Excited to share the results of an American Association of Geographers taskforce on "Public and Engaged Scholarship in Geography" I participated in. I am grateful to AAG Past President @RebeccaLave for inviting me. The AAG has created this website to host our findings: www.aag.org/program/publ...

As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park. Eric Klinenberg considers infrastructure that doesn’t just displace water but soaks it in. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dzBOHH

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! We talk energy democracy and the politics of dealing with recalcitrant utilities together w/ Nikki Luke! Listen & enjoy to this, the 250th episode of this humble podcast. @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4nxnanfn

How do electricity and regulation of this vital infrastructure contribute to inequality in Atlanta? How have consumer, EJ, and labor movements strived over generations to democratize the utility? I consider these questions in my book Electric Life out today open access with @mitpress.bsky.social

Our fourth episode features Ernest McIntosh Sr. who has long known the value of hard work. In this episode, Ernest speaks about his connection with the Georgia coast, his experiences working on the water, and the significance that Georgia's oceans still hold in his life.

Join us at the @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting on March 18th for the Antipode Lecture, “Knowing the World through the Politics of Invitation and Trespass: Letters to Mrs. Cornelia” by @nik-heynen.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2026/03/11/2...

For decades, @davidharvey.org has been teaching Marx's work. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a general reader.

New chapter drop: "White Masculinist Pasts→Black Feminist Futures: Lessons from Spelman College’s Victory Garden as Black World-Making" by Whitney Barr and Nik Heynen in the important new book edited by @alisonhopealkon.bsky.social and @julianagyeman.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255369...

Looks like I’m getting into the podcast game. If you are interested in coastal issues, oysters, restoration, and other related things, Shell to Shore’s new Shell Cast might be for you. First episode features Pete Malinowski talking about his work with the Billion Oyster Project based in NYC.

Folk Engineering: Planning Southern Regionalism.Out now: uncpress.org/978146969011...

The Honey Drippers were a band of Black high school kids from Queens brought together by Georgia-born songwriter Roy C. Hammond. When all record labels were scared to put this anti-Nixon jam out, Hammond released it himself. It’s been sampled by many hip hop artists. Rest in Power Mr. Hammond.

New Black owned bookstore alert in ATL: “This year, it felt necessary,” Hallmon said. “When books are banned, and stories are erased, especially Black and brown stories, we have to build safety within our community.”

“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others—the empires and their native overseers.” -Eduardo Galeano

“There’s a famous quote from author Tony Cade Bambara that often gets repeated in activist circles, that it’s the role of the artist to “make the revolution irresistible.” For over six decades, Emory Douglas has been showing creatives how to do just that.”

“An expansive follow-up to the field-defining Cultivating Food Justice, this edited volume provides an overview of food justice scholar-activism, redefining the field and looking to future theoretical and political futures.” Available now for preorder! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255369...

In very good company here in @proghumgeog.bsky.social with Pavithra Vasudevan and Laura Pulido reflecting on the importance of Laura’s 2000 “Rethinking Environmental Racism” published in Annals of @geographers.bsky.social

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Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school! Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism ▶️ 13-17 April 2026 ▶️ Wageningen With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others! wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...

@geographers.bsky.social - if this is true there is almost no external social science funding left in the U.S. for graduate students.

Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...

Snippet from the work we are doing on the Georgia coast.

Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

Taught Ntozake Shange’s “If I can Cook / You Know God Can” and “Bocas: A Daughter’s Geography” today. Felt worth sharing for folks who might not yet know this poem or haven’t read it in a while.

“Fascism is not new. It wears a new dress, buys new boots—but it can only reproduce fear, denial, and the loss of will to fight.” Toni Morrison’s timeless warning on fascism & censorship still rings out today. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

“Setting forms of identity, such as race, against class as fundamentally opposed bases of politics misrepresents how building working-class power works on the ground, both today and throughout history.”

Proposals to “repair” or “restore” the planet therefore must answer the questions: Which ecosystems—and whose—will we repair and restore? Which—and whose—flourishings will we enable? What planet are we making, and for whom? @alybatt.bsky.social

In the tradition of “can’t stop, won’t stop”…. ”In these cities, climate justice is more than a policy priority – it’s a survival strategy…. As federal funding evaporates, many cities are strengthening ties with frontline organizations — the local experts who’ve been leading the fight for decades.”

“Memphis history is full of destructive alliances between local government and major industry, forcing working-class Black neighborhoods to accept ecological and corporal violence in order to boost the region's economy…But AI data centers also represent a troubling new frontier…..”

