Special Economic Zones don’t fail loudly. They fade quietly. #SEZs in #Africa amplify existing strengths—skills, infrastructure—while exposing weaknesses. The can raise export diversification but slowly, with effects only appearing after a decade or so. doi.org/10.1080/0885...

New Interface on Planning and Nihilism by the Rutgers gang www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

More privately funded winter assistance from Germany – The German association Life Bridge Ukraine has delivered 6,000 gas stoves, 30,000 gas cylinders and 7,040 heaters to Kyiv. These were distributed to elderly people over the weekend via the city's social assistance centres.

Temperaturen von -20 Grad, kein Strom, keine Heizung, kein Wasser, keine Kanalisation. Ihr könnt weiter für Überlebenskits spenden, alle Details im zitierten Post. 🙏🏻 #SlavaUkraini

Great case of “how small things can have a big impact!”

Pleased to be part of this important project setting out similarities and differences among planning systems around the world. THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL PLANNING to be published on 30 January 2026. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

@cemoll.bsky.social Da sich vermutlich auch hier Ukraine-Unterstützer*innen tummeln bsky.app/profile/carl... Bitte teilen! Das kann ja jede*r😉 Und spenden soweit möglich.👍 ✊✌✊ Slava Ukraini ✊✌✊

New: AAG President @WilliamGMoseley offers an eyewitness perspective from his hometown of Minneapolis-St. Paul, arguing for respect for human rights and international law as the basis for science and society. buff.ly/dlDzIXV

Is there a name for this kind of low-rise, high-density type of development that is found in Southeast Los Angeles? So many alleys perpendicular to the main east-west streets

@rebharms.bsky.social @fuecks.bsky.social u andere organisieren schnelle Hilfe für die Ukraine! Ukraine2Power hat ein Überlebenskit für 80€ (Gaskocher, Heizdecken, Hand/Fusswärmer, Thermoskanne, Powerbank) zusammengestellt. Konto: We Aid gGmbH IBAN: DE 52370205000001838801 Kennwort: Ukraine2Power

New @rsablog.bsky.social ‘Beyond Agglomeration.’ Time to go beyond agglomeration as an organising principle in industrial strategy & take place seriously. @regionalstudies.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Professors Peter Kraftl and @profslh.bsky.social have co-edited the new Handbook on Geographies of Education (with Yi’En Cheng and Silvie R. Kučerová) @elgarpublishing.bsky.social "This first of its kind volume is at once field-defining and boundary-pushing." www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Check out this new article in the GR from Conan Millen & Marin Cvitanović that explores the geography of second homes and (re)production of nationalism in Cornwall: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Isabel Feichtner, Susanne Heeg, Anne Klingenmeier, Gesine Langlotz and Katja Schubel eds., Stadt – Land – Boden: Verbindende Bodenpolitik zwischen Stadt und Land – transcript, August 2025, open access www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Deutschland gehört zu den Ländern, die am hartnäckigsten auf dem Hass- und KI-Porno-Portal "X" bleiben; mutmaßlich auch, weil Politik und Medien aus unverständlichen Gründen die Hölle des Hitlergrüßers nur zögerlich verlassen. Sprecht sie darauf an! Holt sie da weg!

Out now! I've edited a special issue of New Political Economy on 'Centring exploitation in global political economy'. Link to the intro: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Other articles (all brilliant!) and a short summary 👇 1/

Le Mercosur pose un dilemme essentiel : - D'un côté, nécessité de nouer de nouvelles alliances avec le Sud, dans un contexte d'érosion de l'axe atlantique. - De l'autre, un traité qui accélère la destruction du socle écologique. Comment en sortir ? www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

Our new paper audits ChatGPT’s place-based judgements using 20 million pairwise comparisons. We find systematic geographic biases in how places are described and evaluated. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (authors: Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham)

Martin Schulze Wessel, The Curse of Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History - trans. Neil Solomon, @politybooks.bsky.social , November 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

🗺️#KartenundMacht: In der #DDR waren öffentliche Karten, auch Schulkarten, absichtlich falsch: weiße Flecken, verschobene Orte, fehlende Wege. Fluchten sollten so unmöglich werden. Es gab 2 Versionen: 🔒 genaue Karten für den Staat 🤞 verfälschte für die Öffentlichkeit

Promoting #megacities has become an economic bet. As I argue in my new @spatialeconomic.bsky.social paper, the promised spillovers of wealth often stop at the #city limits, leaving a fractured map and a slow-burn political #backlash, which is the price of #urban obsession. doi.org/10.1080/1742...

📢 Online lecture | 16 Jan 2026, 11:30 (GMT) Professor Beth Perry explores urban epistemics and the “epistemic tangles” shaping how cities are known, governed, and contested Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation." 👉 ow.ly/YbGj50XVfiC

Silicon Empires is out today in the US! For anyone interested, I'm resharing this thread outlining some of the key arguments of the book.

