Progress report: Geographies of science and technology

I was chuffed to be invited by the editors of Progress in Human Geography to write three short 'progress reports' on the field of 'geographies of science and technology'. This is the first time reports have been commissioned in this area, which is a great reflection on the growing vibrancy of work in this area. …

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Special issue: the vertical in the history of science

Over the last couple of years Wilko Graf von Hardenberg and I have been working on convening a special issue on the historical role of the vertical in science. What we mean is the vertical as a condition of knowledge production - a spatial challenge to overcome, or a means of accessing new objects of …

It’s finally out! Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination

I don't have my own copy yet - it seems to have been corona'd in the post - but people seem to be buying and receiving copies to I thought it was about time to announce it here. This book started life as a couple of conference sessions way back in 2015 at the International …

Book plans: ‘Anthropocene’

I was delighted this week to sign a contract for a book to be simply titled Anthropocene, for Routledge's Key Ideas in Geography series. As more and more people in geography and beyond have started engaging critically and creatively with the idea that we now inhabit the Anthropocene, and given that the concept is so …

Empire and Mobility

I was delighted to get my hands on Empire and Mobility in the Long Nineteenth Century this week, a new book edited by David Lambert and Pete Merriman. The books addresses the recent uptick in conversation between the fields of imperial history and mobility studies, and I was pleased to be able to contribute a …

Airships paper now out in the Annals of the AAG

I'm pleased to be able to share my paper on British imperial airshipping, which is now out in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. The paper develops some of my earlier thinking about how airships can help us think in new ways about historical attitudes to both the atmosphere and to the technological future E-prints of …

Paper on Mauritian cyclonology

I'm pleased to be able to share my paper on meteorology in colonial Mauritius, which appears in a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Science on 'Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World'. The editors - Sebastian Kroupa, Stephanie J. Mawson and Dorit Brixius - did a great job of shepherding together a …

Mauritius – notes from the archives

I've just returned from a few weeks in Mauritius, where I was lucky enough to spend some time both exploring the archives and exploring the island, to follow-up on and deepen my engagement with the island's meteorological history. I started working on the history of meteorology in Mauritius by following Albert Walter, founding director of …

Climate & Colonialism: new paper in ‘WIREs Climate Change’

Georgina Endfield and I have just published a review paper in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change on the topic of 'climate & colonialism'. The paper seeks to take in a large volume of recent(and not-so-recent) research in two broad areas: the links between ideas about climate (such as tropical degeneracy) and ideologies of imperialism; and more …

Relocating Meteorology: themed issue of History of Meteorology

I'm delighted to announce the publication of a themed issue of the journal History of Meteorology edited by myself and Angelo Matteo Caglioti (EUI), on the topic of 'Relocating Meteorology'. The collection developed out of a conference session at the AAG annual meeting in 2015, and brings together a range of established and emerging voices in …