Sign in

Matina Kapsali

@matinakapsali.bsky.social
344 followers 338 following 84 posts

Urban Geographer Postdoctoral Fellow @USForg @GeographyUOM Feminist Geography • Social Reproduction • Grassroots Infrastructures • Urban Politics •🐈 • she/her

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 22/09/2025
Congratulations 🥳 to @urbanstudiesfoundation.org Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Matina Kapsali for receiving Research Staff of the Year award! 👏 👏 👏 @officialuom.bsky.social @matinakapsali.bsky.social
041
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Last week was special. Honored to be awarded Research Staff of the Year for the Faculty of Humanities @officialuom.bsky.social Grateful that efforts get recognized—and even more grateful for the incredible people beside me. Special thanks to Sarah @smhall.bsky.social for always being there. 🌸🙏✨
3110
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
So happy this is out!! 👩🏽‍🍳📚🌍✍🏾🍜 Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working with 6 inspiring women of Heart&Parcel to co-create CuiZine—an online zine exploring “The social lives of food” through a series of collaborative workshops. 🧵 Read and share widely! #CuiZine #foodstories #zinemaking
171
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Last year, Nina Ebner & I ran a workshop on urban social reproduction w/ scholars & community orgs from Greece, Mexico & the UK. This included a zine-making workshop capturing shared practices & challenges—a rich, collaborative experience! 📚✨ Read more 👇
130
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Can’t wait to dive into this edited volume on Aesthetics and the City! Looks like @joeblakey.bsky.social and @amycbarron.bsky.social have done a fantastic job putting it together. 👏📚
140
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
Working Class Movement Library @wcmlibrary.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Announcing a new research project! In partnership with the University of Manchester’s ‬ new PGR Placement scheme, we’ll be welcoming a PhD researcher, Arielle Lawson, to the Working Class Movement Library archives this summer. bsky.app/profile/manc... bsky.app/profile/uom-...
A background image is a photo of a range of front covers of Manchester newspapers. In the middle, it says, "The People's Papers, exploring Greater Manchester's activist newspapers from the 1970's." The WCML and University of Manchester logo sit at the top of the image.
1119
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Yesterday we held the 2nd Collective Care workshop "Transnational solidarities" Huge thanks to all participants for their beautifully crafted talks. ✨🙏 While this was a closed event to allow for open discussion among participants, our website will be updated soon with reports and details.
142
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Nov: “Here are your revisions. Submit by July, no rush.” Me: easy, plenty of time! Me in July: 🫣 …better get started Tell me I'm not alone 😅
000
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
📻 🎧Just wrapped a great 2-hour workshop with Athens activists: primary teachers & housing activists! 🎙️ We talked podcasting for collective/activist action, consent, resources (or lack of them) (time, funding), and cool ideas for collective podcasts + how unis/researchers can back them.
111
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
A busy week ahead with some really exciting events! 🎉 As part of the Collective Care project, we’re hosting two workshops. While both are closed to the public, we’ll be recording, editing, and sharing them on our website soon—along with a new podcast episode. Stay tuned! ✨ www.collectivecarepr.com
130
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
At the @atgender.bsky.social conference today for our panel. Very interesting discussions on social infrastructures, abolitionist care, urban commodification and police violence. Barcelona — it’s been such a pleasure. See you soon! 🤩
011
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A full day in Barcelona today! 📒 💻 It was exciting to meet and speak with colleagues at @bcnuej.bsky.social. The conversations around creative participatory methodologies, political movements, and care will stay with me for a long time. Thanks so much for the invitation!
192
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
a great and much needed piece
011
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Planning my trip to Barcelona to attend the 2025 AtGender conference and host a panel on "Political infrastructures of transformative justice" with 4 amazing speakers! Can't wait! 🤩 🎉 www.atgenderconference.org More info soon!
