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…
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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…
Lockdown 2.0 : spaces, signs and symbols of a pandemic
Johara Meyer documents her experience of wandering through Camden during the second Coronavirus Lockdown in the UK. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has altered geographies of our everyday world: analyses of local/regional/global transition patterns underpin efforts to “flatten the curve”, human behaviour in places is governed by geographic containment strategies, and inherently spatial concepts of ‘social…