@jessaloomis
Economic Geographer @ Newcastle University (UK) researching feminist finance, everyday (digital) economies, financial inclusion, housing 'love letters' & the politics of knowledge production // northeast (US) to North East (UK)
In this article, we explore the financial practices, logics and decision-making of ordinary crypto-users and examine how engagement with cryptocurrency shapes how men understand themselves, their future, and their place in the broader world.
Thrilled to share this new article co-authored w/ Abbie Hardcastle on 'The Everyday Geographies of Cryptocurrency: crypto-masculinities, crypto-futures, and gendered financial subjectivities.'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📣 Join the RGS Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) for the first in our 'Emerging Voices in Economic Geography' webinar series on Thursday, 20 Nov at 1pm GMT/8am ET featuring Ifigeneia Dimitrakou & Tim White who will each discuss their work on Housing.
Register here: lnkd.in/ehK_MG_M
Newcastle Geography is now on Bluesky! Follow the department to hear about what's new, what we're excited about, and all the great research and teaching that keeps us busy! @ncl-geography.bsky.social
And a starter pack of NCL geographers go.bsky.app/GEt9bGr
A wonderful piece by my colleague @alisonstenning.bsky.social that highlights children's right to the city and right to play.
Caitlin Henry and I were recently interviewed for this story based on our research into private equity investment in healthcare which explores whose sickness provides profit, where and how care is provisioned, and what impacts this form of investment has on the quality of healthcare and life.
Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026
Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma
Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
New Online 1st Book Review “Outside the Law, But Inside Capital: Tracing Profit in Everyday Economies” by Araby Smyth and Jessa Loomis
doi.org/10.1177/2043...
The BNPL story on 'cute debt' in The Atlantic also featured on Marketplace (min 16:34).
Do you use buy-now-pay-later services?
Dr @jessaloomis.bsky.social comments on the rise of so-called 'Cute Debt' and how it is mainly female shoppers who are being pushed towards these services >> bit.ly/4lMdVXo
And more on the geographies of consumer fintech here: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment technologies are targeting young women and reconfiguring the spaces, practices & relations of digital money and finance. Very happy to have been interviewed for this story based on my research on BNPL and the geographies of consumer fintech w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social
Postdoc researching military support chains & the environmental legacies of militarism w/ my fantastic colleague Mark Griffiths. Check it out 👇
Gig nursing platforms are 100% killing patients:
USF International Fellowships 2025 - deadline 16th July 2025
📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now!
This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.
Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...
Deadline 16th July 2025
And for a feminist reading of consumer fintech, including a consideration of how BNPL attempts to shift consumer practices with distinctly gendered implications, check out our earlier paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Consumers defer payments on 'Buy Now Pay Later' purchases, suggesting an affordability crunch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
In our new article @dcockayne.bsky.social & I explore how fintech affects relations to payment, wages & debt. Check it out!
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
You can add your support to the thousands contesting the threat of compulsory redundancies at Newcastle University -
www.change.org/p/end-unnece...
Please sign and share this petition, calling on Newcastle University’s Executive Board to halt the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling careers and the future of our institution.
www.change.org/p/end-unnece...
TIBG Editor Statement, 2025 As editors for TIBG we acknowledge the extremely challenging circumstances facing many of our colleagues both within and outside the UK as a result of funding cuts, institutional restructuring, and redundancies. We write in solidarity with geographers and academics experiencing emotional distress and uncertainty arising from unjust university management processes and decisions. We recognise this difficult situation may have implications for how colleagues will and can engage with TIBG. This may result in increased pressure to publish. It could also limit colleagues’ capacity to take on tasks such as journal reviewing. We are striving to do our best for both authors and reviewers; balancing our commitments to making timely decisions on papers, whilst also recognising that some reviewers may need more time. We understand too that it will not always be possible to review a paper. If you have any concerns about a paper you have submitted for consideration in TIBG, if you need additional time to undertake a review, or would like advice around publishing in the journal, please contact us at: journals@rgs.org.
A note from the Editors, in solidarity with our colleagues across the sector.
A fantastic, collegial department (w/ the highest QS ranking in the Uni) just had the majority of Professors be threatened with redundancy.
Newcastle geographers will obvi fight for our colleagues & the future of higher ed (& geography!) with all we've got, but SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY VERY WELCOME!
Seeing yet more stories of unis moving to compulsory redundancy, with Geography colleagues (and of course others) at risk.
Today, it's Newcastle Uni, a department that produces incredible scholarship with a vibrant culture.
Sharing in solidarity x
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
The RGS Economic Geography Research Group invites submissions to our annual PhD thesis prize (deadline 31 May for PhDs completed Jan-Dec 2024) and undergraduate dissertation prize (15 July for 2025 degrees). Prize winners will recieve £100. Further details here:
egrg.org/2025/04/09/e...
Just now back from a wonderful undergraduate field course exploring 'emotional geographies of the city' in Vienna and Bratislava. An absolute pleasure to get to 'do' geography with our second year students, and to hear their insights and reflections throughout the week! @newcastleuni.bsky.social
A bunch of Newcastle University staff, many in pink hats, picketing in the sun for UCU Newcastle.
A busy and colourful picket in warm spring sun @newcastleucu.bsky.social with lots of support from passers-by, all here to fight compulsory redundancies and wider threats to the university.
Very much looking forward to our new MA Global Sustainable Futures starting in September, bringing core geography concepts (social justice, sustainability, power, etc) into conversation with debates about key global challenges - more info and how to apply here: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs
