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Russell Prince
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Geographer at Massey University in Aotearoa NZ. Opinions my own. Recent book Understanding Policy Mobility https://tinyurl.com/understandingpolicymobility
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · Aug 10
Over the years I have made visuals for my geography courses. I'm going to start sharing them on this thread in no particular order or purpose other than I made them to make a specific point in a lecture. Feel free to use them with attribution if they're useful.
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10d
This Progress Report on Mobilities I: Crisis now has a home in Volume 49 Issue 5. #OpenAccess and alongside some excellent contributions all addressing crisis in its many forms @proghumgeog.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/toc/PHG/curr...
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 16d
Great piece on the politics of moving counter-hegemonic ideas into mainstream policy and practice. As this paper shows, there's not a huge amount of work bridging policy mobilities and the geographies of social movements, but really productive space for that work to be done.
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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 17d
New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6
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Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach - Eugene McCann, 2025
This paper addresses the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism and contentious politics. It outlines one way to expand...
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · 17d
According to @clrenney.bsky.social, who I'm listening to at the moment, the care economy is going to be the fastest growing part of the economy or the next few decades, so this symposium seems timely!
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · 17d
The Caring Economies Symposium, hosted by Massey University, on recentering care in turbulent times, Wellington, October 17th www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/caring-eco...
Caring Economies Symposium
Recentering care in turbulent times.
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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 17d
New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6
tinyurl.com/88xmursz
Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach - Eugene McCann, 2025
This paper addresses the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism and contentious politics. It outlines one way to expand...
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · 22d
I'm looking to refresh my geopolitics course next year (part of a geography programme) - are there any textbooks or recent works people would recommend?
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Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social · 22d
Our pitch for constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025
The paper makes a case for explicitly constructivist approaches and projects in economic geography. Constructivism names and problematizes the relationship betw...
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 22d
new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity

next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)
Reti earmarks $70m of new agency's budget for AI commercialisation grants
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · 25d
My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
Understanding Policy Mobility
‘With great clarity and insight, Russell Prince’s Understanding Policy Mobility not only explains why and how public policy ideas move, but why it matters. An indispensable guide through decades of sc...
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · 24d
Ngā mihi Lucas! Hope you’re well
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 25d
Wonderful to see this out! A great read that looks at policy mobilities that really gets to the political, power laden and spatial aspects of these processes.
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · 25d
My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
Understanding Policy Mobility
‘With great clarity and insight, Russell Prince’s Understanding Policy Mobility not only explains why and how public policy ideas move, but why it matters. An indispensable guide through decades of sc...
www.e-elgar.com
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · 24d
Thanks Cristina!
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · 25d
Thanks Eugene!
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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 25d
Worth a read! A concise & clearly argued guide to the critical literature on global-relational policymaking. … An essential starting point for those interested in policy-making’s role in world-making.
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · 25d
My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
Understanding Policy Mobility
‘With great clarity and insight, Russell Prince’s Understanding Policy Mobility not only explains why and how public policy ideas move, but why it matters. An indispensable guide through decades of sc...
www.e-elgar.com
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · 25d
Thanks to @ejmccann.bsky.social , @ctemenos.bsky.social and Tom Baker for their kind words about it
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · 25d
My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
Understanding Policy Mobility
‘With great clarity and insight, Russell Prince’s Understanding Policy Mobility not only explains why and how public policy ideas move, but why it matters. An indispensable guide through decades of sc...
www.e-elgar.com
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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 29d
Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore
An airport banner with an image of a folding laptop paralleled to a hot dog that reads "feeding fans faster with AI"
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · 29d
A better framing for the article would have been how the covid house price boom showed the dangers of organising so much of the management of the economy around housing, not just for these folks and the people priced out, but more generally because of the lost years as it unwinds
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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 29d
Top news on the utterly Listenerized RNZ: but my homies (see what I did there) the falling price of your house makes no difference whatsoever to you if you bought it to actually live there. You knew the size of the mortgage going in. If you have to move, you'll sell and buy in the same market.
"We need to stop the bleeding": the homeowners who bought in a market high
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · Sep 9
Flushing away taxpayer money - 8 minutes
Chloe is a CHILD - 50 minutes
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · Sep 9
Excellent piece calling bullshit on the story that NZ can and should transform our economy in the same ways that Ireland and Singapore shifted theirs.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · Sep 9
Politicians love comparing NZ’s economy to Singapore or Ireland – but it’s simplistic and misleading
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Politicians love comparing NZ’s economy to Singapore or Ireland – but it’s simplistic and misleading
Christopher Luxon has hyped Amazon Web Service’ data centre plans as a chance for NZ to emulate Singapore and Ireland. Politics and geography make this unlikely.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Aug 28
“Deskilling” skilled professions is a core promise of technological projects, so it’s probably not best understood as a side-effect even if some of the people pushing generative AI see it that way themselves. If the erosion of thinking is unforeseen, that’s just (so to speak) for lack of thinking.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 28
Physicians are using A.I. for diagnoses and more. But a new study found evidence that relying on A.I. tools might erode a doctor’s ability to perform fundamental skills without the technology, a phenomenon known as “deskilling.”
Are A.I. Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs?
Physicians are using the technology for diagnoses and more — but may be losing skills in the process.
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · Aug 28
Inside the annual torment of the bird of the year contest
Book of the Week: How to argue a bird
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 20
'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3
Public vastly overestimate level of ‘graduate regret’, poll finds
New research highlights misconceptions about higher education, with people more positive about universities than is commonly realised
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · Aug 13
"AI can now produce essays credible enough to pass as human work. The humanities tend to reward theoretical fluency and stylistic polish-areas where AI excels...By contrast STEM subjects...are harder for AI to mimic."
You understand we don't set essays to increase the total number of essays right?
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Andrew Chen @andrewtychen.bsky.social · Aug 13
yet again the dominance of cows is being entrenched - the hege-moo-ny perhaps

AI is peeling back the layers of 'low-value' work - NZ may be well-placed to adapt | RNZ News share.google/jynZSfVQW3Ia...
AI is peeling back the layers of 'low-value' work - NZ may be well-placed to adapt
As generative AI advances at breakneck speed, it is upending assumptions about which jobs are "safe" from automation.
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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · Aug 10
This is a map showing the number and distribution of sheep and cattle in NZ between 1994 and 2023
Maps of New Zealand in 1994 and 2023 showing the number and distribution of sheep and cattle with dot density iconography, it shows there are more cattle and less sheep now, and cattle have spread from the north to cover the whole country