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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · 1d

📢 IE Law School is hiring!
4 full-time, tenure-track positions (Assistant Professor level) now open in Madrid.

🗓️ Open: Sep 16, 2025
⏳ Deadline: Oct 31, 2025

Start date: Sep 1, 2026

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Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · 5d

📢 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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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 17d

With Europe's housing crisis worsening, governments turn to rent control. But how far can states go before infringing property rights – and what happens when courts step in?

ALLEGRA GRILLO, ARNULFO DANIEL MATEOS DURÁN & ALESSIO SARDO have the answers.

verfassungsblog.de/rent-control...

Quote from the blog post: "The strong constitutional protection of property, as reinforced by the courts, acts as a structural brake on ambitious regulatory responses to housing unaffordability."

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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · 20d

We are excited to announce the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography at the University of Concepción, Chile, 17-20 March 2026. The call is now live @ www.clg.place on our conference page. Deadline for submissions 10 November 2025.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 26d

🏙️ Introduction to #UrbanStudies Special Issue "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda"

✍️ Özatağan et al.

🔍 Authoritarian neoliberal urbanism reshapes cities to secure power amid local contradictions.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 29d

#OpenAccess in TIBG:

'Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK' by @sarahhughes90.bsky.social

This paper explores the '28-day gap' between the approval of an asylum claim and the ending of government support.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Sarah M. Hughes (2025) entitled 'Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK' with a red banner at the top.

For many asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, being awarded refugee status signals the end of a prolonged period of waiting. At this point, they and their dependants are predominantly given permission to stay in the United Kingdom for five years. However, when a positive decision is granted, a new refugee has limited time before their existing government support (housing, finance) terminates. This transition is termed the ‘move-on period’, and, at the time of research, new refugees had only 28 days to navigate this change. Whilst civil society groups argue that the period following a positive decision poses urgent political questions, the legal gap between these two systems of governance has yet to garner significant academic attention. Scholarship has often been epistemically siloed into research looking at the governance and lived experiences of asylum seekers or the challenges and integration of refugees; the transition, or ‘gap’ between these legal categories has yet to receive sustained analysis. Building upon work on legal edges (Jeffrey 2019) this paper proposes a geographical reading of legal gaps, emerging from and speaking beyond the specifics of new refugees. It explores the construction and governance of the move-on period, together with the role of material technologies in paradoxically mediating and creating this gap. Bringing these two themes together, the paper contributes to debates on the role of materials in the governance of forced migrants and puts forward a relational theorising of legal ‘gaps’.

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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · Sep 5

New paper out!

Anselmo, Mannaioli & Sardo map the rules across EU/Italy/France/US and unpack real cases to show how influencer content plays on human biases, and outline practical fixes for fairer, more transparent ads.

Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ensuring Fairness in the Digital Marketplace: A Communicative and Cognitive Analysis of Deceitful Influencer Marketing within Regulatory Frameworks and Benchmarks - International Journal for the Semio...

The paper explores the pressing challenges of misleading advertising in the digital ecosystem, specifically regarding influencer marketing. We propose a dual innovation: a theoretical one and a method...

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LEX Network @lexnetwork.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣General registration for4th joint annual conference 'A feminist Politics of Radical Hope in a Time of Oppression'
is now open.
Details: www.lexnetwork.org/radical-hope...

LEX now reviewing membership applications
Details: lexnetwork.org
@sharronfitz.bsky.social @genderandjustice.bsky.social

Radical-hope-conference – LEX Research Network

www.lexnetwork.org

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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · Sep 1

📣 Call for Papers — Evidence Matters Before Regional Human Rights Courts

Looking at the African Court in critical & comparative perspective. Scholars & practitioners: submit your abstract!

🗓️ Deadline: 30 Sept 2025
📍 Pretoria | 📅 11–13 May 2026
dissect.ugent.be/call-for-pap...

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

Since 2010, Produce Prescription programs have multiplied across the U.S. Alanna Higgins offers insight into how the #legal #geographies of precision #welfare target populations with chronic conditions and overgeneralize individual experiences.

Learn more here → buff.ly/XAz0X7b

Screenshot of the journal abstract. Click the link to learn more.

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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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Stephen Przybylinski @sprzybylinski.bsky.social · Jul 1

Publication day! The Injustice of Property is available from the great @ugapress.bsky.social. The book details how property in liberalism constrains common attempts at ending homelessness, despite land use practices of un/precariously housed people rejecting the proprietarian logic of liberalism.

