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Nitin Bathla

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Urban Studies Lecturer @ETH, Human Geog Postdoc @UZH. Debates and Interventions Editor @urbangeography.bsky.social Reviews Editor @urbanpolitical.bsky.social #politicalecology #infrastructure #transdisciplinarity #extendedurbanisation www.nitinbathla.com

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Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
In our latest episode, you will hear: Kevin Sheridan, Richard Wolff and Laura Colini; as well as the host @nitin-bathla.bsky.social . urbanpolitical.online/97-in-loving...
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Christian Dimmer @remmid.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Not good: Out of 20 major producers of fossil fuels around the world—including the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Canada, Brazil, Australia & UK—only the UK, Australia and Norway plan to reduce production of oil and gas by 2030. 11 countries surveyed increased plans for fossil fuel production.
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Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The special issue on authoritarian neoliberal urbanism is now out. Happy to be featured in it and thanks to the editors - @gfearn.bsky.social Güldem Özatagan, Ayda Eraydin for this very timely work.
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Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
All the best with this exciting new project Gala. Really looking forward to following it.
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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Interventions | Spaces of Withdrawal: Compassionate Cities Without Citizens By Morten Nielsen 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/spac...
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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
the #CFP for the next meeting of the Swiss #Anthropology Association (5-7 Feb 202, Fribourg) is out, including our panel A, 'Speculation, Futurity, the Otherwise: Material Incompletion as Future-Making' w @nitin-bathla.bsky.social & Sabrina Stallone www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
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Paper Proposals Annual Meeting 2026 - Schweizerische Ethnologische Gesellschaft
The Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA) promotes fundamental research in connection with the main anthropological institutions through its scientific and cultural events.
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Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Welcome to Bluesky Prof. Kaufmann 🎉
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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
CH-based peeps in particular, the #CFP for the 2026 SEG meeting is out: www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m... Consider our panel A, "Speculation, Futurity, the Otherwise: Material Incompletion as Future-Making" (single slot panels only, so likely selective) w Sabrina Stallone and @nitin-bathla.bsky.social
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Paper Proposals Annual Meeting 2026 - Schweizerische Ethnologische Gesellschaft
The Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA) promotes fundamental research in connection with the main anthropological institutions through its scientific and cultural events.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/06/2025
Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🧱✨ Welcome to the Radical Housing Journal ✨🧱 We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation. 📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...
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Hanna Hilbrandt @hanna-hilbrandt.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This is for urban scholars of democracy who are seeking positivity and inspiration in bleak times: www.societyandspace.org/book-review-...
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How Cities Can Transform Democracy by Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch
As processes of dispossession have come to define cities across the globe, they have also deprived their residents of the opportunity to co-produce urban space.
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Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Have you listened to our latest episode yet? urbanpolitical.online/91-the-subur... @clairemercer.bsky.social's book details how the “suburban frontier” has become the place where Africa’s middle classes are shaped. Roger Keil, Mariam Genes and the host @nitin-bathla.bsky.social review the book.
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91 – The Suburban Frontier – Urban Political Podcast
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Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
@clairemercer.bsky.social @rkeil.bsky.social
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Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
In this episode, you will hear: Claire Mercer Roger Keil Mariam Genes and @nitin-bathla.bsky.social
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Hanna Hilbrandt @hanna-hilbrandt.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
How can cities in the Global South finance climate action in ways that are both effective and just? A reflection from a project workshop that concluded our project "the Urbanization of Global Climate Finance" blog.geo.uzh.ch/financing-ju...
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Financing just climate action in Mexican municipalities: challenges and learnings | GIUZ Blog
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🧵1/ How can armed resistance enable—not undermine—democracy, peacebuilding, and the revitalisation of Indigenous socio-ecological relations? In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social
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Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
So happy to be presenting at TU Braunschweig Reimagining Infrastructure Lifelines alongside @oliverressler.bsky.social among others.
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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
my conceptual piece from the #PRECURBICA is out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... many thanks to @ijurresearch.bsky.social editors and reviewers for a very constructive process! @zasb.unibas.ch
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Contact Zones of Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa
This essay advances the notion of coastal contact zones as heuristic lens, and develops the conceptual framework of climate preconstruction, bringing them together to better understand the challenges....
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Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Here we come with episode V of our series The Urban Lives of Property: 88 - In Conversation with Heather Dorries. urbanpolitical.online/88-in-conver... (Listen via our website or Spotify) This talk addresses the intersections of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in urban property regimes.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Such a privilege to hear from and be in conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social as she spoke about the intertwined nature of climate justice and housing justice in these times of disasters and "end times fascism." @challengeineq.bsky.social challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/naomi-klein/
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Naomi Klein | Challenge Inequality
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A collection of essays in Economy and Society that honours the life and work of Sami Zubaida www.tandfonline.com/journals/res...
