My third Global Corridor newsletter is out now on Substack "Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, EU designs (on) Africa's corridors, Genoa's dockworkers threaten blockade, LAPSSET, seeing like a train + radical highway geographies" globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

My third Global Corridor newsletter is out now on Substack "Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, EU designs (on) Africa's corridors, Genoa's dockworkers threaten blockade, LAPSSET, seeing like a train + radical highway geographies" globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

We're excited to present the trailer for our new Global Corridor film by director Spyros Gerousis "Contained: A new Silk Road Story" Watch here: vimeo.com/1103055839

We're excited to present the trailer for our new Global Corridor film by director Spyros Gerousis "Contained: A new Silk Road Story" Watch here: vimeo.com/1103055839

"The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion" Jon Silver in the Conversation theconversation.com/the-gaza-riv...

The leaked redevelopment plan pays homage to mega projects in the Gulf.

I got asked to write about the Gaza Riviera Plan + argue it should be understood within the settler colonial logic of elimination + made possible through urbicide and expulsion theconversation.com/the-gaza-riv...

You can now subscribe to the Global Corridor newsletter on Substack and keep up with the ever interesting news + work focused on an ever-changing landscape of global infrastructure

Online Book Launch: The Gated City: Planning Practice and the Challenges of Urban Fragmentation in Mexico, from Emma Regina Morales 🕰️ Wednesday 24th September, 5-6pm BST sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit... #UrbanRiches

'This is the Manchester city centre set to expand into six new areas as council redraws map' Gentrification, demolition + surging rents will hit inner city neighbourhoods at speed as the capitalist urban development machine requires more + more land www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

BREAKING: Police start to arrest protestors under the Terrorism Act for holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" Over a thousand people are risking arrest today, despite the state's best efforts to deter us.

You can now subscribe to the Global Corridor newsletter on Substack and keep up with the ever interesting news + work focused on an ever-changing landscape of global infrastructure

"China's African port expansion, the end of the Line? Trump's self-named corridor, CPEC, Not Just Roads and Pakistani gateways." My second Global Corridor newsletter is now on Substack providing news + views on global infrastructure. globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Genocide led real estate development brought to you by Boston Consulting Group... ...opening up new frontiers for the global asset investor class (on the crushed bodies + former homes of Gaza). www.ft.com/content/2206...

I’ve joined nearly 5,000 university workers to sign this letter. Essential for the UK Government to act now and ensure the Gaza based students can start their studies

Two positions available with the journal Urban Geography: Frontline Editor & Social Media Editor. Good people to work with! www.urbangeographyjournal.org/news

I've started a Global Corridor newsletter on Substack providing a round up of some of the most interesting news, stories, data, opinion + academic work on global infrastructure. Looking forward to sharing more in autumn but for now enjoy the first one globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

The hubris is extraordinary, turning recognition of Palestine into a bargaining chip w/ a genocidal state. Starmer thinks this is good enough to hide his complicity. We want recognition, trade sanctions, arms embargo, end of military assistance/training + expulsion of the ambassador!

This letter is already at over 1000 signatures, showing the level of support in UK academia for these students - and hopefully increasing pressure on the Home Office and FCDO. Still open to sign.

A carnival like protest led by a banner declaring, "Stop the Lies, there's no Genocide in Gaza" There's no coming back from this depravity, when the rest of the world is watching children starved, shot + bombed to death. Truly sickening to see it on the streets of the UK this weekend

“Air drops will not reverse the deepening starvation,” said Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. Gesture politics from a Prime Minister who has previously said Israel has the right to impose a siege on Gaza, and continues to support Israeli war crimes

'My latest' an attempt an conceptualizing a critical eviction-logistics as the allocation of loss, at the convergence of mobility race and housing, while trying to follow the moving parts of Eviction in Cape Town (and working within the complexities of a pandemic where eviction was paused):

Great new paper from Alex Baker in Antipode “For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 Call for Papers: Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki 🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025 🏹 Please spread the word!

Delete your @bookingcom account! As the protest in Manchester last wk made clear we need to BOYCOTT this company, which profits from Israel’s illegal occupation + apartheid of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem Info here: www.bdsmovement.net/bookingcom-s...

