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PDRA recording oral histories with UK environmentalists @rhulgeography.bsky.social
geographer / sociologist / oral historian interested in race, gender, class, life stories, place, gay stuff
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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · May 13
It's out! It's here! My first ever journal article 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' is out today with @tibg.bsky.social 🤩
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working-class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by L...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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tibg.bsky.social
📢December Issue of TIBG📢

Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series.

23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles sharing 6 papers in a Themed Intervention and 3 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area Han Cheng, Deen Sharp 2) Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations Aya Nassar 3) Constructing and contesting meta-geographies in Russian area studies debates Vera Smirnova 4) Geography and area studies as critical bedfellows? The view from Singapore Brenda S. A. Yeoh 5) Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography Han Cheng 6) Beyond the Limpopo: Geography and the worlding of South(ern) Africa Maano Ramutsindela 7) Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities Kaya Barry 8) Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis Zuhri James 9) Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining Yamini Narayanan A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Before it's too late: The extinction script, multi-species reproductive futurism and Extinction Rebellion Amy Robson 2) Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers Austin Read 3) Infra-culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast Julian Clark 4) Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality Jonathan Darling, Andrew Burridge 5) On the natural border: A bio-geo-political reading Matteo Proto, Francesco Buscemi 6) Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London Saskia Papadakis 7) Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK Sarah M. Hughes 8) On the politics of movement: Borderscapes, choreopolicing and choreopolitics Charlotte Veal 9) High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India Thomas Cowan A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with 4 standard articles, 1 commentary, and a Themed Intervention with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Post-pandemic geographies of working from home: More of the same for spatial inequalities? David McCollum 2) The place where we live: Children, families, play, neighbourhoods and spaces of care during and after the pandemic Alison Stenning, Wendy Russell 3) Living a ‘shadow life’: The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough Victoria J. E. Jones 4) What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home David Bissell, Elisabetta Crovara, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Elizabeth Straughan 5) Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention 6) Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis Ankit Kumar, Chandni Singh, Lauren Hermanus, Lalitha Kamath, Wangui Kimari, Mark Pelling, Harriet Bulkeley
December 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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naoisemurphy.bsky.social
My book is coming out soon and you can ask your library to order it! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queerin...
If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚
Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing
Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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ersjournal.com
#ERSNew 🐣🔓 What links Ugandan Asian refugees, a US multinational corporation that made its money from imperial warfare, a typewriter factory in Leicester, and a group of black revolutionaries? #1974ImperialTypewritersStrike. Article: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2539908
August 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
sazpaps.bsky.social
super happy that my article on Race Today and the Imperial Typewriters strike is out now and open access in @ersjournal.com!

doi.org/10.1080/0141...
Black struggles, black workers? Race Today and the 1974 Imperial Typewriters strike
In May 1974, around 500 ‘Ugandan Asian’ workers walked out of Leicester’s Imperial Typewriters factory. For the recently formed Race Today Collective (RTC), which published the radical journal Race...
doi.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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tibg.bsky.social
#OpenAccess in Transactions:

'Postimperial melancholia and the English North-South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' by @sazpaps.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in TIBG by Saskia Papadakis (2025) entitled: 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working-class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by London's ‘metropolitan elite’. Bringing together geographies of England's socio-spatial inequalities, emotional geographies, and postcolonial understandings of Englishness, this paper theorises the contemporary English North–South divide as a form of ‘splitting’, a psycho-spatial strategy born out of postimperial melancholia. In an attempt to contain the contradictory impulses towards helplessness and omnipotence produced through Britain's former global supremacy and its imperial decline, dominant imaginaries of England separate ‘good’ and ‘bad’ feelings and locate them in either the North or London, with implications for socio-spatial inequalities within the nation. Reading life stories recorded with women of colour from the North of England who are living in London through Avtar Brah's conceptualisation of England as a ‘diaspora space’, this paper destabilises binarised imaginaries of North and South. Contributing to geographies of race, class, and nation, this paper demonstrates that, through an attentiveness to individual biographies, identities, and experiences, the binaries of migrant and native, past and future, North and South, are rendered untenable.
July 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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wallyberry.bsky.social
Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are
part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr
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Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
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July 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
sazpaps.bsky.social
Great to be interviewed for the @rgsibg.bsky.social Ask the Geographer podcast series! Toby Butler and I chat to Rachel about oral histories and research. It's a lovely resource for A Level students and anyone interested in how oral history can be used in geography!
rhulgeography.bsky.social Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London @rhulgeography.bsky.social · Jul 14
Oral History of the Environmental Movement project researchers Toby Butler & Saskia Papadakis went on the Royal Geographical Society’s 'Ask the Geographer' podcast to talk about Using Oral Histories for Research.

