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Ed Brookes

@ed-brookes.bsky.social
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Research Fellow at the University of Hull. Interested in - Urban/Cultural Geography, Participatory Research, Water, Climate adaptation, Doors, Architecture

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In the (excruciatingly long, even for academia) process of getting this paper to fruition, It was very clear that Fuller is a controversial and somewhat divisive figure, but there's lots to admire about him, notably his radical thoughts on the city. So give it a read before you judge him....!
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Ed Brookes @ed-brookes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Pleased to share a new paper in Cities! @olimould.bsky.social @squirerachael.bsky.social and I revisit Buckminster Fuller through three of his designs and explore how they provide provocations to enrich post-crisis urban imaginaries. Check it out here: tinyurl.com/FullerCity
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A Fuller City: Rekindling the work of Buckminster Fuller in the age of planetary urban crisis
Crisis increasingly characterises urban life in the twenty-first century, as intersecting ecological, economic, geopolitical and social pressures conv…
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New in TIBG: 'Pandemic geographies of home: Domestic thresholding in response to COVID-19' by Alison Blunt et al. This paper introduces the concept of 'thresholding' to explore how internal & external thresholds are materialised through embodied practice. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID-19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives....
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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📢December Issue of Area📢 This issue features Special Sections on 'Gender & Rewilding' and 'Participatory Historical Geographies' alongside papers on topics from Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the pandemic to research methods for legal geography ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762...
A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are seven tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Gender and Rewilding'. The papers are: 

1) Gender and Rewilding: Introduction to the Special Section
Nadia Bartolini

2) Rewilding: An emotional nature
Sophie Wynne-Jones

3) Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate
Ffion Jones

4) Rewilding, gender and the transformation of the Côa Valley
Nadia Bartolini,  Bárbara Carvalho,  Sarah May

5) ‘A canary is supposed to sit in a cage and look at someone else's happiness’: Domestic rewilding in fin-de-siècle St Petersburg
Olga Petri

6) The politics of rewilding through an ecofeminist lens
Sherilyn MacGregor

7) Rewilding Gender: Towards Relational Understandings of ‘the Wild’
Kim Ward
A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 

1) Unravelling uneven livelihood transformations in China's multi-ethnic Southeast Asian borderland: Perspectives from spatial interactions
Xiaobo Hua,  Renshan Luo

2) Milk from the farm, the factory and the future: An ecofeminist reflection on Aotearoa New Zealand's dairy sector
Milena Bojovic

3) Research methods for legal geography
Francesco Chiodelli

4) Changing jobs, changing landscapes: Do land use patterns reflect occupational shifts?
Armina Aktara,  Manash Jyoti Bhuyan

5) Displaced attention: Bergson, attentive habits and Tony Conrad's drone music
George Burdon

6) What does geography look like?
Robert Shaw

7) Multispecies placemaking: Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic
Tsering Bum,  Shuling Cheng

8) A mixed-methods approach to researching extreme heat: Insights from urban Ghana
Katherine V. Gough,  Ben M. Roberts,  Ebenezer Forkuo Amankwaa,  Karim Abdullah,  Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe,  Ronald Reagan Gyimah,  Raymond Kasei,  Kevin J. Lomas,  Frederick Wireko Manu,  Peter Mensah,  Eftychia Spentzou,  Robert L. Wilby

9) Climate change sensing across work and home: A research diary experiment
Febe De Geest,  Carolina Contreras,  Todd Denham,  Patrick Bonney,  Ashleigh Stokes,  Blanche Verlie,  Oluwadunsin Ajulo,  Lauren RickardsA graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Participatory historical geographies'. The papers are: 

1) Participatory historical geographies: Introduction
Ruth Slatter,  Edward Brookes

2) The Victoria County History and participatory historical geography
Ruth Slatter

3) Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory historical geography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities
Sarah Linn,  Jina Lee,  Mariam Zorba,  Caitlin Nunn,  Jennifer Cromwell

4) Dancing in the archive: Bodily encounters, memory, and more-than-representational participatory historical geographies
Lucy Thompson

5) Youth-led theatre for climate resilience and action at COP26
Kate Smith,  Briony McDonagh,  Sukhmandeep Dhillon

6) Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street
Aled Singleton,  Edward Brookes,  Ruth Slatter

7) Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement
Hannah Worthen,  Claire Weatherall

8) ‘A series of abject failures’: Navigating the pitfalls of place-based participatory histories
Juliette DesportesA graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are five tiles with the names three commentaries and two 'Ethics in/or geographical research' papers. The papers are: 

