Can integrating research methods enhance our understanding of causal mechanisms? I argue yes – drawing on my research combining panel econometrics, interviews, and document analysis to investigate land value capture in local governance.

Join me! 📅25 April 1pm Cambridge Geography

The wrong lesson from the Holocaust: the German government deports a leading war surgeon who was elected as Rector of the University of Glasgow this month to prevent him from describing in Berlin the atrocities he witnessed while serving in Gaza.
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Video I just received shows PolizeiBerlin.Int arresting the spokesperson of Jewish Voice for Peace in Germany, Udi Raz, as horrified onlookers shout 'Never Again!' amid these scenes so reminiscent of Germany's Nazi past (present) #PalaestinaKongress

My speech at University of Glasgow
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Please add your name to the statement below & join the emergency protest at the German embassy today at 7pm! German police has detained Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta, who was due to speak at the Palestine Congress, stormed the congress itself & closed it down. ucw4palestine.org/2024/04/10/sto…

On the Ethics of Theorizing: Ruminations on the Ironies of Economic Science | Three Lectures by @johnshopkins Professor Ali Khan @nssrnews @thenewschool #Economics Dept: April 11, April 18 & May 2 from 2-4 p.m. Please mark your calendars & please join us!
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A ‘decolonise’ conference that’s rejected a panel on Palestine because they only want topics that aren’t divisive 🙃 tells you everything you need to know about ‘decolonisation’ and UK universities 🫠

❗️Open Letter: In Solidarity with Goldsmiths University❗️
People around the world, incl' academics, artists & students are opposing Goldsmiths’ disastrous job cuts.
Open letter is now up to 3335 SIGNATORIES.
You can add your name below to #binthetp 👇

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'Germany Canceled Me for Supporting Palestine' – my interview with Nancy Fraser is now available in English, as well, via Jacobin.
jacobin.com/2024/04/nancy-…

hope everyone’s having a nice Ghassan Kanafani’s birthday

So-called academics providing cover for Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Hasbara (propaganda) slandering any frame of 7 Oct that doesn’t fit the Israeli narrative as antisemitic. Shame on Routledge Books for publishing / profiting from genocide-washing garbage. routledge.com/Responses-to-7…

In an ongoing genocide Routledge Books is providing a platform to authors who want us to believe their version of antisemitism. No genocide is without an Epistemicide. By providing an academic guise to the hatred Routledge is going beyond doing the bidding for media. Boycott

Save the date! for an online and in-person IDEAs and Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) Sovereign Debt and Climate Finance Conference on May 3-5 2024 at Gordan Hall, UMass Amherst C.P. Chandrasekhar Jayati Ghosh Charles Abugre Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social Dzodzi Tsikata
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The New School’s President, Donna Shalala taking an exemplary stance against academic censorship.

Defending the spaces where we can disagree—even or perhaps especially when upending comfortable consensus—is crucial to knowledge creation. New School for Social Research The New School

This year's WinRa conference on
'Behind the data: quantitative approaches  to interdisciplinary racism research'
October 23rd to 25th Universität Bayreuth
winra.org/aktuelles/jahr…

This is an outrageous move against a prominent New School for Social Research colleague.

Our most recent events are now available online!

Last week's 'The Left, Ecology and Degrowth' was a thought-provoking discussion with our brilliant panel: Feyzi Ismail, Kai Heron, Professor Lau Kin Chi and Matt Huber

youtube.com/watch?v=A-K_zy…

The lawyers letter is signed by over 600 prominent lawyers, academics, and judges

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…