We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology. Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.

We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Hashem Abushama (Oxford University) to the Department on February 3rd for an event organised by our Urban Worlds research cluster. Hashem will present on the theme 'Palestine: urban spatial disarticulations, national questions'.

We are looking forward to welcoming Mark Griffiths (GPS, Newcastle University) to the Department on January 13th (2-4pm, room W010) to speak about his book Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) in conversation with Dr. Lauren Martin from Durham Geography.

🚨*New publication alert*🚨 My new article is a true labour of love that grapples with the fugitive mobilities of migrants in Kenya. Through their stories, I think about escape, im/mobility, life-seeking, freedom and border abolitionism at the margins. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢December Issue of TIBG📢 Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series. 23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...

For 1.5 million Palestinians living under plastic sheets, Storm Byron means more than bad weather.

“How does an understanding of the location of the catastrophe inform how we perceive it?” Check this open call 👇🏽organised by the ever- brilliant @ayamusmar.bsky.social extraterritorial.studio/specters/

🚨new paper🚨 excited to publish this paper on salmon, archives & more-than-human historical geography in geographical research!! the article will appear in a special issue on nature in/and/of the archive that has been put together by @ayanassar.bsky.social & Jessica Lehman. doi.org/10.1111/1745...

Excellent piece by comrade @jraden.bsky.social

New publication out, “creative political geography” in the De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, generously and gently edited by Cordelia Freeman and Sydney Calkin. degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1… ( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)

We are delighted to announce that Professor Ilan Pappé will deliver the 2025 BRISMES Annual Lecture: 'Why There is a Need for #Palestine Studies?' Free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential. 📅Wednesday, 19 November 2025 🕕1800-1930 GMT 📍Online 🔗https://bit.ly/42QPHEU

Just out paper which might be of interest to those who work on Urban Geograpy, Geographies of Home, and affective thinking (especially ambivalence). It is a paper that considers the wonderful Iman Mersal's poetic oeuvre as a form of geography. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Looking for ideas, recommendations, and inspirations on academic publishers who take 30-40 k word manuscripts ( similar to C. elements and P. pivots). For academic stuff, not trade.

New in TIBG! Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies. Read all papers here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/5n72yt46

Does anyone know of any (UK-based) ECRs in geography, history & archaeology working on the Little Ice Age? I'm looking for collaborators for a potential workshop! @eseh.bsky.social @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net

"Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations " a short intervention, part of a set, out and open access in case of use. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves. If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

We're pleased to launch this year's Political Geography RG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize! 📣 Every university can submit one for a £100 prize - deadline 15th July. Full details and submission form available here: polgrg.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/p...

We'll be sharing some highlights over the coming weeks. Meanwhile, work on #BRISMES2026 is already underway! We’re delighted to announce that next year’s conference will be hosted by the Middle East Institute at SOAS (London) from 23–25 June 2026. We hope to see you there!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at #BRISMES2025 — to our plenary and keynote speakers, our conference organising team and student volunteers, and to our amazing hosts at Newcastle University, including the support staff who made the event possible.

two-year Career Development Fellowship in IPE, expertise in East Asia or Europe-China relations particularly welcome www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM855/c...

#Employment The Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Anthropology with expertise in either Religion and/or the Environment. mesana.org/resources-an...

‘The Book of Sana’a’: A Short-story Collection of Farce, Tricks, Myths, and More Gender-swapping tricksters, farcical hiring practices, detachable heads, and the serious science of speedbumpology populate the newly released Book of Sana’a: A City in Short Fiction, edited by Laura Kasinof and part…

taken command of the ship is a real funny way to spell hijacking is that us english british english or spineless english

Eid Mubarak to everyone observing around the world today ✨️ Eid is a time of happiness & celebration but my heart feels no joy when Gaza suffers beyond words 💔 #EidMubarak #FreePalestine

Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography Wed 4 June, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

"The 2020 protests involved a lot of commitment by brave citizens, but largely did not have this kind of organizational base––the kind that could potentially impose the costs of a concerted strike or boycott." @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

Happening next week! www.brismes.ac.uk/events/gradu...

Thrilled my book is out in the world! It's a book about the rise & fall of US hegemony; about the road novel's trafficking in the fantasies of individual freedom and self-making that propel it; and about why we need to shatter those attachments for a more collective vision, narrative and politics.

14,000 Palestinian babies may die in the next 48 hours. The UN has reported that lorries carrying baby food and nutritional supplies are at the Gaza border, but Israel is not allowing them to enter. How is it possible that no one has taken effective action to stop this?

How are Britain’s policies towards international students linked to its processes of bordering? Lili Schwoerer and @sanazraji.bsky.social @isrfoundation.bsky.social on racial capitalism, differential university fees and the move towards neoliberal education. #OnlineFirst buff.ly/igVwtCy

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

"uncontrolled immigration" Lol you guys know how much you have to pay to apply for permanent residence in France? €225 Germany? €113 The UK? £3,029 PER PERSON. You are a family of three? that will be ten grand please.

Colleagues in Durham are organising this wonderful event on May the 15th! Online and free but registration is required. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecologies-...

Job alert! Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world. Please help spread the word among interested candidates! Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...

Fm JAE Assoc Editor @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social: the “JAE board is committed to this issue + we are looking for alternative formats + venues to publish this work – if not through the ACSA – then hopefully through other platforms + spaces.” I 🙏 this happens. Might also be an opp to 👋 Taylor&Francis.

From the editors: "given the ACSA leadership’s attempts at censorship since before the call for papers was published in Sept 2024, it is clear that they are using the “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” as a convenient cover to execute what they had been planning to do all along."

"The Asscn of Collegiate Schools of Architecture announced [yesterday] it has canceled a forthcoming Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) edition abt 🇵🇸.... The announcement arrived on the same day McLain Clutter, JAE interim executive editor, was fired by ACSA." Shameful.

Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The De/Anticolonial thematic group @geogdurham.bsky.social invites you to a Film Screening & Panel Discussion 👇 with discussants Dr. Aya Nassar, Dr. Silvia Hassouna and Dr. Diego Astorga. The event will be held on Tuesday 18 February, 16:15pm in the Confluence Building room (Durham Uni) room CB0008

Are you thinking about enrolling on a masters programme? Then look no further! We have a suite of programmes available @geogdurham.bsky.social each of which is tailored to addressing urgent environmental, political, and social challenges. Find out more here: tinyurl.com/4976a3m7

Join us at the AAG preconference hosted by Geographers for Justice in Palestine in Detroit!

Join us on 5 February at 4pm for a lecture by @pashukanist.bsky.social on international law, racism, and coloniality. Hosted by @uoelawschool.bsky.social and the Al-Waleed Centre. Register here: llc.ed.ac.uk/internationa...

كاس وداير…

Geographers: please join us at the pre-conference organized by Geographers for Justice in Palestine this March!! share widely!!

Save 30% on #NewBook "Poetics of Repair" by Katarzyna Pieprzak, which examines how contemporary art of the Maghreb has the potential to change the terms, histories, and imagined futures of mass housing in North Africa. #MiddleEastStudies #VisualCulture https://buff.ly/4h085QD

"we can already describe this moment as the most self-confident the far right has been in the West since the peak of the Third Reich."