Amy Walker
@awalkergeogs.bsky.social
Geographer, Post-doc Researcher and Lecturer at MLU, Halle, Germany & at EU Centre for Just Transitions Researching (post)industrial/'left-behind' places + (un)just transitions + ethnography | ⚽️ WBA fan | rageful, especially about transphobia | she/they
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
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