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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 16d

Looking for ideas, recommendations, and inspirations on academic publishers who take 30-40 k word manuscripts ( similar to C. elements and P. pivots). For academic stuff, not trade.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 21d

New in TIBG!

Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies

Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.

Read all papers here ⬇️

tinyurl.com/5n72yt46

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Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social · 29d

Does anyone know of any (UK-based) ECRs in geography, history & archaeology working on the Little Ice Age? I'm looking for collaborators for a potential workshop!

@eseh.bsky.social @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net

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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations " a short intervention, part of a set, out and open access in case of use.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

The aim of this intervention is to respond to the provocation of how different worlds and regions are imagined from the non-west. To do this from the vantage point of Egypt, I start with the specific....

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · Jul 11

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.

If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.

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PolGRG @polgrg.bsky.social · May 24

We're pleased to launch this year's Political Geography RG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize! 📣 Every university can submit one for a £100 prize - deadline 15th July.

Full details and submission form available here: polgrg.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/p...

Political Geography Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025

The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) is pleased to welcome submissions for the undergraduate dissertation prize, open to students at UK universities. Eligible dissertations should fall w…

polgrg.wordpress.com

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BRISMES @brismes.bsky.social · Jul 3

We'll be sharing some highlights over the coming weeks. Meanwhile, work on #BRISMES2026 is already underway! We’re delighted to announce that next year’s conference will be hosted by the Middle East Institute at SOAS (London) from 23–25 June 2026. We hope to see you there!

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BRISMES @brismes.bsky.social · Jul 3

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at #BRISMES2025 — to our plenary and keynote speakers, our conference organising team and student volunteers, and to our amazing hosts at Newcastle University, including the support staff who made the event possible.

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · Jun 24

two-year Career Development Fellowship in IPE, expertise in East Asia or Europe-China relations particularly welcome www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM855/c...

Career Development Fellow in International Political Economy at Durham University

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Career Development Fellow in International Political Economy at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · Jun 24

#Employment The Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Anthropology with expertise in either Religion and/or the Environment. mesana.org/resources-an...

Middle East Studies Association

The Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology (SEA) invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Anthropology with expertise in either the Anthropology of Religion and/or...

mesana.org

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · Jun 11

‘The Book of Sana’a’: A Short-story Collection of Farce, Tricks, Myths, and More

Gender-swapping tricksters, farcical hiring practices, detachable heads, and the serious science of speedbumpology populate the newly released Book of Sana’a: A City in Short Fiction, edited by Laura Kasinof and part…

‘The Book of Sana’a’: A Short-story Collection of Farce, Tricks, Myths, and More

Gender-swapping tricksters, farcical hiring practices, detachable heads, and the serious science of speedbumpology populate the newly released Book of Sana’a: A City in Short Fiction, edited by Laura Kasinof and part of Comma Press’s Reading the City series.

arablit.org

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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · Jun 9

taken command of the ship is a real funny way to spell hijacking

is that us english british english or spineless english

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Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social · Jun 6

Eid Mubarak to everyone observing around the world today ✨️

Eid is a time of happiness & celebration but my heart feels no joy when Gaza suffers beyond words 💔

#EidMubarak #FreePalestine

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · May 29

Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event

Prof Juliet Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social discusses her amazing new book on Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography

Wed 4 June, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10).
Zoom rego:
www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · May 27

"The 2020 protests involved a lot of commitment by brave citizens, but largely did not have this kind of organizational base––the kind that could potentially impose the costs of a concerted strike or boycott." @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

Why Protests Should Be Promises

Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

time.com

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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · May 22

Happening next week!

www.brismes.ac.uk/events/gradu...

Navigating Postdoctoral Funding and Applications in Middle East Studies

www.brismes.ac.uk

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Myka Abramson @mykaabramson.bsky.social · Mar 27

Thrilled my book is out in the world!

It's a book about the rise & fall of US hegemony; about the road novel's trafficking in the fantasies of individual freedom and self-making that propel it; and about why we need to shatter those attachments for a more collective vision, narrative and politics.

Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · Mar 20

In Cartographies of Empire, Myka Tucker-Abramson draws from an archive of more than 140 global road novels from over twenty countries, challenging dominant conceptions of the road novel as primarily concerned with American experiences and subjectivities. #ReadUP

www.sup.org/books/cartog...

Book cover of Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony by Myka Tucker-Abramson

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · May 20

14,000 Palestinian babies may die in the next 48 hours. The UN has reported that lorries carrying baby food and nutritional supplies are at the Gaza border, but Israel is not allowing them to enter. How is it possible that no one has taken effective action to stop this?

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · May 15

How are Britain’s policies towards international students linked to its processes of bordering?

Lili Schwoerer and @sanazraji.bsky.social @isrfoundation.bsky.social on racial capitalism, differential university fees and the move towards neoliberal education.

#OnlineFirst buff.ly/igVwtCy

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · May 10

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

"HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?""I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside," Boxtown resident Alexis Humphreys said through tears, holding up her asthma inhaler during a public hearing about the turbines on A April "HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?"
Alexis Humphreys holds out her asthma inhaler while asking the Shelby County Health epartment rO deny a permit for XAl'S methane gas turbines. | Ariel Wittenberg/POLITICO's E&E News

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · May 12

"uncontrolled immigration" Lol
you guys know how much you have to pay to apply for permanent residence in France? €225
Germany? €113
The UK? £3,029 PER PERSON. You are a family of three? that will be ten grand please.

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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · May 12

Colleagues in Durham are organising this wonderful event on May the 15th! Online and free but registration is required.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecologies-...

Ecologies of violence & resistance: art as decolonial praxis.

An international online symposium exploring the role of art in the Anthropocene

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · Mar 17

Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.

Please help spread the word among interested candidates!

Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Mar 1

Fm JAE Assoc Editor @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social: the “JAE board is committed to this issue + we are looking for alternative formats + venues to publish this work – if not through the ACSA – then hopefully through other platforms + spaces.” I 🙏 this happens. Might also be an opp to 👋 Taylor&Francis.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Mar 1

From the editors: "given the ACSA leadership’s attempts at censorship since before the call for papers was published in Sept 2024, it is clear that they are using the “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” as a convenient cover to execute what they had been planning to do all along."

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