Oli Mould
Biographic Data
| ID | 133185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oli Mould |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oli |
| FAMILY NAME | Mould |
| SIGNATURE | MOULD O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5284-406X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 234 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
A Fuller City: Rekindling the work of Buckminster Fuller in the age of planetary urban crisis
Crisis increasingly characterises urban life in the twenty-first century, as intersecting ecological, economic, geopolitical and social pressures converge on the city under conditions now described as permacrisis. This paper argues that the imaginaries of the twentieth-century designer Buckminster Fuller, when critically rather than celebratorily scrutinised, offer a productive resource for crisis-facing urban thought. Fuller is a frequent figure…
Against critique, towards hope
In this reply, I reflect on the ways in which the responses to my Seven Ethics Against Capitalism book have focussed on specific parts and sections of the book, and offer my thoughts on how their thoughtful interjections can be taken forward in collaboration, to proffer a new politics of ‘hope’ in an era where we find the world on palliative care
From globalisation to the planetary: Towards a critical framework of planetary thinking in geography
With climate change and pandemics, the last few years has ushered in a planetary age. Moreover, the concept of the 'globalisation'-a totalising and capitalist-centric concept that homogenises the entire planet into a territory to conquer-has become incapable of adequately accounting for the planetary events taking place. To date, geographical literature has used the term 'planetary' in important, but disparate ways; and in so doing, underplaying …
Situating Mark Fisher’s spatiality
The work of the late Mark Fisher, one of the revered British cultural critics of the past 20 years, is implicitly spatial, yet remains largely absent from geographical scholarship. Callum Sutherland's paper provides a timely and long-overdue corrective to this disciplinary lacuna. This short response aims to build on Sutherland's exposition by bringing the work of the Situationists International into its orbit, as well as musing about how we can …
Solidarity, not charity: Learning the lessons of the Covid ‐19 pandemic to reconceptualise the radicality of mutual aid
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly ruptured our global society. We have seen health care systems, governments and commerce buckle under the strain of disease, lockdowns and unrest, but the rupture has also created space for radical (and anarchist) politics of mutual aid, as societal organising principles, to move into a more prominent position (and offers potential for this shift to remain after the crisis has subsided). However, in the shor…
The spark, the spread and ethics: Towards an object-orientated view of subversive creativity
This paper articulates the subversive and political potential of an object-orientated view of urban creativity. Drawing upon object-orientated philosophies, it further develops the political and subversive potential of the creativity rhetoric to argue that nonhuman material agency is an important factor in propelling subversive behaviour into sustained political change. By focusing on the agency of objects and their ability to challenge our own b…
The not-so-concrete Jungle: Material precarity in the Calais refugee camp
On the outskirts of Calais, the refugee camp known as 'the Jungle' was recently demolished, the final violent act in a long history of enforced precarity. In recent years, the camp had massively increased in inhabitants, and through the collective actions of these inhabitants, along with the volunteers that helped there, the Jungle inculcated what Doreen Massey would have described as a 'progressive sense of place', in that it espoused cultural a…
Brutalism Redux: Relational Monumentality and the Urban Politics of Brutalist Architecture
Brutalism is an architectural form that is experiencing somewhat of a revival of late. This revival focuses almost purely on its aesthetics, but there is an ethical dimension to Brutalism that often gets overlooked in these narratives. This paper therefore reanalyses the original concepts and ethics of brutalist architecture with a reaffirmation of the original triumvirate of brutalist ethics as articulated by Raynar Banham as monumentality, stru…
The Calais Jungle: A slum of London’s making
The Calais Jungle has existed in some form for several years. It grew in size tremendously as a result of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, but was spectacularly demolished in October 2016. When the Jungle was still standing, it was a site of intense violence perpetuated by the local police, state authorities as well as French legal systems. Much of the literature that has explored the Jungle thus far has rightly depicted it as an unofficial refuge…
Urban Subversion and the Creative City
Check out the author's video to find out more about the book: https://vimeo.com/124247409 This book provides a comprehensive critique of the current Creative City paradigm, with a capital ‘C’, and argues for a creative city with a small ‘c’ via a theoretical exploration of urban subversion. The book argues that the Creative City (with a capital 'C') is a systemic requirement of neoliberal capitalist urban development and part of the wider policy …
