Martin Mahony This week, parts of the UK have been basking in temperatures around 20 degrees Celsius ‘At long last!’ many … More
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Seeing glacial change: optical consistency through the camera and the archive
Martin Mahony Towards the end of last year I visited an exhibition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum entitled ‘Rivers … More
Genetically Modified Boundaries
Martin Mahony When prominent environmentalist Mark Lynas recently announced that he no longer opposes the genetic modification of agricultural crops, … More
Vexed Natures: Geoengineering in the UK Media
By Martin Mahony Geoengineering – or “deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climate system, in order to moderate global warming” (as … More
New Geographies of Animal Subjectivity
By Martin Mahony The identity, experiences and and behaviour of animals – in short, their subjectivity – has been a topic … More
Governing from Above: The Vertical Geopolitics of Climate Change
Martin Mahony Global geopolitics have conventionally been conceived of in terms of the horizontal actions and interactions of territorially-bounded nation … More
Climate Change: A Little Further Round the Pragmatic Turn?
Martin Mahony A few weeks back I wrote a post on here which reflected on whether the outcomes of the … More
Before the Flood: Modelling Hybridity at the Science-Policy Interface
Martin Mahony Yesterday the UK Met Office reported that 2012 was the country’s second wettest year on record. The announcement … More
Doha: A Pragmatic Turn in Global Climate Politics?
Martin Mahony The conclusion of the recent United Nations (UN) climate change negotiations in Doha generated an interesting spread of … More
The Map Precedes the Territory
Martin Mahony Geographers and critical cartographers have long acknowledged that maps do not simply and unproblematically represent the territory depicted … More