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Lindsay Naylor

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she|her - geographer...anti-racist, decolonial, feminist scholar, who can be a bit sweary. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Co-facilitator of the Embodiment Lab. | Associate Professor at UDelaware/unceded lands of the Lenape Peoples: https://sites.udel.edu/lnaylor

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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · Nov 30

November 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of the publication of my first book “Fair Trade Rebels.” I am damn proud of this book a really had very little opportunity to celebrate it or even really talk about it, because we all know what 2020 brought. So, I’m giving it an anniversary thread.

Cover of book -- brown paper bag style background with title in all caps red font "Fair Trade Rebels: coffee production & struggles for autonomy in Chiapas" by Lindsay Naylor

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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 3h

Tanner Falls, PA 🙂

Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 14h

Some east coast foliage for y’all:

Small waterfalls and an old bridge surrounded by fall deciduous trees in golds and yellows

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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 1d

"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality"
bell hooks

Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 1d

In anticipation of the release of “All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers: creating a care-full academy” I am going to post the epigraphs that lead each section of the book over the next few weeks.

So, starting today, from the front matter of the book:

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Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · 4d

📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky

Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey Philadelphia area friends, I will be at the Towne Book Center and Cafe on Wednesday, October 8th at 6:30 pm! Come get your books and stuff signed! Be awesome! I have stickers!

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 5d

📢September Issue of Area📢

Our latest issue features an editorial from our new team, a Special Section on 'Gentle Geographies', and a discussion forum on #OpenAccess book publishing.

Available to read here ⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762...

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are seven tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Gentle Geographies', and an editorial. The papers are:

1) Areas of opportunity
Jeremy J. Schmidt, Mary Lawhon, Jonathan Darling, Eli D. Lazarus
2) Editorial: Towards more gentle geographies: Narrating a virtue turn, and possibilities for multi-tonal politics of activism and academic labour
Matt Finn, Jayne M. Jeffries
3) The quiet politics and gentle literary activism behind the battle for Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument
Laura Smith
4) Power in numbers/Power and numbers: Gentle data activism as strategic collaboration
Jonathan Cinnamon
5) For diffident geographies and modest activisms: Questioning the ANYTHING-BUT-GENTLE academy
John Horton
6) Treading carefully through tomatoes: Embodying a gentle methodological approach
Laura Pottinger
7) CoPSE: A methodological intervention towards gentle more-than-human relations
Suzanne Hocknell

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are:

1) ‘What is visible… and what isn't’: A public art intervention for re-imagining the food system
Ekaterina Gladkova, Naho Matsuda
2) Reimagining the streetscapes of Varanasi city: Public art, urban regeneration and smart city practices
Iman Banerjee, Amrita Bajaj, Apala Saha
3) It takes a team to participate – Refining working participant observations through multiple researchers
Maria Thulemark, Susanna Heldt-Cassel, Tara Duncan
4) Right-sizing the smart city in Southeast Asia
Prerona Das, Orlando Woods, Lily Kong
5) The role of virtual field trips in Geography higher education: A perspective paper
Elizabeth R. Hurrell, Simon M. Hutchinson, Lynda Yorke, Lesley C. Batty, M. Jane Bunting, Dan Swanton, Derek A. McDougall, Daniel R. Parsons
6) Is the spatial persistence of deprivation dependent on neighbouring areas?
Stephen D. Clark, Fran Pontin, Paul Norman
7) ‘Backward geographies’: Contested lives and livelihoods in the tea plantation enclaves of South Asia
Suranjan Majumder
8) On the forms of borderwork in public institutions: Bordering social security through conditions and tests
Kathryn Cassidy, Gill Davidson
9) Navigating inequalities and shaping aspirations: The role of supplementary education in low-income immigrant youth's transition to selective secondary school
Lara Landolt

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Open Access Book Publishing: A Forum for Debate' and three 'Ethics in/of Geographical Research' papers. The papers are:

1) ‘The city is not for us’: Ethics, everyday sexism, and negotiating unwanted encounters during fieldwork
Morag Rose
2) Participation, inclusion and reflexivity in multi-step (focus) group discussions
Marina Korzenevica, Engdasew Feleke Lemma, Catherine Fallon Grasham, Khonker Taskin Anmol, Daniel Ekai Esukuku, Fahreen Hossain, Mercy Mbithe Musyoka, Saskia Nowicki, Dalmas Ochieng Omia, Salome A. Bukachi
3) The ‘creative thesis’ in the academic ‘anxiety machine’
Angela Last
4) Against book enclosures: Moving towards more diverse, humane and accessible book publishing
Simon P. J. Batterbury, Andrea E. Pia, Gerda Wielander, Nicholas Loubere
5) Uneven geographies of power in UK higher education's conjunctural crisis: A response to Gandy
Julie Cupples
6) Beyond open access: Book publishing in a metric culture
Clancy Wilmott
7) Gandy & 'Books under threat': A response
Frank Houghton
8) Challenges and opportunities for open access book publishing: A perspective from a society publisher in the geosciences
Jenny Lunn, Kate Lajtha
9) Ex Libris: Books, creativity and academic freedom
Matthew Gandy

