Happy that the paper I co-authored with @eliapos.bsky.social is published in Geoforum!
Neoliberal wildfire recovery transforms environmental and spatial governance and rural economies with special attention to marginal rural livelihoods in the Mediterranean-tied to land and forest resources.
Book cover image of protesters holding a yellow banner; book cover border is black with white writing
Black text on white background: Dedication in the book reads ‘To environmental defenders everywhere’
📚Thrilled to get my hard copy of the new #PoliticalEcology Handbook, expertly put together by @drjesshope.bsky.social @eliapos.bsky.social & @yolandaariadne.bsky.social A go-to resource to get the latest developments in the field⬇️
Our new Open Access book w/ @brisunipress.bsky.social is out:
"The Material Geographies of the Belt & Road Initiative: Infrastructures & Political Ecologies of the New Silk Road"
edited w/ H Cheng, @invisiblemapper.bsky.social & @alanwiig.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...
New open access article by Caroline Birkner and Elia Apostolopoulou (@eliapos.bsky.social) out now! This paper investigates how collective housing systems create multicultural urban spaces in European cities.
Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1753...
#HousingCrisis #CollaborativeHousing
Freedom Flotilla Refuses Silence After Attack: ‘Madleen’ Will Sail for #Gaza.
freedomflotilla.org/2025/05/15/f...
Help us challenge & end the #GazaBlockade, part of the ongoing #Nakba against #Palestinians. #AllEyesOnDeck.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
#FreedomFlotilla #Madleen #BreakTheSiege #AllEyesOnDeck
We propose a collective dialogue that explores and reorients conceptual and methodological possibilities to capture the complex interplay of geoeconomic and geopolitical forces within what we term ‘global infrastructure-led urbanization’
We have a New Paper!
"A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations" in Dialogues in Human Geography
With Simone Vegliò, @andretwp.bsky.social , Francesca Governa and @eliapos.bsky.social
Open Access here >> journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
The workers united will never be defeated!
Our strike action finishes at Sheffield after membership of our UCU branch @sheffielducu.bsky.social accept offer from management for no compulsory redundancies as a result of organisational restructures this year (and no pay deductions to be taken!)
Looks like we have a new paper out journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with some collective reflections on global infrastructure and cities / w brilliant @eliapos.bsky.social Jon Silver, Francesca Governa, and Simone Vegliò
Deadline this Monday! Great PhD opportunity based at
@ic-cep.bsky.social under the supervision of Adriana Ford and me
Walter Rodney's ambitious masterwork of political economy, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is part of our Black History Month sale.
Rodney makes the unflinching case that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature, but a direct product of imperial extraction.
🚨 Summer School 2025 alert 🚨
Justice in an Interlinked World: Revisiting Rural-Urban & South-North Relationships in Sustainability Transformations 🌍⚖️
📅 09-11 Sept 2025
📍 Location: Dresden, Germany
🎯 For mid-career scholars (www.ioer.de/en/press/new...)
📝 Apply by: 15 March 2025
We have an exciting new PhD opportunity, exploring #environmentaljustice in #firegovernance through arts-based approaches.
Based at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, supervised by Adriana Ford and @eliapos.bsky.social
Apply by 3rd March
#politicalecology
centreforwildfires.org/news/phd-in-...
We have paused all journal-related communications on X, and Bluesky will now be the primary outlet for updates related to Dialogues in Human Geography. Give us a follow here on Bluesky!
This is a great PhD opportunity—consider applying if you are interested in environmental justice, the political ecology of fires & art-based approaches. Supervised by me & Adriana Ford! @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @centrewildfires.bsky.social @ic-cep.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Academic research cannot change the word but we must act as if it could - just as has been widely said about art.
I am glad that the people of Piraeus -without whom it would have been impossible to conduct this research- have been engaging with my research throughout this time: www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
My paper on Piraeus port is now open access in Urban Geography. It tackles conceptual questions that have been driving my research the last 5 years, while trying to bridge academic work with political engagement—rooted in a place I've known since childhood: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....