Jon Silver

Two positions available with the journal Urban Geography: Frontline Editor & Social Media Editor. Good people to work with! www.urbangeographyjournal.org/news

I've started a Global Corridor newsletter on Substack providing a round up of some of the most interesting news, stories, data, opinion + academic work on global infrastructure.

Looking forward to sharing more in autumn but for now enjoy the first one

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The hubris is extraordinary, turning recognition of Palestine into a bargaining chip w/ a genocidal state.

Starmer thinks this is good enough to hide his complicity. We want recognition, trade sanctions, arms embargo, end of military assistance/training + expulsion of the ambassador!

This letter is already at over 1000 signatures, showing the level of support in UK academia for these students - and hopefully increasing pressure on the Home Office and FCDO. Still open to sign.

A carnival like protest led by a banner declaring,
"Stop the Lies, there's no Genocide in Gaza"

There's no coming back from this depravity, when the rest of the world is watching children starved, shot + bombed to death. Truly sickening to see it on the streets of the UK this weekend

“Air drops will not reverse the deepening starvation,” said Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.

Gesture politics from a Prime Minister who has previously said Israel has the right to impose a siege on Gaza, and continues to support Israeli war crimes

'My latest' an attempt an conceptualizing a critical eviction-logistics as the allocation of loss, at the convergence of mobility race and housing, while trying to follow the moving parts of Eviction in Cape Town (and working within the complexities of a pandemic where eviction was paused):

Oh Alex is on Bluesky @anomiegeog.bsky.social

For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town Understanding eviction as a positioning of bodies and loss in a property relation, I argue a critical logistical reading may offer a means of describing the capacity to evict within the economic, rac...

Great new paper from Alex Baker in Antipode

“For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town”

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 Call for Papers:
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question

ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki

🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025

🏹 Please spread the word!

Delete your @bookingcom account!

As the protest in Manchester last wk made clear we need to BOYCOTT this company, which profits from Israel’s illegal occupation + apartheid of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem

Info here: www.bdsmovement.net/bookingcom-s...

‘All those posh apartments. It’s a playground for the rich’: is Manchester turning into London? £6 a pint, £199 a month for gym membership, £1,200 to rent a studio flat? The Guardian’s former North of England editor asks if the city she’s worked in for 12 years is changing for the better – or wo...

Nothing about finance and big capital being attracted through favourable conditions in this piece, almost like the hyper-gentrification + transformation happened ‘naturally’ rather than a state-led strategy underpinned by embracing of neoliberal dogma

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Old ladies helping out the charity shop, school children popping in for a second hand book, parents buying Fair Trade coffee, vintage clothes shoppers, church congregations etc. This is Middle England + it knows

The government response to this has been Terrorist Legislation, utterly unprecedented!

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Poster now in every Oxfam shop in the UK, on every high street up and down the land. 'Middle England' know's whats going on

UK GOV/Israel supporters think attacking opposition to genocide can happen w/out any repercussions but I think they under-estimate how this will reverberate into the future

Trump’s $1tn for Pentagon to add huge planet-heating emissions, study shows Exclusive: 17% increase in military spending will add emissions equivalent to those of some entire countries

The 17% rise in US pentagon spending since 2023 will result in an additional 26,000,000 tons of Co2 emissions. These emissions will cause ~$47 billion in damages when the US is already spending $1 trillion/year on disaster recovery. Our new
@cplusc.bsky.social research covered in @theguardian.com

Our GlobalCORRIDOR paper is out in the latest edition of Urban Studies journal

"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

This is England

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Again Forensic Architecture provide detailed data/visual understandings of the genocide in Gaza.

This work documents how the militarised system of 'aid' operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) acts to accelerate ethnic cleansing + kill

frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/aid/a-c...

Feature 6: CYBORG RIGHTS & THE CITY? A conversation on tech & urbanism with Simon Marvin & Allan McCay Urban Radar · Episode

CYBORG RIGHTS & THE CITY:
New UrbanRadar podcast now available

A conversation on tech and urbanism with Simon Marvin and Allan McCay

Available on open.spotify.com/episode/297T... - or wherever you get your podcasts!

In Manchester police push through crowds + arrest 16 people inc 3 vicars and many elderly under the Terrorism Act for holding signs "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

Manchester International Festival is sponsored by tens of millions of £ by Aviva, who are involved with finance with Elbit Systems

They profit from genocide and use art washing to try and hide this.

People of Manchester say no to art washing in a genocide

Last week the Global Corridor project had the pleasure of hosting our international collaborators to comparatively think through how infra corridors are transforming the planet inc urban terrains

A vibrant, caring + intellectually stimulating few days together w/ amazing people

LIBERATION | Manchester International Festival 2025 Inspired by true events in Black British history, LIBERATION is a powerful new play from writer Ntombizodwa Nyoni and director Monique Touko. Tracing the private lives of the people who fought to libe...

Enjoyed this play marking the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, showing the tensions, personalities and solidarities that were forged to demand an end to colonial rule

factoryinternational.org/whats-on/lib...

Met police arrest activists holding signs referring to Palestine Action Officers arrest protesters day after direct action group banned as terrorist organisation

Free Palestine, because none of us are free until all of us are free.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

YouTube video by Channel 4 Documentaries Gaza: Doctors Under Attack | Channel 4 Documentaries

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, the full documentary is now available on our Channel 4 Documentaries YouTube. youtu.be/iv3wpeJ6Oco?...

Artist, GROVE calling out Aviva, sponsor of 'AVIVA STUDIOS in Manchester for providing insurance to UAV Engines, an Elbit Systems subsidiary in Staffordshire, which manufactures engines for drones used by the Israeli military

First day of MCR International Festival and the sponsor is under pressure

The Sheikh Who Conquered Soccer and Coddles Warlords

"The Sheikh Who Conquered Soccer and Coddles Warlords"

Top piece in the NYT on Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Here in Manchester we have been challenging the ways his influence shapes our city + further afield, most recently with Sudanese activists

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...

To celebrate the start of our GlobalCORRIDOR symposium we're excited to release the trailer for Zainab Farid's new film in association with Karachi Urban Lab

‘Tarakiyati Kaam Jari Hai - Developmental Work in Progress’

Exploring the human costs of infrastructure investment in Pakistan

Home Office staff concerned about ‘absurd’ Palestine Action ban, says senior civil servant Anonymous source describes ‘tense atmosphere’ after Yvette Cooper announced plans to proscribe protest group

Even the authoritarian bureaucrats in the Home Office see how absurd it is to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...