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Necropolitics and geography (2025)
Journal Article
Peters, F., Clare, N., & Davies, T. (2025). Necropolitics and geography. Progress in Human Geography, Article 03091325251348613. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325251348613

This paper reviews the rapidly growing body of geographical work on necropolitics. We argue that thinking carefully and spatially with and about necropolitics is useful for analysing widespread and uneven racialised suffering, particularly relating t... Read More about Necropolitics and geography.

‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel (2024)
Journal Article
Mayblin, L., Turner, J., Davies, T., Yemane, T., & Isakjee, A. (2024). ‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2024.2349691

This article focuses on the advancement of fantasy policy solutions to irregular migration, drawing on the case study of the UK/French border. In 2018 people began to cross the English Channel in significant numbers to seek asylum. This led to much c... Read More about ‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel.

Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border (2024)
Journal Article
Davies, T., Yemane, T. H., Turner, J., Mayblin, L., & Isakjee, A. (2024). Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241264415

This article examines the eco-coloniality of the UK–France border by tracing the transformation of the notorious Calais “jungle” refugee camp into a nature reserve. We empirically investigate the ecological politics of the Calais borderzone, arguing... Read More about Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border.

The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border (2024)
Journal Article
Davies, T., Isakjee, A., & Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2024). The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border. Geopolitics, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2339894

Borders are sites of mass injury. This article questions the necro-consensus that has emerged within migration studies, and explores the political role that less-than-deadly violence plays at contemporary borders. By withholding from outright killing... Read More about The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border.

Epistemic Borderwork: Violent Pushbacks, Refugees, and the Politics of Knowledge at the EU Border (2022)
Journal Article
Davies, T., Isakjee, A., & Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2023). Epistemic Borderwork: Violent Pushbacks, Refugees, and the Politics of Knowledge at the EU Border. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(1), 169-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2077167

Borders are sites of epistemic struggle. Focusing on the illegal tactic of the “pushback,” which is routinely deployed by state authorities to forcefully expel asylum seekers from European Union territory without due process, this article explores th... Read More about Epistemic Borderwork: Violent Pushbacks, Refugees, and the Politics of Knowledge at the EU Border.

The work of waste during COVID-19: logics of public, environmental, and occupational health (2022)
Journal Article
Garnett, E., Balayannis, A., Hinchliffe, S., Davies, T., Gladding, T., & Nicholson, P. (2022). The work of waste during COVID-19: logics of public, environmental, and occupational health. Critical Public Health, 32(5), 630-640. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2022.2048632

Waste has become a pivotal public health and environmental problem during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interdisciplinary review, we move beyond the ‘coronalitter’ and ‘coronawaste’ discourses, which have come to dominate public imaginaries of waste... Read More about The work of waste during COVID-19: logics of public, environmental, and occupational health.

Channel crossings: offshoring asylum and the afterlife of empire in the Dover Strait (2021)
Journal Article
Davies, T., Isakjee, A., Mayblin, L., & Turner, J. (2021). Channel crossings: offshoring asylum and the afterlife of empire in the Dover Strait. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(13), 2307-2327. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1925320

In 2020, over 8,400 people made their way from France to the UK coast using small vessels. They did so principally in order to claim asylum in the United Kingdom (UK). Much like in other border-zones, the UK state has portrayed irregular Channel cros... Read More about Channel crossings: offshoring asylum and the afterlife of empire in the Dover Strait.

Nuclear geographies and nuclear issues (2021)
Book Chapter
Alexis‐Martin, B., Turnbull, J., Bennett, L., Bolton, M., Davies, T., Dunlop, G., Hawkins, D., Hogue, R. H., Holloway, P., Malin, S. A., Mangioni, T. L., Mayoux, C., McClelland, G., Meyer, T., slavick, E. O., & Ross, L. Nuclear geographies and nuclear issues. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. F. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu, & R. A. Marston (Eds.), International encyclopedia of geography: people, the Earth, environment and technology. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg2109

Nuclear geographies and geographers contemplate the significance of nuclear technologies and issues for humans, nonhumans, and ecologies in the past, present, and future. This definition highlights how radiation interacts across different scales and... Read More about Nuclear geographies and nuclear issues.

Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a post-truth age (2020)
Book
Davies, T., & Mah, A. (Eds.). (2020). Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a post-truth age. Manchester University Press

In an age of post-truth politics, where official science is increasingly under attack, what is the role for grassroots citizen science in environmental justice campaigns? The environmental justice movement has traditionally rallied against the misuse... Read More about Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a post-truth age.

Instagram photography and the geography field course: snapshots from Berlin (2019)
Journal Article
Davies, T., Lorne, C., & Sealey-Huggins, L. (2019). Instagram photography and the geography field course: snapshots from Berlin. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 43(3), 363-383. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2019.1608428

Although geography has long associated itself with photography, the rapid advancement of technology has created a clear divide between the visual practices regularly used in wider society and the way photography is utilized by critical geographers in... Read More about Instagram photography and the geography field course: snapshots from Berlin.

Slow violence and toxic geographies: ‘Out of sight’ to whom? (2019)
Journal Article
Davies, T. (2019). Slow violence and toxic geographies: ‘Out of sight’ to whom?. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419841063

Toxic pollution is a form of violence. This article explores the gradual brutalities that communities surrounded by petrochemical infrastructure endure over time. Contributing to political geographies of violence and environmental justice, this paper... Read More about Slow violence and toxic geographies: ‘Out of sight’ to whom?.

Toxic space and time: slow violence, necropolitics, and petrochemical pollution (2018)
Journal Article
Davies, T. (2018). Toxic space and time: slow violence, necropolitics, and petrochemical pollution. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(6), 1537-1553. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2018.1470924

This article explores how time interacts forcefully with the experience of living within toxic spaces. Through ethnographic research and interviews with residents of a contaminated town in Louisiana, the article unpacks the uncertain temporalities of... Read More about Toxic space and time: slow violence, necropolitics, and petrochemical pollution.

Towards nuclear geography: zones, bodies, and communities (2017)
Journal Article
Alexis-Martin, B., & Davies, T. (2017). Towards nuclear geography: zones, bodies, and communities. Geography Compass, 11(9), Article e12325. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12325

Since the discovery of radioactivity in 1895, ionising radiation has become an increasingly prominent part of modern life. Here, we explore the diverse modes of interaction that occur between bodies and nuclear technology and point towards the scope... Read More about Towards nuclear geography: zones, bodies, and communities.

Making space for failure in geographic research (2017)
Journal Article
Harrowell, E., Davies, T., & Disney, T. (2018). Making space for failure in geographic research. Professional Geographer, 70(2), 230-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2017.1347799

The idea that field research is an inherently “messy” process has become widely accepted by geographers in recent years. There has thus far been little acknowledgment, however, of the role that failure plays in doing human geography. In this article... Read More about Making space for failure in geographic research.

Public health in the Calais refugee camp: environment, health and exclusion (2017)
Journal Article
Dhesi, S., Isakjee, A., & Davies, T. (2018). Public health in the Calais refugee camp: environment, health and exclusion. Critical Public Health, 28(2), 140-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2017.1335860

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The ongoing emergency for refugees is having profound and hidden health consequences for thousands of displaced persons who live in informal ‘makeshift’ camps across Europe. This interdi... Read More about Public health in the Calais refugee camp: environment, health and exclusion.

Violent inaction: the necropolitical experience of refugees in Europe (2017)
Journal Article
Davies, T., Isakjee, A., & Dhesi, S. (2017). Violent inaction: the necropolitical experience of refugees in Europe. Antipode, 49(5), 1263-1284. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12325

A significant outcome of the global crisis for refugees has been the abandonment of forced migrants to live in makeshift camps inside the EU. This paper details how state authorities have prevented refugees from surviving with formal provision, leadi... Read More about Violent inaction: the necropolitical experience of refugees in Europe.

Informality and survival in Ukraine's nuclear landscape: living with the risks of Chernobyl (2014)
Journal Article
Davies, T., & Polese, A. (2015). Informality and survival in Ukraine's nuclear landscape: living with the risks of Chernobyl. Journal of Eurasian Studies, 6(1), 34-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euras.2014.09.002

Recent debates on informal economic activities have partially switched away from a pure monetary logic towards a more complex one, embedded in long term relations and reckoning with non materialistic paradigms. The role of informality in certain aspe... Read More about Informality and survival in Ukraine's nuclear landscape: living with the risks of Chernobyl.