A (post-)socialist reading of Creating Chinese Urbanism by Fulong Wu, driven by an agenda to expand the reading of certain geographies by certain geographers. With thoughts by S.Ferenčuhová, T.Tuvikene, E.Trubina, @liviu-chelcea.bsky.social, N.Kinossian www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/book...

🚨 I'm recruiting a funded MA + PhD to research poverty alleviation models w/ a leading Greater Manchester organisation! More than a rough sleeper: Framing & examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation. Deadline: July 1 | Start: October UK/home students only www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Hiring a PhD researcher with Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance. Offering 4-year fully-funded joint degree with University of Basel and University of Amsterdam. Ideal candidate speaks Mandarin, Cantonese & English. Deadline June 18. career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...

Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters - my latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

"Masculinities in transit" a forum on Romit Chowdhury's book City of Men (@rutgersupress.bsky.social) with Sanjay Srivastava, Wangui Kimari, Manali Desai, Greg Noble, @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social, @plyushteva.bsky.social in @urbangeography.bsky.social: www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/book...

📣 JOB ALERT PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de Deadline: 28 March 2025. More info here: www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po... Do get in touch with any questions!

"Everyday crisis" as a framework to facilitate the reading of quieter registers of subjectivity, agency, politics. The ubiquity of crisis narratives risks diminishing its significance. How to grapple with crisis as a condition without normalizing it? With @ifidimi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1360...

"Reworking relations of epistemological authority in teaching collaborations" w Hanna Hilbrandt, a critical reflection on prj w Sans-Papiers & students now out as part of special feature "Decolonising urban knowledge(s): an ordinary imperative in extraordinary times" in City doi.org/10.1080/1360...

"Doing urban geography in times of crisis" co-organized w H. Hilbrandt, now @ Geographica Helvetica. From the impact of right-wing media on uni admin, to the subjects doing research navigating the growing incompatibilities of institutional rules v. academic aims gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

today FNV union members begin our strike at the uni of amsterdam. our exec. board continues to impose antidemocratic limits on protest & refuses to cut ties with institutions complicit in grave human rights violations. but the university isn’t them, it’s students & workers www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...

Hiring a postdoctoral researcher on the project "Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance," 4 years, full time, based at the University of Basel. Deadline Dec 20. See details: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

"Crisis and Collectives Shaping Art Events: From Events that Matter to Events that Care" now online at Third Text, written with Charlotte Matter, Rosa Sancarlo and Virginia Marano, partly an outcome of our crisis-shaped reading. Available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Collaboration is not an elixir; it can be enormously challenging under the best circumstances. And yet we hope "Research-based collaboration: A toolkit for teaching and learning" might inspire/inform new efforts: www.zueri-urban.com/toolkit #AcademicSky #FeministSky @ifidimi.bsky.social

reposting from bird: join us for a symposium on the urban politics of infra-density at UZH on 14th of December 2023. With Yimin Zhao, @jonschu.bsky.social, @julieren.bsky.social, @nitin bathla, ColinMcFarlane, Gabriela Debrunner, Charlotte Lemanski and Hanna Hilbrandt www.geo.uzh.ch/en/units/sok...

"Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance" is a project about the cruelty of hope, about recognizing aesthetic possibilities in the face of inevitability, about Hong Kong and Taipei, and about urban theorizations at the very small scale. Thrilled about this SNSF Starting Grant.

Geographers might want to read and sign this letter to the RGS on their de-platforming Palfest docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

'We refuse the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom; between Jewish identity and ending the oppression of Palestinians. In fact, we believe the rights of Jews and Palestinians go hand-in-hand.'

A v good overview of the state of Germany rn by @hahauenstein.bsky.social . Racism, islamophobia, and anti-Semitism all on the rise, backed by German gvt. Stand-out quote by Ben Mauk: “It seems hard to get institutions and politicians in Germany to recognise that Palestinians are human beings.”

Brief aus Berlin: kritische Wissenschaftler*innen an deutsche Politik + Öffentlichkeit Es ist möglich, gegen antisemitische Anschläge und rassistische Polizeigewalt, gegen das Massaker der Hamas und die Kriegsverbrechen der israelischen Armee gleichzeitig zu sein. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I wrote about Michael Eisen's ousting from eLife for defending Palestinian life, and what kind of science can happen under occupation defector.com/who-is-allow...

Eine Woche nachdem die rechtsextreme Demo auch vor ein geplantes Flüchtlingsheim in #Dresden-#Klotzsche zog, gab es dort jetzt einen Brandanschlag - es ist bereits der Zweite innerhalb von vier Wochen. Die Täter scheinen sich bestätigt zu fühlen. Eine beklemmende Drohkulisse...

Response from the Royal Geographic Society when questioned about cancelling Palestinian Literature Festival. "Risk assessment" is the bureaucratic language used for suppression of speech. It was brought into educational facilities after Cast Lead:

Why must Palestinians audition for your empathy? Hala Alyan www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/o...

hi Bluesky! @teenvogue.bsky.social I interviewed some of the young people coordinating an 100+ campus walkout in support of a ceasefire in Gaza today, including from the Palestinian Youth Movement and the anti-war group Dissenters. please read and share, was no small feat

A Virtual Special Issue of Politics & Space ( t.co/tBto4VKM9k ) on Critical Political Geographies of Palestine/Israel, published in the face of the current horror, containing papers since 2019, now made free-to-access. t.co/xMRzlfRvfV

A year of reporting, and maybe the scariest story I’ve ever worked on—the cyber-stalker targeting Asian Americans www.theverge.com/c/features/2...

Germany must face its issues over Israel and the past. Silencing a Palestinian author won’t help. My op-ed for The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Why does so much knowledge of the Earth still depend on collecting data in the South and theorising in the North?"

"For many postcolonial nations, it was not enough to be included in scientific organizations: the barriers to participating in and benefiting from scientific research have remained entrenched..." Deborah Coen on Lorraine Daston, asking some great q's.

"There are some who consider this way of seeing, which is to say, focusing intently on the most minor details, like dust on the desk or fly shit on a painting, as the only way to arrive at the truth" -Adania Shibli lithub.com/an-open-lett...

How does the violence of the imagination and the cruel optimism of wanting shape everyday urban life? Question shaping my work and outlook these past few years #geosky #urbanism+ #urbanism #methodology #epistemology #methods #methodsky #methsky #Comparativesky #FeministSky #academicsky