Erin Torkelson, Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers - @dukepress.bsky.social, May 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/predatory-we...

On the horror of our times and what it means to feel like you’re on the darkest timeline: my 2025 Political Geography Plenary, at last out from embargo with three brilliant commentaries and my response: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @squirerachael.bsky.social @politicalgeography.bsky.social

We are hiring an Assistsnt Professor of Human Geography with a focus on Health. I’m happy to answer any questions. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Yes to a radical bookshop in Newcastle! Help make it happen by contributing to this crowdfunder

I've written a short book review of @benandersongeog.bsky.social and @ajsecor.bsky.social, The Politics of Feeling. It's now available open access in the incomparable ephemera. I hope it does some justice to the book and maybe even leads others to pick it up. ephemerajournal.org/contribution...

in case anyone missed it, my first article is out now in Progress in Human Geography: The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... FFO: posthumanism, postfoundational politics, Anthropocene Please share!

I'll be taking part in this online event w/ @benandersongeog.bsky.social @ajsecor.bsky.social @jemgilbert.bsky.social to discuss the brilliant The Politics of Feeling - 11th April - register here www.eventbrite.com/e/the-politi...

Fantastic that a long interview with @ajsecor.bsky.social and I is the cover story for the January issue of Byline Times - was a pleasure to talk to Hardeep and Peter about the ideas in the The Politics of Feeling! @bylinetimes.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

A scene from our The Politics of Feeling book launch in London - great discussion on fascist optimisms and nihilism, left structures of feelings, AI and Stranger Things with @ajsecor.bsky.social @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social

Looking forward to this tomorrow!

Book launch for The Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social on 25.11 at 15.00 in London. Details here, last time I checked there were a couple of tickets left www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

London people come discuss and celebrate with us! A launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social. Eventbrite link below! 🥂 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

How exciting!

First glimpse of the cover of The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Geographies - and I think it is beautiful! The image is Franz Marc, "The Bewitched Mill"(1905) - human and nonhuman, science and magic, dark and light, wondrous!

So excited to see our book in the wild! Thank you Jonny - the coffee pairing looks perfect!

We’re hiring again in Geography at Durham - an Associate Prof, Grade 9. This is part of the university’s strategic ‘Heritage 360’ initiative. Follow this link for more details and to apply! durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Good to see Durham Geography's Helen F Wilson on urban kittiwakes and coexistence in today's Guardian! @geogdurham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Politics of Feeling with @benandersongeog.bsky.social comes out the 1st of July! So excited for readers and grateful for the lovely blurbs from Will Davies, @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @carolynpedwell.bsky.social

Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏 ⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025 📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at [email protected] 📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p

We’ve got a 3 year lecturership in human geog and gender now advertised. Deadline 6th May 2025 Please spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS710/l...

@amoorelouise.bsky.social will lead the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @geogdurham.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social, which aims to change the way we understand and study the interaction between people, machine learning and AI algorithms.

Three-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Geography at Mount Holyoke College. They are looking for a human or physical geographer, and candidates with expertise in critical geography, urban studies, and/or planning are encouraged to apply! mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Job in Palestine Studies! UC Davis seeks to hire an Anthropologist of Palestine at assistant/associate professor rank, Seeking a scholar with a cutting-edge, ethnographically grounded research agenda and interest in collaboration. Review begins March 5. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06996

Last call for Fantasies of Escape at the RGS-IBG 2025 conference! Deadline for abstracts is Friday.

At long last, my new book, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land, is now out! Based on a decade of research, it documents the realities of sovereign abandonment and the many forms of political liveliness that persist in abandonment’s wake. Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Excited to share that Anna Secor (@ajsecor.bsky.social) and I are organizing a session at the upcoming RGS-IBG conference (@rgsibg.bsky.social) on "Fantasies of escape." Join us in exploring the imaginative landscapes and socio-political dimensions of escape! The deadline is 14 February.

We ( @geogdurham.bsky.social ) are very honoured to be hosting Aslı Zengin for an event about her latest book "Violent Intimacies" this Thursday (16 January). Details of the event via the link below. www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

After a day in meetings yesterday, doing page proofs for The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism, with @ajsecor.bsky.social Here’s part of the argument about the impasse progressivism finds itself in (the loss of faith in progress)

Two Assistant Prof positions in Geography at Durham, deadline for applications next week!

I can’t wait for this to be out - a book of propositions on the politics of feeling in populism, liberalism and progressivism with @ajsecor.bsky.social Probably the work I’m most proud of so far - as I think it says something novel about this conjuncture www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777472...

We’re hiring two human geographers in the areas of environment, climate, and sustainability! Contact me with any questions.

NEW GEOGRAPHY JOURNAL! Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory. Issue 1, special issue on Indigenous Ontologies, out now, open access. It looks excellent. Congratulations to the managing and issue editors on making this happen.

Open access! In which we critique the romance of work and how it props up our world - as part of a special issue on Affect and Ideology @dcockayne.bsky.social @derek-ruez.bsky.social journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...

We’re hiring two human geographers in the areas of environment, climate, and sustainability! Contact me with any questions.

Brilliant new issue of New Formations out now, guest edited by @ajsecor.bsky.social and Ben Anderson, exploring the theoretical potential for engaging 'affect and ideology'. Lots of free to download content: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...

We are hiring in Human Geography at Durham! We are seeking to fill two positions at the assistant professor (grade 8) level. The closing date for applications is 14/01/2024. Areas of specific interest are environment, urban, and critical development studies.

Poet and Novelist Heba Abu Nada, 32, Reported Dead in Israeli Bombardment arablit.org/2023/10/20/p... via @arablit.bsky.social

In fact, they were to do only the work which attracted them and were to live for beauty and love and were to follow whatever obsessions were theirs. #HarpSongForARadical #MYoung23 Sounds good to me!👍

I wrote a teaching tile for I-PEEL on cement. It is based on a lecture I developed for a “geographies of development” module a couple of years ago. http://i-peel.org/homepage/cement/

I think I’m a little in love with the Future Library, nested in Oslo’s gorgeous public library. I was surprised by how moved we can be by something we cannot fully access, by how affirming books written for another lifetime are. www.futurelibrary.no

This is perverse. I’m supposed to ENJOY this?

This is what we needed! Thank you @farhana.bsky.social - feels like a new beginning!

“If the world is to be remade utterly, then a person must be willing to be remade also” - Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social

Okay I’m here, and I signed up for the Moby Dick bot - now what?