Really important petition here against the terrible situation Leicester human geographers (and others) are facing. Sign, write emails to senior people, protest etc! www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

A special issue here of the journal Agoriad entitled 'Thinking with fragments: The allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space'. Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban. agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org

Absolutely shocking news, awful for everyone affected.

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Ooh! Current issue of History of the Present has a forum (currently freely accessible) on Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies - in his time and ours read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Fantastic book launch in Frankfurt for The Politics of Feeling last night! Great responses/questions - periodisation and how to tell a story of change, relation between affect and ideology, importance of disintermediation, spatial thinking in the book, sexual fantasies in right wing populism, etc

Looking forward to commenting on "The Politics of Feeling" tonight, co-authored by @benandersongeog.bsky.social and @ajsecor.bsky.social. Do swing by if you're in Frankfurt!

In Frankfurt next week for a visit to Thomas Lemke’s Fixing Futures group. Various activities, including a public lecture on the politics of intensity, and this book launch : )

We are happy to have @benandersongeog.bsky.social discuss “The Politics of Feeling”, a new book he wrote together with @ajsecor.bsky.social, in Frankfurt. Tuesday, Oct 21 at 6:15pm on Campus Westend (SH1.101). @fskelton.bsky.social and @soviele.bsky.social will share comments. Come join us!

Winter Well is on air BBC Radio 4 this week. An audio guide to thriving in winter, with advice from medics, artists, poets and future-gazers on simple but effective ways to bring light into your life during the darkest part of the year. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @hesterparr.bsky.social

A great issue!

Just received my copy of the open access Promise of Cultural Geography edited by @vickiezhang.bsky.social & @benandersongeog.bsky.social. Happy to have contributed!! Honestly, I'm surprised it survived the post, though: they saved me the trouble of opening anything 😄!

This is good. But, not good for some disciplines … it’s clearly part of a broader direction of travel in HE policy - to concentrate funding to subjects that align with ‘missions’/industrial strategy (it’ll be interesting how they manage fluctuations in international fee income re the levy)

London people come discuss and celebrate with us! A launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social. Eventbrite link below! 🥂 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

Link here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

London launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social We’ll be thinking from the book about the politics of feeling in the post General Election/US Presidential election period. Eventbrite link below

Looking forward to discussing @benandersongeog.bsky.social & Anna Secor's brilliant new @goldsmithspress.bsky.social book, The Politics of Feeling, with the authors and @jemgilbert.bsky.social on 25th Nov - all welcome, register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

Book launch workshop event with our colleagues @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @ajsecor.bsky.social entitled 'The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis'. The event in London, also involving Will Davies & Jeremy Gilbert, is on Tuesday November 25th: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

London launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social We’ll be thinking from the book about the politics of feeling in the post General Election/US Presidential election period. Eventbrite link below

#OA in TIBG: 'Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography' by James Esson et al. This paper examines how older people navigate African cities, focusing on Ghana, & contributes to reimagining how knowledge is produced with & about cities in the Majority World. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Has anyone written or read something on the US right’s demonisation of ‘ANTIFA’? The demonisation and the construction of ‘ANTIFA’ as threat is now crossing over into the U.K. right (and I can’t get over the stunning dissonance of it all)

Reading this collection of essays in appreciation of Lawrence Grossberg’s work. It’s never really been engaged with in cultural geography, apart from edges of affect work, which is a shame (and indicative of pathways not taken, one that expended the whole way of life tradition of thinking culture)

Far right supported by billionaires in a new media ecology that amplifies intensity observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

How many times - if an institution makes any kind of claim about ‘research led’ (or ‘informed’ or ‘based’) teaching, research is not unfunded (but, of course, really what matters is affirming research - the generation of knowledge - as a good in and for itself)

There’s something utterly dissonant about the online right convincing themselves they are the party/movement of peace and non-violence - whilst calling for violent elimination against ‘the left’. So much needs to be disavowed and repressed for that fantasy to hold.

This decision completely passed me by, as I suspect it has many people. Some important accounts of what happened linked below - vote in elections!