121
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Excited to be in Barcelona this July and meet the @bcnuej.bsky.social team! Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification" 💻 In person & online 📆 8 July @uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
185
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Excited to see this happening tomorrow in Athens: International Workshop on Housing Rights in Times of Crises. I’ve followed this project from the start in various roles—it’s so interesting to see it come together. Can’t wait for the insights & brilliant speakers!
050
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New paper out today by @laurajpottinger.bsky.social and me, making the case for more curious, diverse and heterodox economic geographies- and suggestions for how we can do this! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
‘Male, Pale and Stale’? For More Curious, Diverse and Heterodox Economic Geographies
With this paper we directly address critiques made of mainstream, self-defined Economic Geography as a ‘male, pale and stale’ subdiscipline, proposing that more constructive conversations require ope....
1309
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
What does building an ethics of care in academia mean? @bcnuej.bsky.social's "Ethics of Care framework" invites us to reflect on our research spaces—and to adopt or demand healthier, more humane working conditions in an increasingly hostile academic world. www.bcnuej.org/2025/05/30/n...
052
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Amaziiiiiing! Check out @cosminpopan.bsky.social 's work and consider donating to support his upcoming film!
110
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Inspiring conversations with Miriam Williams these days on care as a public and political ethics, collective shared responsibility and care-driven urban transformation. Thanks to @smhall.bsky.social for organising it ✨
030
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 27/05/2025
OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/sM4Uta3
13119
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
Gwyneth Lonergan @drglonergan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I'm excited to share that SSAHE will be holding a joint book launch for myself and Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson on 5 June at 5pm online, with Umut Erel as discussant! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borderingm....
eventbrite.co.uk
Bordering/mothering online book launch
Launching Bordering social reproduction by Rachel Rosen + Eve Dickson, and Borders, Citizenship, + Pregnancy by Gwyneth Lonergan.
1910
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Spent the morning at Gorton’s Community Centre today — cooking, dancing, and learning with some amazing people. What a brilliant experience! If you get the chance, I really recommend volunteering with Heart & Parcel; such inspiring work bringing communities together through food and language. 🌸🌳🌻🥔🥕🌽
010
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Does Geography have a (working) class problem? If you don't already know the answer, this should help; www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Ps fwiw, most chippies where I'm from are owned by Greek or Chinese families, but funnily enough this isn't even considered.
sciencedirect.com
A taste for deprivation? Fish, chips and leaving the European Union
This paper explores the relationship between food culture and political behaviour through the lens of the United Kingdom’s referendum on leaving the E…
3216
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Looking forward to tomorrow's Methods Fair. I’ll be thinking with this: "What happens when those who are usually researched… become the researchers?" Power shifts, new knowledges, and unexpected insights. #MethodsFair #ResearchJustice #FeministResearch @methodsmcr.bsky.social
031
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Is fieldwork in Manchester starting? Oh yes it is! Do I have the best co-researcher ever? Absolutely ✨🌸🌼☀️
020
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 22/04/2025
How can zines be used to communicate disabled people's history through a non-medical lens? @richamm.bsky.social reflects on the zine-making project run by the Disability Action Research Kollective.
historyworkshop.org.uk
Politicising Disability Through Zines
How can zines be used to communicate disability history through a non-medical lens?
16532
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'
Austerity and Altered Life-Courses: Call for blogs 

