Join us for a Rent Cultures Network screening of Alexander Mackendrick’s The Ladykillers (1955), followed by a discussion with Dr Chloë Pieters and Prof Ushashi Dasgupta. Wed 17 June, 5:30–7:30pm Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College, Oxford All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rent-cultu...

youtu.be/iRoYLVO83uU?... Still going strong 💪🏼🫀

The once abandoned buildings of Prosfygika were squatted in 2011 and the residents organized various initiatives including collective bakeries & kitchens, a children's shelter, a space for self-education as well as health structures which provide for the needs of the residents and wider community.

This is happening next week. A rather different event organised by the #RentCulturesNetwork … funny and gentle… I guess most of us need some of that these days

We are SO excited to be screening Andrea Zimmermann’s Estate, a Reverie next week (4th Dec) as part of our Rent Cultures film series — and even more thrilled that the filmmaker will be joining us! www.eventbrite.com/e/estate-a-r... @torchoxford.bsky.social @potentiaspace.bsky.social

#OtD 14 Nov 1990 six weeks after the unification of Berlin, the social democrat city government evicted a large anarchist squat using 1000s of police on Mainzer Strasse, Friedrichshain, following hours of street-fighting stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8614...

Christina de Bellaigue: reading the book as an historian researching downward social mobility ("as taboo subject")

Debt Trap Nation explores indebtedness as "impersonal arithmetic" (Graeber) and its consequential forms of dispossession and displacement

Join the Rent Cultures Network at TORCH on 13 Nov, 5 pm for a book presentation of Debt Trap Nation with @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki. They show how debt and housing insecurity shape everyday life in England and call for urgent structural change. torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...

Oxford Spatial Action Lab is back with a creative workshop ("Sounding the Commons") exploring histories of enclosure and resistance in Oxford. Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sounding-t...

📣 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!

A reminder that this is happening today!

Support Cafe OTO, señores 🫀

📢 Reminder: The next Rent Cultures Network Reading Group is coming up! 🗓 Tuesday, 1 July 🕓 16–17:30 (UK time) 📍(SoGE), Oxford Join us for an open, informal discussion on rent, housing, and the cultures that shape them. Everyone’s welcome! 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/bpCoVbkVcJer...

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

Can't really believe this! Thank you so much Michele and Hashem! :)

Squatting London: the Politics of Property will be out on 20 Dec from @plutopress.bsky.social

Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens. Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors. #menasky, #geosky palestine.araburbanism.com