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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📢 What happens when we study the UK through the experiences of Indian migrant women in the IT sector? Our new paper argues for provincialising patriarchy as a methodological intervention, challenging assumptions about where patriarchy "belongs" and how it operates. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New in TIBG: 'Provincialising patriarchy: Methodological interventions in Geography' by @gunjans.bsky.social & Parvati Raghuram doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Gunjan Sondhi & Parvati Raghuram (2026) entitled: 'Provincialising Patriarchy: Methodological Interventions in Geography' with a red banner at the top.

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RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

📣New Editors in @geoopenaccess.bsky.social and @tibg.bsky.social: We are pleased to welcome Professor James Esson, Dr Mel Rohse, Dr Nathan Thomas and @drsarahhall.bsky.social who will be joining the editor teams for 𝐺𝑒𝑜 and 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 over the coming months. 👇

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

📢Editor appointments!📢 We will soon be welcoming James Esson and @drsarahhall.bsky.social to our editor team in Transactions. A massive thank you to @kbrickell.bsky.social for all of her work on the journal over the past few years.

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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

NEW PAPER - this intervention in @tibg.bsky.social focuses on the theme of the @rgs.org @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social Annual Conference - geographies of inequalities: towards just places. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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James Boxall 🇨🇦🍁 @jamesgis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Enjoyed "Geography and ‘The New'" (open access, DOI link, citation & abstract in AltText) thanks Ben Anderson, Beth Greenhough, Harriett Hawkins, Nathaniel Télémaque, Tatiana Thieme and @kbrickell.bsky.social @jennypickerill.bsky.social @davidjbissell.bsky.social @tibg.bsky.social

Geography and ‘The New’
Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell, David Bissell, Beth Greenhough, Harriet Hawkins, Jenny Pickerill, Nathaniel Télémaque, Tatiana Thieme
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Open Access First published: 26 July 2026

DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.70084

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This Intervention reflects on the multiple, contradictory and ambivalent relations human geography has with ‘the new’. Some sort of relation with the new is an inescapable and necessary part of all practices of knowledge generation. Newness, whether it be an empirical finding, an idea, a concept or an approach, can fuel the interest, wonder, urgency or surprise that can animate and sustain academic life. Yet, relations with the new are fraught. Claims of newness are enrolled into materially consequential systems and practices of audit, and the desire for newness is inseparable from the digitally mediated political economy of academic publishing. Questions persist about whether contemporary human geography is too beholden to the same or too enamoured by the new. Developing from a plenary panel at the RGS-IBG 2025 annual conference, five contributors reflect on their own and (sub)disciplinary relations with the new in the context of these necessary but fraught relations. In doing so, the aim of the Intervention is to generate reflection and discussion about the place of newness in our research, what kinds of newness geography values, and the political and ethical implications of different ways of relating to and valorising the new.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New in TIBG: '(Im)possibility of redress: Mega-infrastructures and the voided politics of contestation' by Gediminas Lesutis doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in TIBG by Gediminas Lesutis (2026) entitled: '(Im)possibility of Redress: Mega-Infrastructures and the Voided Politics of Contestation' with a red banner at the top.

Drawing on critical geography's recent engagement with negativity, this article intervenes in dominant relational approaches to infrastructure by examining the (im)possibility of redress under mega-infrastructure development through a case study of the Lamu Port–South Sudan–Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor in coastal Kenya. Based on six months of ethnographic research conducted between 2019 and 2023 with displaced fishermen, civil society activists and state representatives, it traces how demands for redress are articulated, negotiated and continually deferred across legal, bureaucratic and everyday terrains of governance. Focusing on four interlinked configurations—law, representational legibility, compensation governance and everyday precarity—the article shows how redress, as a struggle over recognition, livelihood repair and futurity, is simultaneously pursued yet structurally foreclosed by the scalar, social and political-institutional conditions reproduced by mega-infrastructure. It argues that, under conditions of ongoing dispossession, relations generate recognition, claims and forms of accountability that are persistently enacted but rarely resolved, thereby revealing the limits of relational thinking that, even when attentive to disconnection and unevenness, presumes relations are analytically stable and politically generative. The article names this patterned failure a ‘void’: not an absence of politics or relation, but a structural and lived condition in which efforts towards repair persist precisely through their own foreclosure.

