Sarah Marie Hall

So nice to be there with you both, congratulations again Brenda x

RGS 2026 CfP Family as site of environmental politics RGS Call for papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2026 – London, England (1st-4th  September 2026) Session title: The family as a site of environmental politics Co-organisers: Leah Edwards [Durham U...

CfP for @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference just dropped! Organised by @geogdurham.bsky.social 's Leah Edwards and myself: The Family as Site of Environmental Politics. Please share widely!

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#CFP #RC21
@aseela.bsky.social & I have a session "Epistemic friendships in/across difference: Rethinking methodologies in urban research" @rc21.bsky.social Vienna 2026
If you're interested in political & epistemological potential of friendships within urban studies/geog, do submit your abstract!

Upcoming Event: Social and Cultural Geography beyond the Academy – Opportunities in Policy and Practice
Friday 28 November, 11.00-12.30, ONLINE (UK)

This event joins academic and non-academic geographers to discuss their transition from the academy into the world beyond

Further info: scgrg.co.uk

This week! Join us ☺️

Ha we nearly did the same! I'll absolutely be back 😀

We did! And we saw SEALS 🦭🦭🦭

A picture of Galway port, with colourful buildings in the background and Max posing in the foreground. It's a lovely, sunny day.

Gorgeous Galway, we will be back! X

❤️ thanks, friend. Sending love x

Thanks so much, Adam, appreciate the kind words. Here's to a better academia in the future x

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Sarah Marie Hall (2025) entitled: 'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' with a black banner at the top. Friendships play a fundamental role in everyday life, offering companionship, mutuality, and care, across multiple and intersecting socio-spatial contexts. Drawing on scholarship and activism across feminist geographies, and contributing to this growing field of geographical interest, this piece brings together considerations of solidaristic friendship with/in everyday academic practice. Turning this critical lens inwards, I argue that everyday relational spaces of friendship within academia have radical potential – a radically ordinary praxis? – and yet are often overlooked or undervalued. I suggest that, in being so very ordinary, friendship has the possibility to be much more widely registered and deployed within academic spaces to engender greater and much needed solidarity in current times.

New in Area:

'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social

This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Me walking with Max towards a water fountain in the park. The photo is taken from behind and I am is looking over my shoulder.

A plate from O'Brien's sandwich shop, with a bagel, cup of soup and some crisps.

I bloody love Dublin ☺️❤️
EVERYTHING should come with a handful of crisps 🥔🥔

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Thank you!! ✊️

Poster for the event: Imagining our working lives: a creative exploration. The poster features a picture of a woman sat at a desk looking at a screen, surrounded by colourful pots and books. The poster contains a qr code to the event (see post)

Join us for 'Imagining our Working Lives: A Creative Exploration' 💭🖍🪛🧤🥄🖱

1st Nov, Central Manchester. Part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025.

Free to attend, places limited. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-...

P.s. There'll be cake!🍰
With @amycbarron.bsky.social + @clarecourtney

A blue tile with a quote from the editorial introduction to the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section by S. van Lanen & S.M. Hall (2025): "As political discourse transforms and the period of fierce austerity implementation moves into history, we believe critical geographers should remain attentive to its traces in everyday practices, policy realities and material conditions. To imagine alternative futures, austerity's legacies should not be forgotten".

A blue tile sharing the titles of 8 open access papers within the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section: 1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall 2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al. 3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock 4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou 5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali 6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al. 7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull 8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy

Special Section in The GJ:

'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social

This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Ah no, I will just miss this! Hope it goes well!

