The web page for my forthcoming book "Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power", part of the @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series, is now live: press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3... It should be out around January 2026 🤞 #geosky #sociology #socialtheory

Great opportunity for UK and international students to apply for PhD funding in Geography at @cardiffuni.bsky.social Applicants from current final-year undergraduates and masters students, as well as from non-traditional academic backgrounds, are welcome. #Geosky www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Happy to announce our fall programme! Pleased to be hosting @brdemuth.bsky.social for our annual flagship lecture on Nov 6. We'll also welcome @andrewseaton.bsky.social and @dannydorling.bsky.social on Dec 4 for a discussion of Andrew's new work on coal. For more info, see the web link in our bio.

We are delighted to announce the 2025 History and Philosophy of Geography undergraduate dissertation prize winner: Henry Blake, @geogdurham.bsky.social, for his dissertation Foreclosed Futures: Hope, Precarity, and Ambivalence in Contemporary Cornwall. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4jjc4dp6 #geosky

Super excited to discuss my new book Spirits of Extraction:Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race with these fantastic people! If you're at RGS_IBG on Friday please join us!

Today marks the launch of our edited volume Aesthetics and the City. @amycbarron.bsky.social and I are thrilled to see this in print. We hope it’s of interest! Do let us know what you think. We are hosting a hybrid launch event in early October. 🔗More details: www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a...

So excited to see Aesthetics and the City in print. Congratulations to editors @joeblakey.bsky.social and @amycbarron.bsky.social. #geosky

You can get 50% off my book "On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration" as part of the @univnebpress.bsky.social's summer sale (if you are based in the USA or Canada). Just use discount code 6SUMM25 on checkout. #geography #exploration

Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

New in Area: 'The "creative thesis" in the academic "anxiety machine"' by @mutablematter.bsky.social This paper highlights the possibilities of supporting 'creative' PhD theses within an increasingly challenging institutional environment. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Research Fellow @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores how communities in Brazil’s favelas establish forms of everyday community authority in response to the authoritarian violence of police and criminal groups. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @cardiffuni.bsky.social

We are honored to invite you to our 5th workshop4sudan with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard to discuss Leanne’s new book A Theory of Water. Sign up here and please share widely: chuffed.org/project/work...

The Trust's May newsletter is out now! Read about intersectionality and the musical, exploring our future in space, plantation afterlives: landscape change and environmental experience in Guyana, and much more: leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter

I'm fortunate to have a Leverhulme Fellowship from Sept 2025 to August 2026, on 'Informal Authority, Care and Resistance in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro', developing the concept of 'nonauthoritarian authority' in a detailed empirical setting. Brief summary here: lnkd.in/eww3v5yi #geosky

We're HIRING an Editorial Officer to start in August 2025! 📅 Deadline for applications: 8 June 2025. If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply. Fully remote position! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

A highlight of my garden year is always this cobra lily (arisaema) coming into flower:) 🌱GB

This looks fascinating

Our @geographicalassoc.bsky.social statement on the crisis impacting UK Higher Education Geography. We urge universities to maintain their current capacity for geography and to capitalise on its growth in schools and relevance to the workplace and wider economy. geography.org.uk/ga-higher-ed...

New paper out! 📄💥 Loved working with Kate Moles and Jürgen Viet Ahn Höpfel on this —thinking through how UK austerity co-opted the nostalgia + resilience of ex-mining communities to justify neoliberalism. Out now in Memory Studies' special issue on Communities + Change: tinyurl.com/bdft66fj

A beautiful letter - invoking internationalist solidarity against the imperialist, apartheid formation of the US and Israel. 'Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.' mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett...

Solidarity to everyone at Cardiff, but especially to the 64 staff in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff in “scope” for redundancy.

The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance

Also thrilled to announce that Volume 1 of Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory, is out. It was a huge labour of love for all involved and there are some terrific papers. The theme is Indigenous Ontologies. #geosky #academicsky agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org/1/volume/1/i...

Call for Papers: Special issue on ‘Geographies of the good: love and hate in a polarized world’. Delighted to announce the call for Issue 3 of Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory. #geosky #academicsky agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org/announcement...