1) ‘Good farming’ in a polycrisis: What could arts-led research offer?
Agatha Herman,  Liz Roberts

2) Reflecting on the restless volumetric place (re)naming race
Sergei Basik

3) The architecture of whiteness
Rhianna Garrett

4) Ethical mediation: Navigating research ethics and frictions in overseas fieldwork
Sandra Hiari,  Maiss Razem

5) Questions of power and ethics: Doing feminist research in methodological contexts that let the body lead
Gabriel Baker
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Ed Brookes @ed-brookes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
An added bonus to the last day of work for me this year - my latest article has just been published online 🎉 It's all about urban heritage and the politics of the listing campaign associated with the Robin Hood Gardens Estate - please feel free to give it a read 👉 tinyurl.com/y3ykx6sk
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The politics of listing and urban heritage: social housing, representation and the case of Robin Hood Gardens
This paper examines how the politics of listing buildings in the UK intersect with urban heritage and redevelopment, focusing on the contested case of the Robin Hood Gardens (RHG) estate in East Lo...
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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
'Participatory Historical Geographies' Special Section - out now in Area! This collection, guest edited by @ruthslatter.bsky.social & @ed-brookes.bsky.social, reflects on the increasing use of participatory methods in historical geography. Read here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
A graphic publicising a new Special Section in Area called 'Participatory Historical Geographies'. There are eight tiles with the names of papers and authors as follows:

