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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 6h

📢 Online lecture | 16 Jan 2026, 11:30 (GMT)

Professor Beth Perry explores urban epistemics and the “epistemic tangles” shaping how cities are known, governed, and contested

Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation."

👉 ow.ly/YbGj50XVfiC

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 6h

Promoting #megacities has become an economic bet.
As I argue in my new @spatialeconomic.bsky.social paper, the promised spillovers of wealth often stop at the #city limits, leaving a fractured map and a slow-burn political #backlash, which is the price of #urban obsession. doi.org/10.1080/1742...

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 4d

Ein Text wie eine Kundgebung. Lesebefehl…

Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · 4d

Weggehen, um dann eines Tages so einen kritischen Text schreiben zu können

Wallis, Land des Schmerzes und der Schuld www.nzz.ch/schweiz/wall...

Tragödie von Crans-Montana: Der Schmerz und die Schuld des Wallis

Kein anderer Kanton der Schweiz erlebt derart viele Katastrophen wie das Wallis. Doch in kollektiver Trauer hat Einsicht wenig Platz. Das hat mit dem Grössenwahn der Bergler zu tun.

www.nzz.ch

Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · 4d

Weggehen, um dann eines Tages so einen kritischen Text schreiben zu können

Wallis, Land des Schmerzes und der Schuld www.nzz.ch/schweiz/wall...

Tragödie von Crans-Montana: Der Schmerz und die Schuld des Wallis

Kein anderer Kanton der Schweiz erlebt derart viele Katastrophen wie das Wallis. Doch in kollektiver Trauer hat Einsicht wenig Platz. Das hat mit dem Grössenwahn der Bergler zu tun.

www.nzz.ch

Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 4d

Great conversation w/Michael Schaffer @politico.com on upheaval in global politics/what a neo-royalist world order might look like. Hint: bleak. But it is not yet consolidated. Time to crawl out of our fetal positions (@segoddard.bsky.social) and map alternatives.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

What’s Really Driving Trump’s Moves in Venezuela and Greenland

A new political theory suggests that what motivates this president is something far older than great power rivalry.

www.politico.com

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 5d

“Change is needed…”

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · 5d

theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing

Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

theconversation.com

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 5d

Da hat wohl jemand das Institut der Kompensation vollkommen missverstanden…

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · 5d

theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing

Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

theconversation.com

Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 5d

ICYMI My new article on the material politics of climate storytelling.

I use an experimental approach to juxtapose two stories of climate change in the Pacific. That of the IPCC, representing the dominant narrative, & then an anti-imperial version.
@geoopenaccess.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Title: ‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess.
Abstract: How climate change is narrated matters. Every story that is told of climate change contains its own causes of the problem, its own solutions and its own vision of the future. This article juxtaposes two stories: the dominant story of climate change as represented by the IPCC and a counter-story of climate change as ‘imperial mess’. This language comes from Alice Te Punga Somerville and her book Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay About Captain Cook (2020). In this book, Te Punga Somerville writes about colonialism in Aotearoa and the Pacific as a story that can be told in endless different ways, with each story drawing out different elements. Number 223 of her project, ‘In Montebello Islands’, discusses the British nuclear weapons testing programme. The tests were called ‘Operation Hurricane’, and Te Punga Somerville writes that the whole imperial mess of the past five centuries could be called “Operation Hurricane”. This article takes this claim as a prompt, both methodologically and theoretically, in order to argue that climate change needs to be understood in a historically and geographically informed way, where the colonial history becomes the present, coloniality and resistance entwine and the ‘way out of the mess’ has to be found in a fight against the entirety of Operation Hurricane. The contribution of the article is twofold: First, this article contributes to literatures that understand climate change as a historical process of imperial violence, by directly addressing what this changes about an analysis of climate politics. Second, it contributes to critiques of the IPCC by showing how its approach depoliticises climate change through the way it narrates and communicates climate science as separate from historical and structural processes.

Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 6d

Canadian radio doco about the current techno fascism with @quinnslobodian.com and others, including myself (for about 15 seconds). www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

The movement to ditch democracy in favour of start-up cities run by CEOs | CBC Radio

What do you get when you take some of the classic Enlightenment values like reason, fairness, and justice, and substitute them with opinion, privilege and power: The Dark Enlightenment — a movement th...

www.cbc.ca

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 15d

30+ Jahre Baseballschläger in rechten Räumen voll vergessen?

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 25d

Beide Punkte an Sie.

Géographie-cités @geographie-cites.bsky.social · 25d

📣 @cybergeo.bsky.social fête ses 30 ans !
👩‍🎓 journée d’études à Paris, le 13 mars 2026
💬 enquête en ligne sur les évolutions souhaitables de la revue
#SHS #openscience
geographie-cites.cnrs.fr/cybergeo-fet...

Cybergeo fête ses 30 ans - Géographie-cités

Journée d'étude, le 13 mars 2026 à Paris.

geographie-cites.cnrs.fr

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 26d

Die haben da auch Netz, oder?

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 27d

Brussels’ volte-face on #petrol engines— @financialtimes.com (www.ft.com/content/0e16...) —show our lack of capacity to implement #carbon neutrality.
Bartalucci & I argue in @cjres.bsky.social that the costs of #green compliance begin to chafe against democratic patience.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 28d

Did incoming farmers replace hunter-gatherer populations in Western Europe, or did they live side-by-side? An ancient DNA project seeks to examine this by comparing hunter-gatherer ancestry with that of farmers 🧬 #MesolithicMonday 🏺 #Archaeology

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

📷 W.G. Smith

Map of Luxembourg, indicating sites with prehistoric human remains.

