Tom Cross investigates the cryptic rise of dark kitchens by understanding customer data An order for a Shake Shack burger goes through on the Deliveroo app. A rider is assigned an order and then sent to collect it. But he doesn’t go to a high street. He heads to an industrial estate Battersea. Why? The…
Connection, Disconnection, and the Inbetween: the Silvertown Tunnel and Road Politics in London
Editor Johara Meyer grapples with the controversial politics of the Silvertown Tunnel construction. Geographers and theorists across a range of social sciences have utilised the language of connectivity to engage with the politics of infrastructure. Between the search for meaning in the wake of the cultural turn in the late 1980s to the more recent…
Is Geography coming out of the closet? Why queer geography matters.
Adapted from his brilliant first-year essay, praised heavily by the Geography department, Brendon Koh discusses the value of thinking geographically about the queer community. ‘Queer’ is inherently a term that is contested and often reconstituted (Watson 2005). For the sake of providing a working definition for this discussion, I will interpret ‘queer’ as a catch-all…
The Bloomsbury Geographer 