Nik Heynen

In The Story of Capital, the world's foremost Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand on a tour of contemporary capitalism. Over the decades, David Harvey has won the acclaim of… THE STORY OF CAPITAL by David Harvey | What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works

For decades, @davidharvey.org has been teaching Marx's work. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a general reader.

Nurturing Food Justice Amid the intersecting crises of climate change and inequalities, Nurturing Food Justice offers an unflinching and inspiring take on the ways communities are ...

New chapter drop: "White Masculinist Pasts→Black Feminist Futures: Lessons from Spelman College’s Victory Garden as Black World-Making" by Whitney Barr and Nik Heynen in the important new book edited by @alisonhopealkon.bsky.social and @julianagyeman.bsky.social

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"That's What It's All About" Pete Malinowski

Looks like I’m getting into the podcast game. If you are interested in coastal issues, oysters, restoration, and other related things, Shell to Shore’s new Shell Cast might be for you. First episode features Pete Malinowski talking about his work with the Billion Oyster Project based in NYC.

Folk Engineering During the interwar years, the discourse of regional planning profoundly reformulated the spatiality of race and place in the United States. In the South, Ji...

Folk Engineering: Planning Southern Regionalism.Out now:
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YouTube video by The Honey Drippers - Topic Impeach the President

The Honey Drippers were a band of Black high school kids from Queens brought together by Georgia-born songwriter Roy C. Hammond. When all record labels were scared to put this anti-Nixon jam out, Hammond released it himself. It’s been sampled by many hip hop artists. Rest in Power Mr. Hammond.

Village Books brings community and culture to downtown Atlanta Village Books on Mitchell Street, opened by Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon, offers a diverse selection of Black authors and fosters community and cultural connection.

New Black owned bookstore alert in ATL:

“This year, it felt necessary,” Hallmon said. “When books are banned, and stories are erased, especially Black and brown stories, we have to build safety within our community.”

“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others—the empires and their native overseers.”
-Eduardo Galeano

‘Emory Douglas: In Our Lifetime’ Shows the Evolution of a Revolutionary Artist | KQED The Black Panther Party artist’s new exhibit in San Francisco features works from the past 15 years.

“There’s a famous quote from author Tony Cade Bambara that often gets repeated in activist circles, that it’s the role of the artist to “make the revolution irresistible.” For over six decades, Emory Douglas has been showing creatives how to do just that.”

Nurturing Food Justice Amid the intersecting crises of climate change and inequalities, Nurturing Food Justice offers an unflinching and inspiring take on the ways communities are ...

“An expansive follow-up to the field-defining Cultivating Food Justice, this edited volume provides an overview of food justice scholar-activism, redefining the field and looking to future theoretical and political futures.” Available now for preorder! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255369...

Classics in human geography revisited: Laura Pulido’s “Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California” (Annals of the Association of American Geographers...

In very good company here in @proghumgeog.bsky.social with Pavithra Vasudevan and Laura Pulido reflecting on the importance of Laura’s 2000 “Rethinking Environmental Racism” published in Annals of @geographers.bsky.social

Apply now -- deadline December 20th

Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school!

Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism

▶️ 13-17 April 2026
▶️ Wageningen

With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others!

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@geographers.bsky.social - if this is true there is almost no external social science funding left in the U.S. for graduate students.

Apply now—Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis” - Antipode Online Toronto, Ontario, Canadathe traditional territory of the Huron Wendat, the Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit June 1st – 5th, 2026 The contemporary global landscape is increasingly defined by w...

Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...

YouTube video by The Nature Conservancy Creating Living Shorelines in Georgia: Mission Possible

Snippet from the work we are doing on the Georgia coast.

Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026

Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma

Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

POEM: Bocas: A Daughter's Geography, Ntozake Shange, 1983 | Black Agenda Report Ntozake Shange reminds us that whether we come from Haiti, Savannah, Luanda, or Palestine, we may not speak the same language, but “we fight the same old men.”

Taught Ntozake Shange’s “If I can Cook / You Know God Can” and “Bocas: A Daughter’s Geography” today. Felt worth sharing for folks who might not yet know this poem or haven’t read it in a while.

