The Bloomsbury Geographer is proud to publish one of the prize winning capstone assessments, exploring concepts from first year modules. “Just as all phenomena exist in time and thus have a history, they also exist in space and have a geography” This statement, used by the US National Research Council (1997: 28), epitomizes the idea…
2020 US Election: Biden VS Trump – How the Pandemic Uncovered the Fight for Democracy
Nathan Yang looks back on a tumultuous 2020 US Election in the wake of a global pandemic. With Joe Biden winning his 3rd attempt at running for US President against rival President Donald Trump, the legitimacy of the US political system on a domestic and international stage is questioned. What can we learn from this…
The Name Game
Daniel Hall discusses what ‘Lake Trump’ tells us about the geopolitics of naming in the Balkans. In the year 2020, it has become almost routine for headlines that could have easily been outlandish satire not so long ago to become reality. “Disputed reservoir on the Serbia-Kosovo border to be named after President Donald Trump” is…
