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Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social · 1d

Please consider signing if you’d like to support calls for change by PDs in the German academic system. c.org/kG6zgYfJYW #IchBinHanna

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An die Bildungsministerkonferenz: Schluss mit dem Prekariat der Privatdozent:innen!

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 4d

Some great historical geography papers on @areajournal.bsky.social's early view pages - Ben Newman's paper 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' for one... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... (1/2)

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper examines how the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS's) Library and Map Committee disciplined the exchange of the first English-language geographical journal in the nineteenth century. The p...

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 12d

📢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

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Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 14d

Pleased to share the first two RGS-IBG Book Series titles to be published fully open access with @lsepress.bsky.social, available early 2026...

@laurieparsons.bsky.social
@jbrigstocke.bsky.social

press.lse.ac.uk/books/coming...

A book cover for Julian Brigstocke's forthcoming book 'Non-Authoritarian Authority: Cities, Materially and the Aesthetics of Power' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white aerial photograph of a large crowd in the background.

A book cover for Laurie Parson's forthcoming book 'Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white photograph of three people riding on a scooter above a body of water filled with litter.

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 17d

🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open!

Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'.

Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY

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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · Sep 11

#Historicalgeography #HGRG #RGS #planthumanities #envhum #Geography #history #archives
Call out for any events or news in the world of historical geography that you lovely people would like included in the next HGRG newsletter. Only a few days left before the autumn issue is published. Let me know!

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Sep 10

New article!

'Periodical geography and geographical correspondence in the Naval Chronicle (1799–1818)', by Yannan Ding.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.003

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Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social · Sep 5

It doesn’t look like the ‘g’ in foretelling…

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Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social · Sep 5

Wow. Do they know there is a whole field that studies these things? 🤣

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Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social · Aug 28

Wish I could have been there!

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Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thanks for bringing this to light. I had no idea what was going on at Chicago.

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Pauline Couper @paulinecouper.bsky.social · Jul 18

On writing and thinking. Writing as thinking.

www.historians.org/perspectives...

How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Jul 17

#OpenAccess in Transactions:

'Bothy busi/yness: Recirculating representation and practice in the Scottish landscape' by Rachel Hunt

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Rachel Hunt (2025) entitled: 'Bothy busi/yness: Recirculating representation and practice in the Scottish landscape' with a red banner at the top.

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · May 30

IMPORTANT #BSECS2026 NEWS!
Registration for #BSECS2026 opens on Sunday 1 June!
Submit your CFP on the theme of 'Big & Small' and join us for our 55th annual conference 7-9 Jan 2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social
#18thC #skystorians 🗃️
Click on the link for the full CFP

www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

BSECS Annual Conference

BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

www.bsecs.org.uk

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Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social · Jun 18

That’s a first: As I’m reading the Guardian, I see an op-Ed co-authored by someone I went to grad school with 👀

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Stephen Legg @stephenlegg11.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thankyou to
@milo-z-miller.bsky.social for this epic thread, accouncing JHG's 50th anniversay collection :)

Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Jun 16

Vol. 88 is out!

It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social

sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C

Take a look at the contents below 🧵

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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · Jun 11

Almost ready … 90+ entries, open access … the promises of cultural geography with Vickie Zhang

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · May 20

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: a panel discussion of 'Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination,' by Chris Philo. Featuring @milesogborn.bsky.social, @stuartelden.bsky.social, and @feli-k.bsky.social. ‬Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan...

27 May 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[online only via Zoom]

A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (2025), by Chris Philo (University of Glasgow), involving:

Stuart Elden (University of Warwick)
Felicitas Kübler (Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt)

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Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social · May 16

Perhaps of interest to Germanists networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

ANN: Fellowships for Women Researchers (Gotha Research Library) | H-Net

Within the framework of the "Thüringer Programm zur Förderung von Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchskünstlerinnen", the University of Erfurt (Germany) is offering three short-term scholarshi...

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Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social · Apr 10

!!! This is happening in France?

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Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social · Mar 7

You’ll be fine!

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Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · Mar 4

On the crisis in UK universities (and beyond...)

Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Mar 4

The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance

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Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social · Feb 23

Results not good at all. Have to hope parties maintain pledge to refuse to work with AfD.

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Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social · Jan 29

www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

“The Sphere. Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe”
Postdoctoral Scholar (m/f/d), two years

H-Net Job Guide

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