Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

New article out w/ Oksana Zaporozhetc, Annegret Haase, Valeria Lazarenko & @moritzkasper.bsky.social. We chart out how disruption has been discussed in urban, social, and political theory & propose a more hopeful theory that fosters collective action for better urban futures. doi.org/10.17645/up....

Reclaiming Disruption: Pathways to Hopeful Urban Futures | Article | Urban Planning

Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Oksana Zaporozhets, Annegret Haase, Valeria Lazarenko, Moritz Kasper

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Some exciting news! 🎉 Our paper 'Urbanizing commons lands: Ambiguous tenure regimes and the challenges of land regularization in Guadalajara Metropolitan Region, Mexico' has been published in Land Use Policy, w/ Mariana Reyes Carranza, @ayonadatta.bsky.social & Raul Agraz. doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

We are pleased to announce the 15 successful projects for the fourth and final round of the Digital Good Research Fund. Each project will produce a blueprint and a briefing document for a good digital society in a particular aspect of social life.

If you have time this afternoon (or evening or morning, depending on where you are), join us for this session of the Digital Infrastructural Urbanism(s) debate series. During this talk, Sheema Fatima and I will present work on building the digitalising state at the peripheries in India and Kenya.

📢 CfP 'Researching the Digitalising State' RGSIBG 2026, London 2026. We will explore methods for researching the digitalising state and its challenges: restricted access, confidentiality barriers, outsourced governance, and rapidly changing technologies. www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

Looking forward to this session next week, discussing our recently published book 'Informational Peripheries' as part of the @unibas.ch Critical Urbanisms lecture series. Give me a shout if you'd like to join, and I'll share the Zoom link!

📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help! 🏊‍♀️ 🏊🏊‍♂️ They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat. Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Congratulations to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Fenna Imara Hoefsloot! Their #OpenAccess book Informational Peripheries published earlier this week. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4 #UrbanTheory #Digitalisation #DataPolitics

Informational Peripheries

Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

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Informational Peripheries is out now with @uclpress.bsky.social! It brings together critical perspectives on how information flows (or doesn’t) across the edges of systems: archives, infrastructures, digital divides, and more. Edited with @ayonadatta.bsky.social 🙌 uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

Informational Peripheries

Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

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Our 'Informational Peripheries' book is now published and out for the world to read in paperback and online free #openaccess. Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4 @uclgeography.bsky.social

Informational Peripheries

Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

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Happy to share our research on developing an inclusive digital tool for urban planning in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. With Johannes Flacke and Karin Pfeffer @utwente.bsky.social and a fantastic group of co-researchers from Toegankelijk Zwolle doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

This is happening right now. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

NRC vandaag:

uk #geosky - please sign this letter to the RGS, to get them to pushback on anti-trans rhetoric from the Supreme Court and EHRC

Felicity Callard@felicitycallard.bsky.social · last yr.

🌺 Geographers at any career stage anywhere in the world! Last day to join 330 of us — PhD students to profs — committed to trans inclusion and to pushing back against the discriminatory Supreme Court/EHRC events. Please share. Closes Wed 30 Apr 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Cover reveal! ✨ Our new book, 'Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the Urban in a Digital Age,' will be available this August! Get a first look here: uclpress.co.uk/book/informa... There will also be a digital open access version 🙌 @uclpress.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social

Informational Peripheries

Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Excited that our research article with commentaries and response is out now in the inaugural issue of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social! Honoured to be amongst so many people I look up to in the launch of this great new journal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @ayonadatta.bsky.social

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This. Protect trans kids. Protect trans rights. Gender is a spectrum. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people exist. Inter-sex & DSD people exist. Gender-non-conforming people exist. Transphobia is anti-feminist. Laws are often wrong and unjust. We must fight for a fairer future.

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last yr.

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

Join our team!

