Excited to be heading to the East Coast this week for this lecture at @sasn.rutgers.edu November 7, 12:30, at the Art Library, Rutgers University. If you're around, do come along:
Noam Leshem
@noamleshem.bsky.social
Professor of Political Geography, Durham Uni. Violent conflict, political resurgence, colonial history. Author of: 'Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land' (Chicago 2025); 'Life After Ruin' (Cambridge 2017) https://tinyurl.com/mtyd9m
Really lovely to read this. You never know how a book will land and @dannymcnally.bsky.social makes some vital observations here that go well beyond my book, touching on questions of method and ethics that I've been grappling with as well.
Antipode@antipodeonline.bsky.social · last yr.New book review -- @dannymcnally.bsky.social on "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" by @noamleshem.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2025/07/31/e... @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Friend: Remind me, are you going to Detroit next week for the big American geographers conference? Me: Have you lost your mind?! I'm a German passport holder with a digital record of working in Palestine. That's a one-way ticket to El Salvador these days. It made him laugh. I wasn't joking.
"... we are united in denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name – and cynical claims of antisemitism – to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities." Strong letter from US Jewish academics. docs.google.com/document/u/1...
Not In Our Name
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Spot on. “What’s left of the state of Israel besides bombings, destruction, abandonment and murder? Nothing. Nada.”
Mauricio Lapchik@mauriciolapchik.bsky.social · last yr.מה נשאר ממדינת ישראל חוץ מהפצצות, השמדה, הפקרה ורצח? כלום. נאדה.
This is an eye-opening conversation between David Remnik and Atul Gawande, but not only for addressing the destruction of ASIAD and the catastrophe that it is causing. It reveals in a blunt way how the Trump regime embraces abandonment as a system of rule. 🧵
Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”
Podcast Episode · The New Yorker Radio Hour · 14/03/2025 · 27m
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Living in the northeast of England, you don’t need a report to know this. You see it in the derelict streets, in cities and towns suffering from endemic underinvestment. Regional discrepancy is critical here- we are simply not living in the same socioeconomic universe as London and the southeast.
Michael@therightarticle.bsky.social · last yr.The United Kingdom is no longer a rich country after 15 years of stagnation and ‘plummeting living standards’, according to economists.
Rule No. 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." For the Trumpists, the cruelty is the point. They enjoy it. What is "the point" for the anti-Trump coalition broadly imagined? What kind of tactic would manifest an enjoyable expression of that point?
The Tesla protests work because they are a physical and geographical embodiment of Saul Alinsky's Rule No. 13: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." What are other ways to do so? (The far right has coopted Alinsky for a decade now. It's time to reclaim him.)
Noam Leshom, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, January 2025 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Roberto Mazza newbooksnetwork.com/edges-of-care
Edges of Care
A firsthand look at the lives of those who reside in no man’s land—the violence they endure and their immense resilience. “No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, ...
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Just heading back from “The Game” project workshop in Bologna- superb work on the refugee route in the Balkans site.unibo.it/thegame/en If you’re organising a workshop, having 17th century frescoes is a great start! #unibo
I had such a great conversation with @pollypw.bsky.social on the Voices podcast of the @europeanisa.bsky.social, which is just out. We covered a lot, but it's a really fun exchange!
Polly Pallister-Wilkins@pollypw.bsky.social · last yr.For our latest Voices @europeanisa.bsky.social podcast I talked with @noamleshem.bsky.social about his amazing new book Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/v...
For our latest Voices @europeanisa.bsky.social podcast I talked with @noamleshem.bsky.social about his amazing new book Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/v...
What is...No Man’s Land?
Podcastaflevering · Voices: The EISA Podcast · 14-03-2025 · 1u 16m
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OUT NOW: The first major update to our Primer on Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar, in over a decade is now live! Read, teach, share!
Palestine-Israel Primer - MERIP
Middle East Research and Information Project: Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971
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Hey political theory and first century peeps! Susan Buck-Morss is here!! bsky.app/profile/buck...
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We’re running an advanced workshop for political geography students on the geographies of settler colonialism and this is definitely top of the list to screen.
Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · last yr.The Palestinian-Israeli film "No Other Land" has won the Oscar for best documentary feature at this year's Academy Awards. Watch our interviews with two of the co-directors. Basel Adra: www.democracynow.org/2025/2/18/ba... Yuval Abraham: www.democracynow.org/2024/4/5/no_...
The Palestinian-Israeli film "No Other Land" has won the Oscar for best documentary feature at this year's Academy Awards. Watch our interviews with two of the co-directors. Basel Adra: www.democracynow.org/2025/2/18/ba... Yuval Abraham: www.democracynow.org/2024/4/5/no_...
First podcast on my book now out with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. A great conversation with @robbyref.bsky.social about #Palestine, #Jerusalem, the Black Panthers and even my own childhood!
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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Dr Roberto Mazza@robbyref.bsky.social · last yr.My latest podcast for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social is now out. I had the pleasure to interview @noamleshem.bsky.social discussing his book Edges of Care newbooksnetwork.com/edges-of-care
My latest podcast for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social is now out. I had the pleasure to interview @noamleshem.bsky.social discussing his book Edges of Care newbooksnetwork.com/edges-of-care
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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Had a wonderful couple of days at @aberuni.bsky.social in Wales, talking to colleagues and students about the new book. Great discussion and getting to hang out with the brilliant Dr Mitch Rose was an extra treat. Somehow, it's always sunny in Aberystwyth when I visit...
Canada in fact HAS agreed with the US, to rename the Gulf of Mexico!!!
Great to back at Queens University Belfast to speak about my book. Great discussion about political indifference, abandonment and the rather bleak political moment we live in. The clear skies this evening were an extra treat!
Belfast friends- I’ll be speaking at Queen’s University about my new book, about disposable lives, state abandonment & the uncaring sovereign. This Thursday, 20 Feb, 2pm. More details in the poster 👇🏼
America, Trump doesn’t care about your children.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last yr.Yesterday ~68 people employed in HHS's Administration for Children & Families early childhood offices were terminated. I'm told Office of Head Start lost ~20% of staff; Office of Child Care lost ~25% These workers process grants for preschools/childcare centers, monitor health/safety issues, etc.
The only problem with being a bridge is that everyone walks all over you.
UK hopes to be a bridge between Europe and Trump’s US, minister says
Jonathan Reynolds says Britain has not given up on persuading the US to allow Ukraine to join Nato
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