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Marie Gibert-Flutre
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Urban Geographer
Public spaces, Neighborhoods, Platform Urbanism, Markets #Vietnam #HCMC #HongKong #Singapore #China #Southeast-Asia
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culturesmonde.bsky.social
Au Vietnam, religions et croyances sous le contrôle du Parti

Les religions et croyances sont autorisées, mais strictement contrôlées par l'État vietnamien, inquiet de l'influence qu'elles peuvent avoir sur la société.

🎧 @franceculture.fr

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Des personnes attendent sur le trottoir devant le temple Quan Thanh, la veille du défilé de la fête nationale du Vietnam, à Hanoï, le 1ᵉʳ septembre 2025. ©AFP - Nhac NGUYEN
December 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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ijurresearch.bsky.social
Join us for the next Cities Are Back in Town seminar, featuring a discussion on Housing Under Platform Capitalism 📖

Hybrid seminar — Sciences Po / Zoom

Register here 👉 tinyurl.com/5n8aatxv

@ucpress.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social
The special issue on Authortarianism in the Digital Age is now live (eds. @kylzjarrett.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @steelecat717.bsky.social and Jing Hiah). It is comprised of 48 commentaries from around the world exploring how the digital is implicated in creeping authoritarianism.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, vol 1(3) in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social, edited by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, Jing Hiah, @robkitchin.bsky.social & @steelecat717.bsky.social y.social. All 49 pieces open access. journals.sagepub.com/toc/ddsa/1/3
Dialogues on Digital Society - Volume 1, Number 3
Table of contents for Dialogues on Digital Society, 1, 3
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December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Thousands of Filipinos protest over flood corruption scandal
https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/thousands-of-filipinos-protest-over-flood-corruption-scandal
Thousands of Filipinos protest over flood corruption scandal
Demonstrators demand authorities move more decisively against those who allegedly stole billions of dollars
asia.nikkei.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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ncrenic.bsky.social
Methodology
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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asia.nikkei.com
Monopoly jitters in Indonesia: What might happen if ride-hailing and food delivery rivals Grab and GoTo were to merge their Indonesian operations as reported?

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GoTo-Grab merger plan raises monopoly concerns as Indonesia eyes approval
Ride-hailing giants would hold 90% of the country's market if combined
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November 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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hyunshin.bsky.social
For anyone interested in learning more about critical urban/geography scholarship in #EastAsia, this review ("Looking Back on the Trajectory of Critical and Alternative Geography in East Asia") by Prof Byung-Doo Choi will be of interest. Direct link here: www.omu.ac.jp/lit/geo/asse... #EARCAG
November 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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ijurresearch.bsky.social
Small-scale land speculation on Mandalay’s outskirts reveals how everyday actors—not just developers—reshape peri-urban space and contribute to displacement in the global South.

By Francesca Chiu

📖 www.ijurr.org/article/beyo...
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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urbanstudiesjournal.com
🚨NEW #UrbanStudies Volume 62(15) (November 2025)

SPECIAL ISSUE: "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda?"

✍ Editors: G. Özatağan, G. Fearn & A. Eraydin

🔍 Focus on authoritarian neoliberal #urbanism, urban #governance transformation & sociopolitical change.
Table of contents and editorial board of Urban Studies Volume 62 Issue 15 Table of contents and editorial board of Urban Studies Volume 62 Issue 15 Urban Studies logo followed by the writing "New Issue"
November 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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hyunshin.bsky.social
This is happening this week on 6-Nov at 4 pm at LSE, a book launch seminar for People-led Development in Hanoi (Routledge, 2026). For more details, see below 👇
hyunshin.bsky.social Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Oct 15
New LSE Geography seminar with the Urban Salon on 6-Nov, 4pm, featuring Hoai Anh Tran (Malmö University) presenting her new book, "People-led Development" in Hanoi, w/ discussants, Hanh-An Trinh and @maranogueira.bsky.social. Event details and registration on this page: www.lse.ac.uk/events/peopl...
November 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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samuelwa.de samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · Oct 27
"He must earn 0.5 yuan a minute (about 5p) so as not to run at a loss, which means a delivery every four minutes. The 20 minutes he takes for lunch costs 10 yuan. Urination costs 1 yuan – provided the toilet is free and he only takes two minutes – so he avoids drinking too much water on his shifts."
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review – startling stories of China’s new precarity
The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translation
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October 27, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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That’s us!
With @mariegibertflutre.bsky.social @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social and others !

