Staff profile
Overview
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Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Professor in the Department of Geography | 231 | +44 (0) 191 33 43502 |
Professor , Economy and Culture | 231 | +44 (0) 191 33 43502 |
Professor , Geographies of Life | 231 | +44 (0) 191 33 43502 |
Professor , Politics-State-Space | 231 | +44 (0) 191 33 43502 |
Fellow in the Durham Energy Institute | ||
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
Research groups
- Economy & Culture
- Energy Policy Group
- Geographies of Life
- Politics - State - Space (PSS)
Publications
Authored book
- Bridge, G, Barr, S, Bouzarovski, S, Bradshaw, M, Brown, E, Bulkeley, H & Walker, G (2018). Energy and Society: a critical perspective. Routledge.
- Bridge, G & Le Billon, P (2017). Oil. Polity.
- Bridge, G. & Le Billon, P. (2013). Oil. Cambridge: Polity.
Chapter in book
- Kristoffersen, Berit, Bridge, Gavin & Steinberg, Philip (2021). Time for oil: competing petrotemporalities in Norway's Lofote/Vesteralen/Senja Archipelago. In Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures. Polack, Fiona & Farquharson, Danine Routledge. 176-193.
- Bridge, G, Barca, S, Özkaynak, B, Turhan, E & Wyeth, R (2018). Towards a Political Ecology of EU Energy Policy. In Advancing Energy Policy: Lessons on the Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities. Foulds, C & Robison, R Palgrave. 163-175.
- Barca, S. & Bridge, G. (2015). Industrialisation and environmental change. In The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Perreault, T., Bridge, G. & McCarthy, J. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 366-377.
- Bradshaw, M, Dutton, J & Bridge, G (2015). The geopolitical economy of a globalising gas market. In Global Energy: Issues, Potentials and Policy Implications. Ekins, P, Bradshaw, M & Watson, J Oxford University Press. 291-305.
- Bridge, G & Bradshaw, M (2015). Deepening Globalisation: economies, trade and energy systems. In Global Energy: Issues, Potentials and Policy Implications. Ekins, P, Bradshaw, M & Watson, J Oxford University Press. 52-72.
- Bridge, G. (2014). The Resource Archipelago: spatial aesthetics and resource ecologies. In World of Matter. Arns, I Sternberg Press. 64-73.
- Bridge, G. (2010). Past peak oil: political economy of energy crises. In Global Political Ecology. Peet, R., Robbins, P. & Watts, M. 307-324.
Edited book
- Perreault, T., Bridge, G. & McCarthy, J. (2015). Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Routledge.
Journal Article
- Bridge, Gavin & Dodge, Alexander (2022). Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
- Bridge, Gavin & Faigen, Erika (2022). Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains. Energy Research & Social Science 89: 102659.
- Blondeel, M., Bradshaw, M., Bridge, G. & Kuzemko, C. (2021). The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: A Review. Geography Compass 15(7): e12580.
- Langley, P., Bridge, G., Bulkeley, H. & van Veelen, B. (2021). Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets. Economy and Society 50(3): 494-516.
- Gallardo, B.B., Bridge, G. & Prieto, M. (2021). Harvesting Lithium: water, brine and the industrial dynamics of production in the Salar de Atacama. Geoforum 119: 177-189.
- Banoub, D., Bridge, G., Bustos, B., Ertör, I., González-Hidalgo, M. & de los Reyes, J. (2021). Industrial Dynamics on the Commodity Frontier: managing time, space and form in mining, tree plantations and intensive aquaculture. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 4(4): 1533-1559.
- Bridge, Gavin & Gailing, Ludger (2020). New energy spaces: Towards a geographical political economy of energy transition. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 52(6): 1037-1050.
- Kuzemko, Caroline, Bradshaw, Michael, Bridge, Gavin, Goldthau, Andreas, Jewell, Jessica, Overland, Indra, Scholten, Daniel, van de Graaf, Thijs & Westphal, Kirsten (2020). Covid-19 and the Politics of Sustainable Energy Transitions. Energy Research & Social Science 68: 101685.
- Bridge, G., Bulkeley, H., Langley, P. & van Veelen, B. (2020). Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance. Progress in Human Geography 44(4): 724-742.
- Bridge, Gavin, Özkaynak, Begüm & Turhan, Ethemcan (2018). Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to special issue. Energy Research & Social Science 41: 1-11.
- Kuchler, Magdalena & Bridge, Gavin (2018). Down the black hole: Sustaining national socio-technical imaginaries of coal in Poland. Energy Research & Social Science
- Bridge, G. (2018). The map is not the territory: A sympathetic critique of energy research’s spatial turn. Energy Research & Social Science 36: 11-20.
- Bridge, G & Bradshaw, M. (2017). Making a Global Gas Market: Territoriality and Production Networks in Liquefied Natural Gas. Economic Geography 93(3): 215-240.
- Bridge, G.J. (2015). Energy (in)security: world-making in an age of scarcity. The Geographical Journal 181(4): 328-339.
- Bridge, G (2015). The Hole World: scales and spaces of extraction. Scenario Journal 5.
- Bridge, G (2014). Resource geographies II: the resource-state nexus. Progress in Human Geography 38(1): 118-130.
- Bridge, G. (2013). The Hole World: scales and spaces of extraction. New Geographies 2: 43-8.
- Bridge, G., Bouzarovski, S., Bradshaw, M. & Eyre, N. (2013). Geographies of energy transition: Space, place and the low-carbon economy. Energy Policy 53: 331-340.
- Bridge, G. & Fredriksen, T. (2012). ‘Order out of Chaos’ Resources, Hazards and the Production of a Tin-Mining Economy in Northern Nigeria in the Early Twentieth Century. Environment and History 18(3): 367-394.
- Bridge, G. (2011). Resource geographies 1 Making carbon economies, old and new. Progress in Human Geography 35(6): 820-834.
- Bridge, G. (2010). Geographies of peak oil: The other carbon problem. Geoforum 41(4): 523-530.
- Bridge, G. & Wood, A. (2010). Less is more: Spectres of scarcity and the politics of resource access in the upstream oil sector. Geoforum 41(4): 565–576.
- Bridge, G. (2008). Global production networks and the extractive sector: governing resource-based development. Journal of Economic Geography 8(3): 389-419.
Supervision students
Mr Burag Gurden
Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Mr. Carlos Tornel
Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Miss Costanza Concetti
Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Mr. Eric Boyd
PhD student
Miss Pietra Cepero Rua Perez
Research Postgraduate (PhD)