Thanks @alanlester.bsky.social - it was a very long time in the making! I was fed up with the 'my ancestors were in the workhouse' rebuttal to slavery reparations (mine were too, but that's not the point!)

I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.

Jfc. ICE weapons purchases increased 700%. Of the $71,515,762 spent, most was “on guns and armor, but there have also been significant purchases of chemical weapons and “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” popular.info/p/ice-boosts...

"The pro-Trump billionaires behind Israel’s war-tech are in prime position to deploy the suite of militarised surveillance and border control technologies of a Trump-brokered peace" @nafeez.bsky.social on the 'circular economy of war' @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

Pleased to share the first two RGS-IBG Book Series titles to be published fully open access with @lsepress.bsky.social, available early 2026... @laurieparsons.bsky.social @jbrigstocke.bsky.social press.lse.ac.uk/books/coming...

Intervention — "On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada" by Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...

Looking forward to reading this

New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6 tinyurl.com/88xmursz

Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests" -- Antipode authors @williamsapj.bsky.social and Jon May discuss their published work www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... doi.org/10.1111/anti...

"The state management of poverty in Britain was inextricably underwritten by slavery-derived wealth and colonial exploitation" @williamsapj.bsky.social on the 'workhouse-plantation nexus'. Media coverage of geographic research @antipodeonline.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Really important piece

Two Israeli human rights organisations - B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) - accuse Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinian people www.btselem.org/sites/defaul... www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...

Alligator Alcatraz and facilities like it have proven to be big business for disaster capitalism. Maureen Tkacik reports on the companies behind the trillion-dollar industry: https://trib.al/bpQbVcB

A must read, devastating, Report by Francesca Albanese (UN Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967) on the global economic foundations of the Palestinians' genocide: THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE. Please share! www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

📢Pay what you feel price🚨 Our new book is available to download. Its nominally 'free', but please consider a contribution. Thanks to Rachel Morris of @cymruconversations.bsky.social for putting this together (and others for contributing)! Please share this payhip.com/b/9eklJ

Pleased this new progress report on Mobilities & Crisis is out #OpenAccess. I suggest that mobility isn't just about movement but also navigating the temporalities of ongoing hardship, where crisis is part of the lived experience rather than an exceptional event. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Two fully funded PhDs with me at SOAS. Within my ERC project; one researching in Paris, the other in Düsseldorf. Exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban space, the cultural industries, and social media. More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/12srA... Deadline is 21 July.

Did an open day on Friday and Saturday... really wished other geography departments committed to low carbon field study visits rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

UCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make £140million in cuts and threaten jobs We're fighting against these reckless proposals Share to show your support ✊

‘For the armchair techno-warriors of Silicon Valley, the barbarians at the gate are a useful solution.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the tech companies profiting from war: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hope your University management is treating you better than mine. Bittersweet sharing this but it has several years in the making: Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World Thanks to editors @antipodeonline.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 New in The GJ! 📢 We've published 12 intervention pieces in a special collection reflecting on Trump's second term in the White House, and how geographers are responding. All pieces are free to read for the next 3 months - access them here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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

Charles McGee was an elderly Jamaican man who swept the crossing at the foot of Ludgate Hill in Regency London. Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social on the life of McGee and what makes a 'begging place': www.historyworkshop....

#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo This Intervention introduces the Chair's theme for the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2025, taking place in Birmingham (UK) this summer. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

We've written an open letter to RGS/IBG re: Supreme Court ruling + EHRC update. If you're an academic geographer (broadly conceived) at any career stage anywhere in the world, please read, consider signing, and share (closes 1700 GMT 30 April) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Exhibition in Tower Hamlets: Researchers uncover stories of Black Londoners who escaped slavery: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #History #BlackHistory 🗃️

Thanks for sharing The proposed plans include a 20% cut to Geography and Planning academic staff (10-15 FTE) We are all a bit shell-shocked But we will organise and strategise as a School tomorrow

The first domino in what will surely be a cascade. The uni sector needs some radical new political impetus, and quickly www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📢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

Decided to make the switch...