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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Human Geography not elsewhere classified | Social and Cultural Geography | Human Geography
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Land and Water Management of environments not elsewhere classified | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development and Welfare | Climate Change Mitigation Strategies |
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Publications
Departures, arrivals and a vacancy
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2008
From spaces of antagonism to spaces of engagement1
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-09-2003
Labour geography: A work in progress
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2007
Workers, Economies, Geographies
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 26-02-2010
Commodifying what nature?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2003
DOI: 10.1191/0309132503PH428OA
Abstract: In this essay contemporary Marxist writings on the commodification of nature in capitalist societies are reviewed systematically. Recent research on commodities in human geography, cultural studies and related fields have been largely post or non-Marxist in tenor and have paid relatively little attention to the ‘natural’ dimensions of commodities. By contrast, recent Marxist writings about capitalism-nature relations have tried to highlight both the specificity of capitalist commodification and its effects on ecologies and bodies. This fact notwithstanding, it is argued that the explanatory and normative dimensions of this Marxist work are, respectively, at risk of being misunderstood and remain largely implicit. On the explanatory side, confusion arises because the words ‘commodification’ and ‘nature’ are used by different Marxists to refer to different things that deserve to be disentangled. On the normative side, the Marxian criticisms of nature's commodification are rarely explicit and often assumed to be self-evident. The essay offers a typology of commodification processes relating to specific natures with specific effects to which a variety of criticisms can be applied. Though essentially exegetical rather than reconstructive, the essay tries to pave the way for a more precise sense of how the commodification of nature in capitalist societies works and why it might be deemed to be problematic.
Speaking for the ‘people disciplines’: Global change science and its human dimensions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-10-2017
Abstract: A number of global change scientists have been enjoining their peers to alter their modus operandi. Calls have been issued for more ‘decision relevant’ forms of inquiry more squarely focused on ‘human dimensions’ as societies enter a ‘no analogue’ planetary situation. This paper analyses the way certain geoscientists who study global change imagine the ‘people disciplines’ to be of relevance to their own endeavours. It reveals a rather narrow understanding of the social sciences to be in play, alongside a largely nominal inclusion of the humanities. The paper suggests reasons for this combination of partiality and omission, and suggests why a much wider and more plural understanding of human dimensions is important. This understanding, it is shown, should rebound on the human dimensions of global change science itself. Some suggestions for new encounters between geoscientists, environmental social scientists and humanists are offered. Around 30 years after the first global change research programmes were created, it is unfortunate that the wider social sciences and humanities are not more visible to, and engaged with, global change scientists. Their relative marginality is a long-run problem. Yet visibility and engagement are vital to avoid ‘science imperialism’ by default in our knowledge of people–planet interactions in the Anthropocene. One hopes that in less than a decade hence, visibility and engagement increase significantly.
Global Change Research and the “People Disciplines”: Toward a New Dispensation
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2017
Abstract: Climate science is embedded in a much grander geoscientific attempt to understand an earth system perturbed by human activities. “Global change science,” as it is sometimes called, is now trying ever harder to understand and influence the so-called human dimensions of environmental change. While mainstream social science approaches like environmental economics are central to this effort, what of the wider social sciences and the humanities? They stand to be vital intermediaries between geoscientific claims about a changing planet and the publics, politicians, business leaders, and third-sector organizations that must now respond to those claims or court danger. This article explores the relationships between epistemic communities across the disciplines that are together trying to represent the earth and its inhabitants at a time when the relationship between the two needs to change. Though the wider social sciences and humanities have responded to the epochal claims of geoscience, this article shows that a combination of ignorance, timidity, and distance is nonetheless allowing those involved to perpetuate unhelpful institutional and intellectual separations. The article seeks to explain this state of affairs and offer reasons why it needs to change. The prospects for a new dispensation are, however, distant.
Geographers and the discourse of an Earth transformed: influencing the intellectual weather or changing the intellectual climate?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-06-2015
Teaching history, philosophy and theory: Notes on representing marxism and ‘marxist geography’
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1994
The lonely hour of the last word: Marx, Althusser and the critical critics
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-1995
DOI: 10.1068/A271163
THE NATURE OF PRODUCED NATURE: MATERIALITY AND KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION IN MARXISM
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 1995
The Anthropocene
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2017
Marxist Value Theory and “Progressive” Poststructuralism: A Reply to Noel Castree
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-1998
A tribute to Neil Robert Smith (18 July 1954-29 September 2012)
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-01-2013
Who's afraid of Charles Darwin?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2009
Anthropocene and Planetary Boundaries
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-02-2016
DOI: 10.1002/9781118786352.WBIEG0027
Abstract: “The Anthropocene” was scientific neologism in 2000 but is now something of a buzzword in the earth and environmental sciences, with the prospect of becoming part of the lingua franca of the social sciences and humanities too. It is closely related to the younger scientific neologism “planetary boundaries.” Both terms describe human impacts on the face of the Earth that are wider and deeper than previously recognized. Both also have an epochal meaning, suggesting as they do the end of the Holocene epoch (the period of Earth history during which Homo sapiens have flourished). This entry details the origins of the Anthropocene concept, and its collateral term, planetary boundaries. It then discusses antecedent concepts that failed to catch on in the world of science or the wider world. Contemporary attempts to formally designate the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch are then considered. Despite being so far inconclusive, these attempts have not prevented the Anthropocene being visible in the broader environmental sciences courtesy of the planetary boundaries hypothesis. The entry considers how social scientists and humanities scholars are responding to the claim that humanity is leaving its “safe operating space,” concluding with a discussion of how the broader academic discussions of the Anthropocene are being registered in geography. Though so far fairly marginal to debates about both ideas, geographers have a clear stake in determining their future significance for science and society.
