Zuhri James

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/...

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/...

Mark your calendars for the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series! @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social

Four exciting talks, starting with @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes University).

Our October / November 2025 issue is out now!

Cover image by Sandra Blow, cartoon by Dan Sperrin.

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The Infrastructural Geographies Easter Term Seminar Series. Final two talks will be given by Caixia Mao and @amoorelouise.bsky.social (@geogdurham.bsky.social). All welcome! Has been a real pleasure co-convening the group this year with @laszlocseke.bsky.social & @maanbarua.bsky.social !

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project that is currently unfolding in Thamesmead, a town in south-east London. It de...

'Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis'

@zuhrijames.bsky.social examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project.

Link to paper: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cover of Social Text issue 162. The top half features the journal title “Social Text” in yellow and white against a black background. Below are two side-by-side, colorized, low-resolution video stills of a person with eyes closed, resting their face on clasped hands, suggesting deep thought or emotion. The left image is pink-toned; the right image has yellow and green hues. The bottom section has a black background with pink and white text: “Sound Carries: Coloniality, Race, and the Spatial Politics of Representation.” Edited by Tariq Jazeel and Tom Western.

"Sound Carries: Coloniality, Race, and the Spatial Politics of Representation," a special issue of Social Text edited by Tariq Jazeel and Tom Western, is now available. View the full TOC: buff.ly/H08Sm55

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project that is currently unfolding in Thamesmead, a town in south-east London. It de...

A chapter from my MPhil which I completed last year under the supervision of @natura-urb.bsky.social is out now in @tibg.bsky.social !

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project that is currently unfolding in Thamesmead, a town in south-east London. It de...

A chapter from my MPhil which I completed last year under the supervision of @natura-urb.bsky.social is out now in @tibg.bsky.social !

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks Dino!

Thank you!

Really enjoyed this Patrick. I particularly liked how you wove in your own personal experiences to make sense of how Brixton’s urban landscape has changed since Dyer’s novel. Here’s to more state-funded time!

Thank you!

Thanks @saranahmed.bsky.social @bungatuffie.bsky.social @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social for inspiring the piece

Essay | Cusk, Experimentalism and the Limits of Autofiction by Zuhri James - The London Magazine 'Avant-garde, experimental art is still a terrain largely reserved for white artists.' Zuhri James explores the limits of Rachel Cusk's autofiction.

My essay on Rachel Cusk and the limits of autofiction is in the new issue of the @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social

Thanks to the editor @jamiepcameron.bsky.social

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@zuhrijames.bsky.social on Rachel Cusk and the limits of autofiction.
@patrickchristie.bsky.social on Brixton and Goeff Dyer’s The Colour of Memory.
Tony Roberts on Raymond Aron and post-war France.

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Coming soon…👀

February / March 2025

Diasporic littering: civility, citizenship, and the politics of leaving Bosnia and Herzegovina This article examines the unexpectedly tense politics of littering in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the improper disposal of waste has become a flashpoint in larger struggles over the absent-presen...

New from me and @dzenetakarabeg.bsky.social: an article called 'Diasporic Littering: Civility, Citizenship, and the Politics of Leaving Bosnia and Herzegovina', examining how waste has become a site of political contestation over growing diaspora power in Bosnia. I enjoyed writing this with Dženeta!

A ventilation shaft north of Liverpool's Royal Albert Dock reminding me of a quote from Ballard:
'Is it a model for some strange psychological state... What effect does using these buildings have on us? Are the real myths of this century being written in terms of these huge unnoticed structures?'

Lifting the Lid Or why so many complaints about Gregg Wallace?

Lifting the Lid - just some reflections on how (also why) so many complaints come out so quickly. With reference to #GreggWallace. Hope it is useful. More to come (on complaints not the with reference).

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