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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 2d

Join us for 'Imagining our Working Lives: A Creative Exploration' 💭🖍🪛🧤🥄🖱

1st Nov, Central Manchester. Part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025.

Free to attend, places limited. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-...

P.s. There'll be cake!🍰
With @amycbarron.bsky.social + @clarecourtney

Poster for the event: Imagining our working lives: a creative exploration. The poster features a picture of a woman sat at a desk looking at a screen, surrounded by colourful pots and books. The poster contains a qr code to the event (see post)

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 13d

Special Section in The GJ:

'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social

This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

A blue tile with a quote from the editorial introduction to the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section by S. van Lanen & S.M. Hall (2025): "As political discourse transforms and the period of fierce austerity implementation moves into history, we believe critical geographers should remain attentive to its traces in everyday practices, policy realities and material conditions. To imagine alternative futures, austerity's legacies should not be forgotten".

A blue tile sharing the titles of 8 open access papers within the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section:
1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall
2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al.
3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock
4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou
5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali
6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al.
7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull
8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 18d

Ah no, I will just miss this! Hope it goes well!

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 28d

Some @austerityalters.bsky.social upcoming travel: if you're based in/around these cities + fancy a cuppa in the coming months pls let me know! ☕️
-Zurich, Malmo + Copenhagen (Sept)
-Dublin*^ (Oct)
-Rotterdam*, Amsterdam + Groningen (Nov)

* will be repeat visits in near future
^ can include Max 🐕

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Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts @mdpac.bsky.social · Aug 22

🔥 Speaker Announced! - Rick Burgess 🔥

🎤 Talk title: Lessons from fighting the cuts: connecting struggle to win

🗓 Date: 7th September 2025
🕣 Time: 10am Doors
📍 Location: Mechanics Institute

Get your tickets today 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summit-of-...
More details in alt text.

🔥 Speaker Announced! - Rick Burgess 🔥

We’re excited to welcome Rick Burgess— co-founder of Manchester DPAC and Campaigns Lead for the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People—to the We Demand Change: Summit of Resistance in Manchester!

🎤 Talk title: Lessons from fighting the cuts: connecting struggle to win

🗓 Date: 7th September 2025
🕣 Time: 10am Doors
📍 Location: Mechanics Institute

Get your tickets today 👇
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summit-of-resistance-greater-manchester-we-demand-change-tickets-1580438246339?aff=oddtdtcreator

Rick has been at the heart of the fight against austerity for over a decade. From resisting brutal welfare reforms to defending the rights and dignity of disabled people, he’s consistently exposed how capitalist austerity treats disabled lives as disposable. But Rick doesn’t just name the violence—he organizes against it.

This session will reflect on the successes and learnings from the fight against Labour's continuation of austerity, which was led by DPAC but drew in forces from the anti war movement and the trade unions —demonstrating the power of connecting struggle across the working class movement.

If you're ready to break out of siloed struggles and start connecting the dots, this talk is essential.

💬 Join the conversation 👇
https://chat.whatsapp.com/L41NTAGqcEUG6mmjv4slnG

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · Aug 16

A year and a half of making disability zines...

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · Aug 15

Brings a whole new meaning to "Bread & Roses"!

Speaking of, a small group of us have been coming together for c2yrs as the Bread & Roses Collective to think about radical care and activism in an unequal world.

We have a logo and blurb: @austerityalters site will be updated soon with more info 🍞🌹

Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · Aug 13

ICYMI: Georg Simmel, 'Roses: A Social Hypothesis' - Simmel’s fairy tale tells the story of the emergence of a sense of grievance about differences in the ability to grow roses which became constructed as a ‘terrible inequality’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Roses: A Social Hypothesis - Georg Simmel, 2021

First published in 1897 in the avant-garde journal Jugend, Simmel’s fairy tale tells the story of the emergence of a sense of grievance about differences in the...

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · Aug 14

🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏

🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August.

Geographers please share!

forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Microsoft Forms

forms.office.com

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kategray @revkategray.bsky.social · Aug 13

For the UK context: things are difficult for so many people right now. Here are some contact details. Please share if you are in the UK.

