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Situated within Geography & Environmental Studies at the Open University, OpenSpace Research Centre is committed to thinking spatially in turbulent times. Posts by @colinlorne.bsky.social https://www5.open.ac.uk/centres/openspace
Still time to submit papers to this great session at this year's RGS/IBG in Birmingham, organised by @gunjans.bsky.social and @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social!
04.03.2025 09:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“There are many different ways of thinking about the current crisis, but certainly one useful way is to think about the present as a conjuncture” – Doreen Massey Urban politics, crises, and the conjuncture From economic turmoil and ecological catastrophe to political instability and growing social unrest, there are multiple crises reshaping the political terrain as we know it. But with growing popular and academic attempts to get to grips with crises in these troubling times, ‘urban crisis’ has been a longstanding concern for geographical investigation. In taking seriously Hall and Massey’s (2010) contention that no crisis is singularly economic, but also hinges along ideological and political axes, we contend that urban scholarship and methodological approaches to studying the politics of cities has much to contribute towards interpreting the multiple, intersecting crises taking hold in the political present and the kinds of responses this might demand. Informed by scholars such as Doreen Massey, Stuart Hall and Gillian Hart, moves towards relational and conjunctural analysis among urban and economic geographers seek to knit together fine-grained engagements with the complexities of place with a wider constellation of shifting forces and relations, moving away from bounded notions of scale whilst also rejecting the flat ontologies and binary approaches characterising previous debates. Instead, conjunctural approaches are pushing urban geographers to think beyond traditional notions of comparison and political economy by encouraging new modes of comparative experimentation and methodological innovation for global urban studies (Ward 2010, Hart 2018, Robinson 2022). This work helps to produce fine grained engagements and analyses of urban politics and the ways that urban geographies are shaped by processes such as financialization and its dire effects on politics and social reproduction, geopolitical unrest and the erosion of urban (and other forms of) democracy, o…
We're looking for a few more papers for our RGS-IBG conference session on Urban politics, crises and the conjuncture. If interested please submit abstracts to @colinlorne.bsky.social & I by Thursday 6th Feb. @rgsibg.bsky.social
03.03.2025 22:47 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Voices from the Global South: a new RGS/IBG 'resources for schools' podcast discussing the need to rethink how to teach, and respond to, the climate crisis—and what it means to really listen: www.rgs.org/schools/reso...
The six short-films can be watched for free here: www.open.edu/openlearn/le...
John Allen's new book "Power and Space: essays on a shifting relationship" has now been published by Routledge.
It sets out the inherently spatial nature of power today and seeks to change the conversation around how power exercises us in the contemporary moment.
www.routledge.com/Power-and-Sp...
Join Irene Hardill (Northumbria) and Parvati Raghuram (OU), and a guest panel, for an Area classics revisited webinar on 'Diasporic connections' taking place on 26th February 2025 at 10am.
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
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New paper on conjunctural analysis and radical municipalism and their affinities as two political methods for intervening in the conjuncture
Written w/ @paul-stubbs.bsky.social, @colinlorne.bsky.social and co.
Just published open access in Environment & Planning F:
doi.org/10.1177/2634...
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For more on Participatory City and the wider trend of 'participatory experimental urbanism', check out this open access article w/ @colinlorne.bsky.social in @antipodeonline.bsky.social
'Designing a New Civic Economy?'
doi.org/10.1111/anti...
Loads of time left to apply for this really exciting PhD opportunity and to become part of the collective team working on the 'Stories-so-far: Doreen Massey Archives project'
21.11.2024 10:43 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
WE ARE OPENSPACE!
Our brand new OpenSpace Research Centre website has now been 'soft launched' by the Open University.
You can find out about our current research projects, new PhD opportunities, ongoing collaborations, and our new collective configuration here:
www5.open.ac.uk/centres/open...
CONFRONTING CLIMATE COLONIALITY:
@farhanasultana.com recently delivered a keynote @rgsibg.bsky.social to launch the Voices from the Global South project, a series of six films on the difference that geography makes for understanding the climate crisis and its impact: www.open.edu/openlearn/co...
CONFRONTING CLIMATE COLONIALITY:
@farhanasultana.com recently delivered a keynote @rgsibg.bsky.social to launch the Voices from the Global South project, a series of six films on the difference that geography makes for understanding the climate crisis and its impact: www.open.edu/openlearn/co...
*How can we shift the power balance in global research?*
New blog post by Parvati Raghuram (OU) and Mariangela Palladino (University of Keele) on forging transformative changes in equitable research partnerships through local engagement:
www.ukri.org/blog/how-can...
Loads of time left to apply for this really exciting PhD opportunity and to become part of the collective team working on the 'Stories-so-far: Doreen Massey Archives project'
21.11.2024 10:43 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
WE ARE OPENSPACE!
Our brand new OpenSpace Research Centre website has now been 'soft launched' by the Open University.
You can find out about our current research projects, new PhD opportunities, ongoing collaborations, and our new collective configuration here:
www5.open.ac.uk/centres/open...
