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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After many years of work, I defended my PhD dissertation earlier this week. (This also means I’ll be posting here more often.)

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Neil Brenner & @swarnabh.bsky.social on Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation Bengi Akbulut on feminist degrowth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Anirban Dasgupta & Arindam Banerjee on the challenges of decarbonising agriculture onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation

This article challenges prevailing approaches to urban sustainability by reconceptualizing capitalist urbanization as a planetary process of geometabolic escalation. Hegemonic visions of sustainable ....

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Back from a break to share a new paper (with Neil Brenner) that just came out in Development and Change. An expansive energo-metabolic theorization of the geographies of capitalist urbanization: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Welcome new followers! I post infrequently, usually about things related to my scholarship, which sits somewhere between geography and history, and deals with capitalism, imperialism, urbanization, infrastructure, and the environment. I also post about Palestine 🇵🇸

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The Cradle @thecradlemedia.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

WATCH | Palestinians prepare for a large iftar, in Rafah, southern Gaza.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The UTL is now on bluesky! Follow for updates on our projects and publications.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

New publication! In this paper in Critical Historical Studies, I undertake a detailed methodological engagement with Jairus Banaji’s remarkable scholarship on historical capitalism: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 17/11/2024

"This is the first university that Palestine Legal is aware of where students have been suspended without a hearing and without having a chance to see any evidence against them before the deadline for filing an appeal." palestinelegal.org/news/2024/11...

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Civil Rights Orgs Warn Pomona College Unprecedented Suspensions of Students Are Unlawful, ‘Punishes the Act of Protest Itself’ — Palestine Legal

Five legal organizations including Palestine Legal, the Asian Law Caucus, the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, and the National Lawyers Guild of Los A...

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dylan saba @shaabiranks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

So is this just Twitter but no one talks about the pesky genocide?

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Once again, I find myself thinking about this diagram.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Due to the unyielding work of Palestinian journalists, Twitter still enables one to witness some of the world historical horrors unfolding in Gaza right now. This—the only reason for being on these apps—seems more or less absent here.

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Budget Motel Abyss @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This place is like when you show up to a huge party and immediately head to the kitchen and hang out with the 3 other people you know.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Weird thing on here is that one both misses and does not miss the ostentatious “lateness” of the other app.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

The grandpère of the American “progressive” movement can’t get himself to utter the word ceasefire. Shame on you for not doing even the bare minimum. And shame on me for having canvassed for you all those times.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

This is evil beyond words. I hope my American comrades never forgive Biden and the Democrats for presiding over a genocide in full view of the world.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

A depraved, world historical crime that will be remembered forever.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

I may have just witnessed the most shameful episode in the history of my Union.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Words are weak in these times of genocidal brutality but I honestly believe Gabe Winant’s Dissent piece performs an invaluable service: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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On Mourning and Statehood: A Response to Joshua Leifer - Dissent Magazine

How to grieve, what meaning to give those tears, is cruelly a political question whether we like it or not.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

The pictures coming out of London :’)

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

I don’t know how anyone on the “American Left” can ever justify voting for the Democrats again.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

From a time when important Harvard professors (including the great Richard Lewontin) stood up against oppression and occupation, and didn’t feed their students to a baying mob.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

And some people thought we’ve transcended the need for old fashioned ideologiekritik

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Twxtter is now a cesspool of genocide glorification on the one hand and genocide apologia on the other. Just revolting and horrifying.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Meanwhile over on Twxtter, people are claiming that dialectics is when you’re… a liberal centrist.

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

If the Braverman be Harry, it’s salutary If the Braverman be Suella, I’d rather have Salmonella.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

“It’s a wild scene” - Nancy Fraser (at the Critical Theory at 100 conference at Harvard)

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Watching sundry liberals, “decolonial” scholars, and Ukraine-flag-in-bio people like a hawk today

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

This invaluable (and moving) new essay by Kanishka Goonewardena should be required reading for anyone interested in David Harvey and the history of Marxist geography: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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David Harvey, geography and Marxism

This essay engages with David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to his Thought by Noel Castree, Greig Charnock and Brett Christophers (CCC), the most panoramic, rigorous and insightful study of the l...

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Very striking how the “global south” has rapidly become a central category of practice in geopolitics, deployed most vigorously by the foreign policy establishments of reactionary governments in the South.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

My favorite genre of mainstream social science research is “everyone has always known this thing is terrible and bad but now we know it too so please cite us”

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

I think the main problem with the Ackerman essay is that it needed to be twice as long (at least).

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Revisiting old tweets on the bad app and remembered the best feedback I’ve ever received on a paper:

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

My favorite Marx dunk - “…the arch-Philistine, Jeremy Bentham, that insipid, pedantic, leather-tongued oracle of the ordinary bourgeois intelligence of the 19th century. Bentham is among philosophers what Martin Tupper is among poets. Both could only have been manufactured in England.”

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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

It turns out there are things that my blood boil even more than the Gerstle book. There is some really shocking stuff on Chile in Jennifer Burns' forthcoming biography of Milton Friedman: ourtime.substack.com/p/the-mighty...

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

This is a very helpful roundup/ critique. I wouldn’t say this on Txitter but a larger issue, I’ve always felt, is that historians arrived to neoliberalism as a topic by leapfrogging very important early-2000s scholarship in economic geography/ geographical political economy.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

So it turns out (i) Messi is better at politics than political scientists and (ii) the American Catholic Church *thinks* it’s better at Catholicism than the Pope. These two things are somehow connected but I don’t know exactly how.

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

Always felicitous to receive an email with the following subject line:

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Swarnabh Ghosh @swarnabh.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

Always felicitous to receive an email with the following subject line:

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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Mario Tronti has died. RIP one of the great Marxist intellectuals of the twentieth century. www.repubblica.it/politica/2023/08/…

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