Cities Politics Economies Research Group, UoM

Our new Queer and Trans Histories series creates a home for cutting‑edge work on past and present LGBTQ+ lives.

We’re looking for proposals grounded in rich empirical work and innovative approaches to intimacy, emotion, silence, and subjectivity.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...

“Let them sing!” The paradoxes of gender mainstreaming in urban policy and urban scholarship The early twenty first century has been a defining period for urbanization at a global scale. There is an urgent imperative to bring a gender analysis into debates on urbanization in this period of...

This week the UN ECOSOC’s Partnership Forum is foregrounding cities via SDG 11, on sustainable, inclusive urban futures. A good reminder from this
@urbangeography.bsky.social
piece on the imperatives & paradoxes of gender mainstreaming in urban policy & theory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Adoption as banishment: Why Korea's adoptees deserve more than symbolic redress - The Korea Times The renewal of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for a third mandate on Jan. 29 offers a new opportunity to address the unresolved adop...

Important piece by my friend and colleague Anders Riel Muller.

Successful policies are ‘made’ to fail on political grounds all the time, in the case of drug policy this usually has deadly consequences. I’ve written about the ways governments construct those failures discursively and materially www.ijurr.org/article/from...

With a fantastic lineup of speakers 🤩 Join us online on Thursday, February 19th at 3pm (UK time)!

RSVP via Eventbrite for the Zoom link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

Podcast with Juia Mortimer and visiting CPE member Felipe Magalhaes.

Great to have @felmagalhaes.bsky.social present his current work at our final @cperguom.bsky.social seminar of the term. Discussion ranged from deindustrialisation in the context of authoritarian neoliberalism to futbol and populism. Looking forward to the book! @uomseed.bsky.social

How Did You Get Here? | Power and Resistance with Dr. Jamie Doucette | Korea in Maize & Blue Bringing a background in activism to the study of democratization and economics, Dr. Jamie Doucette provides food for thought on modernity, American politics, academic labor rights, and structures of ...

Last year I recorded a podcast while visiting U Mich. It's just been published. The series is about personal and professional career paths. Lot's of talk about the 1990s alter-globalization movement, the problem with the IVY league, Oxbridge, and the North American tenure-track system... 1/2

"Technology, the labor process, and the working class" (1976)
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A bit of Vancouver in Manchester! Great to have Jesse Proudfoot giving a @cperguom.bsky.social talk about his work on addiction, structural racism and urban politics. @uomseed.bsky.social

Thank you so much for all the generosity, Cristina! The conversation in the end was great, hopefully we can have more!

Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?

I don't normally post FT content, but, wow, this article is excellent! Surveys a range of actors, initiatives, and critics active in this space. It can feel niche teaching about this so great to see it covered in a single article. #startupcities #blockchain #cryptobros #neoreaction #chartercities

Radio Free People's tapes (via the Liberation News Service, 1971: jstor.org/stable/community.28039451)

This piece on Locating Crisis, along with the other fascinating commentaries, now has a home in Vol 3.3 of Dialogues in Urban Research! journals.sagepub.com/toc/DUS/curr...

Outro workshop excelente de geografia crítica, pros doutorandos e recém-doutores. Mais uma vez: hospedagem incluída e possibilidade de passagens.

New post up! Learn more about Waterloo Place on the @officialuom.bsky.social campus in the 1970s, once home to a whole range of radical political projects and groups.

linktr.ee/peoplespapers

Next up: rent strikes, housing co-ops, squatting, communes and more! A housing periodicals appreciation post 🙏
www.instagram.com/peoplespapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

If anyone is thinking about attending SASE 2026 and looking for a panel on East Asia, democracy, political economy, here's something i'm putting together. Pop me an email if your interests fit and would like to participate. Feels like SASE might be popular this year as many avoid US-based events.

If you're in Manchester, please join us in the Department of Geography, @uomseed.bsky.social Wed 26th November. Dr Jesse Proudfoot will be giving talk on: Connecting symptoms to social causes: Reading carceral urbanism in Chicago through a drug addiction. 3pm HBS, g.33 @cperguom.bsky.social

A pleasure to speak about recent work on Global Urban Perspectives on Social Work for Innovative Access to Homeless Care at a great event on the Impact of the Specialist Homelessness Social Work Role & Next Steps for Policy & Practice organised by Manchester Council and KCL

*Job alert* We are advertising two opportunities @manchester.ac.uk, linked to the JUST centre (www.just.ac.uk)
- A Post-Doctoral Research Associate on Social & Built Infrastructure (www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...)
- A PhD on Green Skills & Communities (www.findaphd.com/phds/project...)

Poster for Rakib Akhtar's Seminar in Geography @ Manchester

Wed 5th Nov @cperguom.bsky.social Cities, Politics, & Economies Research Group in the Department of Geography & MUI @uomseed.bsky.social will host a talk by Dr Rakib Akhtar on: Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the making of an Indian smart city, chaired by @mehebubsahana.bsky.social 3pm in HBS G33.

Experts from three major cities gather to tackle homelessness Local governments from three major cities in Europe and Latin America gathered in Athens last week for a three-day policy exchange tackling one of the most pressing urban challenges of our time: homel...

A goal of the #UKRI Urban Crisis project is to shift conversations on health inequalities & poverty to see it as a whole person / whole systems issue. So it was such a privilege for our team to co-organise a policy exchange with the Municipality of Athens. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e...

Save the date!

We'll have materials to share from @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and @aiucentre.bsky.social and a roundtable discussion with folks sharing their reflections and experiences from the time. Should be a lively and participatory discussion!

@cperguom.bsky.social @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

Went ahead a made a separate account for this archival research -- follow along @peoplespapers.bsky.social !

Interested to learn more about this People's Papers project? Check out a link of upcoming and past events as well as recent blog posts here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers

Another excellent event coming up organized by CPE's Arielle Lawson. See you there!

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⬇️

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A reminder of our departmental seminar series this autumn.

Some good speakers coming to GDI this semester.