The Leverhulme Library – showcasing recently published books from researchers the Trust has funded. This month we have Anna Snaith, @profkarenmcnally.bsky.social, Daisy Fancourt, @jbrigstocke.bsky.social and @kiranmehta.bsky.social.

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...

Exciting HPGRG talk: Ed Armston-Sheret on his terrific book On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration (University of Nebraska Press). Thursday 23rd April at 12-1pm (British Summer Time). Registration essential: shorturl.at/TolWO #geosky #history @rgs.org

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

Do consider submitting a research article, short intervention, creative contribution or book review for the next special issue of Agoriad @spatialtheory.bsky.social on anti-fascist geographies #geosky #socialtheory #geohumanities

Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory@spatialtheory.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory is seeking submissions to a special issue on the theme of ‘Anti-Fascist Geographies: Empathy, Community, and the Joy of Living the Anti-Fascist Life’ which we plan to publish in 2027. Please go to our website to find out more!

Very sad and angry to hear about this fascist attack at my wonderful local pub

Bristol Antifascists@bristolantifascist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

On the attempted far right attack on an East Bristol pub. Yesterday, 25-30 members of Bristol Patriots attacked our fundraiser at the Red Lion in Easton. They arrived together in vans and cars and tried to force their way into the pub. Due to the quick thinking of people there, they were shut out.

Just finished correcting the page proofs for this. Very excited to see it in print shortly 🍾

LSE Press@lsepress.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🔎 Coming soon Non-Authoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power by Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social This book will be free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing and is published in collaboration with @rgsibg.bsky.social doi.org/10.31389/lse...

The web page for my forthcoming book "Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power", part of the @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series, is now live: press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3... It should be out around January 2026 🤞 #geosky #sociology #socialtheory

Great opportunity for UK and international students to apply for PhD funding in Geography at @cardiffuni.bsky.social Applicants from current final-year undergraduates and masters students, as well as from non-traditional academic backgrounds, are welcome. #Geosky www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Happy to announce our fall programme! Pleased to be hosting @brdemuth.bsky.social for our annual flagship lecture on Nov 6. We'll also welcome @andrewseaton.bsky.social and @dannydorling.bsky.social on Dec 4 for a discussion of Andrew's new work on coal. For more info, see the web link in our bio.

We are delighted to announce the 2025 History and Philosophy of Geography undergraduate dissertation prize winner: Henry Blake, @geogdurham.bsky.social, for his dissertation Foreclosed Futures: Hope, Precarity, and Ambivalence in Contemporary Cornwall. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4jjc4dp6 #geosky

Super excited to discuss my new book Spirits of Extraction:Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race with these fantastic people! If you're at RGS_IBG on Friday please join us!

Today marks the launch of our edited volume Aesthetics and the City. @amycbarron.bsky.social and I are thrilled to see this in print. We hope it’s of interest! Do let us know what you think. We are hosting a hybrid launch event in early October. 🔗More details: www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a...

So excited to see Aesthetics and the City in print. Congratulations to editors @joeblakey.bsky.social and @amycbarron.bsky.social. #geosky

You can get 50% off my book "On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration" as part of the @univnebpress.bsky.social's summer sale (if you are based in the USA or Canada). Just use discount code 6SUMM25 on checkout. #geography #exploration

New @ H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @farsouthhistory.bsky.social‬ (@ttu.edu)‬’s rvw of @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social (@ihr.bsky.social‬)’s book _On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration_ 2024 @univnebpress.bsky.social Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

New in Area: 'The "creative thesis" in the academic "anxiety machine"' by @mutablematter.bsky.social This paper highlights the possibilities of supporting 'creative' PhD theses within an increasingly challenging institutional environment. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Research Fellow @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores how communities in Brazil’s favelas establish forms of everyday community authority in response to the authoritarian violence of police and criminal groups. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @cardiffuni.bsky.social

We are honored to invite you to our 5th workshop4sudan with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard to discuss Leanne’s new book A Theory of Water. Sign up here and please share widely: chuffed.org/project/work...

The Trust's May newsletter is out now! Read about intersectionality and the musical, exploring our future in space, plantation afterlives: landscape change and environmental experience in Guyana, and much more: leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter

I'm fortunate to have a Leverhulme Fellowship from Sept 2025 to August 2026, on 'Informal Authority, Care and Resistance in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro', developing the concept of 'nonauthoritarian authority' in a detailed empirical setting. Brief summary here: lnkd.in/eww3v5yi #geosky

We're HIRING an Editorial Officer to start in August 2025! 📅 Deadline for applications: 8 June 2025. If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply. Fully remote position! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

A highlight of my garden year is always this cobra lily (arisaema) coming into flower:) 🌱GB

This looks fascinating

London Group of Historical Geographers@lghgseminar.bsky.social · last yr.

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: a panel discussion of 'Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination,' by Chris Philo. Featuring @milesogborn.bsky.social, @stuartelden.bsky.social, and @feli-k.bsky.social. ‬Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan...

Our @geographicalassoc.bsky.social statement on the crisis impacting UK Higher Education Geography. We urge universities to maintain their current capacity for geography and to capitalise on its growth in schools and relevance to the workplace and wider economy. geography.org.uk/ga-higher-ed...

GA Higher Education geography statement - Geographical Association

As the subject association for geography the Geographical Association is concerned about the funding position of many UK universities...

geography.org.uk

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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UCU announces results of industrial action ballot against the cuts at Cardiff University

There's potential for union strike action could disrupt student graduations this summer

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A beautiful letter - invoking internationalist solidarity against the imperialist, apartheid formation of the US and Israel. 'Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.' mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett...

Letter from Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian student activist being faced with deportation, writes from an ICE detention facility: “The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppres...

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Solidarity to everyone at Cardiff, but especially to the 64 staff in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff in “scope” for redundancy.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm afraid that a total of 1,807 colleagues at Cardiff Uni are 'in scope' for the required 400 redundancies. They'll be back next year or the year after that for more. (1/2)