Staff profile

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

• 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

Authored book

• Bridge, G., & Le Billon, P. (in press). Oil. (2nd). Polity
• 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. (2013). Oil. Polity

Chapter in book

• 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
• 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 (176-193). Routledge
• 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 (163-175). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99097-2
• Barca, S., & Bridge, G. (2015). Industrialisation and environmental change. In T. Perreault, G. Bridge, & J. McCarthy (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of political ecology (366-377). Routledge
• 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 (291-305). Oxford University Press
• 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 (52-72). Oxford University Press
• Bridge, G. (2014). The Resource Archipelago: spatial aesthetics and resource ecologies. In I. Arns (Ed.), World of Matter (64-73). Sternberg Press
• Bridge, G. (2010). Past peak oil: political economy of energy crises. In R. Peet, P. Robbins, & M. Watts (Eds.), Global Political Ecology (307-324)

Edited book

• Perreault, T., Bridge, G., & McCarthy, J. (Eds.). (2015). Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Routledge

Journal Article

• Kuchler, M., & Bridge, G. (in press). Down the black hole: Sustaining national socio-technical imaginaries of coal in Poland. Energy Research and Social Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.014
• Blondeel, M., Price, J., Bradshaw, M., Pye, S., Dodds, P., Kuzemko, C., & Bridge, G. (2024). Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check. Global Environmental Change, 84, Article 102781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102781
• Bridge, G., & Faigen, E. (2023). Lithium, Brexit and Global Britain: Onshoring battery production networks in the UK. The Extractive Industries and Society, 16, Article 101328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101328
• Kuchler, M., & Bridge, G. (2023). Speculating on shale: Resource-making and the ‘politics of possibility’ in Poland and the UK. Political Geography, 107, Article 102978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102978
• Bridge, G., & Faigen, E. (2022). Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains. Energy Research and Social Science, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102659
• Bridge, G., & Dodge, A. (2022). Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsac016
• 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620963362
• Blondeel, M., Bradshaw, M., Bridge, G., & Kuzemko, C. (2021). The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: A Review. Geography Compass, 15(7), Article e12580. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12580
• Gallardo, 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.01.001
• 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1860335
• Kuzemko, C., Bradshaw, M., Bridge, G., Goldthau, A., Jewell, J., Overland, I., …Westphal, K. (2020). Covid-19 and the Politics of Sustainable Energy Transitions. Energy Research and Social Science, 68, Article 101685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101685
• Bridge, G., & Gailing, L. (2020). New energy spaces: Towards a geographical political economy of energy transition. Environment and Planning A, 52(6), 1037-1050. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x20939570
• Bridge, G., Bulkeley, H., Langley, P., & van Veelen, B. (2020). Pluralizing and Problematizing Carbon Finance. Progress in Human Geography, 44(4), 724-742. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519856260
• Bridge, G., Özkaynak, B., & Turhan, E. (2018). Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to special issue. Energy Research and Social Science, 41, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.029
• Bridge, G. (2018). The map is not the territory: A sympathetic critique of energy research’s spatial turn. Energy Research and Social Science, 36, 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.09.033
• Bridge, G., & Bradshaw, M. (2017). Making a Global Gas Market: Territoriality and Production Networks in Liquefied Natural Gas. Economic Geography, 93(3), 215-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2017.1283212
• Bridge, G. (2015). Energy (in)security: world-making in an age of scarcity. The Geographical Journal, 181(4), 328-339. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12114
• Bridge, G. (2015). The Hole World: scales and spaces of extraction
• Bridge, G. (2014). Resource geographies II: the resource-state nexus. Progress in Human Geography, 38(1), 118-130. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132513493379
• 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.066
• Bridge, G. (2013). The Hole World: scales and spaces of extraction
• 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. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734012x13400389809337
• Bridge, G. (2011). Resource geographies 1 : Making carbon economies, old and new. Progress in Human Geography, 35(6), 820-834. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510385524
• 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), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.02.004
• Bridge, G. (2010). Geographies of peak oil: The other carbon problem. Geoforum, 41(4), 523-530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.06.002
• Bridge, G. (2008). Global production networks and the extractive sector: governing resource-based development. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3), 389-419. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbn009