Liam Saddington
Biographic Data
| ID | 1975437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liam Saddington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liam |
| FAMILY NAME | Saddington |
| SIGNATURE | SADDINGTON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9679-5519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Connecting climate research and teaching in higher education with secondary education
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing young people. As well as the physical implications of a changing climate, young people will enter a labour market in flux as global economies transform and the world decarbonises. Geography is a key subject for climate education in the UK, synthesising both the physical and human causes, consequences and implications of climate change. However, there remain several issues on delivering clim…
Conference‐Based Method: Interviewing Elites at Intergovernmental Conferences
Conferences have increasingly featured within geographical research as sites of knowledge production, performance and contestation. However, this article explores how intergovernmental conferences can be productive sites for geographical research fieldwork with elites on topics such as climate geopolitics and disaster risk reduction (DRR), particularly through interviews. Reflecting on research conducted at over two decades of intergovernmental c…
You could start a new country, but you would need to discover new land: Exploring understandings of statehood with primary school pupils in England
State‐based imaginaries dominate how children are taught about the world in formal educational spaces. Geographical education in schools draws upon a range of representations from atlases to wall maps, which portray a highly ordered image of a world that is neatly divided up into bounded nation‐states. While scholarship within political geography has long sought to challenge the ‘territorial trap’ which underpins these approaches, and there is in…
The 'Tilt' and the 'Pacific Uplift' in 'Global Britain's' ties with the Pacific Islands
Following the 2016 vote to leave the European Union, the British government sought to construct the UK as “Global Britain” to reinvigorate its foreign policy. Subsequently, in 2019, the UK government announced a “Pacific Uplift” to facilitate greater engagement with the Pacific Island States. Alongside Australia’s “Pacific Step Up” and New Zealand’s “Pacific Reset”, this engagement is part of a wider shift in foreign relations as Western powers s…
Staying put in an era of climate change: The geographies, legalities, and public health implications of immobility
In response to the proliferation of “climate migration” discourses, researchers are exploring how climate related hazards affect immobile populations. This paper contributes to the conceptualization of “environmental immobility.” Researchers from geography, public health, psychology, and law explore the climate change immobility nexus via three themes: (1) risk; (2) (mal)adaptation; and (3) resilience, protection, and vulnerability. The aim of th…
Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu
Climate change is one of the key foci of critical geopolitics in the twenty‐first century, with a proliferation of scholarship considering the international conferences, imaginaries, and securitisations of the climate crisis. Since 2019, Tuvalu has been using human bodies submerged in water – including diplomats, children, and politicians ‐ within its diplomacy to draw attention to the severity of the climate crisis. By examining contemporary Tuv…
Simulating alternative internationals: Geopolitics role-playing in UK schools
Simulation and role-play have a proven track record as pedagogic techniques to provide students with insights into geopolitics, diplomacy, and international relations. Since the first Model United Nations (MUN) in 1947, simulations have proliferated within secondary and tertiary educational settings. However, these activities overwhelmingly focus on recognised nation-states, neglecting polities that are not UN member states, but that are often ac…
The chronopolitics of climate change adaptation: Land reclamation in Tuvalu
Discourses of urgency have dominated adaptation responses to climate change, necessitating fast and decisive action. These discourses are particularly apparent in low-lying island states due to rising sea levels. Tuvalu, an atoll state in the South Pacific, has engaged in land reclamation projects as a means of adaptation. Focusing on these projects, I explore how chronopolitics can help tease apart the complex spatialities and temporalities whic…
Geopolitical imaginaries in climate and ocean governance: Seychelles and the Blue Economy
Climate change and ocean management are significant challenges for small island developing states (SIDS). Compounding these challenges, research suggests that the ability of SIDS to enact environmental governance, and their ability to mobilise international support, remain constrained by resource limitations and broader geopolitical discourses of marginality. However, Seychelles’ Government has challenged these imaginaries via its engagement with…
Geopolitics and humiliation: The 'sinking islands' of Tuvalu
Emotions play a key role within geopolitics; spatial representations draw upon, create, and reinforce emotional responses within and from political actors. Bringing together critical literature on emotion and geopolitics, this paper sets out to examine the underexplored ways in which humiliation features in geopolitical discourse and practice. Through elite interviews and participant observation in the South Pacific at the 50th Pacific Islands Fo…
Geopolitical imaginaries in climate and ocean governance: Seychelles and the Blue Economy
Climate change and ocean management are significant challenges for small island developing states (SIDS). Compounding these challenges, research suggests that the ability of SIDS to enact environmental governance, and their ability to mobilise international support, remain constrained by resource limitations and broader geopolitical discourses of marginality. However, Seychelles’ Government has challenged these imaginaries via its engagement with…
The chronopolitics of climate change adaptation: Land reclamation in Tuvalu
Discourses of urgency have dominated adaptation responses to climate change, necessitating fast and decisive action. These discourses are particularly apparent in low-lying island states due to rising sea levels. Tuvalu, an atoll state in the South Pacific, has engaged in land reclamation projects as a means of adaptation. Focusing on these projects, I explore how chronopolitics can help tease apart the complex spatialities and temporalities whic…
Geopolitics and humiliation: The 'sinking islands' of Tuvalu
