Markus Hesse

Anybody wondering about the ‘competitive turn’ in the sciences and HE-policy?

Special Economic Zones don’t fail loudly. They fade quietly.
#SEZs in #Africa amplify existing strengths—skills, infrastructure—while exposing weaknesses. The can raise export diversification but slowly, with effects only appearing after a decade or so. doi.org/10.1080/0885...

Simply mindsets have changed, as the circumstances did. Nevertheless, the differences are astonishing…

Nihilism, Post-Truth and the Moral Future of Planning Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2026)

New Interface on Planning and Nihilism by the Rutgers gang www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

More privately funded winter assistance from Germany – The German association Life Bridge Ukraine has delivered 6,000 gas stoves, 30,000 gas cylinders and 7,040 heaters to Kyiv. These were distributed to elderly people over the weekend via the city's social assistance centres.

Temperaturen von -20 Grad, kein Strom, keine Heizung, kein Wasser, keine Kanalisation.
Ihr könnt weiter für Überlebenskits spenden, alle Details im zitierten Post. 🙏🏻
#SlavaUkraini

Great case of “how small things can have a big impact!”

Pleased to be part of this important project setting out similarities and differences among planning systems around the world.
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL PLANNING to be published on 30 January 2026. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

@cemoll.bsky.social

Da sich vermutlich auch hier Ukraine-Unterstützer*innen tummeln

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Das kann ja jede*r😉

Und spenden soweit möglich.👍

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Mass turnout in Minneapolis on Jan 23, 2026. Credit: Bill Moseley

New: AAG President @WilliamGMoseley offers an eyewitness perspective from his hometown of Minneapolis-St. Paul, arguing for respect for human rights and international law as the basis for science and society. buff.ly/dlDzIXV

Aerial view of residential neighborhood with long elongated alleys

Is there a name for this kind of low-rise, high-density type of development that is found in Southeast Los Angeles? So many alleys perpendicular to the main east-west streets

@rebharms.bsky.social @fuecks.bsky.social u andere organisieren schnelle Hilfe für die Ukraine!
Ukraine2Power hat ein Überlebenskit für 80€ (Gaskocher, Heizdecken, Hand/Fusswärmer, Thermoskanne, Powerbank) zusammengestellt.
Konto: We Aid gGmbH
IBAN: DE 52370205000001838801
Kennwort: Ukraine2Power

Sie haben definitiv nie (!) ins Nichts geschrieben. (Klassische Diskrepanz zwischen Selbst- u Fremdwahrnehmung). Bitte überlegen Sie sich den Rückzug nochmal.

FZ

Beyond Agglomeration. Towards A Rethinking of Industrial Strategy? - RSA Main In recent years, industrial strategy has returned to the centre of political and economic debate. Governments across advanced economies are once again asking how they can shape growth, support innovat...

New @rsablog.bsky.social ‘Beyond Agglomeration.’ Time to go beyond agglomeration as an organising principle in industrial strategy & take place seriously. @regionalstudies.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Handbook on Geographies of Education ‘Education happens in spaces and places, and across scales. This Handbook on Geographies of Education offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which policy, practice, and experience not ...

Professors Peter Kraftl and @profslh.bsky.social have co-edited the new Handbook on Geographies of Education (with Yi’En Cheng and Silvie R. Kučerová) @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

"This first of its kind volume is at once field-defining and boundary-pushing."

www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Second Homes and the (Re)production of Cornish Nationalism The growth of second-home ownership and short-term holiday lettings has intensified housing inequality in regions with high tourism pressure, prompting localized opposition and raising questions ab...

Check out this new article in the GR from Conan Millen & Marin Cvitanović that explores the geography of second homes and (re)production of nationalism in Cornwall: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Stadt – Land – Boden Eine Kluft zwischen Stadt und Land? Nicht bei der Bodenpolitik: Herausforderungen und Lösungen für mehr Verteilungsgerechtigkeit in der Bodennutzung.

Isabel Feichtner, Susanne Heeg, Anne Klingenmeier, Gesine
Langlotz and Katja Schubel eds., Stadt – Land – Boden: Verbindende Bodenpolitik zwischen Stadt und Land – transcript, August 2025, open access
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Deutschland gehört zu den Ländern, die am hartnäckigsten auf dem Hass- und KI-Porno-Portal "X" bleiben; mutmaßlich auch, weil Politik und Medien aus unverständlichen Gründen die Hölle des Hitlergrüßers nur zögerlich verlassen. Sprecht sie darauf an! Holt sie da weg!

