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thomdavies.bsky.social
Associate Professor @UoNGeography | Geographer researching #ToxicGeographies and #Refugees | he/him | 📚 TOXIC TRUTHS book (2020) Editor at Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
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There are some (far too few) corners of UK higher education that still give me hope. This is one of them:

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Come work with us! A wonderfully welcoming and supportive School who have been great in helping me find my feet as an ECR Geographer! Very happy to chat to anyone interested in applying!

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NEW JOB 🚨: Assistant Professor in Human Geography at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social: 💰£41,421 to £56,921 per annum Any of these research areas very welcome: 🔹Cultural and Historical Geography 🔹Economic and #Political Worlds 🔹Environment, Health and Society. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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Happy Birthday to all refugees arbitrarily assigned 1st January as their date of birth. Congratulations on your perseverance despite the despicable treatment seeking asylum entails in the richest countries of the world. Celebrate your persistence in ensuring your rights.

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I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong

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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

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⭐️NEW EXPLAINER: Labour on immigration: 5 things you need to know 👉 the key policy developments 👉 companies who benefit ... with links to groups mobilising against them. Summarised below for those who are short on time corporatewatch.org/labour-on-im... #starmer #homeoffice #immigration #noborders

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First Post! I am a migration and citizenship scholar and activist. In January I will be starting a new project at the Univeristy of Geneva titled "A Theory of Maritime Migration: Examining the intersection of mobile people and territory". Below is a selection of work published this year.

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Article in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social about the political economy of the UK border. We argue that both private and political actors are directly profitting from people seeking asylum (not just the "people smugglers") onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #OpenAccess

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in the marking bunker today

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While reactionaries may use women's rights to attack other minorities (Muslim communities, trans people, immigrants etc), you really don't have to scratch the surface much to realise that they are not attached to said rights, but to the exclusion of others (including women)

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New article in @societyandspace.bsky.social: "Eco-coloniality" and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border. What's at stake by converting a #refugee camp into a nature reserve? How's the #environment used to harm racialised #migrants at borders? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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After a hiatus, Ep 4 of the Minor Revisions podcast is here! Gabriel Silvestre (Newcastle Univ) & Guillermo Jajamovich (Univ of Buenos Aires) discuss the 'behind the scenes' story of publishing "The afterlives of urban megaprojects" journals.sagepub.com/page/epc/col... #geosky #academicsky

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Politics & Space has some new editors. Joining Luiza Bialasiewicz & me are: -Thom Davies (www.nottingham.ac.uk/Geography/Pe... ) -Rachel Hughes (findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/3808... ) -Sarah Hunt (www.uvic.ca/socialscienc... ) Submit your paper: journals.sagepub.com/home/epc #Geosky

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Happy to be part of the Politics and Space editorial team! Looking forward to working with some brilliant colleagues, authors, and reviewers :)

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i don't know if i can face using (yet) another social media platform, but here we are...

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Here we go then

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