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Markus Hesse

Markus Hesse

@markushesse60.bsky.social

1.6K followers 2.3K following 780 posts

Geographer and planning theorist at the University of Luxembourg 🇱🇺,interested in spaces & flows. Studying urbanization, financial centres, governance and planning in conflict.

Engineering 28%

Political science 26%

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Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 5h

Dazu der FAZ-Aufmacher von gestern, über das “Erwachsenwerden” der Klimapolitik im Schlepptau von Trump…

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 1d

Das hier, FAZ-Aufmacher von heute.

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SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics @sasemeeting.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Update for SASE Bordeaux 2026

Due to an exceptional surge in submissions this year, the SASE Annual Meeting in Bordeaux will now run for four days instead of three.

🗓 New conference dates: July 1–4, 2026
More details: sase.org/events/2026-...

#SASE2026 #SocioEconomics #AcademicConference

Bordeaux 2026 | SASE Annual Conferences

Fighting Divisions: Conflict and Power in a Post Globalisation Order38th Annual SASE Conference

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 1d

Das perfekte Kontrastprogramm: FAZ-Leitartikel von heute. Man glaubt es nicht…

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 2d

Coming in March as part of theurbansalon.com series, book discussion about Cinema and the City in an era of Planetary Urbanisation with Nitin Bathia and responses from @hyunshin.bsky.social Myra Geogiou and Monica Degan. 10 March @lselondon.bsky.social

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Eric Verdeil @erverd.bsky.social · 2d

www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

Pierre Merlin, géographe et urbaniste, grand défenseur de l’université, est mort

Il a présidé l’université Paris-VIII Vincennes lors de sa période la plus agitée, à la fin des années 1970. Il s’est éteint le 3 février, à l’âge de 88 ans.

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Soziopolis @soziopolis.bsky.social · 4d

In seinem neuen Essay entfaltet @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social die These einer ideologischen Affinität zwischen KI & Faschismus – eine unverzichtbare Lektüre, um die Verflechtung von Tech-Utopien, KI und rechtsextremer Politik besser zu verstehen, so Bastien Dratwa.

www.soziopolis.de/sommer-folgt...

Zu sehen ist ein Screenshot der Webseite mit dem Titel der Rezension, dem Buchcover und weiteren bibliografischen Angaben.

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 7d

Anybody wondering about the ‘competitive turn’ in the sciences and HE-policy?

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 7d

Special Economic Zones don’t fail loudly. They fade quietly.
#SEZs in #Africa amplify existing strengths—skills, infrastructure—while exposing weaknesses. The can raise export diversification but slowly, with effects only appearing after a decade or so. doi.org/10.1080/0885...

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 8d

Simply mindsets have changed, as the circumstances did. Nevertheless, the differences are astonishing…

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Akira Drake Rodriguez @akirarodriguez.bsky.social · 11d

New Interface on Planning and Nihilism by the Rutgers gang www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nihilism, Post-Truth and the Moral Future of Planning

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2026)

www.tandfonline.com

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German Aid to Ukraine @deaidua.org · 12d

More privately funded winter assistance from Germany – The German association Life Bridge Ukraine has delivered 6,000 gas stoves, 30,000 gas cylinders and 7,040 heaters to Kyiv. These were distributed to elderly people over the weekend via the city's social assistance centres.

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Claudia Salowski @claudiasalowski.bsky.social · 12d

Temperaturen von -20 Grad, kein Strom, keine Heizung, kein Wasser, keine Kanalisation.
Ihr könnt weiter für Überlebenskits spenden, alle Details im zitierten Post. 🙏🏻
#SlavaUkraini

Bestätigung Überweisung von 80€ an We Aid gGmbH

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 15d

Great case of “how small things can have a big impact!”

Nate Frey @natefrey.bsky.social · 15d

This Is A Music Thread:

1) Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron Tiny Desk Concert

I know this album, but why didn’t I know about this performance, whoa

Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Nate Frey @natefrey.bsky.social · 15d

This Is A Music Thread:

1) Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron Tiny Desk Concert

I know this album, but why didn’t I know about this performance, whoa

Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Bruce Stiftel @brucestiftel.bsky.social · 16d

Pleased to be part of this important project setting out similarities and differences among planning systems around the world.
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL PLANNING to be published on 30 January 2026. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 18d

New: AAG President @WilliamGMoseley offers an eyewitness perspective from his hometown of Minneapolis-St. Paul, arguing for respect for human rights and international law as the basis for science and society. buff.ly/dlDzIXV

Mass turnout in Minneapolis on Jan 23, 2026. Credit: Bill Moseley

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 18d

Is there a name for this kind of low-rise, high-density type of development that is found in Southeast Los Angeles? So many alleys perpendicular to the main east-west streets

Aerial view of residential neighborhood with long elongated alleys

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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · 18d

Wenn ihr das Geld erübrigen könnt (man kann auch zusammenlegen). Jedes Kit hilft!

