Just realised 20 years since this was published: Hubbard, P. (2005). Accommodating otherness: anti‐asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege. Transactions of the institute of British Geographers, 30(1), 52-65. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In a nation full of bigotry, why should we engage with the work of musicians who are inspired by the English landscape? Is it possible to be critically nostalgic? kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/listening-...

Book Launch for Listening to Landscape, King's College 21 Nov 1900. Hauntology/psychogeography/music: free event with music from The Hardy Tree @claypipemusic.bsky.social & Stonecirclesampler with @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social plus Jim Jupp & Oliver Cherer. Grab tickets from Eventbrite, going fast!

Nice piece from Tim White on the housing crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The border spectacle. For our education? Amusement? Outrage? Whatever, I'm depressed this is being played out for cameras. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some more stuff on fishing, Englishness and identity at the Kent coast here: kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/oysters-ow...

The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ri...

New paper by Fraser Curry @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @urbanfutures.bsky.social from his masters' dissertation - amazing stuff on property guardianship in urban Senegal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thu: i'm speaking about hauntology, gentrification and Englishness at this lovely little thing in Plymouth. Previewing some of stuff in my new book on hauntronica and music for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social "Listening to Landscape" (out Nov?) www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/confer....

Great to be part of a @legalgeolsa.bsky.social meet up yesterday where we organised, discussed and debated. Lots of great future plans for conferences, workshops and perhaps even a journal for Legal Geography. Watch this space! www.clg.place

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

@REF2029 shameful. Will @ucu.org.uk act on news that we can sack people and still use their publications in the next REF? At a time of redundancies this is tone deaf at best! www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk...

Im speaking today at the London Boundary conference @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and to celebrate you can buy my book 30% off - all my royalty to Kent Refugee Action Network @_KRAN_

I'm keynote at 7th London International Boundary Conference, 12/13 June, talking about Borderlands: Identity and Belonging at Edge of England @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social student tx £15 including food/coffee www.londoninternationalboundaryconference.com

Urban Salon event upcoming with @lorettaclees.bsky.social 20 June at LSE with @hyunshin.bsky.social - a must for those interested in gentrification and its displacements!

We teach a mix of UK, EU and International students on this masters - why not join us @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social in the dept of geography for this programme which offers critical perspectives on sustainable urbanism? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b4b...

I'll be talkiing to @laurieparsons.bsky.social about his new book Carbon Colonialism in Brighton next month. A great book, as the white admiral that landed on it yesterday can testify! ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/city-...

One for legal geographers: I flew over the A69 Castres - Toulouse motorway, 45% finished, at w/e. They stopped work on it in Feb when courts ruled the environmental costs outweigh the public interest. Goes to Senate tomorrow. MPs likely to override judicial authority: test case for environmental law

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...

The British Medical Association describe the Supreme Court Ruling on Transgender ppl as "scientifically illiterate", "made without consultation with relevant experts & stakeholders", & will "cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary, & intersex communities". www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/b...

"Cities and multiple nationalism" Urban Salon event at Northeastern University’s new London campus at Tower Bridge, 24 April, followed at 1930 by drinks Speakers: Liza Weinstein, Michael Gentile and Oren Yiftachel www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-salo...

Job at KCL geography - join us! - Lecturer in Geopolitics (permanent post) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/112649-...

Nice to meet former Lboro student - and now Reader in Economic Geography - Allan Watson, in Southampton today. Walked the city in the unseasonal heat, justifying drinks stop.

"Cities and multiple nationalism" Urban Salon event at Northeastern University’s new London campus at Tower Bridge, 24 April, followed at 1930 by drinks Speakers: Liza Weinstein, Michael Gentile and Oren Yiftachel www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-salo...

Nice Regional Studies @regstud.bsky.social webinar yesterday on legal geographies where i spoke alongside Luke Bennett, Athena Michalakea, and Jenny Kanellopoulou www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM5b...

Solidarity with my former colleagues at university of Kent, currently a complete mess and haemorrhaging staff www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/n...

A difficult day for King's College as we remember student Aalia Mahomed who was tragically killed this time last week when a van driver entered the pedestrian precinct outside the College. Another two students were injured. A shocking event that has impacted a lot of students here.

£1.2bn in taxpayers' money have been spent on planning the lower Thames crossing. I reckon a couple of KCL masters students could have done a better job coming up with a scheme that reduces traffic at Dartford by more than 20% Just what is the point of this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AAG week. I went regularly 1994 fort worth to 2019 Washington. Good times, critical scholarship. No more though, the process of applying for ESTAs was bad enough before Mr trump's transphobic border reforms came into effect. No more aag for me I guess.

Interesting article on what happens when universities start seeking savings and lose sight of what a university is www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

I'm speaking next week Weds 26th 1300 at online RSA webinar "Legal Geography for Regions and Cities: A Place-first Approach' lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...

Was in Oxford for viva yesterday congratulations to Tiger Hills for a great PhD on legal geographies of homeless encampments in Vancouver @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

When an AI authored article thinks Folkestone is the new Brighton surely it's game over for the town? www.mirror.co.uk/travel/uk-ir...

www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2449179... offices to be pulled down for new student housing: the developer is going to feel stupid when student numbers drop and they have 700 room coliving space with just 5 parking places.

Solidarity to affected colleagues. Dips in student numbers predictable so these sorts of cuts shouldn't have been necessary. Very sad: University of Dundee to axe 632 jobs to plug £35 million deficit Source: Times Higher Education search.app/8RQhu

Southampton student housing block to be demolished. It's 20 years old. Replacement to have 200 more rooms. I expect it to revert to coliving in 2030. Source: BBC search.app/umfYD

I've just finished/delivered my new book on hauntology, landscape and music. Out Nov! The end of England, post-Brexit malaise, the decline of the left, strange music, weird walking, ghosts of the past. You probably won't like it, but be brave and have a listen: www.mixcloud.com/gypjh2000/li...

I've just resigned from Geoforum editorial board over its decision to allow a paper to be published that is offensive and of incredibly poor scientific quality. I'm not going to mention the paper as it appears the author is delighted that the paper has offended people. We can do better!

Causeway action

Me, Phil and Tim started our PhDs in the same year, 1990, in Geography at the University of Birmingham. Thirty-five years later we've worn pretty well I reckon 🤔

If you like oysters, planning law and coastal conflict, this new open access paper is the one for you! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Woo. Good...Council rejects bid to demolish part of venue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bsky.app/profile/jfki... I'm in Berlin to find out about international debates on housing space

I did viva in york.train return from Southampton £345. Couldn't book advance fares didn't know how long viva wld last. Ridiculous sum, so I drove. Something needs to be done. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

Christ on a bike: Newcastle wants academics to stop researching, thinking and writing unless they have grants. University sector is f**cked. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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

In Verona for the first @legalgeolsa.bsky.social winter school which looks like great opportunity for young and emerging geographers interested in law and space to network and develop

Just did a couple of miles round London and then ran home another mile all with ton of books on my back to make sure I run everyday in January. All worth it if I can get at least a few more £££ for MND. Sponsor me here...thanks!

Delighted to see our KCL PhD student Charles Josefson is publishing such exciting work on disabilities and mobilities: (2025). Navigating identity: migration, and (dis)ability, and their cultural geographies in Venice. Cultural Geographies, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/1474...

Folklore Tapes summon the fiery furnance of 1960s west midlands metal industry in the latest missive in the Ceremonial County series. Scary stuff. folkloretapes.bandcamp.com/track/west-m...