Nitin Bathla

In our latest episode, you will hear: Kevin Sheridan, Richard Wolff and Laura Colini; as well as the host @nitin-bathla.bsky.social .
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Not good:

Out of 20 major producers of fossil fuels around the world—including the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Canada, Brazil, Australia & UK—only the UK, Australia and Norway plan to reduce production of oil and gas by 2030.

11 countries surveyed increased plans for fossil fuel production.

The special issue on authoritarian neoliberal urbanism is now out. Happy to be featured in it and thanks to the editors - @gfearn.bsky.social Güldem Özatagan, Ayda Eraydin for this very timely work.

All the best with this exciting new project Gala. Really looking forward to following it.

Interventions | Spaces of Withdrawal: Compassionate Cities Without Citizens

By Morten Nielsen

👉 www.ijurr.org/article/spac...

the #CFP for the next meeting of the Swiss #Anthropology Association (5-7 Feb 202, Fribourg) is out, including our panel A, 'Speculation, Futurity, the Otherwise: Material Incompletion as Future-Making'
w @nitin-bathla.bsky.social & Sabrina Stallone
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...

Welcome to Bluesky Prof. Kaufmann 🎉

CH-based peeps in particular, the #CFP for the 2026 SEG meeting is out:
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
Consider our panel A, "Speculation, Futurity, the Otherwise: Material Incompletion as Future-Making"
(single slot panels only, so likely selective)
w Sabrina Stallone and @nitin-bathla.bsky.social

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

🧱✨ Welcome to the Radical Housing Journal ✨🧱

We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation.

📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...

How Cities Can Transform Democracy by Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch As processes of dispossession have come to define cities across the globe, they have also deprived their residents of the opportunity to co-produce urban space.

This is for urban scholars of democracy who are seeking positivity and inspiration in bleak times: www.societyandspace.org/book-review-...

Have you listened to our latest episode yet?

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@clairemercer.bsky.social's book details how the “suburban frontier” has become the place where Africa’s middle classes are shaped.
Roger Keil, Mariam Genes and the host @nitin-bathla.bsky.social review the book.

@clairemercer.bsky.social @rkeil.bsky.social

In this episode, you will hear:

Claire Mercer
Roger Keil
Mariam Genes and
@nitin-bathla.bsky.social

How can cities in the Global South finance climate action in ways that are both effective and just? A reflection from a project workshop that concluded our project "the Urbanization of Global Climate Finance" blog.geo.uzh.ch/financing-ju...

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

🧵1/ How can armed resistance enable—not undermine—democracy, peacebuilding, and the revitalisation of Indigenous socio-ecological relations?

In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark
doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social

So happy to be presenting at TU Braunschweig Reimagining Infrastructure Lifelines alongside @oliverressler.bsky.social among others.

Contact Zones of Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa This essay advances the notion of coastal contact zones as heuristic lens, and develops the conceptual framework of climate preconstruction, bringing them together to better understand the challenges....

my conceptual piece from the #PRECURBICA is out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
many thanks to @ijurresearch.bsky.social editors and reviewers for a very constructive process! @zasb.unibas.ch

Here we come with episode V of our series The Urban Lives of Property: 88 - In Conversation with Heather Dorries.
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(Listen via our website or Spotify)
This talk addresses the intersections of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in urban property regimes.

Naomi Klein | Challenge Inequality

Such a privilege to hear from and be in conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social as she spoke about the intertwined nature of climate justice and housing justice in these times of disasters and "end times fascism." @challengeineq.bsky.social challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/naomi-klein/

A collection of essays in Economy and Society that honours the life and work of Sami Zubaida
www.tandfonline.com/journals/res...

Palestinian children face starvation under Israel’s total Gaza blockade UNICEF says children face ‘growing risk of starvation, illness and death’ as Israel bars food and other aid deliveries.

Why is the US-aligned Irish Government not, at the very least, condemning Israeli war crimes - the use of starvation as a weapon of war?

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

Conference poster for the Liquid Urbanisms Conference, 12-13 June. Register at: https://forms.gle/6JDL4sN4qeZ9ZztK6.

#LiquidUrbanisms 12-13 June in Basel urbanstudies.philhist.unibas.ch/en/studies/e.... Register at: forms.gle/6JDL4sN4qeZ9....

Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs Asian neighbours wary of becoming staging posts for trade actually destined for US

“The US has imposed tariffs on Chinese products? Transit through Malaysia to ‘transform’ into Southeast Asian goods!”

Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs - on.ft.com/4k2ZYnm via @FT

Extremely generative review «Urban Methods for the Pluriverse» of my book Researching Otherwise by #IndivarJonnalagadda in @city-journal.bsky.social. Read here - www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

The end of life bill: the side-effects When benefits are cut and care collapses, and assisted dying has official approval, might the disabled be drawn to suicide?

The UK’s care crisis means many disabled people already live on the edge.

Now, £4.5bn in cuts risks pushing them toward an “option” we should never normalise: death over destitution.

Charlie Hallam reports

Militarism: A Leading Cause of Environmental and Climate Crises By Manabendra Nath Bera. Synopsis - The climate and environmental impacts of war and military operations are often neglected in global climate negotiations. This article highlights how war, being the...

MUST READ especially for climate change concerned folks who think they can choose silence on genocide:

“War causes extensive, long-lasting environmental damage, affecting landscapes, ecosystems, biodiversity, and vital resources.” 🧪 @iuscientist.bsky.social

www.iuscientists.org/militarism-a...