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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Call for Papers AAG 2027 // NYC Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corridor globalcorridor.eu/news/cfp-aag... Alan Wiig + I are excited to bring together a dialogue centring corridors in geographic scholarship + debate. Please do circulate and think about submitting a paper

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This has been (and remains) a massive collective effort from a range of brilliant partners, collaborators, researchers, tech/designers + others. It has been truly wonderful to work with such a inspiring group of scholars, and shows what proper academic practice looks like.

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The website features work out of the project inc publications, events + multi-media presentations based on new theory + emerging results from fieldwork across multiple urban + infrastructural sites in Egypt, Greece, Kenya, Italy, Pakistan, Uganda. globalcorridor.eu

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We are launching our GlobalCORRIDOR Atlas today, alongside our project website....as part of our ERC funded project This beta version features dozens of corridors, hundreds of infrastructure projects, nearly a trillion dollars of investment. globalcorridor.eu/atlas

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Excited to participate in this GlobalCORRIDOR event organised by Catherine Ngahu in Nairobi. Join us in person/online for some great talks on global infrastructure projects in East Africa on Tues 26th May biea.ac.uk/events/globa...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Excited to be hosting a book talk by Austin Zeiderman in Sheffield on his book 'Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River' - 23rd March More details inc link to Open Access copy of his book here 👇 sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War on Iran… …From data centres to logistical bottlenecks, supply chains to real estate markets, shipping to petroleum networks globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

ArtHouse, Saadiyat (under construction) in Abu Dhabi $4.2M → $3.8M -$408K drop ▼9.7% UAE property dream is crashing in real time 📉

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Excellent data interface showing collapsing real estate prices in Dubai (5-15%) and Abu Dhabi (3-10%) in real time 👀 www.luxurypricedrops.com

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

A new phase of warfare / destroy the data centre, destroy the cloud, destroy the capacity of the enemy to operate More on the infrastructural geographies of the Israel/US attack on Iran here: globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

My Global Corridor Newsletter 10 is out now The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War of Iran Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf real estate economy shattered?, Oil and gas crisis, data centre wars, Indian port investors + more globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

A big wk in beating back the Far Right in Manchester with massive antifascist mobilisation taking on Britain First while a broad left electoral front working with/in Green Party dominate Reform A clear roadmap on the streets + in the polls against the Fascist future in the UK

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization' Excited to be involved in this event in Sheffield (12 March) at the Site Gallery inc film screening, book launch + panel discussion w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social, Junia Mortimer and more More info here: sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

My GlobalCORRIDOR newsletter 9 is out now Featuring.... New Horn of Africa corridor, the 'Lobito model', Alphabet's digital $15 billion investment in India, EXIM Bank's outstanding $289bn loans, new maritime based readings, data centre film globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

We have a new paper in @ijurresearch.bsky.social ‘ 'EVERYTHING IS BEING DISTURBED’: Unsettling the Spaces of Global Infrastructure along the Northern Corridor Special economic zones, railway projects + more with Sydney Nsubuga onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Lots of new excitement about the 'Manchester model' but it's built an extractive economy that benefits capital, not labour. Read our data-led report "Centripetal Cities A critique of supply-side urban development" - t.co/Dec4wIkGGe

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Global Corridor newsletter #8 is out now featuring... US races for DRC minerals, the return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, more tensions on the Panama canal, Italian train tunnels, Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere and Lunar roads lnkd.in/duf4gE4K

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Global Corridor newsletter 7 is out now featuring... New book on the Belt and Road Initiative, Burkina's revolutionary road, Destiny, a new special economic zone in the Caribbean, Foster design transport hub in Poland, Venezuelan oil, Pakistani railways globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Launch event at the Karachi Urban Lab for a new film and report on railway led displacements in urban Pakistan as part of our Global Corridor project. Community members, activists, and researchers will discuss how big infrastructure projects hit up against everyday lives. Register via the QR code

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The 'Manchester Model' in one story...public money subsidising private profit Renaker borrowed £700+ million from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) + its affiliates to build high end skyscapers... Now it's owner is fleeing with the profits to tax-free Monaco

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Publication Day for our Open Access book w/ Bristol Uni Press "The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures + Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road" Edited w/ Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng + Alan Wiig Link here >> bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Yet again Sheffield University management are forcing sheffielducu.bsky.social members out on strike f/ Monday to protect staff jobs, student educ, + research progress which are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. Another university has to be possible!

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Alongside the report we will also be releasing Zainab Farid's new film ‘Tarakiyati Kaam Jari Hai - Developmental Work in Progress’ exploring the human costs of infrastructure investment in Pakistan

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Looking forward to releasing this report with the Karachi Urban Lab, led by Muhammed Toheed + exploring the ways technical standards for a major railway project will shape the urban lives of thousands of people... Launch event coming up in Karachi soon

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Glad we have such critical journalism in Manchester

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

A reminder that Sudanese activists inc in Manchester have been calling to boycott the UAE, now even more vital given the UAE backed RSF militia captures El Fasher War crimes + blood on the hands of Abu Dhabi + the UAE More info: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Great weekend of radical politics at The World Transformed learning + discussing about imperialism, state violence, red/green alliances, the role of the party. Stand out was the Kids transformed space which was full of fun and care (and crafting!)

