“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

I love conferences only because I get to meet all my amazing academic friends like @mtslep.bsky.social !

Many congratulations to one of our authors @saanchi.bsky.social on defending her PhD! You can read Dr Saxena's work in an Area paper published last year: doi.org/10.1111/area... If you are a PhD student looking for a place to publish, have a look at our author guidelines here tinyurl.com/bddtteey

I'm officially a Dr. now!! Passed my PhD defence cum laude with my thesis on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai. Thanks to my examiners Tatiana Thieme @snehakrishnan.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Giulia Torino Francesco Chiodelli + my amazing supervisor @michelelancione.bsky.social

Very grateful to receive the Award for New and Emerging Scholars in feminist geography by Gender, Place and Culture! genderplaceandculture.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/w...

#UrbanStudies is delighted to announce our 2025 Annual Lecture – ‘New Directions for Southern Urban Praxis’ presented by Prof Gautam Bhan will take place at the #CityDebates conference on 16 April. buff.ly/GYBgVbB

My first ever citation!! My paper on caste-gender & street vending was referenced in this interesting EPC article by Elmond Bandauko & Godwin Arku. Glad to see others also echoing the call for more intersectional perspectives on street geographies! doi.org/10.1177/2399...

My read: "AI" is a fundamentally anti-worker technology 1) it demands de-skilling of workers for its long-term viability. White collar 'consumers' are asked to lower our standards and accept regurgitated slop as a substitute for the products of careful reading and synthesis.

Wonderful book by Michele, it was a privilege reviewing it!