Pedro Silva Rocha Lima

Poster for Call for Abstracts. Poster text reads: Deadline: 3 Nov 2025 Workshop Unpacking the Heuristics and Methodologies of Scale The Infracursions project at the University of Bristol invites scholars from any discipline to submit an abstract for a two-day workshop. The workshop aims to develop an interdisciplinary discussion about the epistemologies and practices of scale. Dates: 23-24 February 2026 Location: Bristol, UK Website: infracursions.org/events Keynote Speakers: Michael Lempert - Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan Karen Seto - Professor of Geography & Urbanization, Yale School of the Environment

📢Call for Abstracts📢

Two-day workshop aiming to develop an #interdisciplinary discussion about the epistemologies & practices of scale

Scholars from ANY discipline are invited to submit by 3rd Nov 2025

📅23-24 Feb 2026
📍Bristol, UK
🌐 bit.ly/438ddgt

#CallforAbstracts #CallforPapers

07.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Naoise Dolan | In Belfast Virtually everything the UK does regarding Palestine makes it the Republic’s ugly friend: almost anyone would look...

‘What’s happening in Gaza is an even clearer case of public figures with command authority declaring their intention to blockade food and then doing so. It is a mystery how anyone can call it a “humanitarian disaster” rather than a genocide.’

@naoisedolan.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

24.08.2025 08:10 — 👍 42    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 0

The EASA Executive Committee announces the publication of Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions.

Find out more and access the full Guidelines here:
easaonline.org/implementati...

16.07.2025 07:28 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 3

Bittersweet farewell to my job at @hcrinstitute.bsky.social this month, especially after seeing some of my students graduate today! A sincere thanks to great colleagues, and to Manchester, where I did my PhD and where I got my first lecturer role. Exciting new things coming in October! 👀

14.07.2025 15:05 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I feel like I was the last person to learn that Zohran Mamdani is the son of postcolonial scholar Mahmood Mamdani, who I read as an undergraduate and postgraduate student.

02.07.2025 09:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tinkering with the central statement for my book project 🛠️📚
"For those who live or work in favelas, forms of relating and knowing both urban space and its armed actors—gangs and police—are central to navigating urban insecurity."

11.06.2025 14:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Selma Dabbagh | In Gaza Nothing’s Impossible ‘Can you believe this has been going on for six hundred days?’ one of my fellow panellists asked the audience at...

‘What Israel has created in Gaza is an environment so toxic to human life that the unnaturally high level of deaths (at least 54,000 since October 2023) would continue even if the bombing were to stop immediately.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

03.06.2025 12:20 — 👍 52    🔁 34    💬 0    📌 6

...whereby a humanitarian actor trains the state in the management of lives under threat, not through emergency aid but by reshaping the state's governance of urban violence.

#CriticalHumanitarianism #UrbanViolence

20.05.2025 17:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Moved from Twitter to here, so re-promoting my publications 📄

In this article for Humanity Journal, I argue that the @icrc.org attempt of addressing urban armed violence as a humanitarian issue in Rio de Janeiro becomes a form of biopolitical tutoring...

muse.jhu.edu/article/876515

20.05.2025 17:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Call for participants: As part of my @researchireland.ie funded project, I am looking to speak to women/people from non-EU migrant background, who have experienced pregnancy in Ireland over the last 15 years. Please feel free to amplify this call for participants.

#maternalhealth #migranthealth

13.05.2025 18:14 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

#AcademicFreedom is the right to say everything but not anything. It is based on the rejection of bullshit. It only exists when it is actively practiced in the everyday. Refusing bullshit and telling the truth is practicing academic freedom.

30.04.2025 08:09 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

I am hiring a PhD researcher! Join our international team of Social scientists and take part in an exciting collaborative research project that seeks to push interdisciplinary boundaries in innovative ways!

17.04.2025 13:15 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Essa história mostra que (a) bolsonarismo é organização criminosa, com métodos de organização criminosa e (b) é sempre, sempre com jornalista mulher.

25.03.2025 01:00 — 👍 110    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 0

Hoje, pela primeira vez na carreira acadêmica, vou citar a @revistapiaui.bsky.social numa proposta de financiamento para pesquisa. Esperando que traga sorte 🤞

17.02.2025 10:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0