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There's no way "over half of Gen Z want a dictator" - our new study gets more like 6% This is vital to get right - we're sowing generational division, giving fake momentum to the sense that young people are rejecting democracy + missing the real message theconversation.com/only-6-of-ge...

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NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

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I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

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Staff of NSF’s Human-Environment & Geographical Sciences program terminated. Anti-intellectual vengeance against geographers. And, perhaps, against Tim Walz, high school geography teacher & advocate, in particular.

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Mood

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My new article written with @serrinrp.bsky.social & @michaelvaughan.bsky.social has just been published in @bjpir.bsky.social “Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign” available OA at doi.org/10.1177/1369...

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Wrote a piece for the @uk.theconversation.com about our study just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: "If it’s something about the way politics is practised that citizens distrust, perhaps those politics need to change." Some more nuggets from our study below! 👇 theconversation.com/trust-in-pol...

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Foreign Leader Favourability Ratings amongst British Voters: 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy Favourable: 64% Unfavourable: 16% NET: +48% 🇺🇸 Donald Trump Favourable: 22% Unfavourable: 73% NET: -51% 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin Favourable: 4% Unfavourable: 89% NET: -85% Via @YouGov, 16-17 Feb.

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What makes a politician trusted by citizens? @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, G Stoker, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social & @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social find attributes of authenticity are as important as competence & integrity: https://buff.ly/41DzrXI (OPEN ACCESS)

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The deadline for this is next week (25th Feb)! If you're interested don't miss your chance to apply.

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As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index. The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe. #journalism #democracy #freepress rsf.org/en/index

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Our paper on global trends in trust is online! Led by @viktorv.bsky.social we use >3k surveys from ~50 projects in 143 countries, the paper provides a framework for understanding changes in trust and: (1) Trust in representative institutions is in decline (2) but stable in implementing institutions

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Deadline 25 Feb

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We're recruiting a Research Fellow to work on our Leverhulme Trust funded project using materials in the Mass Observation Archive to study how political understandings develop over the life course. With @leverhulme.bsky.social and @massobsarchive.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP947/r...

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Qualitative longitudinal methodologies in and beyond human geography. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025. Deadline for abstracts: 21 Feb. Do get in touch if you’d like to participate.

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How do UK political elites reconcile with a low trust environment? @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social & Gerry Stoker examine this question in @polstudies.bsky.social: https://buff.ly/3E6DkuS (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social

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Channel 4 and its Chief Exec got a lot of publicity for research into Gen Z and democracy. But what happens when you check the polling data and the footnotes? https://theweekinpolls.substack.com/p/gen-z-democracy-and-a-problem-with

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My @politicalquarterly.bsky.social article on WASPI women is out! It uses new @massobsarchive.bsky.social data to explore older women's complicated material situations and their even more complicated feelings about those situations. Read it for free here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Organising an RGS session on 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' - check out our Call for Papers!

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MO is supporting Katie White with her research into early parenting during Covid. Katie will be using MO materials to start and facilitate discussions around experiences of pandemic parenting. If you might be interested taking part please email Katie! First workshop is 15th February.

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An exciting (funded!) opportunity! Be part of a new project using Mass Observation material to look at how political understandings develop over the life course 📝 Deadline February 25th ⌚

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If I were a newly-minted PhD...

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Fascinating job going at University of Sussex, using Mass Observation Archive

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We're recruiting a Research Fellow to work on our Leverhulme Trust funded project using materials in the Mass Observation Archive to study how political understandings develop over the life course. With @leverhulme.bsky.social and @massobsarchive.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP947/r...

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The Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass Observation (2025) is now available -- with essays by Ben Jones, Matt Taunton, Claire Langhamer, Lucy Curzon, Jeremy MacClancy, Annebella Pollen, Jon Lawrence & David Thackeray, Charlotte Hallahan, Nick Hubble, Lucy Robinson, and Rose Lindsey

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I posted last year when this was published but today I finally received my contributor’s copy and had a chance to look at the other chapters in The Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass Observation: 1920s to the Present, ed. Lucy Curzon & Ben Jones. #Sociology #AcademicSky (1/-).

