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Saanchi Saxena @saanchi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

#CFP #RC21 @aseela.bsky.social & I have a session "Epistemic friendships in/across difference: Rethinking methodologies in urban research" @rc21.bsky.social Vienna 2026 If you're interested in political & epistemological potential of friendships within urban studies/geog, do submit your abstract!

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Social & Cultural Geography @scgrg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Upcoming Event: Social and Cultural Geography beyond the Academy – Opportunities in Policy and Practice Friday 28 November, 11.00-12.30, ONLINE (UK) This event joins academic and non-academic geographers to discuss their transition from the academy into the world beyond Further info: scgrg.co.uk

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Gorgeous Galway, we will be back! X

A picture of Galway port, with colourful buildings in the background and Max posing in the foreground. It's a lovely, sunny day.

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

New in Area: 'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Sarah Marie Hall (2025) entitled: 'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' with a black banner at the top.

Friendships play a fundamental role in everyday life, offering companionship, mutuality, and care, across multiple and intersecting socio-spatial contexts. Drawing on scholarship and activism across feminist geographies, and contributing to this growing field of geographical interest, this piece brings together considerations of solidaristic friendship with/in everyday academic practice. Turning this critical lens inwards, I argue that everyday relational spaces of friendship within academia have radical potential – a radically ordinary praxis? – and yet are often overlooked or undervalued. I suggest that, in being so very ordinary, friendship has the possibility to be much more widely registered and deployed within academic spaces to engender greater and much needed solidarity in current times.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I bloody love Dublin ☺️❤️ EVERYTHING should come with a handful of crisps 🥔🥔

Me walking with Max towards a water fountain in the park. The photo is taken from behind and I am is looking over my shoulder.

A plate from O'Brien's sandwich shop, with a bagel, cup of soup and some crisps.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Join us for 'Imagining our Working Lives: A Creative Exploration' 💭🖍🪛🧤🥄🖱 1st Nov, Central Manchester. Part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025. Free to attend, places limited. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-... P.s. There'll be cake!🍰 With @amycbarron.bsky.social + @clarecourtney

Poster for the event: Imagining our working lives: a creative exploration. The poster features a picture of a woman sat at a desk looking at a screen, surrounded by colourful pots and books. The poster contains a qr code to the event (see post)

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Special Section in The GJ: 'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

A blue tile with a quote from the editorial introduction to the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section by S. van Lanen & S.M. Hall (2025): "As political discourse transforms and the period of fierce austerity implementation moves into history, we believe critical geographers should remain attentive to its traces in everyday practices, policy realities and material conditions. To imagine alternative futures, austerity's legacies should not be forgotten".

A blue tile sharing the titles of 8 open access papers within the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section:
1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall
2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al.
3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock
4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou
5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali
6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al.
7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull
8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Some @austerityalters.bsky.social upcoming travel: if you're based in/around these cities + fancy a cuppa in the coming months pls let me know! ☕️ -Zurich, Malmo + Copenhagen (Sept) -Dublin*^ (Oct) -Rotterdam*, Amsterdam + Groningen (Nov) * will be repeat visits in near future ^ can include Max 🐕

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Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts @mdpac.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

🔥 Speaker Announced! - Rick Burgess 🔥 🎤 Talk title: Lessons from fighting the cuts: connecting struggle to win 🗓 Date: 7th September 2025 🕣 Time: 10am Doors 📍 Location: Mechanics Institute Get your tickets today 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summit-of-... More details in alt text.

🔥 Speaker Announced! - Rick Burgess 🔥

We’re excited to welcome Rick Burgess— co-founder of Manchester DPAC and Campaigns Lead for the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People—to the We Demand Change: Summit of Resistance in Manchester!

🎤 Talk title: Lessons from fighting the cuts: connecting struggle to win

🗓 Date: 7th September 2025
🕣 Time: 10am Doors
📍 Location: Mechanics Institute

Get your tickets today 👇
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summit-of-resistance-greater-manchester-we-demand-change-tickets-1580438246339?aff=oddtdtcreator

Rick has been at the heart of the fight against austerity for over a decade. From resisting brutal welfare reforms to defending the rights and dignity of disabled people, he’s consistently exposed how capitalist austerity treats disabled lives as disposable. But Rick doesn’t just name the violence—he organizes against it.

This session will reflect on the successes and learnings from the fight against Labour's continuation of austerity, which was led by DPAC but drew in forces from the anti war movement and the trade unions —demonstrating the power of connecting struggle across the working class movement.

If you're ready to break out of siloed struggles and start connecting the dots, this talk is essential.

💬 Join the conversation 👇
https://chat.whatsapp.com/L41NTAGqcEUG6mmjv4slnG

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

A year and a half of making disability zines...

