🔥 The new Urban Theory Lab website is live!
Featuring current research, publications, and projects on planetary urbanization, critical spatial theory, and environmental transformation from our expanded global network of scholars.
Explore: urbantheorylab.net
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The Urban Theory Lab's website is back in action after a little (5 year!) hiatus: urbantheorylab.net Please do stop by and have a look around ....
The Urban Theory Lab's website is back in action after a little (5 year!) hiatus: urbantheorylab.net Please do stop by and have a look around ....
Indiana University Bloomington is looking to hire multiple tenure-track faculty in Environmental and/or Climate Impacts on Health and Wellbeing. There are many possible tenure homes for these positions, including Geography. 🧪
More info here:
Christopher Burke and Adam Tamas Tuboly, Otto Neurath in Britain - Cambridge University Press, January 2025
www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...
A photograph of the attendees of the 1956 conference including Benvenste, Dumézil, Lejeune, Ventris and Chadwick - key in the post, although the dog's name is not indicated.
I'm going to try to write a bit more for my blog in 2025, rather than just post about other people's work and occasional updates on my research. Here's the first piece, with more to follow. "Benveniste, Dumézil, Lejeune and the decipherment of Linear B"
progressivegeographies.com/2025/01/05/b...
Check out the schedule for our seminar on Ukrainian Environmentalisms below 👇
Friday 31st January at Reuben College, Oxford.
Registration is now open, and there are some tickets left: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ukrainian-... @marniehowlett.bsky.social @jonnyjjt.bsky.social
Through these initiatives, the UTL seeks to contribute to the urgent collective project of imagining new spaces of solidarity and emancipatory forms of urbanization for the flourishing of human and non-human life.
(i) the transformation of non-city territories and environments; (ii) the production of energy, raw materials, and food; (iii) geopolitics and empire; and (iv) socio-environmental crises such as global warming and biodiversity loss.
Major research projects explore the interplay between city-building processes and, among other issues ...
We explore these dynamics through research, teaching, and public engagement, with an emphasis on the coproduction of critical scholarship with experimental forms of urban theory, geographic visualization, and spatial media.