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beki m.

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Critical urban and economic geographer. Development, finance, climate risk and governance, political economy. Birds, books, trees, records, etc. ☕️✨ bekimcelvain.com 📍 OAK | MEX | NOTTS

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beki m. @beki.bsky.social · May 13

My new piece on the death drive in Florida and the need for roots is out in the incredible inaugural issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social. Grateful to the editors for the opportunity to gather my thoughts on the meanings of risk and to write about home—and in the company of such brilliant people. ✨

Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season

In Florida, risk is a feature of life. In a deepening climate crisis, financial capitalism gives risk new meaning.

www.break-down.org

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Debt Justice @debtjustice.bsky.social · 1d

New research from Oxfam and Care shows how rich countries are profiting from the climate crisis

🌍 2/3 of climate finance to the Global South comes as loans
💸 For every $5 received, $7 is paid back – a 42% profit for creditors

www.oxfamamerica.org/press/two-th...

Two-thirds of climate funding for Global South is loans as rich countries profiteer from escalating climate crisis

New research by Oxfam and CARE Climate Justice Center, <a href="https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/climate-finance-shado

www.oxfamamerica.org

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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 1d

X/ “Where Is the African Urbanist” is published (though still behind a paywall).
I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Where is the African urbanist? Decentering and pluralizing global urban thought

Urban theory and geographic thought are, by nature, incomplete and continually evolving, yet they remain heavily shaped by those who occupy, speak from, and reinforce the center. While past efforts...

www.tandfonline.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

An astronaut, looking at the Earth: “Wait, it’s all social care obligations?”
Behind them, another astronaut, drawing a gun to shoot them in the back: “Always has been.”

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Future Economy Scotland @futureeconscot.bsky.social · 4d

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?

Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit

Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference!

The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.

Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025.

www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 15d

New from @the-breakdown.bsky.social ISSUE 2

Photojournalist Garry Lotulung documents the exlosion of nickel mining, largely for batteries, in Halmahera, Indonesia—speaking with workers, locals & members of the island's Indigenous community

Photographed: Daniel Totabo

Daniel Totabo fishes for eel in the Halmahera rainforest

Nickel mines enroach on the rainforest in central Halmahera

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beki m. @beki.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks, Ben!

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · 7d

Applications for the Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the humanities and social sciences are now open.

Please help spread the word.

www.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-...

Fellowships: Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships | PARC

The Palestinian American Research Center announces the 4th competition for PARC Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the

www.parc-us-pal.org

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 7d

My Global Corridor newsletter #4 featuring stories, data, opinion + academic work from digital cables to Artic sea routes to private equity funds to AI supply chains....Out now

globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Global Corridor #4

Google's digital corridors for Africa, Carlyle Group's new global infrastructure fund, China-Europe Arctic shipping route, Trump's real estate interests in Saudi, Chinese road film, AI supply chains

globalcorridor.substack.com

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 11d

Really sorry to hear about the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton, a fantastic writer. Only seems fitting to share what he wrote for David Lynch kalebhorton.ghost.io/death-is-jus...

Death Is Just A Change

David Lynch has gone on to whatever the next place is. I’m very sad about it; it came at a hard time for the city of Los Angeles, a place he dearly loved, and it’s hard not to think his change of cons...

kalebhorton.ghost.io

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José Ramón López Rubí C. @jrlrc.bsky.social · 12d

No.
etcetera.com.mx/opinion/mode...

El modelo económico de AMLO

Los cinco puntos son las constantes decisionales económicas del obradorismo en el poder. Al serlo, son el modelo económico obradorista.

etcetera.com.mx

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Elisa Servín @historiaparaque.bsky.social · 12d

No, it doesn't, unless "the left" includes former president Salinas de Gortari and his Solidaridad project.

Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 14d

Does Morena’s success offer a blueprint for the left? An exchange between @viririos.bsky.social and @humbertobeck.bsky.social.

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

The Mexican Model - Dissent Magazine

Does Morena’s success offer a blueprint for the left? An exchange.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · 11d

I came out of this film yesterday to news is Assata’s death. The film’s opening scene is an attack on the Otay Mesa detention center to free those locked inside. Thinking today about Assata & about the women & men who broke her out of prison. #FreeThemAll

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beki m. @beki.bsky.social · 13d

Yes! 🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭

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david i. backer @schooldaves.bsky.social · 13d

Our back to school finance training was popular, so we’re having a follow up next week! debtcollective.org/event/school...

School Finance School

So many educational justice problems come down to money. Why is the district closing schools? Firing teachers and paras and staff? Shuttering programs? Budget shortfalls, fiscal crises…

debtcollective.org

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 13d

For @dispatchmedia.bsky.social i went on the trail of the Totley Communists and the radical history of Sheffield.

dispatch-media.com/the-commune-...

The commune on the moors

A spectre is haunting Sheffield • The spectre of Communism • And Coronation Street

dispatch-media.com

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 Join us at the Labour Party Conference!

We’ll be hosting a panel & drinks reception, exploring insights from our new project — Who Owns Britain? — where we investigate who owns our essential services & how we can rebuild the country.

RSVP 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/who-owns-b...

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 13d

Bank of England urged to do more to tackle climate crisis
10 think tanks and NGOs call for a review of monetary policy given the increasing frequency of climate-related shocks, for which monetary policy is "ill-equiped"...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Bank of England urged to do more to tackle climate crisis

Environmental groups mark 10 years since Mark Carney’s ‘short-term horizons’ speech with plea to act ‘while there’s still time’

www.theguardian.com

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beki m. @beki.bsky.social · 14d

Today!

AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group (EGSG) @econgeog.bsky.social · 15d

Sept 24! Webinar for geog grads on getting and succeeding in a postdoc at 12 pm EST. No registration required!

arizona.zoom.us/j/81055830147

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Dialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social · 15d

New Online 1st Author Response “Parsing the Rwandan urban question: Toward ‘minor histories’ of urban space” by Shakirah Hudani

doi.org/10.1177/2043...

Parsing the Rwandan urban question: Toward ‘minor histories’ of urban space - Shakirah Hudani, 2025

doi.org

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 14d

I'm getting tired of saying this but being extremely stupid is only bad if intelligence matters to your particular epistemic community and/or you are unable to externalize the costs of your stupidity. unfortunately for the rest of us, neither of these conditions is met in this case!

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14d

billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-stupid...

The Stupidest Speech in UN History

Everyone's saying so!

billmckibben.substack.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15d

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16d

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

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beki m. @beki.bsky.social · 15d

Some autumn equinox things ✨

Me and my partner looking down where we are holding the season's first conkers, also visible are our shoes and hands and the grass beneath our feet

Attenborough St Mary's Church steeple through the trees and beyond a pond

A swan on the sunlit water with thick gold lined clouds and a vast blue sky above

A forest path with warm golden light and green leafy trees and spurge in Attenborough