Some @austerityalters.bsky.social upcoming travel: if you're based in/around these cities + fancy a cuppa in the coming months pls let me know! ☕️
-Zurich, Malmo + Copenhagen (Sept)
-Dublin*^ (Oct)
-Rotterdam*, Amsterdam + Groningen (Nov)

* will be repeat visits in near future
^ can include Max 🐕

🔥 Speaker Announced! - Rick Burgess 🔥 We’re excited to welcome Rick Burgess— co-founder of Manchester DPAC and Campaigns Lead for the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People—to the We Demand Change: Summit of Resistance in Manchester! 🎤 Talk title: Lessons from fighting the cuts: connecting struggle to win 🗓 Date: 7th September 2025 🕣 Time: 10am Doors 📍 Location: Mechanics Institute Get your tickets today 👇 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summit-of-resistance-greater-manchester-we-demand-change-tickets-1580438246339?aff=oddtdtcreator Rick has been at the heart of the fight against austerity for over a decade. From resisting brutal welfare reforms to defending the rights and dignity of disabled people, he’s consistently exposed how capitalist austerity treats disabled lives as disposable. But Rick doesn’t just name the violence—he organizes against it. This session will reflect on the successes and learnings from the fight against Labour's continuation of austerity, which was led by DPAC but drew in forces from the anti war movement and the trade unions —demonstrating the power of connecting struggle across the working class movement. If you're ready to break out of siloed struggles and start connecting the dots, this talk is essential. 💬 Join the conversation 👇 https://chat.whatsapp.com/L41NTAGqcEUG6mmjv4slnG

🔥 Speaker Announced! - Rick Burgess 🔥

🎤 Talk title: Lessons from fighting the cuts: connecting struggle to win

🗓 Date: 7th September 2025
🕣 Time: 10am Doors
📍 Location: Mechanics Institute

Get your tickets today 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summit-of-...
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a range of zines

A year and a half of making disability zines...

Brings a whole new meaning to "Bread & Roses"!

Speaking of, a small group of us have been coming together for c2yrs as the Bread & Roses Collective to think about radical care and activism in an unequal world.

We have a logo and blurb: @austerityalters site will be updated soon with more info 🍞🌹

🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏

🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August.

Geographers please share!

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For the UK context: things are difficult for so many people right now. Here are some contact details. Please share if you are in the UK.

graphic and QR code

Hey @geographers.bsky.social and #geographers please pass this great opportunity on in your networks!

A small sandy-coloured terrier facing the camera. He is sat down on a red patterned rug. His ears are back and pulling a big smile that shows his teeth.

Look at that smile! Look at those bobby dazzlers! Cheer-up guaranteed 😁🦷🐕

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ABSTRACT of paper This paper presents a research agenda on the geographies of middle-age, drawing on life-history interviews with self-identified middle-aged participants from Greater Manchester, UK. The place of middle-age in debates about age within and beyond human geography is explored, including the extension of the category of youth and the deferral of older age. While lived experiences of middle-age are changing and significant, they are frequently overlooked in research. This paper argues that middle-age must be theorized through approaches and concepts of and around the middle. It draws upon more-than-representational theories as one such approach to thinking from and through the middle, emphasizing in-between affective states and forms of change, whilst highlighting a range of concepts and practices of the middle such as impasse, liminality and waiting. Thinking from and through the middle advances relational approaches to age by shifting attention away from the nodes at either end of a relation, towards the middle itself as being invariably in-relation. Geographers interested in ageing are urged to focus on the middle, be these moments of betweenness earlier or later in life, or midlife and middle-age itself. Future research must keep differences in experience at the fore and maintain a distinctly relational vantage point.

I have a new paper out in Social & Cultural Geography titled: Making sense of ‘middle-age’: thinking from and through the middle. It presents a research agenda on the geographies of middle-age, and the value of thinking around the middle more generally. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2537686

Yes Kate! If you insist... xx

Barf-fest

A photograph of a sandy coloured terrier facing the camera. His back half is sat in his bed, the front half out, with his front legs poised in a fancy stance. He wears a red collar with bone-shaped tag, a cocked ear and curious hazel eyes.

Is it just me or is LinkedIn in a bit... gross?? I can't engage with it properly for all the performance. Plus I haven't seen a single dog picture on there for the 3 WHOLE WEEKS since I joined!!!
Academic social media needs light and shades, folks!!
P.s. here's Max looking especially dashing.