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View article: Inwards to the centre! The trouble with ‘repositioning energy geographies’
Inwards to the centre! The trouble with ‘repositioning energy geographies’ Open
‘Repositioning energy geographies’ reprimands energy geographers for a moral and strategic failure to be visible, arguing this failure has condemned energy geographies to a marginal and occluded position within human geography. It is a bra…
View article: Between energy transition and industrial revival: Exploring hydrogen imaginaries in the United Kingdom and Teesside
Between energy transition and industrial revival: Exploring hydrogen imaginaries in the United Kingdom and Teesside Open
Hydrogen is increasingly positioned as a key enabler of global net‐zero transitions, hailed for its versatility and low‐carbon emissions potential. Yet hydrogen's nascent future is contested, with divergent visions of its role across techn…
View article: Seas of change: An evolving imaginary of offshore energy capture on the United Kingdom's Continental Shelf
Seas of change: An evolving imaginary of offshore energy capture on the United Kingdom's Continental Shelf Open
View article: Creating elite encounters: The ‘campaign’ as approach for interviewing corporate elites
Creating elite encounters: The ‘campaign’ as approach for interviewing corporate elites Open
Qualitative research in economic geography recognizes the value of accessing business elite perspectives, yet identifying, approaching and interviewing elites present researchers with a set of challenges. Both practical and ethical, these …
View article: Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation
Rethinking Energy Geopolitics: Towards a Geopolitical Economy of Global Energy Transformation Open
We are in the midst of a global energy system transformation (GEST) which is rewiring the world economy, opening new axes of political contestation, and revolutionising the energetic basis of human civilisation. Energy geopolitics has not …
View article: Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check Open
The ongoing Global Energy System Transformation (GEST) has attracted the attention of multiple academic disciplines and practitioners, approaching the process with different analytical and conceptual tools. We explore the ‘integration gap’…
View article: Lithium, Brexit and Global Britain: Onshoring battery production networks in the UK
Lithium, Brexit and Global Britain: Onshoring battery production networks in the UK Open
As demand for electrical energy storage scales, production networks for lithium-ion battery manufacturing are being re-worked organisationally and geographically. The UK - like the US and EU - is seeking to onshore lithium-ion battery prod…
View article: Speculating on shale: Resource-making and the ‘politics of possibility’ in Poland and the UK
Speculating on shale: Resource-making and the ‘politics of possibility’ in Poland and the UK Open
View article: The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain
The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain Open
View article: Global Energy Scenarios: A Geopolitical Reality Check
Global Energy Scenarios: A Geopolitical Reality Check Open
View article: ‘Backing Britain’: Soaring energy prices - and record profits – are driving global energy companies like BP to wrap themselves in the national flag. What’s at stake in these geographical claims?
‘Backing Britain’: Soaring energy prices - and record profits – are driving global energy companies like BP to wrap themselves in the national flag. What’s at stake in these geographical claims? Open
View article: Navigating the Structural Coherence of Sea Ice
Navigating the Structural Coherence of Sea Ice Open
Ice breaking by ships can cause irreparable harm to the ecologies and cultures of northern regions. This chapter revolves around a central question: what are the barriers preventing the development of a legal mechanism to limit this act of…
View article: Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains Open
The increasing role of electricity as an energy carrier in decarbonising economies is driving a growing demand for electrical energy storage in the form of battery systems. Two battery applications driving demand growth are electric vehicl…
View article: Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil
Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil Open
Evolutionary approaches to strategic coupling show how regions harness and match assets, then negotiate their alignment with lead firms. For regions intersected by multiple networks in the same industry, however, the reconfiguration of net…
View article: The geopolitics of energy system transformation: A review
The geopolitics of energy system transformation: A review Open
In 2009, Geography Compass published a paper on ‘The Geopolitics of Global Energy Security’ that reviewed research on the key geographical factors influencing the secure and affordable supply of energy resources. Now, just over a decade la…
View article: Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets
Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets Open
rivate investment capital is now widely regarded as strategically significant to the governance of climate change. A dedicated and dynamic carbon finance sector has emerged that features techniques and practices for decarbonizing capital, …
View article: Thinking with the grain
Thinking with the grain Open
In this short commentary, I consider William Jamieson’s proposal ‘For Granular Geography’. I focus on two parallel arguments at work in his piece: the proposal for a political ecology of sand foregrounding the physical dynamics of sand as …
View article: Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama
Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama Open
Geographical research on lithium and other renewable energy materials explores the geopolitical dimensions of resource supply and the 'new geographies' associated with an expanding resource frontier. The material characteristics and enviro…
View article: Industrial dynamics on the commodity frontier: Managing time, space and form in mining, tree plantations and intensive aquaculture
Industrial dynamics on the commodity frontier: Managing time, space and form in mining, tree plantations and intensive aquaculture Open
Research in political ecology and agrarian political economy has shown how commodity frontiers are constituted through the appropriation and transformation of nature. This work identifies two broad processes of socio-metabolism associated …
View article: New energy spaces: Towards a geographical political economy of energy transition
New energy spaces: Towards a geographical political economy of energy transition Open
View article: Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions
Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions Open
View article: Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes
Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes Open
An air of alchemical mystery lingers around rare earths, notwithstanding their many high-tech applications.In 2010 this curious cluster of unfamiliar elements was propelled onto the front pages by what, at the time, was widely interpreted …
View article: Pluralizing and problematizing carbon finance
Pluralizing and problematizing carbon finance Open
Growing emphasis on finance as key to decarbonization requires social science research that critically attends to the emergent and diverse forms taken by carbon finance. First, we pluralize research into carbon finance, building on existin…
View article: Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to special issue
Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to special issue Open
View article: Down the black hole: Sustaining national socio-technical imaginaries of coal in Poland
Down the black hole: Sustaining national socio-technical imaginaries of coal in Poland Open
View article: Towards a Political Ecology of EU Energy Policy
Towards a Political Ecology of EU Energy Policy Open
At the root of energy policy are fundamental questions about the sort of social and environmental futures in which people want to live and how decisions over different energy pathways and energy futures are made. The interdisciplinary fiel…
View article: The map is not the territory: A sympathetic critique of energy research’s spatial turn
The map is not the territory: A sympathetic critique of energy research’s spatial turn Open
View article: Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America
Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America Open
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View article: Making a Global Gas Market: Territoriality and Production Networks in Liquefied Natural Gas
Making a Global Gas Market: Territoriality and Production Networks in Liquefied Natural Gas Open
Energy markets are an important contemporary site of economic globalization. In this paper we use a global production network (GPN) approach to examine the evolutionary dynamics of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector and its role in an …