Hung, Drawn and Cultural Quartered: Rethinking Cultural Quarter Development Policy in the UK
Throughout the last two decades, cultural quarters have been used by many local councils across the UK as attempts to redevelop and revitalize declining urban centres. Cities have spent millions of pounds developing cultural quarter policies, justified by the prevailing rhetoric of culture revitalizing the local economy and the creation of a “cultural milieu” that stimulates creative industry activity. However, in many cases in the UK, visitor nu…
A Limitless Urban Theory? A Response to Scott and Storper's ‘The Nature of Cities: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory
The recent article in this journal by Scott and Storper (2015) suggested that the field of urban studies currently contains a multitude of varied theoretical viewpoints and argued for a unified general urban theory encompassing all urban scholarly work. Their proposal is that such a theory is based upon a foundational understanding of agglomeration and clustering. This response counter‐argues this, suggesting that such a proposal leaves urban the…
Invisible Creativity? Highlighting the Hidden Impact of Freelancing in London's Creative Industries
The creative industries have been identified as a key sector for the UK's economic recovery. Despite the intense focus, however, the working practices of their labour force remain largely enigmatic to public policy. Particularly, freelancers, who make up a large proportion of labour within the creative industries, remain largely under-researched. This paper seeks to highlight the importance of freelancers to the creative industries through a case…
Seeking Talent for Creative Cities: The Social Dynamics of Innovation
Journal Article Seeking Talent for Creative Cities: The Social Dynamics of Innovation Get access Jill Grant (Editor) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014 ISBN: 9781442615441 (paperback) RRP: $29.95 Oli Mould Oli Mould Royal Holloway University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 247–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbu042 Pu…
Tactical Urbanism: The New Vernacular of the Creative City
The recent infatuation of urban governance with the ideologies of creativity has led to many cities over the world being branded as 'Creative Cities'. This policy drive has been problematised of late as a neoliberal agenda, which critics argue aids in the gentrification of cities. One reaction to this has been the proliferation of community-orientated initiatives on a smaller scale that are (sometimes) conducted outside the official capacity of t…
The Cultural Dimension
As Raymond Williams argued, ‘culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language’ (Williams, 1985, 87), and I would argue that perhaps ‘city’ is one of the other words. Therefore, to attempt to describe the relationship between culture and the city is to open a Pandora’s box of experiences, emotions, practices, places, memories and moments. From the theatre districts of Broadway in New York and the West End in London…
Beyond Urban Subcultures: Urban Subversions as Rhizomatic Social Formations
The article discusses what we term urban social formations and expands on prior work that predominantly examines urban 'subcultures' as opposed to the world city paradigm and homogeneous cityscapes. We describe the process of 'subculturalization' through which urban social formations, after they have been marginalized and illegalized, become formalized as subcultures and incorporated into the fabric of consumption and profit making. The article p…
Master of all the surveys: Professor Simon Roodhouse and the Creative Industries Observatory empirics
(2012). Master of all the surveys: Professor Simon Roodhouse and the Creative Industries Observatory empirics. Creative Industries Journal: Vol. 5, No. 1-2, pp. 7-10
The Economic Geography of the UK
My Networking Is Not Working! Conceptualizing the Latent and Dysfunctional Dimensions of the Network Paradigm
Networks have become a major analytical concept in economic geography and have served to extend both empirical and theoretical research agendas. However, much of the literature on networks is characterized asassociative, considering them only as cumulative constructs through the constant enrollment of additional actors. Through the lens of social capital and a discussion of the limitations of the networking paradigm in economic geography, this ar…
Knowledge networks of ‘buzz’ in London's advertising industry: A social network analysis approach
There has been a plethora of literature in the last few years attempting to conceptualise how the (international) firm operates in the notion of what has been termed ‘buzz’. In this paper, we aim to highlight how the use of social network analysis (SNA) can provide a nuanced view of ‘buzz’, through a focus on London's advertising industry. In this case study, we use the data on interlocking board members of the advertising companies in London, an…
Realizing capabilities—academic creativity and the creative industries
Higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide are in an era of change. In England universities have been challenged to realize their potential their potential under guise of the so called ‘Third Mission’, which has emphasised the commercialization and technology transfer of academic research. Much of the existing literature is devoted to the scientific dimension of the Third Mission, with little if any recognition as to the non-scientific creati…
