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 … Continue reading Book plans: ‘Anthropocene’
Category: Research updates
Hopeful monstrosities
In the last couple of weeks I’ve given two seminars on my airships work, which has been a great opportunity to push forward my thinking a little bit with a view to getting some more writing done on the topic over the summer. Thanks to the good people of QUB Geography and the IHR Transport … Continue reading Hopeful monstrosities
End of the project (well, sort of…)
On 30th November my British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship formally came to an end, and I transitioned into being a Lecturer in Human Geography here at UEA. That marked the passing of three years of tremendous privilege, wherein I had the time and resources to pursue a research project which has proven immensely stimulating, and which … Continue reading End of the project (well, sort of…)
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 … Continue reading Mauritius – notes from the archives
New position at UEA
Things have been a bit quiet on here over the last few weeks, and that's partly because as of 1st August I've moved to the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia to take up a position as Lecturer in Human Geography. Fortunately, my official title will be 'British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow … Continue reading New position at UEA
Malaysia – notes from the archives
s I returned from my trip to Malaysia last week, complete with a suitcase full of print-outs from the archives and a head full of ideas about how the development of meteorology in British Malaya fits into the wider story I want to tell with this project. Most of my time in Malaysia was spent … Continue reading Malaysia – notes from the archives
Thinking with airships
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the airship as a speculative technology, particularly its history as an imagined agent of imperial connectivity in interwar Britain. More broadly I’m interested in how meteorology was used in this period to make the atmosphere legible and traversable, and a lot of the motivation for the … Continue reading Thinking with airships
Martin Mahony 