catherine oliver

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) Embodying industrial transitions: Melancholy loss, interrupted habit and transitional memory after the end of a coal mine Vickie Zhang 2) Digital geographies of miscarriage: A ‘sister-ethnographic’ approach to pregnancy apps and loss Caroline (Carly) Bagelman & Jen Bagelman 3) Responsive and responsible methodologies. Emplacing care with collaborative filmmaking Jessica Jacobs & Alice Salimbeni 4) Édouard Glissant and the importance of reading well: Opacitic-reading as geographic method Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh 5) Data-bility: Endogamous social intimacies on dating apps in Mumbai Kavita Dattani 6) Dancing with foxes: More-than-human design in ‘the chicken city’ Catherine Oliver 7) Physical and virtual spaces across a continuum of remoteness: Exploring spatial ruptures in remote court hearings Jo Hynes 8) Postcolonial experiences of Chinese aid: Encountering and welcoming South–South aid from the middle Gemma Sou, Jennifer Day 9) Contested geopolitics of distribution in the city-region-building: Promoting enclave industrial parks in the Pearl River Delta, China Xianchun Zhang, Zihang Zhou, Yang Song

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 six tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Worlding and weirding with beaver: A more-than-human political ecology of ecosystem engineering Jamie Lorimer 2) Climate-controlled conservation: Remaking ‘the botanical metropolis of the world’ Jonathan Rutherford, Simon Marvin 3) Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands: The Maroon connection Ana Laura Zavala Guillen 4) Metabolic politics: A comparative synthesis Maan Barua 5) Conservation beyond biopolitics: Vulnerability and abundance in Chennai's nature-cultures Krithika Srinivasan 6) Geography and legal expertise: The transgressive nature of research at the boundary of geography and law-making Alex Jeffrey, Katherine Brickell, Fiona McConnell

📢June Issue of TIBG📢

The latest issue of TIBG is fully #OpenAccess, representing the breadth of the discipline with topics ranging from legal geography & court spaces to Chinese geopolitics, chickens, & dating apps.

Read the whole issue here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661... #geosky

The Animal Geography Working Group is now on Bluesky. Give us a follow @rgs-agwg.bsky.social to keep up with new essays, events, and more!

Woman’s life ruined after finding son’s father was undercover police officer, inquiry told More than 20 years after child was born, inquiry hears, woman found out truth about Bob Lambert in newspaper

Jacqui's harrowing testimony to the #spycops public inquiry took it to another level. A vulnerable woman just out of her teens, undercover officer Bob Lambert targeted her for sex & had a childwith her, knowing he'd abandon them both when his deployment ended.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Ethnographic shadowing and animal methods "without" methods — RGS Animal Geographies Carly Baker Pet-food companies are incorporating overpopulated species, insects, and cultured meat as ingredients as a response to increasing environmental impacts of pet food and concerns of animal...

A great blog from Carly Baker about animal methods "without" methods. Have a read here:

www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/met...

Excited to be advertising this collaborative PhD project idea with @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social

The section engages with a range of controversies and dilemmas related to theoretical, digital, more-than-human and creative archives, and features lovely pieces by @katiecmoliver.bsky.social, Jack Palmer, Molly Drummond, as well as @wrighttom.bsky.social + me (plus a roundtable!)

Volume 20 Issue 2 | Cultural Politics | Duke University Press

The first special section to mark 20 years of Cultural Politics - 'Unfamiliar Archives' - has just come out; it was a huge pleasure to work on with some of my favourite academic colleagues: read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-pol...
@dukepress.bsky.social

Apocalyptic nothingness: lacks, holes, and the limits of the geographical imagination This paper addresses the relationship between space, negativity, and apocalypses. Following Jacques Lacan, I introduce the distinction between ‘lack’ and ‘hole’, whereby the lack is considered in s...

"Apocalyptic nothingness" has recently been published in Social & Cultural Geography (open access). In it, I investigate two shades of nothingness as they appear in both fictional and non-fictional apocalyptic imaginaries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🐄🌬️ Our new paper on bovine #metabolism is out today in the new issue of Environmental Humanities!

