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Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · 4d

📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky

Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 7d

Lots of great urbanists here!

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10d

NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.

Urbanists OUTSIDE North America Worth Following!

Join the conversation

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Thomas van Laake @tvlaake.bsky.social · 5d

Capping off 4 years of work in 2 hours is always a challenge, but I thoroughly enjoyed discussing my thesis with Paola Jirón and @natemillington.bsky.social today.

Many thanks to all those who made this research project possible - supervisors, interlocutors, and interviewees!

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 5d

Proud supervisor alert! Congratulations Dr. @tvlaake.bsky.social who defended his thesis: Between processes and instances: comparing the intra-urban differentiation of cycling policy & infrastructure provision in Greater Manchester, Mexico City, and Toronto.

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 5d

@wardykg.bsky.social & I thank examiners Paola Jirón, @natemillington.bsky.social & chair @jamiedoucette.bsky.social His thesis is a comparison of cycling policy across 3 cities, highlighting the politics and policy mobiliy of cycling policies, mobility justice & infrastructural reconfigurations

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 5d

Proud supervisor alert! Congratulations Dr. @tvlaake.bsky.social who defended his thesis: Between processes and instances: comparing the intra-urban differentiation of cycling policy & infrastructure provision in Greater Manchester, Mexico City, and Toronto.

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 6d

The news out of Manchester today fills me with profound sadness. I have no doubt that the city will pull together, it always does. Thinking of those senselessly murdered and their loved ones.

Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 6d

What happened today in Manchester is horrific, and my thoughts are with everyone marking Yom Kippur. There are going to be tough days ahead I suspect as we learn more about what happened, and I really hope the city can pull together through them

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Two dead after suspected terror attack on Manchester synagogue, police say, with suspect shot by officers – latest

Keir Starmer to chair Cobra meeting as he condemns ‘appalling’ attack on synagogue during Yom Kippur

www.theguardian.com

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 6d

Excited for our new edited (and OPEN ACCESS) book released on Nov 20th

"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"

with Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng and Alan Wiig

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 11d

A fantastic crowd today for our joint event with the city of Athens on homelessness outreach policy across Manchester, Athens and Santiago. The public event wraps up three days of knowledge exchange between our teams in the three metro areas stemming from the #UKRI urban crisis project.

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 8d

This Progress Report on Mobilities I: Crisis now has a home in Volume 49 Issue 5. #OpenAccess and alongside some excellent contributions all addressing crisis in its many forms @proghumgeog.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/toc/PHG/curr...

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10d

‘The theory of change here is based on ideas about political trust, understanding Reform as a manifestation of anti-politics.’ Still lots of questions on how to protect community assets once local authorities buy them & msy need to sell on due to wider debt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour’s plan to revitalise high streets is good - now it has to make sure people hear about it | Morgan Jones

There have been hyped policies before about local funding, but unlike ‘levelling up’ this project could lead to actual change, says Morgan Jones

www.theguardian.com

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 7d

Lots of great urbanists here!

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10d

NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.

Urbanists OUTSIDE North America Worth Following!

Join the conversation

go.bsky.app

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 8d

This Progress Report on Mobilities I: Crisis now has a home in Volume 49 Issue 5. #OpenAccess and alongside some excellent contributions all addressing crisis in its many forms @proghumgeog.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/toc/PHG/curr...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 9d

Agree the plan is good, but council ownership is not going to work where most councils have serious financial challenges.

Here in Birmingham, the council is selling off most of it's property portfolio.

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10d

‘The theory of change here is based on ideas about political trust, understanding Reform as a manifestation of anti-politics.’ Still lots of questions on how to protect community assets once local authorities buy them & msy need to sell on due to wider debt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour’s plan to revitalise high streets is good - now it has to make sure people hear about it | Morgan Jones

There have been hyped policies before about local funding, but unlike ‘levelling up’ this project could lead to actual change, says Morgan Jones

www.theguardian.com

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Hugh Barnard @hughbarnard.bsky.social · 10d

“Nothing destroys political trust like money that comes and goes,” says Caitlin Prowle,

See also my comments on 'grant funding', a smaller but invidious version of the same problem. Designed to make potential cooperators fight like rats in a sack too.

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10d

‘The theory of change here is based on ideas about political trust, understanding Reform as a manifestation of anti-politics.’ Still lots of questions on how to protect community assets once local authorities buy them & msy need to sell on due to wider debt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour’s plan to revitalise high streets is good - now it has to make sure people hear about it | Morgan Jones

There have been hyped policies before about local funding, but unlike ‘levelling up’ this project could lead to actual change, says Morgan Jones

www.theguardian.com

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10d

Yes, was discussing this over the past few days, as it's the same issues across municipal services in Athens, Santiago and Manchester. Global problem, simple solution...

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10d

‘The theory of change here is based on ideas about political trust, understanding Reform as a manifestation of anti-politics.’ Still lots of questions on how to protect community assets once local authorities buy them & msy need to sell on due to wider debt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour’s plan to revitalise high streets is good - now it has to make sure people hear about it | Morgan Jones

There have been hyped policies before about local funding, but unlike ‘levelling up’ this project could lead to actual change, says Morgan Jones

www.theguardian.com

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10d

Marit and I wrote a book chapter on this back in 2010! Can’t believe it’s still not built!

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 11d

A special thanks to those who travelled from Manchester and Santiago and to project RA/PGR Sotiria Kyriakidou for all her work in putting this together. More details to come but for now we’ll take a well earned rest!

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 11d

A fantastic crowd today for our joint event with the city of Athens on homelessness outreach policy across Manchester, Athens and Santiago. The public event wraps up three days of knowledge exchange between our teams in the three metro areas stemming from the #UKRI urban crisis project.

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 12d

Today!

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 20d

In Athens 26th Sept? Join us for a workshop on Best Practices for Addressing Homelessness Outreach Across Athens, Greece, Manchester U.K., & Santiago, Chile. English translation provided. The event is part of our UKRI Urban Crisis Project and co-sponsored with the Municipality of Athens.

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 14d

There has been a lot of chat at #OASPA2025 about how, if we were starting the scholarly publishing system from scratch, we would build it differently. And that we have to work with the system as is, with all its flaws (my gloss). I agree to some extent - but I'm not sure this framing is helpful

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 14d

Great piece on the politics of moving counter-hegemonic ideas into mainstream policy and practice. As this paper shows, there's not a huge amount of work bridging policy mobilities and the geographies of social movements, but really productive space for that work to be done.

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 14d

New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6
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Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach - Eugene McCann, 2025

This paper addresses the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism and contentious politics. It outlines one way to expand...

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Tom Gillespie @t-a-gillespie.bsky.social · 16d

'New Urban Frontiers'

This @urbangeography.bsky.social special issue edited by me and @clairemercer.bsky.social has now been published online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4...

A thread on the papers 👇

Urban Geography

New Urban Frontiers. Volume 46, Issue 8 of Urban Geography

www.tandfonline.com

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations Matina! Wonderful recognition for all of your hard work!

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