Book review: The Future of Nature: Documents of Global Change
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2014
Erratum to A tribute to Neil Robert Smith (18 July 1954-29 September 2012) (Progress in Human Geography, (2013), 37, 1 (161-163), 10.1177/0309132512468412)
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-03-2013
Erratum to Chris Philo and Susan Roberts, 'Announcement: Departures and Arrivals' (Progress in Human Geography, (2013), 37, 1 (164), 10.1177/0309132512472448)
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-03-2013
Culture, nature and landscape in the Australian region
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2008
Brian Turnbull Robson, 1939-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-08-2020
DOI: 10.1111/GEOJ.12355
Bioprospecting: From theory to practice (and back again)
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2003
Editors’ discussion
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2014
Neoliberalism and the Biophysical Environment 3: Putting Theory into Practice
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2011
Banking Spatially on the Future: Capital Switching, Infrastructure, and the Ecological Fix
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-01-2015
Charles Darwin and the geographers
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2009
DOI: 10.1068/A42224
International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-03-2016
What kind of critical geography for what kind of politics?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2000
DOI: 10.1068/A33111
Broaden research on the human dimensions of climate change
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-07-2016
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE3078
A tribute to Doreen Massey (3 January 1944–11 March 2016)
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-07-2016
Citizen Social Science for More Integrative and Effective Climate Action: A Science-Policy Perspective
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 05-02-2019
An alternative to civil disobedience for concerned scientists
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-10-2019
The power of place: geography, destiny and globalization's rough landscape - By Harm de Blij
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-08-2012
Geographical knowledges, universities, and academic freedom
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2006
DOI: 10.1068/A38406
2014 Progress in Human Geography Essay Prize
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-05-2014
Changing the Anthropo(s)cene: Geographers, global environmental change and the politics of knowledge
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2015
Abstract: This article explores the relationships between geographers and the ‘Anthroposcene’. The latter comprises the networks, institutions and publications devoted to comprehending and responding to a fast-changing Earth departing from Holocene boundary conditions. The Anthroposcene necessarily mediates peoples’ understanding of what are said to be epochal alterations to our planetary home. It is currently dominated by geoscientists and certain environmental social scientists. Some geographers are among their number. Whilst these researchers are working hard to alert decision-makers and publics to the epic scale, scope and magnitude of ‘the human impact’, their work currently tends to screen out the insights of both critical social science and the environmental humanities. Both forms of inquiry are strongly represented in contemporary Anglophone Geography and have been central to human geography’s ‘environmental turn’ this last 20 years. The article suggests reasons why many geographers who are not currently part of the Anthroposcene might want to get their voices heard therein and thereby change the ‘scene’. Global change research (and politics) is entering a formative moment, and it’s important that a range of epistemic communities shape its content and tenor looking ahead. The stakes are high and place responsibilities on a wide range of environmental researchers and educators.
Spaces of Work: Global Capitalism and the Geographies of Labour
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2004
‘Out here’? ‘In here’? Domesticating critical geography
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-1999
Climate change, critical theory and scientific realism
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-08-2020
The SAGE handbook of human geography: Two volume set
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2014
Environmental issues III: signals in the noise?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2004
The Detour of Critical Theory
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2008
The future of global environmental assessments: Making a case for fundamental change
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-11-2020
Abstract: Since the late 1970s, over 140 global environmental assessments (GEAs) have been completed. But are they any longer fit for purpose? Some believe not. Compelling arguments have been advanced for a new assessment paradigm, one more focussed on problem-solving than problem-identification. If translated into new assessment practices, this envisaged paradigm could prevail for the next several decades, just as the current one has since the late 1970s. In this paper, it is contended that the arguments for GEAs 2.0 are, in fact, insufficiently bold. Solutions-orientated assessments, often associated with a ‘policy turn’ by their advocates, are undoubtedly necessary. But without a ‘politics turn’ they will be profoundly insufficient: policy options would be detached from the erse socio-economic explanations and ‘deep hermeneutics’ of value that ultimately give them meaning, especially given the very high stakes now attached to managing human impacts on a fast-changing planet. Here we make the case for GEAs 3.0, where two paradigmatic steps forward are taken at once rather than just one. The second step involves the introduction of political reasoning and structured normative debate about existential alternatives, a pre-requisite to strategic decision-making and its operational expression. Possible objections to this second step are addressed and rebutted. Even so, the case for politically-overt GEAs faces formidable difficulties of implementation. However, we consider these challenges less a sign of our undue idealism and more an indication of the urgent need to mitigate, if not overcome them. In a world of ‘wicked problems’ we need ‘wicked assessments’ adequate to them, preparatory to so-called ‘clumsy solutions’. This paper is intended to inspire more far-reaching debate about the future of GEAs and, by implication, about the roles social science and the humanities might usefully play in addressing global environmental change.
