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A prize of £75 is offered for the best undergraduate dissertation in political geography submitted to a UK university during the 2021-22 academic year. We welcome nominations that are conceptually, methodologically, and empirically innovative from across the broad spectrum of political geography and its sub-disciplines. Nominations are limited to one per department. Nominated dissertations should be submitted…
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After the Al-Jazeera Podcasts the PolGRG met. We wanted to start a conversation, craft our own statement in response, and outline actions we will take as a group to make political geography a safer space for everybody. You can read it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KnThCC7OVm1dIPFdkkzXbEtxiUD4E1zlsFzLveHV3HU/edit
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During this autumn/fall term, the RGS Political Geography Research Group is hosting a series of writing retreats on alternating Thursdays, from 2-5pm UK time (GMT). Please join us for one or all of these by registering below. These will be aimed at postgraduates and early career academics, but those at any career stage are welcome…
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We’re delighted to announce the results of the annual undergraduate dissertation prize. It may have been a turbulent year, but it produced some outstanding undergraduate research projects and among the largest numbers of nominations in recent years. The judging panel (Anthony Ince, Cordelia Freeman and Daniel Hammett) received submissions from across the UK, on a…
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Call for Papers RGS-IBG Political Geography Research Group Biannual Workshop 30th June – 1st July Inequalities of Knowledge Production in Political Geography There exists long standing conversations in Geography more widely and Political Geography particularly on the inequalities of knowledge production. These conversations have built a foundation and set a precedent for critically examining the…
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We received a collection of wonderful nominations for the second PolGRG book award, emphasising the breadth and quality of work being undertaken within the field of Political Geography. After careful consideration, we are delighted to announce that the winner is ‘War and the City: Urban geopolitics in Lebanon’ by Sara Fregonese. In the words of…
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By Hannah Dickinson, Laura Shipp and Viktoria Noka At this year’s RGS-IBG annual conference, the outgoing PolGRG postgraduate reps set out to ‘reclaim success’. In what was perhaps an unconventional session, we set out to create an open and honest space for attendees to think about what success means to them, and how we…
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The Political Geography Research Group Royal Geographic Society (PolGRG) Book Award was first established in September 2016, and officially launched in 2017, with sponsorship from the journal Political Geography. The winner of the inaugural PolGRG/PG Book Award was Reece Jones’ work Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move (Verso, 2016). We are now seeking…
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By Viktoria Noka Blue skies and sunny spells welcomed delegates to the University of Glasgow, the proud host of the Political Geography Research Group’s Biannual Workshop from 2nd-3rd May 2019. At a time where our news is (still) flooded with Britain’s Brexit woes and Donald Trump’s tweets, it is clear that the political climate is fraught…
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The Political Geography Research Group Biannual Workshop University of Glasgow, 2 & 3 May 2019 At a time where our news is flooded with Britain’s Brexit woes and Donald Trump’s tweets, it is clear that the political climate is fraught with tensions and is, at times, incomprehensible. However, we have also seen a rise in…