We speak with Ananya Roy about the violent invasion by a pro-Israel mob who came onto the UCLA campus last night to beat up the pro-Palestinian students and tear down their encampment while UCLA security, campus police and the LAPD stood by watching. on.soundcloud.com/ijVoXry1Qhia5B…

If you missed it in March, a new paper from City 28.1-2 Special Feature: City Drafting!
Scripts, scribes and scribbles: notes on drafting the South Asian city
D. Asher Ghertner (Asher Ghertner)
doi.org/10.1080/136048…

Gaza solidarity encampment at Newcastle University

Jesus, I am scared

New IHE report 6/9 English regions showed increases in inequalities in life expectancy for women (NE, NW, Yorkshire & Humber, East of England, E Midlands, SW) Sir Michael Marmot @UCL bit.ly/LEGAP

🚨 There are 261,000 long-term empty homes in England.

Meanwhile, we desperately need more social homes.

While nowhere near enough by itself to end the housing emergency, converting empty homes into social homes would help kickstart the delivery of homes we desperately need. 🧵

We stand with the campus protesters.

We're now offering free ebooks on Palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions.

Join us for a Publics@IIHS lecture with Colin McFarlane, on 24 April, 4pm IST. He uses the notion of ‘citylife’ to change the discourse on sanitation from a narrowly-defined policy discussion to a question of the democratic right to public life. Register: bit.ly/4aJr0fo

Thanks Political Geography for publishing my Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) plenary & Amanda Rogers for her response.

It's on the 'doing' of creative practice (photography and film-making), its politics & what can learned about the political geographies of slow violence through it

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Delighted to present the Best Paper published in Urban & Regional Horizons Regional Studies to Emma Ormerod (@NCL_Geography) for her paper: 'Level with us, regional development is still ‘man shaped’: feminism, futurity and leadership'
Watch the video here: regionalstudies.org/news/2024-regi…

Our sixth #openaccess essay in a series on Palestine — 'It's been 164 Days and a Long Century: Notes on Genocide, Solidarity, and Liberation' by Omar Jabary Salamanca, Punam Khosla and Natasha Aruri antipodeonline.org/2024/04/11/not…

I wrote a short piece arguing for - of all things - the sewer. Following recent stories of sewage & pollution, particularly but not only in the UK: cityfragment.wordpress.com/2024/04/12/pro… #sewage #Thames

It seems I must be getting old. Some autobiographical reflections on geographic thought and me in this open access paper...
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Absolutely thrilled that this book will be coming out - open access - with ⁦University of California Press⁩ in September 2024. The Suburban Frontier: Middle Class Construction in Dar es Salaam

theguardian.com/education/2024…

📢 Job opportunity 📢 Geography & Planning advertising a 4-year Post-Doc to conduct research on political ecology of unconventional water in Morocco:

jobs.ac.uk/job/DGT851/res…

Post is funded by the ERC/UKRI GloNeW project. Contact me for informal inquiries.

Very happy that National Affects is out in paperback and open access from today 🎉 Do pass it on 🤗

New paper out: Creative Fictions Incentive work and humanitarian labour in South Sudan.

... and its open access

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…