Raktim Ray (PhD)

Folks heading to @rgsibg.bsky.social Conference in Birmingham, please consider attending our session on "Rethinking Racial Geographies of Health" on the 27th at Arts Building: LR1 11:10-12:50. The session is sponsored by RACE Research group. See some of you there.

Careful obstruction: rethinking urban knowledge formations from a protest site in India Recent scholarship in critical urban studies has engaged with the idea of obstructions, blockades, and occupations as generative sites for political action and counter-hegemonic knowledge productio...

Dear Folks, happy to announce that our latest publication along with Srilata and Ufaque on Careful obstruction is out now. It is part of the special issue on "Decolonising urban knowledge(s): an ordinary imperative in extraordinary times" in City is out now. doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Conflict politics at the margins of the neoliberal state in the postcolonial context: the case anti-power grid movement of Bhangar in Kolkata The hegemonic identity of neoliberal development is prevalent in the postcolonial world, where the state maintains an ambiguous identity of being a proponent of welfare and simultaneously disposses...

We are happy to announce publication of our article where we discussed conflict politics as framework for understanding developmental politics . After years of rejections and revisions, we are glad to see it published by ADP journal. It is open access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Kickstarting the Overseas Practice Engagement at São Paulo, Brazil for two MSc programmes DAP and BUDD @dpu_ucl. Always good to be back at @FESPSP and strengthening our long standing collaboration.

Answer emails and clean your house and remember to grade those remaining midterms and be present with your kid and think about fascism and 400 people dead in Gaza. But keep going because what do you even do

The president’s address at @isanet.bsky.social was peacefully disrupted to draw institutional attention to the issue of democratisation in ISA governance and the acknowledgement of scholasticide in how we conduct research ‘as normal’ #isa2025

Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim

🙃 Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal: UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Dear folks, if you are planning to attend @rgsibg.bsky.social RGS-IBG conference 2025 in Birmingham please consider submitting an abstract/ creative submission to our panel on “ Rethinking racial geographies of health: epistemes, practices and ontologies” by 3rd March.

And the form to submit your conference session for potential sponsorship: docs.google.com/forms/d/1MYX...

The deadline is 7th Feb - a month ahead of the RGS' deadline for sessions.

More info about the @rgsibg.bsky.social conference and how to organise a session here: www.rgs.org/research/ann...

PolGRG sponsorship at the 2025 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the RGS-IBG is pleased to extend an invitation to sponsor sessions at the next RGS-IBG Annual International Conference.  …

Are you thinking of organising a Political Geography-themed session at the 2025 RGS-IBG Annual Conference? If so, get in touch - we're pleased to extend an invitation for PolGRG session sponsorship:

More info here: polgrg.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/p...

#RGSIBG2025 #RGSIBG25

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Please join us *tomorrow* - Weds 4th Dec, 3-4pm GMT - for our mentoring seminar on "Pathways to Academic Careers"!

More info and sign-up here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Diasporic connections: an Area 'Classics Revisited' webinar - RGS This webinar revisits an Area classic paper, 'Diasporic Connections' (Hardill and Raghuram 1998) with the original authors and an esteemed panel.

Join us online in February for Diasporic connections: an Area 'Classics Revisited'. Ft Profs Irene Hardill and Parvati Raghuram plus a guest panel.

Sign up for free here:
@areajournal.bsky.social

www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Hi folks, as part of the Political Geography Research group of RGS IBG, we are organising a mentorship session for ECRs on 4th December. Please register and join us if you are interested www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
@ingridagnete.bsky.social @oliviamason.bsky.social

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details:
blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...

‘If we can’t unionise at Amazon, we have no future’: the film about the workers who took on Jeff Bezos and won From the rousing leader dismissed for leading a walkout to the activists handing out free burgers, pizza and weed, an inspiring new documentary charts the long, hard fight to create the delivery giant...

"If we can't unionise at Amazon, we have no future": The film [co-directed by Antipode Foundation trustee Brett Story!] about the workers who took on Jeff Bezos and won www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

Publishers for Palestine: Statement of Solidarity November 3, 2023   We invite publishers, editors, and writers around the world who stand for justice, freedom of expression, and the power of the written word, to sign this letter and join our global...

We're proud to stand alongside other publishers who are calling for a ceasefire and denouncing repression of Palestinian solidarity.

Read Publishers for Palestine's statement here.

In response to UKRI’s letter, many people are resigning from various positions they have within UKRI. A list has been created by Gaja Maestri! Hope the number grows.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Bolivia severs diplomatic ties with Israel, citing 'crimes against humanity' | Reuters Bolivia's government said it had broken diplomatic ties with Israel on Tuesday, accusing Israel of committing crimes against humanity in its attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Breaking: Bolivia has severed diplomatic ties with Israel, citing crimes against humanity.

Please share widely and sign if you work in a UK university. Academic freedom and independence of research bodies are at stake.

docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Call from Palestinians in Gaza for an immediate ceasefire, restoration of food, water and medical supplies, protection of medical facilities, safe passage for casualties and those in need of medical treatment, and a rejection of forced displacement

A group of Palestinians from Gaza have circulated these demands, calling people everywhere to take action. Please share if you can 🇵🇸

In the darkest moment, still this city makes me believe hope still exists.#FreePalestine

“Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?”

When we enjoy the sun from our privilege corners in London, the settler colonialists deny indigenous rights, bring violence over occupied people. There will be a day when the sun will rise elsewhere, from the land to the sea, a collective struggle by the oppressed against settler colonialists.

Poster for the London march for Palestine, meeting at 12 noon on Saturday 14 October at the BBC building on Portland Place

London march for Palestine on Saturday. Meet outside the BBC at 12 noon. End apartheid. Down with imperialism.