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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Forum in Ephemera on my book, Waste and the City: ephemerajournal.org/contribution... Explores the relations between waste & the urban imagination, politics, labour, & property. Big thanks to Sally Cawood, Colin Marx, Rahul Raj, Glyn Williams & Alex Vasudevan, & to Charlotte Cator for organising!

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Sanitation labour, property rights and pothole politics: A book review forum on Colin McFarlane’s Waste and the city | Ephemera Journal

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ucustandrews.bsky.social @ucustandrews.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

URGENT - UCU St Andrews Member - Antonis Vradis is on the Qannir La Cirena boat in the Global Summid Flotilla which has been intercepted by Israel Contact your MP and MSP Contact the Principal Please share

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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Yes to a radical bookshop in Newcastle! Help make it happen by contributing to this crowdfunder

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A study published in The Lancet, the London-based medical journal, found that Trump administration cuts in U.S.A.I.D. funding “would result in approximately 1,776,539 all-age deaths and 689,900 deaths in children younger than 5 years” in 2025 alone. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

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Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’

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Nick Cutler @ncutler.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

New postdoc opportunity: We’re looking for an independently-minded postdoctoral Research Assistant/Associate in biogeography, ecology, environmental science or a related field to join our Leverhulme Trust funded project studying urban sensory pollution. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We've worked with the Geographical Association to develop some school learning materials for A-Level students to think through financialisation, displacement, gentrification etc 'Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study' geography.org.uk/resources/po...

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Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study - Geographical Association

These resources for A level students and teachers consider urban change in Manchester, UK, and include a guided urban walk around the city centre to explore the nature of this regeneration.

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My new book is out!🍾Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power. press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3... II argue that in shattered times, a radical, speculative reinvention of authority is needed. Open-access with @lsepress.bsky.social @rgs.org #geosky #socialtheory

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Human Geography, with expertise in Health Geography (closing May 10th). Health geography is broadly defined here - see examples in the text in the link.

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

New piece in Progress in Human Geography, 'Crisis-thinking and critical urbanism'. What might crisis-thinking be doing to how the urban is conceived, researched, and politicised? How might it impact how we see urban possibility? Open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 30/01/2026

⏰ Urban Urgencies call now open! 🗓️ Deadline: 23 March 2026 (23:59 UTC) This new grant supports collaborative research on pressing urban challenges worldwide, addressing issues such as the climate crisis, housing, health, governance, conflict, AI, and more. 🔗 Learn more & apply: ow.ly/FUIn50XGtgz

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Hashem Abushama (Oxford University) to the Department on February 3rd for an event organised by our Urban Worlds research cluster. Hashem will present on the theme 'Palestine: urban spatial disarticulations, national questions'.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Once again sharing this phenomenal report proposing a £1.5m UK Comics Fund, on top of also being a bangin' evidenced manifesto for comics in general: www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/CCIC%20DCMS%...

Cover to the Comics Cultural Impact Collective's DCMS Report from April 2025

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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Fantastic that a long interview with @ajsecor.bsky.social and I is the cover story for the January issue of Byline Times - was a pleasure to talk to Hardeep and Peter about the ideas in the The Politics of Feeling! @bylinetimes.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

📢December Issue of TIBG📢 Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series. 23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...

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1) Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area
Han Cheng, Deen Sharp

2) Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations
Aya Nassar

3) Constructing and contesting meta-geographies in Russian area studies debates
Vera Smirnova

4) Geography and area studies as critical bedfellows? The view from Singapore
Brenda S. A. Yeoh

5) Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography
Han Cheng

6) Beyond the Limpopo: Geography and the worlding of South(ern) Africa
Maano Ramutsindela

7) Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities
Kaya Barry

8) Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis
Zuhri James

9) Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining
Yamini Narayanan

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with 4 standard articles, 1 commentary, and a Themed Intervention with the names of papers in the issue.

1) Post-pandemic geographies of working from home: More of the same for spatial inequalities?
David McCollum

2) The place where we live: Children, families, play, neighbourhoods and spaces of care during and after the pandemic
Alison Stenning, Wendy Russell

3) Living a ‘shadow life’: The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough
Victoria J. E. Jones

4) What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home
David Bissell, Elisabetta Crovara, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Elizabeth Straughan

5) Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention

6) Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis
Ankit Kumar, Chandni Singh, Lauren Hermanus, Lalitha Kamath, Wangui Kimari, Mark Pelling, Harriet Bulkeley

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Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Please share widely - new editor opportunity at The GJ ⬇️

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A special issue here of the journal Agoriad entitled 'Thinking with fragments: The allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space'. Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban. agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org

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Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

That’s a wrap on our first panel in Ljubljana 🌍 A clear message from today: Europe’s green transition won’t succeed without strong public infrastructure, long-term investment, and public control of public services. Public services are the backbone of a fair, sustainable future. 💧⚡️🗑️

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Congrats to Rozy Fredericks and collaborators on this great film on waste in Dakar - trailer available here for 'The Waste Commons'. vimeo.com/1006661903?s...

