Desiree Fields
@desireefields.bsky.social
Critical economic geographer: digital experiments with property, place, financial subjectivity. Opinions are my own.
@ucbgeography.bsky.social
Editor, Environment and Planning A + @housingtheory.bsky.social
@ucbgeography.bsky.social
Editor, Environment and Planning A + @housingtheory.bsky.social
Working my way through Ken Burns's "The American Revolution" and wasn't aware that VACCINATION WAS KEY TO WINNING THE REVOLUTION!?! This point feels...relevant to the present day.
December 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Working my way through Ken Burns's "The American Revolution" and wasn't aware that VACCINATION WAS KEY TO WINNING THE REVOLUTION!?! This point feels...relevant to the present day.
When I last taught my critical economic geographies course, one of my exam questions asked students to think like a capitalist and devise a spatial fix for an overaccumulation scenario that was eerily similar to today's new rash of data centers. Feel free to offer your own response!
October 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When I last taught my critical economic geographies course, one of my exam questions asked students to think like a capitalist and devise a spatial fix for an overaccumulation scenario that was eerily similar to today's new rash of data centers. Feel free to offer your own response!
Seeking geographic accounts of grift by 10/17. We expect your abstracts to have the integrity of the President of the United States! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
October 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Seeking geographic accounts of grift by 10/17. We expect your abstracts to have the integrity of the President of the United States! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Hmm, if only we could encourage women to have more kids. It's a mystery as to why they won't.
April 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Hmm, if only we could encourage women to have more kids. It's a mystery as to why they won't.
Rubio looks like he is corroding from the inside and Trump looks like when you look in the mirror on hallucinogens. 💀😱
April 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Rubio looks like he is corroding from the inside and Trump looks like when you look in the mirror on hallucinogens. 💀😱
Really feeling this one today
November 22, 2024 at 6:15 AM
Really feeling this one today
Taught about finance and debt this week through Ananya Roy's idea of the south as a structural relation rather than a location, reading @radicalcarib.bsky.social, Sage Ponder, Kathryn Furlong, Destin Jenkins. Love how this idea helps students make connections across scale and geography!
November 15, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Taught about finance and debt this week through Ananya Roy's idea of the south as a structural relation rather than a location, reading @radicalcarib.bsky.social, Sage Ponder, Kathryn Furlong, Destin Jenkins. Love how this idea helps students make connections across scale and geography!
Uppsala dispatch: the snails here are disconcertingly large. (Toe for scale)
August 23, 2023 at 3:43 PM
Uppsala dispatch: the snails here are disconcertingly large. (Toe for scale)