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Organising sessions with @aurorafredriksen.bsky.social on negative affects of planetary crises at RGS-IBG 2025 and would love to hear from you if interested in participating! @rgsibg.bsky.social @cperguom.bsky.social

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What can Kilburn High Road & @liverpoolfc1.bsky.social tell us about the relationality of walking? @emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak revisit Doreen Massey’s canonical essay “A Global Sense of Place”. #OnlineFirst buff.ly/3Wvdp6p 🎙️Listen to Emma & Agata #SpatialDelight: buff.ly/3WW0M1I

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With Khaleda Brophy-Harmer, I'm organising a session at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (Birmingham, 26-29 August) on 'Qualitative longitudinal methodologies in and beyond human geography'. Do get in touch if you'd like to participate. The deadline for abstracts is 21 February.

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With Khaleda Brophy-Harmer, I'm organising a session at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (Birmingham, 26-29 August) on 'Qualitative longitudinal methodologies in and beyond human geography'. Do get in touch if you'd like to participate. The deadline for abstracts is 21 February.

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Local Officials and the Struggle to Transform Cities reveals day-to-day practice that question generalised explanations of state failure in complex urban societies as essential malevolence, contextual weakness, corruption and inefficiency. #openaccess: uclpress.co.uk/book/local-o...

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My new book HOW TO THINK ABOUT POLITICS: A GUIDE IN FIVE PARTS will be published by OUP next month in paperback and ebook. I argue that to understand politics, we must look past the daily fluctuations and instead focus on the fundamental constants of political life. Preview here — shorturl.at/mqLRt

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New paper on conjunctural analysis and radical municipalism and their affinities as two political methods for intervening in the conjuncture Written w/ @paul-stubbs.bsky.social, @colinlorne.bsky.social and co. Just published open access in Environment & Planning F: doi.org/10.1177/2634... 🧵

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Why are urban geographers getting so excited about conjunctural analysis again? And how does that help push for social and political change in places such as Zagreb and beyond? Read all about it in our new open access paper - out now in EPF 👇

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We're delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay prize. The prize for the winning entry is £250 and a year's subscription to the Society. See full T&Cs and details of how to enter on our website: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/01/14/r....

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New review! ✨ 'Nick Clarke’s Everyday Life in the COVID-19 Pandemic is critical, comprehensive, and compelling.' Family & Community History @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social 📜 bit.ly/3ComPcO 📘 bit.ly/3C0sO7N

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#CfP for the #RGSIBG25! 📢 Calling all Political Geography postgrads: Consider submitting a paper to the session 'New & Emerging Research in Political Geography', which aims specifically to provide a supportive environment for sharing your work and ideas: (1/2)

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The Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society will take place in Birmingham, 26-29th August 2025. If you’re interested in ‘Library Encounters’, whether it be campaigning, collaborating or creating, then do take a look at our session Call for Papers. @hesterparr.bsky.social

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"Brits don't like Elon Musk - Farage is better off without him", says John Curtice inews.co.uk/opinion/brit...

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The local government finance settlement delivers more cash to councils serving more deprived areas (i.e. the ones which saw the biggest budget cuts over the 2010s) - some striking charts from my @theifs.bsky.social colleagues

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I can’t wait for this to be out - a book of propositions on the politics of feeling in populism, liberalism and progressivism with @ajsecor.bsky.social Probably the work I’m most proud of so far - as I think it says something novel about this conjuncture www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777472...

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That is some graph on bus usage outside London after deregulation on.ft.com/49PfLlV

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🚨PhD funding🚨at the University of Southampton 🚨 The Leverhulme Programme for Interdisciplinary Resilience Studies is now open for applicants to propose their own projects More information here: pirs.soton.ac.uk/apply/ Deadline: 31st January 2025

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How the population of London has changed over the last decade. Fascinating chart from @jim.londoncentric.media. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tra...

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Excl: Government will move to scrap district councils in its devolution white paper on Monday, sparking the biggest local government reorganisation in 50 years on.ft.com/3VBH0ui

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“Just under half of Britain’s very highest paying jobs were located in London 30 years ago. Today that figure is almost 75 per cent.” Remarkable stat from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social in this excellent column on our unbalanced economy. www.ft.com/content/eb02...

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What makes a politician trusted by citizens? @viktorv.bsky.social , @drjennings.bsky.social, G Stoker, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social & @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social find attributes of authenticity are as important as competence & integrity: https://buff.ly/41DzrXI (OPEN ACCESS)

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Two PhD projects on democratic resilience with potential funding from pirs.soton.ac.uk. One on 'left-behind places' with @drjennings.bsky.social (see www.findaphd.com/phds/project...) and one on 'identities and geographical imaginaries' with @danjdevine.bsky.social (www.findaphd.com/phds/project...)

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