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Black & white comic by Giada Peterle, within a visual review of J Fall's book "Along the line". The visual commentary uses quotes from the book in dialogue with drawn personal experiences by G Peterle, drawn as a visual response as part of her written commentary. The two panel page shows and assemblage of mobile phone app used to control mobility, feet and bodies moving in the city during covid lockdowns, as a sort of visual dialogue between two experiences of the same pandemic in different places.

Same as previous, showing small infrastructure elements of fences and tapes to control the movement of bodies during covid lockdowns.

I just listened to an excellent presentation on comics & infrastructure by Dr Giada Peterle, part of online talks organised by @drdomdavies.bsky.social within @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social. Such a creative, inspiring & generous scholar! (Her drawings on my book from gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...)

If you like infrastructure and you like art, and you like thinking about infrastructure through the embodied visual arts, join us for this event!

Excited for this hybrid launch of Graphic Refuge with my co-author @crifkind.bsky.social and colleague @ernestopriego. Join us on 19 Nov for a discussion of the way comics intervene in our anti-migrant visual culture with relations of refuge. And some beautiful pictures of some beautiful comics!

It was great fun to record this conversation exploring transformations in the railway imaginary, from Dickens’s Dombey & Son to EM Forster’s Howard’s End and beyond

The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live!

In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform!

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And our third and final online event of the term assembles a diverse panel of academics, practitioners, and activists to reflect on what gentrification means today and how we can remake cities without displacing residents. Sign up below.

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Looking forward to participating in MCCI's Connect: Graphic Refuge panel event with authors @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social and fellow respondent Mihaela Precup www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... (19 November 2025 5pm) #ComicsStudies

Our second session of the term will explore the global water crisis through discussion of Filippo Menga’s new book, Thirst (Verso 2025), with responses from Naho Mirumachi and Julie Froud

Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

TTiN’s first event of the new term. Join us online for this lunchtime discussion about infrastructure, art, and autoethnography.

Thanks @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for inviting me and @drdomdavies.bsky.social to talk about our new co-authored book exploring how comics can document & disrupt dominant images of war & forced displacement @wlupress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/graphic-refuge

Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism Deadline extended to 27 May! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025

Also excited to have been accepted to participate in the 22nd Historical Materialism conference, in a panel with colleagues @drdomdavies.bsky.social & @mediocre.bsky.social [6-9 November 2025] www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

Reclaiming inheritance tax as a social good - Red Pepper The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic Davies

"The only social space left after the evisceration of society and the undermining of the individual is the family"

The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues @drdomdavies.bsky.social

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Reclaiming inheritance tax as a social good - Red Pepper The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic Davies

My latest for @redpeppermag.bsky.social argues that public opposition to inheritance tax must be understood in the context of Britain’s crumbling infrastructure. The more people lose faith in the state, the more they feel the need to look out for their families.

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The Decline Rollercoaster In response to the harsh reality of national decline, Labour has offered only a ‘theme park politics’ fuelled by the sugar rush of the growth delusion. Might a more substantial, more humane vision of ...

It’s a privilege to have an essay in this month’s bumper issue of @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on the cultural politics of decline in Britain.

Out this week and available online to subscribers tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...

Can Refugee Comics Effect Political Change? Discussing Comics Journalism and “Refugeeness” - Ep. 3 of the podcast I did with co-author @drdomdavies.bsky.social is up!
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The first of our 4 part conversation about Graphic Refuge is now out with The Authority File on all good podcast platforms!

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network Education Podcast · A network for academics, policy makers, & community organizers who work to understand & address the social, political, & cultural impacts of infrastructure. Follow @TTinfraNetwork

TTiN is now on Apple Podcasts! Check out our talks and conversations from 2024-25 and give us a follow and a rating!

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Novara FM: Britain is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It? w/ Dom Davies Podcast Episode · Novara Media · 04/07/2024 · 1h 1m

1 year ago today Britain went to the polls & I spoke with Moya for Novara FM about the ways infrastructure had become embroiled in a cultural politics that often passed unnoticed.

We unpacked these in our conversation and I think it still it bears listening to.

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Graphic Refuge a book by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind. Graphic Refuge is the first in-depth study of comics about refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and detainees by artists from the Global North and South. Co-written by two leading scholars of nonfictio...

"It is impossible not to learn from this book on refugee comics... A major achievement." - Hillary Chute

Copies available for UK readers from uk.bookshop.org or please consider ordering into your libraries!

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Comics and graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms Refugee comics disrupt a media landscape that tends to reduce migrants to either threats or victims.

Comics & graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms – a glimpse into our book, Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, what it covers & why it matters now.

With @crifkind.bsky.social for @theconversation.com

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Comics and graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms Refugee comics disrupt a media landscape that tends to reduce migrants to either threats or victims.

An article in The Conversation be me and @drdomdavies.bsky.social based on our new book, Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics @wlupress.bsky.social @uwinnipeg.bsky.social
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Tomorrow!

Research England official: universities could do ‘less’ R&D - Research Professional News Arma 2025: Director of research asks whether system should provide “disincentives for lower-quality research”

Two senior @ukri.org figures this week have suggested unis could reduce how much research they do

“Concentrating on unique and high contributions & concentrating on less research, has the potential to bring the amount of activity into balance with research funding,” Steven Hill told #ARMA25

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We’re midway through our “Power Grids” exhibition at @britishacademy.bsky.social where we’re discussing the experience of failing infrastructure, how green energy can empower communities, and the rewards of using comics co-creation as a research method.

Join us online for TTiN's final lunchtime seminar of the academic year

Book Launch with Alex Tickell – City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure Citizenship

12-1pm, Monday 23 June 2025
Register here for Zoom link www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Join us at the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase next week, 20 & 21 June, for our exhibit on how comics & graphic narratives can help us to reimagine our energy infrastructure – free to attend, many other exhibits & activities, book your space www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...

Took some time today to read the position papers for this workshop- all thought-provoking stuff. Also looking forward to the zine making session as closure! Great work from @drdomdavies.bsky.social and team putting this together.

Britain’s Infrastructure Is Crumbling. Can Labour Fix It? | Novara Media Why does it feel like nothing works anymore?

Listen back to my conversation with Moya Lothian-McLean for @novaramedia.com for a flavour of the book's arguments novaramedia.com/2024/07/04/n...

This week not a bad time to pick up a copy of The Broken Promise of Infrastructure – if you want to think about the cultural politics of infrastructure, what it means for Britain's regions, and the contradictions behind these repeated promises

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Workshop in two weeks: "Knowing Infrastructures in and beyond the neoilberal university" – Friday 13 June, City St George's, London, hosted by @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social

Full programme & registration here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...