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Routes: The Journal For Student Geographers @routesjournal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Call for Editors Routes: The Journal for Student Geographers is looking for new Editors to join our editorial team. For more information and details on how to apply, please see: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Call for Editors

Call for Editors Routes: The Journal for Student Geographers is looking for new Editors to join our editorial team. Routes is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing geographical work produced...

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

1133 - hmm, let's just read that interesting book I picked up at one of the publishers' stands at the RGS conference. This year, Frank Bille's Somatic States : On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity. I have high hopes for it!

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Every year my first day back after summer holidays and the RGS conference looks like: 0900 - enthusiastic rush of energy to design my research and teaching plan for the upcoming academic year, based on existing commitments 1130 - first waves of panic at realising the plan is wildly implausible

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History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group @hpgrg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today at #RGSIBG26 the HPGRG is sponsoring a session on The Psyche, Sense, and the Psychoanalysic: A Conversation About the Self in Geographical Thought. A Dialogues in Human Geography plenary conversation with Steve Pile, Jessica Dubow, Diana Beljaars, and Maximilian Hepach. @rgs.org #geosky

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History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group @hpgrg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

RGS AC2026 Fringe Event: Doreen Massey Annual Event 2026 - Thursday 3rd September 6pm onwards Public exhibition & roundtable discussion (with Dave Featherstone) 📍Metroland Studios, London, NW6 6PS Food & drink provided - free & open to everyone university.open.ac.uk/centres/open...

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🎙️ We’re delighted to welcome Dr Julian Brigstocke as our second panellist for this year’s DGRG Annual Lecture at RGS-IBG AC26. See you in the Ondaajte Theatre on Thursday 3rd, 16:35–18:15 to hear more about @jbrigstocke.bsky.social's work. #RGSIBG26

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some fantastic HPGRG sessions at the RGS conference today!

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 03/07/2026

The Leverhulme Library – showcasing recently published books from researchers the Trust has funded. This month we have Anna Snaith, @profkarenmcnally.bsky.social, Daisy Fancourt, @jbrigstocke.bsky.social and @kiranmehta.bsky.social.

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

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History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group @hpgrg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Exciting HPGRG talk: Ed Armston-Sheret on his terrific book On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration (University of Nebraska Press). Thursday 23rd April at 12-1pm (British Summer Time). Registration essential: shorturl.at/TolWO #geosky #history @rgs.org

Front cover of the book On the Backs of Others. Showing an 1878 illustration of explorer David Livingston, looking very ill, and being carried through a swamp by local several porters in Ujiji, Tanganyika (now Tanzania)

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My new book is out!🍾Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power. press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3... II argue that in shattered times, a radical, speculative reinvention of authority is needed. Open-access with @lsepress.bsky.social @rgs.org #geosky #socialtheory

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Do consider submitting a research article, short intervention, creative contribution or book review for the next special issue of Agoriad @spatialtheory.bsky.social on anti-fascist geographies #geosky #socialtheory #geohumanities

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Thanks! Yes I am probably the same.

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I’m seriously considering doing the same. How’s it going for you?

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Very sad and angry to hear about this fascist attack at my wonderful local pub

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Just finished correcting the page proofs for this. Very excited to see it in print shortly 🍾

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The web page for my forthcoming book "Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power", part of the @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series, is now live: press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3... It should be out around January 2026 🤞 #geosky #sociology #socialtheory

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Nonauthoritarian Authority | LSE Press

This book is part of the <a href="https://press.lse.ac.uk/rgs-ibg-series" target="_blank">RGS-IBG Book Series</a> ISSN: Print: 2996...

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Great opportunity for UK and international students to apply for PhD funding in Geography at @cardiffuni.bsky.social Applicants from current final-year undergraduates and masters students, as well as from non-traditional academic backgrounds, are welcome. #Geosky www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

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EnvHumsOxford.bsky.social @envhumsoxford.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Happy to announce our fall programme! Pleased to be hosting @brdemuth.bsky.social for our annual flagship lecture on Nov 6. We'll also welcome @andrewseaton.bsky.social and @dannydorling.bsky.social on Dec 4 for a discussion of Andrew's new work on coal. For more info, see the web link in our bio.

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History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group @hpgrg.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

We are delighted to announce the 2025 History and Philosophy of Geography undergraduate dissertation prize winner: Henry Blake, @geogdurham.bsky.social, for his dissertation Foreclosed Futures: Hope, Precarity, and Ambivalence in Contemporary Cornwall. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4jjc4dp6 #geosky

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Claire Blencowe @claireblencowe.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Super excited to discuss my new book Spirits of Extraction:Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race with these fantastic people! If you're at RGS_IBG on Friday please join us!

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Joe Blakey @joeblakey.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Today marks the launch of our edited volume Aesthetics and the City. @amycbarron.bsky.social and I are thrilled to see this in print. We hope it’s of interest! Do let us know what you think. We are hosting a hybrid launch event in early October. 🔗More details: www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a...

A copy of the aesthetics and the city book against a stone wall with ivy on the left

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Feel free to get in touch if you need help accessing a copy.

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I have a chapter in the book on Cities and the Sixth Sense: The Aesthetics of Experimental Urbanism. The chapter looks at experimental architecture/urbanism projects on the US/Mexico border through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s politics of aesthetics. www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a... #geosky

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Aesthetics and the City

Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience. Drawing on diverse theories and global case studies, this edited collection examines how aesthetics rela...

