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Sarah Marie Hall

@smhall.bsky.social

Professor in Human Geography+UKRI FLF @austerityalters.bsky.social 🍞🌹 Into everyday feminist economic geography, pizza+tap dancing. My views. She/Her 🐕🍕📚🍓🌷

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Matilda Fitzmaurice@matildaf.bsky.social · 7mo ago

CfP for @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference just dropped! Organised by @geogdurham.bsky.social 's Leah Edwards and myself: The Family as Site of Environmental Politics. Please share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

RGS 2026 CfP Family as site of environmental politics

RGS Call for papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2026 – London, England (1st-4th  September 2026) Session title: The family as a site of environmental politics Co-organisers: Leah Edwards [Durham U...

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Social & Cultural Geography@scgrg.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Upcoming Event: Social and Cultural Geography beyond the Academy – Opportunities in Policy and Practice Friday 28 November, 11.00-12.30, ONLINE (UK) This event joins academic and non-academic geographers to discuss their transition from the academy into the world beyond Further info: scgrg.co.uk

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Sarah Marie Hall@smhall.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Brings a whole new meaning to "Bread & Roses"! Speaking of, a small group of us have been coming together for c2yrs as the Bread & Roses Collective to think about radical care and activism in an unequal world. We have a logo and blurb: @austerityalters site will be updated soon with more info 🍞🌹

Theory, Culture & Society@theoryculturesociety.org · 12mo ago

ICYMI: Georg Simmel, 'Roses: A Social Hypothesis' - Simmel’s fairy tale tells the story of the emergence of a sense of grievance about differences in the ability to grow roses which became constructed as a ‘terrible inequality’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Amy Barron@amycbarron.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I have a new paper out in Social & Cultural Geography titled: Making sense of ‘middle-age’: thinking from and through the middle. It presents a research agenda on the geographies of middle-age, and the value of thinking around the middle more generally. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2537686

ABSTRACT of paper This paper presents a research agenda on the geographies of middle-age, drawing on life-history interviews with self-identified middle-aged participants from Greater Manchester, UK. The place of middle-age in debates about age within and beyond human geography is explored, including the extension of the category of youth and the deferral of older age. While lived experiences of middle-age are changing and significant, they are frequently overlooked in research. This paper argues that middle-age must be theorized through approaches and concepts of and around the middle. It draws upon more-than-representational theories as one such approach to thinking from and through the middle, emphasizing in-between affective states and forms of change, whilst highlighting a range of concepts and practices of the middle such as impasse, liminality and waiting. Thinking from and through the middle advances relational approaches to age by shifting attention away from the nodes at either end of a relation, towards the middle itself as being invariably in-relation. Geographers interested in ageing are urged to focus on the middle, be these moments of betweenness earlier or later in life, or midlife and middle-age itself. Future research must keep differences in experience at the fore and maintain a distinctly relational vantage point.
Sarah Marie Hall@smhall.bsky.social · last yr.

Is it just me or is LinkedIn in a bit... gross?? I can't engage with it properly for all the performance. Plus I haven't seen a single dog picture on there for the 3 WHOLE WEEKS since I joined!!! Academic social media needs light and shades, folks!! P.s. here's Max looking especially dashing.

A photograph of a sandy coloured terrier facing the camera. His back half is sat in his bed, the front half out, with his front legs poised in a fancy stance. He wears a red collar with bone-shaped tag, a cocked ear and curious hazel eyes.
Sarah Marie Hall@smhall.bsky.social · last yr.

Notice this headline over the weekend? Here's what irked me: 1. Women bear an uneven load - so do w/c + ppl of colour (intersectional!) 2. This labour goes beyond services to workplaces, homes etc 3. Enough with the fat-phobia 4. How are you going to fix it?! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK has got ‘fat’ on decades of free labour by women, says MP Jess Phillips

Minister points to ‘sexist’ practice of country relying on women to provide services so government did not have to

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Charlie Jones@charliepsych.bsky.social · last yr.

These are enormously confronting, disturbing, distressing times & if you're feeling overwhelmed or exhausted, seems sensible to remember that's pretty realistic in this context. Find connection where you can, & rest. And have faith there are many many good people out there.

LSE Inequalities@lseinequalities.bsky.social · last yr.

How does inequality affect our lot in life? Aini Gauhar of @equalitytrust.bsky.social looks at how household wealth shapes children’s health, education and future work prospects. But which countries offer clues to a more equitable way forward? #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Hard work or inherited (mis)fortune? Young people’s future in an unequal world

Renewing analysis from The Spirit Level: how are children and young people’s health, education and employment prospects shaped by household wealth?

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Sarah Marie Hall@smhall.bsky.social · last yr.

R.e. recent EHRC news, I want to be v clear that my politics have always been trans-inclusive.I was proud to be a member of the Women's Budget Group management committee but left in 2022 because there was no desire to engage in trans-inclusive activism, which IMO is vital.Trans rights=human rights.x

Sarah Marie Hall@smhall.bsky.social · last yr.

Huge congratulations to Amy and Joe on this excellent collection on Aesthetics and the City, so carefully edited and thoughtfully crafted. It's already got rave reviews from Max ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A photograph of small sandy-coloured terrier dog reading this book. He is enthralled!
Joe Blakey@joeblakey.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

A copy of the aesthetics and the city book against a stone wall with ivy on the left