Geo: Geography and Environment

Using Participatory Mapping to Strengthen Indigenous Resilience for Wildfire Risk: Lessons From Capoto/Jarina, Brazil This study explores how participatory mapping can support wildfire resilience strategies in Indigenous communities of the Brazilian Amazon. Drawing on participatory mapping exercises in three village...

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'Using participatory mapping to strengthen indigenous resilience for wildfire risk: Lessons from Capoto/Jarina, Brazil' by Michel Valette et al.

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Mapping human-fire interactions'

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Transdisciplinary Art and Climate Science Collaborations: Framework Conditions Creating Epistemic Injustices This article examines how framework conditions of transdisciplinary art-science collaborations influence collaborative dynamics of knowledge integration and contribute to epistemic injustice. Epistem...

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'Transdisciplinary art and climate science collaborations: Framework conditions creating epistemic injustices' by Johanna Paschen

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by A. R. Croker, R. Stafford & Y. Kountouris (2026) entitled: 'Belief Network Assessment of Fire Management in East African Savannas Under Socioeconomic and Climate Change' with an orange banner at the top.

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'Belief network assessment of fire management in East African savannas under socioeconomic and climate change' by A. R. Croker et al.

This paper evaluates 7 fire management approaches in Kenya's Tsavo Conservation Area.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Ami Crowther, Tom Hambley, Stefano Magariello & Kate Baker (2026) entitled: 'Engaging With Multi-Level Climate Governance: A Place-Based Exploration of Public Perceptions of a Local Climate Change Strategy' with an orange banner at the top. The achievement of the UK government's national climate targets is dependent on sub-national activity. The distribution of responsibility across governance actors at multiple scales has resulted in the development of different climate change strategies. Increasingly, these strategies draw upon a place-based approach, as this supports the development of strategies that better capture local contexts. Yet, when developing place-based strategies, there is the need for early, meaningful and ongoing engagement with a diverse and extensive range of publics to fully capture local contexts. Drawing upon insights obtained through workshops conducted with local publics in Cambridge, UK, this paper unpacks tensions between publics and governance actors in relation to Cambridge City Council's 2021–2026 Climate Change Strategy. Utilising a relational place-based framing, the paper discusses: (1) the misalignment between the strategy and the priorities of publics; (2) the perceived disjuncture in how the strategy is being implemented; and (3) approaches for addressing the tensions identified. The paper closes with empirically informed recommendations for developing local climate strategies, which are of relevance for any context whereby (local) strategies are being developed and implemented.

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'Engaging with multi-level climate governance: A place-based exploration of public perceptions of a local climate change strategy' by Ami Crowther et al.

This paper draws on workshops in Cambridge to explore perceptions of the council's Climate Change Strategy

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Bjørk Tørnqvist & Bregje van Veelen (2026) entitled: 'Mental Oil Spills: Visualising Petroleumscapes to Uncover Petro-Hegemony in Stavanger, Norway' with an orange banner at the top. With the urgent need to address climate change, it is critical to confront fossil fuel dependency, particularly in the Global North. This requires confronting the spatio-cultural dimensions of fossil fuels, including how they have become embedded in those locations most closely tied to the fossil fuel industry. This article integrates insights from energy geographies with Hein's concept of petroleumscape to unpack how oil is embedded in Stavanger, Norway's oil capital. This article argues that attention must be paid to local petroleumscapes in order to better unpack how fossil fuel dependency becomes spatially embedded in locally differentiated ways, while simultaneously reinforcing a global petroleumscape. Through qualitative participatory mapping, the article visualises perceived spatialities of petroleum by Stavanger's citizens. Empirically, the article finds that although petroleum is seen as at once hyper-visible and obscured, the city is characterised by a petro-omnipresence. Furthermore, the article finds that petroleum produces a particular social space through the funding of public goods, while also producing social inequalities that are experienced spatially through unequal housing patterns and leisure activities. These insights contribute to uncovering the obscured, yet all-encompassing influences of petroleum on social–ecological spaces in a highly oil-dependent and oil-producing region.

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'Mental oil spills: Visualising petroleumscapes to uncover petro-hegemony in Stavanger, Norway' by Bjørk Tørnqvist & @bvanveelen.bsky.social

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Mapping Climate Change Perceptions'.