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

(Im)possibility of Redress: Mega-Infrastructuresand the Voided Politics of Contestation Gediminas Lesutis rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

New paper in TIBG: 'Ephemeral lives versus colonial afterlives: Building decolonial urbanisms through two African culture festivals in Athens' by Anna Papoutsi & Antonis Vradis doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Anna Papoutsi & Antonis Vradis (2026) entitled: 'Ephemeral Lives Versus Colonial Afterlives: Building Decolonial Urbanisms Through Two African Culture Festivals in Athens' with a red banner at the top.

This paper examines how African migrantised and diasporic communities in Athens contest the city's dominant colonial imaginary through cultural festival practice. We argue that Athens has been constructed as a racialised chronotope: a frozen, whitened tableau anchored in classical antiquity that renders contemporary racialised presences peripheral, temporary, and illegible. Drawing on three years of Decolonial, Ethnographic, Participatory Arts-Based Research (DEPABR), including the co-organisation of two Afroathenian festivals in 2023 and 2024, we analyse how these ephemeral events functioned as methodological and political sites where questions of recognition, legitimacy, and belonging were actively negotiated. We show how debates over permits, venue selection, representation, and voice crystallised deeper chronopolitical tensions between present-oriented strategies of institutional recognition and longer horizons of autonomous, commoning-based claim-making. Rather than resolving these tensions, we treat them as analytically generative, revealing the uneven distribution of risk, audibility, and temporal orientation that structures Black urban life in Europe's southern cities. We conclude that festival ephemerality, far from undermining political force, operates as a decolonising method: temporarily suspending the city's imposed stillness and opening space for plural histories, solidarities, and futures. The paper contributes to debates on urban chronotopes, citizenship, and decolonial urbanism.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

New in TIBG: 'Unemployed youth agency and geographies of educational support in urban North India' by Craig Jeffrey et al. This paper draws on fieldwork from 2004/5 and 2022/23 in Uttar Pradesh to explore the capacity of jobless youth to adapt to employment scarcity. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Craig Jeffrey, Avishek Jha & Jane Dyson (2026) entitled: 'Unemployed Youth Agency and Geographies of Educational Support in Urban North India' with a red banner at the top.

The emergence of large numbers of educated unemployed people across the world remains a major social challenge. Research on unemployed young people has tended to emphasise a lack of agency. Many studies depict jobless youth as aimless and detached from their social and spatial situation. This paper uses an account of the practices of educated unemployed young people in Uttar Pradesh, North India, to challenge this depiction. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in 2004/2005 and 2022/2023 in Meerut City, by the first author and second author, respectively, the paper documents the capacity of jobless youth to adapt to employment scarcity over the first quarter of the twenty-first century. In 2004/2005 young people were often involved in cultures of waiting and passing time. Eighteen years later educated unemployed young people were much more focused on preparing for government employment. This adaptation has occurred in part through young people developing so-called ‘libraries’ across Meerut, which offer spaces in which they can study, socialise and ‘prepare’ (‘taiyari’) for government admissions tests. In documenting a shift in young people's activity and agency, the paper makes three contributions to wider human geographical work. First, it highlights a need to consider how non-elite sections of society can come to develop social agency over time. Second, the paper illuminates the potential of supplementary educational initiatives to serve as geographies of support. Finally, the paper discusses the value of long-term research in a single place that can connect social change to shifting strategies on the ground.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Recent TIBG author Hannah Fair has shared her work on pest management in @theconversation.com - have a read of the original article here: doi.org/10.1111/tran.... theconversation.com/the-joy-of-p...

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The joy of pests: study reveals why rat catchers are so happy in their work

Would you be happier checking mouse traps than emails?