Adam Searle, Katie Oliver & I discuss how cows figure in metabolic interventions into the climate writ large.

read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... @admsrl.bsky.social @katiecmoliver.bsky.social

Feat. @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @katiecmoliver.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social, Olivia Ange, Viola Schreer, @alicerudge.bsky.social, Columba Gonzalez-Duarte, Jan van der Valk, Christos Lynteris. + Thanks to Paul Thung, Anna Stepien, @sophiah.bsky.social, Candie Furber!

Our @GLO_ERC special section, '#Heroes and #Villains in the #Anthropocene', is finally out in @EnvHumanities! We explore ideas of heroism & villainy + politics of blame in an age of planetary crisis and ask how these can be reworked for the present read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

‘Inestimable importance’: 500-year-old cache of pressed flowers reveals new secrets Thousands of specimens from the 1500s show huge changes to Bologna’s flora due to climate crisis and migration, say researchers

“Aldrovandi’s herbarium preserves the memory of the first signs of a radical transformation of the European flora and habitats.”

The living stories these pressed plants still tell of climate, migrations and time.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Three bowls of dips. One is hummus topped with olives, one is baba ganoush topped with dukkah and the third is red pepper topped with tomatoes. In the middle is a bottle of zaytoun, Palestinian olive oil

been making dips @cgold.bsky.social 👀🇵🇸

Backs of vigil attendees in a town square, looking toward a stage with a Jewish speaker and an Arab speaker standing together, on an overcast day.

Lancaster against genocide 🕊️🇵🇸

Pictured: the daughter of a Kindertransport child addressing the crowd.

Now children are reciting the names of murdered Palestinians. 💔

This was some point between 2015 and 2019, i think (because I distinctly remember considering quitting my PhD to become a vegan cheese maker)

I need some (UK) vegan memory help!

Does anyone remember a few years ago, Bute Island Sheese advertising for people to go work for them on Bute? Was there an organised job marketing campaign?

I don't think I'm imagining it, but I also can't find any evidence of it

Scholars, students and activists in the UK stand in solidarity with Palestinians and call for an end... 18 October 2023 We, concerned scholars, students, and activists in the UK, affirm our unequivocal support with the Palestinian people. We heed the calls from Palestinian universities, trade unions an...

Scholars, students, activists in the UK, please sign this letter:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Poster for the National March for Palestine. London, Saturday 28 October, meeting at 12pm at Embankment, Victoria

We keep doing this. The next London march for Palestine is on Saturday. Ceasefire now. End the siege. End the occupation.
(Poster by Tom Greenwood)

Flyer with drawing of birthing seahorse. All info available at link in post

Registration is now live! Durham Trans Ecologies Symposium, 22-23 Nov 2023, online only. Visit tinyurl.com/TransEcologiesRegistration to see the full programme and reserve your place by 15 Nov

Omg top work - book the secret cinema, let’s screen this!

I haven’t seen it but something in the back of my mind says there might be a video copy in Ryder’s archive at the British Library. Don’t quote me on it - I’d have to check my notes! Would love to see it though - hope Kate knows more

Don’t mean to brag but a student just told me I am an icon 💅

Omg that looks JUST like parsley!

Yes, it’s October, but they have SINGING YETIS

Putting on my out of office for a day of “research commitments” (going to the garden centre to look at the Christmas displays)

Always remember what keir starmer said about brianna ghey: absolutely nothing

Probably doesn’t help that our term starts so late that I’ve been getting second hand anxiety for weeks already

The pre-semester anxiety is really starting to hit now. I hate being busy! I was not made to work, I was made to sit and stare at the sea all day

Geographers and geography adjacent folks: what are the most interesting, most fun, most creative methodologies you've seen recently? Looking for examples to show students beginning their dissertation process.

Not a particularly useful skill, but nonetheless one honed over years of bullshit