Parkour, the City, the Event
Parkour, or l'art du déplacement, has become widely practised in recent years, with most of its participants (or traceurs) conducting it in urban environments. Studying parkour and those who practise it provides urban geographers with a new and fascinating way in which movement is perceived in the city. Using the theoretical idioms of 'smooth and striated space' (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987, A Thousand Plateaus Continuum, London) and 'the event' (…
Introduction to geographical economies of creativity, enterprise and the creative industries
This special issue brings together creativity and enterprise through the geographies of the creative industries. In recent years the focus of academic debate has privileged business and corporate economies, and so this issue seeks to contribute both empirically and theoretically to the burgeoning literature of creative industries. Economic geography offers a rich domain through which to engage with these debates, exploring the nuances of creativi…
Moving images: World cities, connections and projects in Sydney's TV production industry
World city research concerned with connectivity has tended to focus on advanced producer service firms and on selected North American and European cities; the prevailing methodology has been quantitative. In this article I answer the call to 'go beyond counting' by bringing together a project-based enquiry - on a TV mini-seriesMary Bryant- with a more conventional assessment of network connectivity. The inclusion of a practice-centred approach to…
Parkour, the City, the Event
Parkour, or l'art du déplacement, has become widely practised in recent years, with most of its participants (or traceurs) conducting it in urban environments. Studying parkour and those who practise it provides urban geographers with a new and fascinating way in which movement is perceived in the city. Using the theoretical idioms of 'smooth and striated space' (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987, A Thousand Plateaus Continuum, London) and 'the event' (…
Solidarity, not charity: Learning the lessons of the Covid ‐19 pandemic to reconceptualise the radicality of mutual aid
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly ruptured our global society. We have seen health care systems, governments and commerce buckle under the strain of disease, lockdowns and unrest, but the rupture has also created space for radical (and anarchist) politics of mutual aid, as societal organising principles, to move into a more prominent position (and offers potential for this shift to remain after the crisis has subsided). However, in the shor…
Tactical Urbanism: The New Vernacular of the Creative City
The recent infatuation of urban governance with the ideologies of creativity has led to many cities over the world being branded as 'Creative Cities'. This policy drive has been problematised of late as a neoliberal agenda, which critics argue aids in the gentrification of cities. One reaction to this has been the proliferation of community-orientated initiatives on a smaller scale that are (sometimes) conducted outside the official capacity of t…
The not-so-concrete Jungle: Material precarity in the Calais refugee camp
On the outskirts of Calais, the refugee camp known as 'the Jungle' was recently demolished, the final violent act in a long history of enforced precarity. In recent years, the camp had massively increased in inhabitants, and through the collective actions of these inhabitants, along with the volunteers that helped there, the Jungle inculcated what Doreen Massey would have described as a 'progressive sense of place', in that it espoused cultural a…
The Calais Jungle: A slum of London’s making
The Calais Jungle has existed in some form for several years. It grew in size tremendously as a result of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, but was spectacularly demolished in October 2016. When the Jungle was still standing, it was a site of intense violence perpetuated by the local police, state authorities as well as French legal systems. Much of the literature that has explored the Jungle thus far has rightly depicted it as an unofficial refuge…
The spark, the spread and ethics: Towards an object-orientated view of subversive creativity
This paper articulates the subversive and political potential of an object-orientated view of urban creativity. Drawing upon object-orientated philosophies, it further develops the political and subversive potential of the creativity rhetoric to argue that nonhuman material agency is an important factor in propelling subversive behaviour into sustained political change. By focusing on the agency of objects and their ability to challenge our own b…
Beyond Urban Subcultures: Urban Subversions as Rhizomatic Social Formations
The article discusses what we term urban social formations and expands on prior work that predominantly examines urban 'subcultures' as opposed to the world city paradigm and homogeneous cityscapes. We describe the process of 'subculturalization' through which urban social formations, after they have been marginalized and illegalized, become formalized as subcultures and incorporated into the fabric of consumption and profit making. The article p…
From globalisation to the planetary: Towards a critical framework of planetary thinking in geography
