I started an Instagram account for ongoing research in São Paulo: www.instagram.com/urbanrepairp...

Really pleased to share that on Monday I passed my PhD viva 😀 Studying for my PhD has been such a privilege thanks to the support I have had from countless people. Particularly, thanks to the endless support of my supervisors, Alison Browne, @natemillington.bsky.social, and Erik Swyngedouw.

New Turnstile is good 👍

www.nts.live/shows/guests... Really feel like what Chuquimamani-Condori is doing sounds like nothing else. Rural futurism, over-the-top earnestness, power ballads. I love it.

Really pleased to see Katie Meehan's brilliant 2023 RGS Keynote, alongside short responses by @saraheknuth.bsky.social, @natemillington.bsky.social and myself. Available on @politicalgeography.bsky.social latest issue. #GeoSky www.sciencedirect.com/journal/poli...

Really good talk today by the Elba Research Collective (eblaresearch.org) on building committees as a response to urban crisis in Beirut. Helpful to think about buildings as spaces of organising in contexts of urban crisis in my own work - repair practices against urban collapse, social and material

Finally saw I'm Still here and it completely knocked me out. Filmaço.

Two Brazil focused talks at Manchester this week (and online). Tomorrow at 3pm Marcos Lopes Campos on ‘Fare Money’ Stories: Transportation and everyday practices in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro. 3pm-4:30pm Tuesday (Feb 25) Roscoe 1.003 (or on zoom: zoom.us/j/96743262112)

Workshop: Housing, illegality and criminal actors. Emerging illegal practices vis a vis the global housing crisis. September 11-12 2025. Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding Geneva, Switzerland. Abstract submission by March 31, 2025. oce.em-lyon.com/housing-ille... #urbanism #sociology

Been spending a lot of time reading Elon twitter these days and the way that concerns about downward mobility in the US have mapped on to weird manosphere arguments and anti-immigrant politics is really wild. Young men making 100k a year and choking on resentment about women and immigrants. Ugly.

Aggrieved car driver has gotta be the worst contemporary subject position, and it's everywhere.

CfP: Panel on urban informality and 'polycrisis' We welcome submissions from interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners exploring urban informality in the face of complex crises. Abstract Deadline: 28th January Location: hybrid & University of Bath For further info: tinyurl.com/dsaP34

Nosferatu was great, like a portal into another world. Might even see it again.

UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study Britons 39% worse off than Dutch equivalent due to housing costs 44% higher than western European average www.theguardian.com/business/202...

www.eurekalert.org/news-release... - really interesting opportunity to discuss memory and reparation at the University of São Paulo in July 2025. Applications are due at the end of the month!

Enjoying this brief blast of winter as it should be: cold, bright, crisp.

People favoriting a book I am selling on vinted for 1£: what are you waiting on? It can not be cheaper. Free yourself.

Always wild to see photos of MASP before it was painted.

Manchester / Salford 1st January 2025 First Light:06.57 Sunrise: 08.24 Sunset: 16.00 Nightfall: 17.28 2025 tomorrow. Onwards and sideways. Love to you all. Pic from this time last year.

Listened to a podcast today about a podcaster who stopped being a podcaster because they took ayahuasca and...life is too short to pretend that any of this matters.

Jugaad infrastructure - improvisational infrastructures in everyday life UI Associate @ankitkumar.bsky.social research, exploring infrastructure as both a material and social concept, is showcased by the Royal Geographical Society www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Very depressing deep dive into the PCC's increasing role in the Amazon: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

Fun trail race today on the mersey. Less moody and misty than when I did it three years ago, and happy to have opted for the shorter distance (11k). Not sure December is the season for half marathons.

The mornings continue to get darker for a bit longer, but we have reached peak early sunset in Manchester.

hat & boots texaco, seattle, washington, 1977

d.silvestre 👑

1:48pm and it feels like nighttime ✌️

Those who don't have to worry about such things may not understand the terror that sits in one's gut (even for a privileged migrant like me), knowing the state could *accidentally delete* the documentation that secures your right to be in a country. The Windrush Gen already know this all too well.

‘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...

As a celebrator of all forms of peripheral lusophone culture who is too tired to go to the club, this record feels like it was made for me: principediscos.bandcamp.com/album/guetto...

Love a modernist church

Closed out a long week by hanging with probably 150 parakeets while running at dusk in the park.

Excellent news for my local social club and a real community institution: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Field Notes on Repair, with some of my thinking on reparative grammars joining these brilliant contributions.

This looks really good

😯 Twin Valley, MN

This isn’t a popular Johnny Cash opinion but I think after Highwayman he should’ve done a lot more songs where he flies a spaceship

We're publishing brief observations on repair from dozens of leading public scholars, practitioners, and thinkers (with yet more to come!). Check out "Field Notes: Repair" on our website: placesjournal.org/series/field-notes-repair/.

New experiments in hating British winter less.

Happy to have a small piece (and some photos) in this brilliant series on repair in Places.

It's staggering that any country would let this happen to something it's good at. Honestly think that when we look back at this disaster - which is only in its initial stages - it'll be seen as a national scandal. There should at least be an independent investigation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

to catch a bus you must think like a bus

giles county, virginia january 2023 #photography 📷 #believeinfilm #landscape

Day spent trying to really think through my new (/old) project on housing occupations, architecture, and infrastructure in São Paulo. Still not sure how one actually does 'research' while teaching but good to feel like the start of momentum. 8 months until São Paulo...

Made a starter pack for folks who want to learn more about the intersection of the climate crisis, Global South debt, and a climate reparations approach to these serious challenges. Definitely not comprehensive, no offensive meant if I missed you- comment to be added! go.bsky.app/92HS9cA

It is mid November and the days are already too short.

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

New paper in Political Geography, ‘What Repoliticisation Means and Requires: Creating the Climate for Disagreement’. t.co/hsCpZ8J0s5

Field Notes on Repair #2 is out now! This second installment in the survey series features words on repair, maintenance & care by Joan Ockman, David Theodore, Ana Miljački, David Gissen, Amber Wiley, Huda Tayob, Brett Milligan, Mireille Roddier, Nishiko, Jeremy Till, Nora Wendl & Alison B. Hirsch.