By Helen Pallett With the Winter Olympics drawing to a close at the weekend, global attention has moved away from Sochi, … More
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A British Arctic Policy for the Twenty-first Century
by Benjamin Sacks Britain retains significant interests in the Arctic Ocean, according to a recently published commentary in The Geographical Journal. … More
Red Cross Red Crescent: A Geographical Life
by Benjamin Sacks In the August 1924 edition of The Geographical Journal, the Royal Geographical Society republished a notice from … More
Content Alert: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 37, Issue 3 (July 2012) is Available Online Now
Volume 37, Issue 3 Pages 337 – 476, July 2012 The latest issue of Transactions of the Institute of British … More
The Geographical Journal Content Alert: Volume 178, Issue 1 (March 2012)
The latest issue of The Geographical Journal is available on Wiley Online Library. Click past the break to view the … More
Approaches to Russia’s North Pole Ambitions
Benjamin Sacks The open sea may be international waters under maritime law, but large swaths of the world’s oceans fall … More
Carceral Geography: Prisons, prisoners and mobilities
by Fiona Ferbrache Sunday evening, Radio 4 broadcast Dying Inside, a documentary exploring the increase in number of older prisoners … More
Football in Russia
By Kelly Wakefield Within the last hour, (Thursday afternoon)journalists up and down the country have been updating newspaper’s / website’s breaking news … More
Landscapes of Power – Moscow
By Alexander Leo Phillips On Tuesday 28th September Yuri Luzhkov was sacked after 18 years as Moscow’s mayor. Given the … More
The future of the Arctic?
By Richard Gravelle The future of the Arctic in a warming climate is a hotly debated subject. Retreating sea ice … More
