🔓️ NEW in our Special Issue "Indigenous urban studies: Creative urban futures, resistant histories, indigenist subjects"

Take a look 👇️🧵

#UrbanStudies

We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Human Geography with expertise in the field of Health Geography that will complement and extend current work in our Geographies of Life research cluster. Application deadline May 10th, further details here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Yafa El Masri (2026) entitled: 'When ‘Yes’ Means No: Understanding Infiltration as Refusal of Cultural Heritage Research in Palestine' with a red banner at the top.

New in TIBG:

'When "yes" means no: Understanding infiltration as refusal of cultural heritage research in Palestine' by Yafa El Masri

This paper reconceptualises Palestinian infiltration as a contemporary mode of research refusal under settler-colonial conditions.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

My new book is out!🍾Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power. press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...

II argue that in shattered times, a radical, speculative reinvention of authority is needed. Open-access with @lsepress.bsky.social @rgs.org #geosky #socialtheory

In this response essay, I reflect upon how some of the central themes of my book Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times (Duke University Press, 2024) speak to the contemporary technofascist moment, as well as ongoing practices of attempting to de–siliconize the future. I also offer fascist transformations currently transpiring on both sides of the former Iron Curtain, as well as the landscapes of gentrification upon which they take place, a deeper and transnational genealogy–one rooted in historic technologies of racial banishment, heteromasculinism, and anticommunism. At the same time, I celebrate the ongoing freedom struggles against fascism, racial banishment, and genocidal technologies that organizers in both the United States and Romania continue to commit themselves to, all in an interconnected effort to unbecome Silicon Valley. Throughout this essay, I engage with the insightful comments made by Kavita Dattani, Michele Lancione, Manissa M. Maharawal, Nassim Parvin, Gillian Rose, and Daniela Rosner here, each of whom offer brilliant interventions and generous reflections in this forum.

"Siliconization, technofascism, and their unbecomings"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Thanks to Kavita Dattani, Manissa Maharawal, Daniela Rosner, @nassimparvin.bsky.social, @profgillian.bsky.social and @michelelancione.bsky.social
@societyandspace.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social

This is the graphical abstract to this paper in Transactions. It shows a historical map of the Alde and Ore estuary, drawn by Ananias Appleton in 1588.

#OpenAccess in TIBG

'Infra-culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast' by Julian Clark

This paper explores the concept of 'infra-culture', illustrating how cultural practices & material interactions influence the development of physical infrastructures
doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Flyer with USF logo for the event "The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation by Professor Beth Perry " with the text "In this lecture Professor Beth Perry will excavate foundational ideas, lexicons and practices of a new research field around ‘urban epistemics’, before providing some specific examples on how this produces particular “epistemic tangles” of urban inhabitation which shape how people come to know the city, how they are subjected to different processes of epistemic exclusion and knowledge politics; and what this means for researchers in different institutions, in the context of an equally exclusionary knowledge production system. This event is a part of the project ‘Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decenter urban knowledge’." on a light blue background.

Flyer with USF logo for the event "The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation by Professor Beth Perry " with the text "In this lecture Professor Beth Perry will excavate foundational ideas, lexicons and practices of a new research field around ‘urban epistemics’, before providing some specific examples on how this produces particular “epistemic tangles” of urban inhabitation which shape how people come to know the city, how they are subjected to different processes of epistemic exclusion and knowledge politics; and what this means for researchers in different institutions, in the context of an equally exclusionary knowledge production system. This event is a part of the project ‘Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decenter urban knowledge’." on a light blue background.

📢 Online lecture | 16 Jan 2026, 11:30 (GMT)

Professor Beth Perry explores urban epistemics and the “epistemic tangles” shaping how cities are known, governed, and contested

Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation."

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A belated Happy New Year to all. Sharing this moment from Longhua Temple, Shanghai🐱

amazing line-up of speakers here, including Yu-Shan Tseng, @uitermark.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @myriageorgiou.bsky.social urbanpolitical.online/96-digital-c...

Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk

📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky

Put it in my reading list ☑️

AAG Journal Articles on Black Geographies and Racial Justice - AAG AAG - AAG Journal Articles on Black Geographies and Racial Justice - All - The following titles reflect vital scholarship on Black Geographies in AAG’s journals in recent years. AAG and Taylor &…

Don’t miss out: Through September 30, 2025, AAG and Taylor & Francis are providing free access to journal articles on Black Geographies and racial justice, available for download at the links listed here:

📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣

🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.

🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details:
geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

Why Are BRI Projects in Nepal Stalled? Geopolitics is at play. New Delhi does not want Nepal to be too close to Beijing and views BRI projects with suspicion.

A fascinating read from The Diplomat today about Nepal and the BRI!
thediplomat.com/2025/06/why-...

Hard work or inherited (mis)fortune? Young people’s future in an unequal world Renewing analysis from The Spirit Level: how are children and young people’s health, education and employment prospects shaped by household wealth?

How does inequality affect our lot in life? Aini Gauhar of @equalitytrust.bsky.social looks at how household wealth shapes children’s health, education and future work prospects. But which countries offer clues to a more equitable way forward? #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

It should go without saying, but apparently it needs to be said: if you are peer reviewing a ms for a scholarly press, DO NOT feed that ms into an AI machine to write your reader report for you. DO NOT.

Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏

⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025

📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au

📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p

USF International Fellowships 2025 - deadline 16th July 2025

📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now!

This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.

Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...

Deadline 16th July 2025

Also thanks
@carwynmorris.bsky.social
for inviting me to his Wanghong urbanism workshop which benefits the development of this paper!

So happy to see the third paper is finally out which I answered 'what' is the urban change effects caused by 'wanghong' consumption from China. Huge thanks to the editorial team and reviewers from
@ijurresearch.bsky.social
for helping me polish this paper which I am so grateful!

THE POLITICS OF WANGHONG CONSUMPTION: (Re)Making the Place through New Urban Aestheticisation Why does seemingly innocent wanghong (online celebrity) consumption—recording appreciation for a place and sharing photos of it on social media platforms—cause neighbourhood changes and instigate exc...

If now we can post photos with filters and multiple edits to create a polished image of the urban (even could be misleading and fake), does that mean there is a new urban aestheticisation process happening in the digital age? @ijurresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The cover art for a book, “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation”, which includes pink typeface over a grey stylized photo of a Paris street from above.

This International Women’s Day, we’re incredibly proud to reveal the cover of our third book, “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation”.

Photo essays from 11 cities around the world, including Paris, Bogotá, Barcelona and Montréal. To be released by RIBA Publishing in October.

Update: in dialogue with the journal editors now. Thanks to those who stepped up as allies and friends to also raise their concerns.

While I'm disappointed in the research quality, I'm more cut up by the class discrimination. I wouldn't wish "a taste for deprivation" on anyone else.

For those that remain, our jobs are changing rapidly. Many are being ‘restructured’ into new roles, or being merged into new ‘units’. For academics many of us are loosing our disciplinary identity as we get merged into mega-schools of Social Science

The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University - Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Context: today Cardiff University announce proposals for 400 redundancies, including 15 in School of Geography, which will also be merged with school of social sciences...