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Brings a whole new meaning to "Bread & Roses"! Speaking of, a small group of us have been coming together for c2yrs as the Bread & Roses Collective to think about radical care and activism in an unequal world. We have a logo and blurb: @austerityalters site will be updated soon with more info 🍞🌹

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏 🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August. Geographers please share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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kategray @revkategray.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

For the UK context: things are difficult for so many people right now. Here are some contact details. Please share if you are in the UK.

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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Hey @geographers.bsky.social and #geographers please pass this great opportunity on in your networks!

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Look at that smile! Look at those bobby dazzlers! Cheer-up guaranteed 😁🦷🐕

A small sandy-coloured terrier facing the camera. He is sat down on a red patterned rug. His ears are back and pulling a big smile that shows his teeth.

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Amy Barron @amycbarron.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I have a new paper out in Social & Cultural Geography titled: Making sense of ‘middle-age’: thinking from and through the middle. It presents a research agenda on the geographies of middle-age, and the value of thinking around the middle more generally. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2537686

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This paper presents a research agenda on the geographies of middle-age, drawing on life-history interviews with self-identified middle-aged participants from Greater Manchester, UK. The place of middle-age in debates about age within and beyond human geography is explored, including the extension of the category of youth and the deferral of older age. While lived experiences of middle-age are changing and significant, they are frequently overlooked in research. This paper argues that middle-age must be theorized through approaches and concepts of and around the middle. It draws upon more-than-representational theories as one such approach to thinking from and through the middle, emphasizing in-between affective states and forms of change, whilst highlighting a range of concepts and practices of the middle such as impasse, liminality and waiting. Thinking from and through the middle advances relational approaches to age by shifting attention away from the nodes at either end of a relation, towards the middle itself as being invariably in-relation. Geographers interested in ageing are urged to focus on the middle, be these moments of betweenness earlier or later in life, or midlife and middle-age itself. Future research must keep differences in experience at the fore and maintain a distinctly relational vantage point.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Is it just me or is LinkedIn in a bit... gross?? I can't engage with it properly for all the performance. Plus I haven't seen a single dog picture on there for the 3 WHOLE WEEKS since I joined!!! Academic social media needs light and shades, folks!! P.s. here's Max looking especially dashing.

A photograph of a sandy coloured terrier facing the camera. His back half is sat in his bed, the front half out, with his front legs poised in a fancy stance. He wears a red collar with bone-shaped tag, a cocked ear and curious hazel eyes.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Notice this headline over the weekend? Here's what irked me: 1. Women bear an uneven load - so do w/c + ppl of colour (intersectional!) 2. This labour goes beyond services to workplaces, homes etc 3. Enough with the fat-phobia 4. How are you going to fix it?! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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UK has got ‘fat’ on decades of free labour by women, says MP Jess Phillips

Minister points to ‘sexist’ practice of country relying on women to provide services so government did not have to

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Charlie Jones @charliepsych.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

These are enormously confronting, disturbing, distressing times & if you're feeling overwhelmed or exhausted, seems sensible to remember that's pretty realistic in this context. Find connection where you can, & rest. And have faith there are many many good people out there.

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

How does inequality affect our lot in life? Aini Gauhar of @equalitytrust.bsky.social looks at how household wealth shapes children’s health, education and future work prospects. But which countries offer clues to a more equitable way forward? #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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Hard work or inherited (mis)fortune? Young people’s future in an unequal world

Renewing analysis from The Spirit Level: how are children and young people’s health, education and employment prospects shaped by household wealth?

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Dr Kate Haddow @khaddow93.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Just published this article 🥳. Research on food aid is always important but there is more to food aid thank food banks. As seen in this paper. Please share my article 🙏 or give it a 👍. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

R.e. recent EHRC news, I want to be v clear that my politics have always been trans-inclusive.I was proud to be a member of the Women's Budget Group management committee but left in 2022 because there was no desire to engage in trans-inclusive activism, which IMO is vital.Trans rights=human rights.x

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Seeking contributors to a zine to hand out at Labour Party conference, about disability and current state of things. 120-350 words per topic.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

#OpenAccess in The GJ: 'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' by @paulgriffin1.bsky.social et al. This piece forms part of a collection of commentaries reflecting on the UK riots which followed last July's Southport attack. doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Paul Griffin, John Clayton & Edith Adamson (2025) entitled 'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' with a blue banner at the top.

