Cristina Temenos

If you're in Manchester March 3rd, join us for the Geography & GDI Lecture by @brettchristophers.bsky.social. The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet. 4:30 PM Lecture Theatre A, Simon Building. @uomseed.bsky.social @cperguom.bsky.social

Not including hidden redundancies (eg. fixed term contracts not renewed), which is likely to double this reported figure.

It's not the job of the health service to discipline labour but Streeting & his friends at Palantir for whom the disgraced Lord Mandelson was a paid lobbyist want to use our confidential medical data to do precisely that.

Only the Greens have promised to kick Palantir out of our public services.

Exclusive Poll: Anti-Reform Tactical Voters Poised to Defeat Nigel Farage's Party in Gorton and Denton By-election Greens and Labour are in an effective dead heat against Reform UK, with tactical voters leaning towards Zack Polanski’s party

🚨EXCLUSIVE: New poll for Byline Times finds Greens and Labour in a dead heat with Reform in the Gorton and Denton by-election

- Greens and Labour on 28%, one point ahead of Reform
- But among most likely and tactical voters, Greens edge ahead
- Pollsters Opinium say final result “too close to call”

Catch up with the latest urban radar podcast ...

Here's a sneak peek of @felipemagallhaes.bsky.social

@xuniamortimer.bsky.social @ctemenos.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

Really importance piece in the Times Higher on cuts to Geography at a time when it matters most www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

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...

20. SEEING THE CITY: A discussion with Junia Mortimer and Felipe Magalhaes

Conversa ótima com o incrível podcast Urban Radar:
A great conversation in the awesome Urban Radar podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/6mXj...

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...

Thank you @ctemenos.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ctem...

A great opportunity for those doing co-production work with urban communities.

Who’s leading WHO? A quantitative analysis of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s grants to WHO, 2000-2024 Introduction The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has been the World Health Organization’s (WHO) second biggest source of funding in recent years, contributing 9.5% of WHO’s revenues between 2...

May be of interest gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...

radical online collections and archives I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

New collections added!

• Union of Socialist Geographers Newsletter
• Limerick Socialist (Ireland 1970s)
• Ann Arbor Argus (US 1960s)
• Nottingham Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK 1960s)
• Catholic Worker (US 1930s)
• Opiniao Socialista (Brazil 1990s-2020s)

hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

Worth a read on the UK funding landscape.

💭 Just imagine if Greater Manchester had the best health in the world...

'Just Imagine If', in partnership with Manchester Museum and Healthier Futures, are inviting you join a conversation on Monday 9 February to discuss how to make this a reality.

Worth a read on the UK funding landscape.

Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

103 – Beyond Neoliberal Urbanism? Are we seeing the emergence of a new conjuncture for urbanism? The final part of our mini series asks whether authoritarian neoliberalism has created the conditions for a more illiberal and distinct t...

🎧Final episode for @urbanpolitical.bsky.social in our series on authoritarian urbanism w/ @jluger.bsky.social, Miklós Dürr, Ayşegül Can & Oksana Zaporozhets

We discuss whether contemporary urbanism continues to be 'neoliberal', and how the leading tendency is towards something more autocratic:

Mobilities I: Crisis - Cristina Temenos, 2025 In this report on mobilities, I discuss research published between 2017-present, focussing on how multiple crises intersect with mobilities. I examine how recen...

✈️ New paper published in Progress in Human Geography ✈️

'Mobilities I: Crisis' by Cristina Temenos

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @ctemenos.bsky.social

1/ This pause is obviously concerning to researchers & universities & I’d like to specifically register the point that if the reason of ‘aligning with national priorities’ means more policy-driven & less free ideas-driven research then this move is of even more concern.
www.msn.com/en-in/politi...

400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.

This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.

📍 Southend rally | 5 February

“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....

This article ends by a call to learn from MCR’s & replicated elsewhere. Yet it’s clear there isn’t the investment or political will in Westminster to make that happen in other U.K. cities. Besides, serial reproduction shouldn’t be the goal, vibrant communities for all will make better cities.

Homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS statistics show The 499 homicide cases in the year to September were the lowest in England and Wales since 1977.

Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Any recommendations for acad sources on social mix (or lack of) & gentrification in Canadian cities? I have an undergrad doing directed readings on gentrif, soc mix, & schools. Not locating Cdn content but we must be missing some. @lellyk.bsky.social @nblomley.bsky.social @lorettaclees.bsky.social

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

This article ends by a call to learn from MCR’s & replicated elsewhere. Yet it’s clear there isn’t the investment or political will in Westminster to make that happen in other U.K. cities. Besides, serial reproduction shouldn’t be the goal, vibrant communities for all will make better cities.

Cycling Cities: Bogotá, Colombia - Cycling Cities In 2018, Enrique Peñalosa, then mayor of Bogotá, declared the city the ‘World Capital of the Bicycle’. This rather self-congratulatory announcement raised several questions. Many asked whether the hon...

'World Capital of the Bicycle'? Or just another cycling city among many?

I'm excited to share a new project I've been working on: the long-awaited inclusion of Bogotá in the Cycling Cities book series.

You can read about the project here: cyclingcities.info/cities/bogot...

Democratizing Knowledge Through Global Health Podcasts Podcasts are a great way to learn, share, exchange, and democratize global health knowledge. Here are several wonderful podcasts worth checking out!

Democratizing Knowledge Through Global Health Podcasts

Podcasts are a great way to learn, share, exchange, and democratize global health knowledge

Here is my new list of podcasts worth checking out!

communities.springernature.com/posts/democr...

Trying to understand the current moment in U.S. politics and what this means for cities? This piece on Crisis Policy-Making and Revanchism may be useful (también en español)