Peer-reviewed publications
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Postcolonial air and atmospheres: Elemental life and environmental crisis 2026
Mediterranean winds: Transversal dialogue in turbulent times
Through an experimental transdisciplinary dialogue, Jorge Olcina Cantos and Lucy Sabin examine contemporary experiences and historical narratives of Mediterranean winds, bringing meteorology, climatology, and history of science into conversation with feminist, political ecological, and postcolonial approaches. UCL Press DOI 10.14324/111.9781806551323
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TURBA 2026
Nature recovery in the air: Community walking as curatorial practice
This piece explores walking as a form of "attuning" to the atmosphere of a peri-urban nature reserve in Sussex. It considers how artists and writers curate ecological encounters by facilitating attentiveness to relations between bodies, land, memory, and imagination. Set against the recent recognition of the River Ouse as a rights-bearing entity, it argues that ecological restoration has intangible, atmospheric dimensions. DOI 10.3167/turba.2026.050107
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The Ecological Citizen 2026
La libre évolution: negotiating ecological freedom at UNESCO, Paris
Similar to rewilding, la libre évolution is about allowing ecological processes to unfold by reducing human control. Reporting on a symposium organised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the article explores how 'instruments of governance' (here: measurement, law, and mapping) are shaping the nature recovery strategy, from current debates to future possibilities. ISSN 2515-1967
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Cultural Geographies in Practice 2026
Creative research methods for tracing transcorporeality: reflections from the Eco-Feminist Art-Science Collective
We use Stacy Alaimo’s concept of transcorporeality to examine both the material entanglements between bodies and pollutants and the exchanges that shaped our emergence as a collective. Through five creative embodied methods (bodymapping, walking, kayaking, singing or sound practices and automatic writing) we trace the effects of environmental harm while also fostering collaborative knowledge-making. DOI 10.1177/14744740261425982
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The EASST Review 2026
Slow research in residence: Listening to alterlife
In July 2025, the Eco-Feminist Art-Science (EFAS) Collective gathered in Schalkwijk, the Netherlands, for our first residency. In this report, we share our reflections on mapping as both method and metaphor, and on how such slower-paced gatherings can catalyse ethical, imaginative, and collaborative approaches to research on environmental justice.
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Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 2026
Unsettling the chemical gaze: Artistic research on pesticides and toxic labour in European foodways (Andalusia, Spain)
Instead of framing matter as a site of extraction and profit, Landecker's theory of the "chemical gaze" is reimagined here as a reflexive approach; making art about uneven toxic relations in contemporary food production has its own power relations.
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Artnodes 2024
Breathe for Ella: artivism, intersectionality, and sensing air pollution.
This contribution to the "media artivism" issue applies ethnography and media / interfaces theory to a political discussion of sensing air pollution in London, with the case study of Ella Kissi-Debrah and artist Dryden Goodwin's Breathe:2022. Key topics include the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill (aka 'Ella's Law'), intersectionality, and the right to breathe.
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Cultural Geographies 2024
Exhibiting toxicity: sprayed strawberries and geographies of hope
Exposición was a 2022 art exhibition that explored seasonal farm labourers’ exposure to strawberry herbicides in Andalusia. Drawing upon a collaboration of art, social geography and soil science, this article reflects on the role of exhibition design in communicating the lived experiences of heavily polluted places in multisensory and political ways.
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Sentio Journal 2024
Imag(in)ing Saharan dust
This contribution to a postgraduate journal investigates weather stories and power relations, focusing on "Saharan" dust episodes in Western Europe. Drawing on media studies, the text is supplemented with visual research processes that disturb the familiar composition and materiality of satellite images, inviting the perceiver to "drift" with dust.
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EPD: Society and Space 2023
Weathering Saharan dust beyond the Spanish Mediterranean Basin: an interdisciplinary dialogue
Saharan dust is a biogenic form of transcontinental air pollution steeped in cultural attitudes towards weather and mobilities. This paper approaches the topic via a culture-climate dialogue with Jorge Olcina Cantos and creative engagement with satellite images. The dialogue explores the societal implications of defining and measuring dust in specific ways and speculates about what alternatives might look like.
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Routledge Handbook of Digital Environmental Humanities 2022
Chemo creatures in a digital ocean! The making of a speculative ecosystem
boredomresearch designed the fictitious Chemozoa and their underwater world through interactions with scientists from the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center (ACE). This chapter explores how the interdisciplinary project uses digital technologies and media conventions to simulate paradigms for life capable of producing emergent ecological relations.
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Venti 2021
Breathing worlds
Lucy and Derek McCormack describe an artistic research project with Modern Art Oxford in 2020. They put forward the idea of 'breathing worlds' as a process and noun that gestures both to the conditions in which breathing takes place and to the labor that goes into making and modifying these conditions: 'Breathing worlds as both noun and verb. As worlds that breathe. Worlds that were breathed into being by others...'.
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