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Edward Painter

@painteredward.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate at UCLA Fulbright Hays Visiting Scholar at NTU's GARC Studying Soccer, Migration, and Guest Worker Programs

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Edward Painter @painteredward.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
commercial break?!
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Edward Painter @painteredward.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Published today in Geopolitics, this article draws from my dissertation fieldwork in Taiwan. The paper balances structure and agency within a guest-worker program. Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Taking the Field: Field Space, Borderwork and Taiwan’s Guest-Worker Programme
Taiwan’s guest-worker programme has provided Taiwanese employers with low-cost labour while preventing participating migrants from establishing permanent residence and citizenship since the 1990s. ...
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
A proper game of football, this one, berween a team that should have wrapped up the title already and another which should have been demoted to League One a long time ago.
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James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"If you don't want it, I know a guy in America who'll take it."
Brahim Diaz receives the Golden Boot from FIFA President Gianni Infantino during presentation at the end of the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) final between Senegal and Morocco at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat (2026)
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Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I went long on England's largest water utility failing, the history of global water privatization, and the late geographer Karen Bakker. Excited to see it now live in @the-breakdown.bsky.social: www.break-down.org/nothing-to-l...
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Nothing to Lose but Our Mains
The unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure, aging infrastructure and the limits of...
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Edward Painter @painteredward.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘
The Arsenal and England forward is backing new global campaign because talent and teamwork should decide the game – not the climate
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Edward Painter @painteredward.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Im not sure what type of indicator this is but I saw my first ever 'Fuck Trump' shirt on canal street today
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Our species built Stonehenge, Machu PIchu, and Chartres without large language models, wrote The Divine Comedy and Pride and Prejudice and The Book of the Tao without them, but could they make tuna melts without them?
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Edward Painter @painteredward.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
New Article In Transaction in Planning and Urban Research, thinking about bordering and hukou reform. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Reorganizing space: A critical bordering perspective on hukou reform - Edward Painter, 2025
Since the pre-reform era, China’s hukou system has perpetuated a socio-spatial divide between rural and urban Chinese. In recent years, the hukou system has bee...
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Edward Painter @painteredward.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
It's kinda strange that moments like Rednote and Clubroom don't occur more often. But the discourses taking place during the two border-crossing events couldn't be more different. There were serious and thoughtful conversations going on during the clubhouse thing.
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Edward Painter @painteredward.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We need to fund left leaning dudes from blue states to go play disc golf at weeklys and tags in red states - program will be called the Disc Corps
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