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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 10d

A great issue!

TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 11d

📢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⬇️

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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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Abbie Yunita 🍉 @ayunita.bsky.social · 10d

My paper on SDG investment pipelines in Ghana is now in the latest @tibg.bsky.social issue, in great company with other excellent works!

TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 11d

📢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...

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 10d

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@jonnyjjt.bsky.social
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@kbrickell.bsky.social
@benandersongeog.bsky.social

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 10d

Featuring work by: @ihnji.bsky.social
@jonpughislands.bsky.social
@saddy94.bsky.social
@carolynprouse.bsky.social
@katarinaschwarz.bsky.social
@vdonfrancesco.bsky.social
@csandbrook.bsky.social
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@markpendleton.bsky.social
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Sep 12

Now published

Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss

David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

v50, Issue 3 e12724

#openaccess

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This paper seeks to outline an alternative mode of critique, one that places both relational and negative approaches under the scrutiny of an ‘abyssal’ approach. Here, after Fanon, the world violentl....

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 11d

📢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...

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 17d

#OpenAccess in TIBG

'Infra-culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast' by Julian Clark

This paper explores the concept of 'infra-culture', illustrating how cultural practices & material interactions influence the development of physical infrastructures
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This is the graphical abstract to this paper in Transactions. It shows a historical map of the Alde and Ore estuary, drawn by Ananias Appleton in 1588.

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Ankit Kumar @ankitkumar.bsky.social · 19d

Keen to hear what people here think: Is our work on #climatechange facing a #crisis of #imagination?
I certainly feel that. you?

TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Sep 11

New in TIBG!

'Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis' by @ankitkumar.bsky.social et al.

This collection comes out of a Chair's Plenary at the 2023 RGS-IBG conference, asking the question 'is our work on climate change facing a crisis of imagination?'

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of a Themed Intervention abstract in Transactions by Ankit Kumar, Chandni Singh, Lauren Hermanus, Lalitha Kamath, Wangui Kimari, Mark Pelling & Harriet Bulkeley (2025) entitled: 'Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis' with a red banner at the top.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 19d

#OA in TIBG:

'Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography' by James Esson et al.

This paper examines how older people navigate African cities, focusing on Ghana, & contributes to reimagining how knowledge is produced with & about cities in the Majority World.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by James Esson, Ebenezer F. Amankwaa, Katherine V. Gough, Peter Mensah, Katie McQuaid & Ross Wignall (2025) entitled: 'Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography' with a red banner at the top.

The projected increase in older people within the African population, alongside rapid urbanisation, points to the growing importance of understanding how older people navigate towns and cities across the continent. This aligns with wider concerns that geographical scholarship needs to pay more sustained attention to ageing in Global South contexts. Rather than treating these developments as problems or absences, we approach them as opportunities to explore how geographies of later life can generate new ways to conceptualise the urban experience. To this end, the paper draws on the local vernacular of older residents in the Ghanaian cities of Accra and Sekondi-Takoradi to decentre, contextualise and expand the vocabulary used to depict and interpret urban mobilities. The findings reveal ‘hidden geographies of ageing’ through three forms of mobility practice: Mpanyinfo ho hia (respectful mobilities), YƐ mboa nkoa (collective mobilities) and Me te fie (retired mobilities). These insights enrich conceptual understandings of city life by showing how older people navigate, engage with and shape social hierarchies, communal support networks and economic rationalities. By amplifying the voices of a population often overlooked in epistemological and policy deliberations, this intervention supports interdisciplinary efforts to reimagine how knowledge is produced with and about cities in the Global South. Crucially, the paper challenges the Southern urban critique to better reflect the plurality of marginality that influences everyday life in the Majority World.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 25d

New in TIBG!

Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies

Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.

Read all papers here ⬇️

tinyurl.com/5n72yt46

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 23d

6) 'Beyond the Limpopo: Geography and the worlding of South(ern) Africa'

The final contribution to this collection is by Maano Ramutsindela, examining the gap between Geography and African Studies in South Africa.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Maano Ramutsindela (2025) entitled: 'Beyond the Limpopo: Geography and the worlding of South(ern) Africa' with a red banner at the top.

