As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🏢 What lies beneath China’s rapid urban expansion? 🔎 Ang Liu’s article in Economic Geography reveals how “fake equity” enables developers to mask liabilities, linking urban growth to deeper financial vulnerabilities. 🔗 Read more at doi.org/10.1080/0013... #EconomicGeography

Got sharp insights on the shifting financial landscape? In addition to original research articles, we accept submissions on a rolling basis for: 📝 Short-form commentaries 📊 FinVis – innovative visualizations that bring finance to life More info here www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...

How do financial actors turn climate chaos into durable assets - and what happens when those assets crack under pressure? Rob Aitken’s new paper traces the politics of climate risk, from micro-insurance to ISDS. Out now in Finance and Space: doi.org/10.1080/2833...

In support of colleagues at Newcastle University who are facing compulsory redundancies. Newcastle Geography have been such a core strength of UK economic geography and internationally for decades. Please consider signing the petition: chng.it/bhRgKMVtkK

This arrived the other day! Paperback! Available from 20th of this month and much more affordable at £28.99. 30 brilliant chapters on contemporary economic geographies, and all written by female and non-binary authors.

The spring 2025 edition of the geography department alumni newsletter is now available to view and download on the geography alumni website. You can also find interviews with alumni and a history of the geography department on the website. www.dur.ac.uk/departments/...

📣 Finance & Space's Annual Lecture 2024 'The Waterworks of Money' from Martijn van der Linden, Thomas Bollen and Carlijn Kingma, online now: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Another doctoral viva completed! 🎉 A pleasure to examine William Bratton's DPhil (Oxford) thesis on 'The Geographies of Financial Information and Knowledge: A Study of Sell-side Equity Research' with Elena Pierard. Congratulations to Dr Bratton, and cheers to an extra special weekend! 🥂

climate risk x muni bonds 🔥⛈️🏦 Mark Davidson and Samuel Cooper examine trends in how municipalities disclose climate risk to prospective bondholders www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excellent closing plenary by Emma Mawdsley at #FinGeo Conference, on aid and d/Development under Trump. Difficult questions about aid-industrial complex, shutdown of USAID, rupture but also continuities of criticisms of #Development. Rounding off a fantastic 3 days of financial geography discussion.

Superb pair of sessions at #FinGeo conference today on teaching financial geography. Very thought provoking and useful to think about how we teach, purposes, different countries and student profiles, materials and activities etc.

Job done! 🎉 Official handover to the new #FinGeo leadership at the conference today. It was great hearing the reflections from outgoing leadership and visions from the new leadership team. In other news, we seem to have adopted a new FinGeo mascot — Figgy the Piggy!

Fantastic first day at the 2nd #FinGeo Global Conference in Singapore. Such a delight to see so many old friends and also new faces. Good food, good chats, stimulating sessions. More tomorrow please!

Agreed! Also, how central #centralbanks are to all this - especially to #climate ! Great start to the #FinGeo Global Conference!

Fantastic opening plenary by Eric Helleiner at 2nd #FinGeo Global Conference on ‘Geopolitics & Geoeconomics of Finance’. Delicate work in pulling together different strands of pandemic, geopolitical, climate, and geoeconomic shifts, and how finance is central to this conjectural global polycrisis.

Great to meet such diverse and engaging group of researchers at the 3rd #FinGeo School this afternoon in Singapore. Stimulating discussions on #publishing for early career researchers and how to generate #ResearchImpacts across various domains. @regstud.bsky.social @financeandspace.bsky.social

🇸🇬Shipping containers and high rise buildings as plane approaches Singapore. This view never gets old 💗 Hope I get over jet lag in time for the 3rd #FinGeo School and 2nd FinGeo Global Conference!

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

New OA position paper out on "The gamification of citizenship" - really enjoyed writing this, bringing together #citizenship #digital #rewards #volunteering www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Critical Sociology compiled Michael Burawoy's articles and allowed free access. I hope other journals will do the same. journals.sagepub.com/page/crs/vir...

If you are interested in finding out more about Postgraduate Taught courses @geogdurham.bsky.social come and speak to us! We are running a course presentation and Q&A event in the Department on March 5th:

A pleasure to host Vladimír Pažitka for a seminar at @geogdurham.bsky.social Fascinating insights into how the ‘Atlas of Finance’ came together, the team, ideas and processes behind the amazing visuals. Co-hosted with Durham Centre for Visual Arts & Culture.

Such fun to have some of my Chinese PhD students and colleagues over to celebrate lunar new year. Yusheng is a specific Singaporean/Malaysian tradition. Rather pleased with my homemade version. Lo hei! 捞起！风生水起！好运连连！🥢🥳🧧🍊

Really sad to hear about Michael Burawoy, who died in a hit-and-run incident in Oakland. Highly respected sociologist also very influential in geography. First encountered his work during my Master/PhD days. Thoughts with his family and colleagues. www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...

We are delighted to announce that our conference this year will take place at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, September 11-12. Keynotes speakers have been confirmed (Christian Borch, Fabian Muniesa, Vanessa Ogle) and the call for papers is now open! financeandsocietynetwork.org/finandsoc-co...

