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Prof (she/her) political geography, University of Geneva🇨🇭 Borders/territories/infrastructure/visual methods/comics. Books: "Bornées: une histoire illustrée de la frontière", MétisPresses 2024 & "Along the Line: Writing with Comics & Graphic Narrative" 2025
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Our @visualpolitics.bsky.social program is out. We discuss new research with wonderful scholars from different disciplines: K. Brimblecombe-Fox, @emilyfaux.bsky.social, @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social and @julietjfall.bsky.social. Join us in person or online. www.rolandbleiker.com/upcoming-eve...

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A rainy Sunday wander along the 🇨🇭🇫🇷 border, filling in some blanks and chasing viewpoints with old postcards. History in place. I wanted to take views of the Salève mountain for a drawing project but clouds had other plans! #Bornées #AlongTheLine

Un jour sombre pour la Suisse! 🫕😜 La France bat le record de la plus grande fondue au monde, avec une recette au comté www.rts.ch/info/monde/2...

Butler as clear & interesting as ever! Well worth reading this thoughtful interview.

recap of things to learn from Korean movement, including a website making it easy to send text messages to anti-impeachment parliamentarians, effectively rendering their mobile phones unusable due to the overwhelming volume of incoming messages. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/02/less...

En Suisse, le quotidien de gauche @le-courrier.bsky.social, menacé de disparition, a besoin de soutien lecourrier.ch/2025/02/20/a...

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I will be (virtually!) in Australia to present my new hybrid comic/monograph book ´Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative’ on 4th June (EPFL Press). Join us online! Thanks to @bleiker.bsky.social and C Opdebeek-Wilson for this invitation!

Summarizing the debate on sovereignty and territorial integrity for those in the back row…

Hey foreign friends, there will be rallies in support of Ukraine this weekend all over the world. If you are able, please attend one of them. There's a link where you can find a rally closest to you. #UkrainianView uaworldmap.ukrainianworldcongress.org/en

Looking at local university/higher ed options with Kid 2 today, just to continue on a discussion we had a few days back. What an extraordinary privilege it is to live in a country that continues to invest in affordable, high-quality public education! 🇨🇭 I can't think of a better use of public funds.

A dictatorship hosting another dictatorship to negotiate with an aspiring dictatorship about the future of a democracy that’s not represented.

As this worked so well last time: Is there an up-to-date timeline on countries pursuing a feminist foreign policy, including announcing their intention & then (quietly or not) abandoning it? So far, I have 🇸🇪(dropped)🇨🇦🇫🇷🇲🇽🇪🇸🇱🇺🇩🇪🇳🇱🇨🇱🇨🇴🇱🇷 & 🇦🇷🇱🇾 (abandoned intention). Thanks!

Concours à Université de Genève pour assistant.e-doctorant.e en urbanisme, profil Suds. 5 ans à 75% thèse + enseignement (assistanat 3 cours/an), dès 01.08.2025 Titre requis : Master Urbanisme, Science Pol, Géographie, Socio, Anthropo, Architecture… Délai 09-03-2025 jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Two superpowers opening discussions on the future of a country which one of them is still invading, without that country

The only way I can cope with the daily onslaught of crazy / scary world news is to step back and wonder "How are historians going to write about these times fifty years from now? What will be remembered?", all the while knowing that how it is written about very much depends on what happens next...

"There's an old saying in diplomatic circles: 'If you are not at the table, you are on the table.' Hard to believe it's 2025, and two superpowers are meeting to split up a sovereign nation—like colonialism never went out of style. #Ukraine

Reading the proofs of my new book "Along The Line: Writing in Comics & Graphic Narrative in Geography", coming out soon with EPFL Press. 😁 Includes the English version of my comic "Bornées" interwoven with three written chapters + an extra short comic on the Geneva Summit #comics #bornées #geography

Reading the proofs of my new book "Along The Line: Writing in Comics & Graphic Narrative in Geography", coming out soon with EPFL Press. 😁 Includes the English version of my comic "Bornées" interwoven with three written chapters + an extra short comic on the Geneva Summit #comics #bornées #geography

Hâte de recommencer demain mon cours de Culture Visuelle: un atelier de bande dessinée pour initier les étudiant.es de MA à la recherche dessinée en sciences sociales. Aiguiser notre regards sur la ville & les territoires par la créativité & le jeu, du terrain et des archives jusqu’à la page #UNIGE

There are many awful things about this, but it infuriates me that this isn't new. Universities have long been warned about right wing targeting of students, staff, courses, or wider institutions - and had plenty of ideas to address this. They've continually resisted addressing safety.

Yes, universities need to wake up to such bad-faith targeted attacks across Europe too. We are really bad (naive?) at keeping colleagues safe when targeted storms break out, leaving individuals fighting largely alone, waiting for bullying assaults to shift target.

Les bons réflexes face à l’actualité de la guerre russe contre l’Ukraine. J’enfonce sans doute des portes ouvertes, mais depuis 2022, les commentaires sur la guerre ont dérivé tant de fois qu’il vaut mieux répéter les évidences. 1/8

What about questioning the entire business model behind deliberately underfunding UK universities and making them depend financially on overseas tuition fees?

Remarquable “Le passage” itinerant performance across the🇨🇭🇫🇷 border for the Festival Antigel at night with an audience walking w/ headphones. Sories of WWII refugees, restrained acting. History perfectly set in place. So many echoes with my book, but totally different format. Memorable! #antigel

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Trump’s 2025 « Ukraine, give us rare earth minerals and we’ll protect you » is just like Yeltsin’s 1994 « Ukraine, give us your nuclear weapons and we’ll protect you ». We saw how empty that promise was. Europe must step in to help our neighbours survive 🇺🇦. #ukraine #sovereignty #borders

I've neglected this for a while but have made a couple of new additions to the Critical Border Studies starter pack go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN Shout out to our friends @polgeographygroup.bsky.social who are now on Bluesky

You can always tell when A-ha have been in to return their books.

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

I set out to write a card to Bishop Budde for her words of courage & compassion with help from the kiddos - and then we all ended up making a ton of these to send to friends in this moment. A small thing, but got us all making together, talking on what we can do, & sending things out into the world…

Singing in a choir is a wonderful way to add joy and creativity to a long day! A fantastic body & mind workout, with added friendships. I adore rehearsing once a week with the women's yodel choir of Geneva, not least because it is in such complete contrast to my workday. #coeurdesyodleuses #yodel

Brexit making the headlines.

Danes offers to buy California from the US, to rename it ‘New Denmark’ t.co/QiXeZXfq8p?s...

Quelle est la puissance des cartes ? (Arte) cartonumerique.blogspot.com/2025/02/quel... L'émission propose de réfléchir à la puissance des cartes en interrogeant le choix de la projection, le choix du cadrage, mais aussi le tracé des frontières qui peut être artificiel... 1/

We set up artificial barn swallows’ nests for the colony that has bred in our shared underground garage for years, with our lovely neighbours, after the natural ones were smashed by someone 😳. We hope this will be enough to encourage them to stick around & rebuild when they soon return from Africa!

Well played, Canada, well played!