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Climate change responses in the Pacific: just transformation or transforming justice? By Ilan Kelman, University College London and Simon Hollis, Swedish Defence University Climate change is affecting Pacific Islanders who are often advised from outside the Pacific to respond throug…

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Ilan Kelman & Simon Hollis (2026) entitled: 'Climate Change Responses in the Pacific: Just Transformation or Transforming Justice?' with an orange banner at the top. Pacific Islanders are being affected by climate change and are often advised from outside the Pacific to respond through justice and transformation. This paper aims to step back from such rhetoric in order to examine its implications. Through considering four types of ‘fatigue’, it asks whether or not transformation and justice approaches for climate change responses account for on-the-ground circumstances of Pacific Islands and Islanders. Possible consequences of the language of transformation and justice are then explored. Critique can lead to responses which suggest how identified difficulties could be overcome through the Pacific approach of talanoa. Conclusions indicate how talanoa can assist in avoiding external impositions without bypassing what non-Pacific approaches offer the Pacific—and especially vice versa.

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'Climate change responses in the Pacific: Just transformation or transforming justice?' by @ilankelman.bsky.social & Simon Hollis

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Political ecologies of islands: Environmental and climate (in)justices'.

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Climate Change Responses in the Pacific: Just Transformation or Transforming Justice? Through considering four types of ‘fatigue’, this article asks whether or not transformation and justice approaches for climate change account for on-the-ground circumstances of Pacific Islands and I...

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by E. Cotterill, I. Jon & H. Pitt (2026) entitled: 'Copenhagen not Copacabana? Practices and Perspectives for Fieldwork Without Flying' with an orange banner at the top.

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'Copenhagen not Copacabana? Practices and perspectives for fieldwork without flying' by E. Cotterill, @ihnji.bsky.social & @routesandroots.bsky.social

This paper addresses the challenges of designing fieldtrips around long-distance train travel.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Annika Kühn, Teresa Erbach, Hilke Marit Berger & Haratua Zosran (2026) entitled: 'Playful Mapping for Climate Adaptation: Two Case Studies From Jakarta's Coast' with an orange banner at the top. While playful methods are increasingly used in participatory mapping processes, their strategic value, particularly in relation to climate adaptation, remains underexamined. This paper explores the potential and limitations of playful mapping approaches in climate adaptation, focusing on two qualitative case studies in Jakarta's flood-prone Kampung Akuarium: memory mapping with children and speculative gameplay with residents and government officials. Both approaches are examined in terms of their methodological strengths and weaknesses as well as their impact and scalability. The findings show that playful and participatory mapping tools open spaces for storytelling, imagination and collective reflection. They make visible immaterial cultural heritage and emotional aspects often excluded from technocratic planning, allowing participants to articulate the cultural dimensions of urban transformation. Yet, these insights often remain symbolic without pathways for institutional uptake. The paper argues that the context-specific potentials and the downsides of playful methods need to be evaluated carefully. Where their contribution to adaptation processes outweighs their resource-intensiveness, they should be treated not only as experiential formats but as strategic instruments embedded in long-term, co-creative research infrastructures.

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'Playful mapping for climate adaptation: Two case studies from Jakarta's coast' by Annika Kühn et al.

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Mapping Climate Change Perceptions'.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Khiddir Iddris, Andreas Buerkert, Ellen Hoffmann, Katharina Hemmler & Martin Oteng-Ababio (2026) entitled: 'Navigating the Path to Sustainable Rurbanity: The Assemblage of Livelihood Pursuits in E-Waste Hubs of Urban Accra' with an orange banner at the top.

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'Navigating the path to sustainable rurbanity: The assemblage of livelihood pursuits in e-waste hubs of urban Accra' by Khiddir Iddris et al.

This paper uses assemblage theory to analyse the governance of e-waste recycling in Accra, Ghana.

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Where do you start the story of climate change? By Charlotte Weatherill, University of Manchester Where you start any story matters. Especially when describing how a problem came to be, your starting point establishes what has caused it, and the…

I've written a new blog - Where do you start the story of climate change?

This blog lays out the argument for why climate baselines should not be taken from the industrial revolution, and why the science needs to get past its fixation on attribution.

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A graphical abstract for a paper in Geo: Geography and Environment. It shows a wheel graphic with 'Adaptive mobile cultures' in the centre, and different sections around it: Environmental mobilities, Beyond human, Adaptive livelihoods, and Indigenous knowledge. From each of these stems 'adaptive frictions' such as development-induced immobility, epistemic dominance of Western scientific paradigms, and sedentary adaptation approaches. These are explored in the paper.

