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second post on substack is up. in this one i chat a bit about the new robert macfarlane book, unloved urban rivers, and mundane forms of environmentalism. open.substack.com/pub/occasional…
My first Substack newsletter is available to read now! In it, I talk about the current Green Party leadership election, why I've joined the party to vote for @ZackPolanski, and the spatial politics that has framed the debate so far occasionalgeographer.substack.com/p/newsletter-1…
starting a substack to get over writer's block. going to put out a regular (free) newsletter that talks about current affairs, environmental politics, culture and urban space through the lens of geography. welcome post here if you want to learn more 👉open.substack.com/pub/occasional…
Unbelievable watching @DavidLammy dismiss @zarahsultana’s condemnation of genocide as “clickbait”.
The UN warns that in the next 48 hours, 14,000 babies in Gaza could die due to Israel’s blockade. The government has now suspended Free Trade Agreement talks, as many of us have long demanded. But we need to show we mean what we say: immediately recognise the state of Palestine,…
"The narrative of the North–South divide as an endogenous English phenomenon elides the role that Britain's empire played in creating the nation's social, economic, and cultural geographies" rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tr…
‘I thought politics was a dirty thing’ – Zack Polanski on his ‘eco-populist’ vision for the Green party theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
Green MPs Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay have launched their leadership bid with a Westminster-centric campaign at a time when people hate Westminster. Wrong move, argues @AdamRamsay. novaramedia.com/2025/05/12/gre…
Arrived in Detroit for the #AAG! Geographers, please check out our session “Making space for anticolonial geographies of and from the metropole?” which is running tomorrow morning in the 10am slot (please refer to the program for location info)
Our workshop ‘From Archives to AI: Researching and Imagining Socioenvironmental Relations’ will be held @BristolGeog on 12 Feb 2025, which includes talks by @olivia_r_mason @mattinbiglari & @jwyg , and a panel discussion chaired by Mark Jackson! Please find details below!
Really happy to have successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday afternoon!! Thanks to Drs @maanbarua and Merle Patchett for a generative discussion (my tabs on the document proved a little excessive...)
Sally Rooney Political Economic Thought is so good, so crisp
Sally Rooney: Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…
Michael Walker & Phillips joining a hard-right media pile-on of (brilliant & lovely) Kathryn Yusoff tells you everything you need to know about their reactionary politics & alliances.
I mean, the highlighted claim is fundamentally true though, there’s nothing wacky about it at all.
Francesca Albanese was surprised to learn that @DavidLammy is a lawyer following his ludicrous remarks that a genocide necessitates “millions to be killed” — a clear case of genocidal denial.