory in economic...
Political commentators on the right of the political spectrum and the mainstream left assert that Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 United States presidential election was due to poor white male voters left behind by globalization because his opponent abandoned them by prioritizing identity, meaning race and gender, politics. I argue instead that White masculinist identity politics constructed legal...
The study identifies the role of ideas and the importance of bureaucracy, an institution leading the state administrative machinery of the Brazilian state, in the building and development of public policies. Further, it highlights the weaknesses of the Brazilian bureaucratic system, especially with regard to public policies, because there is a flaw in the interpretation of the Weberian model and constitutional...
There are increasing efforts within Anglophone geography to take seriously and learn from knowledges produced in the global south. Although this move is usually based on ethical and political motivations of Anglophone geographers, there are competing sets of pragmatic and parochial motivations that pose tensions. The value of learning from the south is often only implicitly made and few attempts have...
This review uses the concepts of place and space to provide insights into recent critical geographic approaches to food and agriculture. For alternative foods, the use of the term “alternative” has changed markedly from indicating a contrast with conventional food to signifying a broader commitment to progressive politics. In contrast, everyday meals highlight how people navigate conflicting claims...
After the financial crisis, concerns about consumer financial protection and financial security in the United States (US) resulted in a renewed interest in promoting financial education. Targeting primarily low and moderate-income (LMI) participants, financial literacy and capability programs have been supported by national nonprofit organizations, as well as by city, state and federal agencies. While...
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