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Julie Ren

@julieren.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam and University of Basel. Book Forum Editor, Urban Geography. SNSF Starting Grant research about aspirational urbanism (2025-2029)

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Julie Ren @julieren.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Special feature on everyday crisis with @ifidimi.bsky.social now in City, including contributions by @yoonaihan.bsky.social; O. Suslova & M. Moaty; M.G.Trovato & B. El Ariss; C. Benjamin, S. Berlin, @sarafregonese.bsky.social & P. Simpson; @benandersongeog.bsky.social; U. Moreno-tabarez
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Volume 30, Issue 1-2 of City
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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A compulsory mix - coffee, water, fruit and notebook - for attending academic workshops. Enjoying the two-day workshop on “Creative methods in uncertainty times” in Basel organised by @julieren.bsky.social and her team
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Julie Ren @julieren.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
My commentary on the idea of ontological locationality, and how it relates to positionality in Dialogues in Urban Research, in conversation with N. Palat Narayanan journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Ontological locationality: A reflection on positionality - Julie Ren, 2025
Palat Narayanan's concept of ontological locationality – the position from which research concerns emerge, distinct from geography or researcher identity –...
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Julie Ren @julieren.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
A (post-)socialist reading of Creating Chinese Urbanism by Fulong Wu, driven by an agenda to expand the reading of certain geographies by certain geographers. With thoughts by S.Ferenčuhová, T.Tuvikene, E.Trubina, @liviu-chelcea.bsky.social, N.Kinossian www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/book...
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'Leaving the soil': a (post-)socialist reading of Chinese Urbanism beyond China → Urban Geography
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🚨 I'm recruiting a funded MA + PhD to research poverty alleviation models w/ a leading Greater Manchester organisation! More than a rough sleeper: Framing & examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation. Deadline: July 1 | Start: October UK/home students only www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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More than a rough sleeper: Framing and examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - More than a rough sleeper: Framing and examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters - my latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...
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Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters
Four Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes.
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David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
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Julie Ren @julieren.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"Masculinities in transit" a forum on Romit Chowdhury's book City of Men (@rutgersupress.bsky.social) with Sanjay Srivastava, Wangui Kimari, Manali Desai, Greg Noble, @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social, @plyushteva.bsky.social in @urbangeography.bsky.social: www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/book...
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City of Men → Urban Geography
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Sandra Jasper @sandrajasper.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📣 JOB ALERT PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de Deadline: 28 March 2025. More info here: www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po... Do get in touch with any questions!
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Julie Ren @julieren.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"Everyday crisis" as a framework to facilitate the reading of quieter registers of subjectivity, agency, politics. The ubiquity of crisis narratives risks diminishing its significance. How to grapple with crisis as a condition without normalizing it? With @ifidimi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1360...
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Critical geographies of everyday crisis
In various domains of social and political life, ‘crisis’ has become a ubiquitous taken-for-granted narrative. This ubiquity risks diminishing the political significance and meaning of the term and...
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Julie Ren @julieren.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"Reworking relations of epistemological authority in teaching collaborations" w Hanna Hilbrandt, a critical reflection on prj w Sans-Papiers & students now out as part of special feature "Decolonising urban knowledge(s): an ordinary imperative in extraordinary times" in City doi.org/10.1080/1360...
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Reworking relations of epistemological authority in teaching collaborations
Though knowledge about urban change is increasingly developed in partnership, knowledge production in teaching often remains entrenched in traditional roles of teaching and learning, research objec...
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Julie Ren @julieren.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
"Doing urban geography in times of crisis" co-organized w H. Hilbrandt, now @ Geographica Helvetica. From the impact of right-wing media on uni admin, to the subjects doing research navigating the growing incompatibilities of institutional rules v. academic aims gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
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Doing urban geography in times of crisis: introduction to the forum “Urban geography in times of crisis”
Abstract. Crises dominate current political debates. They shift the spaces of possibility for geographical research practice and global theory formation. Our starting point in this forum is the diagno...
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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
today FNV union members begin our strike at the uni of amsterdam. our exec. board continues to impose antidemocratic limits on protest & refuses to cut ties with institutions complicit in grave human rights violations. but the university isn’t them, it’s students & workers www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...
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Samen opkomen voor bescherming van mensenrechten
Vorig jaar stemde een overweldigende meerderheid van de bij FNV aangesloten UvA-medewerkers vóór onderhandelingen met het College van Bestuur (CvB) over twee cruciale eisen.
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Julie Ren @julieren.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
"Crisis and Collectives Shaping Art Events: From Events that Matter to Events that Care" now online at Third Text, written with Charlotte Matter, Rosa Sancarlo and Virginia Marano, partly an outcome of our crisis-shaped reading. Available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Julie Ren @julieren.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Collaboration is not an elixir; it can be enormously challenging under the best circumstances. And yet we hope "Research-based collaboration: A toolkit for teaching and learning" might inspire/inform new efforts: www.zueri-urban.com/toolkit #AcademicSky #FeministSky @ifidimi.bsky.social
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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
reposting from bird: join us for a symposium on the urban politics of infra-density at UZH on 14th of December 2023. With Yimin Zhao, @jonschu.bsky.social, @julieren.bsky.social, @nitin bathla, ColinMcFarlane, Gabriela Debrunner, Charlotte Lemanski and Hanna Hilbrandt www.geo.uzh.ch/en/units/sok...
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Upcoming Symposium: The urban politics of infra-density
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Geographers might want to read and sign this letter to the RGS on their de-platforming Palfest docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Letter to RGS concerning de-platforming of PalFest
Dear Professor Joe Smith, Nigel Clifford, Trustees, and members of the Royal Geographical Society, We write to express our deep concern with the Royal Geographical Society’s decision to cancel its h...