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

New in TIBG: 'Lively transgressions at the urban-ocean edge: Conflict, coexistence and animals on the move' by Leah Gibbs & @helenfwilson.bsky.social This paper draws on case studies of urban gulls in Northern Europe & sharks at Australian city beaches. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

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The paper intervenes in recent debates on human–wildlife conflict and ‘Species on the Move’, drawing on cases of urban gulls in Northern Europe and sharks at Australian city beaches. The paper interr...

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RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Editor vacancies 📢 We are looking for two new editors to join Geo: Geography and Environment and one new editor to join TIBG. ⏰ Deadline: Tuesday 30 June. Find out more and apply: www.rgs.org/about-us/our-work/lates…

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New in TIBG: 'The rise of offshore urbanism and the expanding frontiers of financialisation in the Global South' by Gabriel Fauveaud et al. This paper analyses the rise of offshore urbanism in Cambodia as a planning model aligned with offshore financial logics. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

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Focusing on the rapid urbanisation of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, this article analyses the rise of offshore urbanism as a planning model aligned with offshore financial logics. It shows how spaces of e....

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

New in TIBG: 'From the mosaic to the patchwork metaphor in digital cartography - A response to the article by Hong et al. (2025)' by Matthieu Noucher This commentary expands on Anne Buttimer's four metaphors explored by Hong et al., proposing 'patchwork' as a fifth. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of a commentary abstract in Transactions by Matthieu Noucher (2026) entitled: 'From the Mosaic to the Patchwork Metaphor in Digital Cartography—A Response to the Article by Hong et al. (2025)' with a red banner at the top.

In their recent article entitled Root metaphors in cartography bridging critical and quantitative approaches, Ruizhe Hong, Bo Zhao and Shangyi Zhou (2025) highlight how metaphors can be used as a heuristic tool to renew critical approaches to digital cartography. Using Anne Buttimer's Four Root Metaphors (1982)—mosaic, mechanism, organism and arena—they explore the link between cartographic representation, socio-spatial inequalities and spatial justice in the context of technological developments marked by recent advances in spatial data science and geospatial artificial intelligence. While acknowledging that other metaphors could be used, the authors encourage readers to build on this exercise to further develop ‘a mapping practice that is as diverse and dynamic as the landscapes it seeks to represent’. I have decided to seize this stimulating opportunity to propose a fifth metaphor which I call the patchwork metaphor. More specifically, I argue that the ‘mosaic metaphor’ creates an illusion which fuels neo-positivist visions of cartography that persist to this day. I therefore prefer the metaphor of ‘cartographic patchwork’ as I believe it is particularly effective in revealing the digital divides that characterise today's geospatial world.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The recent TIBG paper from @thomdavies.bsky.social et al. on Glasgow's waste work during the pandemic was one of the four spotlighted papers from the RGS-IBG Journals last month. Have a read here ⬇️

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

New in TIBG: 'The joy of pests: Camaraderie, wonder and dialectical autonomy in UK professional pest management' by Hannah Fair This paper draws together labour geography and more-than-human geography, proposing a novel mode of understanding multispecies relations. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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Using interviews and participant observation, this research explores the everyday practices and experiences of UK-based pest management professionals. It reveals an unexpected and unalienated ‘joy of....

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New in TIBG: 'Spores of displacement: Legal geographies of mould, evidence and housing precarity' by @sklosterkamp.bsky.social This paper develops a legal geography of mould, drawing on rental disputes & eviction proceedings in German courts. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

A graphical abstract for a paper in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers by Sarah Klosterkamp with the following text:

Spores of displacement: Legal geographies of mold, evidence and housing precarity. Examining how mold functions as a legal object in tenant-landlord disputes.

1) Mold as a legal threshold object: Court cases over mold growth expose evidentiary hierarchies between tenants and landlords.
2) De-renting and eviction: rent reductions intended to protect tenants paradoxically facilitate eviction and exclusion
3) Export knowledge and proptech: The use of building inspections and digital monitoring tools disadvantages tenants with limited resources.

