A fab session with @drophelieveron.bsky.social yesterday evening. The recording will be available on the Intentional Community website from next week: intentionalcommunities8.wordpress.com/seminar-prog...

Seminar Programme 2026

We run a monthly seminar programme every year, here are our 2026 speaker (full details below). All seminars start at 16.30 and run until 18.00 GMT. SeminarPresenterDate1. Intentional communities an…

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Ophélie Véron@drophelieveron.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tomorrow I am giving a talk for the Intentional Communities Research Network: 'Fieldwork Through Matrescence: Researching Intentional Communities While Pregnant and Mothering' 📅 28 April, 4:30–6pm UK time @jennypickerill.bsky.social @kirsten-s-w.bsky.social DM me for the link.

Tomorrow I am giving a talk for the Intentional Communities Research Network: 'Fieldwork Through Matrescence: Researching Intentional Communities While Pregnant and Mothering' 📅 28 April, 4:30–6pm UK time @jennypickerill.bsky.social @kirsten-s-w.bsky.social DM me for the link.

I’ll be presenting at this workshop at EHESS (20 March) on how community food initiatives navigate tensions between autonomy, institutional constraints and endurance. 🕘 My session: 9:15 Open to external participants in person or via Zoom. Register: forms.gle/nZzMhtvicQdM... Please share!

Universities are introducing time-tracking systems for academic researchers. I am curious: how exactly do you log hours spent thinking, reading, walking, observing, or slowly writing an argument? Thinking does not run on a time clock.

Small update: the abstract is now included with the article. Much better!

Ophélie Véron@drophelieveron.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Delighted to share that my article on the spatial and emotional geographies of pregnancy is now out in Emotion, Space and Society! (open access) shorturl.at/X0RQP Drawing on autoethnographic journaling across two pregnancies and births, it conceptualises gestation as a geography in its own right.

Delighted to share that my article on the spatial and emotional geographies of pregnancy is now out in Emotion, Space and Society! (open access) shorturl.at/X0RQP Drawing on autoethnographic journaling across two pregnancies and births, it conceptualises gestation as a geography in its own right.

Geographies of an expecting body: Spaces and emotions of pregnancy

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Du no-poo au néolibéralisme, de Word aux chatbots : où l’on parle d’authenticité, d’écriture et de privilèges socio-linguistiques à l’heure de l’intelligence artificielle (et même de tirets cadratins). antigone21.com/2026/02/24/e...

CFP for a session at RGS-IBG 2026 on the gendered labours of everyday ecological transformation, co-organised with @jennypickerill.bsky.social Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

CFP RGS-IBG 2026

— Call for Papers — The Gendered Labours of Everyday Ecological Transformation RGS–IBG Annual International Conference 2026 Organisers: Jenny Pickerill (Sheffield, UK) and Ophélie Véron (TU Berlin, ...

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Local ecological initiatives are often framed as political experiments. But what happens when they begin to assume social roles traditionally provided by the welfare state? New blog post (FR): antigone21.com/2026/02/05/q...

Academia: 'Maternity and parental leave are protected.' Also academia: 'Please explain why you were not in your office during maternity and parental leave. Oh, and we’ve cut your salary. Also, this might count as holiday.' Protection, but make it conditional.

We know much more about why people enter social movements than why they step back. New blog post (FR) on activist disengagement as political reconfiguration. antigone21.com/2026/01/26/q...

La maternité comme lieu politique, entre médicalisation, capitalisme et dépossession des savoirs. Hâte de le lire !

éditions La fabrique@lafabrique.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Désormais en librairie ! lafabrique.fr/faire-naitre/

CFP for a session at RGS-IBG 2026 on the gendered labours of everyday ecological transformation, co-organised with @jennypickerill.bsky.social Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

CFP RGS-IBG 2026

— Call for Papers — The Gendered Labours of Everyday Ecological Transformation RGS–IBG Annual International Conference 2026 Organisers: Jenny Pickerill (Sheffield, UK) and Ophélie Véron (TU Berlin, ...

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