Pleased to share the first two RGS-IBG Book Series titles to be published fully open access with @lsepress.bsky.social, available early 2026...

@laurieparsons.bsky.social
@jbrigstocke.bsky.social

press.lse.ac.uk/books/coming...

🎉 Congrats to @niamhnelson-owens.bsky.social on the publication of 'Towards an affective post-foundational political geography', which brings together literature on affect and post-foundational geography. A fantastic achievement for paper no.1 and a wonderful contribution. doi.org/10.1177/0309...

We're hosting a launch event for our edited book Aesthetics and the City on Wednesday 8th October 2025 at 3pm UK time. We would like to invite you to join us. The event is in-person (message for details) at UoM and online (sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aesthetics... ). Hope to see you there!

Another section from my #CriticalDecade presentation (see attached).

Full transcript at climateuncensored.com/talk-at-the-...

I have a new paper out in Social & Cultural Geography titled: Making sense of ‘middle-age’: thinking from and through the middle. It presents a research agenda on the geographies of middle-age, and the value of thinking around the middle more generally. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2537686

Thanks you Cristina! :)

Thanks Matina :) Hope all is well and to catch up at some point

Thank you Sarah :) and again for your feedback on the draft. Max’s endorsement should definitely be on the website!!!

Some fantastic contributions by: Amy Barron, Amr Ibrahim, Beatriz Guijarro Turégano, Friederike Landau-Donnelly, Günter Gassner, Joe Blakey, Josh Widera, Julian Brigstocke, Mónica Degen, Salila Vanka, Sanna Lehtinen, Stefanie Fridrik, Taher Abdel-Ghani & Yara Mohamed.

Today marks the launch of our edited volume Aesthetics and the City. @amycbarron.bsky.social and I are thrilled to see this in print. We hope it’s of interest! Do let us know what you think. We are hosting a hybrid launch event in early October.

🔗More details: www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a...

I have a chapter in the book on Cities and the Sixth Sense: The Aesthetics of Experimental Urbanism. The chapter looks at experimental architecture/urbanism projects on the US/Mexico border through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s politics of aesthetics. www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a... #geosky

Thank you Julian, and again for your brilliant chapter. It's lovely to see evidence these are now out in the wild. We are sat eagerly awaiting the UPS delivery van!

So excited to see Aesthetics and the City in print. Congratulations to editors @joeblakey.bsky.social and @amycbarron.bsky.social.

#geosky

🌍 Mark Usher and I are collaborating to bring professionals working on natural capital in Greater Manchester together for a workshop on Tues 22nd July (bringing together Mark's work on natural capital and my own on environmental accounting).

Details below and register here: bit.ly/gmnaturalcap...

@joeblakey.bsky.social and I have an upcoming edited book... Aesthetics and the City explores how aesthetics relates to how cities and urban spaces are perceived, organised, and transformed. There's now a web page which lists the many fascinating contributions… 🔗 bit.ly/aestheticsandthecitybook

Hope it’s of interest!

Chapter Contributions by: Amy Barron, Amr Ibrahim, Beatriz Guijarro Turégano, Friederike Landau-Donnelly, Günter Gassner, Joe Blakey, Josh Widera, Julian Brigstocke, Mónica Degen, Salila Vanka, Sanna Lehtinen, Stefanie Fridrik, Taher Abdel-Ghani & Yara Mohamed

📚 @amycbarron.bsky.social and I have an upcoming edited book... Aesthetics and the City explores how aesthetics relates to how cities and urban spaces are perceived, organised, and transformed. There's now a web page which lists the many fascinating contributions… 🔗 bit.ly/aestheticsandthecitybook

A conversation between Andrea Borsari, Arshia Eghbali and I has been published in The Historical City book.

Titled ‘The City Between Geography and Aesthetics’ it discusses the edited book @amycbarron.bsky.social and I have submitted on ‘Aesthetics and the City’.

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

And to nobody's surprise, even the BBC's answer to this question is a big, unequivocal NO!

The first domino in what will surely be a cascade. The uni sector needs some radical new political impetus, and quickly

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Worth doing a bit of maths around the UK's 81% NDC announcement. It comes from the net-zero 2050 pathway, which assumes a typical UK citizen receives 3x more emission space than an 'equal per capita' share of the remaining 50% ≤ 1.5°C carbon budget. Colonialism continues unchecked & even celebrated.

@matpaterson.bsky.social - fyi!

Hi Everyone. This is the first post of the Cities Politics Economies Research Group from the Department of Geography, University of Manchester. www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/geography/re...