Monthly Archives: October 2013

The world in a wardrobe

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Joe Smith

This is a pre-publication draft of my chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion, (eds Kate Fletcher and Mathilda Tham, 2014). Rather than writing a few thousand well referenced words on the geography of care I wrote an … Continue reading →

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We’re all in this (test tube) together

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Joe Smith

In the wake of contributing to the Battle of Ideas ‘New Environmentalism’ debate yesterday, and a twitter exchange with OU colleagues Mark Brandon and Simon Kelley I recalled this 2008 post I put on OpenLearn about a really smart piece … Continue reading →

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The New Environmentalism?

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Joe Smith

Tomorrow I’m contributing to a debate on ‘the new environmentalism’ at the Battle of Ideas at the Barbican. It has had me dusting down a book I wrote for Granta in 2006 ‘What Do Greens Believe’. General argument within is: … Continue reading →

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Climate change and the media: time to turn the page?

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Joe Smith

Image: Screen grab from http://www.open.ac.uk/creativeclimate How has climate change been made into a form of public knowledge? I’m giving a keynote at the Deutscher Geographentag 2013 in Passau this Saturday.  I will draw on some past academic research as well … Continue reading →

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