Mold disputes illustrate how housing precarity is both produced and adjudicated through legal infrastructures.

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Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Important editorial & practical step from @tibg.bsky.social The editors nicely lay out the central problems with citation practices (although they do not mention the problems that come with using Harvard/APA format, which contributes to the name check problem and lax pp. referencing).

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RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Authors writing in TIBG no longer have to include reference lists within the 10,000-word limit. Read the latest editorial - Citational Politics in Transactions - which lays out the reasons for this change, inviting authors to reflect on their own citational practice 👇 ow.ly/zJTE50Z4lxV

Editorial page from Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers discussing changes in citation policies and practices.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

New in TIBG 'Slow death & key workers: The ordinary crisis of waste work during the COVID-19 pandemic' by @thomdavies.bsky.social et al. This paper explores the pandemic experiences of Glasgow's waste workers using Berlant's concepts of 'slow death' & the 'crisis ordinary'. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Thom Davies, Angeliki Balayannis, Emma Garnett, Toni Gladding, Stephen Hinchliffe & Phillip Nicholson (2026) entitled: 'Slow Death and Key Workers: The Ordinary Crisis of Waste Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic' with a red banner at the top.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

New in TIBG: 'Remembering and anticipating precarity: A temporal perspective on housing experiences of labour migrants in the Netherlands' by @dollyloo.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Dolly Loomans, Fenne M. Pinkster & Dorien Manting (2026) entitled: 'Remembering and Anticipating Precarity: A Temporal Perspective on Housing Experiences of Labour Migrants in the Netherlands' with a red banner at the top.

This article contributes to geographical scholarship on home as a place of ontological security by considering the multitemporal, long-term lived effects of housing precarity among labour migrants. Within migration and housing debates, housing precarity is often viewed as a material and temporary condition that labour migrants accept to achieve better living conditions in the future. In this paper, we argue that this misrepresents the experience of housing precarity. We draw upon the housing biographies of Polish labour migrants in the Netherlands and identify four distinct temporal logics of housing precarity showing how past, present and future intertwine in different ways. First of all, extreme precarity in early years can become a reference frame, leading people to accept marginally improved precarious conditions in subsequent housing. Second, memories of past precarity permeate into the present and future shaping how migrants navigate housing. Thirdly, expectations and aspirations for the future feed back into the present shaping the experience of living arrangements as precarious. Finally, the demands of the precarious present can be so consuming that past and future times are pushed away. Our findings show that we should rethink how housing precarity manifests itself, not only as a material and temporary housing condition but also as an ontological experience with long-lasting effects.

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Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Pleased to be making this change in Transactions - hopefully it will allow more space for citational generosity & care, all the more important in this world of AI & hallucinated references. Do have a read of our reasons for this move: doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

📢From now, reference lists will no longer be counted in the 10,000 word limit for papers submitted to TIBG In our latest editorial, we lay out the reasons behind this decision & encourage prospective authors to reflect on their citational practices. Available to read here ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of an editorial abstract in Transactions by Anna Lawrence, James Esson, Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell & Beth Greenhough (2026) entitled: 'Citational politics in Transactions' with a red banner at the top.

