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Dom Davies

@drdomdavies.bsky.social
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Reader in English at City Uni London. The Broken Promise of Infrastructure (2023), Graphic Refuge (2025). Convening Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social More info: www.drdomdavies.com

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Delighted that Graphic Refuge won this year’s Comics Studies Society book prize and that it’s already informing reading lists and teach-ins against the anti-migrant forces all around us. @crifkind.bsky.social & I are indebted to critical refugee studies & to Vinh Nguyen who wrote an amazing foreword
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
From decluttering bedroom drawers to detoxing from social media, minimalism has taken the affluent class by storm. Are they just an online trend or do they foster deeper desires that might be mobilised in the pursuit of a just world after capitalist growthism? on.soundcloud.com/Px0koxPPU4Wy...
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Less is Not Enough: Minimalist Desires and Postgrowth Politics, with Miriam Meissner, Dom Davies, and Postgrowth Planning at UCL Bartlett
From decluttering bedroom drawers to detoxing from social media, minimalism has taken the global affluent class by storm. But what are the cultural politics of minimalist practices? Are they just an o
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Dr. Reed Puc @mediocre.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
honored and delighted to join @drdomdavies.bsky.social and Kremena Dimitrova in the Journal of The @britishacademy.bsky.social, documenting our exhibition at the Academy’s Summer Showcase last year representing @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/14/...
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Power grids: community energy and comics co-creation
This online exhibition of photographs and artworks provides documentation of ‘Power Grids: Reimagining Energy Infrastructure in Comics’ (2024–2026) The project is funded by the BA/Leverhulme Small Research grant scheme and the images included here were exhibited at the British Academy’s Summer Showcase in June 2025 The project brings together two discrete yet growing social movements: community energy and comics-based research
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I've been posting less and less on here, but now i am back i have a chance to tell everyone to read this brilliant exploration of five key graphic narratives of the climate crisis from the great Dom Davies!
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Looking forward to this on 31 March, come join us! Registration at link below
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Join us for this free public event in London with @dudleymarianna.bsky.social discussing her book Electric Wind with @drdomdavies.bsky.social and featuring an exhibition of art and sound made in response to energy and the weather. Refreshments also provided!! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
In this essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social I explore five graphic narratives that draw us to life in extraction zones breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/drawn-to-e...
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Drawn to Extraction
Five graphic narratives that document life in extraction zones
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Not one but two really engaging reviews of Graphic Refuge now out in @comicsgrid.com
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The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship @comicsgrid.com · 11/03/2026
New in the journal! Precup, M., (2026) “Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... @openlibhums.org #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies cc @wlupress.bsky.social
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Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of <em>Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics</em>
This review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, co-written by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, with a preface by Vinh Nguyen (2025), places the book in the wider political ...
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Our latest TTiN podcast is now out with Samir Harb, Exhausted Circulation: Palestine and the Politics of Cement on.soundcloud.com/4mnSjnk599sR...
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Exhausted Circulation: Palestine and the Politics of Cement, with Samir Harb
Concrete underpins modern construction and allows for building processes that are mostly taken for granted. But where does the cement that comprises concrete actually come from? What natural resources
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It was great to speak with Samir Harb for the @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social pod about the politics of cement in Palestine and why he turned to comics to make sense of the territorial contradictions of the Israeli occupation
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Susan Zieger @susanzieger.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ttin... I had a great conversation with Dom Davies and you can listen in!
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, the latest episode of the TTiN podcast with @susanzieger.bsky.social is out now! on.soundcloud.com/2XhRSBW1ZTdy...
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Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, with Susan Zieger
Logistics describes the just-in-time supply chains that make consumer capitalism possible in the twenty-first century. It has seeped into every corner of our imaginations and behaviours, transforming
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
What is logistics? How is it shaped by capitalist power? And how has it shaped our imaginations in turn? @susanzieger.bsky.social explains for the thinking through infrastructure podcast open.spotify.com/episode/64AW...
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Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, with Susan Zieger
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Rich and detailed review of Graphic Refuge by Nina Mickwitz in @comicsgrid.com open access
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Myka Abramson @mykaabramson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Had a great time chatting with @drdomdavies.bsky.social about literature, automobiles, infrastructure, and US empire. @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social is a really cool project - well worth checking out.
