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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 eight tiles with 2 interventions and 6 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue.

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 eight tiles with 2 interventions and 6 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 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

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

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 eight tiles with 6 standard articles and 2 commentaries, with the names of papers in the issue.

1) Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries
Deborah P. Dixon,  Carina J. Fearnley,  Mark Pendleton
2) Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales
Caitlin Robinson,  Lenka Hasova,  Lin Zhang
3) Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling
Laura Harriet Sheppard,  Jonathan Reades,  Richard P. J. Freeman
4) The (non-)performance of the financial frontier: Building investment pipelines for the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana
Abbie Yunita
5) Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements
Alan Latham,  Russell Hitchings,  Michael Nattrass
6) (Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics
Jonathon Turnbull,  Tom Fry,  Jamie Lorimer
7) Resilient education: The role of digital technology in supporting geographical education in Ukraine
Simon M. Hutchinson,  Elizabeth R. Hurrell,  Kateryna Borysenko,  Vladyslav Popov,  Dariia Kholiavchuk,  Yana Popiuk
8) Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction
Constance Carr,  Olga Kryvets

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 eight tiles with 6 standard articles and 2 commentaries, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries Deborah P. Dixon, Carina J. Fearnley, Mark Pendleton 2) Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales Caitlin Robinson, Lenka Hasova, Lin Zhang 3) Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling Laura Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan Reades, Richard P. J. Freeman 4) The (non-)performance of the financial frontier: Building investment pipelines for the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana Abbie Yunita 5) Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements Alan Latham, Russell Hitchings, Michael Nattrass 6) (Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics Jonathon Turnbull, Tom Fry, Jamie Lorimer 7) Resilient education: The role of digital technology in supporting geographical education in Ukraine Simon M. Hutchinson, Elizabeth R. Hurrell, Kateryna Borysenko, Vladyslav Popov, Dariia Kholiavchuk, Yana Popiuk 8) Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction Constance Carr, Olga Kryvets

📢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...

01.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 2
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🚨 #UrbanStudies Vol. 62, Issue 13 (October 2025) out now!

✍️ Special Issue "Google, a stakeholder in local governance?"

Guest editors: Antoine Courmont & Burcu Baykurt

This collection explores how #Google has become a key actor in local #politics and urban environments.

📖 buff.ly/veREgdw

26.09.2025 12:02 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

Thank you Cristina!

11.09.2025 11:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post-political clouds: Suspended failure in Google’s data centre development - Constance Carr, Karinne Madron, 2025 Digital corporations and governments alike are driving a post-political agenda around the expansion of data centres – the infrastructural backbone of expanding ...

New: Carr & Madron "Post-political clouds: Suspended failure in Google's data centre development".
doi.org/10.1177/0042...

In @baykurt.bsky.social Antoine Courmont Special Issue "Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?" @urbanstudiesjournal.com
@uni.lu @fnr.lu @markushesse60.bsky.social

18.08.2025 08:03 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2
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Weekend Update #146: A Deal To Destroy Ukraine Europe Will Have To Choose Soon; The Pokrovsk "Collapse" Was Nothing Of The Sort

Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend update. More and more it seems that Anchorage has seen Putin and Trump come together to push a deal that could permanently hobble Ukraine. Trump is pushing Ukraine give up more territory to Russia and get nothing meaningless. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

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Recognizing the signs of fascism today | Historian Timothy Snyder
YouTube video by CBC News: The National Recognizing the signs of fascism today | Historian Timothy Snyder

youtu.be/7PcxC1p-Z-g?...

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European Movement International — Strengthening the EU-Canada relationship in response to Trump’s isolationism - European Movement Do you want a European Movement Canada? Click here to express your support. Why are we asking for this mass sign-up? Because the European Movement stands for democracy, peace, unity and solidarity, re...

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14.03.2025 17:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The City of Montreal has dropped Amazon from its list of suppliers, pledges to buy local The City of Montreal had dropped Amazon from its list of suppliers in response to the still-looming tariff threat from the U.S.

“The City of #Montreal is stopping orders from #Amazon until further notice. Despite the reprieve on #tariffs, is not letting its guard down. We are combing through our supplier list to find local or international alternatives. We remain united and will buy locally.”
cultmtl.com/2025/02/the-...

11.03.2025 17:35 — 👍 65    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 3
UKRAINE TO KICK OFF EUROPE TOUR <p style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 26px;">Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts will open the upcoming Love Earth Tour of Europe in UKRAINE with a Free Concert for all! We are currently in talks and w...

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04.03.2025 17:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

at least the theives are riding bikes? 😜

20.02.2025 08:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Goethe University Frankfurt and numerous other German universities withdraw from “X” | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Social media platform no longer offers a meaningful environment for fact-based communication by academic, research and scientific institutions Goethe University has joined more than 60 other German-sp...

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11.01.2025 13:07 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.

You don't do this. No ethical person does this to their vendors and partners. This is the hallmark of a crook. www.wired.com/story/metas-...

09.01.2025 00:38 — 👍 15716    🔁 4058    💬 1044    📌 248

There are now 100 people in the Luxembourg bubble Starter Pack with some journalists like @diegoinbxl.bsky.social or @webdaniele.bsky.social , a lot of people from the uni.lu like @markushesse60.bsky.social or @thomascauvin.bsky.social
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10.12.2024 09:16 — 👍 49    🔁 26    💬 4    📌 1
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In the context of #FINCITY-Research, we explored today the recent development called ‘Europaviertel’ in Frankfurt am Main. Our trip was insightfully guided by the great dietervonlüpke, former director of the city’s planning office. Very cool.

03.12.2024 15:22 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of a commentary abstract in TIBG by Constance Carr and Olga Kryvets (2024) entitled 'Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction' with a red banner at the top.

Screenshot of a commentary abstract in TIBG by Constance Carr and Olga Kryvets (2024) entitled 'Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction' with a red banner at the top.

New commentary in TIBG:

'Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction' by @constancecarr.bsky.social & Olga Kryvets

This piece contributes to our ongoing conversation on geopolitics and the invasion of Ukraine.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

03.12.2024 09:58 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌

⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT

27.11.2024 11:59 — 👍 134    🔁 55    💬 4    📌 5

🚨 4️⃣ positions to be filled! Join us in Frankfurt/Darmstadt for exciting work in #nuclear arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament at the crossroads of #science and policy! DLs mid-December and later, vary per position. Working language English. And we move into new fancy office spaces! 🚨

27.11.2024 08:46 — 👍 22    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 1
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Carr/Kryvets 2024 Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction. Transactions

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26.11.2024 13:02 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Still a bit stunned to see this. (more later)

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hi

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