AEFP 2026: Dr. Rajah E. Smart Unpacks the "Spatial Echo" of Inequity in Chicago The Tennessee Center for Educational Finance and Policy (TNEFP) recently participated in the 51st Annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Conference in Chicago. Our Director, Dr. Ra...

Dr. Rajah E. Smart presented “Spatial Echo of Inequity,” a critical geography analysis of sender-receiver school funding models & their role in perpetuating disparities. Recap to explore implications for policy & practice: wix.to/sPiFWry #aefp2026 #schoolfinance #educationequity #criticalgeography

📢 Upcoming TESS Talk | Black Studies in Babylon: Practice, Politics and Pedagogy with Dr Rita Gayle (Uni Birmingham)
Join the talk & discussion on
🗓 Fri, 23 January 2026
🕛 12–1 PM
📍 Free & Online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-stud...

#BlackStudies #RaceAndGender #CriticalGeography

I’m exploring spending time in #London and #Glasgow early next year as part of a small series of public talks on my research.

Any leads on potential hosts/partner spaces open to critical & creative work at the intersections of #BlackStudies, #abolition, #CriticalGeography & #PerformanceStudies?

We are delighted to have Elsa Noterman, Malene H. Jacobsen, James Esson, Elodie Negar Behzadi and Jay Todd as discussant, whose reflections will help push the conversation further.

If you’re at RGS-IBG, come join us tomorrow morning!

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#geosky #RGSIBG2025 #CriticalGeography

Together with Matej Blazek, I look forward to opening a collective discussion on the responsibilities and possibilities of critical geography today—how it challenges structures of power, connects with struggles for justice, and reimagines worlds otherwise.

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#geosky #RGSIBG2025 #CriticalGeography

Tomorrow morning at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference, we are hosting a panel on “What is, can be, and must be critical geography,” organized as part of @acme-geography.bsky.social

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My immense gratitude to Gwendolyn Taunton for having the vision to publish my cutting-edge fourth book!

Available on Amazon: a.co/d/7gFGcPi

#diplomacy #internationalrelations #criticalgeography #radicalpolitics #book #geopolitics #postcolonialism

#coastalresilience #climatechange #climatecrisis #criticalgeography #urbangeography #criticalsustainability #infrastructure #sustainability #cities #water #sealevelrise #geosky

#coastalresilience, #climatechange, #climatecrisis, #criticalgeography, #urbangeography, #criticalsustainability, #infrastructure, #sustainability, #cities, #water, #sealevelrise, #geosky

Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models: Toward a Critical Postcolonial Political Economy Approach - Aditya Ray, 2025 This article examines the discourse of technological leapfrogging within dominant Asian development models—namely, the earlier manufacturing-led development (ML...

📌 "Conjunctural thinking" Shifts emerge from crisis, contingency, and agency

Rather than another grand model, CPPE is a decolonizing analytical praxis.

Give it a read:
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2056...
#CPPE #DigitalAsia #CriticalGeography #PostcolonialStudies #TechPolitics #DevTheory

Reno’s Neon Line: Interrogating an urban imaginary | Intellect The way urban spaces are imagined has significant implications for the way cities are developed and redeveloped. In 2017, Jacobs Entertainment announced the development of the ‘Neon Line District’ in the western portion of downtown Reno, Nevada. To develop this space, Jacobs purchased and demolished many of the neighbourhoods’ historic motels, which had become a stock of housing of last resort for the city. The purpose of this research is to interrogate that space between the discursive representations of the Neon Line neighbourhood and the material spaces constructed and deconstructed based on those imaginaries. Drawing on literatures on the production of urban space, urban semiotics and urban imaginaries, I developed a multi-method approach to compare the content of the texts of the urban landscape to the social texts produced about it. I found that parallel representations of the space were presented to the public, with representations of the neighbourhood as a site of urban decay being amplified and the new ‘Neon Line’ imaginary being presented as a solution. The developers use of Reno’s historic neon and art from Burning Man suggests the new arts district created has been so for the purposes of attracting tourists with representations of ‘Reno-ness’, while the construction of hostile architecture amidst the Neon Line highlights the reconfiguring of who and what gets to be the public in this neighbourhood meant to revitalize the city. This research highlights the potency of urban imaginaries in shaping the urban material through practices of urban revitalization and the ways that social space is constructed simultaneously through the material and the discursive.

I am excited to share that my article about Reno's Neon Line District is now published in the Journal of Urban Culture Studies. While not my main focus, studying the changes in Reno's urban landscape has been a fun side quest during my PhD. Check it out! #urbangeography #criticalgeography #Reno

It’s been a looong gestation but my graphic article on the significance of #queerecologies for #criticalgeography is finally in production. Trying to stay patient with the process and looking forward very much to finally sharing it with the world!

This talk builds on my ongoing @dfg.de project:
„Zwangsgeräumt – Logiken, Praktiken und Vulnerabilitäten im Kontext von Entmietungsvorgängen in Zeiten der Mehrfachkrise“ (2024–2026) – more soon!

#urbanjustice #eviction #housingcrisis #courtethnography #criticalgeography #precarity

UGA Press Announces New Critical Geography Series, Feminisms, Gender, and Space The University of Georgia is pleased to announce Feminisms, Gender, and Space, a new critical geography series that will publish cutting-edge and engaged social science on the topics of intersectio…

This week, during @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting in Detroit, we're excited to announce a new series: Feminisms, Gender, and Space. See the blog for more info.

ugapress.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/u...

#geography #criticalgeography #feminism #gender #space

Critical observational drawing in geography: Towards a methodology for ‘vulnerable’ research - S... Recent years have seen increasing experimentation with drawing as a first-hand method for observation, reflection, and analysis in critical geographical researc...

I’m pleased to share my article "Critical observational drawing: Towards a ‘vulnerable’ methodology for geographical research” is now free to read from Progress in Human Geography: doi.org/10.1177/0309... #geosky #criticalgeography

Add to the #alternativemap tour of the summer #olympics http://www.londontourguide2012.org/ #criticalgeography