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Ephemeral Lives Versus Colonial Afterlives: Building Decolonial Urbanisms Through Two African Culture Festivals in Athens

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how African migrantised and diasporic communities in Athens contest the city's dominant colonial imaginary through cultural festival practice. We argue that Athens has been constructed as a racialised chronotope: a frozen, whitened tableau anchored in classical antiquity that renders contemporary racialised presences ...
Anna Papoutsi, Antonis Vradis
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Urban Animal Density: Red Foxes and Emergent Sociality in the City

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
Short Abstract Density is considered a foundational quality of urban life. Geographical investigations of density remain anthropocentric, despite the fact that animals also live at high density in cities. Through a collaborative ethological‐ethnographic study of a group of foxes in London, this paper asks how urban animal density is produced ...
Tom Fry
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The Inoperative Refusal: Gestures and How the Unruly Body Goes on Strike

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
Short Abstract A still from Yvonne Rainer's film, Hand Movie (1966). Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. ABSTRACT This paper advances a way of thinking the body in human geography through gestures, their capacity to refuse inoperatively and their relation to unconscious processes ...
Thuỳ‐Trang T. Nguyen
wiley   +1 more source

The Housing Crisis as a Failure of Distribution: The Mismatch of Homes to Places and Space to People in England and Wales, 1991 to 2021

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
Short Abstract This paper frames the housing crisis in England and Wales as a failure of distribution rather than a simple national shortage of homes. Drawing on local authority census data from 1991 to 2021, it shows that new supply has become decoupled from where demographic pressure is greatest and that housing space is consumed increasingly ...
Gauthier Dulout   +2 more
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