Looking forward to this session next week, discussing our recently published book 'Informational Peripheries' as part of the @unibas.ch Critical Urbanisms lecture series. Give me a shout if you'd like to join, and I'll share the Zoom link!

📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help! 🏊‍♀️ 🏊🏊‍♂️ They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat. Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Congratulations to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Fenna Imara Hoefsloot! Their #OpenAccess book Informational Peripheries published earlier this week. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4 #UrbanTheory #Digitalisation #DataPolitics

Informational Peripheries is out now with @uclpress.bsky.social! It brings together critical perspectives on how information flows (or doesn’t) across the edges of systems: archives, infrastructures, digital divides, and more. Edited with @ayonadatta.bsky.social 🙌 uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

Our 'Informational Peripheries' book is now published and out for the world to read in paperback and online free #openaccess. Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4 @uclgeography.bsky.social

Happy to share our research on developing an inclusive digital tool for urban planning in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. With Johannes Flacke and Karin Pfeffer @utwente.bsky.social and a fantastic group of co-researchers from Toegankelijk Zwolle doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

This is happening right now. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

NRC vandaag:

uk #geosky - please sign this letter to the RGS, to get them to pushback on anti-trans rhetoric from the Supreme Court and EHRC

Cover reveal! ✨ Our new book, 'Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the Urban in a Digital Age,' will be available this August! Get a first look here: uclpress.co.uk/book/informa... There will also be a digital open access version 🙌 @uclpress.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Excited that our research article with commentaries and response is out now in the inaugural issue of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social! Honoured to be amongst so many people I look up to in the launch of this great new journal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @ayonadatta.bsky.social

This. Protect trans kids. Protect trans rights. Gender is a spectrum. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people exist. Inter-sex & DSD people exist. Gender-non-conforming people exist. Transphobia is anti-feminist. Laws are often wrong and unjust. We must fight for a fairer future.

Join our team!

Today the Dutch senate is debating its budget cuts on higher education. Around 1 billion euros in cuts with jobs and entire programs on the line. They have a clear choice between investing in the future or going down the drain like the US is currently doing. Let’s hope they make the right choice 🟥

Delighted to see my review of @jpaddie.bsky.social @mrglassphd.bsky.social & @jen-nelles.bsky.social excellent 'Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds' out. Empirically specific and theoretically expansive, this book deserves to be read! doi.org/10.1080/1356...

📣 Pleased to announce response paper with @fennaimara.bsky.social out on @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social responding to brilliant commentaries by @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social Nancy Odendaal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣 We're still accepting abstracts! Reach out if you've got an interesting paper on the tensions between creativity and codeability in digital urban governance. We'd love to hear from you! @ayonadatta.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social

🙌 Our research led by Mariana Reyes and in collaboration with Neha Gupta, Dennis Muthama, and Jesus Flores is out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social! We hope it serves others working in international and intercultural research projects. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

👋 CfP for 'Algorithmic refusal: creativity and codeability in digital urban governance' @rgsibg.bsky.social in Birmingham. Organised with @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes and sponsored by DGRG! Submit your abstracts by the 21 Feb 2025 ✌️ www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE @rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham. Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇 www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

🙌 Till the 31st to submit an abstract! Please share with anyone who might be interested in joining. We look forward to seeing you in London in September!

new #datajustice paper from the Global Data Justice project in @robkitchin.bsky.social's new journal: Who do current #datagovernance models benefit, who has a say in how they work, and what benchmarks could we use if we want justice-oriented #AI governance? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Just before 2024 came to an end, we posted another episode of the Urban Political: 82 - Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times with Jean-Paul Addie, Hanna Baumann, Himanshu Burte and Fenna Hoefsloot. Listen via Spotify or here: urbanpolitical.online/episode-82-b...

New paper w/ Neha Gupta, Dennis Mbugua Muthama, and Jesus Flores, in which we follow information flows through different devices, geographies, and people to understand the role of brokerage in the digitalising state. A comparison of Mumbai, Nairobi & Guadalajara www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣Two more weeks to submit an abstract to the 'Regional Futures: The Politics of Digitalisation-as-Urbanisation' symposium in London from 1-2 Sep. Join us there! If you have any questions, reach out. www.regionalfutures.org/all-events-1... @uclgeography.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social #geosky

Unate hoy en el taller ‘FUTUROS REGIONALES’ sobre las tecnologías digitales para la justicia territorial y el futuro de la planificación en el área metropolitana de Guadalajara. www.regionalfutures.org/es/eventos-1...

