Vicki Squire

Please do join if you can - all welcome and no need to be an ISA/IPS member :)

Super grateful for all the support and good wishes, thank you 🙏🌟🤩🙏

Great to meet so many engaged scholars @sotonpolitics.bsky.social today - thanks for all the great questions and comments - and a special thanks to @jasonreifler.bsky.social for supporting my visit 👏

OVER 1,000 PEOPLE MISSING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN FOLLOWING CYCLONE HARRY? What We Know — and What Remains Unaccounted For. According to information transmitted through official maritime channels, at least 380 people were reported missing at sea as of 24 January, unaccounted for, for up to ten days following departures fro...

OVER 1,000 PEOPLE MISSING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN FOLLOWING CYCLONE HARRY? What We Know — and What Remains Unaccounted For.

www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/over-1-...

A brief introduction to my new book - thanks to EUP for the opportunity to reflect on this!
lnkd.in/eghK8epj

Surprise Christmas arrival for me today - strangely this is all my life’s work in one book and I want to thank the many people who helped me along the way! Happy to do talks in 2026 and will be in Geneva Montreal Nairobi Abuja … meantime wishing peace and joy to all in the year ahead

One of the pieces included in this list - progressivegeographies.com/resources/wo...

Please do join us for our myth busting and activism panels if you are in or around Uni of Warwick/Coventry on Tuesday 11/11!!

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

📢 @justpolitics-blog.bsky.social & @vickisquire.bsky.social from wicidwarwick.bsky.social‬ explore how dynamics of certainty and ignorance play out in humanitarian reasoning.

Their new article dives into certainty and ignorance in data-driven humanitarianism:
https://buff.ly/obUCwtL

Congratulations Dr Banerjee!! :)

PAIS PhD Candidate Raymond Hyma and Professor Briony Jones have co-authored a new article in Development in Practice together with five Cambodian colleagues.

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

Why humanitarian data processes need dismantling - a piece I published in the Conversation based on my recent talk at University of Ibadan. theconversation.com/humanitarian...

🔍 Ever wondered where migration research is taking place?

➡️ 75% of migration research centres in Europe & N. America

Lorenzo Piccoli shares insights from a new tool that maps migration research & explores what this imbalance means for policy and future studies.

📌 lnkd.in/dnUX4QZk

Rebuilding data practices from the ruins of humanitarianism Friday 2nd May 2025 10:00-11:00 Zoom meeting

Professor Vicki Squire is giving a lecture at University of Ibadan, Nigeria on the impacts of defunding for humanitarian data. @vickisquire.bluesky.social

We already know enough - on humanitarian knowledge/non-knowledge and epistemic violence, with Briony Jones, and with thanks to the SI editors Claudia Aradau and Lucrezia Canzutti, from the Data and Displacement project www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How to achieve democratic consolidation in Africa - ePODstemology While Kim Jong Un might disagreed, democracy is widely regarded as a universal value – it is a system of political organisation that enshrines the right to self-determination. Recent centuries have ...

New ePODstemology episode!
@AnimKSam from @PAISWarwick
is on to talk about his work on democratic consolidation in Africa, especially the role of institutions like the National Peace Council in Ghana.

t.co/F7LHkh3LnA

warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

radical online collections and archives I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

I did a tally of this today and currently there’s over 650 collections of online and open access radical historical documents now listed.

And there’s a bunch more to add!

hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

www.canva.com/design/DAFLv...

Brilliant 😂😂😂

Sincere condolences

Palestine: Spaces and Politics Introductory Curriculum

Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens.

Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors.

#menasky, #geosky

palestine.araburbanism.com