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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The absolute best of humanity in a time of profound and relentless inhumanity. They’re volunteers supported by donations so please consider donating and sharing links to donate. Link to donate directly here. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Pubs for the People has a new cover An antidote to right wing fantasies that present the pub as white England, we highlight the everyday togetherness forged in the pubs across the nation Out Oct @manchesterup.bsky.social A bargain £18.99 for hardback ⬇️ www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-fo...

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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Just over one month to go until two-day Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents All ⭐ line-up 📆 23-24 July 📍 Chestnut Grove Academy, Balham, South London Supported by @thesociologicalreview.org Come one, come all (+ free lunch!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch... @sriucl.bsky.social

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ucustandrews.bsky.social @ucustandrews.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

URGENT - UCU St Andrews Member - Antonis Vradis is on the Qannir La Cirena boat in the Global Summid Flotilla which has been intercepted by Israel Contact your MP and MSP Contact the Principal Please share

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Solidarity with colleagues at Nottingham. While the UK government play musical chairs with the keys to number 10, the Higher Education sector continues to burn to the ground. The levels of social, scientific and cultural loss across UK universities in the past 5 years is beyond calculation.

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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I could not be angrier or more heartbroken today as thousands of staff at the University of Nottingham receive official communication that they’re up for redundancy. But I also could not be prouder of my inspiring colleagues who refuse to simply accept this as inevitable. We will fight for our jobs!

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Anna Jackman @ahjackman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

📢 The Department of Geography and Environmental Science @uniofreading.bsky.social are looking to hire two Lecturers in Human Geography. Info on each post in thread below. Please share widely! ⭐ You can read more about our Human Geography Research Cluster here: www.reading.ac.uk/ges/research...

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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I've got a new paper out with the brilliant @savannahcox.bsky.social & Emma Colven! We took a social studies of finance lens to explore the practices of 'framing, standardization & classification' that 'center' private finance at the core of urban climate action. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Centering work: toward more ‘social’ accounts of urban climate finance

In recent years, high-profile financial actors have developed a dizzying array of services and devices that promise to help cities devise ‘solutions’ to climate change. But what must happen for pri...

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

One final call for this session at the RGS, as we could do with one more paper to round out some amazing looking sessions. Please consider submitting, or share with someone who might! tacity.co.uk/2026/01/30/c...

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CfP @ RGS-IBG 2026: Unconventional Geographies of Solidarity

01-04 September 2026, London Session Organizers: Oli Mould (Royal Holloway, University of London), Hanxi Wang (University College London) In Multitude (2004), political philosophers Michael Hardt a…

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Tom Cowan @termcern.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

New publication! In this paper I draw on heterodox marxist engagements with subsumption to revise core approaches within marxist geography. Subsumption provides us with a dynamic tool to rethink capitalist property, uneven development and difference. Do reach out for access! doi.org/10.1177/2043...

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Geographies of subsumption - Thomas Cowan, 2026

This article draws on heterodox scholarship on capitalist subsumption to revise core approaches within Marxist and critical geography. The article argues that a...

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🎉 2025 IJURR Best Article goes to Expert Fixers: Bureaucratic Informality, Brokerage and the Politics of Land in Mumbai by Sangeeta Banerji. 👉 www.ijurr.org/best-article...

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

BREAKING: NO CONVICTIONS AS VERDICTS COME IN FOR FILTON24 TRIAL After 8 days of deliberation, the jury have not convicted Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Ellie (Leona) Kamio, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin on any charge. Defend Our Juries comment to follow.

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Geographies of subsumption - Thomas Cowan, 2026

This article draws on heterodox scholarship on capitalist subsumption to revise core approaches within Marxist and critical geography. The article argues that a...

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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

DIGITAL ECOLOGIES is available for just £15 in paperback until the end of January; discount applied automatically unless you're in North America, where you need to type "JAN40" at payment this also applies to ALL @manchesterup.bsky.social books!!! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/

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Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies

Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

New essay, written for the excellent @transitionsec.bsky.social Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future. transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta... @campolis.bsky.social

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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥 We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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States of Precarity @statesofprecarity.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Precarity is not a niche issue. One-third of academic Geographers in the UK are on fixed-term contracts. Our report shows the profound personal, professional, and disciplinary impacts of this. #StatesofPrecarity Full report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...

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States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography

Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...

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Angela Last @mutablematter.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

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Tom Cowan @termcern.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Looking forward to discussing @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social's essential new book on subsumption at @histmat.bsky.social conference this week -- subsumption heads, this is the one - come through!

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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Fascinating insights into the technics of digitalized propertization that is underway across rural and peri-urban India:

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Tom Cowan @termcern.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Incredibly happy to have been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Geography! Big thanks to all my friends and colleagues for all their support - and the @leverhulme.ac.uk for the recognition.

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Tom Cowan @termcern.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

New paper in @tibg.bsky.social: High-resolution property: drone enclosures in digital India In it I examine how mass digitized enclosures rely upon a new regime of perception - able to speculatively extract private ownership from collectivised land rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Svamitva drone survey in Rajasthan. Source: Author.

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Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

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Toronto 2026 | Summer Institute in Economic Geography

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

New in TIBG! 'High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India' by @termcern.bsky.social This paper examines how drone & geospatial technologies are being deployed to enclose rural customary lands across India. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Thomas Cowan (2025) entitled: 'High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India' with a red banner at the top.

Drawing from ethnographic research on the implementation of Svamitva, one of the largest digitalized property titling schemes in the world, this paper examines how new drone and geospatial technologies are being deployed to enclose rural customary lands across contemporary India. Focusing on the initial processes of droney survey, GIS mapping and data-creation under the scheme, the paper argues that the creation of ‘high-resolution property’ is achieved not through simple technological observation, but rather via the imposition of a new regime of perception. One coordinated through the speculative and ideological property-making practices of drone surveyors, GIS technicians, and local residents. This new regime of perception aims to extract individual ownership lurking within collectivity, subdivide collectivised lands, and cleanly link rural property to global asset markets and digital public infrastructures. In doing so the paper seeks to provincialise contemporary geographical scholarship on property technology or PropTech, drawing from the diverse property systems and emerging technological apparatus of the Global South, and examine the lively and mediated sociotechnical practices required to convert hundreds of thousands of rural territories into high-resolution private titles and data-points. In doing so, the paper seeks to challenge the overt techno-determinism and solutionism within official debates concerning property digitalization, highlighting instead the ways digitialized property remains socially, ecologically and institutionally mediated.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Such a nice paper on feature extraction as a project of perception - drone enclosures in digital India. “Feature extraction is an entirely speculative endeavour” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Svamitva drone survey in Rajasthan. Source: Author.

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Tom Gillespie @t-a-gillespie.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

'New Urban Frontiers' This @urbangeography.bsky.social special issue edited by me and @clairemercer.bsky.social has now been published online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4... A thread on the papers 👇

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Urban Geography

New Urban Frontiers. Volume 46, Issue 8 of Urban Geography

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Informational Peripheries is out now with @uclpress.bsky.social! It brings together critical perspectives on how information flows (or doesn’t) across the edges of systems: archives, infrastructures, digital divides, and more. Edited with @ayonadatta.bsky.social 🙌 uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

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Informational Peripheries

Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

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Tom Cowan @termcern.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I was interviewed as part of this investigative report on the travails of drone-led property titling in India, check it out 👉

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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A reminder to everyone in the West - a ceasefire is just the beginning, the goal is liberation. Our work doesn't stop until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.

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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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