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 02/11/2023
'We refuse the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom; between Jewish identity and ending the oppression of Palestinians. In fact, we believe the rights of Jews and Palestinians go hand-in-hand.'
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A Dangerous Conflation
We are Jewish writers, artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread narrative that any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic. Israel and its defenders have long used this rhetoric...
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
A v good overview of the state of Germany rn by @hahauenstein.bsky.social . Racism, islamophobia, and anti-Semitism all on the rise, backed by German gvt. Stand-out quote by Ben Mauk: “It seems hard to get institutions and politicians in Germany to recognise that Palestinians are human beings.”
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daniel loick @danielloick.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Brief aus Berlin: kritische Wissenschaftler*innen an deutsche Politik + Öffentlichkeit Es ist möglich, gegen antisemitische Anschläge und rassistische Polizeigewalt, gegen das Massaker der Hamas und die Kriegsverbrechen der israelischen Armee gleichzeitig zu sein. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Brief aus Berlin – kritische Wissenschaftler*innen an die deutsche Politik und Öffentlichkeit
Seit den Massakern der Hamas in Israel am 7.10.2023 und der darauf folgenden Kollektivbestrafung Gazas durch das israelische Militär werden in Berlin zahlreiche Proteste verboten, die sich mit der Zi...
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
I wrote about Michael Eisen's ousting from eLife for defending Palestinian life, and what kind of science can happen under occupation defector.com/who-is-allow...
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Who Is Allowed To Do Science? | Defector
On Oct. 13 Michael Eisen, the editor-in-chief of the science journal eLife, retweeted a piece from The Onion titled “Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas” with a singl...
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Vue Critique @vuecritique.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Eine Woche nachdem die rechtsextreme Demo auch vor ein geplantes Flüchtlingsheim in #Dresden-#Klotzsche zog, gab es dort jetzt einen Brandanschlag - es ist bereits der Zweite innerhalb von vier Wochen. Die Täter scheinen sich bestätigt zu fühlen. Eine beklemmende Drohkulisse...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Response from the Royal Geographic Society when questioned about cancelling Palestinian Literature Festival. "Risk assessment" is the bureaucratic language used for suppression of speech. It was brought into educational facilities after Cast Lead:
The risk assessment considers the safety of the event contributors and guests, our staff and contractors (cleaning, catering and security staff), and the site itself. A venue like ours (historic; set within a globally known cultural estate; ‘Royal’) is particularly exposed to risk of protest or indeed attention seeking activity by ‘bad actors’. We are in no way suggesting that such disorder would be generated by the organisers, contributors or visitors to the event. Rather we are aware of the public protest and other disruptive activity that such events can be lightning rods for at such a sensitive time. Our decision is consistent with security advice and the views of those responsible for other historically significant buildings and venues. We very much hope that the organisers will bring their events to the Society on future occasions, and as I say we have offered both full refund or postponement.
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Why must Palestinians audition for your empathy? Hala Alyan www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/o...
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Opinion | The Palestine Double Standard
The task of the Palestinian is to audition for empathy and compassion. To prove that we deserve it.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/10/2023
hi Bluesky! @teenvogue.bsky.social I interviewed some of the young people coordinating an 100+ campus walkout in support of a ceasefire in Gaza today, including from the Palestinian Youth Movement and the anti-war group Dissenters. please read and share, was no small feat
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Over 100 College Campuses Walkout Protesting for Israel Ceasefire on Gaza
“We can't stay silent about this," said one student organizer.
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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
A Virtual Special Issue of Politics & Space ( t.co/tBto4VKM9k ) on Critical Political Geographies of Palestine/Israel, published in the face of the current horror, containing papers since 2019, now made free-to-access. t.co/xMRzlfRvfV
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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
A year of reporting, and maybe the scariest story I’ve ever worked on—the cyber-stalker targeting Asian Americans www.theverge.com/c/features/2...
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The obsessive tormenter who made professors’ lives miserable
It didn’t matter if she knew you — if you were a professor and Asian American, you were a potential target.
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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Germany must face its issues over Israel and the past. Silencing a Palestinian author won’t help. My op-ed for The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Germany must face its issues over Israel and the past. Silencing a Palestinian author won’t help |...
The Frankfurt book fair’s cancelling of an award ceremony for Adania Shibli shows the risks of imposing one narrative on our cultural space, says Berlin-based journalist and author Hanno Hauenstein
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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
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Framing Gaza: Call for contributions - Allegra Lab
The culture of fear instilled by the increasingly right-leaning structures of power that govern public spaces and our universities in the Global North
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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
"Why does so much knowledge of the Earth still depend on collecting data in the South and theorising in the North?"
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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
"For many postcolonial nations, it was not enough to be included in scientific organizations: the barriers to participating in and benefiting from scientific research have remained entrenched..." Deborah Coen on Lorraine Daston, asking some great q's.
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Who Gets to Set the Research Agenda for the Planet? On Lorraine Daston’s “Rivals”
Deborah Coen pushes back against one part of Lorraine Daston’s “Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate” by arguing that what constitutes “success” is a matter of who is part of the scie...
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Julie Ren @julieren.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
"There are some who consider this way of seeing, which is to say, focusing intently on the most minor details, like dust on the desk or fly shit on a painting, as the only way to arrive at the truth" -Adania Shibli lithub.com/an-open-lett...
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Julie Ren @julieren.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
How does the violence of the imagination and the cruel optimism of wanting shape everyday urban life? Question shaping my work and outlook these past few years #geosky #urbanism+ #urbanism #methodology #epistemology #methods #methodsky #methsky #Comparativesky #FeministSky #academicsky
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