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Sabina Lawreniuk @sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Special economic zones aren’t just trade infrastructure - they’re tools of imperial power & authoritarian control. 🚨New paper from @invisibleworkers.bsky.social Read on to learn how global production sustains empire & violence. 🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629825001635

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Governing through extra-territoriality: Jordan's clothing production zones as tools of imperial power and authoritarian rule

Jordan's Export Processing Zones (EPZs) for clothing production form part of political geographies of US imperialism in the Middle East, and have serv…

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Sabina Lawreniuk @sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

New in Area: What happens when academic institutions police solidarity? Dr Shereen Fernandez explores the disciplining of #Palestine solidarity & the radical potential of #friendship in resistance. Part of our Dialogues in #Radical Geog SI. Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

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Sabina Lawreniuk @sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

👕Another stark reminder of the human costs of #fastfashion. 🤒In #India’s “castoff capital”, workers are falling ill recycling the world's discarded clothes. 📈Lung disease. Skin infections. Cancer. Via the The Guardian theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick

Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonnes of textile waste a year

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Sabina Lawreniuk @sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🧵Once the beating heart of #UK manufacturing, #Leicester's garment industry is now on the brink of collapse ❓What went wrong? 👟On the ground, our new Invisible Workers colleague, Dr Evie Gilbert, uncovers a story of systemic neglect 🔗 Read on: www.invisibleworkers.org.uk/journal/leic...

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Leicester clothes the world? — Invisible workers

Traces of the UK’s clothing and textile manufacturing heritage remain today in places like Leicester, where a shrinking number of suppliers still vie for orders in the competitive global market. Our ...

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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Want to show your solidarity with garment workers this International Workers Day (or any day)? Download our print-ready solidarity poster - made in Bangladesh - by signing up for our mailing list through the link below. cleanclothes.org/get-your-int... #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay #LabourDay

Three women of different backgrounds stand in front of a globe and hold a sign saying "living wage for all". One holds a megaphone. The text on top of the globe says "global garment worker solidarity".

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Sabina Lawreniuk @sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Let workers take you behind the scene's of #Jordan's clothing and footwear industry👕👀 Led by Katharina Grueneisl & our Invisible Workers team 📅Sat May 3rd ⏰4pm UK/6pm Amman 📍Online or in person at MMAGFoundation, Amman 🔗More info and link to register: invisibleworkers.org.uk/events

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Sabina Lawreniuk @sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🚫GEOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORITARIANISM🚫 🌏CfP Royal Geographical Society Conference, Birmingham, 26-29 August 2025 📧Please send abstracts by 5th March 2025 #RGSIBG25

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Roy Ngerng 鄞義林 @royngerng.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Over 100 people have sent photos to show support for Burmese workers unfairly dismissed by Japan's Honeys. Myo Aye will be reaching Tokyo today to advocate for the workers! You can sign the petition here or send your photos to show support too! (1/x) www.change.org/p/japan-s-ho...

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Sabina Lawreniuk @sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

"There are enough garments in the world to clothe the next 6 generations!" A frequently cited claim... yet hard to evidence I crunched the numbers with BBC Radio 4's More or Less but found a lack of transparency masks the scale of fashion overproduction Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations? - BBC Sounds

We delve into the stats on the scale of the fashion industry

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Sabina Lawreniuk @sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Our @invisibleworkers.bsky.social team is running a creative methods workshop on body mapping next week, led by artist Elizabeth Alster 👩‍🎨🎨 It's open to all staff at #WeAreUoN More info👉 invisibleworkers.org.uk/events/call-for-papers-a3gzw-ctaej Spaces are limited! Please get in touch to join 👋

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Vincent Guermond @vincentguermond.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

New symposium out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on Depletion through/of Social Reproduction. It builds on Shirin Rai's foundational work on depletion to replenish geographical thinking on depletion through/of social reproduction. 1/7 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Laurie Parsons @laurieparsons.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

With negotiations now concluded, COP 29 has been deemed a success by some and a failure by many But what are the key takeaways? Is there any hope for the COP process? And where do we go from here? To find out all this and more, join our stellar panel -Wednesday @ 2pm www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

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COP 29: what just happened? An expert panel discussion - RGS

This expert panel discussion, hosted by the RGS-IBG Climate Change Research Group, looks back at the ins and outs of COP 29 in Baku.

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Sabina Lawreniuk @sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Exciting to see the 1st of our Dialogues in Radical Geography series out in print 🤩🔖 It's a MUST READ w/ crucial thoughts on how we save each other from "unsustainable intensity of work demands" in academic life 😰⌛️ Thank you, @jennypickerill.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1111/area... More to follow 👀

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Laurie Parsons @laurieparsons.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

On the last day of Business of Fashion's VOICES 2024, a reminder of the message Beto Bina, Abi Sivalogananthan and I delivered: Rising temperatures impact workers health and productivity The solution is listening Where factories act on worker concerns heat stress is 75% lower Voice is everything

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Laurie Parsons @laurieparsons.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

18 months ago, I promised garment workers living through one of Cambodia's worst ever heat waves that I would tell their story to brand leaders Today at @businessoffashion.com.web.brid.gy VOICES 2024 I finally delivered on that promise Brands, you've heard what's happening. Now it's time to act.

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