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Seminar poster: Beth Greenhough presenting "Visualizing Post-Viral Lives: Body Mapping Women's Lived Experiences of Long COVID." University of Cambridge, Dept of Geography, 29 OCT 2025, 16:00-17:30. Abstract image of a virus particle.

TOMORROW: Next talk in the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series will be delivered by Beth Greenhough @oxfordgeography.bsky.social 16:00-17:30 in the Large Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

28.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Next talk in the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series will be delivered by Beth Greenhough (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social).

Oct the 29th, 16:00-17:30 in the Large Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

24.10.2025 16:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

‘The police weren’t interested’: what’s driving the rise in private prosecutions? The long read: As the police and courts continue to struggle with the legacy of austerity, many people are seeking alternative routes to justice – but it could be making matters worse

My latest Guardian Long Read is about a shadowy area of criminal law that has exploded since austerity, and what “two tier justice” really means in Britain: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

23.10.2025 11:50 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Senior Research Fellow, IPPR North | IPPR The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.

We're hiring!💥

IPPR North are looking for a senior researcher who has big ideas for the future of our regions. Join us at this pivotal time for our economy and democracy.

Based in Manchester, apply by 31st October.

www.ippr.org/jobs/senior-...

15.10.2025 11:11 — 👍 14 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 1

Reminder for this #AAG2026 session. Abstracts due October 20th!

15.10.2025 09:00 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begi...

New paper out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social with @benaplatt.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

15.10.2025 07:26 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State: @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes) as part of the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas 2025 Seminar Series on the 22nd October, 16:00-17:30 in the Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

13.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Four exciting talks for the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series

See @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes), Beth Greenhough (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social), @penelopeanthias.bsky.social, and Pratyush Shankar (Navrachana University).

All welcome!

13.10.2025 14:59 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

New episode out now! A great listen for researchers, students, and advocates for knowledge coproduction

Featuring Diana Mitlin, Melanie Lombard, myself & @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

@coprofutures.bsky.social @africancities.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social

24.09.2025 17:08 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

🇪🇺 One year into von der Leyen's second term, the EU faces profound economic, political and security challenges 🇪🇺

🤔 But are its plans to confront them fit for purpose?

Find out with our expert panel 👇

💻 Online
📅 21 Oct, 1pm BST

ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...

10.10.2025 09:19 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

LSE Geography & Environment is recruiting: Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in Urban Planning.

Expertise in sustainable cities, planning regulation, or planning law is especially welcome.

For more info, pls visit here 👉 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

#LSE #UrbanPlanning #AcademicJobs

10.10.2025 08:29 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Debt Trap Nation -- a very powerful book.

Come and see @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki discuss the book on the 22nd of October (4-6pm)

Dept of Geography, Cambridge

03.10.2025 09:36 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t miss this! A theatre company with a brilliant knack of engaging with the major political and practical issues of the day.

01.10.2025 22:36 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

In Nonauthoritarian Authority @jbrigstocke.bsky.social introduces the idea of nonauthoritarian authority: a form of power that pluralises marginalised and hidden voices and recognises diverse agencies.

📚 Publishing #OpenAccess in Spring 2026.

🔗https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.noa

02.10.2025 10:54 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Logo for "The Trials of Democracy: If You're Not at the Table, You're on the Menu." It features a pink and gold shield with two white seahorse-like creatures on either side, all set against a blue background.

If you’re in Cambridge on Oct the 4th/5th, delve into Menagerie Theatre’s public art project on
Democracy – “If You’re Not at the Table, You’re on the Menu” – plays, workshops, art installations, and talks exploring what democracy might mean.

01.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2

Workshop leaders include the Dept of Geography's former researcher and Chair of Transition Cambridge, Dr Anna McIvor.

Her workshop "Council of All Beings"
- explores non-human perspectives on how we can live more sustainably on the Earth.

01.10.2025 19:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

📣 Call for Papers:
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question

ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki

🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025

🏹 Please spread the word!

