Jan van Duppen

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NEW: Car bonnets are becoming a half-centimetre higher every year, driving road safety fears.

This #carspreading trend where supersized SUVs crowd out space in towns and cities is also leading to cars that are more dangerous in a crash.
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Queer in a housing crisis: how nonbinary and genderqueer young adults navigate housing precarity As many cities experience housing crises, those of minority identity within these cities are more vulnerable to housing exclusion and discrimination. This article explores how nonbinary and genderq...

New open access paper in Social & Cultural Geography!

Meghan Flood and I study how nonbinary and genderqueer young adults experience and navigate housing precarity in Amsterdam.

Very happy this is out. A thread sharing some key take-aways:

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Tomorrow at 2 pm! Jan van Duppen's seminar on the temporalities of community gardening in Berlin 🌿 Organised by the Department of Ecological Anthropoloy in Prague. Join us in person or online: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.

Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.

Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.

More info: www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/Tuni...
Funding: @humboldt-foundation.de
Fellowship host institution: @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Currently writing the script for my talk 'Tuning into the Garden's Rhythms amidst the Climate Crisis?', that I will present at the @czechacademy.bsky.social Institute of Ethnology on Thursday, 10 April, at 2 pm. Hope to see you-all in Prague or online.

Register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down

Next week: 'Tuning into the Garden's Rhythms amidst the Climate Crisis?' 🌿
A special addition to our Department of Ecological Anthropology's seminar series by @jvdup.bsky.social next Thursday, 10 April, at 2 pm. Join us in Prague or online! 🌍
To register: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

In Peterborough Cathedral there is a panel explaining that during the Reformation, when soldiers came to smash the monuments, steal the gold and burn the books, a monk managed to save just one book from the library, claiming to the illiterate soldiers that it was a bible that must not be burned.

In these dark times of racially charged election campaigns, the German left offers a flicker of hope | Fatma Aydemir Heidi Reichinnek’s speech went viral on TikTok – and sparked a surge of support from voters who reject the mainstream’s xenophobia

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Looks a lot like fossil fascism

Shell offering its Dutch employees opportunity to enrol as part time reservists in Dutch army…

Children's play in grey spaces: ludic geographies and the chromatic turn Children have long played in 'grey spaces', on doorsteps, roads, car parks, back lanes, but this ludic geography is not uncontested. Debates around the proper place for children's outdoor play, in the UK and beyond, have recurred regularly, with the apparent superiority of green spaces being repeatedly promoted, from the emergence of the first 'play streets' in the mid-twentieth century to the centring and proximity to nature today. Based on research on play on streets in the UK, this paper argues for play in grey spaces. Children often express a preference for these spaces; the physical and social affordances of such grey spaces are many and varied and point to a more nuanced chromatic geography of play. Children's play reflects their valuing of these spaces and children animate - colour - grey spaces as they play in them. The presence of children in and around their neighbourhoods, in ambiguous, undervalued, interstitial spaces, can act as a catalyst for revaluing these spaces, opening possibilities for change and challenge. In all these ways, engaging in and reflecting on play in grey spaces can open up conversations, on the doorstep and beyond, which can - and do - connect to questions of social, spatial and environmental justice.

This is something I’ve been thinking about for ages, and am pleased Leisure Studies’ special issue on “grey spaces” gave me a change to explore it.

As access to green space is widely promoted, I argue *for* play in grey space.

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Vandaag spraken we met Francesca Albanese over de gruwelijke realiteit in Palestina. Als VN-rapporteur voor de Palestijnse gebieden waarschuwt ze al tijden voor genocide door Israël. Maar de minister van Buitenlandse Zaken kijkt liever weg en weigerde haar vandaag te ontvangen. 🤔 1/2

What does the more-than-human city look like? – The Nature of Cities

What does the more-than-human city look like?
Our Nature of Cities @tnoc.bsky.social Global Roundtable is out: www.thenatureofcities.com/2025/02/12/w...
- with Ferne Edwards, Lucia Alexandra Popartan, @cqualmann.bsky.social, @idilgaziulusoy.bsky.social, @butterflyup.bsky.social, and many others

Duitsland gaat aan zijn eigen vrekkigheid ten onder Apetrots spraken de oosterburen over hun ‘Wirtschaftswunder 2.0’. Nu is de groei nagenoeg stilgevallen. Verrassend?

Duitsland gaat economisch kapot aan zijn eigen gierigheid. Weet Nederland de dans te ontspringen? Mijn nieuwe @groene.nl column www.groene.nl/artikel/duit...

PhD Position in #geography

Is the terrain still vague? Reconsidering indeterminate spaces Wastelands, urban voids, interstices: especially since the 1990s, there has been a proliferation of terminologies projected on (supposedly) empty urban spaces by designers, scholars, and artists. T...

15 years and two doctoral theses in the making! Here we try to reterritorialize Ignasi de Solà-Morales' concept of the terrain vague within the "reconstruction" of Barcelona in the 80s and 90s, intervening into the never-ending discourse around urban voids. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Animal Geography Working Group is now on Bluesky. Give us a follow @rgs-agwg.bsky.social to keep up with new essays, events, and more!

The Stuart Hall Archive Project with Nick Beech Podcast Episode · Conjuncture · 18/11/2024 · 52m

Listen to Nick Beech talking about the Stuart Hall Archive Project. Now can't wait for Hall's previously unpublished manuscript of 'A Cure for Marriage' to come out.

I learned a lot from reading this article on the floods in Valencia t.co/MRx5SETwxp

A black and white photo of a line of people walking across a field of waist high grass, with high rise buildings in the background. Text overlaid reads walking as method, 11th November 2024

London folks! Come along to this? It'll be great... #UrbanSalon #walkingasmethod #theurbansalon 🌃🚶‍♀️

Co-editors with Urban Natures book

Great days at #POLLEN24 earlier this week, where we also got to do an Urban Natures book launch www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Edward...

If you are wondering how Dutch ‘democracy’ is faring, new extreme right coalition is about to appoint the former director of the secret service as prime minister, they are also planning to double the VAT on print media and most cultural events. Putinesque?

Fijn kritiek op de politieke clichés die voor duiding moeten doorgaan, met een hoofdrol voor Josse de Voogd en de Atlas van Afgehaakt Nederland.

I'm very happy to be part of this ed. vol. with a chapter that takes a look at the playful 'becoming with' between foxes and London allotment gardeners, whilst it also attempts to trouble notions of care and play in these boundary crossings. If interested, please get in touch for a chapter copy!

My list so far:
Cultural Geographies in Practice,
Environmental Humanities in Practice,
Geohumanities - Practices and Curations,
City - Scenes and Sounds,
Visual Studies Journal - Visual Essays section,
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies – The City series,
Roadsides

A question: Do you have any recommendations for academic journals in geography/urban studies/sociology/anthropology that publish photo-essays? I'm teaching a course on photography in geography at the HU Berlin urban geography master and I'm looking for examples of photo-essays and journals.