@invisiblemapper.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Geography
Global Corridor newsletter 7 is out now featuring...
New book on the Belt and Road Initiative, Burkina's revolutionary road, Destiny, a new special economic zone in the Caribbean, Foster design transport hub in Poland, Venezuelan oil, Pakistani railways
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
I've joined Caitlin Morrissey and Michele Acuto to record an episode for season 2 of the Urban Studies Journal podcast Walking the City With...
You can listen here www.urbanstudiesjournal.com/podcast/8-wa...
New Film/Report on Pakistani Railway Infrastructure/CPEC
FILM: "Tarakiyati Kaam Jari Hai/Developmental Work in Progress" by Zainab Farid
REPORT: "Navigating Displacement + Inequality along the ML-1 Railway Corridor" by Toheed Mohammed
๐ karachiurbanlab.com/assets/downl...
youtu.be/njSGg_OqY5s?...
Launch event at the Karachi Urban Lab for a new film and report on railway led displacements in urban Pakistan as part of our Global Corridor project.
Community members, activists, and researchers will discuss how big infrastructure projects hit up against everyday lives.
Register via the QR code
The 'Manchester Model' in one story...public money subsidising private profit
Renaker borrowed ยฃ700+ million from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) + its affiliates to build high end skyscapers...
Now it's owner is fleeing with the profits to tax-free Monaco
Global Corridor newsletter 6 is out now covering...
BlackRockโs $80bn investment in power/data, Africa's largest mining project, podcast on the global infra race, Dutch semiconductor move, docker struggles in history, special economic zone urbanism...
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
In early 2025, the Israeli military launched an operation that emptied three Palestinian refugee camps. They've blocked their residents from returning and razed many of their homes.
In a new report, HRW finds that Israeli forces carried out war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
Publication Day for our Open Access book w/ Bristol Uni Press
"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures + Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"
Edited w/ Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng + Alan Wiig
Link here >> bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...
Yet again Sheffield University management are forcing sheffielducu.bsky.social members out on strike f/ Monday to protect staff jobs, student educ, + research progress which are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes.
Another university has to be possible!
Yet again Sheffield University management are forcing sheffielducu.bsky.social members out on strike f/ Monday to protect staff jobs, student educ, + research progress which are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes.
Another university has to be possible!
Great to be on the latest episode of the Urban Radar podcast talking about the global infrastructure race, corridors, transforming urban geographies, China and more with Zhengli, Linda and hosted by Tom/Beth
Have a listen!
A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Alongside the report we will also be releasing Zainab Farid's new film โTarakiyati Kaam Jari Hai - Developmental Work in Progressโ exploring the human costs of infrastructure investment in Pakistan
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Looking forward to releasing this report with the Karachi Urban Lab, led by Muhammed Toheed + exploring the ways technical standards for a major railway project will shape the urban lives of thousands of people...
Launch event coming up in Karachi soon
Glad we have such critical journalism in Manchester
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Announcing Antipodeโs 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025
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A reminder that Sudanese activists inc in Manchester have been calling to boycott the UAE, now even more vital given the UAE backed RSF militia captures El Fasher
War crimes + blood on the hands of Abu Dhabi + the UAE
More info: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
New research for the Briefing shows the project companies, Total and CNOOC, have been forced to lend money to their own project.
The project sponsors are self-financing almost 90% of the #EACOP in the face of large scale rejection from the banking sector.
www.banktrack.org/article/tota...
We did warn them ๐ซ
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Not a great look and shows how close Labour Party in MCR is with the real estate industry
Lucy Powell issues statement after reports she urged Angela Rayner to rethink legal case against property developer donor www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
And coming tomorrow online as our birthday celebrations continue...
Keynote Lecture 2: Beyond Splintering Urbanism
Professor Simon Marvin
Tuesday 21 October 2025 - 10:30am to 12:15pm
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Great weekend of radical politics at The World Transformed learning + discussing about imperialism, state violence, red/green alliances, the role of the party. Stand out was the Kids transformed space which was full of fun and care (and crafting!)
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Looking forward to The World Transformed Festival of radical politics, art and culture kicking off tomorrow...
I'm involved in two sessions, a panel looking at the power of Abu Dhabi in the UK/MCR + a walking tour of financialised MCR
More info here theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...
My Global Corridor newsletter #5 is out now
This issue features stories, data, opinion + academic work from Pakistani ports to Russia in Sudan to Middle Eastern railways to the longest film ever (on logistics)....
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
The latest paper I wrote with Costanza Franceschini (Leiden), which came out on @ripejournal.bsky.social, inspired a piece for @theconversation.com ๐
You can now read it here:
theconversation.com/chinese-comp...
The original paper is open access at: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
It's our 10th Birthday!!!
As we enter Urban October we are pleased to share a series of events, gatherings and activities organised by the Urban Institute to celebrate ten years of urban research at the University of Sheffield.
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
The UK Government is arming a genocide while closing down/criminalising any possibility to protest these war crimes. All for a foreign government that has killed at least 20,000 children...
Free Palestine because none of us are free until all of us are free
Glad to share my new article just out in Urban Studies on the impacts of logistical and neo-extractive infrastructures in Buenos Aires! ๐๏ธ ๐ข Materiality + temporalities + environmental degradation + social struggles ๐ฅ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
06.10.2025 03:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Manchester out today against the genocide in Gaza as it is every week, people who value and cherish the lives of everyone regardless of race and religion
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I canโt believe that senior politicians, police + media in the UK are now labelling people protesting against genocide antisemitic.
People have been killed this week and itโs being mobilised in appalling ways. Horrified at the state of our countryโฆ