Valuing the value of Marx
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2013
Invisible Leviathan: Speculations on Marx, Spivak, and the Question of Value
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1996
Progress in human geography?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2009
Energy: Humanities frame the aims
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-2014
DOI: 10.1038/513033C
Between philosophy and political practice
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-12-2022
Mapping posthumanism: an exchange
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2004
DOI: 10.1068/A37127
Geography without borders
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2007
Posthuman geographies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2006
The restless and uneven geographies of capitalism
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-12-2022
Contradiction, perpetual change and crisis
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-12-2022
Navigating together without a map: Metaphors for making Geography’s future
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2022
DOI: 10.1177/26349825221084177
Abstract: This article sets the scene for the 10 papers comprising the special issue ‘‘Geographical research for the 21 st century: trajectories and possibilities’. It asks the hoary question, ‘by what means, and to what ends, should Geography be directed?’. It does not, however, venture a substantive response because there is no single answer that will suffice. Instead, the article offers resources for those seeking to respond to this question. It identifies 12 parameters that define the ‘operating space’ that most geographers worldwide now have to act within, like it or not. These parameters not only impose constraints but also offer opportunities. The article then focuses on metaphors that might help us better understand who we are as a research and teaching community: after all, metaphors can distil the essence of our ongoing preoccupations. I venture a ‘new ecological’ metaphor that might enable accuracy and hope in our self-understanding as we enter the third decade of an already extraordinary century. It may seem paradoxical to say, but we can navigate forward purposefully without a map, avoiding the polar opposites of an infeasible disciplinary unity and an undesirable Balkanisation of our activities.
From structure to agency
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-12-2022
Environmental issues: Relational ontologies and hybrid politics
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2003
Neil Robert Smith: 18 July 1954-29 September 2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-01-2013
DOI: 10.1111/GEOJ.12011
Framing, deframing and reframing the Anthropocene
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-03-2021
Marxism within and beyond the academy
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-12-2022
Between Mumford and Marx: anatomising Imperial San Francisco
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2000
Neoliberalism and the biophysical environment: a synthesis and evaluation of the research
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Date: 2010
Nature
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-03-2017
DOI: 10.1002/9781118786352.WBIEG0522
Abstract: Since geography was founded as a university subject in the late nineteenth century, geographers have defined their research and teaching with reference to nature, explicitly or implicitly. At times, nature has been absolutely central to what most geographers do at other times, less so. After 1945, concerns about the credibility and utility of geographers' pre‐war inquiries led to a progressive split between human and physical geography, with the former largely losing interest in the biophysical environment and in questions of “human nature.” However, since the early 1990s a preoccupation with nature has, in a range of ways and for various reasons, become quite central to research and teaching across the discipline. This has not, however, led to a new unity among physical and human geographers. Whether this state of affairs is good or not is a matter of perspective. Today, three broad approaches to nature prevail in the discipline, each comprising multiple strands: a “traditional” (or naturalist) one that regards nature as an independent object of analysis, a more recent one that questions nature's naturalness, and a newer one that would dispense with the concept of nature (and its collateral terms, like wilderness) altogether. The second and third we can call “denaturalizing” approaches. This trio reflects geographers' different conceptions of the character and aims of knowledge about the material world. The differences cannot – some might argue should not – be eliminated in the quest for an ostensibly “correct” understanding of nature and its relations with society. If our knowledge of what we call “nature” is profoundly social , then it follows that its validity cannot be justified with reference to “material realities” alone. This is not, of course, to suggest that there is no biophysical world existing regardless of people's erse conceptions of it. After defining “nature,” the entry is organized chronologically and charts the changing ways geographers have interrogated nature over the past century or more. It concludes by considering the relationship between the three just‐mentioned approaches.
What is to be done? Towards a more just geography for a feasible future
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-12-2022
Improving political deliberation
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 17-05-2019
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-08-2023
DOI: 10.1111/GEOJ.12531
Abstract: The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in researching, communicating, and teaching a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of the 2023 celebrations, which occurred at the Society on 5 June 2023, with contributions from Andrew Mitchell, Felix Driver, Anson Mackay, Jos Barlow, Harriet Fraser, and Noel Castree.
Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabweby Donald Moore
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-02-2009
Nature, economy and the cultural politics of theory: the ‘War Against the Seals’ in the Bering Sea, 1870–1911
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-1997
Neoliberalism and the Biophysical Environment 2: Theorising the Neoliberalisation of Nature
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2010
Can Science Fix Climate Change?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 31-03-2015
Researching neoliberal environmental governance: A reply to Karen Bakker
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2009
DOI: 10.1068/A42204
Geographic Scale and Grass-Roots Internationalism: The Liverpool Dock Dispute, 1995-1998*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2009
A post-environmental ethics?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2003
Neoliberal Environments
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-11-2007
Geography and the new social contract for global change research
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-05-2016
DOI: 10.1111/TRAN.12125
Geographies of nature in the making
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2003
Synthesis and engagement: geography and the biotechnology century
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-1999
DOI: 10.1068/A310763
Contrapuntal geographies: The politics of organizing across sociospatial difference
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2008
Progressing physical geography
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-05-2012
Contrapuntal Geographies: The Politics of Organizing Across Sociospatial Difference
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2008
Nature is Dead! Long Live Nature
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2004
DOI: 10.1068/A36209
The Limits to Capital (1982): David Harvey
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2008
Oxford Dictionary of Human Geography
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2013
Commodity fetishism, geographical imaginations and imaginative geographies
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2001
DOI: 10.1068/A3464
The writing class
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2002
The limits to capital (1982): David Harvey
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2008
The geographical lives of commodities: Problems of analysis and critique
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2004
Crisis, continuity and change: neoliberalism, the Left and the future of capitalism
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2010
The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities: Extending the Conversation
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 05-2014
Abstract: “The Anthropocene” is now a buzzword in international geoscience circles and commanding the attention of various social scientists and humanists. Once a trickle, I review what is now a growing stream of publications authored by humanists about the Holocene's proclaimed end. I argue that these publications evidence environmental humanists as playing two roles with respect to the geoscientific claims they are reacting to: the roles of “inventor-discloser” or “deconstructor-critic.” Despite their importance and their differences, as currently performed these roles hold environmental humanists at a distance from those geoscientists currently trying to popularise the Anthropocene proposition and a set of related grand ideas (like “planetary boundaries”). This is unfortunate because geoscience—like other branches of science—tends to enjoy a higher profile in key decision-making arenas than do humanities subjects. The same can be said of particular social science fields, such as environmental economics. By surveying the wider, febrile geoscience landscape in which the Anthropocene proposition is situated, I reveal opportunities for “engaged-analysis.” This involves simultaneously working on and with geoscientists, so too their kindred spirits in the social sciences. “The Anthropocene” concept may soon be among the key signifiers that frame the thinking of societal decision-makers. Environmental humanists can, if so minded, shape its meaning and implications directly. But this will involve more practitioners interested in global environmental change operating outside the “usual” arenas, such as established disciplinary conferences and journals. Engaged analysis offers a way to play the inventor-discloser and deconstructor-critic roles in places where knowledge aspires to inform environmental policy and practice. Though challenging and risky, the potential rewards are considerable.
The Geographical Sublime
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2004
A congress of the world
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2006
Differential geographies: Place, indigenous rights and 'local' resources
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2004
Reclaiming pedagogy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2003
Economy and culture are dead! Long live economy and culture!
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2004
DOI: 10.1191/0309132504PH468OA
Abstract: This essay critically evaluates the debate in human geography and cognate fields about economy-culture relationships. It takes issue with the terms of the debate, wherein different authors have sought to ground their claims about economy and culture with reference to supposed ‘ontological realities’. Building on the arguments of Don Mitchell (1995 2000), I argue that economy and culture should be seen as two powerful ideas that help to create the realities they seem only to describe. Economy and culture cannot, I argue, be uncritically invoked by academic analysts as either objects of analysis or explanatory resources. Rather, we need to inquire into how the ideas of economy and culture are semantically ‘fixed’ and with reference to what ‘real-world’ phenomena. Taking the case of indigenous peoples' deployment of the idea of ‘cultural property’, I illustrate the kind of research agenda that follows from seeing ‘economy’ and ‘culture’ as two performative signifiers. I also challenge those involved in the economy-culture debate to take seriously their own role in sustaining, altering or eclipsing the various meanings and referents of these two powerful key words.
Living in a companioned world
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2009
Environmental issues: From policy to political economy
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2002
The Spatio-temporality of Capitalism
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2009
Abstract: This essay seeks to explain the constitutive role that space-time plays in the dynamics of capital accumulation. Through a close reading of David Harvey's work, I show that time and space work together in ways particular to the capitalist mode of producing, distributing, selling, consuming and disposing of commodities. This does not, I argue, mean that space-time is reducible to capital accumulation — there are, to be sure, other forms of space-time that are relatively autonomous from the now dominant mode of production. My aim is not to provide a definitive account of space-time tout court but, instead, to show both the organic connection between space and time within capitalism specifically as well as the necessary — rather than simply contingent — role that space-time plays in the dynamics of accumulation. My argument is that capitalist space is inconceivable in abstraction from capitalism's temporal compulsions, and that space-time functions as a concrete abstraction that internalizes the whole gamut of contradictions that Marx identified over a century ago. The essay makes its analytical contribution by surveying previous Marxist and non-Marxist contributions to understanding space and time in the social sciences, en route to a close reading of Harvey's Limits to Capital. The political implications of paying careful attention to capitalist space-time are explored by counter-posing Harvey's work with Doreen Massey's recent writings about spatio-temporality.