Great conversation w/Michael Schaffer @politico.com on upheaval in global politics/what a neo-royalist world order might look like. Hint: bleak. But it is not yet consolidated. Time to crawl out of our fetal positions (@segoddard.bsky.social) and map alternatives. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Ein Text wie eine Kundgebung. Lesebefehl…

“Change is needed…”

ICYMI My new article on the material politics of climate storytelling. I use an experimental approach to juxtapose two stories of climate change in the Pacific. That of the IPCC, representing the dominant narrative, & then an anti-imperial version. @geoopenaccess.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Canadian radio doco about the current techno fascism with @quinnslobodian.com and others, including myself (for about 15 seconds). www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

Did incoming farmers replace hunter-gatherer populations in Western Europe, or did they live side-by-side? An ancient DNA project seeks to examine this by comparing hunter-gatherer ancestry with that of farmers 🧬 #MesolithicMonday 🏺 #Archaeology 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 📷 W.G. Smith

Excited to announce my new article (w/undergrad co-authors) updating my old article on the geography of logistics within U.S. metro areas. In the 90s, it was all about de-centralization; now there's re-centralization everywhere as a national system develops. OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 @cybergeo.bsky.social fête ses 30 ans ! 👩‍🎓 journée d’études à Paris, le 13 mars 2026 💬 enquête en ligne sur les évolutions souhaitables de la revue #SHS #openscience geographie-cites.cnrs.fr/cybergeo-fet...

Liebe Soziologiebubble, die ZTS lädt ein zum Schwerpunkt 100 Jahre Niklas Luhmann. Wir freuen uns, wenn Ihr den Call teilen mögt.

Brussels’ volte-face on #petrol engines— @financialtimes.com (www.ft.com/content/0e16...) —show our lack of capacity to implement #carbon neutrality. Bartalucci & I argue in @cjres.bsky.social that the costs of #green compliance begin to chafe against democratic patience. doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

GUS Director Mara Sidney and co-editor David Kaufmann's book Global Urban Policy: A Framework for Analyzing State and Society will be published by U of Michigan Press in Mar 2026. The cover features a photo by Claudia Sinatra. Learn more at: press.umich.edu/Books/G/Glob...

Die #EU 🇪🇺 hat #X gerade mit 💶 120 Millionen Euro bestraft und wir müssen das einordnen. X ist kein neutrales Netzwerk mehr. Es ist ein politischer Akteur, der demokratische Institutionen offen 🧨 angreift. Deshalb runter von X. jetzt! ⛔️ #musk ✂️ @nikoleit.bsky.social

Our visit at the #FondationLouis-Vuitton in Paris last Sat coincided with the passing of #FrankGehry the day before. He's the architect who created the building in the bois de Boulogne-Parc. It is of course considered as 'iconic' as some of its contemporaries, most notably the #GuggenheimBilbao.

🇪🇺 🏙️ Europe's city leaders back the new EU Policy Agenda for Cities, announced by the @ec.europa.eu. However, while the #EUAgenda4Cities is a very positive step forward, cities need stronger guarantees on EU funding, governance and regulatory coordination. Read our reaction 👉 lnkd.in/enV5avJr

Yep—must see and listen! Short answers, clear arguments, right to the point.

Am 4.12. vor fünfzig Jahren ist Hannah Arendt gestorben. Eine Materialsammlung, mit Einleitung von Annette Vowinckel, bündelt Beiträge, die auf den Portalen von Zeitgeschichte digital sowie auf H-Soz-Kult erschienen sind und sich mit der Intellektuellen beschäftigen. ➡️ tinyurl.com/5n79act5

La dernière livraison de la @revuemetropoles.bsky.social publié sur la plateforme @ens-editions.bsky.social et dans tous les internets. Et même en fil, ici. journals.openedition.org/metropoles/1...

60 YEARS ISOCARP: A LEGACY OF PLANNING IMPACTS launches today 17h30 in Riyadh (09h30 New York; 22h30 Tokyo). Zeynep Enlil's and my chapter, Advancing Planning in the Era of SDG 11 and the New Urban Agenda: ISOCARP at 60, traces ISOCARP's impact.

I'll be on @kqedforum.bsky.social on Monday 12/1 to discuss the latest. 10 am PST, one-hour talk, call with questions! www.kqed.org/forum

Peter J. Verovšek, Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist - @columbiaup.bsky.social, March 2026 @pjv.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/jurgen-...

Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng, Jonathan Silver and Alan Wiig eds. The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road – @brisunipress.bsky.social, November 2025 (print and open access) bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

"Geography is one of the most radical, essential and interdisciplinary ways of understanding our world. It explores how systems of power, trade and technology shape our lives, who controls space and who is excluded"

📝 CfP: Rural Societies in Transition For Volume 67 (2027) of the #AfS, we welcome proposals that cover the social history of rural areas in the 19th and 20th century, going beyond a comparison with urban areas of the time. More info [PDF]: www.fes.de/index.php...

Wem gehört die Stadt? Der Band „Das Ende rechter Räume“ analysiert rechte Strategien der Territorialisierung im Kampf um den öffentlichen Raum. Rezensent Felix Schilk @stillapossibility.bsky.social findet hilfreiche Begriffe und zahlreiche Anknüpfungspunkte: www.soziopolis.de/intervention...

📝 CfP: Ländliche Gesellschaften im Wandel Für Band 67 (2027) des #AfS freuen wir uns auf Vorschläge, die eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte des ländlichen Raums im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert erfassen, die sich nicht im »Anderssein als in der Stadt« erschöpft. Alle Infos:

Dutch friends! A reminder that I’ll be talking Liverpool and the remaking of port cities with a fantastic panel of scholars in Amsterdam on Tuesday. It will also be livestreamed. aces.uva.nl/shared/uva-p...