Out now!

I've edited a special issue of New Political Economy on 'Centring exploitation in global political economy'.

Link to the intro:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Other articles (all brilliant!) and a short summary 👇

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Au Brésil, l’accord UE-Mercosur va se traduire par une « avancée de l’agriculture sur des surfaces non exploitées, notamment en Amazonie » Larissa Mies Bombardi est une géographe brésilienne, actuellement enseignante à l’Université libre de Bruxelles. Cette spécialiste des questions environnementales dans les échanges agricoles dénonce, ...

Le Mercosur pose un dilemme essentiel :
- D'un côté, nécessité de nouer de nouvelles alliances avec le Sud, dans un contexte d'érosion de l'axe atlantique.
- De l'autre, un traité qui accélère la destruction du socle écologique.

Comment en sortir ?

www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

Our new paper audits ChatGPT’s place-based judgements using 20 million pairwise comparisons. We find systematic geographic biases in how places are described and evaluated.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (authors: Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham)

From your lips to God’s almighty ears.

The Curse of Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History The Curse of Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History, Schulze Wessel argues that Russian imperialism was shaped by Russia’s relationship to Poland and Ukraine. Both of these st...

Martin Schulze Wessel, The Curse of Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History - trans. Neil Solomon, @politybooks.bsky.social , November 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Ausschnitt einer Landkarte von Berlin. Der Westteil Berlins ist nicht dargestellt - ein weißer Fleck. Davor ein Grenzpfosten der DDR. Darüber die Überschrift: Karten, die lügen

Ausschnitt einer Landkarte von Berlin, Ausgabe für die Bevölkerung. Der Westteil Berlins ist nicht dargestellt - ein weißer Fleck.

Ausschnitt einer Landkarte von Berlin, Geheime Ausgabe für den Staat. West-Berlin ist korrekt dargestellt.

DDR-Schulwandkarte von Berlin. Berlin (West) ist als Grünfläche dargestellt.

🗺️#KartenundMacht: In der #DDR waren öffentliche Karten, auch Schulkarten, absichtlich falsch: weiße Flecken, verschobene Orte, fehlende Wege. Fluchten sollten so unmöglich werden. Es gab 2 Versionen:
🔒 genaue Karten für den Staat
🤞 verfälschte für die Öffentlichkeit

Promoting #megacities has become an economic bet.
As I argue in my new @spatialeconomic.bsky.social paper, the promised spillovers of wealth often stop at the #city limits, leaving a fractured map and a slow-burn political #backlash, which is the price of #urban obsession. doi.org/10.1080/1742...

Flyer with USF logo for the event "The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation by Professor Beth Perry " with the text "In this lecture Professor Beth Perry will excavate foundational ideas, lexicons and practices of a new research field around ‘urban epistemics’, before providing some specific examples on how this produces particular “epistemic tangles” of urban inhabitation which shape how people come to know the city, how they are subjected to different processes of epistemic exclusion and knowledge politics; and what this means for researchers in different institutions, in the context of an equally exclusionary knowledge production system. This event is a part of the project ‘Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decenter urban knowledge’." on a light blue background.

Flyer with USF logo for the event "The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation by Professor Beth Perry " with the text "In this lecture Professor Beth Perry will excavate foundational ideas, lexicons and practices of a new research field around ‘urban epistemics’, before providing some specific examples on how this produces particular “epistemic tangles” of urban inhabitation which shape how people come to know the city, how they are subjected to different processes of epistemic exclusion and knowledge politics; and what this means for researchers in different institutions, in the context of an equally exclusionary knowledge production system. This event is a part of the project ‘Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decenter urban knowledge’." on a light blue background.

📢 Online lecture | 16 Jan 2026, 11:30 (GMT)

Professor Beth Perry explores urban epistemics and the “epistemic tangles” shaping how cities are known, governed, and contested

Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation."

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Silicon Empires is out today in the US! For anyone interested, I'm resharing this thread outlining some of the key arguments of the book.

What’s Really Driving Trump’s Moves in Venezuela and Greenland A new political theory suggests that what motivates this president is something far older than great power rivalry.

Great conversation w/Michael Schaffer @politico.com on upheaval in global politics/what a neo-royalist world order might look like. Hint: bleak. But it is not yet consolidated. Time to crawl out of our fetal positions (@segoddard.bsky.social) and map alternatives.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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