The open access 'Journal of Critical Public Health' just releases it's third issue is now out: Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems - journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc.... It is the only journal dedicated to 'critical public heath', community-owned (not corporate). Check it out!

Now out! Special Issue 'Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems', guest edited by @profkatsmith.bsky.social, Justin Waring & Mark Bevir, and PACKED with great papers from leading authors applying decentred theory to key issues in #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Great to be part of this. Michael Lambert and I contributed a paper called “Articulating place: towards a conjunctural analysis of public health” on renewed interest in ‘place’ as a ‘common sense’ policy solution to improve health, wealth and wellbeing. Read for free here: miniurl.com/k85lq8iu

Palestine Action-linked Qesser Zuhrah taken to hospital after a 46 day hunger strike - Qesser will have spent over a year in jail with no trial despite the pre-trial custody limit being 6 months www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' Important new paper from Farhana Sultana rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This Friday lunchtime, we're giving a talk on the 'Stories-so-far: Doreen Massey archive project'. We'll say a little about what we're doing, why, before opening up a conversation around how we might keep thinking with Massey in this conjuncture. Open to all, just sign up below:

Sultana draws on documentary video content from the 'Voices from the Global South' project, produced by the Open University, @rgsibg.bsky.social & @igu-ugi.bsky.social, to illustrate the arguments in her paper. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📣 Next GCSJ Seminar 🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 | 12–1PM | online 🔎Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey — exploring how Doreen Massey’s archive invites new questions about our troubled present. Register to join the critical and creative dialogue: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rearticula...

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...

At RGS tomorrow? Come along to our session on Urban Politics, Crises and Conjunctures with @colinlorne.bsky.social @markushesse60.bsky.social @derek-ruez.bsky.social

🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏 🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August. Geographers please share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

The only reason you assassinate every Al Jazeera journalist left in Gaza is because you don’t want anyone to document the genocide you are about to accelerate. Any politician and any journalist who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.

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Still a few weeks left to submit something to this exciting (!) call for a special issue on conjunctural analysis if you're thinking about the conjuncture, what to do about it politically, and how to write about it strategically and conceptually, we'd love to hear from you! @colinlorne.bsky.social

We're delighted that you're delighted!

"Articulating place: towards a conjunctural analysis of public health"—now published in the Journal of Critical Public Health We examine interest in 'place' as a circulating policy solution to improve health, wealth and wellbeing in this conjuncture: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Amazing news: Princeton & its prosecutors pressed charges against 13 students for a pro-Palestine protest, then offered to dismiss charges against 12 if one, @aditilrao.bsky.social, pled guilty. Instead, everyone held firm, and today the case was DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE & arrest record expunged!!!

Published version - with alternative introduction - to be published very soon!

*call for papers* for a special issue on 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 Edited by me and @colinlorne.bsky.social in a geography or urban studies journal yet to be decided If you're interested in writing about conjunctural thinking and the conjuncture, in any domain or discipline, we'd love to hear from you!

Last week I was pleased to host a workshop on Spatialising Urban Crisis. It highlighted the strategies and challenges of navigating the current conjecture. So great to see and be part of such vibrant conversations! #ukri_flf Thanks to @lorettaclees.bsky.social @colinlorne.bsky.social + all!

We make the case for 'thinking conjuncturally' about place and public health: there is a need to locate the many crises, contradictions and antagonisms conditioning public health in this conjuncture in order to articulate political alternatives and identify possibilities for progressive policymaking

*Articulating place: towards a conjunctural analysis of public health* Looking at public health through the lens of Wigan, we examine the implications of renewed policy and political interest in 'place' as a solution to improve health, wealth and wellbeing www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Personal stress is not work related says theorist of neoliberal governmentality nation.cymru/news/most-st...

📢 Join us at the Festival's Keynote by Dr Walaa Alqaisiya 🗓️ 4 June 🕥 10:15-11:30AM "Palestine and the Battle of Ideas in the 21st Century" Explore how ideological mobilisation shape global narratives. Free Eventbrite registration: tinyurl.com/2kt4j5yu @gunjans.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social

📣 Workshop CFP: Spatialising Urban Crisis 📍 University of Manchester, UK 📅 June 26–27, 2025 🧵