Sign in

Ruth Craggs

@drruthcraggs.bsky.social
219 followers 158 following 1 posts

Reader in Historical and Political Geography at King’s College London.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Ruth Craggs
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Absolutely astounded that the UCU and Unison branches at Kent and Greenwich were not consulted, and that staff only found out about the merger this morning via BBC news and Kent Online. Solidarity to all colleagues.
219977
Reposted by Ruth Craggs
Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Vol. 88 is out! It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C Take a look at the contents below 🧵 1/31
22717
Reposted by Ruth Craggs
Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
How was the discipline of geography caught up with apartheid in South Africa? In this extract of "Decolonising Geography" @drruthcraggs.bsky.social and H.Neate explore the anti-apartheid activism of #geography staff and students, through powerful interviews. buff.ly/kmMBSO3
roape.net
Anti-Apartheid Activism and the discipline of geography - ROAPE
How was the discipline of geography caught up with apartheid in South Africa? Applied research and urban and regional planning was central to some of the most visible and hated structures of…
094
Reposted by Ruth Craggs
London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
Our autumn seminar series—"Law and Empire"—begins on 8 October with Nathan Perl-Rosenthal on "The art of prize: privateers’ legal geographies in the long eighteenth century". One for @prizepapers.bsky.social et al. Registration details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/art-p...
8 October 2024, 5:30 p.m. BST
[in person* and online via Zoom]

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (University of Southern California)
 
The art of prize: privateers’ legal geographies in the long eighteenth century.

* Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.
11517