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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

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

After-award celebrations with my two favorite people in the world — and of course, pizza! 🍕

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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. 🌸🙏✨

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The project was co-facilitated by myself, Alex Holloway and Jess Küçükkalyon. It was funded by a @uomseed.bsky.social Social Responsibility Fund as part of my @urbanstudiesfoundation.org scholarship.

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Read the full version here heartandparcel.org/2025/07/30/f...

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

It showed that meaningful outcomes don’t come from having everything perfectly planned but from creating room for shared experimentation and allowing participants’ strengths to lead the way.

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

From the beginning, we approached the work as equals with the participants. We understood how collaborative design, openness, and honesty can create a space where scholars and communities learn from each other as equals.

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The project’s impact goes beyond the final publication. We'll share more on the process soon but some initial thoughts 👇

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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

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

"Right now it has a membership of over 70 participants located all over the world. We plan to use the network to build community and to spark collaboration. If interested, please join us by sending an email to urbansocialrepro@gmail.com."

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

We seek to challenge this by continuing working with these organisations (more soon) and creating a network of scholars and activists working on urban social reproduction.

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

"Notwithstanding the important debates initiated in events such as this workshop, they often start and finish during the one or two days of the event. This lack of continuity does not enable the building of sustained and long-term collaborations between scholars and activists"

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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 👇

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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. 👏📚

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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-...

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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.

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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 😅

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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.

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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

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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! 🤩

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

And of course, the necessary visit to our local playground after the talk ✨

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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!

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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!

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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

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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!

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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...

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Amaziiiiiing! Check out @cosminpopan.bsky.social 's work and consider donating to support his upcoming film!

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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 ✨

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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

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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....

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Bordering/mothering online book launch

Launching Bordering social reproduction by Rachel Rosen + Eve Dickson, and Borders, Citizenship, + Pregnancy by Gwyneth Lonergan.

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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. 🌸🌳🌻🥔🥕🌽

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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.

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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…

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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

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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 ✨🌸🌼☀️

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