Nothing about finance and big capital being attracted through favourable conditions in this piece, almost like the hyper-gentrification + transformation happened ‘naturally’ rather than a state-led strategy underpinned by embracing of neoliberal dogma www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Poster now in every Oxfam shop in the UK, on every high street up and down the land. 'Middle England' know's whats going on UK GOV/Israel supporters think attacking opposition to genocide can happen w/out any repercussions but I think they under-estimate how this will reverberate into the future

The 17% rise in US pentagon spending since 2023 will result in an additional 26,000,000 tons of Co2 emissions. These emissions will cause ~$47 billion in damages when the US is already spending $1 trillion/year on disaster recovery. Our new @cplusc.bsky.social research covered in @theguardian.com

Our GlobalCORRIDOR paper is out in the latest edition of Urban Studies journal "The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This is England www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Again Forensic Architecture provide detailed data/visual understandings of the genocide in Gaza. This work documents how the militarised system of 'aid' operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) acts to accelerate ethnic cleansing + kill frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/aid/a-c...

CYBORG RIGHTS & THE CITY: New UrbanRadar podcast now available A conversation on tech and urbanism with Simon Marvin and Allan McCay Available on open.spotify.com/episode/297T... - or wherever you get your podcasts!

In Manchester police push through crowds + arrest 16 people inc 3 vicars and many elderly under the Terrorism Act for holding signs "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

Manchester International Festival is sponsored by tens of millions of £ by Aviva, who are involved with finance with Elbit Systems They profit from genocide and use art washing to try and hide this. People of Manchester say no to art washing in a genocide

Last week the Global Corridor project had the pleasure of hosting our international collaborators to comparatively think through how infra corridors are transforming the planet inc urban terrains A vibrant, caring + intellectually stimulating few days together w/ amazing people

Enjoyed this play marking the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, showing the tensions, personalities and solidarities that were forged to demand an end to colonial rule factoryinternational.org/whats-on/lib...

Free Palestine, because none of us are free until all of us are free. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, the full documentary is now available on our Channel 4 Documentaries YouTube. youtu.be/iv3wpeJ6Oco?...

Artist, GROVE calling out Aviva, sponsor of 'AVIVA STUDIOS in Manchester for providing insurance to UAV Engines, an Elbit Systems subsidiary in Staffordshire, which manufactures engines for drones used by the Israeli military First day of MCR International Festival and the sponsor is under pressure

"The Sheikh Who Conquered Soccer and Coddles Warlords" Top piece in the NYT on Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Here in Manchester we have been challenging the ways his influence shapes our city + further afield, most recently with Sudanese activists www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...

To celebrate the start of our GlobalCORRIDOR symposium we're excited to release the trailer for Zainab Farid's new film in association with Karachi Urban Lab ‘Tarakiyati Kaam Jari Hai - Developmental Work in Progress’ Exploring the human costs of infrastructure investment in Pakistan

Even the authoritarian bureaucrats in the Home Office see how absurd it is to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future With @kmilb.bsky.social, and @kaiheron.bsky.social. Release date: 20 September 2025. Available to pre-order now from @plutopress.bsky.social (via link below). www.in-abundance.org/latest/new-b...

Excited to have our partners on the Global CORRIDOR join us in Manchester next week for our symposium. Will be coming from Athens, Cairo, Crete, Karachi, Kampala, Lahore, Nairobi + Turin for a international dialogue discussing our comparative research over recent years

Out in Manchester with 100s to voice our opposition to the proscribing of Palestine Action by the Labour government A big step in the descent toward an authoritarian state in which non-violent, direct action (and support for it) against genocide + the war machine will become ‘terrorism’

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

These are just lies. Iran didn’t actually leave the negotiating table. Israel simply bombed Iran and now the US has joined. And the UK just declared that it supports these bombings. It’s difficult to stress how dangerous this all is, and how reckless Starmer is

A new campaign hopes to take advantage of upcoming legislation to take a #Sheffield grouse moor into community ownership. @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social have made a starting offer of £1 to Moscar Moor's current owner the Duke of Rutland due to its "poor condition". @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

I agree with Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, attacks on hospitals are a "grave violation of international law"