Tariq Jazeel
@rikjaz.bsky.social
Geographer based at UCL who works on culture, politics, and space. Musings on diasporization, Sri Lanka, South Asia, and much more. coyg… https://www.ucl.ac.uk/geography/tariq-jazeel
Pubs for the People by me & Vallu is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social in October. On how the pub can be salvaged as a space for the Good Life that goes beyond boring ideas of White England. A bargain at £18.99 in hardback (cant even get 3 pints for that!) www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-fo...
Hot off the press and available open access. #Skystorians
The Body as Property and the Moral Limits of the Market: Attitudes towards the Sex Trade in Eighteenth-Century England
This article explores understandings and attitudes surrounding the nature of commercial sex and the moral limits of the market in eighteenth-century England. It examines this contested commodificat...
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Reposting this, with immense sadness, gratitude & respect for all the IAS has done for so many, and for all those whose visionary work has made UCL’s IAS possible over the last decade. So sad to see those intellectual & institutional visions being brought to an end…
UCL Institute of Advanced Studies@ucl-ias.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS. We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026. Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
A Reform council is scrapping a scheme that costs it nothing & helps refugees integrate, while Reform scapegoats refugees for failing to integrate. This is the nature of Reform and the viciously racist ideologies that feed it from overseas. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Reform-run council says free library scheme for refugees ‘is not value for money’
Party withdraws all Lancashire libraries from City of Sanctuary UK programme that supports new arrivals to UK
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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u... With @jennypickerill.bsky.social @peterhopkins.bsky.social Beth Greenhough & Jamie Woodward
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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An evocative short blog post from the COLOMBO ERC project website, reflecting on last weeks talk by Tariq Jazeel (authored by Pamudu Tennakoon, Department of History, University of Cambridge): colombohistories.org/author/pamud... Great to see interdisciplinary conversations already emerging!
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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The first talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @rikjaz.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 27th January, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
Announcing the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series, featuring six brilliant speakers @rikjaz.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social Charlotte Lemanski @princeguma.bsky.social @maanbarua.bsky.social @profgillian.bsky.social Location: Small Lecture Theatre @camunigeography.bsky.social
Brilliant open-access collection of essays on 'The Cultural Location of Fascism' here including by @gavant.bsky.social @charlottefraser.bsky.social + many more I couldn't find on here! reframe.sussex.ac.uk/statesofcult...
The Cultural Location of Fascism
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Harvey at 90: A @versobooks.bsky.social series of short essays davidharvey.org/2025/11/harv...
Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
From the Verso website: This month, in honour of David Harvey’s ninetieth birthday, we’re publishing a series of short essays on David’s unparalleled contribution on urban ge…
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Happy birthday David Harvey! A series of blog posts at Verso celebrating DH’s 90th… 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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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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A generous, open, funny music-loving soul as well as an excellent advocate and a wise observer of the world. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...
‘Simply no one better’: Prominent Black UK lawyer Courtenay Griffiths dies aged 69
Griffiths, one of the first Black lawyers to achieve queen’s counsel, has been fondly remembered by colleagues
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Critical piece of research on sexual violence in the Scottish folk music scene, please share. www.sccjr.ac.uk/news_item/se...
Sexual violence and harassment in Scottish folk music: Opportunity to participate in research. - SCCJR
We are seeking the views and experiences of women musicians on sexual violence and harassment in the Scottish folk music […]
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Really appreciate this very positive review in The Observer of our documentary on the art of the football chant that will be broadcast this coming Saturday at 8pm.
Very lovely to work on this with @lbnaylor.bsky.social & great to see this conversation taking stock on decolonizing geography now published in @acme-geography.bsky.social
Lindsay Naylor@lbnaylor.bsky.social · last yr.As part of the @acme-geography.bsky.social 20+ Anniversary celebration @rikjaz.bsky.social and I had a chat about decolonizing geography. Published here in the just released volume! #geosky #geogchat acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...
Have a new piece published in Social Text called ‘Black Folk in English folk’ with my daughter! Happy to share a .pdf if you’d like to read it. Feature Angeline Morrison and Hak Baker. Almost my favourite thing about it is my daughter’s bio!
‘Sound Carries’, on sound, politics, representation | SI of Social Text out now w/ great essays by Tom Western, @sarasalem.bsky.social @academicdiary.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social | @dukepress.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/social-text
Social Text | Duke University Press
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‘My father’s death saved my life’: director Steve McQueen on grief, gratitude and getting cancer
After his dad died at 67, the 12 Years a Slave film-maker knew it was only a matter of time before he would get prostate cancer, too. The disease kills 12,000 men a year in the UK – a disproportionate...
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Thanks for sharing The proposed plans include a 20% cut to Geography and Planning academic staff (10-15 FTE) We are all a bit shell-shocked But we will organise and strategise as a School tomorrow
Oli Mould@olimould.bsky.social · 2y agoThe first domino in what will surely be a cascade. The uni sector needs some radical new political impetus, and quickly www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'm grateful to Che Gossett for their generous and delicate steering of this conversation which I just discovered was loose in the world. genderjawn.libsyn.com/critical-hum...
Gender Jawn: Critical Humanities: A Conversation with Paul Gilroy
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Paul Gilroy, who is Professor of the Humanities and Founding Director of the for the Study of Racism & Racialisation at Univers...
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