Research assessment and the production of geographical knowledge
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2006
Abstract: This Forum examines the research assessment systems (RASs) that affect professional human geography, and offers perspectives on the whole idea of formal research assessment. The Forum aims to assist professional geographers in their reflections on present and future research assessment in their own countries. It comprises two parts. The first offers highly succinct and detailed descriptions of the RASs currently in place in a range of countries -be they highly centralized, standardized and formal systems, or devolved and relatively informal ones. Many professional geographers know little about the assessment procedures outside their own countries and the first part allows a comparative understanding to be developed. The second part (‘Whither research assessment?’) offers reflections on the whole notion of research assessment beyond the ‘normal’ assessment offered by peer review of papers, books and chapters considers whether actually existing systems of research assessment in one or more countries embody the values conducive to an ‘appropriate’ form of research assessment and it also considers the actual or probable impacts on the content and form of geographical knowledge of real or possible RASs.
The epistemology of particulars: Human geography, case studies and 'context'
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2005
Geography, pedagogy and politics
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2008
Abstract: This Forum takes seriously the proposition that everything we do as geographers is potentially `relevant' to the affairs of the wider society. Using expanded conceptions of `pedagogy' and `politics', the Forum suggests why and how we are always engaged in processes of shaping and steering this wider society, wittingly or not, and intentionally or not. In the minds of many of us, this shaping and steering only (or mostly) occurs through activities we assume to be self-evidently `relevant' in intention or effect — like undertaking policy-relevant research. However, this Forum argues that it is misplaced to regard only a select group of our activities as socially consequential. Pulling together recent debates on `participatory', `activist' and `public' geographies, the Forum offers arguments and ex les that show readers the potential relevance of the whole range of erse practices in which we professionally engage. The introduction and five subsequent contributions together suggest that we aim for a `joined-up' conception of ourselves and our activities as professional geographers embedded in a wider society. As such, the Forum aims to make a distinctive contribution to ongoing discussions of how big-G academic geography relates to the plethora of small-g quotidian geographies — imagined and real — that are the stuff of our world.
The return of nature?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-09-2012
David Harvey's symptomatic silence
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2006
Capitalism, Neoliberalism and the Struggle for “Democratic Environments”
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2015 Progress in Human Geography Best Paper Prize
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 14-05-2015
Introduction: Making Sense of Environmental Geography
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-01-2009
Coproducing global change research and geography: The means and ends of engagement
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2015
Abstract: This response identifies three areas of agreement with my interlocutors. One is the importance of global change science now and in the future a second is the real capacity that geographers possess to shape the content and direction of global change science, building on past achievements and the third is the existence of ‘group think’ in parts of global change science, presenting a target for constructive criticism but also an opportunity for serious engagement. The response then addresses specific points raised in the five commentaries. These points pertain to the burden of academic responsibility, the political aims of ‘Changing the Anthropo(s)cene’, the power of reason, the virtues of working ‘inside’ global change science, the volume and kind of contributions made by geographers so far and – finally – the dilemmas of engaging global change science as critic or friend.
Birds, Mice and Geography: Marxisms and Dialectics
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 1996
DOI: 10.2307/622485
Making First World Political Ecology
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2007
DOI: 10.1068/A169REV
‘What kind of socio-technical research for what sort of influence on energy policy?’
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2017
Nature and society
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2011
Geography and the Anthropocene II: Current Contributions
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2014
DOI: 10.1111/GEC3.12140
Nature, Economy, and the Cultural Politics of Theory: The“War Against the Seals” in the Bering Sea, 1870-1911
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2004
The Anthropocene and Geography I: The Back Story
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2014
DOI: 10.1111/GEC3.12141
Scaling nature and the meta-theoretical imperative
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-1998
Marxism and the Production of Nature
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2000
DOI: 10.1177/030981680007200102
Abstract: This essay surveys a century of debate on the Marx-nature question. It seeks to expose, critique and reformulate a set of foundational assumptions which, it is argued, have informed this debate. Three main arguments are put forward. First, it is suggested that successive attempts to expound a Marxian theory of nature have see-sawed between naturalistic and social constructionist positions. Second, as such many Marxist theories of nature are shown (ironically) to have much in common with forms of bourgeois and anti-bourgeois environmentalism they otherwise oppose. Finally, as a way out of the impasse of Marxian thinking on nature, a conception of the production of nature is tentatively put forward.
Crisis, Continuity and Change: Neoliberalism, the Left and the Future of Capitalism
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-04-2012
Editorial announcement: Rob Kitchin and Pauline McGuirk
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-03-2015
Announcement: Departures and Arrivals
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-01-2013
Classics in human geography revisited: a commentary on Uneven Development
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2000
David Harvey: Marxism, capitalism and the geographical imagination
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2007
On theory's subject and subject's theory: Harvey, capital, and the limits to classical Marxism
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-1995
DOI: 10.1068/A270269
Abstract: In this paper recent considerations of the human subject and of the nature and uses of theory are convened around the work of Marxist theorist David Harvey. This is done to contest two prevailing views of his work and to explore critically two alternative readings. The first view suggests that Harvey is exclusively a theorist of the capitalist space economy against this it is suggested that he offers one of the most ambitious readings of subjectivity within human geography. The second view suggests that Harvey is a ‘modern’ theorist, whose preoccupation with economy and class leads him into the perils of theoretical authoritarianism, exclusivity, and abstraction against this it is suggested that Harvey's Marxism claims to be intrinsically reflexive. More particularly, the thesis that there is an essential, rather than contingent, relation between Harvey's theorisation of ‘the subject of capital’ and his own practices as a theorist is explored: given that Harvey claims ‘the subject of capital’ is but one subject-position, to what extent, it is asked, is he in practice aware of the limits of his own theoretical propositions? At the same time, an examination of the degree to which Harvey's reading of subjectivity is sufficiently cogent to contribute to an ecumenical, ‘post-modern’ project to make sense of subjection and agency within contemporary Western societies is presented.
Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our ResponseClimate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our ResponseJudith A. Curry. London: Anthem Press, 2023. xiv and 269 pp. £80/$110.00 hardcover (ISBN 978-1-83998-925-4).
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2023
A Companion to Environmental Geography
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-01-2009
The future of geography in English universities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-04-2011
Neoliberalising adaptation to environmental change: Foresight or foreclosure?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1068/A44680
Introduction: Professional Geography and the Corporatization ofthe University: Experiences, Evaluations, and Engagements
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2000
What's left? A note from the editors
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2005
Professionalisation, Activism, and the University: Whither ‘Critical Geography’?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2000
DOI: 10.1068/A3263
Abstract: In this paper I seek to describe, explain, and evaluate three decades of Left geographical change. Now that ‘critical geography’—rather than ‘radical geography’—has become the privileged descriptor for Left geographical inquiry, it is argued that this temporal switch of labels is of more than merely semantic significance. Specifically, it is suggested that the supercession of the ‘radical geography’ label is symptomatic of a substantive shift in the nature and purposes of Left geographical inquiry. This shift has entailed the ‘professionalisation’ and ‘academicisation’ of Left geography. Both developments have occurred in the context of a thirty-year transition from a ‘modern’ to an ‘after-modern’ higher education system. Taking the Anglo-American case, it is argued that the current vitality of the geographical (read ‘critical’) Left in the academy correlates with its detachment from ‘real world’ political constituencies and also a blindness to the academic changes underpinning this inverse correlation. Rather than worrying over their apparent failure to connect with constituencies ‘out there’, it is argued that geographical Leftists need to recapture something of the radical geography spirit of action and engagement in order to contest changes occurring ‘in here’: that is, changes in the political and moral economy of the higher system that enables and constrains our academic labours. A brief manifesto for a ‘domesticated critical geography’ is offered by way of a conclusion.
Changing the intellectual climate
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-08-2014
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2339
Geography and Global Change Science: Relationships Necessary, Absent, and Possible
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2015
Geography and environmental policy
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2005
Introduction: The Point is to Change it
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-04-2012
Strange Ecology
Publisher: Lawrence and Wishart
Date: 06-0110
Making the Environmental Humanities Consequential in “The Age of Consequences”: The Potential of Global Environmental Assessments
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 11-2021
Abstract: This article suggests that global environmental assessments (GEAs) may be a potent means for making the environmental humanities more consequential outside universities. So far most GEAs have been led by geoscientists, with mainstream social science in support. However, there is no reason why the concept of assessment cannot be elasticated to include the concerns of interpretive social science and the humanities. Building on the forty-year history and authority of GEAs as a means to bridging the gap between the research world and the wider world, this article identifies the potential that reformatted assessments hold for more impactful work by environmental humanists. It suggests some next steps for rethinking the means and ends of assessment toward a new paradigm that bridges geoscience, mainstream social science, and humanistic thinking about the nonhuman world. This paradigm would explore the human dimensions of environmental change fully. The timing is propitious: independently GEAs are undergoing change at the very moment that the “What next?” question is being asked by many environmental humanists. This article is intended to inspire debate and, ultimately, action. It both makes the case for more humanistic GEAs and offers ex les of potential work packages.
Neoliberalising nature: Processes, effects, and evaluations
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1068/A39100
Abstract: This and a previous paper review systematically a new and fast-growing geographical research literature about ‘neoliberalising nature’. This literature, authored by critical geographers for the most part, is largely case study based and focuses on a range of biophysical phenomena in different parts of the contemporary world. In an attempt to take stock of what has been learnt and what is left to do, the two papers survey the literature theoretically and empirically, cognitively and normatively. Specifically, they aim to parse the critical literature on nature's neoliberalisation with a view to answering four key questions: (1) what are the reasons why all manner of qualitatively different nonhuman phenomena in different parts of the world are being ‘neoliberalised’? (2) what are the principal ways in which nature is neoliberalised in practice? (3) what are the effects of nature's neoliberalisation? and (4) how should these effects be evaluated? Without such an effort of synthesis, this literature could remain a collection of substantively disparate, theoretically informed case studies unified only in name (by virtue of their common focus on ‘neoliberal’ policies). This paper addresses questions 2, 3, and 4, while the previous paper concentrated on the first. It is argued that some unresolved issues in the published literature make it very difficult for readers and future researchers in this area to draw ‘wider’ lessons about process, effects, and evaluations. This is not so much a ‘failing’ of the literature as a reflection of its newness and the way its constituent parts have evolved. It is argued that these issues require careful attention in future so that the ‘general’ lessons of the literature published to date on nature's neoliberalisation can be made clear. Where the previous paper detected some ‘signals in the noise’ viz question 1, this paper suggests that more work needs to be done viz questions 2 to 4 for any signals to be detected.
