That time of the year when you can by my oldie-but-goldie for a reasonable price link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Fear, Space and Urban Planning

This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear – the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety – with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, expl...

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Environmental warfare in Gaza, book review on @antipodeonline.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2026/06/29/e...

Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance - Antipode Online

Book Review Forum — Shourideh C. Molavi’s Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance, with contributions from Claire Blencowe, Goldie Osuri, Jamie Shenk and Cami...

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nell'ultimo (e splendido) volume di Tracce Urbane (curato da Riccardo Montanari e Giacomo Pozzi), la mia recensione di Oltre la città creativa (di Stefania Crobe e Chiara Giubilaro) rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/tracc...

Rent control is coming back. Finally. And with it all the lies by economists that contradict decades of research by the real experts, housing scholars. Abolish economics faculties

A fine, a tribute, a ransom: Abolish Rent, by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis, explains rent is just that. Found via the @urbanpolitical.bsky.social www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2496-a...

Abolish Rent

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Originally written for a French audience, Victor Pereira's book is an excellent summary of the PREC and its antecedents. Could had been more explicit in associating the rise of the far right in the present with the banalisation of PREC pushed by self defined progressive forces. #bookinatweet

"People in Barcelona are being evicted by capitalist intermediaries who argue they have to make revenues for poor nurses in California" - Ismael Yrigoy, lecture at Iscte for the PhD in Political Economy

Caminhamos, também nesta academia. A Rede Academica pela Justiça na Palestina está aberta às subscrições rajap.pt

Nice rejoinder by @emilymbender.bsky.social on the #stochasticparrots affair medium.com/%40emilymeno...

Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions

It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…

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Social scientists cannot and should not control away that which society has stitched together. Desmond and Western (in Wacquant's Invention of the "Underclass")

Tiphaine Samoyault, Translation and Violence, trans. Alexander Hertich, Princeton University Press, September 2026 (via @stuartelden.bsky.social) progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/09/t...

o conflito NovaSBE/UNL é a versão mais extrema de algo mais profundo: 90% da economia é ideologia e 90% das faculdades de economia são lugares de (re)produção ideologica. O caso da habitação em Portugal é asb oludamente revelador: www.review-rper.com/index.php/rp...

It's nice being rewarded for work that is as fundamental as obscure. Do your reviews (in time) y'all!

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📣🏆🥳 2026 Best Reviewer for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity & the City: Prentiss Dantzler; Runners-Up: Leslie Martin, Henry-Louis Taylor, Simone Tulumello, Thomas Vicino urbanaffairsassociation.org/2026/04/01/2... @docdantzler.bsky.social @simtulum.bsky.social

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom - @academic.oup.com, August 2025 global.oup.com/academic/pro... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Morteza Hajizadeh newbooksnetwork.com/foucault-and...

📣🏆🥳 2026 Best Reviewer for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity & the City: Prentiss Dantzler; Runners-Up: Leslie Martin, Henry-Louis Taylor, Simone Tulumello, Thomas Vicino urbanaffairsassociation.org/2026/04/01/2... @docdantzler.bsky.social @simtulum.bsky.social

"autogestion is a path, a perpetual and perpetually reborn struggle. An attempt at autogestion is something essential and fundamental, since it is the control of living conditions". New EN translation of a 1979 interview with Henri Lefebvre www.historicalmaterialism.org/a-line-is-fo...

A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979) - Historical Materialism

This interview with Henri Lefebvre was conducted for the French Communist Party (PCF) journal La Nouvelle Critique in 1979. As the interview shows, Lefebvre's renewed engagement with the PCF was neith...

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Vigiando geografias “criticas” e “radicais” / Watching "critical" and "radical" geographies - Federico Ferretti e Guilherme Ribeiro para @antipodeonline.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2026/03/10/v...

Vigiando geografias “criticas” e “radicais” / Watching “Critical” and “Radical” Geographies - Antipode Online

Federico Ferretti (University of Bologna)Guilherme Ribeiro (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro) As part of the ethical, political and pedagogical commitment that has been mobilizing part of th...

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'There is nothing so very alarming in the terrible phrase, "destruction of property"'. From Matthew Costa's masterwork on how rent - not labour, not capital, not entrepreneurship - gave birth to capitalism

Neil Gray, Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy – Common Notions, August 2026. Via @stuartelden.bsky.social progressivegeographies.com/2026/03/18/n...

Neil Gray, Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy – Common Notions, August 2026

Neil Gray, Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy – Common Notions, August 2026 Take Over the City provides the first comprehensive spatial analysis of Italian operaismo and th…

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it took some time, but the book forum on Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere is now out on Dialogues in Urban Research. Thanks to Angeliki Drongiti, Moises Lino e Silva, @mitede.bsky.social and Gabriel Fauveaud for their generous/critical engagement! journals.sagepub.com/toc/dusa/4/1

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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the press says Epstein was "infiltrat[ing] America’s Most Prestigious Universities" to earn "prestige and access"; but nobody notices that those prestigious universities have always been free and safe spaces for (white) elites, irrespective of their competences or ethical standing. 1/2

Epstein Used His Fortune to Infiltrate America’s Most Prestigious Universities

The sex offender positioned himself as a patron of the sciences. It earned him prestige and access, and it fueled the myth of his intellectual genius.

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Is it just an impression of mine or geog/urban/planning studies are been flooded of handbooks/companions and the like? Wouldn't be surprised of finding out it's just the latest stratagem of legacy publishers to which we all comply

fighting Trump's necropolitics with the political economy of mass deportation is just a complete failure of political imagination. My two cents for @antipodeonline.bsky.social's interventions antipodeonline.org/2026/02/02/n...

Intervention—“‘Mass Deportations = Lower Housing Costs’: When Necropolitics Meets Liberal Economics” - Antipode Online

Simone Tulumello (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa) On January 14, 2026, the official Facebook account of The White House published a table with a list of the “Top 20 [US] metro a...

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the call for abstract of the 20th Research Conference of @feantsa.bsky.social is up and running, with a list of keynote speakers that includes a quite blatant mistake :D

La casa non è solo un tetto. E' salario indiretto, è infrastruttura affettiva, è spazio materiale dove riorganizzare le nostre vite. E' il luogo da cui partire - simbolicamente e concretamente - per cambiare l'esistente. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7upx...

📚 presentazione del libro 𝗔𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗼 𝘓𝘦 𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘭'𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘰 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘦

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Economics is fundamentally the practice of making up fake worlds to justify economists' own greed. It should just be abolished (text: Graeber, Debt)

this monograph on Naples as a touristic city and its "liberated spaces", by Martina Locorotondo, has all the looks of a great book doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Fernand Braudel and the Writing and Teaching of History in Captivity progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/04/f...

Fernand Braudel and the Writing and Teaching of History in Captivity

In a previous pieces in this series I’ve discussed Étienne Wolff’s work on the biology of monsters, some of which was written during his time in Oflag XVII-A during the Second World War. (An Oflag …

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our article on the representations of discoveries in Lisbon, in between Expos and shopping centres, is now part of Planning Perspective's SI on International Expos, 1851-2025: Planning, modernity and urbanism www.tandfonline.com/toc/rppe20/4...

Planning Perspectives

Special Issue: International Expos, 1851-2025: Planning, modernity and urbanism. Guest Editor: Andrew Smith. Volume 40, Issue 6 of Planning Perspectives

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