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'Cultural heritage in motion: Adaptive mobile cultures of (semi)nomadic Indigenous people in changing climates' by Nuhu Adeiza Ismail et al.

This paper draws on empirical research carried out in Thailand, Ethiopia and Senegal.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Md. Naimur Rahman, Md. Mushfiqus Saleheen, Md. Rakib Hasan Rony, Biddut Kumar Ghosh, Md. Abdur Rouf Sarkar & Kevin Lo (2026) entitled: 'Modelling the Effects of Urban Growth on Land Surface Temperature and Carbon Emissions Through Geospatial and Machine Learning Techniques in Gazipur, Bangladesh' with an orange banner at the top. The rapid expansion of urban areas and their significant effects on carbon emissions and the urban heat landscape have become major research subjects in Bangladesh. The primary aim of this study was to analyse the changes in land use and land cover (LULC) and land surface temperature (LST) from 2003 to 2023 and project them to 2043 for Gazipur, Bangladesh. Additionally, spatiotemporal variations in carbon emissions during summer and winter and their relationships with the LST were explored. A support vector machine (SVM) was used to evaluate changes in LULC. Furthermore, Cellular Automata-Artificial Neural Network (CA-ANN) models were utilised to investigate the future dynamics of LST and LULC. The findings of the study include urban expansion from 3% in 2003 to 18% in 2023, and its projected value indicates an expansion of 315 km2 in 2043 from 52 km2 in 2003. Therefore, the projected LST results indicate a notable increase of 10°C for the winter season in 2043. The correlation between LST and carbon emissions showed strong R2 values for both summer and winter. Specifically, the R2 values were 0.93 and 0.97 for summer and 0.91 and 0.94 for winter in 2013 and 2019, respectively. This investigation has the potential to offer novel insights into prospective urban development, effective management of thermal environments and strategies for mitigating carbon emissions.

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'Modelling the effects of urban growth on land surface temperature and carbon emissions through geospatial and machine learning techniques in Gazipur, Bangladesh' by Md. Naimur Rahman et al.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Kapil Yadav & Henry Thompson (2025) entitled: 'Adding Lines Along Pixels: Remote Sensing, Traditional Knowledge and Human–Fire Interactions in Ethiopia and India' with an orange banner at the top. This study critically examines the limitations of satellite remote sensing (SRS) in capturing the complexities of human–fire interactions. It proposes a relational approach grounded in the embodied, place-based knowledge of communities living with fire. Conventional SRS reduces fire to pixels, providing a synoptic yet partial view of fire regimes. Fire governance shaped by these representations often marginalises local practices, knowledge, and priorities. Drawing on relational theory and critical remote sensing scholarship, we introduce ‘adding lines along pixels’, an approach that reworks the use of SRS through a situated, community-centred perspective. Here, lines denote the dynamic relations among fire, people, landscapes, and institutions, which pixel-based methods overlook. Our case studies in Ethiopia and India used satellite data alongside ethnographic and participatory approaches to explore not only where and when fires occur, but also why they emerge and how they are embedded in seasonal rhythms, livelihood practices and local governance. This approach challenges the prevailing narratives that marginalise local fire use and underscores the need to engage with diverse knowledge systems for more inclusive and effective fire management. As fire governance is reshaped by climate change and digital technologies, such critical engagements are essential for co-producing sustainable fire futures.

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'Adding lines along pixels: Remote sensing, traditional knowledge and human-fire interactions in Ethiopia and India' by Kapil Yadav & Henry Thompson

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Mapping Human-Fire Interactions'.

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Beyond Alternative Energy Markets Without Morals: Examining the North Carolina Clean Energy Plan in Robeson County, NC, USA This commentary critically examines the North Carolina Clean Energy Plan (CEP) through the lens of energy justice, focusing on Robeson County, North Carolina, USA—a region paradoxically leading in so...

