Political Geography and Geopolitics
A starter pack for political geographers, historians of geopolitical thought, and similar life-forms.... just to help us find each other faster in this hive. Let me know if you'd like to be in this list!
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@antoniofdo.bsky.social
@joeblakey.bsky.social
Lecturer, Geography UoM. Political Geographer interested in environmental knowledge politics, post-foundational political theories and aesthetics. Runner. Website: https://joeblakey.com Research: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/joe.blakey
@matildaf.bsky.social
Geographer & lecturer: int. climate politics, (non)reproduction and the Anthropocene. UCU NEC casualised rep. UCU Commons Queerness, food, unions, ABBA. My views. She/her Website: https://linktr.ee/matildafitzmaurice
@sarakfuller.bsky.social
Geographer, Macquarie University, Sydney. Researching climate change, energy, activism, cities, communities and justice.
@saraheknuth.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK
@alisonwilliamsgeog.bsky.social
Reader in Political Geography @ Newcastle University. Mostly interested in thinking geopolitically about airspace and aerial power projection, and also about employability and transferable skills development for students.
@ruthmachen.bsky.social
Geographer researching environmental knowledge politics, science-policy and theorising values. Lecturer at Newcastle APL. Learning how to exist in academia with long Covid.
@alisonstenning.bsky.social
Geographer - Professor - Mum - Playing - #playstreets - Cycling - #kidicalmass - #WarOnCars - Walking - Noticing - Green - North Tyneside - North Shields - UK
@laurenrickards.bsky.social
Climate change impacts and adaptation. Work, institutions, practices. Rural places, stretched systems.
@hesterparr.bsky.social
Professor of Human Geography, University of Glasgow. Research = mental health/ missing people/seasonal affective disorder/geohumanities/Climate change and mental health. Human Being🦋 https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/livingwithsad/winteringwell/resources/
@e1izabethrjohnson.bsky.social
Social & political geographer and STS scholar. I write about how human dreams of endless production & work reshape what we know about life (and, often, what we think we know about jellyfish). More at http://circulatoryentanglements.org/blog
@jennyedkins.bsky.social
Looking awry at global and local politics. Trauma | Memory | Missing Persons | Disappearance | Hunger | Disasters. Poetry and story-telling as method. Grenfell 💚 Prof @ Manchester & Aberystwyth. Tanguera, yogini. https://tinyurl.com/2krunykv
@sarahhughes90.bsky.social
Political Geographer. Resistance, Asylum Politics, Creativity. Loves cats 😺 Edited book 'Critical Geographies of Resistance' available from www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/critical-geographies-of-resistance-9781800882874.html
@mikkojorge.bsky.social
Geographer focusing on Palestine/Middle East, settler colonialism/ungovernability, violence/vulnerability, dwelling/air and ontology/space, atmosphere/politics. Associate Professor of Regional Studies @TampereUniversity.
@mhoussayh.cpesr.fr
Geographer, teacher I either give too many fucks or no fucks at all... I can't find a middle ground for moderate fuck distribution
@zalifung.bsky.social
Postdoc in political ecology @ University of Lausanne • Speculative infrastructure, authoritarianism & (slow) resistance in Southeast Asia, feminist geographer
@lunavives.bsky.social
Political geographer & Associate Prof at Université de Montréal #Migration #Borders #SAR #MaritimeRescue #EU #Spain #Canada #Geography #Justice // She/her.
@spaceforpeace.bsky.social
Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof at Kent State (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.
@aliceewatson.bsky.social
Cultural and Political Geographer at University of Oxford | Lecturer in Human Geography at St John’s College | Radio and Media Geographies | Critical and Popular Geopolitics | Migration and Borders | Golf
@julietjfall.bsky.social
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
@reubenroseredwood.bsky.social
Professor of Geography & Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Victoria | Managing Editor, Dialogues in Human Geography
@joepainter.bsky.social
Londoner by birth, Tynesider by choice, European and internationalist by conviction. Recovering academic. Geographer.
@chenchenzh.bsky.social
migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火. https://chenchenzhang.net
@bagelwoman.bsky.social
Political Geography Prof @NCL_Geography. Passionate about: surf, feminism, anti-colonial environmental migrant justice. Deputy Director @NCLsocsciences
@jennypickerill.bsky.social
Professor at Sheffield University UK, geographer, feminist, photographer, + into all things environmental, esp. eco-housing + eco-communities. She/ her www.jennypickerill.info 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@conflictgeog.bsky.social
Geographer studying political violence, war, peacebuilding, U.S. military, geopolitics, empire, Bosnia. UCLA professor
@tynergeog.bsky.social
Professor of Geography, Kent State University and AAG Fellow. Interests in Political Geography, Political Economy, Violence, Genocide, demonology, and the persecution of witchcraft
@wvangent.bsky.social
Geograaf/ Geographer, Universiteit van Amsterdam Cities / Housing / Politics / Segregation / Gentrification / Pop Culture
@marcusjpower.bsky.social
Professor of Human Geography @ Durham University. The geopolitics-development nexus | China-Africa relations | South-South flows | energy & infrastructural geographies https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/
@sarafregonese.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Geography, University of Birmingham, UK. Interested in the connections between geopolitics and urban everyday life. www.atmoct.org
@polgrg.bsky.social
The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) with IBG.
