Simone Tulumello
simtulum.bsky.social
Simone Tulumello
@simtulum.bsky.social
From Palermo, based in Lisbon. Human geography at ICS-ULisboa. Housing, violence, imaginaries, uneven development, semi-periphery.
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I'm new here because y'all left Twitter and I'm missing the good old day of scholarly debate there. So I'll be posting some of my works here to hopefully connect with folks with similar interests. 1/
Neurocriminology, creepy shit. Found on @julienlarregue.bsky.social's last book
January 2, 2026 at 5:52 AM
Important special issue of @scriptanova.bsky.social on the Chicago School of urban sociology, for the 100th anniversary of The Cityhttps://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/ScriptaNova/announcement/view/969
December 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
'the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, which famously states that “all men are created equal,” many of Jefferson’s writings feature the rationalization of the enslavement, displacement, and killing of Black and Indigenous peoples.' progressivegeographies.com/2025/12/27/m...
Melissa Adler, Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty: Why Thomas Jefferson Matters in Our Information Age – Bloomsbury, January 2026
Melissa Adler, Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty: Why Thomas Jefferson Matters in Our Information Age – Bloomsbury, January 2026 Examines the formation of a surveillance state through a c…
progressivegeographies.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastructure that a far-right government will not hesitate to exploit.
Labour Is Building Farage’s State
By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastructure that a far-right government will not hesitate to exploit.
tribunemag.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Reading @julienlarregue.bsky.social 's Hereditary (for a project on the role of elite academia in mass incarceration and racist policing). It's a very competent exercise in the history of ideas, erudite but a very easy read. Fantastic book
www.sup.org/books/sociol...
Hereditary | Stanford University Press
Since the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to evaluate the responsibility and dangerousness ...
www.sup.org
December 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
wow, was thinking of publishing in a respectable journal, based on Wiley - typical legacy journal with Gold option. At the submission, hit a request for a 20$ "submission fee", not mentioned on the Wiley website (yes in an external website, lately found out). Like, they desk reject? You paid. WTF
December 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"With this material grounding established, the question shifts. Once we stop treating Gramsci as a free-floating cultural theorist and recognize him as a communist thinking in chains, we can finally ask what he was actually trying to solve. 1/2
weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/c...
Capitalism Did Not Float In on the Market: Chibber, Jacobin, and the Political Function of Western Marxism
How Western Marxism Turns Colonial Violence into “History Theory” to Save the Settler OrderBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025When “History Theory” Becomes an Alibi for Em…
weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A great response, by Prince Kapone, to Vivek Chibber's straw men on the capitalism/colonialism nexus. @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social really needs some reflection on the poor quality of certain arguments that go on their pages and frequencies
weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/c...
Capitalism Did Not Float In on the Market: Chibber, Jacobin, and the Political Function of Western Marxism
How Western Marxism Turns Colonial Violence into “History Theory” to Save the Settler OrderBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025When “History Theory” Becomes an Alibi for Em…
weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"Many alienated intellectuals and cultural workers likewise protest the deadening weight of power relations in the media and in institutions of learning and cultural production that debase the languages of civil discourse, convert knowledge into ceaseless propaganda, ...
December 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The latest issue of Oikeus, Finnish legal journal, includes the lectio praecursoria to the defense of Carlo Gatti's PhD, and my opponent's statement. Sneak peak: this is one of the best PhD dissertations I have ever read and a great contribution to critical legal and police studies
oikeus.journal.fi
Oikeus-lehti
oikeus.journal.fi
December 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
El auge del rentismo y la fractura urbana global, an important comparative work (in the context of project Contested Territories) on rent and rentism idrabcn.com/es/wp-conten...
idrabcn.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Another mega journal goes down. Honestly hard to understand how millions of scholars accept publishing in papermills. A simple tip: don't publish in a journal where you could not read a year's issue in less than a year
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
english.elpais.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
this is that time of the year when @plutopress.bsky.social has 50% on all books!
December 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
plaNext, the journal of the AESOP YAs just turned 10. The Editorial Board invited me and the other founding members to reflect on this decade.
journals.aesop-planning.eu/index.php/pl...
Vol. 15 (2025): The 10th Anniversary: plaNext and Planning in Transition | plaNext–Next Generation Planning
plaNext–Next Generation Planning is an international peer-reviewed open access e-journal by the AESOP Young Academics network
journals.aesop-planning.eu
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Probably nothing better than this single line to explain why most of the North-American elite in social sciences is, quite simply, racist garbage
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Great stuff by @versobooks.bsky.social: Harvey at 90, a series if posts honouring David Harvey's oeuvre in celebration of his 90th birthday.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/h...
Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy.  This month, in honour of David H...
www.versobooks.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
the call for @ISA_RC21 Vienna is up and running. At #95, you'll find the call for the unpretentiously titled session "Still arguing over gentrification? Urban theory for the end of the world (or capitalism)" - chaired by me and Niccolò Cuppini. Go for it! rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts - RC21 Vienna 2026
Call for Abstracts is now open! The sessions for the RC21 Conference are set – now it’s your turn to contribute! See the accepted sessions below Call for Abstracts is now open! See the accepted sessio...
rc21-vienna2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter)

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
Professor of History | H-Net Job Guide
jobs.h-net.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
They had misread the planetary in planetary urbanisation
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Cairo road, by Sara Salem. Powerful intervention on street naming and de/colonial futures on @antipodeonline.bsky.social
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
Intervention—“Cairo Road” - Antipode Online
Sara Salem, London School of Economics and Political Science Growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, I distinctly remember Cairo Road, one of Lusaka’s main thoroughfares named after the city my father was from....
antipodeonline.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Rereading Elizabeth Hinton's From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. Fundamental reading to demify many myths about crime, race and policy (like, that there is fundamental difference between GOP and Dems on crime control)
news.harvard.edu/gazette/book...
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
A book recommendation by Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
news.harvard.edu
November 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Genocide is a feminist issue - a very promising special issue of Gender, Place and Culture
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3...
Gender, Place & Culture
Genocide is a feminist issue. Volume 32, Issue 10 of Gender, Place & Culture
www.tandfonline.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
had this surreal X-spat with a bunch of US liberals+fascists+copbots+(and this is fundamental)cop-scholars on policing, crime - started from the simple affirmation by a liberal activist that the best way to improve public transit in Atlanta is to fill stations with cops... 1/
October 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
the NYTimes is an amazing source to see liberals realising worlds exist and sistematically missing the point. But happy to see in NY someone realised the US South exist AND that it is a bit more complicated than hillibillies vs the "Black middle class": www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o... 1/3
The “Souths” of the “Wests”. Southern critique and comparative housing studies in Southern Europe and USA
Southern urban critique has enriched our understanding of global uneven development, but often ended up constructing a dichotomous understanding of two apparently homogeneous fields: the Global Nor...
www.tandfonline.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM