Matt Thompson
• full-time urban geographer (UCL Bartlett)
• spare-time cyclejographer (London mostly)
• first-time author (*Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives* https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv153k6cx
Starter Packs
Created by Matt Thompson (2)
Urban political geography & critical urbanism #2
The second edition of a starter pack on all things critical urban geography, broadly defined. Picking up from where this one left off: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/mattthompson.bsky.social/3lb3n3kmgoa2p
Urban political geography & critical urbanism #1
The first edition of a starter pack on all things critical urban geography, broadly defined. Continued here: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/mattthompson.bsky.social/3ldgwqddunh2m
@legalgeolsa.bsky.social
We welcome everybody working on critical legal geographies. Coordinated by LSA (CRN35). Website: www.clg.place Profile image: "All shall be equal before the law: justice graffiti in Cape Town, South Africa" by Ben Sutherland is licensed under CC
@cityisthelimit.bsky.social
Critical urban geographer, housing justice, tenant rights, say no to surveillance. (They)
@holsmith.bsky.social
research fellow @ University of Cambridge // modern architecture - history - politics // writing a book on high-rise housing for Verso 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
@criticalproductive.bsky.social
CriticalProductive Journal is an academic journal/magazine located at the critical confluence of culture, arts, architecture, and urbanism.
@erinmcel.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Geography at University of Washington https://www.erinmcelroy.net; Anti-Eviction Mapping Project https://antievictionmap.com/; Silicon Valley Imperialism https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism
@radicalhousing.bsky.social
An open-access journal dedicated to radical housing struggles and research | Twelfth issue out June 2025 https://radicalhousingjournal.org/
@c1typlann3r.bsky.social
Creator of Embedded Planning Praxis | Website: c1typlann3r.blog + @c1typlann3r | Everything on here reflects my personal views |
@alexcallinicos.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism.
@thedigradio.bsky.social
Daniel Denvir’s Jacobin podcast on politics, history, and economics everywhere. Host: @danieldenvir.bsky.social Producer: @alexjrlewis.bsky.social Listen at http://thedigradio.com Give $$ http://patreon.com/user?u=4839800
@mattsparke.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of Politics, Geographer and Global and Community Health collaborator at University of California Santa Cruz.
@tedrutland.bsky.social
Montreal | Prof at Concordia | Author of Out to Defend Ourselves (2023), Il fallait se défendre (2023), Displacing Blackness (2018) | www.tedrutland.com
@carolynprouse.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Geography and Planning, Queen's University. Anti-colonial urbanist and economic geographer. Lover of food, fiction, wine, and sport. https://biosecuritiesgeog.ca/ | http://geels.ca/ | https://carolynprouse.com/
@jlcidell.bsky.social
Geographer, quilter, runner, writer, teacher, researcher, Cubs fan, transportation geek, she/her
@julia-zielke.bsky.social
Public health question-asker w/ passion for health equity and diversity, at Charité Berlin -The personal is political. -Dismantling the "it's always been done that way" -If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
@modacitylife.com
Delft-based urban mobility advocates and authors of ‘Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality’ and ‘Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in our Lives’. www.modacitylife.com
@drinksmaven.bsky.social
Drinks journalist. Likes drinks. Loves pubs. Contact jessica.mason@thedrinksbusiness.com
@bostonreview.bsky.social
A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world. Independent and nonprofit since 1975. SUBSCRIBE: bostonreview.net/memberships DONATE: bostonreview.net/donations
@tsasson.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Modern History at Oxford @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Co-Editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8 https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-tehila-sasson
@econchange.bsky.social
The Economic Change Unit (ECU) campaigns to change the way the economy works so that everyone has the freedom and security to live a good life. Visit: econchange.org
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Internet person. Community tech, careful innovation, trying to make progressive tech policy happen. https://carefultrouble.net https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
@francesryan.bsky.social
Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? and Crippled. E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
@christinejberry.bsky.social
Writer, thinker, changemaker, mum. Long covid since 2022. Based in Manchester, UK.
