I have a new short piece out in Environment and Planning A journal 'The multipolarity and geo-politics of climate finance' A response to Bryant and Webber's (amazing) book: Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Continuing focus on the global infrastructural geographies of the illegal US/Israeli attack on Iran. globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Global Corridor Newsletter #11 is out Continuing analysis of the infrastructural geographies of the US/Israeli war on Iran... 'A war on water is a war on life, damaged oil and gas infrastructures, the 'blockade', UAE air hub's uncertain future' globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Last shout out to join us for tomorrow's workshop, from 2pm at Site Gallery, Sheffield 'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization; sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Excited to be hosting a book talk by Austin Zeiderman in Sheffield on his book 'Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River' - 23rd March More details inc link to Open Access copy of his book here 👇 sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War on Iran… …From data centres to logistical bottlenecks, supply chains to real estate markets, shipping to petroleum networks globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Excellent data interface showing collapsing real estate prices in Dubai (5-15%) and Abu Dhabi (3-10%) in real time 👀 www.luxurypricedrops.com

A new phase of warfare / destroy the data centre, destroy the cloud, destroy the capacity of the enemy to operate More on the infrastructural geographies of the Israel/US attack on Iran here: globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

My Global Corridor Newsletter 10 is out now The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War of Iran Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf real estate economy shattered?, Oil and gas crisis, data centre wars, Indian port investors + more globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

My Global Corridor Newsletter 10 is out now The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War of Iran Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf real estate economy shattered?, Oil and gas crisis, data centre wars, Indian port investors + more globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

✒️How do financing models reshape politics and spatial effects of infrastructure? Comparing two projects in Kenya, I show how G2G-PPP redistributes risk and control and essentially, who benefits. Please check out my new article in @urbanstudiesjournal.com: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Israeli and US attack on Iran is morally repugnant. It is calculated only to benefit an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers. It will not benefit Iranians or ordinary people anywhere on earth. We must build the grassroots capacity to interrupt the war machine or things will only get darker.

A big wk in beating back the Far Right in Manchester with massive antifascist mobilisation taking on Britain First while a broad left electoral front working with/in Green Party dominate Reform A clear roadmap on the streets + in the polls against the Fascist future in the UK

'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization' Excited to be involved in this event in Sheffield (12 March) at the Site Gallery inc film screening, book launch + panel discussion w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social, Junia Mortimer and more More info here: sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

My GlobalCORRIDOR newsletter 9 is out now Featuring.... New Horn of Africa corridor, the 'Lobito model', Alphabet's digital $15 billion investment in India, EXIM Bank's outstanding $289bn loans, new maritime based readings, data centre film globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

We have a new paper in @ijurresearch.bsky.social ‘ 'EVERYTHING IS BEING DISTURBED’: Unsettling the Spaces of Global Infrastructure along the Northern Corridor Special economic zones, railway projects + more with Sydney Nsubuga onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Lots of new excitement about the 'Manchester model' but it's built an extractive economy that benefits capital, not labour. Read our data-led report "Centripetal Cities A critique of supply-side urban development" - t.co/Dec4wIkGGe

Catch up on my Global Corridor newsletter #8 featuring... US races for DRC minerals, return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, tensions on the Panama canal, Italian tunnels, riding the Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere + Lunar roads 👉 tinyurl.com/5x64u25w

Global Corridor newsletter #8 is out now featuring... US races for DRC minerals, the return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, more tensions on the Panama canal, Italian train tunnels, Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere and Lunar roads lnkd.in/duf4gE4K

Global Corridor newsletter 7 is out now featuring... New book on the Belt and Road Initiative, Burkina's revolutionary road, Destiny, a new special economic zone in the Caribbean, Foster design transport hub in Poland, Venezuelan oil, Pakistani railways globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

I've joined Caitlin Morrissey and Michele Acuto to record an episode for season 2 of the Urban Studies Journal podcast Walking the City With... You can listen here www.urbanstudiesjournal.com/podcast/8-wa...

New Film/Report on Pakistani Railway Infrastructure/CPEC FILM: "Tarakiyati Kaam Jari Hai/Developmental Work in Progress" by Zainab Farid REPORT: "Navigating Displacement + Inequality along the ML-1 Railway Corridor" by Toheed Mohammed 👉 karachiurbanlab.com/assets/downl... youtu.be/njSGg_OqY5s?...