@drruthcraggs.bsky.social
Reader in Historical and Political Geography at King’s College London.
@penelopeanthias.bsky.social
Critical geographer and ethnographer. Interests in extractivism, territory, rights, anti-coloniality. Research in Bolivia, teaching at Durham. Author of Limits to Decolonization. penelopeanthias.com
@jonathanaharris.bsky.social
Political-Historical Geographer researching training for diplomats of postcolonial African states @dublincityuni.bsky.social | posts: education, diaspora, diplomacy, geopolitics, decolonisation & francophonie www.diplotraining.org
@squirerachael.bsky.social
Human geographer. Interested in states of precarity, oceans (and aquariums), feminist geopolitics, territory, Cold War science. https://www.statesofprecarity https://indoor-oceans.com/
@ingridagnete.bsky.social
Political Geographer interested in Arctic geopolitics and identity 🐻❄️ Based at Newcastle Uni (UK), from North Norway.
@hamstertowers.bsky.social
Political geographer, co-editor of International Development Planning Review, author of Global Development: The Basics, and Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance | citizenship, geopolitics, humour |
@tristansturm.bsky.social
Reader in Human Geography, Queen's University Belfast Research: apocalypse; geopolitics; Israel-Palestine; Christian Zionists; conspiracy theories; climate change https://www.apocalypticgeopolitics.com/
@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
@vickisquire.bsky.social
Prof of International Politics, borders and migration, humanitarian data, sanctuary and solidarity activism - and other stuff too, she/her, Uni of Warwick but views my own
@noamleshem.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Political Geography, Durham Uni. Violent conflict, political resurgence, colonial history. Author of: 'Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land' (Chicago 2025); 'Life After Ruin' (Cambridge 2017) https://tinyurl.com/mtyd9m
@jofhistgeog.bsky.social
A well-established international quarterly, the Journal of Historical Geography publishes articles on all aspects of historical geography and cognate fields. sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography
@davidstoreygeog.bsky.social
Human Geographer (retired, sort of); Interested in national identity, sport, heritage, and many other things
@klausdodds.bsky.social
Executive Dean and Professor of Geopolitics in the School of Life Sciences and Environment at Royal Holloway University of London. Co-Author of Unfrozen (Yale UP 2025) and deeply interested in polar geopolitics. Hon Fellow of British Antarctic Survey.
@oliviamason.bsky.social
I'm a geographer researching mobility politics + resource colonialism. PI ESRC NI Grant 'Cultural politics of nature reserves in Jordan'. Views my own. She/Her.
@realjdittmer.bsky.social
Professor of Political Geography at UCL. Posting about geopolitics, popular culture, and cat memes
@arijerrems.bsky.social
Borders | neighbouring | political geographies | IPS | convenor of @acbsnetwork.bsky.social
@whitproject.bsky.social
History, IR, Oxford, Somerville College, and Brighton. 🇮🇪 🌈 #AWFC She/her. Author of Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton, 2025) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691266442/erased
@lucianashworth.bsky.social
Purveyor of fine international relations. The history of international thought a speciality. Just don't ask where I'm from (it's complicated). professor @ MUNL
@orrosenboim.bsky.social
Historian, writer, baker. London, Florence and Bologna. Latest book AIR AND LOVE https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/or-rosenboim/air-and-love/9781529098099
@mwpalen.bsky.social
Historian. Editor, The Imperial & Global Forum. Author, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica. New Yorker “Best Books” list 2024. Financial Times “Best Books of 2024.”
@inneskeighren.bsky.social
Professor of Historical Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-convenor of the London Group of Historical Geographers. Writing a book on the global lives of William Macintosh (1737–1813). www.inneskeighren.com
@stevenseegel.bsky.social
professor & associate chair of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, dog lover, slow marathon runner, opinions mine
@matthewspecter.bsky.social
Historian of political ideas, Sr Fellow@UC Berkeley’s Institute European Studies; lecturer @Santa Clara U; editor at HISTORY & THEORY; author, THE ATLANTIC REALISTS (Stanford 2022), write on IR theory, 20th cent. Germany, transatlantic intellectual history
@critgeopolitics.bsky.social
Political geographer from Ireland, living in Washington DC, teaching graduates at SPIA Virginia Tech (Arlington), researching territorial conflicts & the geopolitics-climate nexus. Dad. Against 'greatness.'
@stuartelden.bsky.social
Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
@reecejones.bsky.social
Professor of political geography at the University of Hawai'i; editor-in-chief of Geopolitics; author of Violent Borders, White Borders, Border Walls, and Nobody is Protected
@alpinkerton.bsky.social
MP for Surrey Heath, Northern Ireland spokesman, geopolitics. Published and promoted by the Surrey Heath Liberal Democrats, Station House, 1 Pembroke Broadway, Camberley, GU15 3XD.
@amoorelouise.bsky.social
Professor of Political Geography Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics Author Politics of Possibility https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics-of-possibility & Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
@ayanassar.bsky.social
@duncanbell.bsky.social
Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
@geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social
An international and interdisciplinary journal on geopolitics https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fgeo20
@politicalgeography.bsky.social
Political Geography advances knowledge in all aspects of the geographical and spatial dimensions of politics and the political. Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Filippo Menga https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/political-geography
@antoniofdo.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. in International Relations @University of Groningen interested in the history of international thought, geopolitics, territory and environmental politics.