From now on, authors writing in Transactions will no longer be expected to count their reference lists within the 10,000-word limit. In this editorial, we take the opportunity to lay out the reasons behind this decision. Our purpose in removing references from the word limit is not to encourage authors to cram in as many references as they can to the detriment of their own voice, but rather to encourage practices of careful, conscious, and capacious citational generosity. Picking up on threads running through past editorials (Bailey et al. 2023; Esson et al. 2024), here we continue discussions of ‘care’ in scholarly publishing and what constitutes a ‘landmark paper’ within the discipline, this time through the lens of citational politics. This editorial proceeds by locating the decision within current debates around citational justice and citation as a reproductive technology (Ahmed 2013; Kim 2020), before considering the broader landscape of source discovery, reading and referencing in the digital/AI-crowded world, following the publication of the last ever print volume of Transactions in December 2023. We end with a discussion of how the practice of citation might be imagined differently, from the teaching of citation as a joyful praxis (Quave and Ohbi 2024) and the reflective insights collected around the #CiteBlackWomen movement (Smith 2022) to the rethinking of citation templates to better account for knowledge that sits outside of the Western episteme (MacLeod 2021). We encourage authors writing in Transactions to reflect on their own practices of reading and citing, and we highlight the role that journals, reviewers, and editors must play in moving forward with more inclusive citational practices.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New in TIBG: 'The affirmative biopolitics of anxiety in China: Ambivalence, marginalisation and resistance under the "Double Reduction" policy' by Qiong He & Shenjing He doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in TIBG by Qiong He & Shenjing He (2026) entitled: 'The Affirmative Biopolitics of Anxiety in China: Ambivalence, Marginalisation and Resistance Under the ‘Double Reduction’ Policy' with a red banner at the top.

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RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Looking for something to read this Friday? Check out our April highlights from across the Society's journals: Finch-Race, D. A., and P. Lewis: ow.ly/K3uo50YRBLM Preci, A.: ow.ly/BA7l50YRBLN Hein, J.: ow.ly/CIQa50YRBLL Migozzi, J., and D. Wójcik: ow.ly/lN6x50YRBLP

Aerial night view of Caesars Superdome illuminated in blue lights during Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans.

Group of Indigenous people gathered at a roadside blockade in the Argentine Chaco during daylight.

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A panoramic cityscape featuring Johannesburg's skyline with the iconic Hillbrow Tower under a partly cloudy sky.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

New in TIBG: 'Situating African FinTech in Global Financial Networks' by @jmigozzi.bsky.social & Dariusz Wójcik This paper explores the geographical patterns of firm creation & investments in FinTech across Africa. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Julien Migozzi & Dariusz Wójcik (2026) entitled: 'Situating African FinTech in Global Financial Networks' with a red banner at the top.

Africa has witnessed a FinTech fever, yet these financial dynamics remain largely off the map. To address this gap, this paper explores the geographical patterns of firm creation and investments in African FinTech and how they have evolved since the emergence of FinTech on the continent. Tracing flows of capital across firms, cities and countries, we interpret the geography of investment in African FinTech through the lens of the Global Financial Network (GFN) approach. The analysis, based on a unique purpose-built dataset of African FinTech firms, documents waves of firm creation and investment, starting in South Africa in the 1990s, led by Nigeria in recent years and concentrated in metropolitan areas. Our findings reveal an emerging specialisation in FinTech centres, including Mauritius as a diversified offshore FinTech jurisdiction and Seychelles as an offshore crypto-hub. After documenting the preponderance of non-African investment over cross-border African and domestic origins of funding, we map the networks of FinTech capital flows by subsector and examine institutional, technological and geographical factors, with examples from three Nigerian unicorns. This paper uncovers how FinTech connects Africa's financial centres and offshore jurisdictions with established centres west and east of the continent in a new stage of GFN expansion.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Do you have any resources or tips for academic authors on producing alt text for figures and tables? Please share & get in touch

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

New in TIBG! 'Organising inequality: Viral contamination of healthcare policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales' by Sergei Shubin & Diana Beljaars doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Sergei Shubin & Diana Beljaars (2026) entitled: 'Organising Inequality: Viral Contamination of Healthcare Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Wales' with a red banner at the top.

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RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Welcome to our research and higher education Bluesky! 👋 Follow us to stay up to date with our work in geographical research, including events, funding opportunities, new publications and more. Learn more about how we promote geography in higher education and beyond: ow.ly/CMgN50YI795

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Geography and Environment at Loughborough University @lborogeog.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A new paper by @marcoantonsich.bsky.social, our Reader in Political Geography, has been published open access in @tibg.bsky.social ⬇️

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

New in TIBG: 'Rethinking the race-nation nexus: Spatial narratives of racialised Italians in the United Kingdom' by Marco Antonisch doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Marco Antonisch (2026) entitled: 'Rethinking the Race–Nation Nexus: Spatial Narratives of Racialised Italians in the United Kingdom' with a red banner at the top.

