Geography Directions
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Geographical expertise applied to the issues that matter most. An @RGS_IBG blog.
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'These gardens are not just about alleviating hunger. They challenge neoliberal logics that treat land as a commodity and people as passive consumers. They remind us that cities can be made differently, from the ground up' - Tinashe P. Kanosvamhira. https://t.co/IArp7iXVVK
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By Tinashe P. Kanosvamhira, University of Leeds Community gardens may look like simple patches of vegetables, herbs and flowers. But beyond this they are places of survival, resilience, and quiet r…
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*New post* by Rory Coulter (@UCLgeography): 'Understanding social and spatial patterns of overcrowding in England and Wales'. https://t.co/xiL1Ms8mWJ
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By Rory Coulter, University College London One of the few things that Britain’s political parties agree is that the country faces a housing crisis. One sign of this is overcrowding, where people li…
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*New post* by Tinashe P. Kanosvamhira (University of Leeds): 'Cape Town community gardens: growing justice' https://t.co/IArp7iXVVK
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By Tinashe P. Kanosvamhira, University of Leeds Community gardens may look like simple patches of vegetables, herbs and flowers. But beyond this they are places of survival, resilience, and quiet r…
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'The future of UK-EU youth mobility will ultimately be determined by how successfully policymakers can map new geographies of opportunity that serve the next generation of Europeans—on both sides of the Channel' - @michealoregan (@CaledonianNews). https://t.co/BZkDLqsKQi
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By Michael O’Regan, Glasgow Caledonian University Brexit didn’t just redraw political boundaries—it fundamentally transformed the geography of opportunity for young Europeans. Where once a young pe…
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*New post* by @michealoregan (@CaledonianNews): 'Remapping youth mobility and Working Holiday Maker schemes: geographic lessons for UK-EU relations post-Brexit'. https://t.co/BZkDLqsKQi
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By Michael O’Regan, Glasgow Caledonian University Brexit didn’t just redraw political boundaries—it fundamentally transformed the geography of opportunity for young Europeans. Where once a young pe…
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'Our study shows how macro-level development agendas like energy security and export revenue can produce micro-level livelihood disruptions, often without adequate compensation or alternative support structures' - Jacob Ankamah (University of Galway) https://t.co/51iPS3frtO
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By Jacob Ankamah, University of Galway This piece is based on a recent article published in Geo: Geography and Environment (2025), available via When oil was discovered in commercial quantities off…
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'The briefing highlights how the lives of severely undernourished children are being saved in Pakistan, and how entire communities are gaining access to sufficient nutritious food in Burkina Faso' - Sunit Bagree (University of Sussex). https://t.co/jihS2JVP9q
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By Sunit Bagree, Results UK & University of Sussex Negative news is everywhere. It can feel all-encompassing and overwhelming. Yet, if one looks closely enough, there are some candles glimmerin…
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*New post* by Jacob Ankamah (University of Galway) 'Oil, exclusion, and livelihoods in Ghana’s offshore fisheries' https://t.co/51iPS3frtO
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By Jacob Ankamah, University of Galway This piece is based on a recent article published in Geo: Geography and Environment (2025), available via When oil was discovered in commercial quantities off…
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*New post* by Sunit Bagree (University of Sussex) 'Good news stories about nutrition in the Global South exist – but our leaders must build upon them' https://t.co/jihS2JVP9q
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By Sunit Bagree, Results UK & University of Sussex Negative news is everywhere. It can feel all-encompassing and overwhelming. Yet, if one looks closely enough, there are some candles glimmerin…
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'This is the first translation project led by TIBG to be interpreted in a language other than English, constituting an exercise in critical openness toward other possible worlds' - Ana Laura Zavala Guillen @ZG_AnaLau. https://t.co/UmotIo1Nq5
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By Ana Laura Zavala Guillen, Northumbria University The translation of the article ‘Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falkland Islands: The Maroon connection’, published in T…
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*New on @geogdirections* the first translation project led by Transactions of the Institute of British Geographer, translated by Ana Laura Zavala Guillen @ZG_AnaLau. Check it out here:
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By Ana Laura Zavala Guillen, Northumbria University The translation of the article ‘Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falkland Islands: The Maroon connection’, published in T…
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'In the era of the Anthropocene, development compels a fundamental rethinking—not as a linear process of economic growth, but as a struggle for recognition, redistribution, and rights in spaces long relegated to the margin' - Suranjan Majumder. https://t.co/jg0yjUXUxp
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By Suranjan Majumder, University of North Bengal An ‘everyday’ geography we often fail to acknowledge A central question in “spatial justice” today is how and why certain geographies continue to ex…
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'Since peoples’ journeys from their hometowns in Syria to host countries are often intertwined with violence, unease, fear, and family separations, memory is a vital resource' - Suzan Ilcan (@UWaterloo). https://t.co/ztUB8prPJb
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By Suzan Ilcan, University of Waterloo According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), forced displacement is at its highest level since World War II. On a global scale, over 123 million pe…
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*New post* by Suranjan Majumder (University of North Bengal): 'Why do plantation enclaves (re) produce a geography of backwardness?' https://t.co/jg0yjUXUxp
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By Suranjan Majumder, University of North Bengal An ‘everyday’ geography we often fail to acknowledge A central question in “spatial justice” today is how and why certain geographies continue to ex…
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*New post* by Suzan Ilcan (@UWaterloo): 'Memories of forced displacement and mediating atmospheric bordering' https://t.co/ztUB8prPJb
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By Suzan Ilcan, University of Waterloo According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), forced displacement is at its highest level since World War II. On a global scale, over 123 million pe…
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'A focus on the genealogy of Kinder Scout prompts us to reconsider the right to roam not as a legal right, but as a socially inclusive project of spatial justice for all marginalised socio-economic demographics' - Ethan Chandler (@UniofOxford). https://t.co/CmwjFB82rC
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By Ethan Chandler, University of Oxford Set amidst the context of rising unemployment, the increasing political mobilisation of the working class and unsanitary living conditions in Britain’s indus…
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*New post* by Ethan Chandler (@UniofOxford): 'The "walk that changed Britain"? Revealing the echoes of the Mass Trespass' https://t.co/CmwjFB82rC
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By Ethan Chandler, University of Oxford Set amidst the context of rising unemployment, the increasing political mobilisation of the working class and unsanitary living conditions in Britain’s indus…
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'Wales has developed a convincing approach for tackling the climate emergency; centred on the WFGA 2015, its commitment to aligning climate action across society offers a strong vision' - Lynda Yorke (@BangorSENS) et al. https://t.co/uY85CFZ0qQ
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By Lynda Yorke, Bangor University, Athanasios Dimitriou, Bangor University, Sonya Hanna, Bangor University, Sara Parry, Bangor University, Corinna Patterson, Bangor University, and Georgina Smith, …
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'Growing attention to conspiracy theories and public anxiety around them offers a unique entry point into the politics of truth amid current political shifts in liberal democracies across North America and Western Europe' - Victoria Ridgway (@durham_uni). https://t.co/oHXxTP2v0p
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By Victoria Ridgway, Durham University From Trump’s election to anti-vaccination movements, the past few years have intensified the sense that we can no longer rely on a shared understanding of tru…
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'By tracing the data used to create Alberta’s Minecraft extension I sought a new way to think about the relationships of digital geographies and the environment' - Jeremy Schmidt (@QMULGeography). https://t.co/vF6SOCZsdb
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By Jeremy Schmidt, Queen Mary University of London What role should digital platforms like Minecraft or Pokémon play in geographical education? It may sound trite to say, ‘It depends on who you ask…
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