Disability Studies, the authoritarian state and the ethics of scholarship. A great piece.

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

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies

✍️ Liang & Zou

🔍 This article proposes the concept of the “digital fix” to articulate urban #transformation toward #smartcities as a new form of fix beyond the spatial fix.

📖 buff.ly/3xYi3AM

I’m happy to share my first book—At the Feet of a War Elephant: Land, Displacement, and Urbanization in Myanmar—is forthcoming with @cornellupress.bsky.social in Mar 2027. It explores the slow violence of urban growth under capitalism and how dispossession is normalized even without formal planning

📣 La campagne de bourses doctorales du CEFC 2026 pour les doctorants qui souhaitent mener des terrains de recherche en Chine, à Hong Kong ou à Taïwan, est ouverte ! Postulez avant le 31 Mars 2026.

www.cefc.com.hk/fr/bourse-do...

#Bourses #Chine #HongKong #Taiwan #Recherche #SciencesSociales

Notre publication annuelle «L’Asie du Sud-Est. Bilan, enjeux et perspectives» vient de sortir : www.irasec.com/L-Asie-du-Su...

L’Asie du Sud-Est 2026 propose une analyse claire et approfondie des principaux événements ayant marqué l’année dans les onze pays de la région.

Le nouvel épicentre du Parti communiste vietnamien : Tô Lâm et l’affirmation des services de sécurité Ce texte se propose d’analyser les implications politiques de la reconduction Tô Lâm au poste de secrétaire général Parti communiste vietnamien (PCV).

Le nouvel épicentre du Parti communiste vietnamien : Tô Lâm et l’affirmation des services de sécurité

Lire l’article de Benoît de Tréglodé publié le 12 février sur le site «Le Rubicon».

lerubicon.org/le-nouvel-ep...

🔓 #NEW in #UrbanStudies

✍️ Stokols examines how certain urban districts and high-profile sites in #Singapore are conceptualized as “showrooms” for the #infrastructure and urban #technologies they aim to export around the world.

📖 buff.ly/j9uBRnG

On déroule et on écoute. Merci @camillelefebvre.bsky.social !

Sudestasia #01 Lettre d’information de l’IRASEC // IRASEC Newsletter

🌏 Découvrez « Sudestasia #01 », la newsletter de l'Institut de recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine (IRASEC) !

🌏 Discover "Sudestasia #01" - the newsletter from IRASEC!

Lisez la newsletter / Read the newsletter: irasecs-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/sudestasia...

Pendant des siècles, les argots servaient à échapper aux oreilles du pouvoir. Désormais, c'est aux yeux des algorithmes qu'ils cherchent à se dérober.
Bienvenue dans l'ère du "parler algo".
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/E4M

Des personnes attendent sur le trottoir devant le temple Quan Thanh, la veille du défilé de la fête nationale du Vietnam, à Hanoï, le 1ᵉʳ septembre 2025. ©AFP - Nhac NGUYEN

Au Vietnam, religions et croyances sous le contrôle du Parti

Les religions et croyances sont autorisées, mais strictement contrôlées par l'État vietnamien, inquiet de l'influence qu'elles peuvent avoir sur la société.

🎧 @franceculture.fr

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Join us for the next Cities Are Back in Town seminar, featuring a discussion on Housing Under Platform Capitalism 📖

Hybrid seminar — Sciences Po / Zoom

Register here 👉 tinyurl.com/5n8aatxv

@ucpress.bsky.social

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

The special issue on Authortarianism in the Digital Age is now live (eds. @kylzjarrett.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @steelecat717.bsky.social and Jing Hiah). It is comprised of 48 commentaries from around the world exploring how the digital is implicated in creeping authoritarianism.

Dialogues on Digital Society - Volume 1, Number 3 Table of contents for Dialogues on Digital Society, 1, 3

Special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, vol 1(3) in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social, edited by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, Jing Hiah, @robkitchin.bsky.social & @steelecat717.bsky.social y.social. All 49 pieces open access. journals.sagepub.com/toc/ddsa/1/3

Thousands of Filipinos protest over flood corruption scandal Demonstrators demand authorities move more decisively against those who allegedly stole billions of dollars

Thousands of Filipinos protest over flood corruption scandal
asia.nikkei.com/politics/thousands-of-fi...

Methodology

GoTo-Grab merger plan raises monopoly concerns as Indonesia eyes approval Ride-hailing giants would hold 90% of the country's market if combined

Monopoly jitters in Indonesia: What might happen if ride-hailing and food delivery rivals Grab and GoTo were to merge their Indonesian operations as reported?

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For anyone interested in learning more about critical urban/geography scholarship in #EastAsia, this review ("Looking Back on the Trajectory of Critical and Alternative Geography in East Asia") by Prof Byung-Doo Choi will be of interest. Direct link here: www.omu.ac.jp/lit/geo/asse... #EARCAG

Small-scale land speculation on Mandalay’s outskirts reveals how everyday actors—not just developers—reshape peri-urban space and contribute to displacement in the global South.

By Francesca Chiu

📖 www.ijurr.org/article/beyo...

Table of contents and editorial board of Urban Studies Volume 62 Issue 15

Table of contents and editorial board of Urban Studies Volume 62 Issue 15

Urban Studies logo followed by the writing "New Issue"

🚨NEW #UrbanStudies Volume 62(15) (November 2025)

SPECIAL ISSUE: "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda?"

✍ Editors: G. Özatağan, G. Fearn & A. Eraydin

🔍 Focus on authoritarian neoliberal #urbanism, urban #governance transformation & sociopolitical change.

This is happening this week on 6-Nov at 4 pm at LSE, a book launch seminar for People-led Development in Hanoi (Routledge, 2026). For more details, see below 👇

Ping @mariegibertflutre.bsky.social

That’s us!
With @mariegibertflutre.bsky.social @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social and others !

Viva multilingual geographies viva!

New LSE Geography seminar with the Urban Salon on 6-Nov, 4pm, featuring Hoai Anh Tran (Malmö University) presenting her new book, "People-led Development" in Hanoi, w/ discussants, Hanh-An Trinh and @maranogueira.bsky.social. Event details and registration on this page: www.lse.ac.uk/events/peopl...

🌍 New IJURR Spotlight On: Counting the City 🌆

How are big data and computational methods reshaping urban research?

This collection explores the promises and perils of datafication in understanding cities—bridging ethics, politics, and imagination.

👉 tinyurl.com/yc6333xa

Parlez-nous de…Guerre, exils intérieurs et extérieurs au Viêt Nam dans la littérature
📅 1er oct. 2025, 17h-19h
📍 La Parenthèse – Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon
Avec la participation de Thuân, Doan Cam Thi & François Guillemot
Rencontre culturelle co-organisée avec la BDL bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social

Découvrez le programme du Séminaire de recherche de l’Institut d’Asie Orientale (UMR 5062) pour pour le premier semestre de l’année universitaire 2025-2026.
En visioconférence, inscription en ligne : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio...
Programme détaillé : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio...

Ho CHi Minh City's expansion highlights challenge of state reform Foreign investment grows but megacity struggles to clear land for projects

Ho CHi Minh City's expansion highlights challenge of state reform
asia.nikkei.com/economy/ho-chi-minh-city...

INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical an...

New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...