With climate change and pandemics, the last few years has ushered in a planetary age. Moreover, the concept of the 'globalisation'-a totalising and capitalist-centric concept that homogenises the entire planet into a territory to conquer-has become incapable of adequately accounting for the planetary events taking place. To date, geographical literature has used the term 'planetary' in important, but disparate ways; and in so doing, underplaying …
A Limitless Urban Theory? A Response to Scott and Storper's ‘The Nature of Cities: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory
The recent article in this journal by Scott and Storper (2015) suggested that the field of urban studies currently contains a multitude of varied theoretical viewpoints and argued for a unified general urban theory encompassing all urban scholarly work. Their proposal is that such a theory is based upon a foundational understanding of agglomeration and clustering. This response counter‐argues this, suggesting that such a proposal leaves urban the…
Brutalism Redux: Relational Monumentality and the Urban Politics of Brutalist Architecture
Brutalism is an architectural form that is experiencing somewhat of a revival of late. This revival focuses almost purely on its aesthetics, but there is an ethical dimension to Brutalism that often gets overlooked in these narratives. This paper therefore reanalyses the original concepts and ethics of brutalist architecture with a reaffirmation of the original triumvirate of brutalist ethics as articulated by Raynar Banham as monumentality, stru…
Moving images: World cities, connections and projects in Sydney's TV production industry
World city research concerned with connectivity has tended to focus on advanced producer service firms and on selected North American and European cities; the prevailing methodology has been quantitative. In this article I answer the call to 'go beyond counting' by bringing together a project-based enquiry - on a TV mini-seriesMary Bryant- with a more conventional assessment of network connectivity. The inclusion of a practice-centred approach to…
My Networking Is Not Working! Conceptualizing the Latent and Dysfunctional Dimensions of the Network Paradigm
Networks have become a major analytical concept in economic geography and have served to extend both empirical and theoretical research agendas. However, much of the literature on networks is characterized asassociative, considering them only as cumulative constructs through the constant enrollment of additional actors. Through the lens of social capital and a discussion of the limitations of the networking paradigm in economic geography, this ar…
Introduction to geographical economies of creativity, enterprise and the creative industries
This special issue brings together creativity and enterprise through the geographies of the creative industries. In recent years the focus of academic debate has privileged business and corporate economies, and so this issue seeks to contribute both empirically and theoretically to the burgeoning literature of creative industries. Economic geography offers a rich domain through which to engage with these debates, exploring the nuances of creativi…
Seeking Talent for Creative Cities: The Social Dynamics of Innovation
Journal Article Seeking Talent for Creative Cities: The Social Dynamics of Innovation Get access Jill Grant (Editor) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014 ISBN: 9781442615441 (paperback) RRP: $29.95 Oli Mould Oli Mould Royal Holloway University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 247–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbu042 Pu…
Knowledge networks of ‘buzz’ in London's advertising industry: A social network analysis approach
There has been a plethora of literature in the last few years attempting to conceptualise how the (international) firm operates in the notion of what has been termed ‘buzz’. In this paper, we aim to highlight how the use of social network analysis (SNA) can provide a nuanced view of ‘buzz’, through a focus on London's advertising industry. In this case study, we use the data on interlocking board members of the advertising companies in London, an…
Mission impossible? Reconsidering the research into Sydney's film industry
This article addresses the presence of the large mainly Hollywood productions in the city of Sydney and the perception that there is a marked difference between a film industry in Sydney and a Sydney film industry. Rather than viewing the two figurations of film-making in Sydney as two distinct entities, an approach inspired by Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is deployed, using interview and ethnographic data to argue that if the networks and collabor…
Introduction to geographical economies of creativity, enterprise and the creative industries
This special issue brings together creativity and enterprise through the geographies of the creative industries. In recent years the focus of academic debate has privileged business and corporate economies, and so this issue seeks to contribute both empirically and theoretically to the burgeoning literature of creative industries. Economic geography offers a rich domain through which to engage with these debates, exploring the nuances of creativi…
Moving images: World cities, connections and projects in Sydney's TV production industry
