I am old enough to recall as far back as 2018 when Cooper sported a suffragette rosette. A reminder that the suffragettes, unlike Palestine Action, actually planted bombs and destroyed property.

Excited to be getting involved in this. And to see what can happen around this really important issue that brings together land, ecology, water/flooding, air pollution, and social justice.

Join us at the @oxfordgeography.bsky.social for In Defense of Housing (2nd ed.) with @davidjmadden.bsky.social – reading group (1 July) + book launch (4 July). Organised by the Rent Cultures Network. Register: forms.gle/vYUf2F1ciPha... @potentiaspace.bsky.social

Last day at BCU

Outreach with @streetskitchen.bsky.social this morning 🫧 #theremaybebubblesahead #heartisaweaponsizeofafist #solidaritynotcharity @bcusociology.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social @city-journal.bsky.social

Quick bit of research in London this week. The #streetlegal project with @streetskitchen.bsky.social “SK Lawless” clinic will look at role of legal knowledge in fighting eviction of rough sleepers & loiterers, and the powers being used to move people along. @bcusociology.bsky.social

This is (predictably) excellent @urbanpolitical.bsky.social urban lives of property. Heather Dorries in conversation with Hannah Hilbrandt and Markus Kip. open.spotify.com/episode/4p2Y...

George Osborne pretended he was taking 'tough decisions', but politically he took the easy one of beating up on students and disabled people, while passing the toughest ones over to local government to deal with. Did he ever pick a fight with anyone that might pose a political risk to him?

30/4 - King’s X (7pm) #squattinglondon book launch at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social Keeping some good company… @potentiaspace.bsky.social @dannydorling.bsky.social Shabna Begum, Isaac Rose, Don Watson…

I did a podcast for the wonderful @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social, with @malcolmtait.bsky.social and Hugh Ellis, policy director of the TCPA. We talked about planning reform, nature, and the need for bigger urban ambitions. Listen here! open.spotify.com/episode/4ZI3...

Talking about #squattinglondon at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk (a university whose dreaming spires were built by squatters from Headington Quarry) @plutopress.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social

Two book launches this week for #squattinglondon 28/4 Geography, University of Oxford. 4pm. @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk 30/4 Housman’s Bookshop, King’s Cross, London. 7pm. @housmansbookshop.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

Two book launches this week for #squattinglondon 28/4 Geography, University of Oxford. 4pm. @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk 30/4 Housman’s Bookshop, King’s Cross, London. 7pm. @housmansbookshop.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

This project will be supervised by @samburgum.bsky.social and Dr Shey Fyffe... www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our...

Great to see Sam Burgum @samburgum.bsky.social today and very much looking forward to reading his new book

at #AAG2025 this week! on friday at 12.50, i'll be presenting on research conducted with @samburgum.bsky.social on how those criminalised under laws of trespass negotiate spaces of discretion. will be focusing on our work with gypsies and travellers in west yorkshire @geographers.bsky.social

Looking forward to hearing @samburgum.bsky.social talk about his new book #squattinglondon tomorrow in our @uoy-sociology.bsky.social seminar series. All are welcome - link to register and further info here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Available now from Past Tense: ‘Black Women Organising’ The Brixton Black Women’s Group and the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent A5 pamphlet Buy online here: pasttensehistories.bigcartel.com/product/blac...

"Our opening show, How to Survive the Apocalypse, was meant to be tongue in cheek," writes Jess Turtle from @ourmoh.bsky.social "But also honestly it isn’t." Here's how we prepare for a possible far-right win in 2029 ⬇️ buff.ly/3vmTsMP

Book launch this week: 26/3 University of York. 3:30. Law and Sociology building, Hes East. @cahr-york.bsky.social @uoy-sociology.bsky.social @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

Are you a PhD or early-career researcher working on #urban #inequalities and related themes? Join us for the Emerging Urban Inequalities #Conference in Sheffield, UK on 26-27 June 2025. Submit your abstract by 25 April. More info at: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

There are many more women abused by #spycops. The 5 in the show had exceptional skills & luck in identifying the men. The public inquiry has granted anonymity to most officers, meaning they'll never be held to account. To get the truth they must release the names & open the files ...

They were involved in political campaigns (or had friends who were). The #spycops started in 1968 & spied on 1000+ groups from Climate Camp to South Uist Hedgehog Rescue to Stop The War Coalition. Courts have ruled the entire operation unlawful & at odds with democratic society ...

