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Austin Read

@austinread.bsky.social

Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the University of Oxford. occasionalgeographer.substack.com

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The paper is about the overlooked ways that British rivers have been shaped by colonial histories and geographies. I develop a theory/method of "infrastructure as archive" to trace imperial geographies of rivers, and to challenge spatial binaries of "core" and "periphery"

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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...

my new paper is now published open access in @rgsibg.bsky.social Transactions journal: doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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Newsletter #1: May 2025 The Green Party leadership election, Britain’s postimperial spatial politics & reading, watching and listening digest

my first post on substack is available to read now! Newsletter #1: May 2025 open.substack.com/pub/occasion...

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occasional geographer | austin | Substack My personal Substack. Click to read occasional geographer, by austin, a Substack publication. Launched 4 hours ago.

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!

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reading buddy

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Northey Island

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TRADER joes*

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Arrived in Detroit for the #AAG! Geographers, please check out our session β€œMaking space for anticolonial geographies of and from the metropole?” which is running tomorrow morning in the 10am slot (please refer to the program for location info). In the meantime, I’m hitting up Trading Joe’s!!

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Excited to be presenting my paper about salmon conservation, river infrastructures and the River Severn's hidden colonial histories this Thursday in Oxford (and online). And in great company!!

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