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Why is the US-aligned Irish Government not, at the very least, condemning Israeli war crimes - the use of starvation as a weapon of war? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
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Palestinian children face starvation under Israel’s total Gaza blockade
UNICEF says children face ‘growing risk of starvation, illness and death’ as Israel bars food and other aid deliveries.
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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
#LiquidUrbanisms 12-13 June in Basel urbanstudies.philhist.unibas.ch/en/studies/e.... Register at: forms.gle/6JDL4sN4qeZ9....
Conference poster for the Liquid Urbanisms Conference, 12-13 June. Register at: https://forms.gle/6JDL4sN4qeZ9ZztK6.
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
“The US has imposed tariffs on Chinese products? Transit through Malaysia to ‘transform’ into Southeast Asian goods!” Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs - on.ft.com/4k2ZYnm via @FT
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Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs
Asian neighbours wary of becoming staging posts for trade actually destined for US
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Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Extremely generative review «Urban Methods for the Pluriverse» of my book Researching Otherwise by #IndivarJonnalagadda in @city-journal.bsky.social. Read here - www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Urban methods for the pluriverse: City: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
We’re here to help
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 03/05/2025
The UK’s care crisis means many disabled people already live on the edge. Now, £4.5bn in cuts risks pushing them toward an “option” we should never normalise: death over destitution. Charlie Hallam reports
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The end of life bill: the side-effects
When benefits are cut and care collapses, and assisted dying has official approval, might the disabled be drawn to suicide?
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/04/2025
MUST READ especially for climate change concerned folks who think they can choose silence on genocide: “War causes extensive, long-lasting environmental damage, affecting landscapes, ecosystems, biodiversity, and vital resources.” 🧪 @iuscientist.bsky.social www.iuscientists.org/militarism-a...
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Militarism: A Leading Cause of Environmental and Climate Crises
By Manabendra Nath Bera. Synopsis - The climate and environmental impacts of war and military operations are often neglected in global climate negotiations. This article highlights how war, being the...
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Following orders does not exempt you from criminal charges or civil liability
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/04/2025
ICE arrested Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow from India at Georgetown University, on 17 March. He's been in custody in Texas ever since; big props to his academic director Nader Hashemi for personally visiting him and telling his story!
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Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center
A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 16/04/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We are back with a new episode! urbanpolitical.online/87-infrastru... It is part of our Think&Drink Colloquium Series in collaboration with the GSZ for Urban Studies in Berlin. Hanna Baumann talks about forms of urban citizenship through participation in cities in the UK, Lebanon and Germany.
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Really frustrated to miss @davidwengrow.bsky.social 's talk at EPFL recently, so trawling my way through this over the last week. Lots of great insights on nature of freedom, but one thing struck me just now: freedom exists cannot just exist in its experience ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHZs...
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Orlando Patterson 3, Freedom and Slavery; An open conversation with David Wengrow and the audience.
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
2 year post-doc in the Emerging Fields project REMASS on the "materials-energy-GHG-Nexus in Social Metabolism of Global Production-Consumption Networks" at the Institute of Social Ecology, BOKU, Vienna. Deadline May 19. Details here: boku.ac.at/wiso/isec/jobs
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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 08/04/2025
#UrbanStudies is delighted to announce our 2025 Annual Lecture – ‘New Directions for Southern Urban Praxis’ presented by Prof Gautam Bhan will take place at the #CityDebates conference on 16 April. buff.ly/GYBgVbB
Urban Studies 2025 Annual Lecture advert featuring a photograph of Professor Gautam Bhan.
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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Looking forward to hearing from @challengeineq.bsky.social comrade and #UnequalCities researcher, Professor Gautam Bhan, on April 16th👇
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Super interesting @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast interview on @quinnslobodian.com 's new book soundcloud.com/poltheoryoth...
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Hayek's bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian
Quinn Slobodian returns to PTO to talk about his new book 'Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right'. Whilst politicians and thinkers of the new right are typically characterised a
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Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Listen to our latest podcast on the recent important book of Armelle Choplin, Concrete City. With @wanguikimani.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social and #alicehertzog
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Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Just got back home after the AAG and a workshop at Columbia Uni. It was both affective and overwhelming. Brought up epigenetic memories and instincts of authoritarian encounters. I was constantly looking over my shoulder and can‘t imagine the everyday terror confronting our American brethren.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025
You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
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20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
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Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Just finished four days of #AAG2025. Definitely in the top tier of conference experiences. Learnt a lot about ruins, climate, state capitalism etc. I also felt a constant sense of uncertainty from colleagues. Solidarity with all of you, hold in there. Every tyranny comes with an expiration date.
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Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Launch of this timely new journal of Urban Political Ecology at #AAG2025 founded by @rkeil.bsky.social and Maria Kaika. Do consider submitting - us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/ur...
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The important new journal Urban Political Ecology has just seen the light of day. Find them here: journals.sagepub.com/home/UPE journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... And follow them here: upejournal.bsky.social Read the editorial. Submit your work!
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