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Cities Politics Economies Research Group, Geography, SEED, University of Manchester

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Great to see this piece out! Drawing on her PhD research, Yihan Yan shows how media discourses shape views of dog ownership in Chinese cities + how it becomes a problem to be managed. Really interesting work on more-than-human geographies & the right to the city! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Problematizing pet dogs: media discourse, nonhuman governmentality and everyday multispecies coexistence in Hangzhou, China
Pet dogs have become key sites of urban conflict as cities seek to regulate more-than-human life, yet we know little about how media in China problematize them and how these framings are lived and ...
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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Really important initiative from some colleagues in geography and beyond.
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Palestine: Spaces and Politics
Introductory Curriculum
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orbán came in on a landslide and he’s going out on one. So much work to rebuild what these last 16 years have crushed, but this is a great night for Hungary.
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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Includes our UoM-CARA fellow colleague Wiesam Essa. We’d often joke about the Manchester weather. Colleagues had found another post for him when his university and apartment was bombed in Jan 2024.
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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Anyone remember ZNET? Back in the mid 2000s I wrote a number of articles there on South Korea about migrant labour, precarious work, free trade agreements, and more. They were offline for years and I didn't save any copies. The site is back up so I've downloaded them and put them up on academia.
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
One of the best parts of the job is working with amazing PhD Researchers, and its excellent when their hard and brilliant work is recognised. Congratulations to @cperguom.bsky.social Yihan Yan on winning this year's @geographers.bsky.social Urban Geography Specialty Group Grad Student Paper Award!
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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Coupang has been flying an American flag of convenience and cosying up to MAGA. The latest salvo is a letter cosigned by 56 Republicans. Is this the new shape of globalization: Maga-adjacent geopolitical positioning to leverage the US state to help protect domestic tech monopoly rents back home?
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Seoul rejects US Republicans' claims of discrimination against Coupang - The Korea Times
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected claims by dozens of U.S. Republican lawmakers that Seoul is discriminating against American companies oper...
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Running a fieldcourse built on practitioner access is harder to organise than tours or a transect survey, but the pedagogical payoff is fantastic. Huge credit to my co-instructors, esp @jamiedoucette.bsky.social for making it happen.
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Students also ran their own research projects across the week. Interviews, observation, field notes and it was great to see their semester’s worth of prep materialise into fieldwork and initial findings!
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The visit to L'Olivera was a highlight of the week. A worker cooperative producing wine and olive oil in a model that integrates people with disabilities as full cooperative members, not as recipients of charity but as owners of the enterprise.
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Day 1 we visited Can Batlló, a former industrial complex in Sants reclaimed by neighbours and transformed into a community hub. Emphasis on community ownership and alternate social relations.
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Back in Manchester after a great week in Barcelona with our 2nd year geographers @uomseed.bsky.social. Fieldcourse on coop economies and alternative economic spaces. We took students into the world of Barcelona's solidarity economy. Worker co-ops, housing cooperatives, social currencies...
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Thanks to @itsbethperry.bsky.social & @goodfellowtom.bsky.social for inviting me to their #UrbanRadar podcast to talk about my #UKRI_FLF on health crises. It's a privilege to talk about this work. I hope some of it is useful to those working in this space www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
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22. CRISIS, PUBLIC HEALTH & THE CITY: A conversation with Cristina Temenos - Urban Radar
In this episode Beth and Tom are joined by Cristina Temenos from the University of Manchester to discuss a wide range of issues from trust in medicine, responses to COVID-19 and experimentation and ev...
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Health crises are difficult, and crisis in urban research is complex, and there's still so much to learn. @healthierfutures.bsky.social @cperguom.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Our new Queer and Trans Histories series creates a home for cutting‑edge work on past and present LGBTQ+ lives. We’re looking for proposals grounded in rich empirical work and innovative approaches to intimacy, emotion, silence, and subjectivity. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This week the UN ECOSOC’s Partnership Forum is foregrounding cities via SDG 11, on sustainable, inclusive urban futures. A good reminder from this @urbangeography.bsky.social piece on the imperatives & paradoxes of gender mainstreaming in urban policy & theory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“Let them sing!” The paradoxes of gender mainstreaming in urban policy and urban scholarship
The early twenty first century has been a defining period for urbanization at a global scale. There is an urgent imperative to bring a gender analysis into debates on urbanization in this period of...