21.07.2025 08:54 — 👍 20 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 3

Landscaped area of housing

Tree-lined avenue of council housing

Leafy view of council housing

🚨 New on Substack - my follow-up post on the North Hull Estate and the complex story of how it became the First Housing Action Trust in 1991.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-north-...

19.06.2025 08:04 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Congratulations to @lucynatarajan.bsky.social et al on winning the @regionalstudies.bsky.social Best Paper Award for their paper - 'Social Infrastructure and 'Left Behind Places''. Watch the recording at www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-regional-studies-best-paper/

16.06.2025 13:51 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2

Plantation Worlds Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2025)

A review of #PlantationWorlds in the AAG Review of Books: "compelling, well argued and grounded". Thank you @audralmitchell.bsky.social for the thoughtful engagement. @dukepress.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

28.04.2025 06:36 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"

authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray

is now available free online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

21.05.2025 15:31 — 👍 58 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 1

A bright pick poster advertising a national UCU demo in Newcastle today.

National UCU demo today in Newcastle to defend higher education across the country and protest the ongoing threat of compulsory redundancies at Newcastle.

Hoping that big crowds and big noise will make our exec board see the damage they’re doing.

@newcastleucu.bsky.social

11.06.2025 09:24 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Timely report as we’re discussing the impact of motor vehicles on children’s play.

“A child is killed every day on our roads, yet cars are being made so large that children are invisible from the driver’s seat. How is that acceptable?”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

11.06.2025 08:54 — 👍 45 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 0

A decade on: Walking the sharp edge of the UK’s social security system The UK’s social security landscape and public services infrastructure have been transformed since the Conservatives took office in 2010, initially as part of a coalition with the Liberal Democrats. The collision of austerity and a punitive approach to welfare reform have seen a drastic and far-reaching hollowing out of provision, which left the welfare state in poor health to respond to Covid-19 and then the cost-of-living crisis. There is growing evidence documenting the impact of these changes on society, and a greater appreciation of the harm caused by inadequate social security provision and under-resourced, failing public services. However, not enough is known about how these changes map onto the experiences of individuals over time. This working paper corrects this, reporting on in-depth research with those at the sharp edge of the social security system. The researchers have conducted repeat interviews with ten individuals for more than ten years, with the most recent interviews taking place during the winter of 2023-24. This research uncovers the extent to which social security and the wider infrastructure routinely fails individuals and their families. It highlights the harms caused by conditionality, and reveals the extent to which repeated fights for entitlement to support can grind people down over time.

In research, too often we get only a snapshot of how lives are shaped by policy. This w/paper shares findings from walking alongside those at sharp end of austerity for more than a decade.

Spoiler: more cuts to welfare & conditionality are not the answer.

sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/_new/pu...

05.02.2025 07:59 — 👍 28 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 2

We are very sorry to inform you that we have to cancel today's Annual Lecture.

We hope to reschedule the lecture for the next academic year.

Thank you for your understanding, and our sincere apologies for the cancellation.

29.05.2025 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Book cover image

My book 'The Personal Life of Debt' is out now. You can read the free e-book here:

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...

28.05.2025 09:40 — 👍 35 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1

The Infrastructural Geographies 2nd Annual Lecture: Professor Louise Amoore "What Kind of Infrastructure is an Algorithm?" 29th of May, 2025, Univ of Cambridge, Dept of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre Join us!

The Infrastructural Geographies 2nd Annual Lecture:

Professor Louise Amoore "What Kind of Infrastructure is an Algorithm?"

29th of May, 2025, Univ of Cambridge, Dept of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre

Join us!

24.05.2025 11:26 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2

Disrupting the Speculative City
Property, power and community resistance in London
By Amy Horton, Joe Penny
How a community coalition defeated one of the most ambitious programmes of state-led gentrification in London
uclpress.co.uk/book/disrupt...

15.04.2025 20:58 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper develops the concept of metabolic politics: a form of power emerging in response to the fraught and unanticipated effects generated by the industrialisation of life. Metabolic politics act....

#Metabolic #politics: article now out in @tibg.bsky.social Vol 50. #Metabolism

Open access:
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

03.05.2025 13:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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