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…

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…

On Felixstowe, and the Terror of the Logistical

Michael Walker analyses the geopolitics within vehicle logistics and importing/exporting goods. I live, as many Britons do, near a major road, the M42 in my case. There is no quiet here. Be it 2am or 9, its faint roar penetrates the glazing and worms into the brain; a comforting hum only noticed by absence, when…