Viva multilingual geographies viva!
tibg.bsky.social TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Oct 28
New in TIBG:

'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary et al.

This intervention responds to the 'Geography in the World' series, shifting focus to the process of worlding geographies & practices of multilingualism in the academy.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Cheikh Abdoul Ahad Mbacké Ba, Sophie Buhnik, Marine Duc, Juliet J. Fall, Marie Gibert-Flutre, Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch, Renaud Le Goix, Laura Péaud & Charlotte Ruggeri entitled: 'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' with a red banner at the top.
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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hyunshin.bsky.social
New LSE Geography seminar with the Urban Salon on 6-Nov, 4pm, featuring Hoai Anh Tran (Malmö University) presenting her new book, "People-led Development" in Hanoi, w/ discussants, Hanh-An Trinh and @maranogueira.bsky.social. Event details and registration on this page: www.lse.ac.uk/events/peopl...
October 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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ijurresearch.bsky.social
🌍 New IJURR Spotlight On: Counting the City 🌆

How are big data and computational methods reshaping urban research?

This collection explores the promises and perils of datafication in understanding cities—bridging ethics, politics, and imagination.

👉 tinyurl.com/yc6333xa
October 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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iaolyon.bsky.social
Parlez-nous de…Guerre, exils intérieurs et extérieurs au Viêt Nam dans la littérature
📅 1er oct. 2025, 17h-19h
📍 La Parenthèse – Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon
Avec la participation de Thuân, Doan Cam Thi & François Guillemot
Rencontre culturelle co-organisée avec la BDL bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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iaolyon.bsky.social
Découvrez le programme du Séminaire de recherche de l’Institut d’Asie Orientale (UMR 5062) pour pour le premier semestre de l’année universitaire 2025-2026.
En visioconférence, inscription en ligne : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio...
Programme détaillé : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio...
September 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Ho CHi Minh City's expansion highlights challenge of state reform
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/ho-chi-minh-city-s-expansion-highlights-challenge-of-state-reform
Ho CHi Minh City's expansion highlights challenge of state reform
Foreign investment grows but megacity struggles to clear land for projects
asia.nikkei.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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colinmcfarlane.bsky.social
New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies
This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical an...
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September 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social
If you would like a sneak peek at our special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, have a look at some of the commentaries that have come out already in OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/home/DDS
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August 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Digital Twins special issue in New Media & Society edited by Christoph Borbach, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Tristan Thielmann. 15 papers including one by Oliver Dawkins & myself. Interdisciplinary exploration of the conceptualisation and practices of digital twinning. journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8
New Media & Society - Volume 27, Number 8
Table of contents for New Media & Society, 27, 8
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August 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Our 'Informational Peripheries' book is now published and out for the world to read in paperback and online free #openaccess.
Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social
It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4
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Informational Peripheries
Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...
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August 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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#NewReadingMaterial #RPVBooks

I never saw myself as an urban studies scholar until i started studying informal water provision and now I am interested in so much more than that. This book looks like it will be a great read.
July 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Hanoi becomes new retail battleground as 7-Eleven, GS25 move in
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Retail/Hanoi-becomes-new-retail-battleground-as-7-Eleven-GS25-move-in
Hanoi becomes new retail battleground as 7-Eleven, GS25 move in
Convivence store chains step into Vietnamese capital from foothold in Ho Chi Minh City
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July 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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New paper on density - asking how residents experience everyday densities as 'resource', 'threshold', & imaginary of the urban future. Open access. Such a pleasure to work with wonderful colleagues in Dar es Salaam on this.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Density as Threshold and Resource: Urban Life and Futures in Dar-es-Salaam
Cities in sub-Saharan Africa are rapidly urbanizing, producing new geographies of densification and sprawl. Amidst the debate about the current and future patterns of informal urbanization, the way...
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July 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM