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Austin Read

@austinread.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the University of Oxford

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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 20h
Absolutely loved Doireann ní Ghríofa’s new book. It’s a blend of fact and fiction that follows the “Reader” - a woman researching the history of an asylum that’s being redeveloped into luxury flats. A fantastic example of how feminist historiography helps us rethink our relationship with the past.
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Highlight of the summer: visiting the Gramsci museum in Ghilarza, Sardinia!
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Other bits: view from a beachside sauna, what I think is a lions mane jellyfish, and nearby holy isle seen from lamlash
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Had a wonderful time up in beautiful Arran last week, cooking up what will hopefully be a new research project…
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
i love the Hitchcock mosaics at Leytonstone tube station !
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Summer procrastination of a geographer… a (very rough) sketch of the 6 different land categories used in the upcoming DEFRA England Land Use framework
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Collage inspired by my current (very boggy) read
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
had a fantastic few days in wales at a research symposium organised by Naomi Millner and the PEATSENSE team, exploring blanket bogs and collaging - among other things!
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Barcelona over and out!! One of the best cities in the world. And a great conference #POLLEN26
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Arrived in Barcelona for #POLLEN2026. First stop: Piscines Municipals Montjüic (aka the Kylie Minogue pool). Imagine if a British council owned things like this!!
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny beginning his incredible Super Bowl performance in a sugar cane plantation – perfect timing for my undergrad class on plantation geographies and the plantationocene this friday ...
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
hollow ponds, waltham forest 📍
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
An exciting early Christmas present has just arrived !! The New Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology - featuring a chapter I co-authored on queer political ecology - is out in 2026. Can’t wait to read through all the other chapters…
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
amazingly produced zine from queer patch - group of sinophone queer / feminist researchers. look out for launches in various cities across 2026
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
reading buddy
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Northey Island
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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Arrived in Detroit for the #AAG! Geographers, please check out our session “Making space for anticolonial geographies of and from the metropole?” which is running tomorrow morning in the 10am slot (please refer to the program for location info). In the meantime, I’m hitting up Trading Joe’s!!
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