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just in case we only get about 5 people turning up”K. ”„Socially just”¦ publishing by and for geographers: what can we do? Prof Simon Batterbury, Lancaster University The Pod, ECCI (Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, Edinburgh Univ.), High School Yards, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ, 3.30pm, Thursday, January 24, 2019 . RIGLE seminar. Questions of social and environmental justice pervade contemporary geographical research, but are rarely applied to the dissemination of geographical knowledge - where the major journals are almost all with profit-hungry corporations like Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor-Francis, Springer and Sage, some of whom make high profits while charging readers or authors in a market that is increasingly monopolistic and uncompetitive. They are not the only players, but I present some data on the state of publishing, and make three appeals for change. 1) we need to be aware of the political economy of knowledge production in the discipline ”V ironically, its economic and political geography 2) academics can take back control of publishing from an increasingly high profit commercial publishing industry, by developing their existing skills, tools and networks 3) for this to happen, hiring, promotion and workloads in the discipline need to fully acknowledge and reward socially just publishing. This starts ”„at the top”¦. I refer to my own experience as editor of the ”„Journal of Political Ecology”¦, an entirely free, and indexed, OA journal and through participation in various academic publishing networks. Background reading: https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/66910 Counter-mapping of free or cheap OA journals in geography and social sciences http://tinyurl.com/ze9b4zp [https://s0.wp.com/i/blank.jpg]<http://tinyurl.com/ze9b4zp> List of OA journals in geography, political ecology, anthropology, planning, area studies, and various social sciences<http://tinyurl.com/ze9b4zp> tinyurl.com Open access journals in social science, political ecology, urban studies, anthropology and geography that are free or with reasonable fees. Continue reading ”÷ Socially just publishing: implications for geographers and their journals | Fennia - International Journal of Geography<https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/66910> fennia.journal.fi FENNIA is a non-profit peer-review open access journal published by the Geographical Society of Finland since 1889. It is an international scientific publication dedicated to all fields of geography with attentiveness to northern dimensions. Simon Batterbury (PhD Clark) is the inaugural Chair of Political Ecology at the Lancaster Environment Centre, and a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne, where he taught for 14 years. He works on agrarian change, livelihoods and development in West Africa, Timor Leste and the South Pacific and on radical bicycle politics. He has edited the Journal of Political Ecology since 2003. Prof. Simon <http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/simon-batterbury> Batterbury<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/simon-batterbury> | Chair of Political Ecology | B504, Lancaster Environment Centre | Lancaster University | LA1 4YQ | UK, Europe. [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> & Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia LEC political ecology group<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/research/research-areas/political-ecology/> http://www.simonbatterbury.net<http://www.simonbatterbury.net/> Journal of Political Ecology https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/index OA and affordable journal list http://tinyurl.com/ze9b4zp ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the RADICALOPENACCESS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=RADICALOPENACCESS&A=1