Series Three – How austerity alters disabled people’s lives and futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, and practice 

Do you work at the intersection of disability and austerity? Do you have lived and/or research/policy-based experience of how austerity alters disabled people’s lives? We are curating a blog series which focuses on the ways austerity shapes and changes disabled people’s lives and futures, and we want to hear from you! 

If you are interested in contributing to our blog series on the topic of austerity and disability, send us a short summary of your blog (200 words max) to austerityalters@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 30th May, with the subject line as ‘Disability and Austerity Blog’. If this date is not accessible for you, but you would still like to submit a summary, please let us know. 

We approach disability inclusively and broadly. Please see post thread for full text details.
133
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Just wrapped our 2nd interview for our participatory podcast: a primary school teacher in central Athens shares how care, solidarity, and activism shape her daily life—from antifascism and migrant support to gender violence, green spaces, and the fight for public education. www.collectivecarepr.com
252
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🎙️📻 We kicked off our participatory podcast project yesterday with a great chat with Miriam Williams. We talked about the crisis of care and how people are responding on the ground in Australian cities—especially around food insecurity. More to come—stay tuned! researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/m...
researchers.mq.edu.au
Miriam Williams
020
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
✨ New Project! ✨ Thrilled to announce the launch of our participatory podcasting project! 🎙️ Over the next few months, communities and scholars in Greece and beyond will be in convo to explore collective care and solidarity infrastructures. Stay tuned! www.collectivecarepr.com
293
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
Gender and Justice Journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Gender and Justice publishes feminist research that tackles gender related injustice. Our view of (in)justice is broad; it includes the economic, social, criminal, distributive, environmental, cultural and the political. Submit a paper today buff.ly/ldRJU7W #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction
075
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We've a new paper out today on Austere Life-Courses and Foreclosed Futures in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. Read for free here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
084
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
📢Launching the Urban Social Reproduction Network 📢 To join the network, write to urbansocialrepro@gmail.com
151
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A rich and empowering day of conversations and sharing of experiences and ideas around colonialism, whiteness and decolonial methods yesterday at FAC. Thanks to Erin Araujo for organizing it!
010
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Tomorrow I'll be travelling to Athens for El Cambalache's workshop on "Collectively Situated Knowledge: decolonial methods for constructing collective auto-narratives and positionalities.". Can't really share my enthusiasm to think, share and learn from co-participants!! 📚📝 cambalache.noblogs.org
010
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
💜💜
010
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Ready for the 1st PEER training workshop! ✨ 🎨💭💬🖍📝 Such a great pleasure and honor to work with women at Irida and give them space and time to collectively reflect on the project's research questions and to experiment with creative interviewing.
010
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🌸 My project has a home! 🌸 🔎 Everyday social reproduction, life stories, intimate spaces, relationships and communities. Read more on the project's aims, methodology and outputs and stay updated on news ⤵️ urbancountertopographies.wordpress.com
urbancountertopographies.wordpress.com
Home
2125
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
In my paper, I introduce the concept of transversal solidarities to housing studies by seeing how, in Greece, housing solidarities have formed across space, time and subjects. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com
Towards Transversal Housing Solidarities Across Space, Time and Subjects
The paper documents the emergence of precarious local and migrant tenants as political subjects that build transversal housing solidarities in Greek cities amidst multiple intersecting crises. In d...
162
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hot off the digital press, my article in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on Social Reproduction and the Housing Question onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Social Reproduction and the Housing Question
There is broad recognition today that there is a link between the crisis of social reproduction and the housing problem. But their precise relationship is not always clear. This paper is an attempt t...
25520
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Yesterday, I was invited to contribute to a workshop organised by a wonderful team studying housing policies/struggles in Athens, Glasgow and Barcelona. A refreshing and interesting discussion and a great opportunity to meet old and new friends working on similar issues. See more housinc.ntua.gr
010
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Happy to see my two articles in Thessaloniki Social Atlas discussing private management of public space and grassroots urban experimentation amidst austerity. thessalonikisocialatlas.arch.auth.gr/en/ English version available soon.
020
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
✨Reminder ✨ 🗓️ DL for abstracts: tomorrow, Wednesday 18 Dec "Political Infrastructures of Transformative Justice" session at the 2025AtGender conf Join us to explore how urban commoning and grassroots political infrastructures reimagine justice and care, reshaping the geographies of urban life.
021
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
Emma Banister @emmabanister.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
We now have FOUR episodes of #MethodsTalk available. open.spotify.com/show/60TyhNN...
open.spotify.com
Methods Talk
Podcast · Methods@Manchester · Methods Talk is the methods@manchester podcast. Methods@manchester is a University of Manchester initiative focused on supporting interdisciplinary and innovative metho...
043
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Out now — "Replenishing Geographical Thinking on Depletion through and of Social Reproduction" — a six-article symposium organised by @vincentguermond.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social @nithyaaa.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2024/12/11/d...
antipodeonline.org
Symposium — “Replenishing Geographical Thinking on Depletion through and of Social Reproduction” - Antipode Online
Organised by Vincent Guermond (Queen Mary University of London), Katherine Brickell (King’s College London) and Nithya Natarajan (King’s College London) Social reproduction is about how we live, how l...
02612
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
📢Call for Papers 📢 AtGender Conf, 9-12 July, Barcelona Interested in how urban commoning and grassroots political infrastructures reimagine justice and care, reshaping the geographies of urban life? Do get in touch if you are interested! 📝Send your abstract by 18 Dec ♦️Submission guidlines 🔽
122
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It feels nice to see this printed! Do check it if you're interested in feminist theory and urban knowledge production. Dm if you want a copy of our chapter on women's urban activism
051
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Happy to present my work on Housing, Migration and Solidarity earlier today at the course Migration, solidarity and urban politics organised by colleagues at Aalborg and Osnabrück universities. Thanks so much for the invitation! Guest lectures are always a great pleasure 🙏📝📚
061
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
While fieldwork in Thessaloniki is underway, time to re-introduce my work here. My project focuses on grassroots communities and spaces of migrant women in Thessaloniki and Manchester. 🔎 Life stories, intimate spaces, relationships and communities. 🧵
1142