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PolGRG @polgrg.bsky.social · 1d

📣We're pleased to launch this year's PolGRG Book Prize!
The winning book will also be the subject of an Authors meets Critics session at the annual RGS-IBG meeting (2026).

Deadline 19 December. Full details available here:
polgrg.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/c...

#bookprize #polgrg #award

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Jonathan Harris @jonathanaharris.bsky.social · 6d

Historians (and geographers) of diplomacy: you might be interested in this article (with @drruthcraggs.bsky.social and Fiona McConnell) as part of an Itinerario special issue on 'Late Colonialism'. We explore tensions in training Ghana's first diplomats in 1957.
www.doi.org/10.1017/S0165115325100144

Rethinking the late colonial state in Africa through diplomatic training | Itinerario | Cambridge Core

Rethinking the late colonial state in Africa through diplomatic training

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PolGRG @polgrg.bsky.social · 8d

📣 We’re thrilled to announce that Caleb Tan (UCL) is the winner of the 2025 UG Dissertation Prize for ‘Third space or territorial trap: citizenship and conscription in Singapore’! Congratulations!👏
#PolGRG #prize #education #HE

Read about all the finalists on our website 👇

Announcing the results of the Political Geography Research Group 2025 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize!

Outcome 2025 PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize The panel of the 2025 PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize (Alexander Manby, Anil, Sindhwani, Öznur Yardımcı, Semra Akay, Shawn Bodden) is de…

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Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 12d

Prof Claude Raffestin has died. RIP He taught me when I was an undergraduate in Geneva. A formidable force. More info on him here (happy to send pdf): Fall, J. J. (2012). Reading Claude Raffestin: Pathways for a Critical Biography. Env. & Plan. D, 30(1), 173-189.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/...

A drawing by JJ Fall that was published as part of a longer comic on a book by M Tanca in Geographica Helvetica

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 22d

The defunct railway network - Belfast and County Railway. All but the line between Belfast and Bangor was closed in the 1950s, although some of it has been restored near Downpatrick by a heritage line, the Downpatrick and County Down Railway.

#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm

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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations " a short intervention, part of a set, out and open access in case of use.

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

The aim of this intervention is to respond to the provocation of how different worlds and regions are imagined from the non-west. To do this from the vantage point of Egypt, I start with the specific....

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Jonathan Harris @jonathanaharris.bsky.social · 22d

"Killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births"

This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.

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

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 26d

Identity, patriotism, symbolism
@domsball.bsky.social placing flags in context
@theconversation.com
theconversation.com/ive-research...

I’ve researched the politics of flags in Northern Ireland for decades – here’s what England needs to understand

I’ve contributed to at least six reports assessing the tensions around flags.

theconversation.com

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Specified Purpose, Department of History and the Arts and Humanities Institute | University Vacancies Ireland

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Tommy Greene @tommygreene.bsky.social · Aug 30

Lough Neagh and its system of peripheral waterways on course to record worst year of algal blooms to date.

While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens.

My story in today's @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK’s largest lake faces environmental crisis as rescue plans stall

Toxic algae cases in Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh have tripled since last year, as local fishers’ incomes plummet

www.theguardian.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.

Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”

Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · Aug 23

A thoughtful and considered article; worth a read.

Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · Aug 23

For my latest dispatch from Ireland for America Magazine, I talked to 2 bone fide legends, Sr Lena Deevy and Michael O'Sullivan, to investigate how, if you start to scratch, Irish attitudes to immigration aren't that far away from MAGAland. www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...

Migration and Irish identity—in the era of Trump deportations

Just about no one in Ireland would say that Irish citizens living in the U.S. are being treated as badly as immigrant residents from Latin America or Africa. But consternation is on the rise about esc...

www.americamagazine.org

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Jonathan Harris @jonathanaharris.bsky.social · Aug 17

"I have to play it by ear as I have no money. God has always come through, so I'll see what God sets up next"

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

Donald Trump posted a pic of me by my tent. Then a bulldozer arrived

DC's largest homeless encampment was destroyed after the president called for a crackdown. What happened to its residents?

www.bbc.co.uk

Jonathan Harris @jonathanaharris.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is an interesting, timely and helpful intervention from #geography colleagues 👆 immediately I'm drawn to query the scale and location of the 'community' in which candidates are supposed to be volunteering, as doing so in diaspora/religious settings so often risks the charge of 'not integrating'

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Jonathan Harris @jonathanaharris.bsky.social · Aug 12

I did this a couple of years ago and really benefitted from it! Great to get feedback but even better to read exciting new work from other ECRs before it’s published… 🤓🥰

Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey @geographers.bsky.social and #geographers please pass this great opportunity on in your networks!