Ukraine2Power hat ein Überlebenskit für 80€ (Gaskocher, Heizdecken, Hand/Fusswärmer, Thermoskanne, Powerbank) zusammengestellt.
Konto: We Aid gGmbH
IBAN: DE 52370205000001838801
Kennwort: Ukraine2Power

Danke 🙏

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Hedwig Richter @hedwigrichter.bsky.social · 18d

@rebharms.bsky.social @fuecks.bsky.social u andere organisieren schnelle Hilfe für die Ukraine!
Ukraine2Power hat ein Überlebenskit für 80€ (Gaskocher, Heizdecken, Hand/Fusswärmer, Thermoskanne, Powerbank) zusammengestellt.
Konto: We Aid gGmbH
IBAN: DE 52370205000001838801
Kennwort: Ukraine2Power

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 18d

Sie haben definitiv nie (!) ins Nichts geschrieben. (Klassische Diskrepanz zwischen Selbst- u Fremdwahrnehmung). Bitte überlegen Sie sich den Rückzug nochmal.

Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 19d

FZ

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Geography and Environment at Loughborough University @lborogeog.bsky.social · 19d

Professors Peter Kraftl and @profslh.bsky.social have co-edited the new Handbook on Geographies of Education (with Yi’En Cheng and Silvie R. Kučerová) @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

"This first of its kind volume is at once field-defining and boundary-pushing."

www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Handbook on Geographies of Education

‘Education happens in spaces and places, and across scales. This Handbook on Geographies of Education offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which policy, practice, and experience not ...

www.e-elgar.com

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Geographical Review @geographicalreview.bsky.social · 19d

Check out this new article in the GR from Conan Millen & Marin Cvitanović that explores the geography of second homes and (re)production of nationalism in Cornwall: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Second Homes and the (Re)production of Cornish Nationalism

The growth of second-home ownership and short-term holiday lettings has intensified housing inequality in regions with high tourism pressure, prompting localized opposition and raising questions ab...

www.tandfonline.com

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 21d

Isabel Feichtner, Susanne Heeg, Anne Klingenmeier, Gesine
Langlotz and Katja Schubel eds., Stadt – Land – Boden: Verbindende Bodenpolitik zwischen Stadt und Land – transcript, August 2025, open access
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Stadt – Land – Boden

Eine Kluft zwischen Stadt und Land? Nicht bei der Bodenpolitik: Herausforderungen und Lösungen für mehr Verteilungsgerechtigkeit in der Bodennutzung.

www.transcript-verlag.de

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Mario Sixtus @sixtus.net · 22d

Deutschland gehört zu den Ländern, die am hartnäckigsten auf dem Hass- und KI-Porno-Portal "X" bleiben; mutmaßlich auch, weil Politik und Medien aus unverständlichen Gründen die Hölle des Hitlergrüßers nur zögerlich verlassen. Sprecht sie darauf an! Holt sie da weg!

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Prof David Bailey @dgbailey.bsky.social · 25d

New @rsablog.bsky.social ‘Beyond Agglomeration.’ Time to go beyond agglomeration as an organising principle in industrial strategy & take place seriously. @regionalstudies.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Beyond Agglomeration. Towards A Rethinking of Industrial Strategy? - RSA Main

In recent years, industrial strategy has returned to the centre of political and economic debate. Governments across advanced economies are once again asking how they can shape growth, support innovat...

www.regionalstudies.org

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Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social · 25d

Our new paper audits ChatGPT’s place-based judgements using 20 million pairwise comparisons. We find systematic geographic biases in how places are described and evaluated.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (authors: Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham)

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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · 25d

Out now!

I've edited a special issue of New Political Economy on 'Centring exploitation in global political economy'.

Link to the intro:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Other articles (all brilliant!) and a short summary 👇

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Pierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social · 25d

Le Mercosur pose un dilemme essentiel :
- D'un côté, nécessité de nouer de nouvelles alliances avec le Sud, dans un contexte d'érosion de l'axe atlantique.
- De l'autre, un traité qui accélère la destruction du socle écologique.

Comment en sortir ?

www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

Au Brésil, l’accord UE-Mercosur va se traduire par une « avancée de l’agriculture sur des surfaces non exploitées, notamment en Amazonie »

Larissa Mies Bombardi est une géographe brésilienne, actuellement enseignante à l’Université libre de Bruxelles. Cette spécialiste des questions environnementales dans les échanges agricoles dénonce, ...