Menelaos Gkartzios

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Fieldwork 🙌 Visiting resident artist Shane Finan in Ireland on our AHRC project Wildfires Resilient Cultural Heritage. Stop 1: meetings with Wicklow Uplands Council and Irish Uplands forum, followed by walking interviews at burnt sites in Wicklow

Get those dates in the diary!
This is the first time Scotland has been chosen to host the ERP, and we can’t wait to welcome rural leaders, policymakers, and changemakers from across Europe!

#ERP #ERP2025 #RuralParliament #RuralPolicy

Call for Papers! I co-organized a
session on rural geography in Global South Regions @rgsibg.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference, kindly sponsored by @ruralgrg.bsky.social .
Abstract submission ddl: 28 Feb 2025.
For details, pls see the cfp below.
We sincerely welcome your contributions!

Fantastic PhD offer on environmental justice and fire governance through arts-based approaches. 👇 And, as a bonus, the successful researcher can engage with our FIRECULT project and the artist-led research commissions in Ireland, Italy and Turkey 👏👏👏

🇬🇷🚆 After the #Tempi disaster, #Greece faces a huge public #trust crisis. Can #care be the missing principle in governance? Drawing on #feminist political theory, my latest piece in @tovimagr.bsky.social explores how we can move beyond despair to democratic care.
👉 Read it here: bit.ly/4aY6it8

The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed

“Demoralised university staff, whose pay has been declining steeply in real terms, are not responsible for the dysfunctional marketisation of higher education, which is at the root of today’s financial black hole.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In my previous article on JRS, I introduced neo-exogenous development to explain China’s state-led rural networked development model under Rural Revitalization/RRS.
In my new paper, I examine this model’s governance implications, arguing that RRS has fostered a form of “rural party-statecraft”.

In other news, I am in Newcastle, Wenky just completed her 1 year at Newcastle University, and tomorrow returns to Tongji University in Shanghai to finish her PhD. We will miss you Wenky, but hope to see you at AESOP Istanbul later in July 👋👋👋 Greetings to @dr-ericxin.bsky.social and team there 🙌

Happy to have contributed to this book with our chapter on the #EnergyCommons! We explore how commoning in #energy —through resource rights, cooperative ownership, peer-to-peer sharing & #circular practices—can drive a just and democratic transition. Check it out! bit.ly/3Q9p8Ec

Thank you Adam for your brilliant contribution! 🙏👍

Postcapitalist Countrysides Postcapitalist Countrysides explores the tensions that arise from the established conventions of economic production and private accumulation, as they affect life, wealth and work in rural areas. Its ...

*Postcapitalist Countrysides* is now published @uclpress.bsky.social open access.

Can alternative food projects be part of an anti-capitalist project?

See my chapter:
*Experimental food commons in capitalist heartlands*
@gkrtzs.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/postcap...

Postcapitalist Countrysides Postcapitalist Countrysides explores the tensions that arise from the established conventions of economic production and private accumulation, as they affect life, wealth and work in rural areas. Its ...

Congratulations to Nick Gallent, Menelaos Gkartzios, Mark Scott, Andrew Purves and their contributors! Their new #OpenAccess book Postcapitalist Countrysides published today. Read and download free at: uclpress.co.uk/book/postcap... #Rural development #Postcapitalism

Thank you Tom for picking this up- I have now shared a new link 🙏 Hope the collection is useful to your research

Postcapitalist Countrysides Postcapitalist Countrysides explores the tensions that arise from the established conventions of economic production and private accumulation, as they affect life, wealth and work in rural areas. Its ...

The link for the book is here: uclpress.co.uk/book/postcap... 🙏

Thanks Matt for a really great contribution 👏👏👏

📢 New book: ‘Postcapitalist Countrysides’ @uclpress.bsky.social! From land commoning and rural social enterprises, to experimental food commons, Indigenous collectives & land art practices. And more! Co-edited with N Gallent, @markscott-ucd.bsky.social & A Purves

uclpress.co.uk/book/postcapit…

Postcapitalist Countrysides Postcapitalist Countrysides explores the tensions that arise from the established conventions of economic production and private accumulation, as they affect life, wealth and work in rural areas. Its ...

Great to see this open access collection on *Postcapitalist Countrysides* out there!
@uclpress.bsky.social

Check out our chapter on *The land question and postcapitalist countrysides: Towards a town-country synthesis*
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

uclpress.co.uk/book/postcap...

Many scholars use neo-endogenous development to explain multi-actor participation in China’s Rural Revitalization Strategy. However, in my paper coauthored with Prof Nick Gallent, we argue it is essentially state-led networked development

The Rural Geography Research Group at 50: Reflections on an evolving community of practice This paper explores the development and work of the Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society over the last fifty years …

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of our Rural Geography Research Group @rgsibg.bsky.social, we're sharing an overview of the Group's history and work, published in the Journal of Rural Studies.

Read the article for free until 6 Feb 2025. spkl.io/6011fXQ5t

The other side of my work is consolidated here www.anthologyofrurallife.co.uk
A long term project looking at contemporary rural life across Europe.

Excited to announce that 3 artists-in-residence have now been appointed for the project FIRECULT exploring the complex relationship between wildfires and culture: Shane Finan (Ireland), Paolo Lolicata (Italy) and Aslı Özdoyuran 🙌 (Turkey). More info 👇: www.maltingsberwick.co.uk/about-us/upd...

Saturday’s are for downtown - the busy street life of Kemeralti

😃 Yes and you should visit soon!

Honored to be a keynote speaker at the 37th AESOP Annual Congress 2025 in Istanbul, Türkiye, July 7-11. aesop-planning.eu/keynote-spea...

Starting this account with pictures from my life in Izmir 🙏 Hello! 👋