George Kirkham

New article for @tibg.bsky.social. Through the case of digital snake rescue, I merge @digicologies.bsky.social and disease ecology work to develop the lens of 'digital disease ecologies' - a way to analyse how digital encounter and datafication configure disease emergence and multispecies health.

"Metabolo-politics: Bovine Metabolism and Environmental Biopower," just out in @theoryculturesociety.org journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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🌍 The new issue of #ROUTES is OUT NOW! 🌍 ✍️ It's packed with original, cutting-edge #research from high school and undergraduate #geographers 👇 Read the full issue here: routesjournal.org/current-issue/ @rgs.org @geographicalassoc.bsky.social

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

Ray Chan and I are convening a panel at the upcoming RGS-IBG 2026 conference titled "Digital Disease Ecologies of More-than-Human Health". Please see the abstract below, and if you are interested in attending send george.kirkham@sjc.ox.ac.uk a 250 word abstract with a short bio by the 23rd Feb

Ray Chan and I are convening a panel at the upcoming RGS-IBG 2026 conference titled "Digital Disease Ecologies of More-than-Human Health". Please see the abstract below, and if you are interested in attending send george.kirkham@sjc.ox.ac.uk a 250 word abstract with a short bio by the 23rd Feb

Pleased to share this new collaborative paper concerning systems approaches to the governance of pharmaceutical pollution in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A great article by @kirkham.bsky.social via @biosocieties.bsky.social : Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity (OA) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pleased to share this paper for BioSocieties on snakebite in Kerala. I explore how social scientific theories of toxicity aid in conceiving of the structural vulnerabilities, diagnostic uncertainty, and multispecies health impacts that characterise snakebite's public health response.

'We did not see anything' - fantastic short story exploring the complexities of ecotourism, fortress conservation, and the emotional connections that displaced peoples retain towards their land

"Despite each bodymap being unique, there are recurring motifs, such as shadows. “Participants use them in the sense that they are only a shadow of what they were before and that they feel left behind. The world has moved on, but they still live in the pandemic.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...