Illustrated cover with two women in front of a window, one thoughtful and the other with a defiant look. Text: "Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship."

Text describing June Jordan and Toni Morrison's involvement in a group of Black women writers in NYC, addressing oppression and liberation.

Illustration of a hand writing in a notebook, which appears to be on fire, set against a red background. The image is overlaid on fiery flames, conveying urgency and intensity. Text below discusses the erosion of public spaces and services, highlighting the struggle for freedom and resistance against silence.

Text titled "Peril" by Toni Morrison discusses authoritarian regimes suppressing dissenting writers through control, censorship, and fear. In the background, blurred barbed wire conveys restriction and oppression. The tone is critical and thought-provoking.

“Fascism is not new. It wears a new dress, buys new boots—but it can only reproduce fear, denial, and the loss of will to fight.”

Toni Morrison’s timeless warning on fascism & censorship still rings out today.

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The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Economic Populism A left that ignores the differences within the working class will never build power.

“Setting forms of identity, such as race, against class as fundamentally opposed bases of politics misrepresents how building working-class power works on the ground, both today and throughout history.”

The Value of Nature - Dissent Magazine Why have some gifts of nature remained free?

Proposals to “repair” or “restore” the planet therefore must answer the questions: Which ecosystems—and whose—will we repair and restore? Which—and whose—flourishings will we enable? What planet are we making, and for whom? @alybatt.bsky.social

As Trump Guts Climate Justice Work, Coastal Cities Are Pushing Back Federal support for climate resilience and environmental justice is collapsing. Cities across the country are stepping up.

In the tradition of “can’t stop, won’t stop”….

”In these cities, climate justice is more than a policy priority – it’s a survival strategy…. As federal funding evaporates, many cities are strengthening ties with frontline organizations — the local experts who’ve been leading the fight for decades.”

Musk’s Memphis xAI data center and the making of a ‘Digital Delta’ – Scalawag The fight over xAI’s Colossus highlights a close alliance between Trump-style fascism and big tech in the South.

“Memphis history is full of destructive alliances between local government and major industry, forcing working-class Black neighborhoods to accept ecological and corporal violence in order to boost the region's economy…But AI data centers also represent a troubling new frontier…..”

“We’ve asked…the CEOs of banks like Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, insurance companies like Chubb and AIG — we’ve asked them to come to our communities, breathe the air, drink the water and get a taste of what we live every day. And they’ve refused to come. So we brought our community here to them.”

Unearthed: An exclusive interview with Abdullah Ibrahim published by The Wire in 1984 Abdullah Ibrahim performs at Le Guess Who? 2022 on Sunday, 13 November.

"They call us terrorists. We are being terrorised! Our doors are kicked open at four in the morning and our families dragged off to prison, never to be seen again....We are the ones who suffer all these horrors. They are the terrorists."

#Apartheid then, Apartheid now.

Important thinking going on at Clark Atlanta University this Fall. “Through A Du Boisian Lens: Informing Public Policy Through Empirical Social Research”.

Abolition wasn’t fueled by just moral or economic concerns – the booming whaling industry also helped sink slavery New research shows that when the whaling industry in the US produced more products, the proportion of slaves also declined in the 1700s and 1800s.

Interesting #abolitionist connections to #energy geography here:

“….whaling’s role in funding abolition and providing economic opportunities for free Black Americans is undeniable. It was, in many ways, a bridge between the world of forced labor and the energy-driven economy of the modern age.”

The Gullah Geechee, descendants from enslaved West Africans who were forced to work in the Carolina Lowcountry, are struggling to preserve sacred traditions as wealthy northerners swallow up valuable property around Hilton Head Island. nyti.ms/4mmAwdW

The US food bank keeping Gullah Geechee farming traditions alive: ‘Our local food is like no other’

The Lowcountry Food Bank has provided culturally relevant foods like okra, squash and yams to the Gullah Geechee people in South Carolina for 20 years.

No effective abolitionist and certainly no enslaved person walked up to a total stranger expressing dismay over the passage of the fugitive slave act to say, “well this is a racist country, what did you expect.” People kept organizing and building hope through collective resistance and rebellion.