Global Urban Studies - Rutgers @gusrutgers.bsky.social · Dec 12

GUS Director Mara Sidney and co-editor David Kaufmann's book Global Urban Policy: A Framework for Analyzing State and Society will be published by U of Michigan Press in Mar 2026. The cover features a photo by Claudia Sinatra. Learn more at: press.umich.edu/Books/G/Glob...

Global Urban Policy

Cities are active policy innovators of global importance, whether responding to climate change, migration, poverty, or health disparities, or aiming to generate growth. Since cities adapt to the needs...

press.umich.edu

Jasmin Siri @fraugrau.bsky.social · Dec 10

Liebe Soziologiebubble, die ZTS lädt ein zum
Schwerpunkt 100 Jahre Niklas Luhmann. Wir freuen uns, wenn Ihr den Call teilen mögt.

digitalrechte @digitalrechte.bsky.social · Dec 8

Die #EU 🇪🇺 hat #X gerade mit 💶 120 Millionen Euro bestraft und wir müssen das einordnen.

X ist kein neutrales Netzwerk mehr.
Es ist ein politischer Akteur, der demokratische Institutionen offen 🧨 angreift.

Deshalb runter von X. jetzt! ⛔️

#musk

✂️ @nikoleit.bsky.social

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · Dec 8

... (at least in our view) present cityscapes (yes: "Stadtbild"), landscapes at the ocean or close to where he lives. One shows the painter preparing a fine-grained image of the bridge spanning over the #Ruhr, Germany. An add-on is the spectacular view of the #LaDéfense area not far from there.

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · Dec 8

One reason for our trip was visiting the gigantic exhibition of the works of #GerhardRichter at the FLV, who is another star of its own universe. A range of fantastic paintings, sketches, drawings and the like, presented over several floors of the building. Some of the not so well known works ...

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · Dec 8

Our visit at the #FondationLouis-Vuitton in Paris last Sat coincided with the passing of #FrankGehry the day before. He's the architect who created the building in the bois de Boulogne-Parc. It is of course considered as 'iconic' as some of its contemporaries, most notably the #GuggenheimBilbao.

Eurocities @eurocities.eu · Dec 4

🇪🇺 🏙️ Europe's city leaders back the new EU Policy Agenda for Cities, announced by the @ec.europa.eu.

However, while the #EUAgenda4Cities is a very positive step forward, cities need stronger guarantees on EU funding, governance and regulatory coordination.

Read our reaction 👉 lnkd.in/enV5avJr

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · Dec 3

Yep—must see and listen! Short answers, clear arguments, right to the point.

Markus Grill @mgrill.bsky.social · Dec 3

Exzellentes Interview mit Francis Fukuyama im ORF. Fukuyama ist überzeugt, dass die USA den Höhepunkt von Trumps Zustimmung (und Macht) bereits überschritten haben, nicht nur ehem. Parteifreunde wenden sich ab, auch Gerichte und Unternehmen widersetzen sich immer mehr
on.orf.at/video/143022...

Langfassung: Interview mit Francis Fukuyama (Englisch)

Francis Fukuyama ist einer der berühmtesten Politikwissenschaftler der Welt, bekannt für sein Buch „Das Ende der Geschichte“. Im ZIB2-Interview sprach er über Wladimir Putins Drohungen gegen Europa, d...

on.orf.at

zeitgeschichte_online @zeitgeschichte.bsky.social · Dec 3

Am 4.12. vor fünfzig Jahren ist Hannah Arendt gestorben. Eine Materialsammlung, mit Einleitung von Annette Vowinckel, bündelt Beiträge, die auf den Portalen von Zeitgeschichte digital sowie auf H-Soz-Kult erschienen sind und sich mit der Intellektuellen beschäftigen.

➡️ tinyurl.com/5n79act5

Hannah Arendt im Hof ihres Geburtshauses. Foto: Hannes Grobe (2024), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons (Bild bearbeitet).

Markus Grill @mgrill.bsky.social · Dec 3

Exzellentes Interview mit Francis Fukuyama im ORF. Fukuyama ist überzeugt, dass die USA den Höhepunkt von Trumps Zustimmung (und Macht) bereits überschritten haben, nicht nur ehem. Parteifreunde wenden sich ab, auch Gerichte und Unternehmen widersetzen sich immer mehr
on.orf.at/video/143022...

Langfassung: Interview mit Francis Fukuyama (Englisch)

Francis Fukuyama ist einer der berühmtesten Politikwissenschaftler der Welt, bekannt für sein Buch „Das Ende der Geschichte“. Im ZIB2-Interview sprach er über Wladimir Putins Drohungen gegen Europa, d...

on.orf.at

Bruce Stiftel @brucestiftel.bsky.social · Dec 1

60 YEARS ISOCARP: A LEGACY OF PLANNING IMPACTS launches today 17h30 in Riyadh (09h30 New York; 22h30 Tokyo). Zeynep Enlil's and my chapter, Advancing Planning in the Era of SDG 11 and the New Urban Agenda: ISOCARP at 60, traces ISOCARP's impact.

Nicolas Maisetti @nmaisetti.bsky.social · Dec 1

La dernière livraison de la @revuemetropoles.bsky.social publié sur la plateforme @ens-editions.bsky.social et dans tous les internets. Et même en fil, ici.

journals.openedition.org/metropoles/1...

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Nov 27

Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng, Jonathan Silver and Alan
Wiig eds. The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road – @brisunipress.bsky.social, November 2025 (print and open access)
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...