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Walter Benjamin - Yale University Press London An accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the complexity of his intellectual legacy and the turbulence of h...

Peter E. Gordon, Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver - @yalepress.bsky.social, April 2026
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Out now the Beyond Inhabitation Lab 2026 Spring Seminar Series

In order of appearance: Tatiana Thieme, Irene Peano, Ida Danewid, Ananya Roy & Veronika Zablotsky with a guest discussion by Ash Amin & Ida Danewid, Samia Henni, Iain Michael Chambers

Links & details beyondinhabitation.org/our-events

#OtD 5 Mar 1981 a group of women in West Berlin occupied five apartments which, despite being ready for people to move into, had been empty for over six months. Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1054...

Mobilize: The Analytics and Politics of Indigenous Movement Indigenous scholars have extensively theorized the centrality of place-making and land relations in examining the workings of colonialism and the underpinnings of Indigenous futurities. In this essay...

New #OpenAccess article, "Mobilize: The Analytics and Politics of Indigenous Movement" by Michelle Daigle onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks for sharing this piece. I forgot the connection between Hessel and the film Jules et Jim

Cover of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic. The cover features an abstract art piece by Darcie Bernhardt. The piece is titled Beluga Hunting and depicts a light pink, green, and blue marbled pattern. Forked green and white lines within the pattern evoke topographic striations.

Congratulations to Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social, whose book "Ice Geographies" has been named a co-winner of the On the Brinck Award, given by the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning @unm_saap. bit.ly/4aGYo7K buff.ly/eXBh6OO

'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization'

Excited to be involved in this event in Sheffield (12 March) at the Site Gallery inc film screening, book launch + panel discussion w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social, Junia Mortimer and more

More info here: sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

THE STORY OF CAPITAL

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Aargh, just catching up with this

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

Really importance piece in the Times Higher on cuts to Geography at a time when it matters most www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984

The Hour Before One Night https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483183

✨New South Atlantic Quarterly special issue edited by me & Sarah Bufkin, "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe" read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant... The cover is by Sámi painter Per Enoksson

Forum on Climate change and urban agrarian solidarities.

From food, water, and energy to social reproduction, the forum asks: how do we move from urban agrarian opposition to political solidarity?

Read: tandfonline.com/toc/ccit20/current

David Harvey: The Story of Capital | The Verso Book Club Reading Group On February 22nd at 2pm EST / 7pm GMT the Verso Book Club will be hosting an online reading group with the legendary Marxist scholar David Harvey to discuss his latest work, The Story of Capital:…

On February 22nd the Verso Book Club will be hosting an online reading group with the legendary Marxist scholar @davidharvey.org to discuss his latest work, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works.

Next week in NYC…

Ruth Leys in Critical Inquiry is very good on affect theory (and some of its limitations)

A leading historian of decolonization, Fred Cooper, on the uses and pitfalls of the inflationary invocation of decolonization.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Historic ground

Historic ground https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/houses-near-the-gravel-pit-1913

African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and wo...

African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation (with an incredible lineup). A longread of 68 pages @antipodeonline.bsky.social
#geosky @demonicgrounds.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Glass Facade

Glass Facade https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/glass-facade-1940

Mobilities I: Crisis - Cristina Temenos, 2025 In this report on mobilities, I discuss research published between 2017-present, focussing on how multiple crises intersect with mobilities. I examine how recen...

✈️ New paper published in Progress in Human Geography ✈️

'Mobilities I: Crisis' by Cristina Temenos

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @ctemenos.bsky.social

⏰ This Friday ⏰

Do come to this @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social event if you are interested to learn more about the links between problem debt and homelessness.

I'll be speaking about my book "Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State".

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/homelessne...

Meet me in the soft space between 0 and 1: On quilting bees and errant recognition - Romi Ron Morrison, 2026 Today, pattern and pattern recognition are vital algorithmic techniques for constructing meaning within large swathes of collected data. However, the act of rec...

"I evoke patterning as a vital Black Feminist technology for strategic misrecognition, [prioritizing the] improvisational aesthetics of pattern breaking and adaptation... and information sharing [we observe in] quilting circles [+] boisterous conversations."

Ghost of a Genius

Ghost of a Genius https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/ghost-of-a-genius-1922

Temporary accommodation in England is ‘torture’ for neurodivergent children, report finds Exclusive: Parents said their children had become withdrawn or hypervigilant because of uncertainty, unsafe environments and removal of support

“It’s like torture”: our new report reveals how Temporary Accommodation is harming neurodivergent children and families across the UK. Based on a nationwide call for evidence, it sets out urgent policy asks for change.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Feeling at Home Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Home grapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing – domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to im...

My book Feeling at Home is out in paperback today! It's a call for a more radical struggle for housing and a transformed vision of home www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... @versobooks.bsky.social

Spaces of Anticolonialism Spaces of Anticolonialism is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as the capital of Britain’s empire in India. It pioneers a spatial ...

@stephenlegg11.bsky.social, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities - University of Georgia Press, March 2025
www.ugapress.org/978082036785...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Saumya Dadoo
newbooksnetwork.com/spaces-of-an...

I'll be taking part in this online event w/ @benandersongeog.bsky.social @ajsecor.bsky.social @jemgilbert.bsky.social to discuss the brilliant The Politics of Feeling - 11th April - register here www.eventbrite.com/e/the-politi...