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'Beyond alternative energy markets without morals: Examining the North Carolina clean energy plan in Robeson County, NC, USA' by Sebastian Boute & @socistmjs.bsky.social

This commentary examines solar energy in Robeson County through the lens of energy justice

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Title: ‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess. Abstract: How climate change is narrated matters. Every story that is told of climate change contains its own causes of the problem, its own solutions and its own vision of the future. This article juxtaposes two stories: the dominant story of climate change as represented by the IPCC and a counter-story of climate change as ‘imperial mess’. This language comes from Alice Te Punga Somerville and her book Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay About Captain Cook (2020). In this book, Te Punga Somerville writes about colonialism in Aotearoa and the Pacific as a story that can be told in endless different ways, with each story drawing out different elements. Number 223 of her project, ‘In Montebello Islands’, discusses the British nuclear weapons testing programme. The tests were called ‘Operation Hurricane’, and Te Punga Somerville writes that the whole imperial mess of the past five centuries could be called “Operation Hurricane”. This article takes this claim as a prompt, both methodologically and theoretically, in order to argue that climate change needs to be understood in a historically and geographically informed way, where the colonial history becomes the present, coloniality and resistance entwine and the ‘way out of the mess’ has to be found in a fight against the entirety of Operation Hurricane. The contribution of the article is twofold: First, this article contributes to literatures that understand climate change as a historical process of imperial violence, by directly addressing what this changes about an analysis of climate politics. Second, it contributes to critiques of the IPCC by showing how its approach depoliticises climate change through the way it narrates and communicates climate science as separate from historical and structural processes.

ICYMI My new article on the material politics of climate storytelling.

I use an experimental approach to juxtapose two stories of climate change in the Pacific. That of the IPCC, representing the dominant narrative, & then an anti-imperial version.
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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Xiaoxuan Lu (2025) entitled: 'Entangled frontiers: Uncovering the hydrosocial territories of Shenzhen' with an orange banner at the top.

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'Entangled frontiers: Uncovering the hydrosocial territories of Shenzhen' by Xiaoxuan Lu

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Blue Infrastructures: Mapping the visual while unpacking the unseen'.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Mariusz Lamentowicz, Grzegorz Micek, Mateusz C. Strzelecki & Tomasz Wites (2025) entitled: 'Shaping Interconnected Geography in Central and Eastern European Academia—Key Research Challenges for the Future' with an orange banner at the top.

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'Shaping interconnected geography in Central and Eastern European academia—Key research challenges for the future' by @utriculator.bsky.social et al.

This paper explores the entanglement of the natural & social sciences in Central & Eastern European geography

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Emily Stone, Rebecca Holloway, Brendan Moore, Michael Steckler & Robert Stojanov (2025) entitled: 'Desires for In Situ Adaptation Versus Out-Migration? The Impact of Flooding and Cyclones on Polder Communities in the Bangladesh Delta' with an orange banner at the top. In Bangladesh's delta, rural communities have long held lives inseparable from seasonal flooding, adapting their homes and livelihoods to the annual monsoon. However, land subsidence, changing seasons, severe storms, increased salinity, and rising sea levels are threatening local livelihoods. The objective of this paper is to understand rural residents' perceptions of climate impacts and adaptation measures, focusing on their mobility choices. Through 15 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 22 representatives from two embanked polder localities in southwest Bangladesh, we explored the following questions: (i) How do local residents perceive recent climate and environmental changes? (ii) How are local residents coping with these changes and what external assistance do they require to maintain their livelihoods; and (iii) How do local residents perceive migration or partial migration as a potential adaptation strategy? While these communities report an increased frequency of extreme climate events and severe flooding, our findings also reveal a lack of external assistance for adaptation solutions. Moreover, most families are either unwilling or unable to completely migrate out of affected areas. Therefore, increased support—the provision of fresh drinking water, money to recoup lost income and assistance rebuilding or reinforcing homes—is essential for building adaptive capacity and increasing local resilience in the face of climate shocks.

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'Desires for in situ adaptation versus out-migration? The impact of flooding and cyclones on polder communities in the Bangladesh delta' by Emily Stone et al.

This paper draws on in-depth interviews with residents of rural polder communities in Bangladesh.

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Beyond Nation‐State Climate Governance: Cuerpo‐Territorio and Decolonial Feminist Pathways to Justice Climate governance fails not despite nation-states' efforts at inclusion but because the nation-state form itself, in its dependence on the severance of body-territory cannot address how this severan...

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'Beyond nation-state climate governance: 𝘊𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘰-𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘰 and decolonial feminist pathways to justice' by Miriam Gay-Antaki

This paper explores COP and UNFCCC negotiations to critically interrogate human rights approaches to climate justice.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Luca Scheunpflug & Kira Gee (2025) entitled: 'Repoliticising the Coast: A Post-Foundational Commentary on Integrative Governance and Blue Infrastructure' with an orange banner at the top.

