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Sara Fregonese

@sarafregonese.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Political Geography, University of Birmingham, UK. Interested in the connections between geopolitics and urban everyday life. www.atmoct.org

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Sara Fregonese @sarafregonese.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
New commentary in @dialogueshg.bsky.social exploring the banal elemental forms of power underpinning geopolitical shifts and violences. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The banality of evil weathering - Sara Fregonese, 2025
This commentary builds on Mikko Joronen's concept of malevolent weathering – the deliberate production of atmospheric conditions that pollute to enable spa...
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Sara Fregonese @sarafregonese.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Article for The Conversation based on www.atmoct.org research. theconversation.com/why-public-v...
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Why public views of terrorism don’t match the evidence, and what the government needs to do to keep people safe
The public needs clear, easy to remember, and updated information about current threats.
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Sara Fregonese @sarafregonese.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Some of us at atmoct.org submitted evidence for a report, published today and calling for a overhaul of UK counterterrorism. Its recommendation to revise the UK definition of terrorism is partly based on our research on everyday understandings of terrorism. binghamcentre.biicl.org/newsitems/18...
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Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice publishes its final report
Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice publishes its final report
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Sara Fregonese @sarafregonese.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Very grateful for the invitation to deliver the closing plenary at the Congresso Geografico Italiano next week in Turin: www.geotune.it/cgi/
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Sara Fregonese @sarafregonese.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
New publication from the UK team at www.atmoct.org www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Sara Fregonese @sarafregonese.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In light of Keir Starmer's remarks on #terrorism after #southport this morning, this piece written by myself and @psimpy.bsky.social encourages a new debate on what terrorism is and how it is perceived in the UK. Data from www.atmoct.org www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/co...
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Collective perceptions of security threats: an evidence-based political debate is needed - University of Birmingham
One fifth of the UK public associates terrorism with the use of explosives and more than 70% thinks that explosions are a harbinger of a terrorist attack.
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Sara Fregonese @sarafregonese.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
📃🖋️ The www.atmoct.org team now have a book contract. Looking forward to more writing until 2027(!) @psimpy.bsky.social
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Sara Fregonese @sarafregonese.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Check out our latest publications here: atmoct.org/publications/ @proghumgeog.bsky.social @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social More soon...
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Publications - Atmospheres of (Counter)Terrorism
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Sara Fregonese @sarafregonese.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I submitted the latest manuscript coming out of www.atmoct.org today with @psimpy.bsky.social . Very ready to slow down for Christmas now!
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Atmospheres of (Counter)Terrorism
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Sara Fregonese @sarafregonese.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My current most listened podcast (up there with redhandedpodcast.com/) is Tyranny. Exposes the issue of authoritarianism with geopolitics dicussion, satire, and interesting (sometimes chilling) facts, one tyrant at a time. Episodes on US/CIA/tyrants links are 🔝 open.spotify.com/show/6r4DhTj...
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Tyranny
Podcast · Will Media - Antonio Losito · Chi sono i tiranni? Sono capi di Stato che rapiscono registi di fama per realizzare i propri film, che smerciano droga per mantenere i loro eccessi e che si pre...
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Sara Fregonese @sarafregonese.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Geographers - for UG students: 2 Masters courses which I've had the pleasure to design, redevelop, and direct. New: MA Cities, sustainability, & wellbeing: birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... Redeveloped: MSc Research in Human Geography: birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Cities, Sustainability, and Wellbeing MA - University of Birmingham
MA in Cities, Sustainability and Wellbeing provides a research-intensive educational approach to address local as well as global sustainability and wellbeing challenges affecting contemporary cities.
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Sara Fregonese @sarafregonese.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We have a new article out in Progress in Human Geography with the amazing team at www.atmoct.org journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism - Sara Fregonese, Paul Simpson, Damien Masson, Simon Runkel, Carrie Ann Benjamin, Samuel Berlin, Katharina Ciax, Angeliki Drongiti, 2024
How are terror threats and counterterrorism measures experienced in everyday urban spaces? We argue that thinking atmospherically about the spaces of urban enco...
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