Austin Read
@austinread.bsky.social
Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the University of Oxford. occasionalgeographer.substack.com
🚨new paper🚨 excited to publish this paper on salmon, archives & more-than-human historical geography in geographical research!! the article will appear in a special issue on nature in/and/of the archive that has been put together by @ayanassar.bsky.social & Jessica Lehman.
doi.org/10.1111/1745...
doi.org/10.1111/1745...
Assemblage, archive, and ancestor: Developing more‐than‐human historical geography with salmon
This paper interrogates recent geographic literature on the more-than-human archive and argues that there needs to be more specificity when conceptualising and researching the more-than-human. It the...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🚨new paper🚨 excited to publish this paper on salmon, archives & more-than-human historical geography in geographical research!! the article will appear in a special issue on nature in/and/of the archive that has been put together by @ayanassar.bsky.social & Jessica Lehman.
doi.org/10.1111/1745...
doi.org/10.1111/1745...
new naomi klein in equator magazine is great - and making me rethink my tepid response to this surrealism exhibition ! www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
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November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
new naomi klein in equator magazine is great - and making me rethink my tepid response to this surrealism exhibition ! www.equator.org/articles/sur...
amazingly produced zine from queer patch - group of sinophone queer / feminist researchers. look out for launches in various cities across 2026
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
amazingly produced zine from queer patch - group of sinophone queer / feminist researchers. look out for launches in various cities across 2026
In case you missed it: see our CfP for the AAG 2026 below 👇
CfP #AAG2026 New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice and activism.
We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
CfP AAG 2026: New Fluvial Geographies
AAG 2026: New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice & activism Human geography is currently experiencing a river moment. Over the past decade, as the discipline has em...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
In case you missed it: see our CfP for the AAG 2026 below 👇
CfP #AAG2026 New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice and activism.
We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
CfP AAG 2026: New Fluvial Geographies
AAG 2026: New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice & activism Human geography is currently experiencing a river moment. Over the past decade, as the discipline has em...
docs.google.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
CfP #AAG2026 New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice and activism.
We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
Reposted by Austin Read
#OpenAccess in TIBG:
'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by @austinread.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo
'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by @austinread.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo
August 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
#OpenAccess in TIBG:
'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by @austinread.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo
'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by @austinread.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo
my new paper is now published open access in @rgsibg.bsky.social Transactions journal: doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper begins by looking at a biodiversity conservation project on the River Severn (UK) and argues that dominant technocratic framings of it ignore the colonial legacies that shape the river. It...
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July 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
my new paper is now published open access in @rgsibg.bsky.social Transactions journal: doi.org/10.1111/tran...
my first post on substack is available to read now! Newsletter #1: May 2025 open.substack.com/pub/occasion...
Newsletter #1: May 2025
The Green Party leadership election, Britain’s postimperial spatial politics & reading, watching and listening digest
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May 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
my first post on substack is available to read now! Newsletter #1: May 2025 open.substack.com/pub/occasion...
hello ! i have started a substack (mainly as a fun project to disrupt writer's block). please follow it at occasionalgeographer.substack.com if you're interested. first proper post (where i'm going to be discussing the spatial politics of the green party leadership election) is coming this sunday!
occasional geographer | austin | Substack
My personal Substack. Click to read occasional geographer, by austin, a Substack publication. Launched 4 hours ago.
occasionalgeographer.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
hello ! i have started a substack (mainly as a fun project to disrupt writer's block). please follow it at occasionalgeographer.substack.com if you're interested. first proper post (where i'm going to be discussing the spatial politics of the green party leadership election) is coming this sunday!