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Andrew Williams

@williamsapj.bsky.social
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Geographer, welfare, racial capitalism, food charity.

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Andrew Williams @williamsapj.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Thanks @alanlester.bsky.social - it was a very long time in the making! I was fed up with the 'my ancestors were in the workhouse' rebuttal to slavery reparations (mine were too, but that's not the point!)
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Jfc. ICE weapons purchases increased 700%. Of the $71,515,762 spent, most was “on guns and armor, but there have also been significant purchases of chemical weapons and “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” popular.info/p/ice-boosts...
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ICE boosts weapons spending 700%
A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.
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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"The pro-Trump billionaires behind Israel’s war-tech are in prime position to deploy the suite of militarised surveillance and border control technologies of a Trump-brokered peace" @nafeez.bsky.social on the 'circular economy of war' @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
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Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza's 'Peace' Deal
Documents show Tony Blair’s Ellison-funded institute designed Gaza’s recovery plan on data-driven lines echoing Oracle-Palantir war systems.
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Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Pleased to share the first two RGS-IBG Book Series titles to be published fully open access with @lsepress.bsky.social, available early 2026... @laurieparsons.bsky.social @jbrigstocke.bsky.social press.lse.ac.uk/books/coming...
A book cover for Julian Brigstocke's forthcoming book 'Non-Authoritarian Authority: Cities, Materially and the Aesthetics of Power' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white aerial photograph of a large crowd in the background.A book cover for Laurie Parson's forthcoming book 'Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white photograph of three people riding on a scooter above a body of water filled with litter.
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Intervention — "On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada" by Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...
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Intervention—“On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada” - Antipode Online
Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) Baba, when will we study astronomy in school? … I want to learn about the moon and stars. (Banias, age 9, quoted ...
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Andrew Williams @williamsapj.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Looking forward to reading this
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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6 tinyurl.com/88xmursz
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Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach - Eugene McCann, 2025
This paper addresses the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism and contentious politics. It outlines one way to expand...
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Forced Free Labour’: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey
This article investigates the connections between emancipation in Britain’s slave colonies and settler colonisation through the policies of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (styled Viscount Howick ...
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests" -- Antipode authors @williamsapj.bsky.social and Jon May discuss their published work www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... doi.org/10.1111/anti...
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Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests
Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy
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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"The state management of poverty in Britain was inextricably underwritten by slavery-derived wealth and colonial exploitation" @williamsapj.bsky.social on the 'workhouse-plantation nexus'. Media coverage of geographic research @antipodeonline.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests
Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy
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Andrew Williams @williamsapj.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Really important piece
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Andrew Williams @williamsapj.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Two Israeli human rights organisations - B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) - accuse Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinian people www.btselem.org/sites/defaul... www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 18/07/2025
Alligator Alcatraz and facilities like it have proven to be big business for disaster capitalism. Maureen Tkacik reports on the companies behind the trillion-dollar industry: trib.al/bpQbVcB
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Meet the Disaster Capitalists Behind Alligator Alcatraz
Incompetent and militarized ‘emergency response’ is on track to be a trillion-dollar industry by the end of Trump’s second term.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
A must read, devastating, Report by Francesca Albanese (UN Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967) on the global economic foundations of the Palestinians' genocide: THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE. Please share! www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
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A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance edited ve...
This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and...
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Dr Dave Beck @drdavebeck.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
📢Pay what you feel price🚨 Our new book is available to download. Its nominally 'free', but please consider a contribution. Thanks to Rachel Morris of @cymruconversations.bsky.social for putting this together (and others for contributing)! Please share this payhip.com/b/9eklJ
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Levelling Down | Austerity in Wales
This is nominally free but ‘pay what you can’. Any kind payments will go towards fees for writers, a Zoom account, and expenses of any get-togethers for the world’s first ‘hublication’. The book may o...
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Pleased this new progress report on Mobilities & Crisis is out #OpenAccess. I suggest that mobility isn't just about movement but also navigating the temporalities of ongoing hardship, where crisis is part of the lived experience rather than an exceptional event. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Mobilities I: Crisis - Cristina Temenos, 2025
In this report on mobilities, I discuss research published between 2017-present, focussing on how multiple crises intersect with mobilities. I examine how recen...
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Two fully funded PhDs with me at SOAS. Within my ERC project; one researching in Paris, the other in Düsseldorf. Exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban space, the cultural industries, and social media. More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/12srA... Deadline is 21 July.
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2_ Fully Funded PhDs SOAS ENG.pdf
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Andrew Williams @williamsapj.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Did an open day on Friday and Saturday... really wished other geography departments committed to low carbon field study visits rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The future of geography field course pedagogy in UK higher education
Geography field course pedagogy in UK HE appears increasingly unsustainable and complex for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). We report on a national-level workshop (April 2024) that brought toge...
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 20/06/2025
UCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make £140million in cuts and threaten jobs We're fighting against these reckless proposals Share to show your support ✊
UCU members on Edinburgh picket lineNo More Cuts written in chalkUCU members on Edinburgh picket line
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/06/2025
‘For the armchair techno-warriors of Silicon Valley, the barbarians at the gate are a useful solution.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the tech companies profiting from war: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Laleh Khalili · Collective Property, Private Control: Defence Tech
The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows...
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Andrew Williams @williamsapj.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Hope your University management is treating you better than mine. Bittersweet sharing this but it has several years in the making: Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World Thanks to editors @antipodeonline.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World
This paper re-examines the British workhouse within the framework of racial capitalism and the Atlantic world. Traditionally understood as a domestic mechanism for managing poverty and labour in an e...
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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
📢 New in The GJ! 📢 We've published 12 intervention pieces in a special collection reflecting on Trump's second term in the White House, and how geographers are responding. All pieces are free to read for the next 3 months - access them here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
A blue tile announcing the 'Geographers on Trump' commentary collection published in The Geographical Journal. The GJ and Royal Geographical Society logos are at the top, a waving American flag with an outlined image of Donald Trump are in the centre, and a list of featured authors is on the right hand side:

Mark Davidson
LaToya E. Eaves
Colin Flint
Sarah Fogel
Banu Gokariksel
Cynthia S. Gorman
Conor Harrison
Peter Hopkins
Eden Kinkaid
Nick Koenig
Solange Munoz
Caroline Nagel
Elizabeth Olson
Danielle Purifoy
Pamela Sertzen
Wiley Sharp
Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles
Joel White
Bryttani Wooten
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David Bissell @davidjbissell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏 ⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025 📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au 📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 08/05/2025
Charles McGee was an elderly Jamaican man who swept the crossing at the foot of Ludgate Hill in Regency London. Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social on the life of McGee and what makes a 'begging place': www.historyworkshop....
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Begging Places
How does a public space become a 'begging place'? David Hitchcock on the life of Jamaican street sweeper in Regency London, Charles McGee.
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo This Intervention introduces the Chair's theme for the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2025, taking place in Birmingham (UK) this summer. doi.org/10.1111/tran...
An extract from the Intervention by Pat Noxolo:

4 CREATIVE GEOGRAPHY
I want to end this short article with a question that is big but simple: what is our creative vision for our discipline, in the twenty-first century? The double use of the possessive pronoun, our, is intentional—if geographers think about Geography as something that pertains to us, in all our globalised diversity, if it is a discipline that we can shape, what is the discipline that we want to create? What is Geography's mission?
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We've written an open letter to RGS/IBG re: Supreme Court ruling + EHRC update. If you're an academic geographer (broadly conceived) at any career stage anywhere in the world, please read, consider signing, and share (closes 1700 GMT 30 April) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open letter to RGS on Supreme Court and EHRC events April 2025
If you are an academic geographer (broadly conceived) of any career stage, To sign the open letter please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/AmjaJh37xLt4CMwx5. Your signature will be added manually....
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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Exhibition in Tower Hamlets: Researchers uncover stories of Black Londoners who escaped slavery: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #History #BlackHistory 🗃️
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Researchers uncover stories of Black Londoners who escaped slavery
Findings in Tower Hamlets archives shed light on resistance to enslavement likened to Underground Railroad in US
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Andrew Williams @williamsapj.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Thanks for sharing The proposed plans include a 20% cut to Geography and Planning academic staff (10-15 FTE) We are all a bit shell-shocked But we will organise and strategise as a School tomorrow
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The first domino in what will surely be a cascade. The uni sector needs some radical new political impetus, and quickly www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
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Andrew Williams @williamsapj.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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‘Solidarity, Not Charity’: A Visual History of Mutual Aid
Tens of thousands of mutual aid networks and projects emerged around the world in 2020. They have long been a tool for marginalized groups.
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
📢New Issue of TIBG!📢 This December's Issue is themed around migration, asylum, and ethnic diversity. It also features @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social & Harriet Bulkeley's collection on climate geographies. Read the papers using the link below ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661... #geosky
A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with the names of papers in a Themed Intervention titled 'Changing climate, Changing geographies?'. The papers are: 
1) Changing climate, changing geographies?
Harriet Bulkeley,  Colin McFarlane
2) Geography and climate vulnerabilities
Diana Liverman
3) Climate geographies and geographies of knowledge
Susan Owens
4) Governing climate change in a changing world
Linda Westman
5) Skeletons, dragons and the ‘climate war’: Geography's colonial legacy and the uneven landscape of environmental knowledge
Laurie Parsons
6) Unbounding the future: New directions for climate-changed geographies
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The papers are:
1) Listening to Europe's migration ‘crisis’: The discursive, affective and imaginative responses of audiences to BBC Radio 4 broadcasts
Alice Watson
2) Intimate liminality in Spain's berry industry
Nora Komposch,  Carolin Schurr,  Angels Escriva
3) Everyday digital dis/connection: Locating slow violence in (non)encounters with the UK asylum state
Hannah Morgan
4) Devaluing personhood: The framing of migrants in the EU's new pact on migration and asylum
Jouni Häkli,  Gintarė Kudžmaitė,  Kirsi Pauliina Kallio
5) Racism and the uneven geography of welfare sanctioning in England
Andrew Williams,  Brian Webb,  Richard Gale
6) Conflicting geographical imaginaries in globalised labour markets: The local valorisation of international education among employers and returned international students
Ran Ren,  Yunting Qi
7) Insurgent envelopment: The emergency blanket and scenes of exposure at border zones
Derek McCormack
8) The geoeconomics of protecting profits from migrants in maritime distress
Terence Adam Rudolph
9) ‘Are we invisible?’ Power-geometries of conviviality in a superdiverse London neighbourhood
Katherine Stansfeld
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Andrew Williams @williamsapj.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Decided to make the switch...
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