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Colin McFarlane

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Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University http://cityfragment.wordpress.com DenCity: http://dencity.webspace.durham.ac.uk Durham: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/colin-mcfarlane/

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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a wrap on our first panel in Ljubljana 🌍

A clear message from today: Europe’s green transition won’t succeed without strong public infrastructure, long-term investment, and public control of public services.

Public services are the backbone of a fair, sustainable future. 💧⚡️🗑️

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 10d

A huge thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis for this award! I was so honoured & grateful opportunity in Seoul to focus attention on the global urban sanitation crisis. Thank you to @versobooks.bsky.social for nominating the book, & to Pattis.

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A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize. I am huge...

A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize. I am hugely grate...

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 21d

Congrats to Rozy Fredericks and collaborators on this great film on waste in Dakar - trailer available here for 'The Waste Commons'.

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The Waste Commons TRAILER

This is "The Waste Commons TRAILER" by Rosalind Fredericks on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 22d

Last month the latest global data on sanitation was published. I wrote a short blog on it below. Spoiler: for all that there has been very welcome improvements, 1 in 5 people still lack even basic sanitation.

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Safe sanitation targets ‘out of reach’: New global report examines progress and challenges

The first thing most of us do when we wake up in the morning is head for the bathroom. While the humble toilet is taken for granted, almost one in five people globally lack even basic sanitation wh…

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 28d

This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social

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

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Sep 10

My review, "An introduction to a non-fascist geography", of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) is now published online first in @dialogueshg.bsky.social Dialogues in Human Geography.
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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks @lifehouse.bsky.social. Yes, this is one of the questions we came back to while writing the piece, and partly our hope is that the piece provokes some reflection on that.

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Sep 5

New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social

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INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies

This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical an...

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Zack Taylor @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social · Aug 21

Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the release of an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities Warren Magnusson, who passed away earlier this year. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/walter-magnu...

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Aug 19

Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Aug 18

New article by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly & myself on the relationship of infectious disease and urban peripheries Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability: City: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability

This paper works toward building a theoretical framework to understand the role that extended urbanisation and peripherality played in the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on conceptualisin...

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Aug 15

Chuffed that my book 'Waste and the City' has gone from the longest to the shortlist with two excellent books here, alongside @shakirahh.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield... Many thanks to Metropolis...
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Meet the Finalists of the 2025 Global Cities Book Award | Metropolis

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Shakirah Hudani @shakirahh.bsky.social · Aug 4

Very honored that 'Master Plans and Minor Acts' is one of three finalists for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award (Metropolis).
Congratulations to @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield and many thanks to the judging panel!
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Meet the Finalists of the 2025 Global Cities Book Award | Metropolis

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · May 28

Are you considering applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship? At Durham Geography we can offer an excellent research environment and support for your application. To help locate a suitable mentor you can find a list of our staff here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Our people - Durham University

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Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · Jun 6

Great online talk today by @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk)! Such interesting and useful insights around fragments, ways of knowing and the urban www.ucpress.edu/books/fragme...

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · Apr 1

New Report

“I was evicted and left homeless” - Exploring social and environmental (in)justice along the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project

Covered this morning by the Guardian..

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From our Global Corridor project w/ partners Haki Defenders Foundation

People displaced by Uganda oil pipeline ‘received inadequate compensation’

Report claims many of 13,000 people displaced by Eacop project say they were inadequately rehoused or compensated

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Jul 23

Exclusive: Global health research projects halted by latest UK aid cuts.

Winners of UK government grants for global health research have had their funding suspended after ministers decided to cut spending on international development, we can reveal.

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Global health research projects halted by latest UK aid cuts - Research Professional News

Exclusive: Applications for HIV research among those impacted by suspension of NIHR schemes

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Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social · Jul 22

So... here's why I havent posted much. Been writing a book! Thrilled to share The Feminist Art of Walking is out on Pluto October 20th www.plutobooks.com/978074535100... Thanks so much to everyone who has helped make this happen, I am excited and a bit scared for you to read it

The book cover for The Feminist Art of Walking by Morag Rose. The text is in large sans serif font and is in the middle of the page. It is in white over an image of the sky with a cloudy sunset. On the left edge, vertical, is a cityscape, on the right some gorse bushes

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Prof Katherine Brickell @kbrickell.bsky.social · Jul 21

📣 Call for Papers:
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question

ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki

🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025

🏹 Please spread the word!

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · Jul 18

Our GlobalCORRIDOR paper is out in the latest edition of Urban Studies journal

"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"

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Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Jul 7

I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

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nickmegoran.bsky.social @nickmegoran.bsky.social · Jul 15

Special forum in honour of pioneer development, feminist and participatory methods geographer, Janet Townsend, late of Durham University, for Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.

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