#CityDrafting Epilogue: In 'Scripts, Scribes and Scribbles' Asher Ghertner argues that the papers reveal property and city making to be embedded in colonial writing practices, showing the epistemological limits of private property in S-Asia & beyond.

🔗: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thanks to my colleague Julia Elyachar, from Princeton, for this sharp and heartfelt letter of support.

Sharad Chari's 'Apartheid Remains' explores how people handle the remains of segregation & apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the city Durban. Read the free intro! #Geography #AfricanStudies ow.ly/XIzH50QQxrK

A good day to re-read Niraja Gopal Jayal on the foundational shift the #CAA will bring about in the conception of the Indian citizen. theindiaforum.in/article/faith-…

I’m really grateful to Malini Ranganathan for editing this forum on my book, with such careful engagement from Ananya Roy, Nandita Sharma (@nsharma101.bsky.social), and Yousuf Al-Bulushi, followed by a response from me — all in Society & Space

Epistemic violence.

'Gaza: A decolonial geography' is 'Free to Read' in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

By Zena Agha | زينة آغا James Esson mark griffiths Mikko Joronen

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

academia.edu/114502684/Gaza…

BREAKING: University of Michigan Faculty Senate Assembly votes for divestment from any company invested in the Israeli war in Gaza

For an excellent discussion on the relationship between territory, property & capital, read Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay #StreetsinMotion . A must read for all scholars interested in the urban form. And yes, I am catching up on my reading this summer!

As scholars working in Dutch universities, we call on our boards and deans to take immediate action in the wake of the ICJ ruling on genocide in Gaza dutchscholarsforpalestine.nl/dsp-icj-2024

And a further reminder to all: TEACH J.T. Roane in all of your seminars, every semester... 🔥🔥 Dark Agoras is it.

No one gains when globally and nationally well regarded institutions are targeted and destroyed. We all collectively lose. India loses research capacity. Very sad about this. In solidarity with my home institution.

Dr. King did not merely die, he was assassinated.
Dr. King did not merely die, he was assassinated.
Dr. King did not merely die, he was assassinated.
Dr. King did not merely die, he was assassinated.
Dr. King did not merely die, he was assassinated.

I was told yesterday, again, that the word 'intifada' allegedly triggers many in the 'Jewish community' (never mind progressive, brave, ethical and brilliant anti-Zionist Jewish students and individuals such as those involved in Jewish Voice for Peace who never seem to be counted) because of…

This is morally indefensible. How can we expect Netanyahu’s government to stop the mass killing of civilians and calls for ethnic cleansing if we continue to supply the weapons used to carry it out?

White supremacist-coddler Rep. Elise Stefanik hurled a fictitious question at three university presidents during a House hearing. She couldn’t cite a single case where anyone called for genocide against Jews on campus. All while she is giving ghastly full-throated support for weapons...

Kai Bosworth's Pipeline Populism (@UMinnPress) takes the emotional dynamics of climate politics seriously, and analyzes a richer range of affects beyond hope and despair. More in Lauren Gifford & Levi Van Sant's intro to today's book review forum here:
societyandspace.org/book-review-fo…