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

So excited to see Aesthetics and the City in print. Congratulations to editors @joeblakey.bsky.social and @amycbarron.bsky.social. #geosky

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Ed Armston-Sheret @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

You can get 50% off my book "On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration" as part of the @univnebpress.bsky.social's summer sale (if you are based in the USA or Canada). Just use discount code 6SUMM25 on checkout. #geography #exploration

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Maisie Tomlinson @maisie-tom.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

New in Area: 'The "creative thesis" in the academic "anxiety machine"' by @mutablematter.bsky.social This paper highlights the possibilities of supporting 'creative' PhD theses within an increasingly challenging institutional environment. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Angela Last (2025) entitled 'The "creative thesis" in the academic "anxiety machine"' with a black banner at the top.

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 27/05/2025

Research Fellow @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores how communities in Brazil’s favelas establish forms of everyday community authority in response to the authoritarian violence of police and criminal groups. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @cardiffuni.bsky.social

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We are honored to invite you to our 5th workshop4sudan with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard to discuss Leanne’s new book A Theory of Water. Sign up here and please share widely: chuffed.org/project/work...

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 23/05/2025

The Trust's May newsletter is out now! Read about intersectionality and the musical, exploring our future in space, plantation afterlives: landscape change and environmental experience in Guyana, and much more: leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter

Four dolphins in a row in clear green water, viewed from above.

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The projecrt aims to map and analyse the diversity of authorities that help to coordinate and maintain social life, and challenge dominant power structures, in a context of chronic violence. I will identify, analyse, and relate the many forms of community authority that enable residents to survive.

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I'm fortunate to have a Leverhulme Fellowship from Sept 2025 to August 2026, on 'Informal Authority, Care and Resistance in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro', developing the concept of 'nonauthoritarian authority' in a detailed empirical setting. Brief summary here: lnkd.in/eww3v5yi #geosky

Photo of protest of police violence in a Brazilian favela. 'Ato Ecumenico pelo Mortos da Maré, Rio de Janeiro'. Credit: MidiaNinja, CC BY-SA.

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 20/05/2025

We're HIRING an Editorial Officer to start in August 2025! 📅 Deadline for applications: 8 June 2025. If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply. Fully remote position! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

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Editorial Officer (2137) - Birkbeck, University of London

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

A highlight of my garden year is always this cobra lily (arisaema) coming into flower:) 🌱GB

An arisaema (cobra lily) plant against an orange wall. An arisaema: a very exotic tropical-looking plant (actually originating from high in the Chinese mountains), with a black and white flower said to resemble the shape of a cobra's hood

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Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Our @geographicalassoc.bsky.social statement on the crisis impacting UK Higher Education Geography. We urge universities to maintain their current capacity for geography and to capitalise on its growth in schools and relevance to the workplace and wider economy. geography.org.uk/ga-higher-ed...

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GA Higher Education geography statement - Geographical Association

As the subject association for geography the Geographical Association is concerned about the funding position of many UK universities...

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Amy Walker @awalkergeogs.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

New paper out! 📄💥 Loved working with Kate Moles and Jürgen Viet Ahn Höpfel on this —thinking through how UK austerity co-opted the nostalgia + resilience of ex-mining communities to justify neoliberalism. Out now in Memory Studies' special issue on Communities + Change: tinyurl.com/bdft66fj

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A beautiful letter - invoking internationalist solidarity against the imperialist, apartheid formation of the US and Israel. 'Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.' mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett...

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Letter from Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian student activist being faced with deportation, writes from an ICE detention facility: “The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppres...

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Solidarity to everyone at Cardiff, but especially to the 64 staff in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff in “scope” for redundancy.

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Also thrilled to announce that Volume 1 of Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory, is out. It was a huge labour of love for all involved and there are some terrific papers. The theme is Indigenous Ontologies. #geosky #academicsky agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org/1/volume/1/i...

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Indigenous Ontologies | Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Call for Papers: Special issue on ‘Geographies of the good: love and hate in a polarized world’. Delighted to announce the call for Issue 3 of Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory. #geosky #academicsky agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org/announcement...

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Announcements | Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Full details here: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

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Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

From Dissertation to Funding: A Roadmap for Early Career Researchers in Human Geography 2025-26. UK History and Philosophy of Geography research group seminar, with Maximilian Hepach, online, February 20th 2025, from 12-1pm GMT. #geosky Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/15f057...

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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I had a really positive experience writing a SNAPSHOT for environment & history and would encourage other ECR's to consider submitting :)

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Boycotts work. To all of you who are havering on the sidelines: we need you publicly to add your names to all the ongoing and yet-to-come initiatives

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CUFightBack @cufightback.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The CU Fight Back website is live and acts as a repository for info, events, petitions, letters, stories, and perspectives from Cardiff University staff and students, and beyond. We will resist the proposed cuts. Our first letter is from Dr Tim Johnston cufightback.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/l...

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Letter to the VC – Dr Tom Johnston

From Dr Tim Johnston, former academic staff at Cardiff University in composition Dear Vice Chancellor, I am writing to you to express my dismay and great distress at the news of Cardiff’s exception…

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