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Jason Luger

@jluger.bsky.social
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Urban/cultural/political geographer. Antifascist. And other things. Newcastle via North Carolina. @NUGEOG

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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The article came out of a RGS session chaired by @jluger.bsky.social and @sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social last summer. Our analysis remains timely. After the ballot shortage in Seoul's recent local elections led to new far right conspiracies (and despite the conservative candidate's victory!) 3/3
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Korean election body’s efforts to curb conspiracy theories backfire amid ballot shortages
The National Election Commission reportedly printed fewer ballots after conspiracy theories about leftover ballots being used to steal elections, but Wednesday’s ballot shortage has now supercharged a...
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We out here.
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Gareth @gfearn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🎧Final episode for @urbanpolitical.bsky.social in our series on authoritarian urbanism w/ @jluger.bsky.social, Miklós Dürr, Ayşegül Can & Oksana Zaporozhets We discuss whether contemporary urbanism continues to be 'neoliberal', and how the leading tendency is towards something more autocratic:
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103 – Beyond Neoliberal Urbanism?
Are we seeing the emergence of a new conjuncture for urbanism? The final part of our mini series asks whether authoritarian neoliberalism has created the conditions for a more illiberal and distinct t...
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Social & Cultural Geography @scgrg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Upcoming Event: Social and Cultural Geography beyond the Academy – Opportunities in Policy and Practice Friday 28 November, 11.00-12.30, ONLINE (UK) This event joins academic and non-academic geographers to discuss their transition from the academy into the world beyond Further info: scgrg.co.uk
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Northumbria #EncounteringUrbanWorlds Amsterdam trip arriving by ferry.
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Gareth @gfearn.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Very proud to say that our special issue with @urbanstudiesjournal.com is now all up online! We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s) - Güldem Özatağan, Gareth Fearn, Ayda Eraydin, 2025
This Special Issue presents ‘authoritarian neoliberal urbanism’ as an empirical marker and a concept that signposts the ascendence of a new constellation in whi...
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Nice to see this in bright pink hard copy.
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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
fitness influencing, lifting, fight clubs - they all are Trojan horses for fascism
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It was powerful and profound to be in Hiroshima a few weeks ago. No bombs. No war.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Creative and accessible adaptive retooling of former elevated highway in Seoul. Inviting by day or by night.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Shanghai past, present, future. The Bund by night is an awesome spectacle.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Thank you to @samhalvorsen.bsky.social and Adriana Massidda for joining us yesterday for our Annual Lecture - great capstone to the year's activities.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
¡No Pasarán!
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We host Dr. Sam Halvorsen (QMUL) and Dr. Adriana Massidda (Sheffield) next Monday (9th June) for our Northumbria Social and Cultural Geographies Research Group Annual Lecture, on 'Strategies of Popular Participation in Buenos Aires'. Welcome to join in person or get in touch for the MS Teams link.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
En route to Exeter to chat about Authoritarian urban space and affects. Always awed by these Victorian train sheds.
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Linking Silicon Valley's NRx 'California Forever' to Kigali's technocratic master plans, our article of the week explores how illiberalism thrives through urban density and the viral speed of digital 'Extrastatecraft'. By @jluger.bsky.social et al. in @urbanstudiesonline.com buff.ly/sPpXvuA
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Blue skies for some qualitative research in the Lake District with Northumbria Geography first year students.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Lovely day for some place-based assessments on the peri-urban with 2nd year BA students.
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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 18/04/2025
New #OA study by @jluger.bsky.social and Miklós Dürr explores whether there is something inherently #illiberal about the urban condition, e.g., does the urban condition uniquely produce and scaffold #illiberalism? buff.ly/30sn8LQ #PlatformUrbanism
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Happy to see this open access @urbanstudiesonline.com paper published, which began as a chat with Miklós Dürr at Tyneside Bar in August 2022. We suggest that illiberalism is a facet of global urban life. Part of an upcoming special issue: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The urban question under illiberalism? Three thematic approaches - Jason D Luger, Miklós János Dürr, 2025
Advocating the value of an urban lens for researching and understanding illiberalism, we propose a threefold thematic anchoring for emerging inquiry into cities...
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Three sessions on "The Critical Urban Lives of Ruins" here at the #AAG tomorrow (Wed) and Thursday am. What work do ruins do? And what might they reveal that's new?
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Had a bit of fun with this short-fiction piece in an upcoming issue of Critical Studies on Security. In this, a character finds himself trapped on 'Alpha Male Island', a site of 'Manospheric' fantasy. He then manages to escape, and reconsider his subjectivity. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YKBVN...