“We’ve asked…the CEOs of banks like Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, insurance companies like Chubb and AIG — we’ve asked them to come to our communities, breathe the air, drink the water and get a taste of what we live every day. And they’ve refused to come. So we brought our community here to them.”

"They call us terrorists. We are being terrorised! Our doors are kicked open at four in the morning and our families dragged off to prison, never to be seen again....We are the ones who suffer all these horrors. They are the terrorists." #Apartheid then, Apartheid now.

Important thinking going on at Clark Atlanta University this Fall. “Through A Du Boisian Lens: Informing Public Policy Through Empirical Social Research”.

Interesting #abolitionist connections to #energy geography here: “….whaling’s role in funding abolition and providing economic opportunities for free Black Americans is undeniable. It was, in many ways, a bridge between the world of forced labor and the energy-driven economy of the modern age.”

The Gullah Geechee, descendants from enslaved West Africans who were forced to work in the Carolina Lowcountry, are struggling to preserve sacred traditions as wealthy northerners swallow up valuable property around Hilton Head Island. nyti.ms/4mmAwdW

The Lowcountry Food Bank has provided culturally relevant foods like okra, squash and yams to the Gullah Geechee people in South Carolina for 20 years.

No effective abolitionist and certainly no enslaved person walked up to a total stranger expressing dismay over the passage of the fugitive slave act to say, “well this is a racist country, what did you expect.” People kept organizing and building hope through collective resistance and rebellion.

"How do different political blocs emerge in different places to influence carceral developments?" @lydiajean.bsky.social with Ruth WIlson Gilmore, ‪@craiggilmore.bsky.social & Judah Schept in Part 1 of their new carceral geography series. inquest.org/uneven-e...

I have a chapter in the New Planning Histories edited volume. Lots of great chapters covering a range of topics and cities! link.springer.com/book/9789819...

“The #South got something to say.” André 3000 (very teachable) “The term ‘the Dirty South’ developed as a means to define hip hop music emerging from the Southeastern United States and was quickly understood as an abbreviation for the history and development of Black culture in the South.”

Toni Morrison (1981) for political ecologists: "I must confess, though, that I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals....my editor says 'Would you stop this beauty business.' And I say 'Wait, wait until I tell you about these ants.'"

“She wrote from her experience in a woman’s body and a dark skin, though never solely ‘as’ or ‘for.’ Sharply critical of chauvinism of all kinds, she was too aware of democracy’s failures to let herself embrace false integrations.” Adrienne Rich on June Jordan, born on this day in 1936:

Finally got to listen to @demonicgrounds.bsky.social on @blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social and it was great. Highly recommended. Also a good reminder that it’s time for me to re-read “The Bluest Eye” (and “Song of Solomon” too).

Thinking about existing policy to be used to enact #reparations? Not long ago @nikki-luke.bsky.social and I were asked to boil down the main points from a chapter we wrote for @nextcity.org. The result was this op-ed titled "How Cities Are Experimenting With Reparations in Urban Policy”.

Seems like a good time to revisit Mab Segrest. “Memoir of a Race Traitor” became a classic text of white antiracist practice. bell hooks called it a “courageous and daring [example of] the reality that political solidarity, forged in struggle, can exist across differences.”

“The lethality of many prisons, jails, and detention centers also lies in the cages' infrastructures, as many are built on toxic wastelands or sites that have already been destroyed by climate change, improper agricultural practices, and climate disasters.”

#SapeloIsland’s #HoggHummock is one of the last #GullahGeechee island communities, but it's fighting for survival on multiple fronts. Rising #sea levels threaten to #flood the land, while development pressures risk changing the community's character and pushing out residents…. #AJC #SOLO #S2S

Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these 60,000+ cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations... Until now. Read more 👇👇

"By leaning on the island‘s rich ecology — and the Gullah Geechee people’s intimate knowledge of their land — scientists are hopeful they can keep #HoggHummock above the waves." New story in #AJC about our collaborative work on Sapelo Island. Read it here: shorturl.at/ICATU. #SOLO #S2S

“The point I'm trying to make, movin' from place to place and time to time (is that) vibrations that bring on new vibrations is all that's on peoples minds. (They tell me) Don't be 'fraid of revolution! It ain't nothin' but change and change is surely bound to come.” youtu.be/C8ORbZg5YaI?...

You'd think they have learned from all their study that democracy is NOT like a sinking ship; you save it by staying in the fight, not by securing a place for yourself on the first lifeboat to push off. It's fine if you want to leave, but don't call it an "act of protest."