Nation and race are often theorised as closely intertwined, with nationalism frequently positioned as a driving force behind racism. The article advances an empirically grounded argument that challenges this assumed relationship. In particular, it explores how space, understood as a socially constructed category, is discursively mobilised in everyday conversations and interactions to articulate notions of nation and national belonging beyond race. Drawing on 32 individual interviews with racialised Italians living in the United Kingdom, the article shows how, outside Italy—a space regarded as saturated with whiteness—participants feel empowered to reclaim the nation from which they were excluded and to embrace alternative readings of nation which de-centre whiteness. These narratives reconfigure nation and national belonging not through opposition to racialised bodies (‘who’), but through proximity to or distance from particular practices, objects and im/material spaces (‘what’). The findings demonstrate that the race–nation nexus should not be conceptualised as an inevitable or intrinsic condition, but as a historical configuration rooted in a white fantasy of spatial hegemony which, while still powerful, is increasingly unsettled by the lived realities of growing racial diversity.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

New in TIBG: 'Truck dogs: Advancing a mobile geography of multispecies relations of care' by Neha Arora & @debbiehopkins.bsky.social This paper explores relations between UK truckers & their companion dogs, examining the logistical conditions through which care takes place doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Neha Arora & Debbie Hopkins (2026) entitled: 'Truck dogs: Advancing a mobile geography of multispecies relations of care' with a red banner at the top.

This paper demonstrates how multispecies relations co-constitute mobile work in road haulage under supply chain capitalism. Bringing labour and animal geographies into dialogue, we extend the concepts of carescapes and caringscapes to theorise the truck cab, route and logistical infrastructures as multispecies sites of care beyond the ‘static’ workplace. We use multiple methods to create multispecies narrative portraits, through which we reveal how caring labour—training and socialisation, embodied attunement, walking and the management of hygiene, risk and routine—enables truck dogs to travel and reshapes drivers' sensory orientations, working rhythms and well-being. We also show how organisational policies, regulatory regimes and infrastructural constraints render some forms of care legible as security, cleanliness, compliance and asset protection, whilst limiting or displacing others. At the same time, truck dogs offer companionship, routine and vigilance that can ease isolation and insecurity without resolving the structural harms of mobile work. We argue that supply chain capitalism is sustained through a mobile carescape in which care is continually negotiated across schedules, routes and institutional thresholds. By foregrounding these multispecies arrangements, the paper unsettles dominant accounts of where and how care is organised and advances a mobile geography of care attentive to the logistical conditions through which care is made possible, valued and constrained.

Photograph of a female truck driver in a high-vis jacket, jeans and baseball cap helping a large dog climb up into the cab of a truck in a car park.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

New in TIBG: 'When "yes" means no: Understanding infiltration as refusal of cultural heritage research in Palestine' by Yafa El Masri This paper reconceptualises Palestinian infiltration as a contemporary mode of research refusal under settler-colonial conditions. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Yafa El Masri (2026) entitled: 'When ‘Yes’ Means No: Understanding Infiltration as Refusal of Cultural Heritage Research in Palestine' with a red banner at the top.

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 26/02/2026

Check out OII DPhil alumna and St Anne's College Junior Research Fellow Yung Au's paper, which argues that worker movements in the data science community can help us rethink relationships of care and violence on Earth and beyond.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

New in TIBG: 'Green refrontierisation: Critical cartographies of the hydrogen rush in Africa' by William Monteith This paper provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen maps within the reports of European states, lobby groups & investment bodies. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers by William Monteith (2026) entitled: 'Green Refrontierisation: Critical Cartographies of the Hydrogen Rush in Africa' with a red banner at the top.

