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Eugene McCann

@ejmccann.bsky.social

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Geographer at Simon Fraser University. Policy mobilities; urban politics; harm reduction; social movements. Managing editor, EPC: Politics & Space (journals.sagepub.com/home/epc). Host, 'Minor Revisions' podcast (http://bit.ly/3suN9ur). Views my own.

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · Dec 31

Didn't introduce myself here. Maybe should since the Nov 24 follower influx. I'm a critical urban political geographer, studying how #socialmovement activists use space & place, locally & globally. I also study the politics of urban development & public space. Some things published in 23 & 24 🧵👇

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 7h

Jeff Bezos might have built a spaceship, but indie bookstores build and nurture whole communities and that is *way* more impressive and valuable.

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 7h

Next they’ll be implying that it’s weird for a grown adult to run upstairs on a double decker bus hoping the front seat’s available.

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 7h

@theonion.com bullying #geographers now. Entirely uncalled for imo!

The Onion @theonion.com · 8h

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 13h

Today we're launching a new, powerful tool for public accountability created by @rorywh.bsky.social.

Civic Searchlight compiles hundreds of municipalities' public meetings and makes them searchable for the first time. It's free to use and we hope you journalists and researchers put it to work.

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting. "Women, ppl of color, & LGBQ scholars ... write more about the ppl, resources, & conditions that made their books possible. So too, do younger scholars & those who’s parents have graduate degrees." Given my identity, my acknowledgements should be monosyllabic, then. But I'm long-winded.

Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 5d

Already sick of Halloween Month.

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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 6d

Great news!!

Louisville Metro is finally implementing its Anti-Displacement Commission & Assessment Tool!

Well done PUSH Louisville & Jecorey Arthur for keeping pressure on the city, and Louisville Tenants Union for launching the campaign!!

www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

Louisville's Anti-Displacement Commission finally gets off the ground

The Anti-Displacement Commission will track housing developments that receive city resources to protect residents from gentrification.

www.lpm.org

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 7d

And around the corner at the developer's open house ...

Part of a page from the development permit submission for 570 Columbia (formerly 105 Keefer).

A TV camera operator records the proceedings. (A dog isn't that interested, tbh).

Audience members listen to the project architect discuss details of the design.

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 7d

At the Vancouver Chinatown People's Open House against 105 Keefer/570 Columbia & for a People's Vision for Chinatown.

A poster, written in English and Chinese, for The People's Open House in Vancouver's Chinatown. It is part of a decade-long opposition to a condo development in the neighbourhood and to neighbourhood's gentrification.

Seniors gathered for the People's Open House in the plaza of the Chinese Cultural Centre.

Attendees read information boards in the plaza.

A summary, written in English and Chinese, of the 2017 People's Vision for Chinatown, a community strategy for social and economic change.

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 8d

For @thewalrus.ca, I wrote about the state of reconciliation 10 years after the final report of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...

The Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and Reconciliation Report | The Walrus

“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?”

thewalrus.ca

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 9d

PLEASE: Short notice, but we have til the end of today to email City Hall: Beedie is back trying to develop #105Keefer & it's even worse. (Govt should've bought this land, given the destruction it has already imposed on Chinatown) savechinatownyvr.substack.com/p/last-day-g... #vanpoli #bcpoli

LAST DAY: Get your NO to Beedie counted by the City

Comment today to make sure your opposition to 105 Keefer / 570 Columbia is registered on the City's report

savechinatownyvr.substack.com

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah I know. They've gotten away with sitting on it for years. Ridiculous.

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 11d

Holborn's Little Mountain development in #Vancouver. "A Generational Masterplan," apparently. 'Generational' cuz it took, like, a generation to get round to building it? #vanre #vanpoli

A black shiny billboard emblazoned with two lines of white text: A Generational Masterplan. In Vancouver's Most Beloved Neighbourhood.

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 12d

They’ve already contracted with a dinosaur.

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Gord Johns @gordjohns.bsky.social · 14d

This petition that closes tomorrow and only requires 44 more signatures to get an official response. Please sign in support of our dedicated higher learning educators!!!

Gord Johns @gordjohns.bsky.social · 18d

A group of dedicated educators in Victoria, BC have launched a e-petition calling on the federal government to increase post-secondary funding and address the lack of affordable student housing in Canada.

Please take a moment today to sign and share:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6522 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 14d

hope it's worthwhile

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d

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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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d

🙂 hopefully useful for you

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d

Uses brief examples from the drug #harmreduction social movement, specifically #overdose prevention & #SCSs, to illustrate the argument, but contends that a wide range of social movements can be understood through "moving ideas." 6/6

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d

Outlines five paths toward overcoming the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism & contentious politics: situated knowledge on-the-move; persuasive storytelling; encounters in “truth-spots”; temporalities of activism; & “futuring” in policy change. 5/6

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d

... 2) political ideas move people to critique dominant ideologies & engage in activism that challenges, rethinks, & reworks political orthodoxies. 4/6

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d

Introduces the term “moving ideas” as a framing with two connotations: 1) the political efficacy of ideas is related to their spatialities—how & with what effects they move from place to place & are embedded in places; ... 3/6

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d

Specifically argues that the political scope of policy mobilities scholarship can be enlarged to include not only the politics of hegemonic policy-making but also the counter-hegemonic activism, ideation, & contentious politics through which social movements seek to change hegemonic policy. 2/6

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d

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...

tinyurl.com

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