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Austin Read

@austinread.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the University of Oxford

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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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The Gods Are Still Crazy • EQUATOR
Separating truth from fiction in the most successful African movie of all time
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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
delighted that a special issue I co-edited with @ivinyeosj.bsky.social on being(s) and difference in the digitally-mediated city is out in Geoforum #geosky www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Lovely new paper just out in @geoopenaccess.bsky.social by Sarah Hunter and Mia Arundel (@bristoluni.bsky.social) – "We Now Walk Into the Wild: A Rewilding Dialogue". Available Open Access here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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We Now Walk Into the Wild: A Rewilding Dialogue
This paper presents a dialogue on the meaning and uses of rewilding, with a focus on Britain, from the perspectives of an ecologist and human geographer. Traversing the concepts of historical baselin....
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Had a wonderful time up in beautiful Arran last week, cooking up what will hopefully be a new research project…
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
“In effect: most of us gravely underestimate how much other people worry about the effects of climate change, and the public remains more climate-minded than the political class, the media – even we ourselves – believe, or seem willing to admit” magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/08/01/d...
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“Don’t say climate change”
France, Spain and England are burning. Where is the climate movement to resist this catastrophe?
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Palestine Action barrister’s prosecution criticised as ‘chilling’
CBA chair says contempt charge over closing speech by Rajiv Menon KC has left lawyers fearful of doing their job
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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Alongside our new short film *Rainforest Regeneration in Scotland: Communities and Technologies* (featured in this post), discover four new Smart Forests Atlas Stories written by people working on community-led rainforest regeneration projects across western Scotland🧵 vimeo.com/1186677471?s...
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Rainforest Regeneration in Scotland: Communities and Technologies
Rainforest Regeneration in Scotland visits four projects in western Scotland to learn about the role of digital technologies in facilitating temperate rainforest regeneration. A more in-depth discussi...
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
i love the Hitchcock mosaics at Leytonstone tube station !
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
fields. Instead, he apparently laced into the company. According to the Financial Times, Eggers told the staff:

“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago. So, just let that settle in… If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them. They’ll never have the ability to say their truth and tell their own story. And that’s silencing an entire generation or two.”
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Summer procrastination of a geographer… a (very rough) sketch of the 6 different land categories used in the upcoming DEFRA England Land Use framework
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"City relieved" = Burnham's government won't challenge the power of the bankers, or tax their wealth. Who is choosing our politicians - the people or the banking sector?
Financial times - city relieved as Burnham poised to choose Mahmood as his Chancellor
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WildDartmoor @tonydartmoor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
England’s new 30x30 plan was published yesterday on how we get to 30% of land being protected for nature by 2030. But almost immediately, one of the country’s biggest institutional landowners, the Church of England, rejects a measurable 30% restoration target for its own estate. 🧵
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Enjoying the Land Use Framework Story Map that's been published today. A great, visual exposition of how land is used in England currently, and how it needs to change to address the nature and climate crises over the next 25 years: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5e18...
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Land Use in England
Building a vision for land use change using the Land Use Framework
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
had a fantastic few days in wales at a research symposium organised by Naomi Millner and the PEATSENSE team, exploring blanket bogs and collaging - among other things!
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Barcelona over and out!! One of the best cities in the world. And a great conference #POLLEN26
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Arrived in Barcelona for #POLLEN2026. First stop: Piscines Municipals Montjüic (aka the Kylie Minogue pool). Imagine if a British council owned things like this!!
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This Thursday, England’s largest landowners are meeting to discuss their plans for restoring nature on their estates. Yet the Government Estate Nature Plan is nowhere to be seen! We're asking Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social to publish the plan - add your voice: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny beginning his incredible Super Bowl performance in a sugar cane plantation – perfect timing for my undergrad class on plantation geographies and the plantationocene this friday ...
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
hollow ponds, waltham forest 📍
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
An exciting early Christmas present has just arrived !! The New Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology - featuring a chapter I co-authored on queer political ecology - is out in 2026. Can’t wait to read through all the other chapters…
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🚨new paper🚨 excited to publish this paper on salmon, archives & more-than-human historical geography in geographical research!! the article will appear in a special issue on nature in/and/of the archive that has been put together by @ayanassar.bsky.social & Jessica Lehman. doi.org/10.1111/1745...
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Assemblage, archive, and ancestor: Developing more‐than‐human historical geography with salmon
This paper interrogates recent geographic literature on the more-than-human archive and argues that there needs to be more specificity when conceptualising and researching the more-than-human. It the...
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid politics
On his centenary, Bauman’s pessimistic utopianism is a lesson for the left – and the Labour Party
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
new naomi klein in equator magazine is great - and making me rethink my tepid response to this surrealism exhibition ! www.equator.org/articles/sur...
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Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
amazingly produced zine from queer patch - group of sinophone queer / feminist researchers. look out for launches in various cities across 2026
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
In case you missed it: see our CfP for the AAG 2026 below 👇
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
CfP #AAG2026 New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice and activism. We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
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CfP AAG 2026: New Fluvial Geographies
AAG 2026: New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice & activism Human geography is currently experiencing a river moment. Over the past decade, as the discipline has em...
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by @austinread.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Austin Read (2025) entitled 'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' with a red banner at the top. 

Exploring the colonial geographies that have shaped Britain, this paper argues that recent debates regarding the ecological status of British rivers must centre colonialism and racial capitalism as the crucial drivers of river decline and thus prioritise developing anticolonial ecological politics. I anchor this argument in the River Severn in southwest Britain, which, until recently, was fragmented by hydraulic infrastructures such as weirs and canals. I examine here a conservation project that has built fish passes to reconnect the Severn's divided ecologies and unsettle technocratic framings of it as a silver bullet solution that bypasses political quagmires. I point instead to the five centuries of racial capitalist geographies that have shaped the Severn and insist that these cannot be avoided through engineering ingenuity. This paper's arguments are complex because entrenched spatial dichotomies of core/periphery have resulted in a lack of attention to how colonial geographies have shaped British ecologies like the Severn. The central contribution of this article is thus its development of a spatially relational theory and method of infrastructure as a colonial archive that can disrupt dichotomous core/periphery imaginaries and render spatially discontinuous and differential colonial geographies visible. I empirically develop this theory of infrastructure as an archive by deploying it to analyse the records of the Severn Navigation Commissioners (1835–c.1948), the body responsible for the infrastructural disciplining of the Severn.
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
my new paper is now published open access in @rgsibg.bsky.social Transactions journal: doi.org/10.1111/tran...
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper begins by looking at a biodiversity conservation project on the River Severn (UK) and argues that dominant technocratic framings of it ignore the colonial legacies that shape the river. It...
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
my first post on substack is available to read now! Newsletter #1: May 2025 open.substack.com/pub/occasion...
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Newsletter #1: May 2025
The Green Party leadership election, Britain’s postimperial spatial politics & reading, watching and listening digest
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
hello ! i have started a substack (mainly as a fun project to disrupt writer's block). please follow it at occasionalgeographer.substack.com if you're interested. first proper post (where i'm going to be discussing the spatial politics of the green party leadership election) is coming this sunday!
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occasional geographer | austin | Substack
My personal Substack. Click to read occasional geographer, by austin, a Substack publication. Launched 4 hours ago.
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
reading buddy
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
We need bold leadership. Now. That's why I'm running to be the next leader of the Green Party. Join our campaign: backzack.com #BackZack
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