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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
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Exciting to see another Peatscapes paper out in the world, led by our brilliant Nye Merrill-Glover!
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.
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...
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....
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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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/
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
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...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