2 more weeks to submit your abstracts - join us in Frankfurt to discuss methods, data & approaches to study global finance! 🙂 With a keynote by Dariusz Wojcik - author of the Atlas of Finance For full details, check the CfP: tinyurl.com/3z2dy57b @ineteconomics.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social

Progress report 'Financial geography II - Green finance and climate transition' is now online (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... With thanks to Sabine Dörry, @saraheknuth.bsky.social and Felicia Liu for useful discussion and suggestions.

Over at the Socio-Economic Review, we're planning a special issue on offshore finance! Historical contributions are very welcome. CfP here: academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf.... Please share and spread the word! Excited to be working with @ebharrington.bsky.social and Kimberly Kay-Hoang on this!

Webinar: New Global Corporate Elites Reshape Power Dynamics Amid Geopolitical Shifts 28 January 2025 , 15:00 - 17:00 CET www.tni.org/en/event/new...

To those celebrating next week: warm wishes to you for the coming lunar new year! 🐍 🧧幸福安康 Wishing you happiness and good health 🧧萬事如愿May all your wishes be fulfilled

Positions in Geography at the UvA: 1 Postdoc position on “Methodological and Ethical Aspects of Research on Digital Geographies of Urban Illicit Economies” werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Join us at @geogdurham.bsky.social on 20th Feb for the @geolsoc.bsky.social #OffTheRails series. I'll be talking about the role of glaciers for resource security followed by Q&A with @geogeordie.bsky.social @mikebentley.bsky.social & Rachel Oien. Register to attend in person/online: t.co/cvfnPB2fEx

NEW!!! Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms - this is @koraycaliskan.bsky.social Michel Callon and (this time) Donald Mackenzie's follow-up on 2009-10's classics Economization 1 and 2 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⏳Final day to submit your abstract for this session on 'FinTech and Geographies of Everyday Life'. Please email me ([email protected]) or Gordon Tan ([email protected]) by end of today (24 Jan). We will confirm acceptance into the session on 27 Jan.

👽📈Call for Participants: The Truth? In this Economy?📈👽 An Unconventional London Symposium on Financialisation and Truth-bending 📍UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies 🗓️April 10 2025 Organised by @maxhaiven.bsky.social and @ariskomporozos.bsky.social APPLY by 03.03.25 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Exciting project connecting climate change mitigation and illicit economies, focusing on global photovoltaic industry production networks to reveal the dark sides of the green energy sector. And they are looking for 3 postdocs! Carlo is also excellent to work with. Pls share with your networks.

📣 Calling ECRs and urban scholars! Join us on 27 March for an exciting session on 'Publishing in Urban Geography: a panel with authors and editors' @geographers.bsky.social meeting in Detroit. Organised by Kevin Ward, Editor-in-Chief, Urban Geography. aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...

Are you interested in MSc degrees on climate, environmental hazards and risk at @durham-university.bsky.social ? We have funding for 5 female students [Mexico] under the British Council Women in STEM scheme for 2025/2026 entry. More details below, and please share with your networks in Mexico🇲🇽!

What is it like to study #Geography at @geogdurham.bsky.social? 😎🗺️💻 Here is a glimpse through some videos made by our students ⬇️

📣Extended deadline📣 #GCEG2025 Call for Papers on '#FinTech and Geographies of Everyday Life' now has new abstract deadline of 24 Jan 2025. Please share with your networks!🙌 Details: linkedin.com/posts/karenp... @financeandspace.bsky.social

Could you be the next @regstud.bsky.social Treasurer? Here's an opportunity to make a difference at the heart of a community that cares about urban and regional development worldwide. www.regionalstudies.org/news/vacancy...

Together with @ineteconomics.bsky.social, @lupemoreno.bsky.social, @kremers.bsky.social & I are organising a conference on "Methodological Pluralism in Critical Finance Research" at GU Frankfurt on 3–4 July 2025 aimed at exploring methods for studying finance. Check out the CfP: tinyurl.com/3jbshp49

A few days to go for PhD students and postdocs interested in the geography of economic ideas to apply for workshop travel stipends. This invitational workshop will be hosted at UBC, June 2025. Funded by EPA: Economy & Space blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...

Do you research topics at the nexus of education, mobility & migration, and has something important to say about 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿? 🌈 ✨ Zachary Howlett, Kris Lee Hyesoo & myself are organising workshop on 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 at NUS Asia Research Institute, 24-25 April 2025. Check our CfP 👉🏼

Listening to 🎄Christmas carols 🎄and getting on with 🧧Chinese new year🧧 writing. Strange combination but needs must! Very early new year for the Year of the Snake, falling on 29 January 2025. Hoping to post to family in Singapore in the next few days.

Very pleased to have contributed to this govt research on #AI & #energy security, giving evidence from our #DataCenter project. Infrastructure like DCs are often overlooked in AI debates. Link to full report post.parliament.uk/research-bri... @geogdurham.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social