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Get Your Jacket On, We’re Going into the Field
By Briony Turner Source: author There’s nothing like getting to the raw base and passion of geography than by going out into the field. The literal fields and forests of the beautiful British...
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Who’s Behind our Maps?
Jen Dickie The headlines this week demonstrate how ubiquitous maps have become; yesterday alone there were at least 5 maps being used by The Guardian and the BBC to illustrate information to their...
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Changing Perceptions of the Other
By Catherine Waite Over the last week the media has been dominated by coverage of the conflict and subsequent ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. As with numerous...
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Mapping Education
by Benjamin Sacks As pupils, teachers, and parents head into the final weeks preceding the winter holiday, education remains a perennial and hotly debated issue. In the last week alone, Education...
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Human and Physical interactions
The recent floods in the UK have captured the imagination of the media and general population. The relationship between flood events and the human population have undeniably been highlighted by the UK...
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Changing the Space of Islam: France’s First ‘Gay Mosque’
by Jen Turner Last week, the Jerusalem Post reported that a French-Algerian homosexual man is planning to open a ‘mosque for gays’ in France and hopes to eventually conduct same-sex Muslim marriages....
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The Map Precedes the Territory
Martin Mahony The new map at the centre of a geopolitical dispute Geographers and critical cartographers have long acknowledged that maps do not simply and unproblematically represent the territory...
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Doha: A Pragmatic Turn in Global Climate Politics?
Martin Mahony The United Nations Climate Change Conference, Doha, Qatar, 2012 The conclusion of the recent United Nations (UN) climate change negotiations in Doha generated an interesting spread of...
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Before the Flood: Modelling Hybridity at the Science-Policy Interface
Martin Mahony Yesterday the UK Met Office reported that 2012 was the country’s second wettest year on record. The announcement was much anticipated, partly due to the simultaneous flooding of large...
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Bricks, Mortar and Bricolage: an Economic Geographer’s Take on the Stumbling...
by Briony Turner Tree of KnowledgeIf you can get past the academic jargon, there’s an interesting article on knowledge transfer of green building design by James Faulconbridge in Transactions of the...
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The Icelandic Ash-Cloud Saga – Three Years On
By Catherine Waite In the spring of 2010 the global media was dominated by stories of disruption as a result of the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull. Despite being a significant volcanic...
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Governing from Above: The Vertical Geopolitics of Climate Change
The laying of water pipes in Israel c. 1946. Hydrological politics are now a key site where climate change meets questions of sovereignty. Source: Wikimedia Commons Martin Mahony Global geopolitics...
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Directions for Geography: towards better public engagement
by Fiona Ferbrache As a geography lecturer, I often hear students enthuse about the diverse opportunities the discipline presents to them in terms of future careers. Geography embraces so much between...
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Avenues (The World School): the road to a global geography of education?
by Fiona Ferbrache As I walk by my former primary school on a Tuesday early morning, the current pupils must be gathered in assembly for I can hear the School hymn. Schooled in Guernsey, I studied the...
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The Crossrail ‘Black Death Pit’: Corpses and Dead Body Politics
by Jen Turner Excavations for London’s Crossrail project have unearthed bodies believed to date from the time of the Black Death. The £14.8bn Crossrail project aims to establish a 118km-long (73-mile)...
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Mapping Class
By Benjamin Sacks Conceptions of class remain inseparable from contemporary society, according to a BBC-commissioned study. The Great British Class Survey, undertaken by the BBC’s Lab UK and faculty at...
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Minding the Gap in Cartography: from maps to mapping practices
by Fiona Ferbrache World Map from 1664 If the biologist’s iconic tool of the trade is a microscope, then the geographer’s might well be a map. Both tools offer an alternative perspective of the world,...
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Google Street View: Spatial Technology and Behavioural Change
by Jen Turner Google Street View is a tool that many people will likely have used at some point in their lives. I myself have ‘dragged and dropped’ the little orange man onto a map of the street where...
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The Geography of Thatcherism: 1979-1983
By Benjamin Sacks Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013). © Wikimedia Commons. Irrespective of one’s opinion of Margaret Thatcher’s tenure as Prime Minister, few would disagree that her policies and legacies...
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Multicultural Encounters at School
By Catherine Waite Last week I attended an informal seminar event about multiculturalism and youth, and it got me thinking about the issues and debates that surround these topics. For example, a quick...
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