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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 6d

Really enjoyed working on this with current PGR - Liv Robinson. We reflect on the archival encounter, with specific comments around industrial violence and working with troubling material: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper reflects on the archival encounter. In our discussion, we consider interactions between researchers and more troubling and violent materials, specifically industrial death and injury, held...

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 8d

A huge thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis for this award! I was so honoured & grateful opportunity in Seoul to focus attention on the global urban sanitation crisis. Thank you to @versobooks.bsky.social for nominating the book, & to Pattis.

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A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize. I am huge...

A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize. I am hugely grate...

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Sarah M. Hughes @sarahhughes90.bsky.social · 10d

I'm so grateful to @spaceandpolity.bsky.social for coordinating a book review forum on Critical Geographies of Resistance.

Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What does academic writing about resistance do, now?

Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 14d

#OpenAccess in Area:

'Networks of securitisation in the academy: The role of friendship, solidarity and radical geographies' by @shereenfdz.bsky.social

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Shereen Fernandez (2025) entitled: 'Networks of securitisation in the academy: The role of friendship, solidarity and radical geographies' with a black banner at the top.

This intervention has three aims: (1) to consider how solidarities are being policed in the academy; (2) how friendships and solidarities emerge in practices of resistance; and (3) what a radical geography which embraces a decolonial pedagogy can offer us in these unsettling times. While solidarity with the Palestinian cause is transnational, it is also heavily policed and disciplined by our academic institutions. Although universities are heavily influenced by neoliberalism that prioritises profit over people, I examine how these activist spaces allow for the organic development of solidarity and friendship, which is fundamental to these movements, both in the USA and the UK. As universities increasingly embrace national security discourses and policies, such as the deployment of counter-extremism measures in UK universities, activism is being pushed outside of our institutions. Through a call for the recognition of radical geography which embraces a decolonial framework, this intervention highlights the need for the discipline to re-imagine how knowledge can be produced outside the narrow parameters of the institution, while centring and nurturing dynamics of friendship and care.

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 15d

looking through riot grrrl zines to prep for my zine making workshop and found this gem

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 26d

Being tourists in Roma 🇮🇹

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 28d

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · Sep 2

It shouldn't need saying that 'military and industrial sites' are not, and never have been, 'more appropriate sites' for asylum seekers. The record of such carceral accommodation is nothing but spectacles of harm designed to appease a desire to punish refugees. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live

Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah M. Hughes @sarahhughes90.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"

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

When a positive decision is granted on an asylum claim, a new refugee has limited time before their existing government support (housing, finance) terminates. This transition between legal is various...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · May 13

My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

Author wearing a rainbow dyed t-shirt takes a photo of them showing off their book, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · Aug 26

One cancelled train later…I’m finally en route to Birmingham for the RGS AC2025 !

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · Aug 23

And that’s a wrap! My heart is very full by how caring, gentle and connected our group was able to become over 3 short days.

Thanks to everyone for co-creating this event with us! I hope that this network of collegiality, care and consideration can serve us into the future too 💛

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · Aug 20

Queer writing retreat (day one) ✅

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Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social · Aug 13

Talking to @prisonculture.bsky.social about her idea that hope is a discipline. How do we practice that discipline?

From Ep 5 of my new podcast, which you can listen to here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Please subscribe and review--it helps others find us.

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · Aug 11

Picked up the mug I decorated! 🕺

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · Jul 28

My trip to Portugal was a nice break away from thinking and writing about carceral atmospheres.. except when navigating the security apparatus of the airport…

Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · Jul 28

Faro!

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · Jul 26

Lisbon!

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Jul 14

Back in January I had the honour of discussing Aslı Zengin’s powerful and generous book ‘Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World’.
@geogdurham.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

I’ve now published a summary of my comments:

doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2531713

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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · Jul 1

A short piece from me looking at the politics of 'asylum hotels' in Britain and the challenges for government in finding alternatives @geogdurham.bsky.social

The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Jun 30

Why hotel use has risen, and what it’s costing the UK.

How the UK became dependent on asylum hotels

Why hotel use has risen, and what it’s costing the UK.

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Lauren Martin @llmartin.bsky.social · Jun 20

We are lucky to have Paula Harriott as one our keynote speakers at our workshop on 26 August at University of Birmingham. Paula's work exemplifies the power of lived experience and her recent books show how understudied and underappreciated women's leadership, in particular, can be.

Prisoner Leaders

This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of behaviour, that of prisoner leadership.

link.springer.com

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · Jun 20

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · Jun 20

I am honoured to be a finalist in the DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) 2025 poster competition!

My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · Jun 18

Some fabulous presentations last week at our postgraduate research conference, great learning more about the exciting & cutting edge research being undertaken in human & physical geography by our community of postgraduates. Find out more about postgraduate study in our Dept here tinyurl.com/48kdnbyn

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