A human geographer interested in the politics of the Anthropocene, historical development of environmental sciences and technologies, and how futures are imagined, constructed, represented and contested.
I'm a human geographer at the University of East Anglia, working at the intersection of historical, cultural and environmental geography.
I'm interested in the contemporary politics of climate change and the Anthropocene, as well as the historical development of environmental sciences and technologies. I'm particularly interested in the ways in which futures are imagined, constructed, represented and contested.
I teach on our Geography and Environmental Sciences programmes at UEA, running modules on ‘Human Geography in the Anthropocene’ and ‘Negotiating Sustainability’, the latter forming part of our new MSc Sustainability and Society.
Geographer Martin Mahony introduces our fifth annual selection of Museum of the Anthropocene student essays: objects that shift shape through lenses that question Anthropocene ironies, contradictions and oversimplifications, and maybe help point to a new ethos of care. Read More
As our online Anthropocene museum approaches its fifth year of student entries, UEA's Martin Mahony and GroundWork Gallery's Veronica Sekules discuss the collection through a professional curator's perspective and how it enhances our understanding of our planetary age. Read More
Geographer Martin Mahony introduces our new selection of student contributions to our Museum of the Anthropocene, asking important questions about the meaning of ‘natural’ and ‘cultural’, the politics of drawing boundaries and the relations that cut across them. Read More
Geographer Martin Mahony returns with new student contributions to our Museum of the Anthropocene that suggest 'ownership' as a theme in narratives of this age - and expands this notion in a startling view from beyond earthbound perspectives. Read More
Geographer Martin Mahony introduces a second collection of objects from his ‘Human Geography in the Anthropocene’ students, and how our Museum of the Anthropocene's 'centrifugal' stories resist casting all of humanity together as progenitors of our new planetary age. Read More
Geographer Martin Mahony introduces work with students using object-based learning to explore the material and intellectual challenges of thinking about human-environment relationships in our new planetary era -- and launches a new ClimateCultures feature: Museum of the Anthropocene. Read More