This paper contributes to the discussion on the relationship between geography and area studies and the proposed reorientation of the critical geography of ‘area’ by situating the production of geographical knowledge in South Africa in national and regional contexts. It argues that Southern Africa provides a useful entry point for geography-African studies dialogue because of the region's shared histories and struggles, and the changing roles played by South Africa in the region. This regional context is useful for illuminating the convergence of the study of area and nationalism, and why and how geography became disconnected from African studies. The paper attributes this disconnect to parochialism and the prevailing negative views of Africa as a place of lack. It concludes that deconstructing Africa as ‘a disaster area’ and reorientating the South African Geographical Journal as a platform for African geographies are critical for bridging the geography-African studies gap.

TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 23d

5) 'Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography'

This contribution by Han Cheng evaluates the remaking of China's area studies and world geography as part of a nationalist project of spatial knowledge production.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Han Cheng (2025) entitled: 'Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography' with a red banner at the top.

This paper critically evaluates the contemporary remaking of China's area studies and world geography as part of a nationalist project of spatial knowledge production, by examining an emerging landscape of individuals, institutions and ideologies. Two arguments are made. First, China's area studies and world geography are shaped by not only their milieus, but also the ‘milieu of milieus’ as defined and delimited by the state-disciplinary apparatus which impedes a geography–area studies interface. Second, both milieus are underpinned by reductive epistemologies, engendering depolitised discourses that omit critical self-reflections and other geographies of knowing. As well as offering insights for China's ongoing and unfinished ‘world-writing’, this paper draws particular attention to the geographical scales and spatialities of knowledge translation, consumption, circulation and reproduction.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 24d

4) 'Geography and area studies as critical bedfellows? The view from Singapore'

Brenda Yeoh's contribution to this collection considers the challenges faced by Singapore-based geographers operating both inside and outside Euro-American traditions.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Brenda Yeoh (2025) entitled 'Geography and area studies as critical bedfellows? The view from Singapore' with a red banner at the top.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 24d

3) 'Constructing and contesting meta-geographies in Russian area studies debates'

In this contribution, @vrsmirnova.bsky.social examines the evolution of Russian area studies and its geopolitical imaginations from the Soviet to the post-Soviet era.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Vera Smirnova (2025) entitled: 'Constructing and contesting meta-geographies in Russian area studies debates' with a red banner at the top.

This paper contributes to broader efforts to examine how ‘world-writing’ practices operate beyond dominant area studies debates through the case of Russia. It traces the evolution of Russia's discipline of area studies through its two core meta-geographies—the East and Eurasia, showing how they were constructed, contested and repurposed to make sense of other regions across the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Moving from anti-colonial solidarities, in which the Soviet ‘East’ mediated knowledge exchange between Moscow and the decolonising world, to the revival of ‘Eurasia’ as a geopolitical project, academic production increasingly aligned with foreign policy ambitions, often framed in civilisational and expansionist terms. By situating Russian area studies within its geopolitical, institutional and disciplinary contexts, the article interrogates its entanglement with imperialist legacies and its selective engagement with Western debates, reproducing past hierarchies under the guise of alternative epistemologies.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 25d

2) 'Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations'

In her contribution, @ayanassar.bsky.social considers how different worlds and regions are imagined in the non-west from the vantage point of Egypt.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Aya Nassar (2025) entitled: 'Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations' with a red banner at the top.

The aim of this intervention is to respond to the provocation of how different worlds and regions are imagined from the non-west. This ‘non-west’ is often regarded as the object of area studies, rather than an author of geographical knowledge and cannons. Egypt represents a classic example of this. The concomitant aim of this task is not to package these ‘other’ traditions as useful additions that diversify the histories of geography (as this reinforces the centrality of Anglocentric questions through an add-and-stir approach), but to acknowledge these traditions as evolving, and possibly problematic but always already in conversation with worldly intellectual and geopolitical traditions. To do this from the vantage point of Egypt, I start with the specific moment of post-independence to show how it was complex and imbricated in intellectual inheritances, shifting geopolitical orders, national revisions of worldly orientations and geopolitical ambitions. For many, an Egyptian regional geographic imagination finds its bedrock in the post-independence moment. It was at this time that Egypt, as an anticolonial world actor, sought to redefine its geopolitical global and regional commitments. Indeed, the post-independence moment saw a strong and forceful regional geographical imagination and praxis, in politics as well as in intellectual geography.

