A compulsory mix - coffee, water, fruit and notebook - for attending academic workshops. Enjoying the two-day workshop on “Creative methods in uncertainty times” in Basel organised by @julieren.bsky.social and her team

My commentary on the idea of ontological locationality, and how it relates to positionality in Dialogues in Urban Research, in conversation with N. Palat Narayanan journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A (post-)socialist reading of Creating Chinese Urbanism by Fulong Wu, driven by an agenda to expand the reading of certain geographies by certain geographers. With thoughts by S.Ferenčuhová, T.Tuvikene, E.Trubina, @liviu-chelcea.bsky.social, N.Kinossian www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/book...

🚨 I'm recruiting a funded MA + PhD to research poverty alleviation models w/ a leading Greater Manchester organisation!
More than a rough sleeper: Framing & examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation.
Deadline: July 1 | Start: October
UK/home students only www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Hiring a PhD researcher with Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance. Offering 4-year fully-funded joint degree with University of Basel and University of Amsterdam. Ideal candidate speaks Mandarin, Cantonese & English. Deadline June 18. career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...

Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters - my latest @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:

Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

"Masculinities in transit" a forum on Romit Chowdhury's book City of Men (@rutgersupress.bsky.social) with Sanjay Srivastava, Wangui Kimari, Manali Desai, Greg Noble, @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social, @plyushteva.bsky.social in @urbangeography.bsky.social: www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/book...

📣 JOB ALERT
PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de
Deadline: 28 March 2025.

More info here:
www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po...
Do get in touch with any questions!

"Everyday crisis" as a framework to facilitate the reading of quieter registers of subjectivity, agency, politics. The ubiquity of crisis narratives risks diminishing its significance. How to grapple with crisis as a condition without normalizing it? With @ifidimi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1360...

"Reworking relations of epistemological authority in teaching collaborations" w Hanna Hilbrandt, a critical reflection on prj w Sans-Papiers & students now out as part of special feature "Decolonising urban knowledge(s): an ordinary imperative in extraordinary times" in City doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Began as a discussion at the Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023, with contributions by N. Appelhans, I. Carstensen-Egwuom, M. Houssay-Holzschuch, S. Myat, L. Nkula-Wenz, M. Larsen, N. Palat Narayanan, GenUrb Collective, N. Sami, M. Streule @ankeschwarz.bsky.social y.social

"Doing urban geography in times of crisis" co-organized w H. Hilbrandt, now @ Geographica Helvetica. From the impact of right-wing media on uni admin, to the subjects doing research navigating the growing incompatibilities of institutional rules v. academic aims gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

Previous link went awry, use this updated link: career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...

today FNV union members begin our strike at the uni of amsterdam. our exec. board continues to impose antidemocratic limits on protest & refuses to cut ties with institutions complicit in grave human rights violations. but the university isn’t them, it’s students & workers www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...

Hiring a postdoctoral researcher on the project "Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance," 4 years, full time, based at the University of Basel. Deadline Dec 20. See details: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

"Crisis and Collectives Shaping Art Events: From Events that Matter to Events that Care" now online at Third Text, written with Charlotte Matter, Rosa Sancarlo and Virginia Marano, partly an outcome of our crisis-shaped reading. Available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Collaboration is not an elixir; it can be enormously challenging under the best circumstances. And yet we hope "Research-based collaboration: A toolkit for teaching and learning" might inspire/inform new efforts: www.zueri-urban.com/toolkit

#AcademicSky #FeministSky @ifidimi.bsky.social

reposting from bird: join us for a symposium on the urban politics of infra-density at UZH on 14th of December 2023. With Yimin Zhao, @jonschu.bsky.social, @julieren.bsky.social, @nitin bathla, ColinMcFarlane, Gabriela Debrunner, Charlotte Lemanski and Hanna Hilbrandt www.geo.uzh.ch/en/units/sok...

"Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance" is a project about the cruelty of hope, about recognizing aesthetic possibilities in the face of inevitability, about Hong Kong and Taipei, and about urban theorizations at the very small scale. Thrilled about this SNSF Starting Grant.

Geographers might want to read and sign this letter to the RGS on their de-platforming Palfest

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'We refuse the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom; between Jewish identity and ending the oppression of Palestinians. In fact, we believe the rights of Jews and Palestinians go hand-in-hand.'

A v good overview of the state of Germany rn by @hahauenstein.bsky.social .

Racism, islamophobia, and anti-Semitism all on the rise, backed by German gvt.

Stand-out quote by Ben Mauk:
“It seems hard to get institutions and politicians in Germany to recognise that Palestinians are human beings.”

Brief aus Berlin: kritische Wissenschaftler*innen an deutsche Politik + Öffentlichkeit

Es ist möglich, gegen antisemitische Anschläge und rassistische Polizeigewalt, gegen das Massaker der Hamas und die Kriegsverbrechen der israelischen Armee gleichzeitig zu sein.

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