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The theme for the chair's plenaries at the 2017 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference is 'Decolonising geographical knowledges: opening geography out to the world'. This commentary explains why this pursuit of critical consciousness via decolonial thinking could do more harm than good. We show how the emphasis on decolonising geographical knowledges rather than structures, institutions and praxis reproduces coloniality, because it recentres non-Indigenous, white and otherwise privileged groups in the global architecture of knowledge production. It is argued that an effective decolonial movement within geography must recognise the intersectionality of indigeneity and race, and necessitates that the terms on which the discipline starts debates about decolonisation and decoloniality are determined by those racialised as Indigenous and non-white by coloniality.

This article investigates the relationship between verticality and home. It develops the idea of ‘verticality as practice'. This appreciates verticality not as something that takes place in three‐dimensional landscapes, but as the outcome of everyday practical activity. Examining a modernist high‐rise estate, the Aylesbury Estate in London, the article identifies and examines a range of vertical practices, illustrating how they are intertwined with home. Vertical practices, such as those associated with the view, help to make a unique and special home, becoming intensely meaningful to residents. However, they also unmake dimensions of home when they interact with the estate's marginality.

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For many years DC power plants reported failures using Form "C" relays. Later alarms were reported remotely using links such as POTS lines by way of a modem. Today the whole world is connected: from the school child who is connected by a 56k modem at a home computer to a large multinational telecommunication company that builds and maintains its own internal network (intranet). The next logical progression in reporting DC power plant information is clearly to adapt the existing interfaces to report real time information to customers via such intranets or even the Internet.The first step in reaching this goal is to adapt a DC power plant with its battery chargers and ancillary panels to communicate alarm and control functions via a local area control network (LACN). Once the information is available on the LACN, an Internet Gateway is used to interconnect to any EthernetTM network running TCPAP Protocol. An IP address is assigned to the Gateway and the customer is able to access status, control, and configuration data at their site through standard Internet Browsers such as Internet ExplorerTM or Netscape NavigatorTM.This solution employs our Internet Gateway that is based on proven open system technology and that provides high reliability through the same mission critical hardware utilized in the medical and aerospace industries. A UnixTMlike operating system (OS) that is small enough to run without a hard drive ensures long operational life.