@technolowicz.bsky.social
Currently predicting patents at INET Oxford and TU Chemnitz. Interested in science and politics of technology &how to build the future, occasionally chess
@sallycawood.bsky.social
Lecturer in Economic Geography @LancasterEnvironmentCentre working on coloniality, waste and sanitation labour. More at: https://hazardouslabourgeographies.net/
@critiquecentre.bsky.social
CRITIQUE is the Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought at the University of Edinburgh. We draw together scholars from across Schools and Colleges in a dynamic hub for ethical and critical analysis of urgent social challenges.
@jilltxt.bsky.social
Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
@rcastorjeffery.bsky.social
Artist based in Bristol in the UK www.rcjfineart.co.uk
@linaolsson.bsky.social
Urban Scholar, Department of Urban Studies & Institute of Urban Research (IUR), Malmö University. Urban political economy, urban land, mobility, green financialization, justice, uneven development.
@psiglobalunion.bsky.social
We are the Global Union Federation for public service workers. Fighting fires, fighting pandemics, fighting billionaires. Over 30mill members in 168 countries. Follow us for news on workers' struggles the world over PSI www.publicservices.international
@ashdisorient.bsky.social
autodidact : teacher : cultural studies : global film: black marxism : cognitive mapping: inter-asia : contemporary art : darkmatter journal : open access : dis-orienting rhythms : undercommons : poet : affirmative sabotage substack.com/@ashwanisharma1
@madeleinepauker.bsky.social
Researching area-based retrofit. Interested in housing, decarbonisation, planning, political economy.
@johnhoganmorris.bsky.social
Economic geographer 🗺 💰 Central banking, risk management & climate finance. Co-author (Mis)managing Macroprudential Expectations
@tomsugrue.bsky.social
Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
@gkrtzs.bsky.social
Professor of Planning at Izmir Institute of Technology | Reader in Planning & Rural Development at Newcastle University | Associate Editor of Habitat International | Planning | Rural | Art
@docmattmoudi.bsky.social
📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks Head of the Silicon Valley Initiative@ Amnesty Tech. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Views=own
@thomasfazi.bsky.social
Dad │ journalist │ writer │ socialist. Latest book: “The Covid Consensus”. Columnist: @unherd.com, Compact. Substack: www.thomasfazi.com │ X: https://x.com/battleforeurope
@hs-wilkins.bsky.social
I like wandering around and looking and buildings and cities. I MIGHT MAKE INANE COMMENTS ABOUT THEM IN CAPS. I’m generally too lazy to think or remember much.
@astridwood.bsky.social
Urban geography prof @NCL Geography. Author of #HowCitiesLearn. Researches infrastructure, governance, transportation.
@urbanstudiesonline.com
Publishing ground-breaking contributions across the full range of social science disciplines. Follow us for the latest USJ updates. Visit our website to find out more: urbanstudiesonline.com
@matinakapsali.bsky.social
Urban Geographer Postdoctoral Fellow @USForg @GeographyUOM Feminist Geography • Social Reproduction • Grassroots Infrastructures • Urban Politics •🐈 • she/her
@livingmaps.bsky.social
Exploring new directions in critical and creative cartography. We use participatory mapping to help communities drive social change. Find us at livingmaps.org.uk
@housingtheory.bsky.social
Housing, Theory and Society publishes housing research in regards to wider social, cultural, and economic issues. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/shou20
@smettler.bsky.social
Political scientist. Thinking about democracy, rural-urban divide, inequality.
@emilythorson.bsky.social
Political science, Syracuse University Information effects, misperceptions, egg sandwiches My book is "The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public"
@toshwarwick.bsky.social
Heritage Unlocked historian, heritage consultant, author, Researcher at the University of Sheffield. Historical contributor on TV, radio and newspapers on industrial heritage, urban history, football history and Middlesbrough FC!