The Anthropocene and Geography III: Future Directions
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2014
DOI: 10.1111/GEC3.12139
The struggle over geography: Prospects for advancing public pedagogy
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2013
Abstract: This commentary is sympathetic to Murphy’s (2013) call for more ‘grand regional narrative’ in a public key. However, by failing to recognise the root causes of, and prevailing obstacles to, change, his call risks being purely declarative. I argue that only a few, typically established, geographers will be willing and able to occupy the ideational territory currently populated by the likes of Robert Kaplan. Even so, a few is better than none, and I also argue that teaching offers a more feasible, if indirect, arena in which public thinking about world geography can be shaped in ways consistent with Murphy’s vision.
Unfree radicals? Geoscientists, the Anthropocene, and Left Politics
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2015
DOI: 10.1111/ANTI.12187
False Antitheses? Marxism, Nature and Actor-Networks
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2002
Marxism and the logics of dis/integration
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-11-2022
DOI: 10.1177/19427786211048212
Abstract: Marxism is a large and erse body of thought that has weathered many storms over the last 150 years. While its explanatory and political relevance to today's world is enormous, Marxism lacks mass appeal and largely resides in universities (notably, the social sciences and humanities). While this is, in one sense, a sign of defeat, in another sense it's been productive insofar as it's offered exponents space and time to make sense of capitalism's ever-changing configurations. This article homes-in on classical Marxism and its enduring importance as a tool of analysis and political thinking. It focuses on the author's attempts to understand how the biophysical world is entrained in the dynamics of capital accumulation, especially during the period of neoliberal political economy that began around 35 years ago. Marxist geographers continue to offer important insights into capitalism in a more-than-capitalist world that is, nonetheless, utterly dominated by the contradictory logics of growth, economic competition, endless technological innovation, uneven development, accumulation by dispossession and crisis. For me, classical Marxism's attention to capitalism as an expansive ‘totality’ is critical, obliging us to attend to how different places, people and political projects are brought into a single, if exceedingly complex, universe. The article reflects on how the embrace of classical Marxism necessarily folds the professional into the personal, though in ways that inevitably highlight some of the contradictions that Marx and Engels identified. It's to be hoped that a new and talented generation of Marxist geographers will continue the work initiated 50 years ago by David Harvey and others. The article suggests that a key research frontier for Marxist geography is normative: what sorts of political visions and proposals will gain traction in a variegated yet tightly connected world where capitalism is so manifestly dangerous for people and planet?
Book review: Media and Environment
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-05-2012
The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California: The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-02-2008
Book review: The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-07-2016
Framing “nature‐based” solutions to climate change
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-07-2021
DOI: 10.1002/WCC.729
Abstract: In recent years, there has been a growth in scholarship on “nature‐based solutions” and “natural climate solutions” to climate change. A variety of actors have argued that these natural solutions—variously involving the protection, conservation, restoration, management, enhancement, or imitation of natural ecosystems—can play a crucial role in both mitigating and adapting to climate change. What is more, by virtue of their label, natural solutions promise to be particularly attractive to the public and policymakers and have received significant media and scholarly attention. But what is natural is also social: people, acting in various social groups, can selectively emphasize or deemphasize certain characteristics of climate solutions to make them seem more or less natural. The framing of particular solutions as “natural” or “unnatural” has far‐reaching implications for climate policy, but has thus far been overlooked. Here, we undertake a critical review of the ways in which natural solutions to climate change have been framed and examine the normative and practical implications of this framing. We review what counts (and what does not count) as a natural solution, and find that those labeled natural are routinely framed under technical and social appraisal criteria as being more beneficial, cost effective, mature, and democratic than ostensibly artificial counterparts. And yet we show that, under greater scrutiny, the natural framing obscures the reality that natural solutions can be just as risky, expensive, immature, and technocratic. We conclude by reflecting on the dangers of narrowing the range of solutions considered natural and indeed, of selecting solutions through recourse to “nature” at all. Rather, climate solutions must be evaluated in terms of their specific qualities, against a far broader range of framings. This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge Knowledge and Practice
Old news: Representation and academic novelty
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2004
DOI: 10.1068/A3656
Abstract: The new outstrips the old—but only sometimes. This short paper identifies four forms of ‘novelty’ in Anglophone human geography. In taking the case of a nascent ‘nonrepresentational geography’ some concerns are raised about the seeming ennui with representation as a research issue and as a practical and political resource. Far from insisting that ‘old’ intellectual fashions are better than new ones, we simply caution against travelling forward minus some important baggage. By way of seven theses, we finesse critical geography's engagement with representation and argue that any nonrepresentational ‘alternative’ should not be seen as jettisoning the substantial power of representational acts.
