OpenSpace Research Centre @openspaceou.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Still time to submit papers to this great session at this year's RGS/IBG in Birmingham, organised by @gunjans.bsky.social and @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social! 000
Reposted by OpenSpace Research CentreCristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 03/03/2025We're looking for a few more papers for our RGS-IBG conference session on Urban politics, crises and the conjuncture. If interested please submit abstracts to @colinlorne.bsky.social & I by Thursday 6th Feb. @rgsibg.bsky.social 055
OpenSpace Research Centre @openspaceou.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Voices from the Global South: a new RGS/IBG 'resources for schools' podcast discussing the need to rethink how to teach, and respond to, the climate crisis—and what it means to really listen: www.rgs.org/schools/reso... The six short-films can be watched for free here: www.open.edu/openlearn/le...rgs.orgVoices from the Global South: Many contexts, one journey - RGSIn the summer of 2021, the Open University introduced an interdisciplinary undergraduate module titled Global Challenges: Investigating the Social Sciences. Within this module, the Geography strand lo... 000
OpenSpace Research Centre @openspaceou.bsky.social · 12/02/2025John Allen's new book "Power and Space: essays on a shifting relationship" has now been published by Routledge. It sets out the inherently spatial nature of power today and seeks to change the conversation around how power exercises us in the contemporary moment. www.routledge.com/Power-and-Sp...routledge.comPower and Space: Essays on a Shifting RelationshipPower and Space sets out the inherently spatial nature of power today and seeks to change the conversation around how power exercises us in the contemporary moment. The essays brought together in this... 000
OpenSpace Research Centre @openspaceou.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Join Irene Hardill (Northumbria) and Parvati Raghuram (OU), and a guest panel, for an Area classics revisited webinar on 'Diasporic connections' taking place on 26th February 2025 at 10am. www.rgs.org/events/upcom... Sign up for free @areajournal.bsky.socialrgs.orgDiasporic connections: an Area 'classics revisited' webinar - RGSThis webinar revisits an Area classic paper, 'Diasporic Connections' (Hardill and Raghuram 1998) with the original authors and an esteemed panel. 000
Reposted by OpenSpace Research CentreMatt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025New paper on conjunctural analysis and radical municipalism and their affinities as two political methods for intervening in the conjuncture Written w/ @paul-stubbs.bsky.social, @colinlorne.bsky.social and co. Just published open access in Environment & Planning F: doi.org/10.1177/2634... 🧵 24616
Reposted by OpenSpace Research CentreMatt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024For more on Participatory City and the wider trend of 'participatory experimental urbanism', check out this open access article w/ @colinlorne.bsky.social in @antipodeonline.bsky.social 'Designing a New Civic Economy?' doi.org/10.1111/anti...doi.orgDesigning a New Civic Economy? On the Emergence and Contradictions of Participatory Experimental UrbanismCan we remake local economies from scratch – not through political struggle but by design – to solve wicked problems and transform urban governance? Such questions are raised by an emergent trend wit... 161
Reposted by OpenSpace Research CentreOpenSpace Research Centre @openspaceou.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Loads of time left to apply for this really exciting PhD opportunity and to become part of the collective team working on the 'Stories-so-far: Doreen Massey Archives project' 033
Reposted by OpenSpace Research CentreOpenSpace Research Centre @openspaceou.bsky.social · 21/11/2024WE ARE OPENSPACE! Our brand new OpenSpace Research Centre website has now been 'soft launched' by the Open University. You can find out about our current research projects, new PhD opportunities, ongoing collaborations, and our new collective configuration here: www5.open.ac.uk/centres/open...www5.open.ac.ukThe Open University 085
Reposted by OpenSpace Research CentreOpenSpace Research Centre @openspaceou.bsky.social · 21/11/2024CONFRONTING CLIMATE COLONIALITY: @farhanasultana.com recently delivered a keynote @rgsibg.bsky.social to launch the Voices from the Global South project, a series of six films on the difference that geography makes for understanding the climate crisis and its impact: www.open.edu/openlearn/co...open.eduVoices from the Global South: confronting climate colonialityProfessor Farhana Sultana delivered a keynote to launch the ‘Voices from the Global South’ project, a collaboration between the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) (with the Institute of British ... 23413
OpenSpace Research Centre @openspaceou.bsky.social · 21/11/2024CONFRONTING CLIMATE COLONIALITY: @farhanasultana.com recently delivered a keynote @rgsibg.bsky.social to launch the Voices from the Global South project, a series of six films on the difference that geography makes for understanding the climate crisis and its impact: www.open.edu/openlearn/co...open.eduVoices from the Global South: confronting climate colonialityProfessor Farhana Sultana delivered a keynote to launch the ‘Voices from the Global South’ project, a collaboration between the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) (with the Institute of British ... 23413
OpenSpace Research Centre @openspaceou.bsky.social · 21/11/2024*How can we shift the power balance in global research?* New blog post by Parvati Raghuram (OU) and Mariangela Palladino (University of Keele) on forging transformative changes in equitable research partnerships through local engagement: www.ukri.org/blog/how-can...ukri.orgHow can we shift the power balance in global research?Two AHRC-funded projects are addressing how we can make transformative changes in equitable research partnerships and improve them through local engagement. 021
OpenSpace Research Centre @openspaceou.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Loads of time left to apply for this really exciting PhD opportunity and to become part of the collective team working on the 'Stories-so-far: Doreen Massey Archives project' 033
OpenSpace Research Centre @openspaceou.bsky.social · 21/11/2024WE ARE OPENSPACE! Our brand new OpenSpace Research Centre website has now been 'soft launched' by the Open University. You can find out about our current research projects, new PhD opportunities, ongoing collaborations, and our new collective configuration here: www5.open.ac.uk/centres/open...www5.open.ac.ukThe Open University 085