Great evening catching up with people at Freedom. One of my favourite spaces. ASS 50 years this year 🔥 An honour to be launching the book here. @freedompress.bsky.social @assquattheworld.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

In good company at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social @potentiaspace.bsky.social @dannydorling.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

Festival of Social Action is a series of public events being organised by Change Lab, an initiative being run within Sheffield Student Union. Event list: shorturl.at/72XK0 I will be speaking on Jets, Planes, and Rocketmobiles 25th March, free registration here - shorturl.at/Z2Afb

⚡TOMORROW!⚡ Author Samuel Burgum will be in discussion with Myke from the Advisory Service for Squatters at Freedom Bookshop! Book your ticket below! @samburgum.bsky.social @assquattheworld.bsky.social 🗓️Fri, Mar 7 ⏰7 pm 📍@freedompress.bsky.social 🎟https://buff.ly/4hTTia5

excited to be facilitating this workshop with my fellow folk and miknaf ha'aretz, next tuesday 19:30-21:00 GMT / 11:30-13:00 PT. join us for an introduction to this new project on land dispossession in england, and its international implications. tickets here: www.miknafhaaretz.co.uk/events

Three book launches this week: 5/3 @ubcgeography.bsky.social (online, 6pm GMT) 6/3 @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social (geography & planning, 12:30) 7/3 @freedompress.bsky.social @assquattheworld.bsky.social (freedom bookshop, 7pm) @bcusociology.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

ASS will be 50 in October! We will be doing stuff but currently mainly trying to contact ex-volunteers to involve them in stuff But if others have ideas get in touch too There will be a party, maybe archiving discussion, possibly planning the future?

Off to London town for a @city-journal.bsky.social meeting tomorrow. 📷 Meersbrook, Sheffield. Municipal park since 1887.

🧵Happy to announce our Special Issue on the #Political and #Transformative Uses of #Time is out! Coedited by me & E Colin Ruggero. Many thanks to all our contributors and to @timeandsociety.bsky.social. Hope it will be useful for those thinking time politically. journals.sagepub.com/toc/tasa/34/1

Catch Sam on tour at a venue near you! We will be at the BCU one on 12th March.

BOOK LAUNCHES (so far) 5/3 - UBC (online, 6pm GMT) 6/3 - Sheff Uni (12:30) 7/3 - Freedom/ASS (7pm) 12/3 - Birmingham City (5pm) 26/3 - York Uni (Law, 3:30) 30/4 - Housmans (7pm) @assquattheworld.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social @housmansbookshop.bsky.social @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social

BOOK LAUNCHES (so far) 5/3 - UBC (online, 6pm GMT) 6/3 - Sheff Uni (12:30) 7/3 - Freedom/ASS (7pm) 12/3 - Birmingham City (5pm) 26/3 - York Uni (Law, 3:30) 30/4 - Housmans (7pm) @assquattheworld.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social @housmansbookshop.bsky.social @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social

Really sorry to hear about Michael Burawoy. An inspirational sociologist who made me rethink methods, epistemology, dissemination, and the politics of what we do. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 New Report 🚨 'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development' Given the Government's aim to 'unleash growth' we've drawn on over 3 years of research to think about the implications of this agenda for towns + cities Available here www.sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/...

Tonight. I’m at the @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social launch of Isaac Rose’s “The Rentier City - Manchester and the making of the Neoliberal Metropolis”. @repeaterbooks.bsky.social @urbaninstitute.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social

Now that proofs are in, I am stoked to share that my book, The Injustice of Property, is due out June 2025 with @ugapress.bsky.social I couldn't be happier to be part of the Geographies of Justice Series. See a description here: ugapress.org/book/9780820...

This will be a great day of workshopping and discussing ways of doing theory at @camsociology.bsky.social in May. I'll be one of the discussants, w/ Sarah Bufkin @unibirmingham.bsky.social, Teodor Mladenov @dundee.ac.uk & Kristin Surak @lsesociology.bsky.social. Here's the cfp for ECRs:

Great few days at @unileiden.bsky.social thinking creatively, critically, and radically with archives. Great team behind the ERC Artives project www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/...

Presenting in the same room as Einstein… funny how spaces are remembered, rendered significant, and imbued with authority… @unileiden.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social

Off to @unileiden.bsky.social today for this one. Happy to be invited to talk about the city as an archive. Looking forward to it. www.nica-institute.com/event-keepin.... @bcusociology.bsky.social

2024 finished with a new article (in Spanish) cowritten with colleagues from the UK and Bolivia. It's called: Multilocality and related identity challenges of Indigenous youth in Bolivia p3.usal.edu.ar/index.php/mi...

Congratulations Sam! Great to see this out in the world.

#squattinglondon is out in world tomorrow. privileged to have had all that time to research. it took a lot longer than planned to write-up. nervous-excited to hear what people make of it. met some incredible people. ✊ every1 putting empty spaces back to use. www.plutobooks.com/978074534143...

Neighbours say that the owner of one of the properties refuses to rent or sell the property, despite regular offers from the public. These dwellings are a symbol of the problems with Australia’s housing market. freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/17/a...