About time!

Sollten uns nicht darüber lustig machen, dass sie mit Antifa Organisation verbieten wollen, die es gar nicht gibt. Im Gegenteil, das wissen sie natürlich. Es geht genau darum, diffuses Feindbild und scheinbar gesetzlichen Rahmen zu schaffen, um alles zu verfolgen, was neuem Faschismus im Wege steht.

Bolsonaro has been found guilty of mounting an attempted coup. This is how it's done.

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

Here's @justinling.ca on how things in the U.S. have somehow gotten far worse, for more quickly, than even most pessimists imagined. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

From Guest Editors @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social @rkeil.bsky.social, we’re delighted to announce the publication of this collection of essays celebrating the late great Warren Magnusson on our website! www.urbanaffairsreview.com/warren-magnu...

Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the release of an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities Warren Magnusson, who passed away earlier this year. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/walter-magnu...

In which I review 2 superb books on suburbanization & suburbanisms: The suburban frontier: Middle-Class construction in Dar es Salaam by Claire Mercer & The right to suburbia: Combating gentrification on the urban edge by Willow Lung-Amam, Journal of Urban Affairs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In which I review 2 superb books on suburbanization & suburbanisms: The suburban frontier: Middle-Class construction in Dar es Salaam by Claire Mercer & The right to suburbia: Combating gentrification on the urban edge by Willow Lung-Amam, Journal of Urban Affairs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly & myself on the relationship of infectious disease and urban peripheries Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability: City: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly & myself on the relationship of infectious disease and urban peripheries Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability: City: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Shame on you, @aircanada.bsky.social. "Canada's flag carrier" should pay fairly for all time worked by workers that it employs.

New article: A manifesto for Urban Political Ecology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New article: A manifesto for Urban Political Ecology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The extent and scale of these crimes are unfathomable.

„Frauen haben lange um ihre Rechte gekämpft, doch der Umgang mit Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf zeigt: Nun wollen Männer ihnen wieder die Welt erklären. Zurück zu den eigenen Privilegien um jeden Preis!“ meine neue kolumne @stern www.stern.de/gesellschaft...

“Empirically grounded, yet theoretically generative, the superb and comprehensive COVID-19 in Southeast Asia is an indispensable resource and an encyclopedic snapshot of life during a global health emergency.” — @rkeil.bsky.social, York University, Canada Available now: doi.org/10.31389/lse...

A must read @972mag Since May 27, well over 400 Palestinians have been killed and over 3,000 wounded while waiting for aid, according to Gaza Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basel." www.972mag.com/hunger-games...

Gemeinnutz vor Eigennutz war die Devise der aufständischen Bauern unter Thomas Müntzer. Dem entgegengesetzt zielte das Motto von Martin Luther und seiner Anhänger auf die Bewahrung der Besitzstände und Hierarchien.

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 140 A German study found better pollination of flowering plants in urban rather than rural areas. Despite greater diversity of flying insects in rural sites more #bees in cities resulted in more pollinated flowers of test plants. #nature #insects 🌍🐝

Truth in advertising #caturday

shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

#ICE #MLS #Soccer

Are you ready for our new episode? urbanpolitical.online/91-the-subur... Our host Nitin Bathla invited Claire Mercer, Roger Keil and Mariam Genes to critique Claire Mercer’s new release The suburban frontier: middle class construction in Dar es Salaam (University of California Press 2024).

I love LA! youtu.be/KcADqxnQA_4

Los Angeles. 1984.

Los Angeles.

Los Angeles.

Los Angeles. 1984.

I love LA! youtu.be/KcADqxnQA_4

So true. Peripheral centralities without centrality!

New book on the history of peripheral centralities and suburban utopias/failures, ed. by Nick Phelps, @rkeil.bsky.social & @planographer.bsky.social. Our chapter uses Lefebvre's notion of centrality to examine Madrid's informal settlements and their impact on urban policy under a Fascist regime.

La France Insoumise built its electoral power and took down a rising far-right.

Today!

Toronto politicos and planners: Come to the @cityinstitute.bsky.social at YorkU on Thursday to hear about the state of affairs in our city from our visiting scholar Sébastien Lambelet: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...

Now available: our article (with Jenni Kuoppa) about social infrastructures and how they foster just and caring suburban spaces: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unholy post-election alliance taking shape with terrible results for Toronto. Ford & Carney talking 401 tunnel, a Liberal former MP & city councillor backing Therme (and Ford) at Ontario Place. Without powerful opposition at any scale of government. The pits. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Unholy post-election alliance taking shape with terrible results for Toronto. Ford & Carney talking 401 tunnel, a Liberal former MP & city councillor backing Therme (and Ford) at Ontario Place. Without powerful opposition at any scale of government. The pits. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Filth and the City. New article published in the @upejournal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with Jamie Lorimer, Simon Goldhill und Julie-Anne Boudreau.

We're in fundraising mode at @cityinstitute.bsky.social to secure endowment funds to honour the inspiring work of our dear colleagues and CITY's former Directors @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake. Please contribute if you can - those in 🇨🇦 will get a tax receipt: donate.yorku.ca/site/Donatio...

This spring marks a turning point for us at @yorkuniversity.bsky.social as @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake retire after 30+ yrs shaping critical urban scholarship. To honour them, we’re launching 2 endowment funds for early scholars💥. If you've been inspired by them: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...

Filth and the City. New article published in the @upejournal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with Jamie Lorimer, Simon Goldhill und Julie-Anne Boudreau.

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From 2014 in the @thestar.com Still true, eh?

Eight hours work, eight hours rest, eight hours for what you will. Happy May Day.