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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · Aug 1

🏘️ New in IJURR: Raffael Beier on why recipients leave state-subsidized housing in Ethiopia, Morocco & South Africa. Challenges gentrification tropes: shows mobility as agency under constraint.
#HousingPolicy #UrbanStudies #IJURR #Resettlement
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

THE MISSING PEOPLE OF STATE‐SUBSIDIZED HOUSING: Lived Experiences of Non‐Occupancy and Secondary Residential Mobility

Large-scale, state-subsidized housing programmes have experienced a renaissance in Africa, Asia and Latin America, but provoke justified concerns about whether they miss their target groups. Unafford...

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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · Jul 30

Samuel Singler's new book "Outsourcing Crimmigration Control: Digital Borders, the IOM, and Biometric Statehood" is now out at @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
Relevant to anyone working on border control, digital surveillance, and criminal justice.

academic.oup.com/book/60696?l...

Outsourcing Crimmigration Control: Digital Borders, the IOM, and Biometric Statehood

Abstract. Digital technologies have reshaped the boundaries of criminal justice and border control. The merger of these fields has resulted in technologica

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · Jul 28

"As students and faculty face increasing repression for speaking out against injustice, it becomes clearer that spaces like Border Criminologies cannot be passive – they are part of a broader terrain and community of resistance."

Our annual report is out now! ⤵️

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · Jul 25

📢 Postdoc opening at the Center for Critical Democracy Studies, AUP (Paris) for 2025–26. Focus: Horizon Europe CO3 project + “Law, State, and Democracy” initiative. Apply by Sept 1: [email protected]
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #PoliticalScience #PublicLaw #HorizonEurope #AUP

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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · Jul 24

📢 Call for Proposals – Special Issue 2026
Reviews in Anthropology is seeking proposals for its first annual special issue!
Looking for critical, synthetic overviews of key topics in anthropology—regional or thematic—across subfields.
🗓️ Deadline: Sept 15, 2025

www.tandfonline.com/journals/grv...

Learn about Reviews in Anthropology

Learn about Reviews in Anthropology aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · Jul 17

📢 @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social just dropped a call on gentrification & the right to the city – legal, philosophical, and theory-driven case studies welcome.

📍 Kraków | 🗓️ Oct 23–25, 2025
📝 Deadline: Aug 31
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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · Jul 14

🚨 Postdoc opportunity alert 🚨

Katie Meehan is hiring a PDRA in Urban Studies @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for the ERC project Plumbing Poverty — 2y, start by Jan 2026.

🧭 water insecurity & urban inequality

Apply by Aug 25

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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · Jul 11

🚗💡 New paper in Transport Policy:

“Deliberating sufficiency in transport: Fair car use budgets for London”.

Shows frequent London drivers are open to reducing car use if included in fair discussions and if they see how their driving worsens congestion.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Deliberating sufficiency in transport: Fair car use budgets for London

This paper investigates notions of fairness and the role of deliberative exercises as part of urban transport policy design. Its point of departure is…

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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · Jul 10

🎓🇳🇴 Fully funded PhD opportunities in Norway

The University of Agder is hiring up to 3 PhD candidates in Political Science/Public Administration (3-year positions).

🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

#PhD #AcademicJobs #PoliticalScience #PublicAdministration #HigherEdJobs #Norway

Up to  three PhD Research Fellowships in Political Science  (283360) | University of Agder

Job title: Up to  three PhD Research Fellowships in Political Science  (283360), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · Jul 8

🎙️ Elizabeth Macpherson talks with @cristyclark.bsky.social about how environmental law and human rights connect, focusing on water governance and Cristy’s new book on the legal geographies of water.
lawattheendoftheworld.buzzsprout.com/2489596/epis...

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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · Jul 7

📢 New publication out!

📝 Çağla Lüleci-Sula
🔖 Decentering the Study of EU Border Externalization and Why This Matters
📚 International Political Sociology
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ips/...

Decentering the Study of EU Border Externalization and Why This Matters

Abstract. Critical border studies have gone a significant way in emphasizing the social character of international political phenomena by broadening the on

doi.org

Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · Jul 2

💡 New from Karishma Desai & Priti Narayan in Gender, Place & Culture:"Tracing the contours of care in South Asia: collective care, feminist entanglements and inquiry”
👥 A feminist rethinking of care as social justice praxis.

Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tracing the contours of care in South Asia: collective care, feminist entanglements and inquiry

Finding that ‘care’ as a specific term has not been indexed often in writings by South Asian feminists, this article traces the idea of care within existing scholarship and our own research and fie...

www.tandfonline.com

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Troy Brundidge 312/541 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · Jun 28

legal geographers: Im looking for a reading list on legal geography and scale. I'm aware of the great contributions of Delaney; Valverde; Herod... but there has to be much more that I am missing, especially more recently

@legalgeolsa.bsky.social @legalgeography.bsky.social ?

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