Global Corridor newsletter #12
"Bomb/Blockade/Bypass" is focused on the emerging geographies of the infrastructural blockade and attempts at establishing bypass infrastructures.
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More like displacement pressure later on across inner city neighbourhoods as we demonstrate with data in this report // sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/...
We've worked with the Geographical Association to develop some school learning materials for A-Level students to think through financialisation, displacement, gentrification etc
'Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study'
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I have a new short piece out in Environment and Planning A journal
'The multipolarity and geo-politics of climate finance'
A response to Bryant and Webber's (amazing) book: Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures
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Continuing focus on the global infrastructural geographies of the illegal US/Israeli attack on Iran.
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Global Corridor Newsletter #11 is out
Continuing analysis of the infrastructural geographies of the US/Israeli war on Iran...
'A war on water is a war on life, damaged oil and gas infrastructures, the 'blockade', UAE air hub's uncertain future'
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Last shout out to join us for tomorrow's workshop, from 2pm at Site Gallery, Sheffield
'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization;
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Excited to be hosting a book talk by Austin Zeiderman in Sheffield on his book 'Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River' - 23rd March
More details inc link to Open Access copy of his book here 👇
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Indeed
The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War on Iran…
…From data centres to logistical bottlenecks, supply chains to real estate markets, shipping to petroleum networks
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ArtHouse, Saadiyat (under construction) in Abu Dhabi
$4.2M → $3.8M
-$408K drop
▼9.7%
UAE property dream is crashing in real time 📉
Excellent data interface showing collapsing real estate prices in Dubai (5-15%) and Abu Dhabi (3-10%) in real time 👀
www.luxurypricedrops.com
A new phase of warfare / destroy the data centre, destroy the cloud, destroy the capacity of the enemy to operate
More on the infrastructural geographies of the Israel/US attack on Iran here:
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My Global Corridor Newsletter 10 is out now
The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War of Iran
Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf real estate economy shattered?, Oil and gas crisis, data centre wars, Indian port investors + more
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My Global Corridor Newsletter 10 is out now
The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War of Iran
Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf real estate economy shattered?, Oil and gas crisis, data centre wars, Indian port investors + more
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
✒️How do financing models reshape politics and spatial effects of infrastructure? Comparing two projects in Kenya, I show how G2G-PPP redistributes risk and control and essentially, who benefits. Please check out my new article in @urbanstudiesjournal.com: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A photograph of smoke rising over Tehran, Iran.
The Israeli and US attack on Iran is morally repugnant. It is calculated only to benefit an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers. It will not benefit Iranians or ordinary people anywhere on earth.
We must build the grassroots capacity to interrupt the war machine or things will only get darker.
A big wk in beating back the Far Right in Manchester with massive antifascist mobilisation taking on Britain First while a broad left electoral front working with/in Green Party dominate Reform
A clear roadmap on the streets + in the polls against the Fascist future in the UK
'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization'
Excited to be involved in this event in Sheffield (12 March) at the Site Gallery inc film screening, book launch + panel discussion w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social, Junia Mortimer and more
More info here: sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
My GlobalCORRIDOR newsletter 9 is out now
Featuring.... New Horn of Africa corridor, the 'Lobito model', Alphabet's digital $15 billion investment in India, EXIM Bank's outstanding $289bn loans, new maritime based readings, data centre film
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Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come
We have a new paper in @ijurresearch.bsky.social
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'EVERYTHING IS BEING DISTURBED’: Unsettling the Spaces of Global Infrastructure along the Northern Corridor
Special economic zones, railway projects + more with Sydney Nsubuga
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Lots of new excitement about the 'Manchester model' but it's built an extractive economy that benefits capital, not labour.
Read our data-led report
"Centripetal Cities A critique of supply-side urban development" - t.co/Dec4wIkGGe
Catch up on my Global Corridor newsletter #8 featuring...
US races for DRC minerals, return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, tensions on the Panama canal, Italian tunnels, riding the Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere + Lunar roads
👉 tinyurl.com/5x64u25w
Global Corridor newsletter #8 is out now featuring...
US races for DRC minerals, the return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, more tensions on the Panama canal, Italian train tunnels, Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere and Lunar roads
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Global Corridor newsletter 7 is out now featuring...
New book on the Belt and Road Initiative, Burkina's revolutionary road, Destiny, a new special economic zone in the Caribbean, Foster design transport hub in Poland, Venezuelan oil, Pakistani railways
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I've joined Caitlin Morrissey and Michele Acuto to record an episode for season 2 of the Urban Studies Journal podcast Walking the City With...
You can listen here www.urbanstudiesjournal.com/podcast/8-wa...
New Film/Report on Pakistani Railway Infrastructure/CPEC
FILM: "Tarakiyati Kaam Jari Hai/Developmental Work in Progress" by Zainab Farid
REPORT: "Navigating Displacement + Inequality along the ML-1 Railway Corridor" by Toheed Mohammed
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Launch event at the Karachi Urban Lab for a new film and report on railway led displacements in urban Pakistan as part of our Global Corridor project.
Community members, activists, and researchers will discuss how big infrastructure projects hit up against everyday lives.
Register via the QR code
The 'Manchester Model' in one story...public money subsidising private profit
Renaker borrowed £700+ million from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) + its affiliates to build high end skyscapers...
Now it's owner is fleeing with the profits to tax-free Monaco