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ASS will be 50 in October! We will be doing stuff but currently mainly trying to contact ex-volunteers to involve them in stuff But if others have ideas get in touch too There will be a party, maybe archiving discussion, possibly planning the future?

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Off to London town for a @city-journal.bsky.social meeting tomorrow. 📷 Meersbrook, Sheffield. Municipal park since 1887.

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🧵Happy to announce our Special Issue on the #Political and #Transformative Uses of #Time is out! Coedited by me & E Colin Ruggero. Many thanks to all our contributors and to @timeandsociety.bsky.social. Hope it will be useful for those thinking time politically. journals.sagepub.com/toc/tasa/34/1

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Catch Sam on tour at a venue near you! We will be at the BCU one on 12th March.

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BOOK LAUNCHES (so far) 5/3 - UBC (online, 6pm GMT) 6/3 - Sheff Uni (12:30) 7/3 - Freedom/ASS (7pm) 12/3 - Birmingham City (5pm) 26/3 - York Uni (Law, 3:30) 30/4 - Housmans (7pm) @assquattheworld.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social @housmansbookshop.bsky.social @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social

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BOOK LAUNCHES (so far) 5/3 - UBC (online, 6pm GMT) 6/3 - Sheff Uni (12:30) 7/3 - Freedom/ASS (7pm) 12/3 - Birmingham City (5pm) 26/3 - York Uni (Law, 3:30) 30/4 - Housmans (7pm) @assquattheworld.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social @housmansbookshop.bsky.social @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social

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Really sorry to hear about Michael Burawoy. An inspirational sociologist who made me rethink methods, epistemology, dissemination, and the politics of what we do. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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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Tonight. I’m at the @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social launch of Isaac Rose’s “The Rentier City - Manchester and the making of the Neoliberal Metropolis”. @repeaterbooks.bsky.social @urbaninstitute.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social

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Now that proofs are in, I am stoked to share that my book, The Injustice of Property, is due out June 2025 with @ugapress.bsky.social I couldn't be happier to be part of the Geographies of Justice Series. See a description here: ugapress.org/book/9780820...

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This will be a great day of workshopping and discussing ways of doing theory at @camsociology.bsky.social in May. I'll be one of the discussants, w/ Sarah Bufkin @unibirmingham.bsky.social, Teodor Mladenov @dundee.ac.uk & Kristin Surak @lsesociology.bsky.social. Here's the cfp for ECRs:

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Great few days at @unileiden.bsky.social thinking creatively, critically, and radically with archives. Great team behind the ERC Artives project www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/...

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Presenting in the same room as Einstein… funny how spaces are remembered, rendered significant, and imbued with authority… @unileiden.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social

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Off to @unileiden.bsky.social today for this one. Happy to be invited to talk about the city as an archive. Looking forward to it. www.nica-institute.com/event-keepin.... @bcusociology.bsky.social

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2024 finished with a new article (in Spanish) cowritten with colleagues from the UK and Bolivia. It's called: Multilocality and related identity challenges of Indigenous youth in Bolivia p3.usal.edu.ar/index.php/mi...

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Congratulations Sam! Great to see this out in the world.

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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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Neighbours say that the owner of one of the properties refuses to rent or sell the property, despite regular offers from the public. These dwellings are a symbol of the problems with Australia’s housing market. freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/17/a...

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@nabmed.bsky.social welcome

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Of up to half a million travelling people in the UK, about a quarter live in mobile homes, and many who are settled continue to maintain the tradition for part of the year. freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/13/o...

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Love this book - a really great account of the many dimensions of squatting, told with proper humour, pathos, vigour, and verve - and mercifully without too much fashionable culturalgeographyspeak.

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‘A remarkable theatrical ethnography’ - Anitra Nelson Last day to preorder for £12.50 @plutopress.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social #squattinglondon www.plutobooks.com/978074534143...

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‘A remarkable theatrical ethnography’ - Anitra Nelson Last day to preorder for £12.50 @plutopress.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social #squattinglondon www.plutobooks.com/978074534143...

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Our Beyond Inhabitation Lab Mara Ferreri has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator grant! I am so happy for Mara: this is so well-deserved & will impact #housingstudies. A testament to her terrific work & our collective strategy at the Lab. Info: beyondinhabitation.org/mara-ferreri...

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‘In a powerful and subversive account, Burgum opens up the political space of the city as he takes us inside London's squats' - Nick Blomley Only £12.50 until 5th December. @plutopress.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social #squattinglondon www.plutobooks.com/978074534143...

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My book (like all books at UW press) is on sale! visit the UW Press website and use promo code WINTER24 for 40% off and free domestic shipping on orders through January 3, 2024. uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

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‘In a powerful and subversive account, Burgum opens up the political space of the city as he takes us inside London's squats' - Nick Blomley Only £12.50 until 5th December. @plutopress.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social #squattinglondon www.plutobooks.com/978074534143...

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Looking for the ideal critical urban studies book for a Christmas gift or stocking filler? Look no further! Fantastic new book from Sheffield @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social Associate @samburgum.bsky.social

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‘Homes without people, people without homes. This book demonstrates that squatting is not just the correction of this unfair mathematics, but also the creation of collectivity’ - Raquel Rolnik @raquelrolnik.bsky.social Only £12.50 until 5 Dec. www.plutobooks.com/978074534143...

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Three more days on this deal. Grab a genuine bargain!

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‘Squatting London is a forceful call to take such generative power seriously and an important resource to work with it' - Michele Lancione @michelelancione.bsky.social Only £12.50 until 5th Dec. @plutopress.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social #squattinglondon www.plutobooks.com/978074534143...

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Who wouldn't want to get their hands on a book - for a mere £12.50 - on a subject which is so timely and has such a fabulous cover?

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Squatting London: the Politics of Property (pbk) is only £12.50 until 5th December. ‘A timely and urgent book that challenges how we come to think about property’ - Alex Vasudevan @potentiaspace.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social tinyurl.com/29tzd85p #squattinglondon

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Alpha City - paperback editions, available at Verso and at Nanjing University Press. Verso - tinyurl.com/45fs2pjf Nanjing - book.douban.com/subject/3698...

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We have three amazing events on this week Tues / Urban Riches 'The Power of Space' Wed / Dialogue: The Global Urbanisms of the Corridor Fri / Book Launch for 'Living the Urban Periphery' More info on the posters + on our website (www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...)

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#squattinglondon £12.50 until December 5th 👀

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#squattinglondon £12.50 until December 5th 👀

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The University of Leicester is setting the police on its own students who occupied a building to protest the university's ties to genocide. Eight were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...

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