Feel like reality itself is under attack? Wondering how fantasy-geopolitics has taken hold and how to fight it? You might find some ideas in my recent article!

Political Geography@politicalgeography.bsky.social · 5d ago

2025 Political Geography Plenary: On the bad timeline: Dissociative geo-politics in the time of Trump, by @ajsecor.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers

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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

2025 Political Geography Plenary: On the bad timeline: Dissociative geo-politics in the time of Trump

Distortion, unreality, a confusion of perspective: it is hard to shake the feeling of “time out of joint” in the period since Trump's re-election to t…

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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

Ben Bowsher@benbowsher.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

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!

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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!

Geography at Durham@geogdurham.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our colleague @penelopeanthias.bsky.social will be speaking next month @camunigeography.bsky.social on the topic of 'Infrastructural affects and (contested) hydrocarbon futures in Bolivia':

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...

The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis

A workshop on the politics of feeling in this conjunctural crisis, with Anna Secor, Ben Anderson, Will Davies, Jeremy Gilbert.

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How exciting!

Tim Cresswell@timcresswell.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

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!

Jonny Darling@jonnydarling.bsky.social · last yr.

Perfectly timed for summer reading, new book from two of my wonderful @geogdurham.bsky.social colleagues: @ajsecor.bsky.social and @benandersongeog.bsky.social. Also perfectly timed for navigating the turbulent cultural politics of the present (coffee strictly optional) @goldsmithspress.bsky.social

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 seagulls have landed: why gulls are encroaching on Britain’s towns

Avian invaders have coastal communities in Britain and beyond in a flap – but people are learning how to live with them

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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 scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au 📄 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...

Lecturer in Human Geography and Gender (Education) at King's College London

Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Human Geography and Gender (Education). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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@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

Assistant or Associate Professor in Anthropology - Sociocultural

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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

Lucas Pohl@lucaspohl.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

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

Edges of Care

A firsthand look at the lives of those who reside in no man’s land—the violence they endure and their immense resilience.   “No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, ...

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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)