UCL Department of Geography@uclgeography.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Job Alert! We're hiring a Project Administrative Officer for the Regional Futures project! Join the team and help drive research on digitalisation and urbanisation in the Global South. Apply by 22 April 2025! 🌍 🔗 tinyurl.com/ucl-rf #GeographyJobs #UCLCareers #UrbanStudies #Digitalisation

Today the Dutch senate is debating its budget cuts on higher education. Around 1 billion euros in cuts with jobs and entire programs on the line. They have a clear choice between investing in the future or going down the drain like the US is currently doing. Let’s hope they make the right choice 🟥

Delighted to see my review of @jpaddie.bsky.social @mrglassphd.bsky.social & @jen-nelles.bsky.social excellent 'Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds' out. Empirically specific and theoretically expansive, this book deserves to be read! doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Infrastructural times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds

Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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📣 Pleased to announce response paper with @fennaimara.bsky.social out on @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social responding to brilliant commentaries by @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social Nancy Odendaal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Timing the state - Ayona Datta, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, 2025

We wish to express our gratitude to the interlocutors for their considered and thoughtful commentaries on our article. They invoke new questions around the powe...

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📣 We're still accepting abstracts! Reach out if you've got an interesting paper on the tensions between creativity and codeability in digital urban governance. We'd love to hear from you! @ayonadatta.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social

Fenna Imara Hoefsloot@fennaimara.bsky.social · last yr.

👋 CfP for 'Algorithmic refusal: creativity and codeability in digital urban governance' @rgsibg.bsky.social in Birmingham. Organised with @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes and sponsored by DGRG! Submit your abstracts by the 21 Feb 2025 ✌️ www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

🙌 Our research led by Mariana Reyes and in collaboration with Neha Gupta, Dennis Muthama, and Jesus Flores is out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social! We hope it serves others working in international and intercultural research projects. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

NAVIGATING STATE SPACES: Methodological Insights and Reflections from Research in India, Mexico and Kenya

This collaborative essay provides a methodological reflection and a list of recommendations on the opportunities, uncertainties and limitations faced when researching state spaces in India, Mexico an...

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👋 CfP for 'Algorithmic refusal: creativity and codeability in digital urban governance' @rgsibg.bsky.social in Birmingham. Organised with @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes and sponsored by DGRG! Submit your abstracts by the 21 Feb 2025 ✌️ www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

'Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance' CfP at the RGS-IBG, Birmingham 2025 — Regional Futures

Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, Birmingham 2025 Sponsored by the Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) Session Organiser...

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📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE @rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham. Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇 www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

'Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance' CfP at the RGS-IBG, Birmingham 2025 — Regional Futures

Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, Birmingham 2025 Session Organisers: Prof Ayona Datta, Dr Fenna Hoefsloot, Dr Mariana Reyes ...

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🙌 Till the 31st to submit an abstract! Please share with anyone who might be interested in joining. We look forward to seeing you in London in September!

Fenna Imara Hoefsloot@fennaimara.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣Two more weeks to submit an abstract to the 'Regional Futures: The Politics of Digitalisation-as-Urbanisation' symposium in London from 1-2 Sep. Join us there! If you have any questions, reach out. www.regionalfutures.org/all-events-1... @uclgeography.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social #geosky

new #datajustice paper from the Global Data Justice project in @robkitchin.bsky.social's new journal: Who do current #datagovernance models benefit, who has a say in how they work, and what benchmarks could we use if we want justice-oriented #AI governance? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Governing artificial intelligence means governing data: (re)setting the agenda for data justice - Linnet Taylor, Siddharth Peter de Souza, Aaron Martin, Joan López Solano, 2025

The field of data justice has been evolving to take into account the role of data in powering the field of artificial intelligence (AI). In this paper we review...

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Just before 2024 came to an end, we posted another episode of the Urban Political: 82 - Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times with Jean-Paul Addie, Hanna Baumann, Himanshu Burte and Fenna Hoefsloot. Listen via Spotify or here: urbanpolitical.online/episode-82-b...