Austin Read
Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the University of Oxford. occasionalgeographer.substack.com
- An exciting early Christmas present has just arrived !! The New Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology - featuring a chapter I co-authored on queer political ecology - is out in 2026. Can’t wait to read through all the other chapters…
- 🚨new paper🚨 excited to publish this paper on salmon, archives & more-than-human historical geography in geographical research!! the article will appear in a special issue on nature in/and/of the archive that has been put together by @ayanassar.bsky.social & Jessica Lehman. doi.org/10.1111/1745...
- new naomi klein in equator magazine is great - and making me rethink my tepid response to this surrealism exhibition ! www.equator.org/articles/sur...
- amazingly produced zine from queer patch - group of sinophone queer / feminist researchers. look out for launches in various cities across 2026
- In case you missed it: see our CfP for the AAG 2026 below 👇
- CfP #AAG2026 New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice and activism. We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
- CfP #AAG2026 New Fluvial Geographies: critical currents in riverine thought, practice and activism. We are organising a session to discuss the recent and exciting surge in human and environmental geographic scholarship on rivers. Full call here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Please share!
- Reposted by Austin Read#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by @austinread.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo
- my new paper is now published open access in @rgsibg.bsky.social Transactions journal: doi.org/10.1111/tran...
- The paper is about the overlooked ways that British rivers have been shaped by colonial histories and geographies. I develop a theory/method of "infrastructure as archive" to trace imperial geographies of rivers, and to challenge spatial binaries of "core" and "periphery"
- my first post on substack is available to read now! Newsletter #1: May 2025 open.substack.com/pub/occasion...
- hello ! i have started a substack (mainly as a fun project to disrupt writer's block). please follow it at occasionalgeographer.substack.com if you're interested. first proper post (where i'm going to be discussing the spatial politics of the green party leadership election) is coming this sunday!
- reading buddy
- Reposted by Austin ReadWe need bold leadership. Now. That's why I'm running to be the next leader of the Green Party. Join our campaign: backzack.com #BackZack
- Northey Island
- Arrived in Detroit for the #AAG! Geographers, please check out our session “Making space for anticolonial geographies of and from the metropole?” which is running tomorrow morning in the 10am slot (please refer to the program for location info). In the meantime, I’m hitting up Trading Joe’s!!
- TRADER joes*
- Reposted by Austin Read
