BOOKS
Coles, B (2026*) Geographies of Commodities: materials, bodies and territories in Latin America. London: Agenda Publishing Ltd.
Coles, B (2021). Making Markets, Making Place: Geography, Topo/graphy and the Reproduction of an Urban Marketplace. London: Palgrave Macmillan (Springer).
Jackson, P., & The CONANX Group (Coles, B). (2013). Food Words: essays in culinary culture. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Coles, B., Ravena de Sousa, N., Walker, C. (in review) Shifting Spaces of Extraction: water, electricity and the Brazilian power grid. Environmental Politics.
Horton, J., Kraftl, P., Coles, B., Hadfield-Hill, S., Walker, C., Balestieri, J. (in review) Electric youth: young people, energy infrastructures and power cuts in Brazil. Energy Research and Social Science.
Vieira, L., Delamaro, M., Campos, A., Leal, R., Soares, P., Dias, R., Coles B., Hadfield-Hill, S., Horton, J., Kraftl, P., Balestieri, J.(in review) Perceptions of university students from the Metropolitan Region of Paraiba Valley and North Coast (São Paulo, Brazil) about the energy-water-food nexus as a cornerstone of education for sustainability. Ecology and Society.
Miranda, S. B. de A. de, Ravena, N., Coles, B., Dias, G. F. de M., & Costa, F. S. da. (2025). Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics in the Paragominas Region: Interactions with the Capim River Basin and Socioeconomic Implications in Light of the Nexus Theory. Revista De Gestão - RGSA, 19(7), e012928. https://doi.org/10.24857/rgsa.v19n7-082
Horton, J., Coles, B., Kraftl, P., Walker, C., Balestieri, J. (2024) Água negra (black water) and overwhelming details: for more-than-nexus approaches to global water-energy-food challenges. Environment and Planning E. Nature and Space.
Coles B (2022) Anthropocene Chicken: A Geography of and Towards a Geography for the Anthropocene. Geography Journal.
Coles B, Evans D and Maye D (2022). Food Geographies of, for and in the Anthropocene. Introduction to Special Issue of Geography Journal.
Walker, C. and Coles B (2021). Points of Convergence: deploying the geographies of critical nexus-thinking. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.
Morris, C., Kaljonen, M., Aavik, K. Coles B. et al. (2021) Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems. Humanities and Social Sciences Communication 8, 38.
Zara, C., Coles, B., Hadfield-Hill, S., Horton, J., Kraftl, P., (2020) Geographies of food beyond food: transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil. Social and Cultural Geographies.
Kraftl, P., Balastieri, J.A.P., Campos, A.E.M., Coles, B., Hadfield‐Hill, S., Horton, J., Soares, P.V., Vilanova, M.R.N., Walker, C. and Zara, C., 2019. (Re) thinking (re) connection: Young people,“natures” and the water–energy–food nexus in São Paulo State, Brazil. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44(2), pp.299-314.
Bennett, C.E., Thomas, R., Williams, M., Zalasiewicz, J., Edgeworth, M., Miller, H., Coles, B., Foster, A., Burton, E.J. and Marume, U., 2018. The broiler chicken as a signal of a human reconfigured biosphere. Royal Society open science, 5(12), p.180325.
Coles, B. (2016). Mixing space: affinitive practice and the insurgent potential of food. Geographica Helvetica, 71(3), 189-197.
Coles, B. (2016). The Shocking Materialities and Temporalities of Agri-capitalism. Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 16(3), 5-12.
Coles, B. (2014). Topographic Mixings: images and imaginations in London’s Borough Market. Cultural Geographies 21(3) 515-523.
Coles, B. & Hallett, L. F. (2014). Eating from the Bin: salmon heads, waste and the geographies that make them. Sociological Review 60 (S2) 156-73.
Abbots, E-J. Coles, B.F. (2013). Horsemeat-Gate: The Discursive Production of a Neo-liberal Food Scandal. Food Culture and Society, 16 (4) 535-50.
Coles, B.F. (2010). Thai aquaculture and adventures in geography. Geography, 95, 94-98.
Brown, J. C., Koeppe, M. T., Coles, B.F, & Price, K. P. (2005). Soybean production and conversion of tropical forest in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Vilhena, Rondonia. Ambio, 34(6), 456-463.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Coles, B. (2023). Food. In Demerrit, D. and Lees, L (eds) Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Coles, B. 2015. Securing Food from Anxiety: Space and the Practice(s) of Care. In Abbots, E-J; A. Lavis & L. Attala (eds) Careful Eating. (2015) London: Ashgate.
Coles, B. (2013). Stuffed and Wrapped: Provocative Mis-understandings on a Theme – Chicken Kiev: Material, Social and Discursive Wrappings. Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2012. Totnes: Prospect Books, pp. 48-52.
Coles, B (2013). Ingesting Places: the embodied geographies of coffee. In E. Abbots, & A. Lavis (Eds.), Why We Eat, How We Eat: Ethnographic Approaches to Eating, London: Ashgate, pp. 255-70.
Coles, B. (2011). Commodities Southerton, Dale, (ed). Encyclopaedia of Consumer Culture. London: Sage.
Coles, B, & Crang, P. (2011). Placing alternative consumption: commodity fetishism in Borough Fine Foods Market, London. In T. Lewis, & E. Potter (Eds.), Ethical Consumption: A Critical Introduction (pp. 87-102). London and New York: Routledge.