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Monday, 18 May 2020

Reviving the blog, with a fresh start

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I started writing this blog nearly 12 years ago (how the hell did that happen, by the way?), just as I was starting my MSc in Bristol.  Howe...
Friday, 7 December 2018

Ten years in the academic bubble: some fieldnotes, and a few confessions

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This time ten years ago, I was in the first semester of my master's degree in politics and sociology at the University of Bristol. After...
Thursday, 29 November 2018

'-ocene' neologisms—a list

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For a few years now, I've been making a list of neologisms that riff on, satirise, or offer an alternative to the much-debated 'Ant...
Friday, 10 August 2018

#Citewomen: 1920s Edition; or, In lieu of a thesis update

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I’ve been rather neglecting this blog over recent months (really, over the past few years). Being now deep into the later stages of thesis w...
Saturday, 21 April 2018

Thinking Through Planet Politics—25 April 2018, Tampere, Finland

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I'm very much looking forward to travelling to Tampere in Finland next week for what should be a fascinating workshop on the subject of ...
Monday, 2 April 2018

Tarde’s 'Fragment d’histoire future' and the modal coordination of history and fiction – Reflections on 'Imagining the History of the Future'

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Last week, I had the great fortune of attending the Imagining the History of the Future conference, part of the Unsettling Scientific Stori...
Wednesday, 21 February 2018

The situation of reclamation – a review of: "Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science" by Isabelle Stengers

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A review that I wrote of Isabelle Stengers' recently translated  Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science  has just gon...
Sunday, 11 February 2018

The history and philosophy of geography: A meta-report (of sorts)

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About a week ago, I undertook a mini research project: to read all the ‘Progress Reports’ for the subfield of ‘History and Philosophy of Geo...
Saturday, 20 January 2018

Enough of ‘new’ diplomacies: reclaiming the diplomatic pluriverse

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I’m a little late to this particular party; however, in the middle of last year, a very interesting debate broke out between the blogs of Sh...
Sunday, 10 December 2017

Environment, ontology and PhD rites of passage

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The PhD programme is a remarkably unstandardised institution. It varies wildly in its duration and parameters between countries, universitie...
Wednesday, 15 November 2017

“The Ecological Indian” and the History of Environmental Ideas

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A couple of months ago, I presented a paper at the EISA conference in Barcelona titled  “The Ecological Indian” and the History of Environm...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017

AAG 2018: The Historical Ontology of Environment: From the Unity of Nature to the Birth of Geopolitics

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To date, I've never been to any of the big North American academic conferences (in fact, to date, I've never been to the Americas). ...

Review of "Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken"

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In 1967, Clarence Glacken published Traces on the Rhodian Shore – an encyclopaedic masterpiece in the history of geographical ideas descri...
Sunday, 15 October 2017

Regarding 'post-truth': causality, complacency and complicity

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There's an interesting set of essays recently uploaded at Discover Society on the so-called 'post-truth' phenomenon, including ...
Monday, 4 September 2017

Clarence Glacken’s ‘Traces on the Rhodian Shore’ at 50: Summaries and reflections

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As per previous posts, last week I attended the RGS-IBG annual conference and organised a session at on Clarence Glacken’s ‘Traces on the Rh...
Saturday, 2 September 2017

A temple to colonialism: talking (or not talking) decolonisation at the RGS

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Sitting in the Ondaatje Lecture Theatre at the Royal Geographical Society in London, let your eyes gaze upwards from the stage to the corner...
Wednesday, 9 August 2017

"Forget ‘the environment’"—problems of geosemantics and ecopoetics

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George Monbiot has a typically provocative new article on The Guardian today: If Moses had promised the Israelites a land flowing with ma...