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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Call for Papers AAG 2027 // NYC Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corridor globalcorridor.eu/news/cfp-aag... Alan Wiig + I are excited to bring together a dialogue centring corridors in geographic scholarship + debate. Please do circulate and think about submitting a paper

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Join us Saturday, April 11 at 4:00 pm for the world premiere of our new documentary film, *Becoming Benjamin Lay*, at the Carnegie Library, 419 Library St., Braddock, PA. For tickets scan the QR code below or go here: www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-b...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

You know things are getting out of control when the Times runs two full-width breaking news banners at the same time. It looks like a glitch, which tracks. A chaos double rainbow. A depressing Mike Breen ‘double bang.’

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

They don’t need a tool to assess where to drop a bomb when they have one that confidently confirms any location they choose. They don’t need autonomous drones to drop those bombs, they just need to give an order. So the human is just a conduit for the machine, which is just a conduit for the human.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Yeah this is all I’ve got too. This whole thing is so @stschrader1.bsky.social global police coded—another chapter in the “Is there actually a meaningful border between US law enforcement and US military operations?” story.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I’ve seen some references to the MDC in NY???

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I truly hate social media—especially in a time like this—but popping up to ask if anyone knows where Maduro & wife will/are being held? Like civilian detention facility or military one? Asking as a person finalizing a book about military detention.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

#VELI2026 applications are open! Read the FAQ, register for an information session, then put together a team and apply! Here's to fostering intentional change rooted in shared values in #HigherEd. #AcademicSky #EduSkyChat #EduSky

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

My Global Corridor newsletter #4 featuring stories, data, opinion + academic work from digital cables to Artic sea routes to private equity funds to AI supply chains....Out now globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

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Global Corridor #4

Google's digital corridors for Africa, Carlyle Group's new global infrastructure fund, China-Europe Arctic shipping route, Trump's real estate interests in Saudi, Chinese road film, AI supply chains

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The Trump administration has unleashed a massive domestic surveillance apparatus, thanks to AI systems supplied by major tech firms I wrote about its origins and impact on the ground for @dissentmag.bsky.social and the @theintercept.com www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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The AI Dragnet - Dissent Magazine

The U.S. government is activating a suite of algorithmic surveillance tools, developed in concert with major tech companies, to monitor and criminalize immigrants’ speech.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 30/05/2025

Hi! We just released three new pages. First up, we break down the devastating defunding of medical research in the US, including grant terminations and delays representing nearly $5B in funding losses, cuts to future funding, and attacks on training programs: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

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Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19/05/2025

👋 Hi, we’re Unbreaking, a volunteer-run collective working to document our current moment of institutional collapse and its human costs—as well as the pushback and resilience work already underway. We believe this is critical work for building and retaining political agency.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New from my team: for the same volume of energy transition minerals it would take to make all of the Pentagon's non-combat vehicles into EVs, we could electrify the entire Postal Service, the entire Parks Service, and put battery backup on more than 7600 federal buildings. 🧵

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Redirecting Energy Transition Minerals from the Pentagon Fleet to the Public Good - Climate and Community Institute

The Pentagon is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels, but it is also the US federal government’s leader in electrifying some of its transportation—especially …

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I’m writing a book conclusion that’s also a tiptoe into a new research project, and this review is the first time in a long time that I’ve read something about automated war and realized my head was just nodding up and down the whole time. Thanks @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social for the rec!

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The fall of the house Usher…

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Yup. Kinda excited this year.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Please share! Call for topic editors, POEM Is there a topic related to AI and algorithms; data and computation; or media and mis- and dis-information that you don't think is getting enough attention, or that you think is crucial for high schoolers and college students to learn about?

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Good shouts! Thanks Kevin! Will you be in Detroit in the spring?

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’ll be teaching an ethics course to 4th year UG architecture students in the spring. The students will have had at least one design ethics courses already. I’m wondering what y’all think are the topics/readings/cases that the field needs a more sustained engagement & deep reckoning with.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

But the Knicks are winning. For now.

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 13/11/2024

To commemorate this article, I humbly provide this "graphical abstract" of the paper featuring El Risitas. Sound on. youtu.be/NoJ6eNxHgNs

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The urban-tech feedback loop and the data walk

YouTube video by Dillon Mahmoudi

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

Hoping to meet some of you in person at the Annual Meeting. Be sure to mark your calendars and come to the Urban Geography Plenary with Dallas Rogers and Marina Karides on Friday the 19th at 1:20!!

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

Really happy to announce this year’s winners of the @geographers.bsky.social Urban Geography Specialty Group Awards! The board read so many excellent submissions and it was a joy to learn from all the exciting work being done by such a wide range of early career scholars. Congratulations all!

