Summer Wyatt-Buchan reviews ‘The Future We Choose” and praises its suggestions for making the world a greener place. The overall message of Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnacs’ The Future We Choose is abundantly clear from start to finish: it is “our world” and “our choice”. We are in control of our climatic future and we…
Jason Dittmer on Michael Jordan, why he feels ‘reasonably optimistic’, and his appointment as Head of Geography
Editor-in-Chief Tomi Haffety gets to know UCL Geography’s Head of Department in true 2020 fashion via a Zoom interview. 2020 has been a strange year for everyone. Returning to university, whether remotely or back in London, has not been the experience that we hoped we would have when UCL closed abruptly in March. Participating in…
The Politics of Mapping
Ross Holland examines the political consequences of mapping and using certain projections on maps, and the colonial history behind the maps we use everyday. Geography and politics are intrinsically linked. The amount of land a country owns is, more often than not, a huge factor in determining a country’s political power, as well as the…
