Still time to submit papers to this great session at this year's RGS/IBG in Birmingham, organised by @gunjans.bsky.social and @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social!

We're looking for a few more papers for our RGS-IBG conference session on Urban politics, crises and the conjuncture. If interested please submit abstracts to @colinlorne.bsky.social & I by Thursday 6th Feb. @rgsibg.bsky.social

Voices from the Global South: a new RGS/IBG 'resources for schools' podcast discussing the need to rethink how to teach, and respond to, the climate crisis—and what it means to really listen: www.rgs.org/schools/reso... The six short-films can be watched for free here: www.open.edu/openlearn/le...

John Allen's new book "Power and Space: essays on a shifting relationship" has now been published by Routledge. It sets out the inherently spatial nature of power today and seeks to change the conversation around how power exercises us in the contemporary moment. www.routledge.com/Power-and-Sp...

Join Irene Hardill (Northumbria) and Parvati Raghuram (OU), and a guest panel, for an Area classics revisited webinar on 'Diasporic connections' taking place on 26th February 2025 at 10am. www.rgs.org/events/upcom... Sign up for free @areajournal.bsky.social

New paper on conjunctural analysis and radical municipalism and their affinities as two political methods for intervening in the conjuncture Written w/ @paul-stubbs.bsky.social, @colinlorne.bsky.social and co. Just published open access in Environment & Planning F: doi.org/10.1177/2634... 🧵

For more on Participatory City and the wider trend of 'participatory experimental urbanism', check out this open access article w/ @colinlorne.bsky.social in @antipodeonline.bsky.social 'Designing a New Civic Economy?' doi.org/10.1111/anti...

Loads of time left to apply for this really exciting PhD opportunity and to become part of the collective team working on the 'Stories-so-far: Doreen Massey Archives project'

WE ARE OPENSPACE! Our brand new OpenSpace Research Centre website has now been 'soft launched' by the Open University. You can find out about our current research projects, new PhD opportunities, ongoing collaborations, and our new collective configuration here: www5.open.ac.uk/centres/open...

CONFRONTING CLIMATE COLONIALITY: @farhanasultana.com recently delivered a keynote @rgsibg.bsky.social to launch the Voices from the Global South project, a series of six films on the difference that geography makes for understanding the climate crisis and its impact: www.open.edu/openlearn/co...

CONFRONTING CLIMATE COLONIALITY: @farhanasultana.com recently delivered a keynote @rgsibg.bsky.social to launch the Voices from the Global South project, a series of six films on the difference that geography makes for understanding the climate crisis and its impact: www.open.edu/openlearn/co...

*How can we shift the power balance in global research?* New blog post by Parvati Raghuram (OU) and Mariangela Palladino (University of Keele) on forging transformative changes in equitable research partnerships through local engagement: www.ukri.org/blog/how-can...

Loads of time left to apply for this really exciting PhD opportunity and to become part of the collective team working on the 'Stories-so-far: Doreen Massey Archives project'

WE ARE OPENSPACE! Our brand new OpenSpace Research Centre website has now been 'soft launched' by the Open University. You can find out about our current research projects, new PhD opportunities, ongoing collaborations, and our new collective configuration here: www5.open.ac.uk/centres/open...