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'Repoliticising the coast: A post-foundational commentary on integrative governance and blue infrastructure' by Luca Scheunpflug & Kira Gee

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Blue Infrastructures: Mapping the visual while unpacking the unseen'.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Katie Keddie, Sam Beaver, Elizabeth A. Law, Christopher D. Ives & Rachel S. Friedman (2025) entitled: 'Place-Based Sustainability Transformations for Just Futures: A Systematic Review' with an orange banner at the top. The planet is facing enduring and intersecting challenges from climate change, land degradation, habitat and biodiversity loss, as well as social inequalities. To achieve sustainability in the face of these crises, transformative changes are essential. While the path towards a more sustainable future has the capacity to bring net social benefits, it also holds the potential to exacerbate vulnerabilities. As such, there is growing recognition that social equity and justice must be central to action for sustainability transformations. However, it remains unclear what characterises a ‘just transformation’ and how to achieve it. To develop a baseline understanding of how social justice is integrated into sustainability transformations and to help guide research and practice in this emerging field, we present a systematic literature review of 125 papers that explicitly account for social equity and justice in research on place-based transformations. Results reveal considerable variation and ambiguity in how the concepts of transformation and equity are employed, and highlight a focus on a narrow set of systems, with a large number of papers focusing on energy and urban transformations, located primarily in the Global North. While distributional and procedural dimensions of justice are frequently addressed, contextual and restorative justice remain underexplored. We identify key areas that require future attention in research and practice, including promoting interdisciplinary research that champions global inclusivity as well as a more explicit consideration of contextual justice and place.

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'Place-based sustainability transformations for just futures: A systematic review' by Katie Keddie et al.

This paper presents a review of research on sustainability transformations, revealing significant variation in how justice & equity are addressed.

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Mapping Africa's Climate Extremes: Delineation of Thermal Equator Under Current and Future Climate Scenarios This study presents a high-resolution mapping of the thermal equator's migration across Africa under a high-emissions climate scenario (SSP3-7.0). Using CHELSA V2.1 and downscaled CMIP6 data, I ident...

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'Mapping Africa's climate extremes: Delineation of thermal equator under current & future climate scenarios' by Tabaro Kabanda

This study presents a high-resolution mapping of the thermal equator's migration across Africa under a high-emissions climate scenario
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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by James A. Fraser, Mauricio Torres, Luke Parry, Wilde Itaborahy, Victoria Frausin, Natalia Guerrero & Josinaldo Aleixo (2025) entitled: 'The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?' with an orange banner at the top.

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'The Amazonian common use territory: Pluriverse or insurgent universality?' by @jfraser.bsky.social et al.

This paper analyses Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum, drawing on Karen Ng's interpretation of Fanon's concept of concrete universal humanity.

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ABSTRACT How climate change is narrated matters. Every story that is told of climate change contains its own causes of the problem, its own solutions and its own vision of the future. This article juxtaposes two stories: the dominant story of climate change as represented by the IPCC and a counter-story of climate change as ‘imperial mess’. This language comes from Alice Te Punga Somerville and her book Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay About Captain Cook (2020). In this book, Te Punga Somerville writes about colonialism in Aotearoa and the Pacific as a story that can be told in endless different ways, with each story drawing out different elements. Number 223 of her project, ‘In Montebello Islands’, discusses the British nuclear weapons testing programme. The tests were called ‘Operation Hurricane’, and Te Punga Somerville writes that the whole imperial mess of the past five centuries could be called “Operation Hurricane”. This article takes this claim as a prompt, both methodologically and theoretically, in order to argue that climate change needs to be understood in a historically and geographically informed way, where the colonial history becomes the present, coloniality and resistance entwine and the ‘way out of the mess’ has to be found in a fight against the entirety of Operation Hurricane. The contribution of the article is twofold: First, this article contributes to literatures that understand climate change as a historical process of imperial violence, by directly addressing what this changes about an analysis of climate politics. Second, it contributes to critiques of the IPCC by showing how its approach depoliticises climate change through the way it narrates and communicates climate science as separate from historical and structural processes.

Today is my first day in my new job at the Uni of Manchester, and I have a new article to share!

‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess.

This article is something a bit different, playing with format to explore why climate storytelling matters.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Dennis Schüpf & Jonas Hein (2025) entitled: 'Adapting to Uncertainty: Knowing Shifting Sands and Blue Infrastructure in Unpredictable Seas' with an orange banner at the top.

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'Adapting to uncertainty: Knowing shifting sands and blue infrastructure in unpredictable seas' by @dennis228.bsky.social & Jonas Hein

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: Blue Infrastructures: Mapping the visual while unpacking the unseen'.

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