Geography Directions

By Sarah Henton De Angelis, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Every other minute, someone, somewhere, drowns; over the past decade, drowning has claimed more than three million preventable lives, with the greatest burden falling on communities in low- and middle-income countries (World Health Organisation). Small-scale and artisanal fishers are among those most exposed, working at […]

By Hyesop Shin, University of Auckland Walking to school is one of the simplest ways for a child to incorporate physical activity into their daily routine. Geographers and health practitioners have long been interested in knowing exactly which streets children use because the route, not just the distance, determines what a child is exposed to […]

Why this, why now? By Jennifer Mateer; Jeremy Auerbach; Susanne Boerner; Camellia Biswas; Eveleigh Buck-Matthews; Dingha Chrispo; Caitlin Hafferty; Angelo Raffaele Ippolito; Maja Jorgensen; Eifiona Lane; Mrinalini Raj; Rebecca Roberts; Aled Singleton; Neil Turnbull Geography has never been a neutral discipline. From its roots in colonial surveys and mapping to contemporary debates about whose kno…

By Ricardo Almendra, University of Coimbra Portugal is often imagined as a country of mild winters and sunny coastlines. Although this is not wrong, several years working with mobility students and researchers from north and central European countries have shown me how dangerous this stereotype can be. The complain “This was not what I was […]

By Wenwan Jin, Yuxin Zhu, Xiongbin Lin and Xingchuan Gao, Ningbo University When the US-China trade war escalated in 2018, agriculture was among the sectors that experienced significant disruption. Tariffs imposed on both sides affected a wide range of agricultural commodities, such as soybeans and meat products. Bilateral agricultural trade fell by 29 per cent […]

By Carlo Ceglia, University of Plymouth In roughly the last decade, the ocean has come to renewed prominence as a space potentially capable of ensuring environmental sustainability, economic development, and social well-being if properly cared for, valued, and protected. Modelled on its Green counterpart, such a renewed appreciation of the ocean has primarily fallen under […]

In this piece, our Geography for All Coordinator Jasmine Roberts speaks with Zenzo Sibanda, a final-year doctoral researcher at King’s College London. Drawing on his work on Black placemaking in the Geography Department at King’s, Zenzo offers his perspective on belonging, identity and the everyday interventions that can (re)shape academic spaces for Black geographers. What […]

By Frederic Hanusch, Justus Liebig University Giessen After the global Human geography has been one of the central fields for understanding globalisation. It has shown that space is not a neutral container but is produced through power, movement, labour, technology, memory, imagination and material life. Yet the present moment suggests that the language of the […]