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The ordinary affects of ‘Alpha Male Island™’: a survivor’s journal
Published in Critical Studies on Security (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome... im cabaret, au cabaret, to cabaret!
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
No Nazis. No Kings.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
CFP for the RGS-IBG in Birmingham, for anyone still looking for a session (see attached). Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, as well as a short biography, to Sabina Lawreniuk (sabina.lawreniuk@notttingham.ac.uk) and Jason Luger (jason.luger@northumbria.ac.uk) by Weds 5th March 2025.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The price of cobalt in Congo. The price of coffee in Cali. The price of neon in Neom. Predictive AI and bombs in the sky.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Jacob Miller and I wrote a short thing on the violent ruination of Trump's America. @gregseigworth.bsky.social was gracious enough to include it along with many other short pieces in this 'Capacities to: Affect up Against Fascism' collection, which is open access: imbricate.press/book/capacit...
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Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism
<p>Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism is a collection of more than forty essays, poems, and visual works that convey myriad approaches for understanding, surviving, and creating counter-movement...
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Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
This symposium @antipodeonline.bsky.social could not account for the latest developments shaped by the far-right (such as centering E.M. as a far-right world builders) but it is still very timely and offers important insights. antipodeonline.org/2024/12/12/n... #geo #geosky @jluger.bsky.social
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Intervention Symposium—“Worldbuilding and Worldbreaking: New Spatialities of the Far-Right” - Antipode Online
Introduction by Jamey Essex (University of Windsor), Carolyn Gallaher (American University) and Jason Luger (Northumbria University) Almost two centuries ago, Marx and Engels conjured an image of a Eu...
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
At a restaurant last night the couple next to me fed the menu into chat gpt and asked it what to order. Humanity won't survive the year.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Favorite workspace away from home.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Nice to see this @antipodeonline.bsky.social intervention out in the world which critically responds to some of the troubling world-building (and world-breaking) happening now. Conversation began in sessions at the AAG2023 in Denver. antipodeonline.org/2024/12/12/n...
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Intervention Symposium—“Worldbuilding and Worldbreaking: New Spatialities of the Far-Right” - Antipode Online
Introduction by Jamey Essex (University of Windsor), Carolyn Gallaher (American University) and Jason Luger (Northumbria University) Almost two centuries ago, Marx and Engels conjured an image of a Eu...
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
A few more weeks to apply for this funded PhD studentship.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Making art 🎨 and thinking about art's relationship to the city, it's processes and spatial contestations, Amsterdam Noord.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
'Encountering Urban Worlds' field trip to Amsterdam, drifting through Leidseplein, global, local, atmospheres, spectacle.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Advertising a fully-funded PHD at Northumbria University looking at how Urban Social Infrastructures (USIs) can be better-provided in UK cities to improve (holistic) Gen-Z Mens' Health and Wellbeing. Get in touch if interested, deadline January. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Critically Understanding the Urban Social Infrastructures (USI) Needed for Young Mens’ Health and Wellbeing in UK Cities (IDRT25/EE/UF/LUGER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Critically Understanding the Urban Social Infrastructures (USI) Needed for Young Mens&#8217; Health and Wellbeing in UK Cities (IDRT25/EE/UF/LUGER) at Northumbria University, listed on F...
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Overheard comment by passer-bye on Northumberland Street: "there's a hell of a lot you can do with Human Geography". Indeed, kind pedestrian.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Gateshead and Michael Caine.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Concrete dreams.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Motivated by the recent events in Amsterdam and our upcoming student field trip there I've been watching McQueen's 'Occupied City'. Spellbinding from minute 1.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
It was a long week.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
In this open access paper now published in Cultural Geographies, through comparative experiences in a mega-church and hardcore gyms in Singapore and North America, I critically reflect on authoritarianism's (dangerous) capacity for atmospheric joy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
Between Mark Robinson and Michele Morrow is some serious dosage of weird.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
Post-politics is Adorno's desk, enclosed In a glass cube on campus quad where activism is not permitted.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 12/05/2024
Democracy takes work, every day (Wien, Hofburg)
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Looking forward to catching up with urban friends at #UAA in New York this week.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
In this Dialogues forum paper; Tilman Schwarze and I suggest that maybe "post-industrial" urbanism has outlived its conceptual value. Open Access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
Social media reminded me that I saw Ed Soja speaking about spatial justice in Asian cities in Singapore back in 2013, one of his last public lectures.
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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
The UK is rain, meetings, and Christmas jumpers.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
North Carolina’s descent in one-party rule today deserves as much attention as Mike Johnson’s past. We’re talking about a state of 11 million suddenly having an election-proof GOP government.
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