www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
#RHULGeogResearch #RoyalHolloway #oralhistory
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July 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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ucu.org.uk
🚨 Lincoln Uni staff vote to strike after nearly 300 redundancies announced.

🔺 86% backed action
🔺 95% no confidence in management
🔺 220 jobs already lost last year

Send your support and solidarity to @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...
University of Lincoln staff vote for strike action
Staff at the University of Lincoln have voted to take industrial action in a dispute over plans to threaten nearly 300 staff with redundancy, the University and College Union has announced today.
www.ucu.org.uk
June 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
sazpaps.bsky.social
with reports that the north of england has missed out on £140bn of transport spending over the past 10 years, i've written about how the imagined white working class northern man is linked to infrastructural violence and the north-south divide
blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...
The myth of the white working-class Northern man
By Saskia Papadakis, Royal Holloway, University of London In 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair dismissed the English North-South divide as a ‘myth’. Calling the North-South divide ‘simplistic’, he po…
blog.geographydirections.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
sazpaps.bsky.social
new blog! on why everyone is obsessed with the idea of the white working-class northern man!
this continues to be depressingly relevant with reform in the ascendant, starmer's 'island of strangers' and blue labour's attacks on EDI 🙃🙃🙃
blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...
The myth of the white working-class Northern man
By Saskia Papadakis, Royal Holloway, University of London In 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair dismissed the English North-South divide as a ‘myth’. Calling the North-South divide ‘simplistic’, he po…
blog.geographydirections.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
sazpaps.bsky.social
Sign the petition against redundancies at @newcastleuni.bsky.social! Totally unnecessary and hugely damaging to staff, students, the uni, and to geography and other affected disciplines. All solidarity with @newcastleucu.bsky.social
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May 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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rhulgeography.bsky.social
🎉 New Journal Article Alert

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by @sazpaps.bsky.social

#RHULGeogResearch #royalholloway #royalhollowayuniversity #rgs_ibg
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May 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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smhall.bsky.social
Please show your solidarity for Disability Studies colleagues at Liverpool Hope, who've recently been informed of plans to cut their team by half.

Open letter to sign:

docs.google.com/document/d/1... [docs.google.com]
An Open Letter from the Disability Studies Community Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University
An Open Letter from the Disability Studies Community Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University To the Leadership of Liverpool Hope University, We, members of the international Disab...
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May 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
sazpaps.bsky.social
last week i published a journal article for the first time and i fainted for the first time! a week of firsts. luckily the journal article will have the more lasting impact! read it now on @tibg.bsky.social
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working-class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by L...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
🚨 NEW 🚨

We don't believe the EHRC's 'interim update' on trans people's rights is lawful.

