A huge thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis for this award! I was so honoured & grateful opportunity in Seoul to focus attention on the global urban sanitation crisis. Thank you to @versobooks.bsky.social for nominating the book, & to Pattis. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Congrats to Rozy Fredericks and collaborators on this great film on waste in Dakar - trailer available here for 'The Waste Commons'. vimeo.com/1006661903?s...

Last month the latest global data on sanitation was published. I wrote a short blog on it below. Spoiler: for all that there has been very welcome improvements, 1 in 5 people still lack even basic sanitation. cityfragment.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/s... #sanitation

This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social

My review, "An introduction to a non-fascist geography", of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) is now published online first in @dialogueshg.bsky.social Dialogues in Human Geography. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/3)

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/...

Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the release of an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities Warren Magnusson, who passed away earlier this year. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/walter-magnu...

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

New article by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly & myself on the relationship of infectious disease and urban peripheries Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability: City: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Chuffed that my book 'Waste and the City' has gone from the longest to the shortlist with two excellent books here, alongside @shakirahh.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield... Many thanks to Metropolis...  www.metropolis.org/news/meet-fi...

Very honored that 'Master Plans and Minor Acts' is one of three finalists for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award (Metropolis). Congratulations to @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield and many thanks to the judging panel! www.metropolis.org/news/meet-fi...

Exclusive: Global health research projects halted by latest UK aid cuts. Winners of UK government grants for global health research have had their funding suspended after ministers decided to cut spending on international development, we can reveal. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

So... here's why I havent posted much. Been writing a book! Thrilled to share The Feminist Art of Walking is out on Pluto October 20th www.plutobooks.com/978074535100... Thanks so much to everyone who has helped make this happen, I am excited and a bit scared for you to read it

📣 Call for Papers: Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki 🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025 🏹 Please spread the word!

Our GlobalCORRIDOR paper is out in the latest edition of Urban Studies journal "The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Special forum in honour of pioneer development, feminist and participatory methods geographer, Janet Townsend, late of Durham University, for Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.

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...

I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc fellowship deadline is Oct 1st - if you are interested in applying with us at @geogdurham.bsky.social do get in touch... www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...

New paper on density - asking how residents experience everyday densities as 'resource', 'threshold', & imaginary of the urban future. Open access. Such a pleasure to work with wonderful colleagues in Dar es Salaam on this. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Good news for Paris!🥳 It's great that the Olympics have brought attention to the city's sewage issue, but we shouldn’t need big events like this to remind us how important proper sanitation infrastructure is. Hopefully, other cities, including in the US, will take note and follow through.

My book 'Waste and the City' is listed here amongst 9 others for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award. Should you wish some additional summer reading :) www.metropolis.org/news/10-book...

The relentless & vast machine-like production of writing arguing 'compact density is good' that list-off a set of 'ingredients' (trees, walkability, better health, nice places) but which either refuse or don't see that the neighbourhoods highlighted are *almost always rich* melts my noggin-brain.

The Politics of Feeling, with @ajsecor.bsky.social , is now out! It’s a book of propositions about the affective politics of three political forms - right wing populism, progressivism, liberalism - in the present post 2008 conjunctural crisis: mitpress.mit.edu/978191598329...

This is out today! It is such a great book that explores contemporary politics, time and feeling @benandersongeog.bsky.social @ajsecor.bsky.social

A short piece from me looking at the politics of 'asylum hotels' in Britain and the challenges for government in finding alternatives @geogdurham.bsky.social

The Politics of Feeling with @benandersongeog.bsky.social comes out the 1st of July! So excited for readers and grateful for the lovely blurbs from Will Davies, @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @carolynpedwell.bsky.social

It was great fun to talk with a brilliant group of early career scholars in Manchester as part of their 'Universalisms vs. Particularisms in Global Urban Studies' series. Short version of my talk: universalism never goes away, nor should it, but it helps to be very particular about what it is.

📢 New Special Issue in Urbanisation! "Overlooked people, places, and practices: shifting the gaze in Asian and South African cities" Curated by the Overlooked Cities Collective, funded by #USFSeminarSeriesAwards ow.ly/8awM50W5wjW #UrbanStudies #GlobalSouth #OverlookedCities

If you are considering applying for a Marie Curie postdoc fellowship and interested in working with colleagues at Durham, do get in touch...

On a sunny Friday morning, chuffed to learn that my book, Waste and the City, has been long listed for this cities award, by Metropolis :) www.metropolis.org/pattis-famil.... More info on the book here: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

New City Critics — a *paid* fellowship supporting urban critics from underrepresented backgrounds — is accepting applications for its 2025-26 cohort! Apply by June 12!

Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏 ⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025 📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at [email protected] 📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p

How does density come to matter in urban change? This paper by Vicky Habermehl & I is in this issue of IJURR - setting out a dialectics of urban density based on our research in London. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We’re hiring - a permanent Lecturer in Geopolitics in the Department of Geography at King’s College London Full info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ723/l...

UCL Geography has 3 jobs on offer that would be a fit for geospatial and/or health folk. Lecturer in Geographies of Health x 2 (with “spatial analysis") lnkd.in/enH4h2iX Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Geospatial Data Analysis & Cartography (0.5 fte, 12 months) lnkd.in/eKqaG7FW

@amoorelouise.bsky.social will lead the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @geogdurham.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social, which aims to change the way we understand and study the interaction between people, machine learning and AI algorithms.

New Report “I was evicted and left homeless” - Exploring social and environmental (in)justice along the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project Covered this morning by the Guardian.. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... From our Global Corridor project w/ partners Haki Defenders Foundation

A heads-up: I will be on Thinking Allowed tmw at 3.30pm talking about crowds and my new book, Multitudes @versobooks.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New #BookReview forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home with @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social @erinmcel.bsky.social and @saanchi.bsky.social featuring an author response from Michele Lancione https://buff.ly/40SadTH @dukepress.bsky.social

New paper by Vicky Habermehl & I on 'the density dialectic', open access in IJURR. Based on our research in London, we explore the value of a dialectical approach to density & densification onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A review symposium of our book Pandemic Urbanism was just published in Urban Studies: www.urbanstudiesonline.com/review/book-...

The last days of Walter Benjamin by @danhancox.bsky.social - moving piece on both the preoccupation with how Benjamin died, & the anonymity of so many unnamed deaths then and now: www.ft.com/content/fe8d...

We’re proud to be a member of the London Loo Alliance. We want to hear form Londoners about their experiences of finding a public toilet when they are out and about this festive season. Please help us by completing this short survey bit.ly/LondonLooAll... #LondonLooSurvey

New piece from me on @lankumdublin.bsky.social, Walter Benjamin and the Wrens of the Curragh open.substack.com/pub/danhanco...

I can’t wait for this to be out - a book of propositions on the politics of feeling in populism, liberalism and progressivism with @ajsecor.bsky.social Probably the work I’m most proud of so far - as I think it says something novel about this conjuncture www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777472...

Two permanent Assistant Professorships in Human Geography at Durham! With expertise in geographies of nature, climate change, & just and sustainable futures... durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

📢New Issue of TIBG!📢 This December's Issue is themed around migration, asylum, and ethnic diversity. It also features @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social & Harriet Bulkeley's collection on climate geographies. Read the papers using the link below ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661... #geosky

Some days at work are same-y and others it's raining and a photographer asks you to stand in a queue for a long-forgotten loo as if desperate for a wee (no acting required) www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Been thinking about the process of writing lately, partly as a result of chats with different people about how they write. So, apropos of nothing, & on the off chance that this may be of use to someone, here’s three quick things I’ve learnt about writing: cityfragment.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/t...