In our latest episode, you will hear: Kevin Sheridan, Richard Wolff and Laura Colini; as well as the host @nitin-bathla.bsky.social . urbanpolitical.online/97-in-loving...

Not good: Out of 20 major producers of fossil fuels around the world—including the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Canada, Brazil, Australia & UK—only the UK, Australia and Norway plan to reduce production of oil and gas by 2030. 11 countries surveyed increased plans for fossil fuel production.

The special issue on authoritarian neoliberal urbanism is now out. Happy to be featured in it and thanks to the editors - @gfearn.bsky.social Güldem Özatagan, Ayda Eraydin for this very timely work.

Interventions | Spaces of Withdrawal: Compassionate Cities Without Citizens By Morten Nielsen 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/spac...

the #CFP for the next meeting of the Swiss #Anthropology Association (5-7 Feb 202, Fribourg) is out, including our panel A, 'Speculation, Futurity, the Otherwise: Material Incompletion as Future-Making' w @nitin-bathla.bsky.social & Sabrina Stallone www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...

CH-based peeps in particular, the #CFP for the 2026 SEG meeting is out: www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m... Consider our panel A, "Speculation, Futurity, the Otherwise: Material Incompletion as Future-Making" (single slot panels only, so likely selective) w Sabrina Stallone and @nitin-bathla.bsky.social

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

🧱✨ Welcome to the Radical Housing Journal ✨🧱 We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation. 📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...

This is for urban scholars of democracy who are seeking positivity and inspiration in bleak times: www.societyandspace.org/book-review-...

Have you listened to our latest episode yet? urbanpolitical.online/91-the-subur... @clairemercer.bsky.social's book details how the “suburban frontier” has become the place where Africa’s middle classes are shaped. Roger Keil, Mariam Genes and the host @nitin-bathla.bsky.social review the book.

In this episode, you will hear: Claire Mercer Roger Keil Mariam Genes and @nitin-bathla.bsky.social

How can cities in the Global South finance climate action in ways that are both effective and just? A reflection from a project workshop that concluded our project "the Urbanization of Global Climate Finance" blog.geo.uzh.ch/financing-ju...

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

🧵1/ How can armed resistance enable—not undermine—democracy, peacebuilding, and the revitalisation of Indigenous socio-ecological relations? In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social

So happy to be presenting at TU Braunschweig Reimagining Infrastructure Lifelines alongside @oliverressler.bsky.social among others.

my conceptual piece from the #PRECURBICA is out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... many thanks to @ijurresearch.bsky.social editors and reviewers for a very constructive process! @zasb.unibas.ch

Here we come with episode V of our series The Urban Lives of Property: 88 - In Conversation with Heather Dorries. urbanpolitical.online/88-in-conver... (Listen via our website or Spotify) This talk addresses the intersections of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in urban property regimes.

Such a privilege to hear from and be in conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social as she spoke about the intertwined nature of climate justice and housing justice in these times of disasters and "end times fascism." @challengeineq.bsky.social challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/naomi-klein/

A collection of essays in Economy and Society that honours the life and work of Sami Zubaida www.tandfonline.com/journals/res...

Why is the US-aligned Irish Government not, at the very least, condemning Israeli war crimes - the use of starvation as a weapon of war? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

#LiquidUrbanisms 12-13 June in Basel urbanstudies.philhist.unibas.ch/en/studies/e.... Register at: forms.gle/6JDL4sN4qeZ9....

“The US has imposed tariffs on Chinese products? Transit through Malaysia to ‘transform’ into Southeast Asian goods!” Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs - on.ft.com/4k2ZYnm via @FT

Extremely generative review «Urban Methods for the Pluriverse» of my book Researching Otherwise by #IndivarJonnalagadda in @city-journal.bsky.social. Read here - www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

The UK’s care crisis means many disabled people already live on the edge. Now, £4.5bn in cuts risks pushing them toward an “option” we should never normalise: death over destitution. Charlie Hallam reports

MUST READ especially for climate change concerned folks who think they can choose silence on genocide: “War causes extensive, long-lasting environmental damage, affecting landscapes, ecosystems, biodiversity, and vital resources.” 🧪 @iuscientist.bsky.social www.iuscientists.org/militarism-a...