So we’re bringing a legal challenge
We're bringing a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’
A number of trans and intersex individuals have today begun a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’ following the For Women, Scotland decision
goodlawproject.org
May 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
sazpaps.bsky.social
It's out! It's here! My first ever journal article 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' is out today with @tibg.bsky.social 🤩
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working-class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by L...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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olimould.bsky.social
NEWS!!! If you're in #Glasgow in June and want to hear about the history Scottish environmental movement, we've assembled a 'witness seminar' of activists and policy makers, and the event is public - get your free ticket here:

www.tickettailor.com/events/oralh...
Select tickets – Witness Seminar - Oral History of the Environmental Movement - Glasgow – Graham Hills Building, University of Strathclyde, 40-50 George Street, Glasgow
How has the Environmental Movement developed in Scotland? A Witness Seminar. We invite you to observe a Witness Seminar explori...
www.tickettailor.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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jaytoddgla.bsky.social
Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Exploring Young Trans and Non-binary People’s Strategies and Spaces for Navigating Marginality in the United Kingdom: A Novel Resilience, Resistance, and Restoration Framework
Amid recent, unprecedented sociopolitical scrutiny and hypervisibility of young trans people in the United Kingdom, this article considers how trans youth develop individual and collective mechanis...
www.tandfonline.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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notrightruth.bsky.social
Super chill lunch break with colleagues outside the offices of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Glasgow 🥰
Photo of people protesting outside a Victorian building. A woman wearing jeans and t-shirts stands on steps speaking into a megaphone. Two people hold a trans flag, and others hold placards that read: trans people belong here.
May 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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notrightruth.bsky.social
Just announced by a coalition of Glasgow groups - lunchtime protest outside the local office of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, opposing their call for trans segregation. Friday 2nd May, 12pm-2pm.
Against segregation - protest the EHRC. 2nd May, 12pm, 140 West George Street Glasgow
April 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
sazpaps.bsky.social
proud to have signed - thank you to everyone who put this together 💙🤍♥️ look forward to @rgsibg.bsky.social taking a stand to protect trans people
jaytoddgla.bsky.social Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · May 1
This morning, 533 academic geographers have written to @rgsibg.bsky.social calling for them to respond to UK Supreme Court and EHRC events, and take action to protect trans and gender diverse members of the geographical community and people across the UK. Please share docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open letter to RGS on Supreme Court and EHRC events April 2025
Dear Professor Dame Jane Francis and Professor Joe Smith, Re: The response of the Royal Geographical Society to the April 2025 Supreme Court ruling and EHRC interim update We are currently witnessing ...
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May 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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jaytoddgla.bsky.social
This morning, 533 academic geographers have written to @rgsibg.bsky.social calling for them to respond to UK Supreme Court and EHRC events, and take action to protect trans and gender diverse members of the geographical community and people across the UK. Please share docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open letter to RGS on Supreme Court and EHRC events April 2025
Dear Professor Dame Jane Francis and Professor Joe Smith, Re: The response of the Royal Geographical Society to the April 2025 Supreme Court ruling and EHRC interim update We are currently witnessing ...
docs.google.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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qmucu.bsky.social
Almost as if “we have no choice but to slash a stupid amount of jobs” isn’t, as it turns out, the only choice….

Still dreadfully high number though.
New Dundee University plan aims to scale back job cuts - BBC News
Under the proposals, the university would shed around 300 roles through a voluntary programme.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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qmucu.bsky.social
AND THAT IS THE SECOND MANAGEMENT OF THE DAY THAT HAS TO ADMIT THAT THE IMPOSSIBLE IS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE AFTER ALL, NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT, LOUDLY WITH STRIKE MANDATES. #UKHE
Cardiff University withdraws compulsory redundancy threat
Martin Shipton Cardiff University has withdrawn its threat to make academic staff compulsorily redundant as part of its cuts programme, signalling the likely end of an industrial dispute involving str...
nation.cymru
May 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
sazpaps.bsky.social
If you're interested in the Scottish environmental movement and you're around in Glasgow on 5 June, this is the event for you!
www.tickettailor.com/events/oralh...
Select tickets – Witness Seminar - Oral History of the Environmental Movement - Glasgow – Graham Hills Building, University of Strathclyde, 40-50 George Street, Glasgow
How has the Environmental Movement developed in Scotland? A Witness Seminar. We invite you to observe a Witness Seminar explori...
www.tickettailor.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM