Associate Professor @ExeterGeography | PFHEA | Education, data, childhood, youth, futures, progress | Dyslexic geographer-educationalist, Christian | @MFGeog
Exeter, UK
Joined April 2014
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Check out this interview with @DipoFaloyin, author of Africa Is Not A Country in @The_GA's journal Geography.
FREE to access until April (thx @WeAreTandF) - so do share and download. Hopefully a useful resource for #geographyteacher community!
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And from Suzanne Hocknell: CoPSE: A methodological intervention towards gentle more-than-human relations
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From Laura Pottinger: Treading carefully through tomatoes: Embodying a gentle methodological approach
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From John Horton: For diffident geographies and modest activisms: Questioning the ANYTHING-BUT-GENTLE academy
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From Jonathan Cinnamon: Power in numbers/Power and numbers: Gentle data activism as strategic collaboration
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From Laura Smith: The quiet politics and gentle literary activism behind the battle for Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument
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"Towards more gentle geographies: Narrating a virtue turn, and possibilities for multi-tonal politics of activism and academic labour"
We try to make the most of completing our editorial some time after the papers were published & sketch out what we see of what's happened since.
It was something that started as fellow PhD students for Jayne Jeffries and I.
You could say it's thinking that's 'been on a journey' and taken time.
But today a special section in Area has been published 💫 with our editorial:
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Nothing, of course, will ever top this one from 2010.
(It's in Sam Freedman's book, Failed State)
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We're delighted to interview our member, Salvador Santino Regilme, about his edited collection, Children's Rights in Crisis: Multidisciplinary, Transnational, and Comparative Perspectives:
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My op-ed “Should India lower its voting age?”
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My thoughts on lowering of voting age published in the @IndianExpress
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this really is remarkable this really is remarkable wonkhe.com/blogs/the-student…
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Our co-edited "Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development", 2025, is out now! routledge.com/Routledge-Hand… Got the hard copy some time ago, but delayed in posting about it! PS: we have a dedication to Ragini, who was born around the same time we completed this!
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Winners announced! Congratulations to the 2025 GEReCo Masters Dissertation Award winner & highly commended 🥳🙌
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The @The_GA is concerned about the funding position of many UK universities. Many Higher Education #geography colleagues are facing the risk of redundancy & there are proposals to merge or close a number of geography departments. Read more ⤵️
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