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 6d

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 6d

One more month until "All Geographers should be Feminist Geographers!" Published by @ugapress.bsky.social

Book cover with open book and quill sculpture on a college campus.

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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 12d

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 12d

During my town hall, someone asked me what they could do to stand up to authoritarianism.

Despite what the cynics say, you have power. All it takes is one person speaking up for somebody else. It is small acts that can change the course of this country.

Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 12d

Weekend reading!! by @kgrove80.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"... salvage geographies refer to practices of geographic knowledge production that are organized around desires to secure the promise of modernist futurity in the Anthropocene..."
#geogchat #geosky

Resilience, Critique and the Limits of Geographic Thought in the Anthropocene

As resilience has become an increasingly influential governance principle, geographers have been among the most ardent critics of the concept and its …

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 13d

Hey students 👀 We have three awards recognizing those who are studying quantitative/computational geography and spatial studies. Whether you’re an undergraduate, a master’s student, or a PhD candidate, there’s at least one award given to these students annually. Learn more and apply by October 15! 👇

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 13d

Where is my Kermit
Where is my swamp song
Where is my happy ending
Where have all the Muppets gone

Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 13d

i feel in most relationships one partner is miss piggy and one partner is kermit. it's important to understand which one you are

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 14d

New paper! On the precarious labor at the end of the solar commodity chain, and the production of value from solar waste in India.

Shards of light: Ruination, pollution, and the lived experience of solar waste in India.
☀️🔌💡 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpUo7tZ6a...

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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 15d

So excited about your work!

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 16d

Awards season is in swing! The September nomination deadline for Honors and Fellows closes on September 30. AAG Fellows are recognized for their significant contributions to advancing geography and will be celebrated at a reception at the 2026 Annual Meeting. buff.ly/qp2lvXN

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 19d

Get involved in planning #AAG2026 offerings! If you're looking for a change of pace, field visits and workshops can get attendees out of the traditional meeting room and provide a memorable learning experience in a low-risk setting to try out new techniques.

Plan the program: buff.ly/XZKrnlx

San Francisco townhouses with dark blue fade and text overlay: "Organize field visits and workshops."

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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 19d

Some years back the job wiki was a really great crowd-sourced resource for folks on the academic job market. Looks super quiet this year so I encourage job seekers in academic fields to check it out and populate it, share what you know!
geography/geosciences:
academicjobs.fandom.com/wiki/Geograp...

Geography/Geosciences 2025-2026

Wiki page for Academic Jobs in Geography/Geosciences advertised during the 2025-2026 hiring season. This page is for jobs that begin in 2026. Last year's page: Geography/Geosciences 2024-2025 Please a...

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 21d

🌍 All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers, says @lbnaylor.bsky.social. Naylor argues for care-centred, feminist approaches to geography, challenging the neoliberal academy and reimagining how we “write the earth.” ✊♀️

Find it here: bit.ly/4m1j79X
@ugapress.bsky.social

All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers

Although care is a critical component of human life, it has remained on the margins of higher education and theory, heightening unequal relations along gender, race, and class lines. In All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers, Lindsay Naylor argues for a feminist approach in geography that is both world-dismantling and worldmaking, pushing back against a neoliberal academy.

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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 21d

Celebrating this excellent coverage by the University of Delaware Community Engagement Initiative in UDaily about the fieldwork and research contributions of #Geography graduate student & @embodimentlab.bsky.social member Naznin Sultana

Read here!

www.udel.edu/udaily/2025/...

Human geography in Bangladesh | UDaily

UD doctoral candidate amplifies the voice of a vulnerable community in Chittagong City

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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 28d

careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

University of Delaware - Details - Chair, Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment University of Delaware

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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 28d

Come work with us!!
The Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences (GEOG) is seeking applications and nominations for the position of Department Chair at the rank of full professor with tenure--human geography specialization.
#geosky #geogchat

group photo of department under 100 years of geography banner.

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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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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hive mind: recommendations for short readings useful for a student interested in historicizing “the natural” and/or “nature” in a US context?

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