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Reading this stunning book in Morocco amid such linked histories, thinking through inhabiting a Muslim-Jewish “world of our ancestors that imperialism wants us to believe is impossible to inhabit, + to make it part of my -our- continuous present” www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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We are advertising for a New Research Associate position for JustGESI Project www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

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Settler colonialism // always about property development The Trump admin plans for Saudi Arabia Qatar + UAE to obtain waterfront property rights in reconstructed Gaza Strip + for their construction firms to be awarded contracts to build apartments www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-a...

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Important work from Commonwealth on gentrification in Manchester with much wider significance... Join them tonight, alongside Rich Goulding discussing our recent 'Centripetal Cities' report and GM Tenants Union All out against Gentrification in Manchester! www.ticketsource.co.uk/gmtu/greater...

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The JustHousing project has a website. With @kevincredit.bsky.social & Fiadh Tubridy, we're working with community orgs & the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) to strengthen links between housing + climate justice. The 3 year project is funded by @epaireland.bsky.social mu.ie/justhousing

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Sheffield UCU Working Group on Palestine's second session on Workers in Palestine's toolkit is taking place tomorrow 4th Feb at 1pm Sign up here: forms.gle/R3QpFAU8YUmP...

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🚨 New Report 🚨 'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development' Given the Government's aim to 'unleash growth' we've drawn on over 3 years of research to think about the implications of this agenda for towns + cities Available here www.sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/...

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British Geography just never stops with its pathetic shite. Shifty Thrifty, who once tear-gassed protesting students at Warwick whilst saying he had found “new openings for the left”, has - appallingly - been given the space to write this: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Council leaders celebrate ‘investment’ into cities in the form of new urban development. But they don’t acknowledge this investment is in order to EXTRACT rents Our report found over £1.5 billion of rents just in the Build to Rent sector will flow out of GM in the next decade

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Gentrification in Manchester’s inner city is out of control. This data on house prices from our report shows how popular neighbourhoods, once affordable are now financially out of all proportion to the capacity of the working class to rent/buy Report >> www.sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/...

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It was great presenting my preliminary PhD findings on “terrains of ocupation and relocation” alongside other brilliant PhD students at @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social PhD forum. Thanks to all involved!

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🚨 New Report 🚨 'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development' Given the Government's aim to 'unleash growth' we've drawn on over 3 years of research to think about the implications of this agenda for towns + cities Available here www.sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/...

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Today we are announcing the first steps of a campaign to pass BDS resolutions within the AAG! If you are a geographer, AAG member, or part of another geography disciplinary organization, sign our pledge below to stay in touch about the campaign⤵️ geog4pal.org/pledge/ #geosky

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"Decolonization never takes place unnoticed, for it influences individuals and modifies them fundamentally. It transforms spectators crushed with their inessentiality into privileged actors, with the grandiose glare of history's floodlights upon them" Frantz Fanon

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After the hostage exchange today Israel will begin pulling back from the Netzarim corridor — an east-west infrastructural imposition that’s been critical to the (attempted) control + destruction of Gaza Later in the process the withdrawal will happen on the Philadelphi Corridor

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THREAD! 🧵8 reasons why the word NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) needs to go in the bin. 🚮 The government is using this term a LOT because it does ideological work. It portrays the community as a mindless, grumbling, zombie mass who oppose all development on the grounds of selfish self-interest.

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The Gaza Municipality have operated throughout the onslaught on the territory attempting to sustain essential civic services under relentless bombing Now, already they start a new phase to repair + fix the infrastructures of life, remarkable dedication to the people

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Never forgive or forget those that participated in, aided or supported the slaughter of Gaza. A horrific crime of historical significance. Today we can feel relief + sorrow, tomorrow we carry on supporting Palestine until it’s free 🇵🇸

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Shame on the UK Foreign Secretary. ‘Deepening’ a partnership with a state the International Court of Justice has ruled is plausibly committing genocide could well be a war crime itself (given UK military activity) David Lammy should resign in disgrace

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An update, as from this month I am a full Professor (of Urban Geography) I am full of gratitude + thanks to all those at Sheffield + elsewhere that opened doors into new worlds I will be sure to keep recognising my privilege + use this position to fight for a better world

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The Victorian City hanging on (just) amid the urban development sweeping along Great Ancoats Street

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They just can’t help lending tens of millions to a luxury skyscraper company in Manchester, it’s almost like they don’t have any other plan to do urban development “GMCA approves £120m Renaker loans ahead of legal case” www.placenorthwest.co.uk/gmca-approve...

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The next public event as part of the Urban Riches group sees our Sheffield launch of Isaac Rose's excellent analysis of Manchester - The Rentier City. All are very welcome! Registration for this free public event in Sheffield here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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To make real climate progress, we need a green economic populism that brings immediate, material benefits to the working class—tackling both carbon and the cost-of-living crisis. We can start local rn. Thrilled to share my NYT op-ed w @triofrancos.bsky.social! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...

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Our new paper (Open Access) in Urban Studies journal is out now 'The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation' From the Global Corridor project w/ Fatima, Yannis + Prince Available here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Today Greater Manchester has taken back public control of the bus network after decades of disastrous deregulation. Next up we demand public ownership and control of essential networks of water, energy, broadband, railways and more

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Probably gonna be spending 2025 doing what we did in 2024, protesting against the genocide in Gaza and for the liberation of Palestine

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Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, Director of the now destroyed Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza walking towards Israeli tanks I’m not sure who took the photograph but it’s power is extraordinary.

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Donate now to the Gaza Municipality to help them rebuild the infrastructures providing vital services such as water, waste + sewage treatment Mutual aid to rebuild these vital networks for social reproduction deliberately targeted in the war gaza-city.ensany.com/campaign/6737

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#squattinglondon is out in world tomorrow. privileged to have had all that time to research. it took a lot longer than planned to write-up. nervous-excited to hear what people make of it. met some incredible people. ✊ every1 putting empty spaces back to use. www.plutobooks.com/978074534143...

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Nice to keep reading reviews of my book. This from Mathias Chukwudi Isiani in African Studies Review was very humbling - tinyurl.com/2am34vh9 "a profound and exciting contribution to the debate on urban infrastructure, decoloniality, and modernism in Africa and the West"

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Book talk coming up in Sheffield for Isaac Rose’s 'Rentier City' - a public event on the housing crisis and new finance in Manchester and Sheffield, w/ Sheff Tenants Union + org by the UI/Urban Riches (@qurbanist.bsky.social) Jan 30th, 6.30 (Venue TBC) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Free intro for "The Time beneath the Concrete" by Nasser Abourahme (Duke Uni Press) t.co/nYiEUfWSuo “And we come to see the Palestinian insistence on return as a refusal to abide by the closure of the past into settler futurity”

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If you're a housing activist, campaigner, researcher, policy wonk or someone who's interested in becoming any of these please get in touch to join our Homes for Us Alliance! More info about our recent housing summit in our blog here 👇

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