On the geopolitical landscapes of Gordon Cheung’s latest exhibition

On the geopolitical landscapes of Gordon Cheung’s latest body of work; Tirion Jenkins reflects on the current exhibition on display at Edel Assanti, a contemporary gallery in the heart of London’s Fitzrovia. As a geography student I have of course spent a lot of time thinking about connections – the international connections of globalization, the…

The relaunched Bloomsbury Geographer: the first editors

The first three editors of the Bloomsbury Geographer blog were Jessica Howard-Johnston, Marko Ristić-Smith, and Katharine Sherratt. Although the first discussions about relaunching the journal began in the spring of 2015, not all that long before their final exams, the editors did an excellent job of designing the blog, the associated facebook page, and the…

Science & metaphor in Gaia’s Global Circus

Ed. Katharine Sherratt The segregation between science and emotion is at its most obvious and dangerous in the political world of climate change. Exploring this, UCL Centre for Anthropology of Sustainability presented “Gaia: Global Circus”, a play designed by French philosopher, anthropologist, and sociologist Bruno Latour and performed for the first time in the UK….