more online tickets now available for tomorrow's event:

it's 100 years since the land registry (and therefore the modern property market) was established in england and wales. next tuesday i'll be talking with @sarahkeenan.bsky.social, lorna fox o'mahony and lucy finchett-maddock about the politics of registration. join: www.eventbrite.ca/e/perpetual-...

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds" The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.

vital links between food production and fascism in britain made in @vittles.bsky.social this morning — including labour's renewal of the seasonal worker scheme which could be in violation of intl. human rights law. food sovereignty and land justice now!

a really exciting time for the english land question, as guy shrubsole outlines here, + context and some key cleavages

I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldn’t allow government officials to accuse people of *terrorism* anonymously.

truly an honour to hear the #AAG2025 honorary geographer gwendolyn warren give an oral history of the context and formation of the detroit geographical expedition and institute (DGEI) today. so many critical lessons for geographers working on political education projects @geographers.bsky.social

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

BLOG - Who Owns Scotland 2024. My annual analysis of who owns Scotland which reveals a growing concentration in the pattern of privately-owned rural landownership since 2012. andywightman.scot/2025/03/who-...

This isn't a 'scheme' it's a business arrangement. Nor is it offering 'unprecedented access': it's just charging people for a campsite with no actual facilities. Why is the @theguardian.com publishing commercial advertising as news? www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Shaina Potts has written a brilliant & incredibly timely book about law, capital, and American empire. I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):

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/

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

imagine lecturing people on free speech and then doing this

For Parapraxis Magazine, I wrote about Zionist Holocaust trauma and ideological dynamics that have moved Zionism towards the present genocide parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ide...

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

Executive orders are not laws. The Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has started Executive Power Watch, which includes breakdowns of Trump's EOs on education, what they do and don't mean ,and how to resist. More at the link: academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/how-should...

"That would include any books that mention slavery, the civil rights movement or the treatment of Native Americans... At one elementary school, that has amounted to hundreds of books in several stacks, filling rolling carts."

Anyone who has studied the fascism, violence and pogroms of the post-reconstruction era of America would know that white humiliation / Black progress has long been this country’s ticking time bomb. The historical parallels are 1920s Oklahoma, not 1930s Germany. But this history is often buried.

A Letter from WIRED's Editor @katie-drummond.bsky.social: Ever since Elon Musk backed Trump’s presidential bid last year, we've been tracking his growing influence in politics. We’ve talked to people within federal agencies and experts in cybersecurity, AI, and medicine about his potential impact.

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/...

Since 2004, Internet Archive has collaborated with a group of libraries and research organizations on the End of Term Web Archive. 💾 Learn more about the effort: eotarchive.org

Hey data nerds, Defra has just launched a 'Land Use Consultation' which says government wants to: - make more [geospatial] data accessible for the public benefit - free up more Land Registry data - explore options to increase transparency of land & property data. consult.defra.gov.uk/land-use-fra...

Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’

like, take a look at this IM-1776 article on annexing Greenland: they view it as their duty to seize Greenland and make it theirs

I think about this. “The central archive of Gaza Municipality, which dates back to the Ottoman era and includes documents, ownership records, official transactions, electricity, water, municipal records, and land registries, has been entirely burnt and destroyed, aside from what has been stolen.”

'Prince William to end feudal restrictions on his Duchy of Cornwall estate' Residents of central Dartmoor - the duchy’s largest landholding - will be given the right to buy the freehold to their homes for the first time, following the Govt's leaseholder reforms. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

28% of England’s ancient monuments have no legal public right of access Over 5,500 sites recorded by Historic England are beyond reach of the public, according to new analysis undertaken by the campaign group Right to Roam. stoneclub.rocks/right-to-roam

PEN International has launched an archive to commemorate the lives & work of the many writers so far killed in Gaza. It is a detailed honouring of each person. “I am Nour El Din Adnan Hajjaj, a Palestinian writer, I am 27 years old & I have many dreams...” www.pen-international.org/war-on-write...

Stills from ‘You Are on Indian Land,’ a 1969 NFB documentary, directed by Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell, about the 1968 blockade of the border at Cornwall Island, Ontario, in defence of the 1794 Jay Treaty by Kanien'kehá:ka protestors. A production of the NFB Indian Film Crew. NFB Archives

‘Homes without people, people without homes. This book demonstrates that squatting is not just the correction of this unfair mathematics, but also the creation of collectivity’ - Raquel Rolnik @raquelrolnik.bsky.social Only £12.50 until 5 Dec. www.plutobooks.com/978074534143...

I'm a sessional lecturer at UBC's School of Population & Public Health. I was recently informed that I would no longer be teaching in the school. In April, I asked why the school would not sponsor & advertise an event related to Gaza w/ a speaker from the respected NGO Save the Children. 🧵

Happy this article has a final home in the latest issue of Canadian Geographies...come for the reflections on freedom of information as methodology, stay for why Leonardo DiCaprio's views on climate and Alberta were worth thousands of dollars to my research: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Forensic Architecture show new maps demonstrating how ethnic cleansing is unfolding in northern Gaza via an intensification and acceleration of military tactics inc a new corridor aimed at enforcing large-scale displacement from the north. gaza.forensic-architecture.org

Very lucky to be a member of the Spatial Action Lab (OxSAL), a platform for collaboration between researchers, students, activists/organisers, practitioners, and community members working on spatial justice issues in Oxford and Oxfordshire: www.geog.ox.ac.uk/research/eco...

great work by GLP and world reimagined, who are pushing for a permanent exhibition on britain’s central role in the transatlantic slave trade

"1% of the population own half the land in England...the media have portrayed a very distorted view of the countryside, how land is used & who owns it" Great to speak to @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk about the #ClarksonTax protests - watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kR...