@rogerjburrows.bsky.social
Bristol & Melbourne. Sociology. Geography. Urban Studies. Digital Culture. Prof at University of Bristol, School of Policy Studies & Hon Prof Fellow, Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne & Adjunct Prof, Social Sciences, University of Adelaide.
Some of us have been scared of this since 1991
Melinda Cooper on the household servitude economy in general, and in extreme form (Epstein).
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
FREE EBOOK!
Cities Under Siege, Stephen Graham's powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life is available as a free download.
Study of ‘acid attacks’ in the NE of England.
New paper from CODE ENCOUNTERS @nuffieldfoundation.org project on role of open banking and digital profiling in access to private renting in England www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Canadian radio doco about the current techno fascism with @quinnslobodian.com and others, including myself (for about 15 seconds). www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
Why Open Banking is important for housing studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is just out and references a few other papers from the project: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Playing around with these ideas in relation to housing of late eg www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1...
Very useful exchange.
ARC says they’ll announce Centres of Excellence outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 9th Dec).
This is more than 2 months late, most likely due to the new security checking requirements for ARC grants. Centres of Excellence grants also need to have been approved by the Minister.
We are very happy to announce our huge online seminar series for 2026!
You can see the details for the whole thing at our Eventbrite page and each one below.
The classic early retirement story! @will-davies.bsky.social & I wrote about this movement & all its contradictions back in 2020. doi.org/10.1080/1753...
I assume FIRE has been turbocharged post-pandemic, with the combo of job disillusionment & asset appreciation.
Burrows, R. (2025). Asset classes? Some reflections on the ‘new class realities’ of rentier capitalism. Thesis Eleven, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0725...
Looking forward to the celebration of Cathy Waldby's brilliant career in Canberra next week. Though I'm inclined to speak on radical Sydney and AIDS last century - not biovalue and reproduction!
#STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social @sonjavw.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
