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PhD student from Hackney blog: zuhrijames.wordpress.com

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Urban metabolism is being redesigned. Focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead, this article investigates how new landscape interventions reveal some urban processes while obscuring others. By Ben Platt, Zuhri James 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...
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Urban Multiplicities @urbanmulti.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The final talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @profgillian.bsky.social (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 19th May, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
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Urban Multiplicities @urbanmulti.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The penultimate talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @maanbarua.bsky.social (@camunigeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 5th May, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"Diasporic culture and social media: Interpreting the cuy TikTok phenomenon" new in cultural geographies from Martin Saps and @zuhrijames.bsky.social was lucky to see a version of this presented at the @digicologies.bsky.social conference last month journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Urban Multiplicities @urbanmulti.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The fourth talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @princeguma.bsky.social (@campolis.bsky.social) in collaboration with @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social Tuesday 10th March, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
📢 Now in Early View: The Aesthetics of Urban Metabolism: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility By Ben Platt & Zuhri James 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...
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Urban Multiplicities @urbanmulti.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The third talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by Charlotte Lemanski (@camunigeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 24th February, 12:30–14:00, Large Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
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Urban Multiplicities @urbanmulti.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The second talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @ayonadatta.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 10th February, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
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Urban Multiplicities @urbanmulti.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The first talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @rikjaz.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 27th January, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
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Zuhri James @zuhrijames.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Delighted to share this new seminar series @benaplatt.bsky.social, Debangana Bose and I have organised, featuring six wonderful speakers @camunigeography.bsky.social @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📢December Issue of TIBG📢 Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series. 23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
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1) Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area
Han Cheng,  Deen Sharp

2) Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations
Aya Nassar

3) Constructing and contesting meta-geographies in Russian area studies debates
Vera Smirnova

4) Geography and area studies as critical bedfellows? The view from Singapore
Brenda S. A. Yeoh

5) Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography
Han Cheng

6) Beyond the Limpopo: Geography and the worlding of South(ern) Africa
Maano Ramutsindela

7) Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities
Kaya Barry

8) Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis
Zuhri James

9) Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining
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1) Before it's too late: The extinction script, multi-species reproductive futurism and Extinction Rebellion
Amy Robson

2) Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers
Austin Read

3) Infra-culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast
Julian Clark

4) Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality
Jonathan Darling,  Andrew Burridge

5) On the natural border: A bio-geo-political reading
Matteo Proto,  Francesco Buscemi

6) Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London
Saskia Papadakis

7) Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK
Sarah M. Hughes

8) On the politics of movement: Borderscapes, choreopolicing and choreopolitics
Charlotte Veal

9) High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India
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1) Post-pandemic geographies of working from home: More of the same for spatial inequalities?
David McCollum

2) The place where we live: Children, families, play, neighbourhoods and spaces of care during and after the pandemic
Alison Stenning,  Wendy Russell

3) Living a ‘shadow life’: The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough
Victoria J. E. Jones

4) What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home
David Bissell,  Elisabetta Crovara,  Andrew Gorman-Murray,  Elizabeth Straughan

5) Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention

6) Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis
Ankit Kumar,  Chandni Singh,  Lauren Hermanus,  Lalitha Kamath,  Wangui Kimari,  Mark Pelling,  Harriet Bulkeley
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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
From reissued classics, theory and art criticism to poetry, fiction, biography and even a sort of memetic fiction born out of a niche internet subculture, here are The London Magazine’s Best Books of 2025. thelondonmagazine.org/the-best-boo...
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The Best Books of 2025 - The London Magazine
The best books of 2025 as chosen by our contributors, from reissued classics, theory and art criticism to poetry, fiction, biography and more.
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Looking forward to this tomorrow!
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Zuhri James @zuhrijames.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I wrote about London, psychogeography and Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia for @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social October / November issue. Read the first few pages below and then buy a copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr... Thanks @jamiepcameron.bsky.social for the great editorial work
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Zuhri James @zuhrijames.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I wrote about Thamesmead for Failed Architecture. failedarchitecture.com/between-arch...
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Between Architectural Monstrosity and Speculative Utopia - Failed Architecture
Thamesmead is a town in south-east London that has long occupied an ambiguous place within the cultural imagination. Whilst perhaps most recently asso...
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Zuhri James @zuhrijames.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
New paper out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social with @benaplatt.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begi...
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Zuhri James @zuhrijames.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
New paper out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social with @benaplatt.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begi...
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Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Mark your calendars for the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series! @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social Four exciting talks, starting with @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes University).
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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Our October / November 2025 issue is out now! Cover image by Sandra Blow, cartoon by Dan Sperrin. Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
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Zuhri James @zuhrijames.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Infrastructural Geographies Easter Term Seminar Series. Final two talks will be given by Caixia Mao and @amoorelouise.bsky.social (@geogdurham.bsky.social). All welcome! Has been a real pleasure co-convening the group this year with @laszlocseke.bsky.social & @maanbarua.bsky.social !
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ERC RUN @natura-urb.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
'Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis' @zuhrijames.bsky.social examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project. Link to paper: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project that is currently unfolding in Thamesmead, a town in south-east London. It de...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"Sound Carries: Coloniality, Race, and the Spatial Politics of Representation," a special issue of Social Text edited by Tariq Jazeel and Tom Western, is now available. View the full TOC: buff.ly/H08Sm55 Buy this issue: buff.ly/JbS0MnO
Cover of Social Text issue 162. The top half features the journal title “Social Text” in yellow and white against a black background. Below are two side-by-side, colorized, low-resolution video stills of a person with eyes closed, resting their face on clasped hands, suggesting deep thought or emotion. The left image is pink-toned; the right image has yellow and green hues. The bottom section has a black background with pink and white text: “Sound Carries: Coloniality, Race, and the Spatial Politics of Representation.” Edited by Tariq Jazeel and Tom Western.
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Zuhri James @zuhrijames.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A chapter from my MPhil which I completed last year under the supervision of @natura-urb.bsky.social is out now in @tibg.bsky.social ! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project that is currently unfolding in Thamesmead, a town in south-east London. It de...
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Zuhri James @zuhrijames.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A chapter from my MPhil which I completed last year under the supervision of @natura-urb.bsky.social is out now in @tibg.bsky.social ! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project that is currently unfolding in Thamesmead, a town in south-east London. It de...
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Zuhri James @zuhrijames.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
My essay on Rachel Cusk and the limits of autofiction is in the new issue of the @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social Thanks to the editor @jamiepcameron.bsky.social thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
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Essay | Cusk, Experimentalism and the Limits of Autofiction by Zuhri James - The London Magazine
'Avant-garde, experimental art is still a terrain largely reserved for white artists.' Zuhri James explores the limits of Rachel Cusk's autofiction.
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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Featuring: @zuhrijames.bsky.social on Rachel Cusk and the limits of autofiction. @patrickchristie.bsky.social on Brixton and Goeff Dyer’s The Colour of Memory. Tony Roberts on Raymond Aron and post-war France. Read this and more here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...
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Buy the latest issue of The London Magazine, pre-order our next or enjoy copies dating back to 2010. You can read samples from each issue online.
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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Coming soon…👀 February / March 2025
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Zuhri James @zuhrijames.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
A ventilation shaft north of Liverpool's Royal Albert Dock reminding me of a quote from Ballard: 'Is it a model for some strange psychological state... What effect does using these buildings have on us? Are the real myths of this century being written in terms of these huge unnoticed structures?'
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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Lifting the Lid - just some reflections on how (also why) so many complaints come out so quickly. With reference to #GreggWallace. Hope it is useful. More to come (on complaints not the with reference). substack.com/@feministkil...
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Lifting the Lid
Or why so many complaints about Gregg Wallace?
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