Alejandro De Coss

Next Wednesday, 5 November, I will be giving a talk on my research in Mexico City at the Centre for Sustainable Development Studies, University of Amsterdam.

I am really looking forward to it, and very happy to have Maria Kaika and Rutgerd Boelens as commenters.

This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.

In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.

CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.

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Mi primer encuentro con las ideas del libro de en 2022, en la conferencia 4S en Cholula, Puebla. Es un gusto enorme poder estar aquí para este lanzamiento, presente a la distancia.

En 10 minutos estaré presentando el libro "Infraestructuras Abismales. Comunidades energéticas en la mantención, reparación, mejora o abandono", editado por Gloria Baigorrotegui.

El evento está disponible en vivo acá: www.youtube.com/live/C9Q56TG... y acá: www.instagram.com/p/DQXmitOCc2S/

The Academic Contribution Framework: a flawed, discriminatory response to a failure of management’s making — UCU Edinburgh The ACF is the mechanism by which management will size up workers for redundancy targets that we already know are arbitrary. The ACF is obviously bad. It will be personally devastating for many collea...

'The real dereliction is that needless austerity and turmoil has replaced the kind of sober long-term financial planning and strategy that the university needs.'

Excellent writing on completely unsubstantiated redundancies from the folks at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social ✊

This is a deeply shocking attack on a leading political ecology scholar. Please sign in support of Farhana Sultana below

🚨 Fully funded PhD opportunity with me and Richard Hodgkins at @lborogeog.bsky.social. Please reach out with any questions, and do share widely!

Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.

One of the biggest layoffs in Amazon’s history—14,000 jobs gone.

They’re blaming “AI efficiency,” calling it the most transformative tech since the internet.

Translation: the machines are here, and they’re coming for middle-class jobs next. Maybe now people will start paying attention.

Something new to read as Hurricane Melissa promises another 'unprecedented' and profoundly devastating storm season.

With @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social for @urbangeography.bsky.social 🙏🏻

Very excited to see this out!

We hope that geographers and others that engaging with the urban question in the contemporary moment will find this intervention useful to think with. Please do share with your networks and students!

Our intervention argues that the uneven burden of climate risk introduces an ontological and epistemic interruption to the ways geographers interpret Southern urban theory, and suggests a way to theorise where and what this South is through the variegated politics of risk and repair.

Rethinking the urban South? Centering “unprecedented” risk and repair As the climate crisis intensifies, those least responsible for its root causes are disproportionately affected by disaster, where loss and damage are the presumptive endpoints of unmitigated ecolog...

Amid the many pressures of modern academia, it is rare to have time to think creatively and critically. That makes particularly happy to share this intervention that aims to rethink the Urban South, co-written with and led by with the brilliant @beki.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy: How Long Do “Hallucinations” Last? This paper argues that (i) we have reached “peak GenAI” in terms of current Large Language Models (LLMs); scaling (building more data centers and using more chips) will not take us further to the goal...

A must-read ftom economist Servaas Storm... www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Más que ponerle un alto, yo lo veo como darle un premio de consolación. 'No te dejamos ganar, pero te regalamos una invasión.'

So many Australian colleagues put through a year of worries and uncertainty. All because Nous Consultancy only thrives on a scarcity narrative?

Bit if a reminder that those cuts can never be justified in pedagogical or academic term, whatever the spin.

Laura Kuenssberg asks if it is a "dark step" to limit the fundamental right to protest? Mahmood answers that just because you have a freedom "doesn't mean you have to use it at every moment of every day". Under her new plans people will still have the right to protest, Mahmood adds.

just because you have a freedom "doesn't mean you have to use it at every moment of every day"

Just roll that sentence around your mental palate and taste the underlying logic

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Cumulative disruption”
A new word for those who want to create compliant genocide applauders and arrest genocide protesters

This won’t be used on roundabout painters as roundabout painters are some how doing things in a “British” way. Whatever that is

Who needs Reform when we already have Labour

Absolutely heinous.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish).

Zack is spot on.

The "party of division" wants to deport me; the "party of decency" wants to make it unbearable for me to stay here. Two sides of the same coin.

Vente pa Research Gate, ahí está toda la banda.

Mandatory unpaid work to be done by The Other, is it?

This is appalling as expected from a strategically, politically and ethically bankrupt Labour leadership

All Starmer offers is a slightly less extreme version of the far right which only ends up normalising its discourse, allowing it to set the agenda

Update from the flotilla

Explosions and drones targeting Gaza aid flotilla boats, activists say The Global Sumud Flotilla said they would ‘not be intimidated’, after third report of drone attacks this month Organisers of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists have reported explosions and multiple drones that targeted some of their boats, currently situated near Greece. “Multiple drones, unidentified objects dropped, communications jammed and explosions heard from a number of boats,” the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) said in a statement. “We are witnessing these psychological operations first-hand, right now, but we will not be intimidated.” Continue reading...

Explosions and drones targeting Gaza aid flotilla boats, activists say

A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous Last weekend, it fell to ordinary people to oppose the far right and others. The national toxicity has reached us: a kind of hate I haven’t seen since the 1970s

Went to Kent today for a nice day out, had lunch in a tea room and a nice beer in a pleasant pub, saw quite a lot of flags. Then got home and read this piece about the town where we’d spent the day. Grim grim grim.