Emotions play a key role within geopolitics; spatial representations draw upon, create, and reinforce emotional responses within and from political actors. Bringing together critical literature on emotion and geopolitics, this paper sets out to examine the underexplored ways in which humiliation features in geopolitical discourse and practice. Through elite interviews and participant observation in the South Pacific at the 50th Pacific Islands Fo…
Simulating alternative internationals: Geopolitics role-playing in UK schools
Simulation and role-play have a proven track record as pedagogic techniques to provide students with insights into geopolitics, diplomacy, and international relations. Since the first Model United Nations (MUN) in 1947, simulations have proliferated within secondary and tertiary educational settings. However, these activities overwhelmingly focus on recognised nation-states, neglecting polities that are not UN member states, but that are often ac…
Staying put in an era of climate change: The geographies, legalities, and public health implications of immobility
In response to the proliferation of “climate migration” discourses, researchers are exploring how climate related hazards affect immobile populations. This paper contributes to the conceptualization of “environmental immobility.” Researchers from geography, public health, psychology, and law explore the climate change immobility nexus via three themes: (1) risk; (2) (mal)adaptation; and (3) resilience, protection, and vulnerability. The aim of th…
The chronopolitics of climate change adaptation: Land reclamation in Tuvalu
Discourses of urgency have dominated adaptation responses to climate change, necessitating fast and decisive action. These discourses are particularly apparent in low-lying island states due to rising sea levels. Tuvalu, an atoll state in the South Pacific, has engaged in land reclamation projects as a means of adaptation. Focusing on these projects, I explore how chronopolitics can help tease apart the complex spatialities and temporalities whic…
Geopolitical imaginaries in climate and ocean governance: Seychelles and the Blue Economy
Climate change and ocean management are significant challenges for small island developing states (SIDS). Compounding these challenges, research suggests that the ability of SIDS to enact environmental governance, and their ability to mobilise international support, remain constrained by resource limitations and broader geopolitical discourses of marginality. However, Seychelles’ Government has challenged these imaginaries via its engagement with…
Geopolitics and humiliation: The 'sinking islands' of Tuvalu
Emotions play a key role within geopolitics; spatial representations draw upon, create, and reinforce emotional responses within and from political actors. Bringing together critical literature on emotion and geopolitics, this paper sets out to examine the underexplored ways in which humiliation features in geopolitical discourse and practice. Through elite interviews and participant observation in the South Pacific at the 50th Pacific Islands Fo…
The 'Tilt' and the 'Pacific Uplift' in 'Global Britain's' ties with the Pacific Islands
Following the 2016 vote to leave the European Union, the British government sought to construct the UK as “Global Britain” to reinvigorate its foreign policy. Subsequently, in 2019, the UK government announced a “Pacific Uplift” to facilitate greater engagement with the Pacific Island States. Alongside Australia’s “Pacific Step Up” and New Zealand’s “Pacific Reset”, this engagement is part of a wider shift in foreign relations as Western powers s…
Staying put in an era of climate change: The geographies, legalities, and public health implications of immobility
In response to the proliferation of “climate migration” discourses, researchers are exploring how climate related hazards affect immobile populations. This paper contributes to the conceptualization of “environmental immobility.” Researchers from geography, public health, psychology, and law explore the climate change immobility nexus via three themes: (1) risk; (2) (mal)adaptation; and (3) resilience, protection, and vulnerability. The aim of th…
Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu
Climate change is one of the key foci of critical geopolitics in the twenty‐first century, with a proliferation of scholarship considering the international conferences, imaginaries, and securitisations of the climate crisis. Since 2019, Tuvalu has been using human bodies submerged in water – including diplomats, children, and politicians ‐ within its diplomacy to draw attention to the severity of the climate crisis. By examining contemporary Tuv…
Simulating alternative internationals: Geopolitics role-playing in UK schools
Simulation and role-play have a proven track record as pedagogic techniques to provide students with insights into geopolitics, diplomacy, and international relations. Since the first Model United Nations (MUN) in 1947, simulations have proliferated within secondary and tertiary educational settings. However, these activities overwhelmingly focus on recognised nation-states, neglecting polities that are not UN member states, but that are often ac…
Connecting climate research and teaching in higher education with secondary education
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing young people. As well as the physical implications of a changing climate, young people will enter a labour market in flux as global economies transform and the world decarbonises. Geography is a key subject for climate education in the UK, synthesising both the physical and human causes, consequences and implications of climate change. However, there remain several issues on delivering clim…
Conference‐Based Method: Interviewing Elites at Intergovernmental Conferences
Conferences have increasingly featured within geographical research as sites of knowledge production, performance and contestation. However, this article explores how intergovernmental conferences can be productive sites for geographical research fieldwork with elites on topics such as climate geopolitics and disaster risk reduction (DRR), particularly through interviews. Reflecting on research conducted at over two decades of intergovernmental c…
You could start a new country, but you would need to discover new land: Exploring understandings of statehood with primary school pupils in England
State‐based imaginaries dominate how children are taught about the world in formal educational spaces. Geographical education in schools draws upon a range of representations from atlases to wall maps, which portray a highly ordered image of a world that is neatly divided up into bounded nation‐states. While scholarship within political geography has long sought to challenge the ‘territorial trap’ which underpins these approaches, and there is in…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (6 works) · Geopolitics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Law (3 works)