Forum in Ephemera on my book, Waste and the City: ephemerajournal.org/contribution... Explores the relations between waste & the urban imagination, politics, labour, & property. Big thanks to Sally Cawood, Colin Marx, Rahul Raj, Glyn Williams & Alex Vasudevan, & to Charlotte Cator for organising!

The University of Nottingham is cutting over 600 academic jobs. This includes 1 in 3 #geography lecturers. "The lecturers *are* the University, and without them it's nothing" - Geography student (BBC interview): www.instagram.com/reels/DYprAN...

BBC Nottingham on Instagram: "The action would "effectively block the university from handing out graduation certificates". Students have joined lecturers on the picket line at a protest over job los...

6,038 likes, 179 comments - bbceastmidlands on May 22, 2026: "The action would "effectively block the university from handing out graduation certificates". Students have joined lecturers on the picke...

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URGENT - UCU St Andrews Member - Antonis Vradis is on the Qannir La Cirena boat in the Global Summid Flotilla which has been intercepted by Israel Contact your MP and MSP Contact the Principal Please share

🦫🦫 Our new paper on urban #rewilding with #beavers is out now in EPE! We characterise the Ealing Beaver Project in London as a form of prefigurative urban ecological politics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @jlorimer.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social

Beavers in paradise: Prefiguring London's urban wilds - Jonathon Turnbull, Thomas Fry, Jamie Lorimer, 2026

Beavers have emerged as the flagship species for rewilding in Britain. Absent from the landscape since the sixteenth century, legal and illegal releases across ...

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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...

A study published in The Lancet, the London-based medical journal, found that Trump administration cuts in U.S.A.I.D. funding “would result in approximately 1,776,539 all-age deaths and 689,900 deaths in children younger than 5 years” in 2025 alone. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’

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Want to know about my new book - The Citizen and the Vagabond? Find out all about it on this podcast. podscan.fm/podcasts/new...

Tim Cresswell, "The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility" (U Minnesota Press, 2026) - New Books in Geography - Podcast Episode - Podscan.fm

Listen to Tim Cresswell, "The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility" (U Minnesota Press, 2026) from New Books in Geography (36 min) • Published Apr 3, 2026

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New postdoc opportunity: We’re looking for an independently-minded postdoctoral Research Assistant/Associate in biogeography, ecology, environmental science or a related field to join our Leverhulme Trust funded project studying urban sensory pollution. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

We've worked with the Geographical Association to develop some school learning materials for A-Level students to think through financialisation, displacement, gentrification etc 'Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study' geography.org.uk/resources/po...

Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study - Geographical Association

These resources for A level students and teachers consider urban change in Manchester, UK, and include a guided urban walk around the city centre to explore the nature of this regeneration.

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My new book is out!🍾Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power. press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3... II argue that in shattered times, a radical, speculative reinvention of authority is needed. Open-access with @lsepress.bsky.social @rgs.org #geosky #socialtheory

We are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Human Geography, with expertise in Health Geography (closing May 10th). Health geography is broadly defined here - see examples in the text in the link.

Geography at Durham@geogdurham.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Human Geography with expertise in the field of Health Geography that will complement and extend current work in our Geographies of Life research cluster. Application deadline May 10th, further details here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

New piece in Progress in Human Geography, 'Crisis-thinking and critical urbanism'. What might crisis-thinking be doing to how the urban is conceived, researched, and politicised? How might it impact how we see urban possibility? Open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Really importance piece in the Times Higher on cuts to Geography at a time when it matters most www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings

From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

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⏰ Urban Urgencies call now open! 🗓️ Deadline: 23 March 2026 (23:59 UTC) This new grant supports collaborative research on pressing urban challenges worldwide, addressing issues such as the climate crisis, housing, health, governance, conflict, AI, and more. 🔗 Learn more & apply: ow.ly/FUIn50XGtgz

We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Hashem Abushama (Oxford University) to the Department on February 3rd for an event organised by our Urban Worlds research cluster. Hashem will present on the theme 'Palestine: urban spatial disarticulations, national questions'.

Once again sharing this phenomenal report proposing a £1.5m UK Comics Fund, on top of also being a bangin' evidenced manifesto for comics in general: www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/CCIC%20DCMS%...

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

📢December Issue of TIBG📢 Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series. 23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...

Please share widely - new editor opportunity at The GJ ⬇️

The Geographical Journal@thegj.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢New Editor sought📢 We are seeking to appoint a Physical Geography Editor to The Geographical Journal. The GJ publishes work which engages with public issues and policy-relevant agendas. 🗓️Deadline: 7 January 2026 For more information, please see this page: www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

A special issue here of the journal Agoriad entitled 'Thinking with fragments: The allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space'. Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban. agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org

Nice collection of essays on David Harvey at 90, on the Verso site www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Harvey at 90: A Verso Series

Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy.  This month, in honour of David H...

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New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Some thoughts on what what crisis is doing to the urban imagination - short piece as part of a collection in Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Crisis and the urban imagination - Colin McFarlane, 2025

What are ideas like ‘polycrisis’ doing to how we think and research the urban? How might we ensure that discourses and conditions of polycrises do not erode our...

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That’s a wrap on our first panel in Ljubljana 🌍 A clear message from today: Europe’s green transition won’t succeed without strong public infrastructure, long-term investment, and public control of public services. Public services are the backbone of a fair, sustainable future. 💧⚡️🗑️

A huge thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis for this award! I was so honoured & grateful opportunity in Seoul to focus attention on the global urban sanitation crisis. Thank you to @versobooks.bsky.social for nominating the book, & to Pattis. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize. I am huge...

A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize. I am hugely grate...

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Congrats to Rozy Fredericks and collaborators on this great film on waste in Dakar - trailer available here for 'The Waste Commons'. vimeo.com/1006661903?s...

The Waste Commons TRAILER

This is "The Waste Commons TRAILER" by Rosalind Fredericks on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Last month the latest global data on sanitation was published. I wrote a short blog on it below. Spoiler: for all that there has been very welcome improvements, 1 in 5 people still lack even basic sanitation. cityfragment.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/s... #sanitation

Safe sanitation targets ‘out of reach’: New global report examines progress and challenges

The first thing most of us do when we wake up in the morning is head for the bathroom. While the humble toilet is taken for granted, almost one in five people globally lack even basic sanitation wh…

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This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Click on the title to browse this issue

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My review, "An introduction to a non-fascist geography", of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) is now published online first in @dialogueshg.bsky.social Dialogues in Human Geography. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/3)

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New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies

This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical an...

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