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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 2d

Cairo road, by Sara Salem. Powerful intervention on street naming and de/colonial futures on @antipodeonline.bsky.social
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...

Intervention—“Cairo Road” - Antipode Online

Sara Salem, London School of Economics and Political Science Growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, I distinctly remember Cairo Road, one of Lusaka’s main thoroughfares named after the city my father was from....

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 8d

Rereading Elizabeth Hinton's From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. Fundamental reading to demify many myths about crime, race and policy (like, that there is fundamental difference between GOP and Dems on crime control)
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

A book recommendation by Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences...

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 16d

Outlaw Capital, the poweful book by Jennifer Tucker, reviewed on @antipodeonline.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2025/10/03/o...

Outlaw Capital: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development - Antipode Online

Beverley Mullings (University of Toronto) on Jennifer L. Tucker’s Outlaw Capital: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development Read Review

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 16d

Genocide is a feminist issue - a very promising special issue of Gender, Place and Culture
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3...

Gender, Place & Culture

Genocide is a feminist issue. Volume 32, Issue 10 of Gender, Place & Culture

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 16d

Anyone good sources of copaganda IN ACADEMIA I should look at (beyond the classics, of course) 3/3

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 16d

Been thinking for a long time, but now again wanting to move forward on a project on how American elite universities (and particularly police science and economics) have been pivotal in all the repressive/racist turns in US CJ and policing. 2/

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 16d

had this surreal X-spat with a bunch of US liberals+fascists+copbots+(and this is fundamental)cop-scholars on policing, crime - started from the simple affirmation by a liberal activist that the best way to improve public transit in Atlanta is to fill stations with cops... 1/

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 19d

And, of course, a suggestion for our NY heroes to read about uneven and combined development (Rosa Luxemburg is a good start, y'all) if they want get their story right (a summary from yours truly: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....). 3/3

The “Souths” of the “Wests”. Southern critique and comparative housing studies in Southern Europe and USA

Southern urban critique has enriched our understanding of global uneven development, but often ended up constructing a dichotomous understanding of two apparently homogeneous fields: the Global Nor...

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 19d

So a shot out to all those like Zandria Robinson, Wanda Rushing, Richard Loyd, who had seen this come more than a decade ago. 2/3

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 19d

the NYTimes is an amazing source to see liberals realising worlds exist and sistematically missing the point. But happy to see in NY someone realised the US South exist AND that it is a bit more complicated than hillibillies vs the "Black middle class": www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o... 1/3

The “Souths” of the “Wests”. Southern critique and comparative housing studies in Southern Europe and USA

Southern urban critique has enriched our understanding of global uneven development, but often ended up constructing a dichotomous understanding of two apparently homogeneous fields: the Global Nor...

www.tandfonline.com

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 20d

"it may attempt too much, but it definitely delivers a lot of elements from which good, honest, reflexive urban scholarship is made": my review of Saila Maria's Transgressive City-Making and Governance is out on Housing Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 23d

We should literally defund all natural and biological science, not to speak of innovation and tech d development, and spend a few decades only reading poetry
www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/s...

Meet the scientists sounding the alarm about the doomsday risks of mirror life | CNN

Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 23d

Best thing of David Harvey's books? It takes usually three or four lines to explain why economists' bullshit is bullshit

Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 25d

The history of colonisation is also a history of "non-violent" land grabbing and expulsions through the making of property deeds "European style". Planning and urban scholars all around the world should be ready to help if requested, btw. 2/2

Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 25d

non-requested advice: if I was whatever Palestinian organisation will have any role in the management of #Gaza in the next few weeks, the very first thing I would do (right after bringing food and water, but right before anything else) would be to build/update the land registry and cadastre. 1/2

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 26d

As I was leaving the city, in the first day of the Fall university semester, there were many students around. Right in front of my hotel, was a bunch of students with Keffiyehs and Palestinian flags, selling snacks and giving flyers. What a great way to say goodbye. Thanks. 4/4

Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 26d

This is not to minimise reports on the horrible stuff going on, but to remind ourselves that the space is always open to different narratives and politics, and that we should nurture those spaces. 3/

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 26d

I was worried of the possible implications of discussing Palestine amid the authoritarian environment in Germany. I was so relieved of finding a space of comradeship, critical thinking and (ugly word, but you know what I mean) free speech. 2/

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 26d

I'm about to fly back to Lisbon after two days at this powerful workshop at TU Darmstadt. Having to speak of violence against the urban, couldn't not using Gaza's urbicide and Trump/Blair plan as example. 1/

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 27d

The online lecture series “Cities at War” will start in two days. A truly global series of event, don't miss it
www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/events/onlin...

Online Lecture Series: Cities at War - Urban Studies Foundation

The online lecture series "Cities at War" is jointly organized by scholars from war-torn cities focusing on how military conflicts and their aftermath have produced and re-produced their cities.

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 27d

Recently started to read Enlightenment Biopolitics
A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens,
William Max Nelson. Truly great book so far, well written and powerful argument on the paradoxical of "Western" political philosophy
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Enlightenment Biopolitics

A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the...

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 27d

"In tune with their time", what a powerful essay by Nasser Abourahme, came out in Summer 24, still extremely relevant - maybe even more after the Trump ceasefire
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/in-t...

Nasser Abourahme · In tune with their time (2024)

www.radicalphilosophy.com

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 27d

Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera, eds. Space, Affect, Memory: Literary geographies in transnational and transdisciplinary comparison - @uclpress.bsky.social, October 2025 (print and open access)
uclpress.co.uk/book/space-a...

Space, Affect, Memory

Space, Affect, Memory highlights the centrality of space in modern and contemporary culture, both as an object of study and as a concept that underpins research and creative practice. In so doing, thi...

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Simone Tulumello @simtulum.bsky.social · 29d

This is a first, for me: received a manuscript to review (leading journal), full of fabricated references, including one of mine. Now I wish reviews weren't blind to ask the authors what they have in their minds (butterflies, I guess)

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Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago @multipliciudad.bsky.social · Sep 15

"What is radical planning history?"

The final version of this piece is out in the latest Planning Perspectives (free access). It calls for alternative critical epistemologies in planning history. Really looking forward to the conversations this might spark!

Check it out here: t.ly/m8Erb

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