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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Important piece by my friend and colleague Anders Riel Muller.
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Adoption as banishment: Why Korea's adoptees deserve more than symbolic redress - The Korea Times
The renewal of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for a third mandate on Jan. 29 offers a new opportunity to address the unresolved adop...
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Successful policies are ‘made’ to fail on political grounds all the time, in the case of drug policy this usually has deadly consequences. I’ve written about the ways governments construct those failures discursively and materially www.ijurr.org/article/from...
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FROM BUDAPEST TO BRUSSELS: Discursive and Material Failure in Mobile Policy - IJURR
This article introduces an analytic of discursive and material failure, developing a spatial grammar for analysing both the discursive framing of policies as failed and the actually existing processes...
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The People's Papers @peoplespapers.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
With a fantastic lineup of speakers 🤩 Join us online on Thursday, February 19th at 3pm (UK time)! RSVP via Eventbrite for the Zoom link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...
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Cities Politics Economies Research Group, UoM @cperguom.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Podcast with Juia Mortimer and visiting CPE member Felipe Magalhaes.
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Great to have @felmagalhaes.bsky.social present his current work at our final @cperguom.bsky.social seminar of the term. Discussion ranged from deindustrialisation in the context of authoritarian neoliberalism to futbol and populism. Looking forward to the book! @uomseed.bsky.social
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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Last year I recorded a podcast while visiting U Mich. It's just been published. The series is about personal and professional career paths. Lot's of talk about the 1990s alter-globalization movement, the problem with the IVY league, Oxbridge, and the North American tenure-track system... 1/2
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How Did You Get Here? | Power and Resistance with Dr. Jamie Doucette | Korea in Maize & Blue
Bringing a background in activism to the study of democratization and economics, Dr. Jamie Doucette provides food for thought on modernity, American politics, academic labor rights, and structures of ...
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Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
"Technology, the labor process, and the working class" (1976) archive.org/details/tech...
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
A bit of Vancouver in Manchester! Great to have Jesse Proudfoot giving a @cperguom.bsky.social talk about his work on addiction, structural racism and urban politics. @uomseed.bsky.social
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felipe magalhães @felmagalhaes.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Thank you so much for all the generosity, Cristina! The conversation in the end was great, hopefully we can have more!
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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I don't normally post FT content, but, wow, this article is excellent! Surveys a range of actors, initiatives, and critics active in this space. It can feel niche teaching about this so great to see it covered in a single article. #startupcities #blockchain #cryptobros #neoreaction #chartercities
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Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
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The People's Papers @peoplespapers.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Radio Free People's tapes (via the Liberation News Service, 1971: jstor.org/stable/community.28039451)
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This piece on Locating Crisis, along with the other fascinating commentaries, now has a home in Vol 3.3 of Dialogues in Urban Research! journals.sagepub.com/toc/DUS/curr...
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Dialogues in Urban Research - Volume 3, Number 3
Table of contents for Dialogues in Urban Research, 3, 3
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felipe magalhães @felmagalhaes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Outro workshop excelente de geografia crítica, pros doutorandos e recém-doutores. Mais uma vez: hospedagem incluída e possibilidade de passagens.
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The People's Papers @peoplespapers.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
New post up! Learn more about Waterloo Place on the @officialuom.bsky.social campus in the 1970s, once home to a whole range of radical political projects and groups. linktr.ee/peoplespapers
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The People's Papers @peoplespapers.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Next up: rent strikes, housing co-ops, squatting, communes and more! A housing periodicals appreciation post 🙏 www.instagram.com/peoplespapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social
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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
If anyone is thinking about attending SASE 2026 and looking for a panel on East Asia, democracy, political economy, here's something i'm putting together. Pop me an email if your interests fit and would like to participate. Feels like SASE might be popular this year as many avoid US-based events.