This short intervention offers a historical geography-informed approach to shape understandings of the events and racialised violence of summer 2024 in the United Kingdom. We draw upon Black British Cultural Studies to foreground the importance of temporality and spatial relations for understanding racialised violence. In doing so, we identify continuities across 100 years of racialised violence in Britain whilst also noting important differences. We revisit riotous events from 1919, 1981 and 2001 to illustrate the persistence of exclusionary racism within Britain, whilst also pointing towards the endurance of anti-racist resistance and alternative world views. Our argument points towards the immediacy of violence, in both mundane and spectacular forms, as well as the longer lasting realm of the everyday where racialised violence is (re)produced.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Huge congratulations to Amy and Joe on this excellent collection on Aesthetics and the City, so carefully edited and thoughtfully crafted. It's already got rave reviews from Max ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A photograph of small sandy-coloured terrier dog reading this book. He is enthralled!

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Dead chuffed to say that @austerityalters.bsky.social has been funded for another 3yrs (2026-29) with a focus on co-creating spaces, stories & solidarities. Think creative sharing, collective future-making, solidarity infrastructure and more. Will share further details soon x

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Gender and Justice Journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

#AcademicSky please amplify this is a new feminist social science journal focused o. #equality & #justice THANK YOU!

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Yesterday we held the 2nd Collective Care workshop "Transnational solidarities" Huge thanks to all participants for their beautifully crafted talks. ✨🙏 While this was a closed event to allow for open discussion among participants, our website will be updated soon with reports and details.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Two things that have made me smile this week: 1. Managing to grow aubergines for the first time from seed (and indoors!) 2. Max's new tag, which makes him look even more dashing. If you thought my content would be academic only, I'm afraid it just isn't my priority 😂

A close up photograph of an aubergine plant withe two aubergines growing. They are very small and cute.

A cut-out photo of Max with his new bone-shaped tag on a red collar. He looks adorable.

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

📻 🎧Just wrapped a great 2-hour workshop with Athens activists: primary teachers & housing activists! 🎙️ We talked podcasting for collective/activist action, consent, resources (or lack of them) (time, funding), and cool ideas for collective podcasts + how unis/researchers can back them.

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Laura Pottinger @laurajpottinger.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Are you heading to #RGS-IBG AC2025 as an online-only delegate? We’re organising a hands-on creative workshop for you! Sign up to Stitch Assembly & we’ll post you a pack 👇😊🧵 docs.google.com/forms/d/1ytd... @poppybudworth.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social

A selection of plant-dyed fabrics squares and scraps in different colours, and threads wound onto cardboard thread winders, arranged in a grid formation

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Working Class Movement Library @wcmlibrary.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Announcing a new research project! In partnership with the University of Manchester’s ‬ new PGR Placement scheme, we’ll be welcoming a PhD researcher, Arielle Lawson, to the Working Class Movement Library archives this summer. bsky.app/profile/manc... bsky.app/profile/uom-...

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News from UKRI-funded project "No space like home?" @nospacelikehome.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Our first project bulletin can be downloaded here: static1.squarespace.com/static/6762d...

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I'm still only at one box ticked off here. Explains a lot...

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Healthier Futures at the University of Manchester @healthierfutures.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Centring joy, connection and dignity in anti-poverty activism. 🪧 📢 😁 @smhall.bsky.social is a champion for tackling the causes and consequences of poverty with and for communities and grassroots organisations. #healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall #healthinequalities

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Away for <30 hours and returned to find massive beans!!!

A photo of a spoon next to two long green beans. The beans are the same length!

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

'The reason we have PIP is because it costs Disabled people £1,000 more each month to live to the same standard as non-disabled people, because of decisions Governments have made to not address that.' Kill the Welfare Reform Bill! 🎙️DR UK's Mikey Erhardt on LBC News today

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Labour MP Rachael Maskell close to tears as she 'pleads' with the government to abandon planned welfare cuts 'These Dickensian cuts belong to a different era and a different party', she said How on earth has it come to this?

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Last week we had our Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a lunch event bringing together community, policy+uni folk in Manchester. Together we explored how to galvanise A-P change, working collectively+creatively. Here's our winning create plate by Terri Lucas! If you want to know more, get in touch! 🍽🖍

A photograph of a paper plate with colourful annotated drawings. It includes an ear (listening), football pitch (left-field ideas) and a heart (compassion).

Photograph of a tablecloth featuring our co-designed Anti-Poverty research framework, a colourful image with 11 values designed into a jigsaw. The image is surrounded by pens, pencils and coffee cups. An accessible version of the framework can be found on our website.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Local shop has stopped selling Freddos!!!! What a disaster!

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Big up @healthierfutures.bsky.social platform for their ongoing support of our co-creative anti-poverty research and activism. University resources with flexibility are vital if collaborations are to flourish!

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Aurora Fredriksen @aurorafredriksen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

What worlds emerge with/in imaginaries of anthropogenic planetary crisis?

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