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Looking forward to The World Transformed Festival of radical politics, art and culture kicking off tomorrow... I'm involved in two sessions, a panel looking at the power of Abu Dhabi in the UK/MCR + a walking tour of financialised MCR More info here theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

My Global Corridor newsletter #5 is out now This issue features stories, data, opinion + academic work from Pakistani ports to Russia in Sudan to Middle Eastern railways to the longest film ever (on logistics).... globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Manchester out today against the genocide in Gaza as it is every week, people who value and cherish the lives of everyone regardless of race and religion

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I can’t believe that senior politicians, police + media in the UK are now labelling people protesting against genocide antisemitic. People have been killed this week and it’s being mobilised in appalling ways. Horrified at the state of our country…

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Excited for our new edited (and OPEN ACCESS) book released on Nov 20th "The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road" with Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng and Alan Wiig bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The whole weekend is 🔥whether you want to get involved in the drama of YourParty or stick to more anti-colonial, anti-capitalist organising, or simply enjoy some amazing cultural programming. See you there! Tickets here - theworldtransformed.org

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Comrades, join us in Hulme, Manchester at The World Transformed for this session... "Sheikh Mansour my lord?: Capital, Football, Real Estate, and the growing role of Abu Dhabi in Britain" 10 Oct, 12PM – 1:30PM theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

My third Global Corridor newsletter is out now on Substack "Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, EU designs (on) Africa's corridors, Genoa's dockworkers threaten blockade, LAPSSET, seeing like a train + radical highway geographies" globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

A glimpse into the everyday life of one of the largest Romani communities in Greece, located in a shanty town called Nea Zoi (New Life). Nea Zoi lies within a vast network of transportation and logistics infrastructures just outside the Greek capital.

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

"The plan for the redevelopment of Gaza can also be understood within this settler colonial logic: an urban idea that, in order to be achieved, necessitates the erasure of all that stood before through the expulsion of the population and urbicide of the built environment."

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

In 2018 in our 'Homes to Assets' report we set out how the urban development machine would soon spill out beyond the confines of the city-centre. Politicians dismissed these concerns but now people in places such as Hulme and Ardwick face big displacement pressures.

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

'This is the Manchester city centre set to expand into six new areas as council redraws map' Gentrification, demolition + surging rents will hit inner city neighbourhoods at speed as the capitalist urban development machine requires more + more land www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

"China's African port expansion, the end of the Line? Trump's self-named corridor, CPEC, Not Just Roads and Pakistani gateways." My second Global Corridor newsletter is now on Substack providing news + views on global infrastructure. globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I've started a Global Corridor newsletter on Substack providing a round up of some of the most interesting news, stories, data, opinion + academic work on global infrastructure. Looking forward to sharing more in autumn but for now enjoy the first one globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

A carnival like protest led by a banner declaring, "Stop the Lies, there's no Genocide in Gaza" There's no coming back from this depravity, when the rest of the world is watching children starved, shot + bombed to death. Truly sickening to see it on the streets of the UK this weekend

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Delete your @bookingcom account! As the protest in Manchester last wk made clear we need to BOYCOTT this company, which profits from Israel’s illegal occupation + apartheid of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem Info here: www.bdsmovement.net/bookingcom-s...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Poster now in every Oxfam shop in the UK, on every high street up and down the land. 'Middle England' know's whats going on UK GOV/Israel supporters think attacking opposition to genocide can happen w/out any repercussions but I think they under-estimate how this will reverberate into the future

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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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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Again Forensic Architecture provide detailed data/visual understandings of the genocide in Gaza. This work documents how the militarised system of 'aid' operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) acts to accelerate ethnic cleansing + kill frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/aid/a-c...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

In Manchester police push through crowds + arrest 16 people inc 3 vicars and many elderly under the Terrorism Act for holding signs "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Manchester International Festival is sponsored by tens of millions of £ by Aviva, who are involved with finance with Elbit Systems They profit from genocide and use art washing to try and hide this. People of Manchester say no to art washing in a genocide

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Last week the Global Corridor project had the pleasure of hosting our international collaborators to comparatively think through how infra corridors are transforming the planet inc urban terrains A vibrant, caring + intellectually stimulating few days together w/ amazing people

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Artist, GROVE calling out Aviva, sponsor of 'AVIVA STUDIOS in Manchester for providing insurance to UAV Engines, an Elbit Systems subsidiary in Staffordshire, which manufactures engines for drones used by the Israeli military First day of MCR International Festival and the sponsor is under pressure

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