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Conducting emotional subjects: neuroscience in schools
By Helen Pallett Image credit: Marlith On January 7th it was announced that a new fund has been launched, backed by the Wellcome trust and the Education Endowment Foundation, to promote the use of...
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Inventing Italy and the circulation of geographical cultures
by Federico Ferretti A 1828 Map of pre-unity Italy, made in Paris by A. Broué (Copyright-free, scanned from Bibliothèque de Genève, Département des Cartes et Plans, Tiroir Italie) In the last 20 years,...
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From the bedroom to the nation state: the geographies of welfare reform
By Helen Pallett Image credit: Brian McNeil Debates about the UK welfare or ‘benefits’ system have been difficult to avoid in the media over the past weeks, from the furore surrounding the Channel 4...
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Renaming and Rebranding Place
By Chris Post and Derek H. Alderman Terry McAuliffe, Democrat Governor of Virginia, USA, has a difficult decision to make. He has promised a change in Virginia school textbooks—to include “East Sea” as...
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Sochi and the spatialities of contentious politics
By Helen Pallett Image credit: Sacha Krotov With the Winter Olympics drawing to a close at the weekend, global attention has moved away from Sochi, at least until March 7th when the Winter Paralympics...
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The Future of European Aviation?
by Benjamin Sacks Proposed European FABs. The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökul volcano on 20 March 2010 demonstrated the weaknesses in Europe’s diverse air traffic control network. As a massive...
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Spatial and Local Factors in Understanding Financial Crises
By Benjamin Sacks Picturesque Pforzheim, Germany belies local and regional financial woes. (Image credit: Parlacre (CC 0) Geography, economics, and finance are intimately linked disciplines, a...
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Housing Refugees: Prejudice and the Potentials of Encounter
By Julian Shaw (King’s College London) Syrian Refugees at Keleti Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary Photo: Mstyslav Chernov/Wikimedia Commons This summer the British media opened its eyes, cleared...
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The Geographical Imagination and Britain’s Entanglements ‘East of Suez’
The Suez Canal continues to loom large in the consciousness of British foreign policymakers. (c) 2015 Wikimedia Commons. By Benjamin Sacks, Princeton University The phrase ‘East of Suez’ looms large in...
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Pre-emptive Response: Controlling the Exceptional in the Interval Between the...
By Julian Shaw, King’s College London Belgian Police. Photo Credit: Eddy Van 3000 In his recent article for Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Ben Anderson explores how emergencies...
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Arsonists, Booing, and Blaming the Weather: Diversity and Revealing Everyday...
By Julian Shaw, King’s College London A sign for Gek Poh Ville in Yunnan, Jurong West, Singapore: Photo Credit: Allkayloh. The Independent recently published a story about a Christmas Eve arson attack...
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Colonial Memories Re-Ignited: In Producing the Streets and Rhodes, One Stone...
By Julian Shaw, King’s College London Oriel College bird’s eye view from University church. Image Credit: Arnaud Malon Every day people walking past Oriel College on High Street in Oxford are...
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Geographies of higher education: activism, philanthropy and marketisation
By Natalie Tebbett, Loughborough University Cecil Rhodes Building. Image Credit: Flickr user Jonathan/Flickr.com Over the last month, many English newspapers have reported on the Rhodes Must Fall In...
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It’s not the winning, it’s the taking part that counts.
By Kieran Phelan, University of Nottingham Rio de Janeiro – Cerimônia de encerramento dos Jogos Olímpicos Rio 2016, no Maracanã (Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil): CC-BY 2.0 It is remarkable that this...
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Trumping Ignorance: Engaging with Complexity and Difficult Topics
By Kieran Phelan, University of Nottingham As the news came through that Donald Trump had been successful in beating Hillary Clinton to the White House, the world stood in shock. No matter which side...
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Boundaries, Borders, and… The Trump Wall?
By Jillian Smith, University of Birmingham The towns of Nogales, Arizona, left, and Nogales, Mexico, stand separated by a high concrete and steel fence. Image Credit: Sgt. 1st Class Gordon Hyde. We...
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“The ice edge is lost” – but can it be mapped?
By Philip Steinberg, Professor of Political Geography, Durham University and Berit Kristoffersen, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway Photo...
View ArticleThe geographies of Political Parties
by Sam Halvorsen, Queen Mary University, London Political parties matter. We do not have to look far to see that the fate of countries’ relationship to the world, and to themselves, appears to hang in...
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Out of the ashes, the phoenix of the parish rises again
By Jane Wills, University of Exeter, UK The arrival of the coronavirus has brutally revealed the importance of having good government. Our lives now depend upon the readiness, capacity, and leadership...
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How England’s complicated political geography is confusing coronavirus rules
James Cheshire, UCL and Alex Singleton, University of Liverpool This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. As England emerged from...
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Floods are going to get worse: we need to start preparing for them now
By Ilan Kelman, UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. For many, 2021 was the year of the flood. From Canada to India, and...
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Galapagos ‘Eutopia’
By Julio Rodriguez Stimson, University of Oxford This article is republished from Weather Matters under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. “Since one cannot know a radically better...
View ArticleMultiracism: why we need to pay attention to the world’s many racisms
By Alastair Bonnett, Newcastle University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Racism is being called out across the world –...
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Walking is a state of mind – it can teach you so much about where you are
By Aled Mark Singleton, Swansea University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. During lockdown in 2020, governments across...
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What’s next for the anti-Nato left after Ukraine?
By Ian Klinke, University of Oxford This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article When Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022,...
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