Student Access Award Winners:
Joseph Karanja, Arizona State University
Qingren Chen, Durham University
Kejin Wang, Louisiana State University
Corgan Archuleta, Macalester College
Sheng Xuan, Durham University
Ang Liu, Rutgers University
Xuan He, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Weiying Lin, Texas A&M
Aneika Perez, San Diego State University, University of California Santa Barbara
Katie Brown, Michigan State University
Austin Martin, Temple University
Mehmet Eroğlu, Michigan State University

Alternative Modes of Scholarship Awards:
James Barnes (Principal researcher & design/builder), The University of Virginia
with Robin Xu (Architecture, The University of Virginia) and Addie Merlo (Industrial Design, James Madison University)
"Tactical Growth: Socio-Ecological Investigations of Biodiversity-based Tactical Urbanism in a K-5 Schoolyard"

Bryson Berry, Macalester College
"Black Prosperity Through Afrofuturism: An Analysis of the Black/White Wealth Gap"

Graduate Student Paper Award:
Amani Ponnaganti, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Submerged empire: Racial grammars of environmental governance in Houston, 1900-1939,"

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Dissertation Completion:
Yudi Liu, Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering,
The University of Tokyo, "National Railway Reform as a Critical Juncture: Institutional Establishment of Entrepreneurial Transit Metropolis Tokyo"

Grad Fellowship:
Michael McCanless, University of Kentucky
“Corporate Investors, Property Technologies, and Changing Dynamics in Property Tax,"

Aila Bandagi Kandlakunta, University of Nevada, Reno
"Women on the Move: Gendered Mobility and the Right to the City in Hyderabad, India."

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

This record has been spinning in my apartment all week. It’s really helped carry me through such an intense range of emotions—a gift in such awful awful times. intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/turbul...

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Turbulence and Pulse, by Asher Gamedze

13 track album

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

And check out this related symposium in @antipodeonline edited by Charmaine Chua & @kaibosworth.bsky.social on blockades, circulation & struggle antipodeonline.org/2023/09/21/v...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Can you tell I’m just really really really thrilled that this is finally out in the world? Oh! If you’re going to be at the American Studies Assn meeting, come to our panel and meet some of these amazing contributors!

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Lastly, an academic journal is the manifestation ofso much supporting labor. Thanks to the people doing copyediting/layout @dukepress.bsky.social; Tom Harbison, Conor McGrady & the editorial collective @ Radical History Review; & especially thanks to Monica Kim for the firm/fair editorial brilliance

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Considering the ongoing criminalization of mutual aid by reactionaries in the US, this conversation (& much of issue 147) conveys the radical nature of building abolitionist infrastructures of survival & “making do” in the face of ongoing expressions of police power.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

This roundtable also touches on mutual aid & bridge building & considers what it means—and what it might look like in practice—to build infrastructures premised on the belief that everyone deserves care and no one is disposable.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

The issue ends w/ another roundtable—a conversation w/ Dean Spade and Rachel Herzing convened and enriched by Bench Ansfield—about abolition infrastructures, transformative justice, and how activists build infrastructures in relation to the state. read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

The paper details the politics of both route making (which called on the compulsory work of incarcerated laborers of Japanese descent and demanded a remapping of indigenous lands) and the ongoing politics of route marking (by way of highway historical markers)

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Desiree Valadares reads the visual cultural history of the construction and promotion of the Hope-Princeton Highway in western Canada to highway the “subtle linkages between an imagined scenic landscape and an imagined multicultural Canada.” read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Returning again and again to airports in Hawai‘i and Guåhan, the essay highlights what Vũ calls settler carcerality, a term that sees “settler colonialism and carcerality as mutually reinforcing systems that work together to subjugate Native and racialized populations.”

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Suturing contemporary deportation geographies to their past iterations as sites of racialized imperial expansion, Jason Tuấn Vũ’s article traces the history of waves of violent infrastructural power deployed by the US state in the transpacific. read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Radio networks, he shows, “not only permitted the rural populace to contribute to the production and dissemination of information but also brought them together as members and, to an unprecedented extent, active builders of the new society.”

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Yingchuan Yang’s article challenges a simplistic top-down framing of centralizing modernist infrastructure by focusing on rural labor in/through mid-century Chinese radio, which worked in “many more ways in addition to indoctrination and regulation.” read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

The intervention is drawn in part from her documentary project *Little Grass,* which places materials found in home movie archives and the archives of optical glass companies alongside scenes of more recent time spent together with her mother in Switzerland.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

The issue pivots around an image-essay by Solveig Qu Suess (who provides the striking image on the cover, too) stressing the unresolved tensions btw intimate family moments in a much larger technopolitical endeavor of optical engineering & state surveillance. read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Expanding on Graham/Marvin’s framing of infrastructure as a dialectics of invisibility & monumentalism, he points to the ways “socialist China’s prioritization of construction over consumption propels an alternate paradigm to push the political meaning of infrastructure further.”

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Shifting scales between the built structures of socialist hydraulic engineering in China and the aesthetic of the technologized model of the laboring body in mid-century Chinese theater and film, Yuan Gao explores what he calls a “corporeal infrastructure” read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

In her essay, soap circulates in multiple registers, including as a commodity refused by villagers and sold on the black market. Through this refusal and reappropriation, we see how local populations “exposed the volatility of the American humanitarian mission.”

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Ann Ngoc Tran’s article attends to the circulation of soap in the US war in Vietnam. She engages w/ soap as material & “as the basis for the movement of other things, specifically imperial fantasies of rural compliance and entwined logics of cleanliness.” read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

As “sites of ecological and racial conflict between flood control and commemoration of Black history,” the cemeteries raise “questions of spiritual repair for the desecrated dead, intangible property loss through geographic displacement,” and historical atrocities.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Next, Robin McDowell’s article explores the intersecting histories of modernist flood management, the burial of an estimated 300 enslaved/formerly enslaved African & African American people, & an ongoing struggle for justice along the Bonnet Carré Spillway read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

I should add that the impact of their work on all three editors is enormous.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Here you’ll read about how they articulate the political stakes of infrastructure & how they connect the forms of labor, protest, and “making do” that shape & are shaped by infrastructure’s long shadows.

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