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This was such a thought provoking and expansive conversation, an excellent demonstration of what literature can reveal about the many affective, cultural, and political lives of infrastructure
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
What makes an American road novel? What does this genre tell us about the imperial ambitions of infrastructure? And all the hopes and broken promises of individualised Automobility? @drdomdavies.bsky.social sat down with @mykaabramson.bsky.social to find out more open.spotify.com/episode/41YZ...
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Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony, with Myka Tucker-Abramson
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
New episode of Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast out now, featuring @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social and @bobbyjewell.bsky.social on the experience of rain in the wet city of Glasgow and how it calls on us to see (and hear) infrastructure differently on.soundcloud.com/n5QnspCifThX...
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Living With Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, with Andrew Hoolachan and Bobby Jewell
How does rain impact how and when people get around, whether on foot, on public transport, or in private vehicles? How does it affect how we use outdoor and public spaces, from parks to streets and sh
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Bobby Jewell @bobbyjewell.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Really glad to be on @drdomdavies.bsky.social fantastic Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast with @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social We talk about Living With Rain in Glasgow following Andrew's fantastic report & my own responses to rain through sound Listen here >>> soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
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Living With Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, with Andrew Hoolachan and Bobby Jewell
How does rain impact how and when people get around, whether on foot, on public transport, or in private vehicles? How does it affect how we use outdoor and public spaces, from parks to streets and sh
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Our short 2025 in review episode out now on our Soundcloud channel and other podcast platforms, featuring brief excerpts from our discussions with @zackpolanski.bsky.social, the Foundational Economy Collective, @julietjfall.bsky.social and others on.soundcloud.com/4TE7ZqvzJaR9...
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2025 in Review, with Dom Davies
In this short review episode of the Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast, network convenor Dom Davies looks back at some of TTiN's activities in 2025, including our event with Zack Polanski, our bo
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A short piece in @theconversation.com on Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams and the adaptation currently on Netflix theconversation.com/train-dreams...
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Train Dreams on Netflix is a beautiful film – but it misses the magic of the original novella
The film loses the spirit of unsettling indirection that comprises the magic of the original story.
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
An interesting selection on this list of “books that got you through your twenties” for @theconversation.com There was only ever one choice for me: Joe Sacco’s Palestine. What would yours be? theconversation.com/twenty-exper...
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Twenty experts on the book that got them through their 20s – part one
Many of us turn to literature to guide us through the highs and the lows of this formative time
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
If anybody's watching #TrainDreams on #Netflix and is interested a postcolonial/infrastructural reading of the novel, this essay I wrote a few years ago is available in full here drive.google.com/file/d/1Kydm...
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
What would you say if you had 5 minutes to talk to Matt Damon about the “global water crisis”? Our conversation with Filippo Menga about Thirst published this year by @versobooks.bsky.social is now available on our Soundcloud channel and most podcast platforms. on.soundcloud.com/cp29Zt2aTJKK...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Download the Introduction to Graphic Refuge by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, now Open Access on our website @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...
The cover of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind includes a panel from a graphic novel.
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Great to see the intro to Graphic Refuge now available open access from @wlupress.bsky.social !
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative. For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure. m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
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Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall
Stream Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall by Thinking Through Infrastructure Network on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free ...
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This was such an inspiring discussion highlighting the value of an infrastructural approach to borders but also of alternative methods that bring wide audiences with them through the research process
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Looking forward to this conversation with Filippo (a coauthor of mine on comics and climate change from a few years ago) next week about his new book Thirst: The Quest to Solve the Global Water Crisis, out now with @versobooks.bsky.social. Join us!
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 05/11/2025
Looking forward to presenting along @drdomdavies.bsky.social and @mediocre.bsky.social at the 22nd Annual Historical Materialism conference in our "Comics Against Capitalism" panel on Saturday, 8th 10:00-11:45 GMT. conference.historicalmaterialism.org #ComicsStudies
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Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I just listened to an excellent presentation on comics & infrastructure by Dr Giada Peterle, part of online talks organised by @drdomdavies.bsky.social within @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social. Such a creative, inspiring & generous scholar! (Her drawings on my book from gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...)
