Development Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG)

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🌍📢 Call for Papers!! Urban Studies seeks submissions for a special issue on Climate Urbanism, Resilience & Justice — exploring how cities confront the climate crisis, risk, & inequality. @urbanstudiesjournal.com @acuto.bsky.social
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Hey climate experienced and climate curious political scientists:

Send your hottest (!) climate paper to this @epssnet.bsky.social section 🔥🌱🔌

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Just a little reminder:
Applications for the position as Professor for Urban and Regional Geography are still possible!
Deadline is Sept. 28, 2025

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Kabila Abass, Gift Dumedah, Aminu Dramani, Andrews Ofosu, Lawrence Guodaar, Emmanuel Nyaaba, Alex Yao Segbefia, Kwadwo Afriyie, Hubert Bimpeh Asiedu, George Appiah, Samuel Awuni Azinga & Razak M. Gyasi entitled: "‘We live in fear and face endless physical and emotional health problems’: Perceived health implications of floods among urban households in Ghana" Urban flooding significantly affects the health and well-being of populations, yet its health impacts remain underexplored in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper investigates the health effects of recurring floods on households in Greater Kumasi through a qualitative study involving 55 purposively selected household heads. The findings reveal substantial negative health consequences, including immediate and medium-term issues such as injuries, bodily pain, fatigue, skin infections, upper respiratory diseases, diarrhoea, typhoid fever, and fatalities from drowning. Additionally, the study highlights a high prevalence of long-term psychological distress among affected households. The findings highlight the under-researched nexus between flooding and health in SSA and underscore the need for more vigorous institutional enforcement of land-use regulations, public education and collaborative health interventions involving the Ministry of Health and other key stakeholders. These measures are critical for reducing the health risks of floods and building resilience in vulnerable communities.

New in The GJ:

'"We live in fear and face endless physical and emotional health problems": Perceived health implications of floods among urban households in Ghana' by Kabila Abass et al.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

Text saying: "Call for Panels - submit by 07 September 2025! with logo, titles and dates of the conference and image from Antwerp

📢 Call for Panels for our flagship event! ⛵

EADI / IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local solutions?

📅 29 June – 2 July 2026
📍 @iobua.bsky.social, University of Antwerp, Belgium
⏰ Deadline for submissions: 7 September 2025
➡️ bit.ly/EADI-IOB-26-call

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA - Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

The latest event for @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social is now open for registration:

'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' will have three speakers: @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social ; @kaiheron.bsky.social and Jane Clarke.

@mybisa.bsky.social

www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...

🚨The Development Geographies Research Group AGM is tomorrow! Email the address below for the meeting link. 🚨

📣 @crasshlive.bsky.social call for papers!
Interdisciplinary perspectives on empire, colonialism, and anticolonialism

This call for papers is aimed at presenters from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences at any stage of their career

⏰ Submit by 30 August 2025
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Our AGM is coming up next week! 💃

Teaching Fellow in Global Development Job at UEA - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK784/t...

Teaching Fellow (110795-0825) at University of Warwick Searching for an academic job? Explore this Teaching Fellow (110795-0825) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Teaching Fellow in Global Sustainable Development Job at Warwick - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK759/t...

The @devgeogsrg.bsky.social ‬AGM will take place on Wednesday, 3rd September from 1.00 to 2.30pm on Zoom. Get in touch for further details! We hope to see you there. 😊

Dialogues in Human Geography - Volume 15, Number 2 Table of contents for Dialogues in Human Geography, 15, 2

The July 2025 Issue of Dialogues in Human Geography is now available.

Including three regular article forums and two book review forums.

Available here:

journals.sagepub.com/toc/DHG/curr...

Interesting PhD opportunity: karriere.uni-vechta.de/fileadmin_ka...

Screenshot of an abstract in Area by Jeremy Schmidt, Mary Lawhon, Jonathan Darling & Eli Lazarus (2025) entitled 'Areas of opportunity' Short Abstract This editorial introduces Area's new editorial team and offers a collective sense of why Area continues to be an important outlet for geographical scholarship.

