Out now: new episode of @urbanpolitical.bsky.social on transforming local #statehood. With Harriet Dunn, @crispianfuller.bsky.social and Theo Temple, moderated by Ross Beveridge, hosted by Matthias Naumann and @galanettelbladt.bsky.social
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🔍 This article asks how urban #futures become stuck in the #past. Examining the #temporalities of #planning in the governance of #water, it shows how climate change outpaces sustainability visions and its #democratic implications.

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✍️ 🔍 S. Felix suggests looking at ways of governing more-than-human life that helps regulate shared #time, proximity and distance, #attachment and #detachment.

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Thanks a lot, Nitin! It's all very exciting (: I also look forward to catching up and hearing what you've been up to. Talk soon I hope!

Cambridge, it’s good to be back, working on my project 'The Contentious Urban Politics of Planning for Water Scarcity' funded by the @daad-uk-ireland.bsky.social

It’s such a joy to be away, developing new ideas with Claire Colomb @landeconomy.bsky.social Thank you!

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At the @rgsibg.bsky.social conference this week in #Birmingham Matthias Naumann and @galanettelbladt.bsky.social are chairing the session “Between #Progressive Transformation and #Authoritarian Takeover: Towards New #Urban Theories of the Local #State” www.rgs.org/research/ann...

The Politics of Feeling The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has become a matter of political feelings in an age of uncertainty. The uncertainties of the post-2008 period ha...

The Politics of Feeling, with @ajsecor.bsky.social , is now out! It’s a book of propositions about the affective politics of three political forms - right wing populism, progressivism, liberalism - in the present post 2008 conjunctural crisis:

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Climate change and urban-agrarian solidarities As climate change has heightened the significance of urban-agrarian material entanglements and intellectual and political oppositions, the need to speak across them has become more urgent. Scholars...

New article! Climate Change and Urban-Agrarian Solidarities. @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social and Hillary Angelo and I look across the fields of urban studies and agrarian studies to explore material entanglements and political solidarities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Schwimmbäder bleiben in Berlin Mangelware Mehr Bäder für Berlin – das war das Versprechen. Denn im Bundesvergleich liegt die Hauptstadt ganz hinten. An heißen Tagen sind die Schwimmbäder und Seen in der Stadt überfüllt. Daran wird sich nach d...

SCHWIMMBÄDER STATT A100
SCHWIMMBÄDER STATT OLYMPIA
SCHWIMMBÄDER STATT MEGA-STADION
SCHWIMMBÄDER FÜR ALLE!

How Cities Can Transform Democracy by Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch As processes of dispossession have come to define cities across the globe, they have also deprived their residents of the opportunity to co-produce urban space.

This is for urban scholars of democracy who are seeking positivity and inspiration in bleak times: www.societyandspace.org/book-review-...

„Rechte Räume“? Im kollektiv geschrieben Buch „Das Ende rechter Räume“ (kostenlos als PFF) zeigen wir, dass sich Rechte Mobilisierungen und ihre räumlichen Dynamiken sich nicht in einem einfachen ‚hier‘ versus ‚da‘ fassen lassen – sie passieren durch vielfältige Praktiken und betreffen uns alle.

Critical geographies of everyday crisis In various domains of social and political life, ‘crisis’ has become a ubiquitous taken-for-granted narrative. This ubiquity risks diminishing the political significance and meaning of the term and...

"Everyday crisis" as a framework to facilitate the reading of quieter registers of subjectivity, agency, politics. The ubiquity of crisis narratives risks diminishing its significance. How to grapple with crisis as a condition without normalizing it? With @ifidimi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Rechtsextremismus in der Verwaltung: „Es geht um eine demokratische Haltung“

Findet sich der Rechtsruck in der Verwaltung wieder? Gala Nettelbladt hat das am Beispiel von Cottbus erforscht.