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Peter Heaney @peadarheaney.bsky.social · Aug 10

Ah here. Half of Belfast has signs up supporting various proscribed organisations. I can walk out my door and go find some proscribed organisation flags quite handy.

This is about suppressing the right to protest.

BBC News - Woman released after Belfast protest arrest
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Woman released after arrest at Belfast protest

The woman was arrested on Linenhall Street in Belfast on Saturday.

www.bbc.com

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nickmegoran.bsky.social @nickmegoran.bsky.social · Aug 6

80 years ago today WW2 reached its cataclysmic conclusion in the bombing of Hiroshima. But as I write here, the extraordinary but virtually-unknown story of the Aka island truce is a sliver of hope. Other outcomes are possible. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social
theconversation.com/when-us-and-...

When US and Japanese troops stopped fighting to talk, eat and pray together

Eighty years ago, this remarkable event showed a rare glimpse of humanity on both sides of a bitter conflict.

theconversation.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Aug 6

Abu Dhabi owned provider of special schools and children's homes sees profits rise by 28% to £44 million due to strong demand.

That's all taxpayer money that could be spent on improving state provision.

schoolsweek.co.uk/abu-dhabi-ow...

Abu Dhabi-owned SEND school firm profits soar to £45m

Rise in private special school pupils helped deliver 30 per cent profit boost, company says

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Jonathan Harris @jonathanaharris.bsky.social · Jul 25

Je suis tout fier de pouvoir partager mon premier article à sortir en francais! Avec Rodrigue Tassé, nous examinons la formation des diplomates à l’Institut des Relations Internationales du Cameroun depuis 1971. Ce lien donne accès à l'article gratuitement pour un mois shs.cairn.info/tap-xue6pwfw...

La formation des diplomates du développement en Afrique. Le cas de l’Institut des relations internationales du Cameroun

Pas encore de compte ?

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · Jul 14

'A woman who refused to be silenced in fight for republican independence'

Thanks to the @irish_examiner for this wonderful exposure of our new biography on Mary MacSwiney in last Saturday's paper.

Mary MacSwiney will have it's Cork launch at City Hall this Friday

All welcome RSVP [email protected]

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · Jul 7

Irish-Scottish Cultural Diplomacy and Relations event in Dublin (and online) this September @ria.ie

Programme and registration information can be found here:

www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

Select tickets – Irish-Scottish cultural diplomacy and relations – Royal Irish Academy

Discussing the role of arts and humanities in the implementation of the joint Irish-Scottish bilateral review. Join the Irish H...

www.tickettailor.com

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · Jul 4

Geopolitical football:
The cold war match that never happened
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The game the cold war scrapped finally set for kick-off 65 years later

About a thousand fans from Germany, including a motorcade of bikers, are expected to join Glenavon fans for the friendly in a mix of history, sentiment and unfinished business

www.theguardian.com

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · Jul 4

Warm congratulations to our colleagues @benandersongeog.bsky.social and @ajsecor.bsky.social on the publication of their new book 'The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism'.

www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

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Jonathan Harris @jonathanaharris.bsky.social · Jun 30

Listening on my lunch break… Great to hear the work of my colleague @lloislanel.bsky.social on Mary MacSwiney name-checked during a @theresthistory.bsky.social episode on 'The Irish War of Independence (Part 2)'. 🙌 👇
www.connollybooks.org/product/mary...

Mary MacSwiney

Mary MacSwiney by Leeann Lane Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minde...

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Jonathan Harris @jonathanaharris.bsky.social · Jun 30

My research over the next four years at @dublincityuni.bsky.social is generously funded by @researchireland.ie! 🥳🙏😇

‘Diaspora Diplomacy and the Migration-Development Nexus’ will work with #Indian, #Brazilian and #Algerian communities across the island of #Ireland.

👇

www.dcu.ie/research/new...

Five DCU researchers secure over €3.2 million in Research Ireland Pathways call | Research Office

The Research Ireland funding spans a four-year period and will support researchers and provide resources to establish their careers. Dr Eirini Maniou, Dr Purabi Bhagabati, Dr Ciara Mahon, Dr Jonathan ...

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