Following orders does not exempt you from criminal charges or civil liability

ICE arrested Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow from India at Georgetown University, on 17 March. He's been in custody in Texas ever since; big props to his academic director Nader Hashemi for personally visiting him and telling his story!

Applications are open for our summer lab in the Greek mountain. This year's theme is "Anthropo-Scenes: Restaging Climate Dramas for Environmental Justice". Call open till Sunday 4th May. Pls share! www.pelionsummerlab.net/theme1.html

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

We are back with a new episode! urbanpolitical.online/87-infrastru... It is part of our Think&Drink Colloquium Series in collaboration with the GSZ for Urban Studies in Berlin. Hanna Baumann talks about forms of urban citizenship through participation in cities in the UK, Lebanon and Germany.

Really frustrated to miss @davidwengrow.bsky.social 's talk at EPFL recently, so trawling my way through this over the last week. Lots of great insights on nature of freedom, but one thing struck me just now: freedom exists cannot just exist in its experience ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHZs...

2 year post-doc in the Emerging Fields project REMASS on the "materials-energy-GHG-Nexus in Social Metabolism of Global Production-Consumption Networks" at the Institute of Social Ecology, BOKU, Vienna. Deadline May 19. Details here: boku.ac.at/wiso/isec/jobs

In 1909, Emma Goldman wrote an article about the removal of her and her former husband's citizenship. In 1933, long after she'd been deported, she wrote another text with the same title on how WWI and the Red Scare left so many people without a country. Both texts here:

#UrbanStudies is delighted to announce our 2025 Annual Lecture – ‘New Directions for Southern Urban Praxis’ presented by Prof Gautam Bhan will take place at the #CityDebates conference on 16 April. buff.ly/GYBgVbB

Looking forward to hearing from @challengeineq.bsky.social comrade and #UnequalCities researcher, Professor Gautam Bhan, on April 16th👇

Super interesting @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast interview on @quinnslobodian.com 's new book soundcloud.com/poltheoryoth...

Listen to our latest podcast on the recent important book of Armelle Choplin, Concrete City. With @wanguikimani.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social and #alicehertzog

Just got back home after the AAG and a workshop at Columbia Uni. It was both affective and overwhelming. Brought up epigenetic memories and instincts of authoritarian encounters. I was constantly looking over my shoulder and can‘t imagine the everyday terror confronting our American brethren.

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

Just finished four days of #AAG2025. Definitely in the top tier of conference experiences. Learnt a lot about ruins, climate, state capitalism etc. I also felt a constant sense of uncertainty from colleagues. Solidarity with all of you, hold in there. Every tyranny comes with an expiration date.

Launch of this timely new journal of Urban Political Ecology at #AAG2025 founded by @rkeil.bsky.social and Maria Kaika. Do consider submitting - us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/ur...

The important new journal Urban Political Ecology has just seen the light of day. Find them here: journals.sagepub.com/home/UPE journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... And follow them here: upejournal.bsky.social Read the editorial. Submit your work!

Having written so much about Automobile Urbanism, it was always a dream to travel to Motown-Detroit. Using Sara Safransky‘s city after property as a guide, I walked through the city‘s ruins the last two days in preparation for #AAG2025. Visited urban agricultural initiatives and sites of abandonment

Let's recall something beautiful. The new book of our Beyond Inhabitation Lab's member, Chiara Cacciotti is out in Italy for Ombre Corte "Qui è tutto abitato" (Everything Here is Inhabited) is based on her long-term engagement with Spin Time in Rome All info: beyondinhabitation.org/chiara-cacci...

🚨 LSGS Keynote Announcement 🚨 Join us for the Legal Geography SG Keynote at #AAG2025 #geosky 🔥 Warming Up the Bulldozers: Homelessness, Law, and the Making of Maximally Unjust Cities 🔥 🗣️ Prof. Don Mitchell, Uppsala University 📅 March 27, 2025 ⏰ 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM 📍 330A, Level 3, Huntington Place