World city research concerned with connectivity has tended to focus on advanced producer service firms and on selected North American and European cities; the prevailing methodology has been quantitative. In this article I answer the call to 'go beyond counting' by bringing together a project-based enquiry - on a TV mini-seriesMary Bryant- with a more conventional assessment of network connectivity. The inclusion of a practice-centred approach to…
Realizing capabilities—academic creativity and the creative industries
Higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide are in an era of change. In England universities have been challenged to realize their potential their potential under guise of the so called ‘Third Mission’, which has emphasised the commercialization and technology transfer of academic research. Much of the existing literature is devoted to the scientific dimension of the Third Mission, with little if any recognition as to the non-scientific creati…
Parkour, the City, the Event
Parkour, or l'art du déplacement, has become widely practised in recent years, with most of its participants (or traceurs) conducting it in urban environments. Studying parkour and those who practise it provides urban geographers with a new and fascinating way in which movement is perceived in the city. Using the theoretical idioms of 'smooth and striated space' (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987, A Thousand Plateaus Continuum, London) and 'the event' (…
Knowledge networks of ‘buzz’ in London's advertising industry: A social network analysis approach
There has been a plethora of literature in the last few years attempting to conceptualise how the (international) firm operates in the notion of what has been termed ‘buzz’. In this paper, we aim to highlight how the use of social network analysis (SNA) can provide a nuanced view of ‘buzz’, through a focus on London's advertising industry. In this case study, we use the data on interlocking board members of the advertising companies in London, an…
Master of all the surveys: Professor Simon Roodhouse and the Creative Industries Observatory empirics
(2012). Master of all the surveys: Professor Simon Roodhouse and the Creative Industries Observatory empirics. Creative Industries Journal: Vol. 5, No. 1-2, pp. 7-10
The Economic Geography of the UK
My Networking Is Not Working! Conceptualizing the Latent and Dysfunctional Dimensions of the Network Paradigm
Networks have become a major analytical concept in economic geography and have served to extend both empirical and theoretical research agendas. However, much of the literature on networks is characterized asassociative, considering them only as cumulative constructs through the constant enrollment of additional actors. Through the lens of social capital and a discussion of the limitations of the networking paradigm in economic geography, this ar…
The Cultural Dimension
As Raymond Williams argued, ‘culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language’ (Williams, 1985, 87), and I would argue that perhaps ‘city’ is one of the other words. Therefore, to attempt to describe the relationship between culture and the city is to open a Pandora’s box of experiences, emotions, practices, places, memories and moments. From the theatre districts of Broadway in New York and the West End in London…
Beyond Urban Subcultures: Urban Subversions as Rhizomatic Social Formations
The article discusses what we term urban social formations and expands on prior work that predominantly examines urban 'subcultures' as opposed to the world city paradigm and homogeneous cityscapes. We describe the process of 'subculturalization' through which urban social formations, after they have been marginalized and illegalized, become formalized as subcultures and incorporated into the fabric of consumption and profit making. The article p…
Invisible Creativity? Highlighting the Hidden Impact of Freelancing in London's Creative Industries
The creative industries have been identified as a key sector for the UK's economic recovery. Despite the intense focus, however, the working practices of their labour force remain largely enigmatic to public policy. Particularly, freelancers, who make up a large proportion of labour within the creative industries, remain largely under-researched. This paper seeks to highlight the importance of freelancers to the creative industries through a case…
Seeking Talent for Creative Cities: The Social Dynamics of Innovation
Journal Article Seeking Talent for Creative Cities: The Social Dynamics of Innovation Get access Jill Grant (Editor) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014 ISBN: 9781442615441 (paperback) RRP: $29.95 Oli Mould Oli Mould Royal Holloway University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 247–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbu042 Pu…
Tactical Urbanism: The New Vernacular of the Creative City
The recent infatuation of urban governance with the ideologies of creativity has led to many cities over the world being branded as 'Creative Cities'. This policy drive has been problematised of late as a neoliberal agenda, which critics argue aids in the gentrification of cities. One reaction to this has been the proliferation of community-orientated initiatives on a smaller scale that are (sometimes) conducted outside the official capacity of t…
Urban Subversion and the Creative City
Check out the author's video to find out more about the book: https://vimeo.com/124247409 This book provides a comprehensive critique of the current Creative City paradigm, with a capital ‘C’, and argues for a creative city with a small ‘c’ via a theoretical exploration of urban subversion. The book argues that the Creative City (with a capital 'C') is a systemic requirement of neoliberal capitalist urban development and part of the wider policy …