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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations " a short intervention, part of a set, out and open access in case of use.

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The aim of this intervention is to respond to the provocation of how different worlds and regions are imagined from the non-west. To do this from the vantage point of Egypt, I start with the specific....

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 25d

1) 'Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area'

Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's introduction to the collection proposes a reoriented critical geography of 'area' by examining geography's relationship with area studies beyond the Anglo-American tradition.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Han Cheng & Deen Sharp (2025) entitled 'Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area' with a red banner at the top.

This paper introduces the collection of five short papers written by scholars from Egypt, Russia, Singapore, China and South Africa that advance this journal's ‘Geography in the World’ initiative through a more robust engagement between geography and area studies. Geographers have increasingly addressed the troubled relationship that their discipline has with the field of area studies. Less registered, however, in Anglophone debates are the presence and politics of other geographical traditions of area studies. In this themed intervention, we propose a reoriented critical geography of ‘area’ by closely assessing non-Western geography's relationship with its area studies counterpart across a range of (geo)political, economic, institutional and cultural contexts beyond the Anglo-American ‘core’.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 25d

New in TIBG!

Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies

Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.

Read all papers here ⬇️

tinyurl.com/5n72yt46

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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 26d

The 'spatiotemporal politics of the asylum system linger well after an ‘end’ point of the state decision has been reached...the fragmented governance of the asylum system is made visible in its temporal margins [& in] the extension of this system beyond its legal edges' @sarahhughes90.bsky.social

TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Sep 9

#OpenAccess in TIBG:

'Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK' by @sarahhughes90.bsky.social

This paper explores the '28-day gap' between the approval of an asylum claim and the ending of government support.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Sarah M. Hughes (2025) entitled 'Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK' with a red banner at the top.

For many asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, being awarded refugee status signals the end of a prolonged period of waiting. At this point, they and their dependants are predominantly given permission to stay in the United Kingdom for five years. However, when a positive decision is granted, a new refugee has limited time before their existing government support (housing, finance) terminates. This transition is termed the ‘move-on period’, and, at the time of research, new refugees had only 28 days to navigate this change. Whilst civil society groups argue that the period following a positive decision poses urgent political questions, the legal gap between these two systems of governance has yet to garner significant academic attention. Scholarship has often been epistemically siloed into research looking at the governance and lived experiences of asylum seekers or the challenges and integration of refugees; the transition, or ‘gap’ between these legal categories has yet to receive sustained analysis. Building upon work on legal edges (Jeffrey 2019) this paper proposes a geographical reading of legal gaps, emerging from and speaking beyond the specifics of new refugees. It explores the construction and governance of the move-on period, together with the role of material technologies in paradoxically mediating and creating this gap. Bringing these two themes together, the paper contributes to debates on the role of materials in the governance of forced migrants and puts forward a relational theorising of legal ‘gaps’.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 26d

New commentary in Transactions:

'Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution' by James D. Sidaway

In this commentary, Sidaway responds to @hamishkallin.bsky.social's recent TIBG paper on the reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches in geography.

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Screenshot of a commentary abstract in Transactions by James D. Sidaway (2025) entitled 'Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution' with a red banner at the top.

This commentary appreciates Hamish Kallin's (2024) account of the prospects for reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches via engaging Henri Lefebvre's work, but signals equivocation about Lefebvre triggered by his depictions of colonialism, Islam and the tropics. I argue that these are inconsistent with ongoing decolonial moves in geography.

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MHoussayH @mhoussayh.cpesr.fr · Sep 12

#readinglist, OBVIOUSLY!

Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Sep 12

#OpenAccess in TIBG:

'On the politics of movement: Borderscapes, choreopolicing and choreopolitics' by Charlotte Veal

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The paper introduces choreography as a novel tool of analysis for investigating how movement shapes and is shaped by the apparatus of territorial security. It examines how dance choreography can inte....

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Sep 11

New in TIBG!

'Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis' by @ankitkumar.bsky.social et al.

This collection comes out of a Chair's Plenary at the 2023 RGS-IBG conference, asking the question 'is our work on climate change facing a crisis of imagination?'

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Sep 10

New in Transactions:

'The spatiality of encounters: Contesting planning decisions in Tehran' by Mojgan Taheri Tafti

This paper examines resistance to top-down urban planning and governance in Tehran's middle-class neighbourhoods.

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