📢New Editorial in Area📢

Our new editorial team, @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social, @jonnydarling.bsky.social, @envidynxlab.bsky.social & Mary Lawhon, have written their first editorial outlining their ambitions for the journal - have a read here⬇️

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

The contribution of Social and Solidarity Economies to Just Sustainability Transformations in the North of England. at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The contribution of Social and Solidarity Economies to Just Sustainability Transformations in the North of England. at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Research Associate - London (Greater) (GB) job with KINGS COLLEGE LONDON | 393304 The Centre for the Study of Governance and Society (CSGS) in the Department of Political Economy (DPE) is seeking a one-year post-doctoral fellow ...

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Postdoctoral Fellow - Justice and Electricity Transmission - Sydney, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 396116 As such, we see the importance of recruiting talent aligned to these values and are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow ...

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SAP+D - Postdoctoral Researcher - Urban Heritage and Spatial Justice - Morocco (MA) job with MOHAMMED VI POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY | 395582 SAP+D invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher to contribute to a project exploring the intersection between urban heritage ...

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OnlineFirst - "The political ecology of new disease in Tema, Ghana" by Halie Kampman:

#politicalecologyofhealth #Ghana #newdiseases #chemicalfertilizer #hybridknowledges

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The Crisis of Development and Development Studies and Possibilities for Transformation By Sebeka Richard Plaatjie Development requires human persons to exist. On this basis it is reasonable to suggest that human life or the preservation thereof, is the foremost condition for developm…

Here, Sebeka Richard Plaatjie calls for a new paradigm of development and Development Studies altogether
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1767

In Defence of Development Studies: Why “Global Development” Falls Short By Alfredo Saad-Filho There is a growing debate in academic circles about the merits of shifting from traditional Development Studies to a broader concept of “Global Development”. While proponents …

Here, @alfredosaadfilho.bsky.social strongly argues for keeping the discipline of Development Studies focuse on the "specificity to the economic, social, and political structures in the Global South"
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2102

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The @devgeogsrg.bsky.social ‬AGM will take place on Wednesday, 3rd September from 1.00 to 2.30pm on Zoom. Get in touch for further details! We hope to see you there. 😊

For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town Understanding eviction as a positioning of bodies and loss in a property relation, I argue a critical logistical reading may offer a means of describing the capacity to evict within the economic, rac...

Great new paper from Alex Baker in Antipode

“For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town”

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Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Paul Griffin, John Clayton & Edith Adamson (2025) entitled 'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' with a blue banner at the top. This short intervention offers a historical geography-informed approach to shape understandings of the events and racialised violence of summer 2024 in the United Kingdom. We draw upon Black British Cultural Studies to foreground the importance of temporality and spatial relations for understanding racialised violence. In doing so, we identify continuities across 100 years of racialised violence in Britain whilst also noting important differences. We revisit riotous events from 1919, 1981 and 2001 to illustrate the persistence of exclusionary racism within Britain, whilst also pointing towards the endurance of anti-racist resistance and alternative world views. Our argument points towards the immediacy of violence, in both mundane and spectacular forms, as well as the longer lasting realm of the everyday where racialised violence is (re)produced.

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' by @paulgriffin1.bsky.social et al.

This piece forms part of a collection of commentaries reflecting on the UK riots which followed last July's Southport attack.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate - Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) is pleased to announce a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position as part of a Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Counterma...

Senior Research Associate Position on "Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge" - hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Professorship in Human Geography at TU Dresden University, Germany TU Dresden, a university of excellence, invites applications for a W3 Professorship in Human Geography. Join a world-class institution, lead impactful research, and contribute to interdisciplinary education in Germany.

Professorship in Human Geography at TU Dresden University, Germany

TU Dresden, a university of excellence, invites applications for a W3 Professorship in Human Geography. Join a world-class institution, lead impactful research, and contribute to interdisciplinary education in Germany.

New publication (open access) in Progress in Human Geography!

For a political economy of housing and health

(@proghumgeog.bsky.social)
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