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Phil Hubbard

@gypjh2000.bsky.social

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Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London; Editor Urban Studies. Part-time psychogeographer, landscape punk and walker.

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Philip Hubbard is a British geographer. He is currently Professor of Urban Studies at King's College London, having previously served as the head of the School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research, University of Kent. Hubbard has written widely cited work on urban sociology, urban geography, and social geographies. This work has often engaged with questions of gentrification, social segregation and housing. .. more

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 3d

New piece here: Making Sense of Multispecies Cities journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @dialogueshg.bsky.social

Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 3d

hey did you ever find the audio of the interview u did with the band back in 81?

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 3d

I'm cited in here about the role of upscale student accommodation in the crisis of housing affordability in our major cities www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ultra-v... #housing #gentrification www.nospacelikehome.study

‘Ultra-volatile’ enrolments cause ‘turbulence’ in student housing

Developers fear ‘glory days’ of non-stop building over as some areas face over-supply problems while city centre overcrowding intensifies

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 24d

Just realised 20 years since this was published: Hubbard, P. (2005). Accommodating otherness: anti‐asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege. Transactions of the institute of British Geographers, 30(1), 52-65.

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Geographers have recently progressed the debate on NIMBYism by demonstrating that opposition to new development is frequently motivated by white residents’ desire to exclude non-white groups. In this...

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 25d

In a nation full of bigotry, why should we engage with the work of musicians who are inspired by the English landscape? Is it possible to be critically nostalgic? kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/listening-...

Listening to Landscape: Tuning-in to the Ghosts of England

Contemporary electronic and experimental musicians are using sound to summon landscapes, memories, and ghosts of a disappearing England.

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's a farce and the time and effort wasted by admin around the country is disgraceful. Talk of a two speed ref contradicts principles of inclusion, whole point was to create level field for research funding. It's risible

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · Sep 1

Book Launch for Listening to Landscape, King's College 21 Nov 1900. Hauntology/psychogeography/music: free event with music from The Hardy Tree @claypipemusic.bsky.social & Stonecirclesampler with @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social plus Jim Jupp & Oliver Cherer. Grab tickets from Eventbrite, going fast!

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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · Dec 24

So excited to share the first paper from my PhD!

This new #openaccess paper in @progenvgeog.bsky.social examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould

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Economics Department J.-F.-Kennedy Institute @jfki-econ.bsky.social · Feb 14

🗓️ Next Monday and Tuesday:
We are very happy to host a workshop on "The Socio-Economics of Overcrowding" at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

See all information about the workshop and program below
and feel free to join!

@steinhardt.bsky.social @sebastiankohl.bsky.social @lucastella.bsky.social

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · Jul 8

Nice piece from Tim White on the housing crisis. 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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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · Jul 4

The border spectacle. For our education? Amusement? Outrage? Whatever, I'm depressed this is being played out for cameras. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

French police slash inflatable migrant boat heading to UK

Watch BBC footage of French police destroying a boat in the English Channel, a move the UK describes as

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · Jun 27

Some more stuff on fishing, Englishness and identity at the Kent coast here: kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/oysters-ow...

Oysters, Ownership, and Outrage: The Battle for Whitstable’s Shoreline

Once a symbol of Kentish pride and prosperity, oysters are now at the heart of a heated debate along the North Kent coast - igniting cultural, environmental and political tensions.

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · Jun 26

The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ri...

The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away

Anton Muscatelli, Maria Delgado and Miles Padgett consider the latest REF guidance, and warn of possible unintended consequences in how removing restrictions on output numbers will play out Anton Musc...

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · Jun 23

New paper by Fraser Curry @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @urbanfutures.bsky.social from his masters' dissertation - amazing stuff on property guardianship in urban Senegal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thu: i'm speaking about hauntology, gentrification and Englishness at this lovely little thing in Plymouth. Previewing some of stuff in my new book on hauntronica and music for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social "Listening to Landscape" (out Nov?) www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/confer....

Annual University of Plymouth Criminology Conference

What's on at the University of Plymouth: Annual University of Plymouth Criminology Conference. Ghosts of futures, pasts and presents: The hauntology of...

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · Jun 17

Great to be part of a @legalgeolsa.bsky.social meet up yesterday where we organised, discussed and debated. Lots of great future plans for conferences, workshops and perhaps even a journal for Legal Geography. Watch this space! www.clg.place

CLG Place

The site is a place for the sharing of scholarship in the field of critical legal geography. Through a directory of scholars and information about publications, events and research networks, the site ...

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