I’ve had the habit of reading blogs since blogs became ‘a thing’, back in the early noughties (for me anyway), and have moved through different RSS readers, desktop versions then web services – from NetNewsWire to dear old Bloglines introduced to me by Howard Rheingold, and more recently Netvibes… but I’ve allowed the list of sites I follow to atrophy and wither, with many no longer active and some no longer online.
I decided to do what all lazy Twitter users do and ask ‘which geographers should I read?‘ and received some helpful responses. I am therefore sharing the beginnings of a list that I hope others may help add to by leaving suggestions in the comments below…
My aim here is to compile a list of regular bloggers who blog about vaguely human geographical things, so here’s my provisional list – there must be more(!):
Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research
Hannah Awcock – Turbulent London / The historical geography of protest & riots
the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL) blog network (aggregate)
Jeremy Crampton – Open Geography
Tim Cresswell – place, landscape, mobility, poetry
Julie Cupples – geography/development/culture/media
Nicholas Crane – For Another Critique of the Pyramid
Andy Davies – Contentious Geographies
Stuart Elden – Progressive Geographies
Eye on Geography – NUIM geography group blog
Thomas Frederiksen – Mining and CSR
Geocritique – group blog on ’emerging ecologies’
Geopolitics & security – Royal Holloway blog
Hilary Geoghegan – Culture of Enthusiasm
Governing Emergencies – Leverhulme network blog (led by Ben Anderson)
Derek Gregory – Geographical Imaginations
Rob Kitchin’s Ireland After NAMA
Sara Koopman – Decolonizing Solidarity & Spanish for Social Change
Innes Keighren – On the archival trail of William Macintosh
Landscape Surgery – Royal Holloway postgrad group blog
Ludic Geopolitics – project blog
Colin McFarlane – City Fragment
Dominique Moran – Carceral Geography
Rafael Pereira – Urban Demographics
Mark Purcell – Path to the Possible
The Programmable City – EU funded project at NUI Maynooth led by Rob Kitchin
Scott Rodgers – Publicly Sited
Gillian Rose – Visual/Method/Culture
Society for Radical Geography, Social Theory & Everyday Life (group)
Soft Paternalism – project blog: Rhys Jones, Mark Whitehead, Jessica Pykett & Marc Welsh
Chris W. Strother – The Anarchist Geographer
Gerard Toal – Critical Geopolitics
Leonard van Efferink – Exploring Geopolitics
Tara Woodyer – Material Sensibilities
Honorable mentions (not particularly regular)
High Crossfield – Chomping at the bloodied bit
Ayona Datta – The City Inside Out
Kurt Iveson – Cities & Citizenship
Helen Jarvis – Experiments in Community
Rob Kitchin’s frequent blog about crime fiction
Joanna Mann – KnitDiss / Exploring the geographies of craft & crafting
Ellie Miles – Museums, research, teaching
Pat Noxolo’s Dancing Maps project blog
Darren Patrick – Queer Urban Ecologies
Laura Prazeres – Learning beyond borders
Juanita Sundberg – Nature / Race / Militarization
Alex Vasudevan – Experimental Geographies
Tom Vickers – Refugees, Capitalism and the British State
Amy Zang – Souvenir Geographies
PLEASE HELP ME ADD TO THIS LIST – comment below…
Jim Merricks White has linked (on Twitter) to the Antipode list of geography blogs compiled a while ago:
http://antipodefoundation.org/links/geog-blogs/ I’ll try to update the list with those that are still current and regularly updated.
An enthusiastic group of Wollongong (Australia) geographers blog at this site: https://www.uowblogs.com/ausccer/
Great list! Thanks for sharing . I’ve jus updated my feedly .
Please, consider including this one in the list: http://www.urbandemographics.blogspot.com
I don’t have any more suggestions, I just wanted to say well done for putting all this together, it’s a great resource!
No probs, glad you think it worthwhile – the point of the media is to share so that’s what I’m trying to do… 😉