Launch event at the Karachi Urban Lab for a new film and report on railway led displacements in urban Pakistan as part of our Global Corridor project. Community members, activists, and researchers will discuss how big infrastructure projects hit up against everyday lives. Register via the QR code

The 'Manchester Model' in one story...public money subsidising private profit Renaker borrowed £700+ million from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) + its affiliates to build high end skyscapers... Now it's owner is fleeing with the profits to tax-free Monaco

Global Corridor newsletter 6 is out now covering... BlackRock’s $80bn investment in power/data, Africa's largest mining project, podcast on the global infra race, Dutch semiconductor move, docker struggles in history, special economic zone urbanism... globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

In early 2025, the Israeli military launched an operation that emptied three Palestinian refugee camps. They've blocked their residents from returning and razed many of their homes. In a new report, HRW finds that Israeli forces carried out war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

Publication Day for our Open Access book w/ Bristol Uni Press "The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures + Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road" Edited w/ Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng + Alan Wiig Link here >> bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

Yet again Sheffield University management are forcing sheffielducu.bsky.social members out on strike f/ Monday to protect staff jobs, student educ, + research progress which are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. Another university has to be possible!

Yet again Sheffield University management are forcing sheffielducu.bsky.social members out on strike f/ Monday to protect staff jobs, student educ, + research progress which are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. Another university has to be possible!

Great to be on the latest episode of the Urban Radar podcast talking about the global infrastructure race, corridors, transforming urban geographies, China and more with Zhengli, Linda and hosted by Tom/Beth Have a listen!

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

Looking forward to releasing this report with the Karachi Urban Lab, led by Muhammed Toheed + exploring the ways technical standards for a major railway project will shape the urban lives of thousands of people... Launch event coming up in Karachi soon

Glad we have such critical journalism in Manchester

Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025

A reminder that Sudanese activists inc in Manchester have been calling to boycott the UAE, now even more vital given the UAE backed RSF militia captures El Fasher War crimes + blood on the hands of Abu Dhabi + the UAE More info: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

New research for the Briefing shows the project companies, Total and CNOOC, have been forced to lend money to their own project. The project sponsors are self-financing almost 90% of the #EACOP in the face of large scale rejection from the banking sector. www.banktrack.org/article/tota...

Not a great look and shows how close Labour Party in MCR is with the real estate industry Lucy Powell issues statement after reports she urged Angela Rayner to rethink legal case against property developer donor www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

And coming tomorrow online as our birthday celebrations continue... Keynote Lecture 2: Beyond Splintering Urbanism Professor Simon Marvin Tuesday 21 October 2025 - 10:30am to 12:15pm sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Great weekend of radical politics at The World Transformed learning + discussing about imperialism, state violence, red/green alliances, the role of the party. Stand out was the Kids transformed space which was full of fun and care (and crafting!)

Looking forward to The World Transformed Festival of radical politics, art and culture kicking off tomorrow... I'm involved in two sessions, a panel looking at the power of Abu Dhabi in the UK/MCR + a walking tour of financialised MCR More info here theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...

My Global Corridor newsletter #5 is out now This issue features stories, data, opinion + academic work from Pakistani ports to Russia in Sudan to Middle Eastern railways to the longest film ever (on logistics).... globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

The latest paper I wrote with Costanza Franceschini (Leiden), which came out on @ripejournal.bsky.social, inspired a piece for @theconversation.com 👌 You can now read it here: theconversation.com/chinese-comp... The original paper is open access at: doi.org/10.1080/0969...

It's our 10th Birthday!!! As we enter Urban October we are pleased to share a series of events, gatherings and activities organised by the Urban Institute to celebrate ten years of urban research at the University of Sheffield. sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

The UK Government is arming a genocide while closing down/criminalising any possibility to protest these war crimes. All for a foreign government that has killed at least 20,000 children... Free Palestine because none of us are free until all of us are free

Glad to share my new article just out in Urban Studies on the impacts of logistical and neo-extractive infrastructures in Buenos Aires! 🏗️ 🚢 Materiality + temporalities + environmental degradation + social struggles 🔥 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Manchester out today against the genocide in Gaza as it is every week, people who value and cherish the lives of everyone regardless of race and religion

I can’t believe that senior politicians, police + media in the UK are now labelling people protesting against genocide antisemitic. People have been killed this week and it’s being mobilised in appalling ways. Horrified at the state of our country…

A fantastic crowd today for our joint event with the city of Athens on homelessness outreach policy across Manchester, Athens and Santiago. The public event wraps up three days of knowledge exchange between our teams in the three metro areas stemming from the #UKRI urban crisis project.

Excited for our new edited (and OPEN ACCESS) book released on Nov 20th "The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road" with Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng and Alan Wiig bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...