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Nick Clarke

@nickclarkegeo.bsky.social

Geographer, social scientist, student of politics

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Harvey at 90: A Verso Series Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy.Β  This month, in honour of David H...

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10.10.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A graph from the FT showing government spending by age cohort. Over-70s have more spent on them than any other age cohort.

A graph from the FT showing government spending by age cohort. Over-70s have more spent on them than any other age cohort.

Print and send this chart (from your newsletter on Tuesday) to every household in the country.

09.10.2025 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4
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There's no trust left in the world. How can we get it back? As The Celebrity Traitors comes to our screens, academic Will Jennings looks at why we've lost trust in our institutions, and each other.

My latest on trust for The Big Issue... drawing on various research from our ESRC projects on anti-politics over the last decade.

07.10.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our next event, 'Everyday Life and the Crisis Ordinary in Middletown, U.S.A.' is now open for booking! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-l...

29.09.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Mass Observation and Political Engagement in Britain - History & Policy Low turnout in the 2024 General Election and other signs of voter disengagement from politics pose serious challenges for the UK’s democratic system. To meet these, this policy paper argues, we need a...

We’re delighted to publish a new Policy Paper today by Jonathan Moss & @emilyrobinson.bsky.social. They suggest that Mass Observation @massobsarchive.bsky.social - founded in the 1930s - can help us understand the reasons behind contemporary voter apathy. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

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Margaret Thatcher's interview with Woman's Own was this day in 1987 - the furore over the quote annoyed her, as she thought she was getting across subtle Hayekian ideas. These cut-through quotes are rare but interesting - we tested Starmer, Gove and Mandelson versions...

23.09.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Mass-Observation Critical Series documents and archives the everyday lives, thoughts and attitudes of ordinary Britons.

Found out more https://bit.ly/4lPM60w

17.09.2025 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Understanding Policy Mobility β€˜With great clarity and insight, Russell Prince’s Understanding Policy Mobility not only explains why and how public policy ideas move, but why it matters. An indispensable guide through decades of sc...

My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...

15.09.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

The discourse is all around deradicalising young men and the crisis among young men.

The discourse would be much better targeted if it was about deradicalising boomers (and increasingly Gen Xers).

14.09.2025 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 898    πŸ” 217    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 26
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After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.

Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...

12.09.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Public Opinion and the Survey Response Political scientists know that survey responses cannot be taken at face value. For most respondents, most of the time,Β responses are not the product of deeply held, pre-existing, coherent views on par...

"public opinion should only be one consideration among many in policymaking and party strategy, and never the prime mover of politics."

@philswatton.bsky.social on the pitfalls of poll-driven politics and the importance of political leadership.
renewal.org.uk/blog/public-...

08.09.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Across all ages, Reform UK and the Conservatives have increased their combined vote share by 8pts. Among the under 30s, they have only increased 5pts

06.09.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Britain is now one of very few countries where Gen Z are firmly left-of-centre

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White banner with an image of a researcher focused on his work. The words 'BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants' are written on the right-hand side

White banner with an image of a researcher focused on his work. The words 'BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants' are written on the right-hand side

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme is now open for applications. This opportunity allows postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars in the humanities and social sciences to apply for funding to support their research projects. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3K4kEyA

05.09.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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IN NEW ISSUE: British attitudes to β€˜Europe’ have been long characterised as β€˜reluctant’. @jamesrdennison.bsky.social explores the exception between 1988–1992 - Britain’s Pro-European Moment: buff.ly/3D41PIx (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs @sagepub.com

03.09.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Auratic distance: art’s role in heritage production The paper examines how collaborative art practices with traditional craft practitioners negotiate distance and intimacy to elevate traditional crafts as heritage practices. Addressing this question...

Artists and designers are collaborating with craftspeople to revive dying craft heritage. How are these collaborations shaping the heritage-art-craft ecosystem? My latest paper @scgrg.bsky.social
addresses this question by working on the concepts of distance and aura. ReadπŸ‘‡
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03.09.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Book Launch for Listening to Landscape, King's College 21 Nov 1900. Hauntology/psychogeography/music: free event with music from The Hardy Tree @claypipemusic.bsky.social & Stonecirclesampler with @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social plus Jim Jupp & Oliver Cherer. Grab tickets from Eventbrite, going fast!

01.09.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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At RGS tomorrow? Come along to our session on Urban Politics, Crises and Conjunctures with @colinlorne.bsky.social @markushesse60.bsky.social @derek-ruez.bsky.social

28.08.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
description of RGS conference session mentioned here https://event.ac2025.exordo.com/session/449/authoritarianism-and-the-geographies-of-artificial-intelligence

description of RGS conference session mentioned here https://event.ac2025.exordo.com/session/449/authoritarianism-and-the-geographies-of-artificial-intelligence

To those attending the RGS conference this week: interested in authoritarianism and/or AI, do come and join us on Friday for this brilliant set of papers. It will be insightful, bleak, and much more. ✨

organised w/ @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @casey-lynch.bsky.social

25.08.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months
8% of people think it fell

Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023
[It is falling further in 2025]

Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least

23.08.2025 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1027    πŸ” 538    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 47
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Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

19.08.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Today is my first teaching day of Fall 2025. I'm teaching a grad course on Qualitative Methods, for the first time in almost 10 years.

As several people have asked me to post my syllabus, here it is. Note that it can be, and often is, changed a bit during the semester.

18.08.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

07.08.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
Acknowledging, recognising and responding to one another: ordinary hospitality in the cafΓ©. Authors: Eric Laurier & Sylvaine Tuncer. Geoforum, Vol 165

Acknowledging, recognising and responding to one another: ordinary hospitality in the cafΓ©. Authors: Eric Laurier & Sylvaine Tuncer. Geoforum, Vol 165

The delicate dance of revealing more or less of who we are for one another, οΏΌas it happens at the cafΓ© counter. Co-authored with Sylvaine Tuncer. #EMCA #geosky

05.08.2025 09:21 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s

04.08.2025 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 663    πŸ” 156    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 42

One for my physical geography colleagues

04.08.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

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Four women and a man sit at a long table smiling towards the camera.

Four women and a man sit at a long table smiling towards the camera.

In this special episode, hosts Dr Emma Peplow and Dr Alex Lock were joined by three guests, including former MPs Anne Milton and Gisela, Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston.

Together they spoke about political and historical interviewing, and the reality of being an MP.

Listen to the episode now!

14.07.2025 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mobilities I: Crisis - Cristina Temenos, 2025 In this report on mobilities, I discuss research published between 2017-present, focussing on how multiple crises intersect with mobilities. I examine how recen...

✈️ New paper published in Progress in Human Geography ✈️

'Mobilities I: Crisis' by Cristina Temenos

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @ctemenos.bsky.social

07.07.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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