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
If you're in Manchester, please join us in the Department of Geography, @uomseed.bsky.social Wed 26th November. Dr Jesse Proudfoot will be giving talk on: Connecting symptoms to social causes: Reading carceral urbanism in Chicago through a drug addiction. 3pm HBS, g.33 @cperguom.bsky.social
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A pleasure to speak about recent work on Global Urban Perspectives on Social Work for Innovative Access to Homeless Care at a great event on the Impact of the Specialist Homelessness Social Work Role & Next Steps for Policy & Practice organised by Manchester Council and KCL
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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
*Job alert* We are advertising two opportunities @manchester.ac.uk, linked to the JUST centre (www.just.ac.uk) - A Post-Doctoral Research Associate on Social & Built Infrastructure (www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...) - A PhD on Green Skills & Communities (www.findaphd.com/phds/project...)
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JUST (Dev) | Centre for Joined-up Sustainability Transformations | The University of Manchester
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Wed 5th Nov @cperguom.bsky.social Cities, Politics, & Economies Research Group in the Department of Geography & MUI @uomseed.bsky.social will host a talk by Dr Rakib Akhtar on: Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the making of an Indian smart city, chaired by @mehebubsahana.bsky.social 3pm in HBS G33.
Poster for Rakib Akhtar's Seminar in Geography @ Manchester
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
A goal of the #UKRI Urban Crisis project is to shift conversations on health inequalities & poverty to see it as a whole person / whole systems issue. So it was such a privilege for our team to co-organise a policy exchange with the Municipality of Athens. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e...
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Experts from three major cities gather to tackle homelessness
Local governments from three major cities in Europe and Latin America gathered in Athens last week for a three-day policy exchange tackling one of the most pressing urban challenges of our time: homel...
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The People's Papers @peoplespapers.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Save the date! We'll have materials to share from @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and @aiucentre.bsky.social and a roundtable discussion with folks sharing their reflections and experiences from the time. Should be a lively and participatory discussion! @cperguom.bsky.social @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
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Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Went ahead a made a separate account for this archival research -- follow along @peoplespapers.bsky.social !
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The People's Papers @peoplespapers.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Interested to learn more about this People's Papers project? Check out a link of upcoming and past events as well as recent blog posts here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers
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Cities Politics Economies Research Group, UoM @cperguom.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Another excellent event coming up organized by CPE's Arielle Lawson. See you there!
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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Special Section in The GJ: 'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
A blue tile with a quote from the editorial introduction to the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section by S. van Lanen & S.M. Hall (2025): "As political discourse transforms and the period of fierce austerity implementation moves into history, we believe critical geographers should remain attentive to its traces in everyday practices, policy realities and material conditions. To imagine alternative futures, austerity's legacies should not be forgotten".A blue tile sharing the titles of 8 open access papers within the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section: 
1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall
2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al.
3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock
4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou
5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali
6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al.
7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull
8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy
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Cities Politics Economies Research Group, UoM @cperguom.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A reminder of our departmental seminar series this autumn.
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Cities Politics Economies Research Group, UoM @cperguom.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Some good speakers coming to GDI this semester.
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Cities Politics Economies Research Group, UoM @cperguom.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Congrats!
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
In Athens 26th Sept? Join us for a workshop on Best Practices for Addressing Homelessness Outreach Across Athens, Greece, Manchester U.K., & Santiago, Chile. English translation provided. The event is part of our UKRI Urban Crisis Project and co-sponsored with the Municipality of Athens.
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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Want to hear more about some of the many alternative local newspapers (such as LOP) that sprang up around the UK in the 1970s and 1980s? If so, this online event might just be for you. Thanks to @feministcity.bsky.social, @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and @cperguom.bsky.social, among others.
Poster for Archiving the People's Papers - learning from Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham - Tuesday September 30th, 3pm - online
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The Department of Geography at The University of Manchester has a really full and exciting seminar series this autumn, if you're in town, do come join us! @cperguom.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social
Schedule of speakers for Autumn 2025 Geography Department seminar series
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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It was a pleasure to sit in the passenger seat with Laam Hae's driving on the long journey that became this article. It's focused on her extensive work on the topic here, but I had some modest input with the theoretical framing.... 1/4
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Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Next up in the #Manchester Urban Film series, we're focusing on the city's contested music (and urban) histories. We'll be showing film + interview clips followed by a collective discussion. Learn more and sign up to join us on Sept 25th here: mancunianway.eventbrite.co.uk @cperguom.bsky.social
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