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…
Category: Environment
One Big COP Out: A Postcolonial Critique of COP26
Robyn Moffat explores the contradictory nature of COP26 and stresses the need for a postcolonial approach to climate activism. “To make a real change, we need a seat at the table” were the impassioned words of activist Catalina Santelices Brunel, representing Latinas for Climate, at COP26 this year. In theory, the United Nation’s Coalition of…
Individual vs Corporate action in the fight against climate change
Hollie Parry argues that there is an unjust amount of blame put onto individuals in the fight against climate change while the responsible corporations come away largely unscathed. As the Climate Clock in Times Square counts us down to a tipping point of irreversible change, many agree that more needs to be done to combat…
The Bloomsbury Geographer 