"State as Auteur" is an incisive, provocative paper. I had the exciting opportunity to engage @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social's argument in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social and my commentary, "Time and the State in Digital Society", is out now: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled to finally share this! For me, this chapter flipped the script—not just by shifting focus to how privilege (rather than marginality) is constructed in digital infrastructure but also by rethinking how we write with and fully honour the contributions of our interlocutors in academic work. 💛

Únete el 14 de enero en el taller "Tecnologías Digitales para la Justicia Territorial: El Futuro de la Planificación Regional en Guadalajara". Un espacio para discutir cómo la digitalización puede transformar la administración y la planificación urbana en la región metropolitana de Guadalajara.

As we start the penultimate year of my 5-year ERC 'Regional Futures' research project, a reminder of team achievements in 2024 and forthcoming events in 2025. mailchi.mp/7ecdf3a63f84...

What a treat from @urbanpolitical.bsky.social Santa! I had a great conversation about #IntfrastructuralTimes w/ @fennaimara.bsky.social, Himnashu Burte & Hanna Baumann: lots of insights & food for thought. Check out the podcast & the book, too! @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social

It was such a pleasure to join @jpaddie.bsky.social, Hanna Baumann, Himanshu Burte & Nitin Bathla to talk about Infrastructural Times for @urbanpolitical.bsky.social!

We have a little Christmas present: '82 – Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban World' is out! urbanpolitical.online/episode-82-b... Thank you all for listening to the Urban Political Podcast this year and Happy Holidays!

🙌 New paper out together with @ayonadatta.bsky.social. It's been an absolute privilege to have the freedom to dive in and be surprised by new-to-me theory in writing this. I hope you also enjoy exploring the links between Deleuze, auteur theory, and the power of timing in Kenya's digitalising state!

📣 New publication hot off the press!! "The state as auteur: Timing digitisation in Africa's Silicon Savannah", co-authored with the lovely @fennaimara.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Critical ICT4D written by a wonderful group of scholars and edited by @silviahedley.bsky.social and me is out and it's open-access with 11 chapters that reflect, problematise, and construct alternative trajectories for information and communication technologies in development contexts 🥳🎉So excited!

Exciting! I just got a notification that our chapter 'Design for Water Justice Co-Developing Tools for Equitable Cities' is out (doi.org/10.4324/9781...). But more importantly, this means that Critical ITC4D by @azadehakbari.bsky.social & @silviahedley.bsky.social is available (open access)!

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

Re-sharing this to tag Critical Data/AI colleagues who I’d love to see do their own regional starter packs. @ubisurv.net already made one, @spdesouza.bsky.social @azadehakbari.bsky.social @derechosdigitales.bsky.social @fleurjohns.bsky.social? go.bsky.app/Gi8YKJ1

Aan iedereen bij de demonstratie op het Malieveld vandaag en in andere steden, bedankt en solidariteit! Voor de anderen die er ook niet bij kunnen zijn, teken aub de petitie. 🙌 #WOinActie 🟥 campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/st...

If you cannot join physically, please join & support the case on social media & sign the petition here: campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/st... #WOinActie #stopdebezuinigingen #EppoCiao #REDeducation #StandUpInRed #Right2Education #kabinetsloopthogeronderwijs

Curious about the intersections of digital technology and land politics in Mexico? Join us in January for a day-long workshop exploring territorial justice, land demarcation, and the roles of public and private sectors. The event will be online, Spanish spoken w/ English interpretation available

I started a 'Digital geographies in the global south' starter pack. It's sparse currently as I am new here. Please let me know who else should be here. go.bsky.app/Rhuprc3

Join us here for ICT4D—Information and Communication Technologies for Development! Thank you, @silviahedley.bsky.social for putting this together.

📢 CfP: Regional Futures: The politics of digitalisation-as-urbanisation, 1-2 September 2025 @UCLgeography Part of my ERC Advanced Grant. Confirmed Keynotes: - Rob Kitchin - Nancy Odendaal - Ursula Rao - Pontus Westerberg Abstract deadline 31 January 2025. www.regionalfutures.org/all-events-1...

A small starter pack for anyone interested in digital/platform capitalism, with a focus on social sciences (sociology geography, STS, econ etc.). Let me know if you want to be added!

Travelling to Nairobi tomorrow to kick off Digitalising Commons, a collaborative design project in which we explore how and if digital technologies can contribute to justice in common land governance. Very excited! If others are working on land justice and digitalisation and up for a coffee, lmk! 🙌

To all fellow north #London #cyclists here, please consider signing this petition to make the Finsbury Park junction safer (for all users!). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hi! Better late than never making the move towards here. Hope to connect with researchers, activists and journalists working on digital governance, urban geographies, and collaborative design. Or, actually, anything else! Recommendations much appreciated 🙌