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The Waste Commons TRAILER

This is "The Waste Commons TRAILER" by Rosalind Fredericks on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

My review, "An introduction to a non-fascist geography", of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) is now published online first in @dialogueshg.bsky.social Dialogues in Human Geography. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/3)

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies

This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical an...

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Zack Taylor @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the release of an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities Warren Magnusson, who passed away earlier this year. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/walter-magnu...

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

New article by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly & myself on the relationship of infectious disease and urban peripheries Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability: City: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability

This paper works toward building a theoretical framework to understand the role that extended urbanisation and peripherality played in the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on conceptualisin...

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Chuffed that my book 'Waste and the City' has gone from the longest to the shortlist with two excellent books here, alongside @shakirahh.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield... Many thanks to Metropolis... www.metropolis.org/news/meet-fi...

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Meet the Finalists of the 2025 Global Cities Book Award | Metropolis

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Shakirah Hudani @shakirahh.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Very honored that 'Master Plans and Minor Acts' is one of three finalists for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award (Metropolis). Congratulations to @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield and many thanks to the judging panel! www.metropolis.org/news/meet-fi...

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Meet the Finalists of the 2025 Global Cities Book Award | Metropolis

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Exclusive: Global health research projects halted by latest UK aid cuts. Winners of UK government grants for global health research have had their funding suspended after ministers decided to cut spending on international development, we can reveal. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

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Global health research projects halted by latest UK aid cuts - Research Professional News

Exclusive: Applications for HIV research among those impacted by suspension of NIHR schemes

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Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

So... here's why I havent posted much. Been writing a book! Thrilled to share The Feminist Art of Walking is out on Pluto October 20th www.plutobooks.com/978074535100... Thanks so much to everyone who has helped make this happen, I am excited and a bit scared for you to read it

The book cover for The Feminist Art of Walking by Morag Rose. The text is in large sans serif font and is in the middle of the page. It is in white over an image of the sky with a cloudy sunset. On the left edge, vertical, is a cityscape, on the right some gorse bushes

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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

📣 Call for Papers: Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki 🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025 🏹 Please spread the word!

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Our GlobalCORRIDOR paper is out in the latest edition of Urban Studies journal "The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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nickmegoran.bsky.social @nickmegoran.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Special forum in honour of pioneer development, feminist and participatory methods geographer, Janet Townsend, late of Durham University, for Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.

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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

It’s now been out for a while, but this was such a fun project with Vickie! The Promise of Cultural Geography. 86 entries, all between 1-1000 words, focusing on what, for them, is the promise of cultural geography. It’s open access, so please share! research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...

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The promise of cultural geography

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

New paper on density - asking how residents experience everyday densities as 'resource', 'threshold', & imaginary of the urban future. Open access. Such a pleasure to work with wonderful colleagues in Dar es Salaam on this. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Density as Threshold and Resource: Urban Life and Futures in Dar-es-Salaam

Cities in sub-Saharan Africa are rapidly urbanizing, producing new geographies of densification and sprawl. Amidst the debate about the current and future patterns of informal urbanization, the way...

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FLUSH @flushllc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Good news for Paris!🥳 It's great that the Olympics have brought attention to the city's sewage issue, but we shouldn’t need big events like this to remind us how important proper sanitation infrastructure is. Hopefully, other cities, including in the US, will take note and follow through.

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The relentless & vast machine-like production of writing arguing 'compact density is good' that list-off a set of 'ingredients' (trees, walkability, better health, nice places) but which either refuse or don't see that the neighbourhoods highlighted are *almost always rich* melts my noggin-brain.

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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The Politics of Feeling, with @ajsecor.bsky.social , is now out! It’s a book of propositions about the affective politics of three political forms - right wing populism, progressivism, liberalism - in the present post 2008 conjunctural crisis: mitpress.mit.edu/978191598329...

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The Politics of Feeling

The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has become a matter of political feelings in an age of uncertainty. The uncertainties of the post-2008 period ha...

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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This is out today! It is such a great book that explores contemporary politics, time and feeling @benandersongeog.bsky.social @ajsecor.bsky.social

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