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Professor Gavin Bridge

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Professor in the Department of Geography+44 (0) 191 33 43502
Associate Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study

Biography

Current PhD Supervisions
  • Pietra Cepero Rua Perez, The politics of nature and mining the Amazon: territory, materiality and extraction in Pará, Brazil
  • Eric Boyd (co-supervised with Anthropology), Shifting ontologies of iron ore: enframing extractive resources during the relocation and redevelopment of Kiruna, Sweden
  • Carlos Tornel, A just energy transition in Mexico? Assessing the socio-spatial, and socio-technical implications of incorporating renewable energy projects into the energy system
  • Burag Gurden, Governing the energy-water nexus: sustainable resource governance for development in Turkey
  • Costanza Concetti, Scaling Down Power: a geography of electricity prosumption
  • Miklos Durr, Digitising Mobility: an urban political ecology of climate-smart transport networks
  • Yu-Kai Liao, Crustacean Capitalism in The Amphibious Mekong Delta: Dynamic Relations of Land-water and Agro-aquaculture
  • Ryan Wyeth, Knowing water-as-resource: the political ecology of 'green-power' hydro-development in Georgia
  • Diego Astorga de Ita, "Through the old forest of / mahogany and cedar": environmental change and the landscapes of music in the Sotavento region of eastern Mexico
  • Graham Clark, Understanding hazard correlation: the impacts to the insurance industry
Completed PhD Supervisions
  • Dr Hung-Ying Chen, Air Rights as Market Devices: Exploring Financialization in Taipei Metropolitan Area
  • Dr Julie de los Reyes, Mining Shareholder Value: Financialisation, Extraction, and the Geography of Gold Mining
  • Dr Diego Andreucci, The Political Ecology of Resource Dependence: Extractivism, Conflict and Development in Latin America
  • Dr Chun-Kai Leung, Fuelling the Dragon: a Geographical Political Economy of the Natural Gas Industry in China
  • Dr Philip Robinson, A Political Ecology of Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication in Northern Ireland
  • Dr Ralitsa Hiteva, Geographies of Energy Governance: Negotiating Low Carbon and Energy Secure Futures in the European Union
  • Dr Hugo Romero, Disturbance and Disruption in Chilean Patagonia: a Political Economy of the HidroAysen Hydro-Power Project
  • Dr Tomas Frederiksen, Unearthing Rule: Mining, Power and the Political Ecology of Extraction in Colonial Zambia
  • Dr Denise Humphreys-Bebbington, The Political Ecology of Natural Gas Extraction in Southern Bolivia
  • Dr Raihana Ferdous, Towards a Spatial Understanding of Solar Energy Transition: The Making of a Solar Energy Market in Bangladesh and the Experiences of On-grid and Off-grid Households

Research interests

  • Questions of property, access and control associated with 'new geographies' of resource production and consumption
  • Political ecologies of resource scarcity and security
  • The organisation of global production networks for raw materials, particularly those associated with old and new 'carbon economies'
  • The ways in which the material character of 'biophysical' resources shapes their appropriation, commodification and marketisation
  • Geographies of energy transition and governance

Publications

Authored book

  • Energy and Society: a critical perspective
    Bridge, G., Barr, S., Bouzarovski, S., Bradshaw, M., Brown, E., Bulkeley, H., & Walker, G. (2018). Energy and Society: a critical perspective. Routledge.
  • Oil
    Bridge, G., & Le Billon, P. (2013). Oil. Polity.
  • Oil
    Bridge, G., & Le Billon, P. (n.d.). Oil [Contracted by publisher]. Polity.

Chapter in book

  • Extractive Orientations
    Bridge, G. (2023). Extractive Orientations. In S. Postar, N. Elodie Behzadi, & N. Doering (Eds.), Extraction/Exclusion: Beyond Binaries of Exclusion and Inclusion in Natural Resource Extraction. Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Navigating the Structural Coherence of Sea Ice
    Steinberg, P., Ferloni, G., Aporta, C., Bridge, G., Chircop, A., Coddington, K., Elden, S., Kane, S. C., Koivurova, T., Shadian, J., & Stammler-Gossmann, A. (2022). Navigating the Structural Coherence of Sea Ice. In I. Braverman (Ed.), Laws of the Sea: Interdisciplinary Currents (pp. 164-183). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003205173-8
  • Time for oil: competing petrotemporalities in Norway's Lofote/Vesteralen/Senja Archipelago
    Kristoffersen, B., Bridge, G., & Steinberg, P. (2022). Time for oil: competing petrotemporalities in Norway’s Lofote/Vesteralen/Senja Archipelago. In F. Polack & D. Farquharson (Eds.), Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures (pp. 176-193). Routledge.
  • Towards a Political Ecology of EU Energy Policy
    Bridge, G., Barca, S., Özkaynak, B., Turhan, E., & Wyeth, R. (2018). Towards a Political Ecology of EU Energy Policy. In C. Foulds & R. Robison (Eds.), Advancing Energy Policy: Lessons on the Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities (pp. 163-175). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99097-2
  • Industrialisation and environmental change
    Barca, S., & Bridge, G. (2015). Industrialisation and environmental change. In T. Perreault, G. Bridge, & J. McCarthy (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of political ecology. (pp. 366-377). Routledge.
  • The geopolitical economy of a globalising gas market.
    Bradshaw, M., Dutton, J., & Bridge, G. (2015). The geopolitical economy of a globalising gas market. In P. Ekins, M. Bradshaw, & J. Watson (Eds.), Global Energy: Issues, Potentials and Policy Implications (pp. 291-305). Oxford University Press.
  • Deepening Globalisation: economies, trade and energy systems.
    Bridge, G., & Bradshaw, M. (2015). Deepening Globalisation: economies, trade and energy systems. In P. Ekins, M. Bradshaw, & J. Watson (Eds.), Global Energy: Issues, Potentials and Policy Implications (pp. 52-72). Oxford University Press.
  • The Resource Archipelago: spatial aesthetics and resource ecologies
    Bridge, G. (2014). The Resource Archipelago: spatial aesthetics and resource ecologies. In I. Arns (Ed.), World of Matter (pp. 64-73). Sternberg Press.
  • Past peak oil: political economy of energy crises.
    Bridge, G. (2010). Past peak oil: political economy of energy crises. In R. Peet, P. Robbins, & M. Watts (Eds.), Global Political Ecology. (pp. 307-324).

Edited book

Journal Article

Supervision students