Sticky lives : slugs, detachment and more-than-human ethics in the garden
This article examines slugs, detachment and more-than-human ethics in the garden in London, England. First, it describes how slugs and gardeners are ‘sticky’: joined together by shared histories, curiosity and disgust. It then shifts to examine how
, and being transformed by that recognition. The analysis shows first, that the emphasis on gathering together and relationality obscures what lies outside relations, and second how detachment emerges not as the negation, but as an enabling constituent of more
-than-human ethics. In conclusion the paper argues for looser mappings of relationality and ethics that attend more fully to the distance between species.
Is urban land price adjustment more sluggish than housing price adjustment? empirical evidence
This article hypothesises that, due to factors such as thin trading and lack of publicly available data on transactions in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area land market, urban land prices react more sluggishly to shocks in market fundamentals than
housing prices do. The results suggest that new information regarding the market fundamentals is more rapidly reflected in housing prices than in land prices. Nevertheless, it is the housing price level, instead of land prices, that adjusts towards
Is flooding in South Asia getting worse and more frequent?
To answer the question whether flooding in South Asia is getting worse and more frequent, all available data were considered: the annual peak discharge data for major rivers, post-1985 information on floods from the global archive of large floods
. Notwithstanding the limitations of data, there is enough evidence to conclude that (1) incidences of flood-generating extreme rainfall event are rising and (2) human interventions have made the recent floods more destructive.
landscapes more attractive. Less educated par-ticipants felt more positive towards anthropogenic landscapes. Women were more attracted by farmed fields. Qualitative data added depth to the analysis, permitting to explore different ways in which people related
in particular is affected by neighbourhood conditions, while the choice of manufacturing, wholesale and business services firms is affected more by increases in population density. Nevertheless, a higher number of shops, cafes and restaurants and a more
attractive physical environment do lower the probability that business services leave the neighbourhood, while manufacturing and wholesale firms are more inclined to leave neighbourhoods when a higher share of consumer services is not in use.
This research presents an approach to the spatio-temporal analysis of commuting patterns by ethnic-ity in Atlanta. In general, blacks and Latinos have more clustered residential patterns in the central city and inner suburbs, whereas whites’ housing
locations are more dispersed throughout the suburbs and exurbs. Compared to blacks, Latinos’ housing and job locations are somewhat more suburbanized, thanks to the availability of low-paying job opportunities in various suburban areas. Compared to whites
, Latinos and blacks tend to be more geographically constrained in both housing and job locations.
and a power shift from teaching and research professionals to accountants, real-estate developers, financiers and their ilk. This case suggests that the power of finance is such that no societal domain is immune. The paper ends with a call for more non
-metropolitan case studies of financialization and argues that the only hope for salvation is a more self-conscious defense of traditional academic values by the guardians of higher learning themselves.
government in the UK. In the final part of the paper it presents a re-reading of recent changes to the management of street homelessness in the UK through a postsecular lens. It suggests that this lens provides the possibility for a much more optimistic
reading of homeless services and of the grammars of homelessness and urban (in)justice more broadly.
This paper seeks to develop a ‘more-than-human’ cosmopolitanism that accounts for the presence of nonhuman animals and entities in stories of circulation and contact. Through a multi-sited ethnography of elephant conservation in India and the UK
cosmopolitan elephants may be coercive, giving rise to political frictions and new inequalities when mobilised by powerful, transnational environmental actors. It concludes by discussing the methodological and conceptual implications of a more-than-human
Drawing upon postcolonial environmental history, animal ecology, and more-than-human geography, this paper examines how humans and elephants cohabit with and against the grain of cartographic design in Assam. It conceptualises and deploys
a methodology of ‘tracking’ through which archival material, elephant ecology, and voices of the marginalised can be integrated and mapped. It concludes by discussing the implications of this work for fostering new conversations between more-than-human geography
in understanding this association. Results also suggest that nonblack renters are more likely to leave neighborhoods that experience growth in the percentage of the black population, while blacks are more likely to stay and purchase homes within such neighborhoods.
a stronger positive effect on their location choice, while for firms with high technological capability knowledge externalities from co-located firms from related and complementary industries, or complementary specialization, more strongly influence
their location choice. Furthermore, the differential effect of agglomeration economies between low- and high-capability firms is more pronounced in industries with strong non-legal appropriability, implying that firms can use their location choice as a strategic
This paper suggests that as pervasive computing technologies have gained purchase in urban space they have also become more implicitly blended with everyday life and more contingent on information that is inductively compiled from Internet-based
have been more evident than transformation and development. Hesitant progress exposes cities to the risk of greater social instability. Insights from resilience theory support the idea that enhanced municipal capabilities could facilitate a more
This paper studies how the identity discourses of new regions in the Netherlands are constructed by administrators and other stakeholders by using elements linked to the identity of more established spatial entities. Especially important
and BrabantStad the identity discourses of new regions have been constructed through selective association with the complex layers of more established spatial identities nearby.
This paper examines creativity, cities, and innovation in the United Kingdom. The results stress that creative industries firms are more likely to introduce original product innovations, but not those learnt from elsewhere. Creative occupations
, however, appear a more robust general driver of innovation. We find no support for the hypothesis that urban creative industries firms are particularly innovative. However, creative occupations are used in cities to introduce product innovations learnt
and political life through concerted interactions between humans, animals, and materials ecologizes politics, making it more attuned to the more-than-human collectivities within which material lives are lived. The paper strives towards a political ecology
’ in multiple ways. To do so, it develops a ‘more-than-human’ account of the material discursive un/becomings of subjects–objects–environments as more or less ‘human’. It also assesses the various ways that humanitarian engagements contest processes
, state grants of local power increase fragmentation, and more resources allow for more fragmentation. It concludes with a discussion of the results and how they should influence urban policy.