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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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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · Aug 10

Look at that smile! Look at those bobby dazzlers! Cheer-up guaranteed 😁🦷🐕

A small sandy-coloured terrier facing the camera. He is sat down on a red patterned rug. His ears are back and pulling a big smile that shows his teeth.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Amy Barron @amycbarron.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

ABSTRACT of paper
This paper presents a research agenda on the geographies of middle-age, drawing on life-history interviews with self-identified middle-aged participants from Greater Manchester, UK. The place of middle-age in debates about age within and beyond human geography is explored, including the extension of the category of youth and the deferral of older age. While lived experiences of middle-age are changing and significant, they are frequently overlooked in research. This paper argues that middle-age must be theorized through approaches and concepts of and around the middle. It draws upon more-than-representational theories as one such approach to thinking from and through the middle, emphasizing in-between affective states and forms of change, whilst highlighting a range of concepts and practices of the middle such as impasse, liminality and waiting. Thinking from and through the middle advances relational approaches to age by shifting attention away from the nodes at either end of a relation, towards the middle itself as being invariably in-relation. Geographers interested in ageing are urged to focus on the middle, be these moments of betweenness earlier or later in life, or midlife and middle-age itself. Future research must keep differences in experience at the fore and maintain a distinctly relational vantage point.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · Aug 7

Yes Kate! If you insist... xx

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · Aug 6

Barf-fest

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · Aug 6

Is it just me or is LinkedIn in a bit... gross?? I can't engage with it properly for all the performance. Plus I haven't seen a single dog picture on there for the 3 WHOLE WEEKS since I joined!!!
Academic social media needs light and shades, folks!!
P.s. here's Max looking especially dashing.

A photograph of a sandy coloured terrier facing the camera. His back half is sat in his bed, the front half out, with his front legs poised in a fancy stance. He wears a red collar with bone-shaped tag, a cocked ear and curious hazel eyes.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · Aug 4

Notice this headline over the weekend? Here's what irked me:

1. Women bear an uneven load - so do w/c + ppl of colour (intersectional!)
2. This labour goes beyond services to workplaces, homes etc
3. Enough with the fat-phobia
4. How are you going to fix it?!

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK has got ‘fat’ on decades of free labour by women, says MP Jess Phillips

Minister points to ‘sexist’ practice of country relying on women to provide services so government did not have to

www.theguardian.com

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Charlie Jones @charliepsych.bsky.social · Aug 3

These are enormously confronting, disturbing, distressing times & if you're feeling overwhelmed or exhausted, seems sensible to remember that's pretty realistic in this context.

Find connection where you can, & rest. And have faith there are many many good people out there.

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Aug 2

How does inequality affect our lot in life? Aini Gauhar of @equalitytrust.bsky.social looks at how household wealth shapes children’s health, education and future work prospects. But which countries offer clues to a more equitable way forward? #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Hard work or inherited (mis)fortune? Young people’s future in an unequal world

Renewing analysis from The Spirit Level: how are children and young people’s health, education and employment prospects shaped by household wealth?

buff.ly

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Dr Kate Haddow @khaddow93.bsky.social · Aug 1

Just published this article 🥳.
Research on food aid is always important but there is more to food aid thank food banks. As seen in this paper. Please share my article 🙏 or give it a 👍.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · Jun 7

R.e. recent EHRC news, I want to be v clear that my politics have always been trans-inclusive.I was proud to be a member of the Women's Budget Group management committee but left in 2022 because there was no desire to engage in trans-inclusive activism, which IMO is vital.Trans rights=human rights.x

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · Jul 31

Seeking contributors to a zine
to hand out at Labour Party conference,
about disability and current state of things.
120-350 words per topic.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Jul 24

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' by @paulgriffin1.bsky.social et al.

This piece forms part of a collection of commentaries reflecting on the UK riots which followed last July's Southport attack.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Paul Griffin, John Clayton & Edith Adamson (2025) entitled 'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' with a blue banner at the top.

This short intervention offers a historical geography-informed approach to shape understandings of the events and racialised violence of summer 2024 in the United Kingdom. We draw upon Black British Cultural Studies to foreground the importance of temporality and spatial relations for understanding racialised violence. In doing so, we identify continuities across 100 years of racialised violence in Britain whilst also noting important differences. We revisit riotous events from 1919, 1981 and 2001 to illustrate the persistence of exclusionary racism within Britain, whilst also pointing towards the endurance of anti-racist resistance and alternative world views. Our argument points towards the immediacy of violence, in both mundane and spectacular forms, as well as the longer lasting realm of the everyday where racialised violence is (re)produced.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · Jul 25

Imagine 🤣

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