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Gareth @gfearn.bsky.social · 26d

Very proud to say that our special issue with @urbanstudiesjournal.com is now all up online!
We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s) - Güldem Özatağan, Gareth Fearn, Ayda Eraydin, 2025

This Special Issue presents ‘authoritarian neoliberal urbanism’ as an empirical marker and a concept that signposts the ascendence of a new constellation in whi...

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Aug 27

Nice to see this in bright pink hard copy.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · Aug 7

fitness influencing, lifting, fight clubs - they all are Trojan horses for fascism

Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · Aug 7

Neo-Nazi fight clubs are exploding worldwide—and now they’re recruiting teenage boys. A new report finds 187 Active Club chapters in 27 countries, with a surge in “Youth Clubs” targeting 15–18-year-olds and training them for a coming “race war.”

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Active Club Chapters Growing Globally

A new report from GPAHE reveals a staggering 25% increase in chapters of the neo-Nazi Active Club network worldwide. Since October 2023, at least 231 chapters have been documented in 28 countries, inc...

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Aug 6

It was powerful and profound to be in Hiroshima a few weeks ago. No bombs. No war.

Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Jul 22

Creative and accessible adaptive retooling of former elevated highway in Seoul. Inviting by day or by night.

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Jul 8

Shanghai past, present, future. The Bund by night is an awesome spectacle.

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thank you to @samhalvorsen.bsky.social and Adriana Massidda for joining us yesterday for our Annual Lecture - great capstone to the year's activities.

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Jun 9

¡No Pasarán!

Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Jun 2

We host Dr. Sam Halvorsen (QMUL) and Dr. Adriana Massidda (Sheffield) next Monday (9th June) for our Northumbria Social and Cultural Geographies Research Group Annual Lecture, on 'Strategies of Popular Participation in Buenos Aires'. Welcome to join in person or get in touch for the MS Teams link.

Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · May 20

En route to Exeter to chat about Authoritarian urban space and affects. Always awed by these Victorian train sheds.

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · May 17

Linking Silicon Valley's NRx 'California Forever' to Kigali's technocratic master plans, our article of the week explores how illiberalism thrives through urban density and the viral speed of digital 'Extrastatecraft'.

By @jluger.bsky.social et al. in @urbanstudiesonline.com

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · May 13

Blue skies for some qualitative research in the Lake District with Northumbria Geography first year students.

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · May 2

Lovely day for some place-based assessments on the peri-urban with 2nd year BA students.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · Apr 18

New #OA study by @jluger.bsky.social and Miklós Dürr explores whether there is something inherently #illiberal about the urban condition, e.g., does the urban condition uniquely produce and scaffold #illiberalism?

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Apr 12

thanks, @cgallaher.bsky.social

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Apr 12

Happy to see this open access @urbanstudiesonline.com paper published, which began as a chat with Miklós Dürr at Tyneside Bar in August 2022. We suggest that illiberalism is a facet of global urban life. Part of an upcoming special issue: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The urban question under illiberalism? Three thematic approaches - Jason D Luger, Miklós János Dürr, 2025

Advocating the value of an urban lens for researching and understanding illiberalism, we propose a threefold thematic anchoring for emerging inquiry into cities...

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Mar 25

Three sessions on "The Critical Urban Lives of Ruins" here at the #AAG tomorrow (Wed) and Thursday am. What work do ruins do? And what might they reveal that's new?

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Mar 18

want to read together?

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Mar 4

Had a bit of fun with this short-fiction piece in an upcoming issue of Critical Studies on Security. In this, a character finds himself trapped on 'Alpha Male Island', a site of 'Manospheric' fantasy. He then manages to escape, and reconsider his subjectivity. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YKBVN...

The ordinary affects of ‘Alpha Male Island™’: a survivor’s journal

Published in Critical Studies on Security (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Feb 23

Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome... im cabaret, au cabaret, to cabaret!

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Feb 23

“And then we break windows, assault cops and shit all over the floor.”

“Amazing, what do you call this act?”

“The January 6th Prison Choir!”

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J6 Prison Choir to Perform at Kennedy Center

The J6 Prison Choir will reportedly perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, after Donald Trump appointed himself as chairman.

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Feb 23

No Nazis. No Kings.

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Feb 18

CFP for the RGS-IBG in Birmingham, for anyone still looking for a session (see attached).

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, as well as a short biography, to Sabina Lawreniuk ([email protected]) and Jason Luger ([email protected]) by Weds 5th March 2025.

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Jan 27

The price of cobalt in Congo. The price of coffee in Cali. The price of neon in Neom. Predictive AI and bombs in the sky.

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Jan 20

Jacob Miller and I wrote a short thing on the violent ruination of Trump's America. @gregseigworth.bsky.social was gracious enough to include it along with many other short pieces in this 'Capacities to: Affect up Against Fascism' collection, which is open access: imbricate.press/book/capacit...

Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism

<p>Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism is a collection of more than forty essays, poems, and visual works that convey myriad approaches for understanding, surviving, and creating counter-movement...

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Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · Jan 6

This symposium @antipodeonline.bsky.social could not account for the latest developments shaped by the far-right (such as centering E.M. as a far-right world builders) but it is still very timely and offers important insights.
antipodeonline.org/2024/12/12/n...
#geo #geosky @jluger.bsky.social

Intervention Symposium—“Worldbuilding and Worldbreaking: New Spatialities of the Far-Right” - Antipode Online

Introduction by Jamey Essex (University of Windsor), Carolyn Gallaher (American University) and Jason Luger (Northumbria University) Almost two centuries ago, Marx and Engels conjured an image of a Eu...

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