Open position: Professor of Urbanism in the Global South at L’Université Gustave Eiffel, l’Ecole d’Urbanisme de Paris. Apply by 3 April. latts.fr/ouverture-du... #urban #sociology

Job vacancies at Collaborative Research Center 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces” - SFB 1265 „Re-Figuration von Räumen“

📢Call for applications! #jobs
With our next funding phase due to start in January, we are now looking to fill a range of positions!

If you're interested in socio-spatial change and are looking for a PhD, postdoc or student assistant position, take a browse here:
sfb1265.de/en/aktuelles...

Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies Making a Home: Subjectivities and Spaces in Times of Refiguration. Volume 11, Issue 4 of Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies

New Special Issue out now!

'Making a Home: Subjectivities and Spaces in Times of Refiguration' edited by #sfb1265 PI Jochen Kibel and Makau Kitata is out now in the Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies Journal!

Read the articles here (open access):
www.tandfonline.com/toc/real20/1...

For my final PhD publication, I have been thinking about #water storage across scales. Now published #openacess in @natureandspace.bsky.social.

(PDF) Nairobi’s batteryscape: everyday electricity storage, energy justice, and infrastructural heterogeneity in urban Africa PDF | Renewable energy transitions, technological advances, and geopolitical disruptions have brought various forms of energy storage to the forefront... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

"While batteries, especially LIBs, are touted as a cornerstone of green energy transitions ..., the injustices of Nairobi's batteryscape reveal that ... batteries benefit most those who are already electrically privileged."

Read more on my concerns about small-scale batteries in (African) cities >

Call for abstracts ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Wangui Kimari, @princeguma.bsky.social and Alice Hertzog are reviewing Armelle Choplin’s book Concrete City. This episode is hosted by Nitin Bathla.
They discuss the paradox of concrete, the idea behind green cement, the meaning of concrete for West African cities and much more.

Da ist er nun der Leak aus AG 8! #WissZeitVG und weiteres zu wissenschaftlicher Arbeit ab Zeile 90. #IchBinHanna fragdenstaat.de/dokumente/25...

CfA for ECRs working on (urban) infrastructures in Africa | bilingual workshop (English/French) in Dakar | deadline soon (!): next Monday (March 31st) | we are looking forward to your submissions | please share!

Join us today in Berlin or online :)

Join us next week Tue, Mar 11 (1:00-2:30 pm CET) for our panel on 'Infrastructural Overflows' at #STS-Hub 25 in #Berlin, either in person or via Zoom. Looking forward to presentations from @khristinealvarez.bsky.social, @marclocamp.bsky.social, and others. Hope to see you there :)

(PDF) Call for Abstracts - Ordinary Infrastructures: African Articulations of Urban Infrastructures beyond the Other PDF | On Mar 3, 2025, Amadou Dramé and others published Call for Abstracts - Ordinary Infrastructures: African Articulations of Urban Infrastructures beyond the Other | Find, read and cite all the res...

Workshop on 'Ordinary Infrastructures' | Dakar, 21-25 Oct 2025 | I am excited to announce this #CfA for a roundtable workshop on #infrastructures in #African #cities, designed primarily but not exclusively for ECRs in #Africa and #Germany | More details here: bit.ly/3XOmAzB | Deadline: 31 Mar 2025

We have continued to track Israeli military conduct since the ceasefire came into effect on 19 January. Our analysis confirmed 16 attacks on civilians and multiple incidents in which urban and civilian infrastructure was destroyed between 19 January and 9 February. tinyurl.com/FA-ceasefire...

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Anti-migrant hate is flourishing in Germany’s ‘time of the cowards’ | Musa Okwonga This weekend’s vote will show how far xenophobia has been driving even some traditionally progressive parties

Chilling read by @okwonga.bsky.social

"Far right’s xenophobia is not at the fringes of German society: it can be found in voices at its very centre"

www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Sozialdemokrat:innen und Grüne, deren Herz links schlägt, sollten dieses Mal die Linke wählen. Innerhalb ihrer Parteien stärken sie so Positionen, die über die vorauseilende Anbiederung an die CDU hinausgehen. Und der AfD schadet eine Stimme am effektivsten, wenn sie der Linken über die 5% hilft.

In personal news... This week, I submitted my dissertation on #watertanks, #jerrycans, and all kinds of #battery uses, arguing to take seriously the urban-infrastructural significance of minor #storage arrangements. Really grateful to everyone who has been part of this! #Nairobi #PhD

Auf Skalen pro Person / Partei in verschiedenen Farben dargestellt: Ines Schwerdtner Linke 20,5% Beatrix von Storch AfD 20,2% Jan Zimmerling SPD 13,5% Norman Wolf BSW 13,2% Danny Freymark CDU/CSU 12,1% Elisabeth Giesemann Grüne 12,0% – Andere 6,8% Sören Henschel FDP 1,7%

Falls Ihr irgendwen in #Lichtenberg kennt: Die müssen wählen gehen und sie müssen mit der Erststimme links wählen.

Erpresst sie, wenn sonst nichts hilft.

We're looking to work with an early career researcher. Deadline to apply is 27 February 2025. More info: jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Link to CfA for research group on technology and sovereignty

Do you want to explore what’s happening?

I am recruitung doctoral researchers for my Lise Meitner Research Group on Technology and Sovereignty @mpifg.bsky.social

Find more information in the link below

Apply by February 28, 2025
Starting date is October 1, 2025

career.mpifg.de/jobposting/e...

I made a starter pack of Human Geography Journals, for those of you (like me) for whom BSKY is a nice help in keeping up with the literature. Feel free to tip for me any journals I may have missed.
go.bsky.app/Hw9i9br

Wenn man inzwischen schon "links" ist, wenn man die gleiche Meinung hat wie Holocaust-Überlebende, Angela Merkel, die Kirchen und zahlreiche CDU-Mitglieder, die aus Protest die Partei verlassen haben, dann weiß man, wie weit rechts die Spitze der CDU inzwischen gerückt ist.

Fascist Germany is making a comeback. Voting for the CDU now means voting for the AfD.

Please Share! In meiner Emmy Noether Gruppe habe ich neu eine Doktorand*innenstelle zu besetzten. Der Fokus dieser Stelle liegt auf das Beforschen eines Grenzgedächtnisses an der deutsch-dänsischen Grenze. Ausschreibung hier: leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/us...

Congrats, Prof Silver!

Happy big birthday nonetheless :D

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