Dismantling Tech Fantasies (Edinburgh) | September 20th www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/disman...

This is the first translation of a Transactions paper hosted on one of our platforms, and we hope that it might be the first of many. Ana has provided an introduction to her translation, both in English and Spanish, reflecting on the interpretation process and the tensions it raised.

No one needs another Substack, maybe?, but thinking of setting one up to track the affective politics of the ascendant U.K. far right in real time as we hurtle towards what feels like disaster

A chance to see the photographs of Easington 1987-1991 from @geogdurham.bsky.social photographer Michele Allan at the Easington Social Welfare Centre, September 8th-12th, 6pm-9pm.

This isn’t really a pause. It’s a delay in issuing guidance. It leaves anyone with responsibility for REF submissions in a place of heightened uncertainty. As someone who spent a lot of time on our last REF submission, the promise, again, of reducing administrative burden is funny

One consequence of the U.K. universities crisis I discussed with friends at the RGS-IBG conference is a kind of forced interdisciplinary in organisational form - forced mergers between departments, newly named schools etc. A post-disciplinarity far from the promise of interdisciplinarity

#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'Hide and rule: Accumulation by disappearance and necro-periurbanisation in Brazil' by @jshutta.bsky.social This paper examines the governance of peri-urban spaces near Rio de Janeiro, connecting land fraud to the systemic hiding of violence. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣 🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation. 🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

The product of joyful collaborations!

For people at the RGS-IBG, we have a panel on our book later today, between 14.40-16.20 in lecture theatre 2 - with Angharad Closs-Stephens, Mitch Rose, Jessica Pykett, Jason Dittmer and Fiona McConnell. Should be fun!

happy customer!! be sure to pick up a copy from @vickiezhang.bsky.social and @benandersongeog.bsky.social near the lecture theatre in the Teaching and Learning building if you’re at the RGS-IBG this year. Hear us talk more about it tomorrow at the @dialogueshg.bsky.social plenary, 16:50-18:30!

selling at the help desk throughout the conference! if you're not in birmingham this week and would like to order a copy, you can order one here - we'll post worldwide for free: forms.gle/dapke5HRDw1m...

If you are going to the RGS-IBG conference we’re selling copies of The Promise of Cultural Geography at the registration desk. £10 for a beautiful object, that covers costs and will allow us to develop future projects …

I am so excited to see this article out! Published today, my latest article reviews work within human geography on climate futures, and work outside of human geography on queer time. Here, I argue that planetary imaginaries are entangled in the policing of intimacies. doi.org/10.1177/2753...

Our The Promise of Cultural Geography compilation now exists as a physical book, as well as OA online, thanks to all @vickiezhang.bsky.social work and gomer printing who together have created a beautiful object. We’ll be bringing a lot of them to the #rgsibg25

Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"

This piece articulates really well some of the affective responses to current cultures of AI hype and promise

This book is brilliant - insightful, timely, and also written quite beautifully. If you are confused about or interested in how politics "feels" in the present conjuncture of UK/US politics, read it! @benandersongeog.bsky.social @ajsecor.bsky.social www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

I enjoyed crafting my submission for this compilation, a delightful project and a welcome gesture towards more agile and responsive forms of academic publishing. My contribution took the form of a doctored comic strip… see if you can work out what text is retained from the original!

I enjoyed writing about "animals' cultures" with @levanpatter.bsky.social & Tom Fry for this wonderful collection. Also love the publishing form/at @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @vickiezhang.bsky.social have created. Looking forward to more of these (Un)limited Editions!

It’s now been out for a while, but this was such a fun project with Vickie! The Promise of Cultural Geography. 86 entries, all between 1-1000 words, focusing on what, for them, is the promise of cultural geography. It’s open access, so please share! research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Many thanks to @vickiezhang.bsky.social and @benandersongeog.bsky.social for initiating and compiling 'The promise of cultural geography' – where 86 of us respond, in 1-1000 words, to the prompt, 'What, for you, is the promise of cultural geography?' research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...