Environmental Geographer, University of Bristol
Author of "Power Plants", out in 2026 (https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192127/)
See also @peatscapes.bsky.social (http://peatscapes.com), funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
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‘The REF has now morphed into a hugely expensive, attention-engrossing status marker. Few things would improve the intellectual culture of universities more quickly than the complete abolition of this flawed and coercive exercise.’
Stefan Collini on universities
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Some people may remember that the majority of series editors resigned last summer in protest against Amsterdam University Press' sale of their film and media program to Taylor & Francis/Routledge. T&F and Routledge, while formerly respectable publishers, are now /
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💥New | The Matthew effect in AI summary
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Read Alex Loftus' review of the new #OpenAccess book by @laurieparsons.bsky.social "Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse" antipodeonline.org/2026/05/19/c... @lsepress.bsky.social @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
couldn‘t help thinking that this is so much smaller than the space it occupied in my head. there’s a relief in the objectification of thought: however troubling or obsessive, every idea can take the form of a handy, well-folded paperback.
Very exciting to have received final cover proofs for 'Power Plants' from @manchesterup.bsky.social.
I'm hugely grateful to Jenn Baka, Gavin Bridge and Cara Daggett for their very kind and generous endorsements.
The book is due out in June: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192127/
New in The GJ:
'Vegetal infrastructure: Rwanda's eucalyptus boom and the material politics of tree planting as a "nature-based solution"' by Nathan Clay
This paper critically evaluates local implications of global tree-planting mandates, drawing on fieldwork in Rwanda.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
Exciting to see another Peatscapes paper out in the world, led by our brilliant Nye Merrill-Glover!
A timely and critical collective essay on 'the state of the state', written by five members of our Editorial Board @will-davies.bsky.social @andrew-barry.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social Linsey McGoey and Samantha Ashenden
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
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It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
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Alex Loftus (King’s College London) on Laurie Parsons’ Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse Read Review
Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...
OnlineFirst - "Reduce, remove, avoid? Making a market for peatland carbon credits in the UK" by Aneurin Merrill-Glover, James Palmer, Roosa Rytkönen, and Kärg Kama:
@peatscapes.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
peatscapes.com
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