Hung, Drawn and Cultural Quartered: Rethinking Cultural Quarter Development Policy in the UK
Throughout the last two decades, cultural quarters have been used by many local councils across the UK as attempts to redevelop and revitalize declining urban centres. Cities have spent millions of pounds developing cultural quarter policies, justified by the prevailing rhetoric of culture revitalizing the local economy and the creation of a “cultural milieu” that stimulates creative industry activity. However, in many cases in the UK, visitor nu…
A Limitless Urban Theory? A Response to Scott and Storper's ‘The Nature of Cities: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory
The recent article in this journal by Scott and Storper (2015) suggested that the field of urban studies currently contains a multitude of varied theoretical viewpoints and argued for a unified general urban theory encompassing all urban scholarly work. Their proposal is that such a theory is based upon a foundational understanding of agglomeration and clustering. This response counter‐argues this, suggesting that such a proposal leaves urban the…
Brutalism Redux: Relational Monumentality and the Urban Politics of Brutalist Architecture
Brutalism is an architectural form that is experiencing somewhat of a revival of late. This revival focuses almost purely on its aesthetics, but there is an ethical dimension to Brutalism that often gets overlooked in these narratives. This paper therefore reanalyses the original concepts and ethics of brutalist architecture with a reaffirmation of the original triumvirate of brutalist ethics as articulated by Raynar Banham as monumentality, stru…
The Calais Jungle: A slum of London’s making
The Calais Jungle has existed in some form for several years. It grew in size tremendously as a result of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, but was spectacularly demolished in October 2016. When the Jungle was still standing, it was a site of intense violence perpetuated by the local police, state authorities as well as French legal systems. Much of the literature that has explored the Jungle thus far has rightly depicted it as an unofficial refuge…
The not-so-concrete Jungle: Material precarity in the Calais refugee camp
On the outskirts of Calais, the refugee camp known as 'the Jungle' was recently demolished, the final violent act in a long history of enforced precarity. In recent years, the camp had massively increased in inhabitants, and through the collective actions of these inhabitants, along with the volunteers that helped there, the Jungle inculcated what Doreen Massey would have described as a 'progressive sense of place', in that it espoused cultural a…
The spark, the spread and ethics: Towards an object-orientated view of subversive creativity
This paper articulates the subversive and political potential of an object-orientated view of urban creativity. Drawing upon object-orientated philosophies, it further develops the political and subversive potential of the creativity rhetoric to argue that nonhuman material agency is an important factor in propelling subversive behaviour into sustained political change. By focusing on the agency of objects and their ability to challenge our own b…
Situating Mark Fisher’s spatiality
The work of the late Mark Fisher, one of the revered British cultural critics of the past 20 years, is implicitly spatial, yet remains largely absent from geographical scholarship. Callum Sutherland's paper provides a timely and long-overdue corrective to this disciplinary lacuna. This short response aims to build on Sutherland's exposition by bringing the work of the Situationists International into its orbit, as well as musing about how we can …
Solidarity, not charity: Learning the lessons of the Covid ‐19 pandemic to reconceptualise the radicality of mutual aid
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly ruptured our global society. We have seen health care systems, governments and commerce buckle under the strain of disease, lockdowns and unrest, but the rupture has also created space for radical (and anarchist) politics of mutual aid, as societal organising principles, to move into a more prominent position (and offers potential for this shift to remain after the crisis has subsided). However, in the shor…
Against critique, towards hope
In this reply, I reflect on the ways in which the responses to my Seven Ethics Against Capitalism book have focussed on specific parts and sections of the book, and offer my thoughts on how their thoughtful interjections can be taken forward in collaboration, to proffer a new politics of ‘hope’ in an era where we find the world on palliative care
From globalisation to the planetary: Towards a critical framework of planetary thinking in geography
With climate change and pandemics, the last few years has ushered in a planetary age. Moreover, the concept of the 'globalisation'-a totalising and capitalist-centric concept that homogenises the entire planet into a territory to conquer-has become incapable of adequately accounting for the planetary events taking place. To date, geographical literature has used the term 'planetary' in important, but disparate ways; and in so doing, underplaying …
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