Land is a critical requirement of low-carbon energy transitions, driving global land acquisitions on an unprecedented scale. Under pressure to diversify and decarbonise their energy mix, European states and investors have begun to map the ‘green hydrogen potential’ of territories on the African continent, producing powerful new visualisations of energy space. This article provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen (GH2) maps present within the reports of European states, lobby groups and investment bodies to examine the role of geographical knowledge in the production of low-carbon energy frontiers. It identifies three spatio-political strategies present within these maps: spatialising hydrogen potential, territorialising hydrogen space and (re)mobilising fossil fuel infrastructure. Together, these strategies form part of a broader process that I term ‘green refrontierisation’: the assembling of low-carbon energy frontiers atop the remnants of colonial and carbon frontiers. Through a particular focus on the Namibian case, the article's findings advance debates at the intersection of energy geographies and critical cartography by demonstrating how low-carbon energy frontiers (re)spatialise land around a series of dynamic environmental processes rather than the subterranean resources that have historically guided geographical thinking.

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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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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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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

New in TIBG: 'Visualising the urban imaginary: Failure and irresolution in an urban digital twin' by Emma McRae doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Emma McRae (2026) entitled: 'Visualising the Urban Imaginary: Failure and Irresolution in an Urban Digital Twin' with a red banner at the top.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

New in TIBG: 'Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI' guest edited by Jess McLean et al. This collection features four short pieces reflecting on questions of governance of and accountability for AI. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

We would love for @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to be read widely, given the Sullivan Review’s potential for far-reaching implications across the social and health sciences — and indeed well beyond the academy

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

New Intervention in TIBG: 'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of an intervention abstract in Transactions by Jay JD Todd & Felicity Callard (2026) entitled: 'A Critical Response to the UK's ‘Sullivan Review’ Into Sex and Gender in Research and Data' with a red banner at the top.

This intervention argues that the UK Government-commissioned independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender (the ‘Sullivan Review’) implicitly promotes the erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research and data collection protocols and carries worrying implications for the inclusion of trans people within UK institutions and for critical social science research. Set in a context where trans and gender diverse people's rights are being rolled back in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, the Review attempts to install a singular model of binary, immutable, ‘biological’ sex as incontrovertible across data gathering on sex and gender across public bodies including government, universities, the health service and research organisations. It does so via appeals to science and to ‘clarity’, and by proposing to limit or even in certain cases remove default ethical review processes. The intervention argues that the Review can be situated within broader attempts to erase critical inquiry into the complex, intersectional production of social categories including sex, gender and sexuality, as well as inquiries that extend what ethical principles and governance involve. In sum, we contend that the Review carries deleterious consequences for geography and other social scientific disciplines and call upon scholars to refuse its vision and implications.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I have published today in @tibg.bsky.social a critical response to the UK Government-commissioned "Sullivan Review" of sex and gender in data and research collection rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This intervention argues that the UK Government-commissioned independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender (the ‘Sullivan Review’) implicitly promotes the erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research and data collection protocols and carries worrying implications for the inclusion of trans people within UK institutions and for critical social science research. Set in a context where trans and gender diverse people's rights are being rolled back in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, the Review attempts to install a singular model of binary, immutable, ‘biological’ sex as incontrovertible across data gathering on sex and gender across public bodies including government, universities, the health service and research organisations. It does so via appeals to science and to ‘clarity’, and by proposing to limit or even in certain cases remove default ethical review processes. The intervention argues that the Review can be situated within broader attempts to erase critical inquiry into the complex, intersectional production of social categories including sex, gender and sexuality, as well as inquiries that extend what ethical principles and governance involve. In sum, we contend that the Review carries deleterious consequences for geography and other social scientific disciplines and call upon scholars to refuse its vision and implications.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Published today in TIBG ⬇️

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

New in TIBG: 'Digital disease ecologies: Encounter, datafication and the digital geographies of One Health' by @kirkham.bsky.social This paper examines the use of the Snake Awareness Rescue Protection App in Kerala, India, through the lens of 'digital disease ecologies'. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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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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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

New papers - on events, with some wonderful collaborators!

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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.

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