Black & white comic by Giada Peterle, within a visual review of J Fall's book "Along the line". The visual commentary uses quotes from the book in dialogue with drawn personal experiences by G Peterle, drawn as a visual response as part of her written commentary. The two panel page shows and assemblage of mobile phone app used to control mobility, feet and bodies moving in the city during covid lockdowns, as a sort of visual dialogue between two experiences of the same pandemic in different places.Same as previous, showing small infrastructure elements of fences and tapes to control the movement of bodies during covid lockdowns.
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
If you like infrastructure and you like art, and you like thinking about infrastructure through the embodied visual arts, join us for this event!
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Excited for this hybrid launch of Graphic Refuge with my co-author @crifkind.bsky.social and colleague @ernestopriego. Join us on 19 Nov for a discussion of the way comics intervene in our anti-migrant visual culture with relations of refuge. And some beautiful pictures of some beautiful comics!
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
It was great fun to record this conversation exploring transformations in the railway imaginary, from Dickens’s Dombey & Son to EM Forster’s Howard’s End and beyond
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live! In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
And our third and final online event of the term assembles a diverse panel of academics, practitioners, and activists to reflect on what gentrification means today and how we can remake cities without displacing residents. Sign up below. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 17/10/2025
Looking forward to participating in MCCI's Connect: Graphic Refuge panel event with authors @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social and fellow respondent Mihaela Precup www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... (19 November 2025 5pm) #ComicsStudies
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MCCI's Connect: Graphic Refuge panel event | City St George's, University of London
Graphic Refuge is the first in-depth study of comics about refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and detainees by artists from the Global North and South.
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Our second session of the term will explore the global water crisis through discussion of Filippo Menga’s new book, Thirst (Verso 2025), with responses from Naho Mirumachi and Julie Froud Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
TTiN’s first event of the new term. Join us online for this lunchtime discussion about infrastructure, art, and autoethnography.
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Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Thanks @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for inviting me and @drdomdavies.bsky.social to talk about our new co-authored book exploring how comics can document & disrupt dominant images of war & forced displacement @wlupress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/graphic-refuge
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Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 15/09/2025
Also excited to have been accepted to participate in the 22nd Historical Materialism conference, in a panel with colleagues @drdomdavies.bsky.social & @mediocre.bsky.social [6-9 November 2025] www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...
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Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Deadline extended to 27 May! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"The only social space left after the evisceration of society and the undermining of the individual is the family" The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues @drdomdavies.bsky.social www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...
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Reclaiming inheritance tax as a social good - Red Pepper
The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic Davies
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
My latest for @redpeppermag.bsky.social argues that public opposition to inheritance tax must be understood in the context of Britain’s crumbling infrastructure. The more people lose faith in the state, the more they feel the need to look out for their families. www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...
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Reclaiming inheritance tax as a social good - Red Pepper
The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic Davies
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It’s a privilege to have an essay in this month’s bumper issue of @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on the cultural politics of decline in Britain. Out this week and available online to subscribers tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...
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The Decline Rollercoaster
In response to the harsh reality of national decline, Labour has offered only a ‘theme park politics’ fuelled by the sugar rush of the growth delusion. Might a more substantial, more humane vision of ...
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Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Can Refugee Comics Effect Political Change? Discussing Comics Journalism and “Refugeeness” - Ep. 3 of the podcast I did with co-author @drdomdavies.bsky.social is up! www.choice360.org/podcasts/epi...
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The first of our 4 part conversation about Graphic Refuge is now out with The Authority File on all good podcast platforms!
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
TTiN is now on Apple Podcasts! Check out our talks and conversations from 2024-25 and give us a follow and a rating! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Education Podcast · A network for academics, policy makers, & community organizers who work to understand & address the social, political, & cultural impacts of infrastructure. Follow @TTinfraNetwork
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
1 year ago today Britain went to the polls & I spoke with Moya for Novara FM about the ways infrastructure had become embroiled in a cultural politics that often passed unnoticed. We unpacked these in our conversation and I think it still it bears listening to. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
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Novara FM: Britain is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It? w/ Dom Davies
Podcast Episode · Novara Media · 04/07/2024 · 1h 1m
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Comics & graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms – a glimpse into our book, Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, what it covers & why it matters now. With @crifkind.bsky.social for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/comics-and-g...
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Comics and graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms
Refugee comics disrupt a media landscape that tends to reduce migrants to either threats or victims.
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