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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 1d

Our second session of the term will explore the global water crisis through discussion of Filippo Menga’s new book, Thirst (Verso 2025), with responses from Naho Mirumachi and Julie Froud

Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 3d

TTiN’s first event of the new term. Join us online for this lunchtime discussion about infrastructure, art, and autoethnography.

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 3d

How can art and storytelling help us to make sense of infrastructures? Join us online at lunchtime on Wed 29 Oct for our first session of the new academic year with visual artist, urban walker, and comics creator Giada Peterle. Sign up below! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for inviting me and @drdomdavies.bsky.social to talk about our new co-authored book exploring how comics can document & disrupt dominant images of war & forced displacement @wlupress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/graphic-refuge

Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24d

Also excited to have been accepted to participate in the 22nd Historical Materialism conference, in a panel with colleagues @drdomdavies.bsky.social & @mediocre.bsky.social [6-9 November 2025] www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism

Deadline extended to 27 May! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025

www.historicalmaterialism.org

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Red Pepper @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 29d

"The only social space left after the evisceration of society and the undermining of the individual is the family"

The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues @drdomdavies.bsky.social

www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...

Reclaiming inheritance tax as a social good - Red Pepper

The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic Davies

www.redpepper.org.uk

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Sep 5

My latest for @redpeppermag.bsky.social argues that public opposition to inheritance tax must be understood in the context of Britain’s crumbling infrastructure. The more people lose faith in the state, the more they feel the need to look out for their families.

www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...

Reclaiming inheritance tax as a social good - Red Pepper

The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic Davies

www.redpepper.org.uk

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Aug 13

It’s a privilege to have an essay in this month’s bumper issue of @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on the cultural politics of decline in Britain.

Out this week and available online to subscribers tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...

The Decline Rollercoaster

In response to the harsh reality of national decline, Labour has offered only a ‘theme park politics’ fuelled by the sugar rush of the growth delusion. Might a more substantial, more humane vision of ...

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Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · Jul 24

Can Refugee Comics Effect Political Change? Discussing Comics Journalism and “Refugeeness” - Ep. 3 of the podcast I did with co-author @drdomdavies.bsky.social is up!
www.choice360.org/podcasts/epi...

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Jul 9

The first of our 4 part conversation about Graphic Refuge is now out with The Authority File on all good podcast platforms!

Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · Jul 9

It was so great to record this podcast with @drdomdavies.bsky.social about our book on refugee comics. First ep is up now, 3 more 15 min eps to come later this month @wlupress.bsky.social

www.choice360.org/podcasts/epi...

What the Implied Reader of Refugee Comics Tells Us about the Genre and Citizenship - Choice 360

Candida and Dom, authors of Graphic Refuge, introduce us to refugee comics, defining the genre, its history, and readership.

www.choice360.org

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Jul 5

TTiN is now on Apple Podcasts! Check out our talks and conversations from 2024-25 and give us a follow and a rating!

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network

Education Podcast · A network for academics, policy makers, & community organizers who work to understand & address the social, political, & cultural impacts of infrastructure. Follow @TTinfraNetwork

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Jul 4

1 year ago today Britain went to the polls & I spoke with Moya for Novara FM about the ways infrastructure had become embroiled in a cultural politics that often passed unnoticed.

We unpacked these in our conversation and I think it still it bears listening to.

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Novara FM: Britain is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It? w/ Dom Davies

Podcast Episode · Novara Media · 04/07/2024 · 1h 1m

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Jul 2

"It is impossible not to learn from this book on refugee comics... A major achievement." - Hillary Chute

Copies available for UK readers from uk.bookshop.org or please consider ordering into your libraries!

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Graphic Refuge a book by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind.

Graphic Refuge is the first in-depth study of comics about refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and detainees by artists from the Global North and South. Co-written by two leading scholars of nonfictio...

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Jul 2

Comics & graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms – a glimpse into our book, Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, what it covers & why it matters now.

With @crifkind.bsky.social for @theconversation.com

theconversation.com/comics-and-g...

Comics and graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms

Refugee comics disrupt a media landscape that tends to reduce migrants to either threats or victims.

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Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · Jul 2

An article in The Conversation be me and @drdomdavies.bsky.social based on our new book, Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics @wlupress.bsky.social @uwinnipeg.bsky.social
theconversation.com/comics-and-g...

Comics and graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms

Refugee comics disrupt a media landscape that tends to reduce migrants to either threats or victims.

theconversation.com

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Jun 22

Tomorrow!

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Jun 16

Join us online next week for our lunchtime panel with Alex Tickell (OU) to launch his new book, City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure, Citizenship, in conversation with Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL) and David Johnson (OU).

Register below

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · Jun 19

Two senior @ukri.org figures this week have suggested unis could reduce how much research they do

“Concentrating on unique and high contributions & concentrating on less research, has the potential to bring the amount of activity into balance with research funding,” Steven Hill told #ARMA25

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Research England official: universities could do ‘less’ R&D - Research Professional News

Arma 2025: Director of research asks whether system should provide “disincentives for lower-quality research”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Jun 21

We’re midway through our “Power Grids” exhibition at @britishacademy.bsky.social where we’re discussing the experience of failing infrastructure, how green energy can empower communities, and the rewards of using comics co-creation as a research method.

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Jun 16

Join us online for TTiN's final lunchtime seminar of the academic year

Book Launch with Alex Tickell – City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure Citizenship

12-1pm, Monday 23 June 2025
Register here for Zoom link www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Jun 10

Join us at the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase next week, 20 & 21 June, for our exhibit on how comics & graphic narratives can help us to reimagine our energy infrastructure – free to attend, many other exhibits & activities, book your space www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · Jun 5

Took some time today to read the position papers for this workshop- all thought-provoking stuff. Also looking forward to the zine making session as closure! Great work from @drdomdavies.bsky.social and team putting this together.

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · May 21

We now have a programme for KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university.

This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.

Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Jun 5

Listen back to my conversation with Moya Lothian-McLean for @novaramedia.com for a flavour of the book's arguments novaramedia.com/2024/07/04/n...

Britain’s Infrastructure Is Crumbling. Can Labour Fix It? | Novara Media

Why does it feel like nothing works anymore?

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Jun 5

This week not a bad time to pick up a copy of The Broken Promise of Infrastructure – if you want to think about the cultural politics of infrastructure, what it means for Britain's regions, and the contradictions behind these repeated promises

lwbooks.co.uk/product/the-...

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · May 30

Workshop in two weeks: "Knowing Infrastructures in and beyond the neoilberal university" – Friday 13 June, City St George's, London, hosted by @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social

Full programme & registration here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · May 29

Copies of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Comics co-authored with @drdomdavies.bsky.social will also be available at a discount thx to @wlupress.bsky.social during @comicsscholars.ca www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/G/Grap...

Graphic Refuge

Wilfrid Laurier University Press - Transforming Ideas

www.wlupress.wlu.ca

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · May 21

We now have a programme for KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university.

This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.

Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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