From Dissertation to Funding: A Roadmap for Early Career Researchers in Human Geography 2025-26. UK History and Philosophy of Geography research group seminar, with Maximilian Hepach, online, February 20th 2025, from 12-1pm GMT. #geosky Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/15f057...

I had a really positive experience writing a SNAPSHOT for environment & history and would encourage other ECR's to consider submitting :)

Boycotts work. To all of you who are havering on the sidelines: we need you publicly to add your names to all the ongoing and yet-to-come initiatives

The CU Fight Back website is live and acts as a repository for info, events, petitions, letters, stories, and perspectives from Cardiff University staff and students, and beyond. We will resist the proposed cuts. Our first letter is from Dr Tim Johnston cufightback.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/l...

Excited to be presenting my paper about salmon conservation, river infrastructures and the River Severn's hidden colonial histories this Thursday in Oxford (and online). And in great company!!

‪Only a few days left to submit your proposals for the workshop "The Empire of the Senses: A Sensory History of Colonial Empires (15th–20th Century)" 📅 Date: 25/04/2025 📍 Location: UPEC 📬 Send your proposals to: [email protected] @crhecu.bsky.social | @upecofficiel.bsky.social

Plans to cut audio drama from BBC Radio 3 have been labelled a “devastating loss for writers and actors alike”, with critics calling it the end of the “National Theatre of the airwaves” 👇 www.thestage.co.uk/news/cuts-to...

Delighted to see three major UK universities cancelling subscriptions with Elsevier. Given the financial woes of the university sector, I am amazed how little attention is given to the money wasted through extortionate fees to publishers taking $ multi-billion profits #AcademicSky shorturl.at/STYZq

The four Editors of our new ECR-led journal Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org are busy finalising the final production-ready files of Volume 1, on Indigenous Ontologies. We'll hopefully be publishing the volume in a couple of weeks 🤞 #geosky

Hmm, how do you know when you've finished a book manuscript?

🧵 Tips on Teaching the British Empire 1/8 Talking to teachers lately, it seems a condensed guide to the main foundations of the C19 British Empire might be helpful. Here's how I introduce if to first year undergrads in three 50m sessions.

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Very exciting to see this paper out on Brazilian historical geography

Lovely day on the beach at Barry Island with our new Freshers today.

What does a pandemic look like when remembered through someone's personal archive? Sarath Pillai reflects on the value of dream diaries and insurance forms in the history of the AIDS pandemic. ✊🗃️🌈

Delighted to see the new special issue of the Journal of Historical Geography out: Reflections on histories and philosophies of geography. Edited by Heike Jöns, myself, Pauline Couper & Federico Ferretti: #geosky www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour... 🧵

OUT NOW: 'Conversations in geography: Journeying through four decades of history and philosophy of geography in the United Kingdom'. Good to be part of this project led by Heike Jöns @JBrigstocke.bsky.social @mette.bsky.social @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out the new forum on experimental books via The Immanent Frame, featuring Lata Mani's "Myriad Intimacies." tif.ssrc.org/category/boo...

I had the honour, yesterday, of introducing two fantastic new books, by Lara Montesinos Coleman (Sussex) and Ant Ince (Cardiff) The new generation of anarchist and anarchist-adjacent scholarship kicks ass! Highly recommended www.plutobooks.com/978074534124... www.dukeupress.edu/struggles-fo...

More-than-human humanities PhD course, 28-31 October, Bergen. Registration open now. Offered as part of our Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities. www.uib.no/en/ahkr/1710...

Treasure that awaits for rediscovery. The Geographical Society of Finland and The National Library republished the Fennia journal from 1889 to 1903. Twenty volumes of early Finnish geographical research in Swedish, French, German & Finnish with amazing maps🗺️ www.geography.fi/ajankohtaist...

Hello! The Social & Cultural Geography dissertation prize is now open. Each year, we look forward to reading excellent undergraduate dissertations from across the breadth of social and cultural geography. Submission deadline: 12th July 2024. Further info here: scgrg.co.uk/social-cultu... #geosky