1) Participatory historical geographies: Introduction
Ruth Slatter,  Edward Brookes
2) The Victoria County History and participatory historical geography
Ruth Slatter
3) Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory historical geography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities
Sarah Linn,  Jina Lee,  Mariam Zorba,  Caitlin Nunn,  Jennifer Cromwell
4) Dancing in the archive: Bodily encounters, memory, and more-than-representational participatory historical geographies
Lucy Thompson
5) Youth-led theatre for climate resilience and action at COP26
Kate Smith,  Briony McDonagh,  Sukhmandeep Dhillon
6) Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street
Aled Singleton,  Edward Brookes,  Ruth Slatter
7) Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement
Hannah Worthen,  Claire Weatherall
8) ‘A series of abject failures’: Navigating the pitfalls of place-based participatory histories
Juliette DesportesA black tile publicising the new 'Participatory Historical Geographies' Special Section in Area. There is a quote from Ruth Slatter & Ed Brookes' (2025) introduction. It reads: "The production of participatory historical knowledge is contingent on a wide variety of skills and labour, including communities themselves that often go unacknowledged. The challenge of navigating these pitfalls and barriers serve to highlight the many reasons why researchers, practitioners or members of the public may be reluctant to engage in participatory historical research".
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
2/ First up @ed-brookes.bsky.social and I have written an introduction outlining what participatory historical geography is/could be and why it's important. Read more here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly embraced participatory methods to challenge dominant narratives and engage communities in the production of historical knowledge. T...
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!
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Ed Brookes @ed-brookes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Delighted to share our AREA special issue on Participatory Historical Geographies 🎉 Co-edited with the brilliant @ruthslatter.bsky.social - exploring the rewards & challenges of collaborative historical research. Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #Geography #AREAjournal
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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly embraced participatory methods to challenge dominant narratives and engage communities in the production of historical knowledge. T...
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Yes it was 16-odd years ago, and he's grown politically since then, but it exposes his Blairite roots. RHG was an icon; a brutalist manifesto that deserved to be preserved and cherished, not fed to the gentrifying wolves (I wrote about it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) /3
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Brutalism Redux: Relational Monumentality and the Urban Politics of Brutalist Architecture
Brutalism is an architectural form that is experiencing somewhat of a revival of late. This revival focuses almost purely on its aesthetics, but there is an ethical dimension to Brutalism that often ...
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
He ignored appeals and listening only to the private real estate developers instead of the community groups. There were plenty of options available and he chose the most Thatcherite one possible, you can read work by @ed-brookes.bsky.social on the process here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... /2
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Planning, Art, and Aesthetics
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Andy Burnham, when he was culture secretary back in 2009, refused listing for Robin Hood Gardens in London, affectively demolishing it. RHG was one the finest example of brutalist architecture and a really important social housing block, and he went all Alice Coleman on it. /1
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Secretary of State rejects Robin Hood Gardens appeal
The culture secretary Andy Burnham has sealed the fate of Robin Hood Gardens after rejecting an appeal from the Twentieth Century Society against the government’s decision not to list the ‘Brutalist’ ...
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Transphobe arrested: "we need to look at the laws, clearly something's not right" 80 year old vicars and disabled people carried off parliament square because they said genocide is bad: "these laws need to be tightened if anything"
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Free speech laws need to be reviewed after Linehan arrest, says Streeting
The health secretary says ministers wanted police to focus on street crime rather than posts on social media.
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Ed Brookes @ed-brookes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I don't really understand the weird binary that the BBC #r4today and other media seem to be trying to create between books and audio books. Can't we just enjoy both without pitting one against the other?
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Stewart Mottram @stewartjmottram.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Join us for a unique opera experience! Funded by the AHRC for the #FromNoahToNow project @uniofhull.bsky.social, this *free* event aims to raise awareness about flooding. Book for: Grimsby Minster 24.03.2025 lnkd.in/dwPpGfyz Hull Minster 26.03.2025 lnkd.in/dJaWTV36 #ArtsEducation #OperaInSchools
Artwork of a rainbow in a puddle of rain advertising two performances of Britten’s ‘Noye’s Fludde’ at Grimsby Minster on 24 March 2025 and at Hull Minster on 26 March 2025.
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
In Gaza we witnessed material scholasticide with the physical destruction of universities and people. In the US, we're seeing ideological scholasticide via pulling any critical funding, censoring keywords. In the UK, it's economical scholasticide via total starvation of funds and gov't inaction.
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Ed Brookes @ed-brookes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Check out this short piece by Stewart Mottram, Lisa Coates and I which talks about our work on the Noah to Now project at the University of Hull and using Opera to explore flooding with young people 🎭 tinyurl.com/7u3b2485 #arts #opera #flooding #climatechange #noahtonow
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Singing in the rain foxes, ferrets and a flood opera
Young voices set to join performances of Britten
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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New paper in Area: 'Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement' by @hannahworthen.bsky.social & Claire Weatherall This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Participatory Historical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area...
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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper is based on our experience of running a workshop at the Hull History Centre in the Summer of 2023 and reflects on the value of participatory approaches and co-production to open up access ...
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Ed Brookes @ed-brookes.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Car park operators can get in the bin Rentier capital at its absolute worst BBC News - Parking fines: Woman faces £1,906 bill over five-minute payment rule - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Parking fines: Woman faces £1,906 bill over five-minute payment rule
Rosey Hudson paid for parking each time, but is being taken to court for £1,906 by Excel Parking.
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thrilled to see 2 more articles online from the Area special section on participatory historical geography I am editing with @edbrooks.bsky.social Congrats @hannahworthen.bsky.social (rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) & Lucy Thompson (rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper is based on our experience of running a workshop at the Hull History Centre in the Summer of 2023 and reflects on the value of participatory approaches and co-production to open up access ...
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Ed Brookes @ed-brookes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I'm excited to be involved with this year's Flood Awareness Centre in Hull, in partnership with Living with Water 🌊 Come visit for: Free exhibition on Hull's Watery Histories Free postcards & info on our projects Free events & workshops all week More info: tinyurl.com/y8k2x9s2 tinyurl.com/y8k2x9s2
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Ed Brookes @ed-brookes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Waking up to -1° and then 15° in the space of 48 hours is genuinely insane. Is environmental whiplash a thing?
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Hannah Worthen @hannahworthen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
First post! I had a new paper published in Area @areajournal.bsky.social yesterday 🥳 "Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement" co-authored with my wonderful Archivist colleague Claire Weatherall doi.org/10.1111/area...
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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper is based on our experience of running a workshop at the Hull History Centre in the Summer of 2023 and reflects on the value of participatory approaches and co-production to open up access ....
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Energy and Environment Institute @eeiathull.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We're co-hosting our first pop-up Flood Awareness Centre with Living with Water partners in Hull city centre next week. Open 10am-4pm, Mon 25-Fri 29 Nov and 10am-2pm, Sat 30 Nov Drop-in or book on a free workshop, inc games, chat and a visit from Bear the dog! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flood-awar...
Graphic with partner logos and text from the post
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Ed Brookes @ed-brookes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It was really great to attend the 2024 Centre for Water Cultures Conference today. With some excellent panels and exciting research being done! @universityofhull.bsky.social #centreforwatercultures #water
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Ed Brookes @ed-brookes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Late to the party, but finally made the jump from X/Twitter/Elon's hellscape. Here's a picture of my cat, Dave.
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