The contours of america's coldwar
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2011
DOI: 10.1068/A4310RVW
Strategies for changing the intellectual climate
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-04-2015
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2608
A Review of “Reading Kant's Geography”
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2012
A Review of “Bringing Geography to Book: Ellen Semple and the Reception of Geographical Knowledge”
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-01-2011
Earth System Science
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-03-2017
DOI: 10.1002/9781118786352.WBIEG1087
Abstract: Earth system science (ESS) is now over 30 years old. It is an interdisciplinary field originating in various environmental sciences, such as climatology and ecology. It has grand, integrative ambitions. It aims to understand and, where possible, predict continuities and changes in the relationships between the various “systems” that together govern the character of Earth surface phenomena. Originating in the United States, ESS is now an international enterprise with practitioners in Australia, Britain, Germany, Sweden, and elsewhere. Over time it has extended its reach beyond complex biophysical systems to incorporate the human drivers of, and responses to, global environmental change. Geographers have been involved in ESS since the 1990s, though some have been critics – with many geographers simply ignoring it. ESS is now in an important new phase, given that humans appear to be altering the Earth system in unprecedented ways. Interesting questions arise as to what sorts of contributions geographers will in future make to the enterprise.
Geography's New Public Intellectuals?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2006
Neoliberalism and the Biophysical Environment 1: What 'Neoliberalism' is, and What Difference Nature Makes to it
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2010
Constructing rural natures
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2006
Capitalism, the Left and the new world (dis)order
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2007
From neoliberalism to neoliberalisation: Consolations, confusions, and necessary illusions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1068/A38147
The discourse and reality of carbon dioxide removal
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 23-12-2020
DOI: 10.3389/FCLIM.2020.614014
Abstract: There's little doubt that a variety of CDR techniques will be employed worldwide in the decades and centuries to come. Together, these techniques will alter the character and functioning of the biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, pedosphere, and atmosphere. More locally, they will have immediate impacts on people and place, within erse national state contexts. However, for the moment CDR exists more in the realm of discourse than reality. Its future roll-out in many and varied forms will depend on a series of discussions in the governmental, commercial, and civic spheres. Metaphor will be quite central to these formative discussions. Metaphors serve to structure perceptions of unfamiliar phenomena by transferring meaning from a recognized “source” domain to a new “target” domain. They can be employed in more or less felicitous, more or less noticeable, more or less defensible ways. Metaphors help to govern future action by framing present-day understandings of a world to come. To govern metaphor itself may seem as foolhardy as attempting to sieve water or converse with rocks. Yet by rehearsing some old lessons about metaphor we stand some chance of responsibly steering its employment in unfolding debates about CDR techniques and their practical governance globally. This Perspective identifies some key elements of metaphor's use that will require attention in the different contexts where CDR techniques presently get (and will in future be) discussed meaningfully. Various experts involved in CDR development and deployment have an important, though not controlling, role to play in how it gets metaphorized. This matters in our age of populism, rhetoric, misinformation, and disinformation where the willful (mis)use of certain metaphors threatens to depoliticize, polarize, or simplify future debates about CDR. What is needed is “post-normal” discourse where high stakes decisions made in the context of epistemic uncertainty are informed by clear reasoning among disparate parties whose values erge.
Perspectives on the nature of environmental planning
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 31-07-2019
Global Environmental Change and the New Social Contract for Research
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 25-02-2019
DOI: 10.1093/ACREFORE/9780190228620.013.630
Abstract: Humans are altering the hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere in unprecedented ways. Since the late 1980s, a range of geoscience disciplines (such as climatology and ecology) have shown humans to be a “planetary force.” The scale, scope, and magnitude of people’s combined activities threaten to take the planet’s environmental systems out of their Holocene state. This not only raises new research questions for the academic community (such as “What is the best way for a low-income, low-lying country to adapt to sea-level rise?”). It also invites the community to rethink its role in relation to the societies that fund its research and will experience profound impacts of global environmental change. In turn, this rethink raises the question of what kind of research will best suit a change of role. In recent years some global change researchers have called for a “new social contract.” These calls challenge the “old” social contract wherein academic independence was assured by governments so long as universities produced a succession of benefits to society on the basis of both fundamental (non-applied) research and “use-inspired” inquiry and invention. The new social contract directs global change researchers to produce much more of the latter, namely “decision-relevant” knowledge (for governments and other stakeholders). This means that global change research (GCR) will become less geoscience dominated and include more social science and even humanities content: after all, it is human activities that are both the cause of, and solution to, our planetary maladies. A more applied and people-focused GCR community promises to deliver many benefits in the years ahead. However, there are some problems with the way a new social contract is currently being conceived. Unless these problems are addressed, the GCR community will arguably serve societies worldwide far less well than it could and should do. This review describes the old and new social contract ideas in relation to present and future GCR. It does so both descriptively and in a critically constructive way, presenting arguments for a truly new social contract for GCR.
David Harvey
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2019
The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (3 vols.) Manuel Castells
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2000
Making sense of nature: Representation, politics and democracy
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-08-2013
The denial of nature: environmental philosophy in the era of global capitalism
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-12-2016
Envisioning capitalism: Geography and the renewal of Marxian political economy
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-1999
The unbearable lightness of being theoretical: a response to Murray Smith
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-1998
Book review: What is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-09-2012
A tribute to Ron Johnston (30 March 1941–29 May 2020)
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-07-2020
The paradoxical Professor Giddens
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2010
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