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
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@mattthompson.bsky.social
@princeguma.bsky.social
Researcher | geographies, infrastructures, technologies, politics, lifeworlds
@jaimejover.bsky.social
Geógrafo. Postdoctoral Fellow @ Uni.Sevilla. All things urban, y su mijita de organización social, que nunca falte. https://us.academia.edu/JaimeJover
@andrewleyshon.bsky.social
Economic Geographer. Emeritus Professor@University of Nottingham, Senior Fellow@Nottingham Business School, NTU. Money and music, mainly. Mediocre cyclist. Is it a crisis or a boring change? 🏴
@sparkerworld.bsky.social
Prof of Politics with a focus on migration, cities & social justice.
@katederickson.bsky.social
Professor at U of Minnesota Geog & Director, Urban Studies; Managing Editor, Society & Space; Instructor, Stillwater State Prison
@drnatosborne.bsky.social
Env + insurgent planning & human geography, urban social + env justice, radical spatial politics, abolitionist planning. Co-producer of @radioreversal.bsky.social, co-convenor Brisbane Free University. White settler on unceded Jagera & Turrbal Country
@urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social
Urban Affairs Review is a peer-reviewed journal of urban politics and policy. https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/ Check out our podcast, UAR Remixed, for interdisciplinary conversations about all things urban. https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-remixe
@oonamorrow.bsky.social
🍉Feminist Urban-Economic Geographer doing critical Agri-Food studies in the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University. Twin Mom & Associate Prof. Excited about food commons, community economies, food sharing, compost, and cats.
@sprzybylinski.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Michigan State University. Urban-political geographer working on homelessness, property, citizenship and justice.
@kbrickell.bsky.social
Prof Geography KCL | Author Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (out Oct 25) | UK / Cambodia | Editor Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers| Lead KCL Urban Futures | Views own |
@societyandspace.bsky.social
We publish articles, essays, interviews, forums, and book reviews that examine social struggles over access to and control of space, place, territory, region, and resources. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPD/current
@kiangoh.bsky.social
Architect & urban planning professor @UCLA. Urban change & climate justice. Author of Form & Flow (MIT 2021) bit.ly/3Q92Mkd
@hamishkallin.bsky.social
Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Edinburgh. Interested in cities, housing, capitalism. Sometime artist and drummer.
@jluger.bsky.social
Urban/cultural/political geographer. Antifascist. And other things. Newcastle via North Carolina. @NUGEOG
@jpaddie.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Urban Studies @ Georgia State University | Editor of UAA's 'Rights to the City' book series
@jasonhackworth.bsky.social
Urban studies professor, Ohio State football fan, neurodivergent http://individual.utoronto.ca/hackworth/index.html
@lellyk.bsky.social
Author of Feminist City and Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies
@joeshaw.bsky.social
Managing Director @urbanstudiesfoundation.org & Meatspace Press > urbanstudiesfoundation.org > meatspacepress.com
@jgwilliams.bsky.social
Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University, PI of the ERC/UKRI GloNeW project. Unconventional water, infrastructure, political ecology, climate change. Views usually someone else's.
@joepainter.bsky.social
Londoner by birth, Tynesider by choice, European and internationalist by conviction. Recovering academic. Geographer.
@12claire12.bsky.social
Sociology prof at University of Oregon studying housing, law, property, homelessness, colonialisms. Author of A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality
@hyunshin.bsky.social
Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE). Head of the Department of Geography & Environment. #UrbanPoliticalEconomy #Gentrification #Housing #SpeculativeUrbanisation #AsianUrbanisms #Megaevents #Megaprojects Personal web: https://urbancommune.net
@raquelrolnik.bsky.social
Urbanista e professora da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da USP e coordenadora do LabCidade FAUUSP. 📷: Arte de Ottavia Pasta http://linktr.ee/RaquelRolnik
@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 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@gypjh2000.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London; Editor Urban Studies. Part-time psychogeographer, landscape punk and walker.
@rc21.bsky.social
Research Committee 21 Urban and Regional Development, International Sociological Association.
@invisiblemapper.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Geography Urban Institute, Uni of Sheffield
@michelelancione.bsky.social
Prof of Geography (he/they) | Direct Beyond Inhabitation Lab www.beyondinhabitation.org | For a Liberatory Politics of Home @DukePress | Editorial board @IJURResearch | PI ERC and FARE research | Doc http://ainceputploaia.com
@acuto.bsky.social
Pro Vice-Chancellor at University of Bristol & Prof of Urban Resilience • 🏀🏳️🌈 • all views my own, sort of...
@crispianfuller.bsky.social
Professor at Cardiff University. Urban and economic geographer: urban governance, politics and austerity; corporations and global production networks. Process philosophy. Leverhulme Trust PI Local government Council Tax civic enforcement impacts project.
@katiejwells.bsky.social
i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer. research director @groundwork.bsky.social. new book: DISRUPTING D.C. (Princeton Univ Press 2023) http://katiejwells.net
@davidharvey.org
Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Latest book: A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
@bertrussell.bsky.social
Senior Fellow ICTA at UAB Author "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025) & “Radical Municipalism: The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services” (2025) Director @abundance-org.bsky.social
@julieren.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam and University of Basel. Book Forum Editor, Urban Geography. SNSF Starting Grant "Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance" (2025-2029)
@sergemont.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Director, Institute for Inclusive Economies & Sustainable Livelihoods. (he/him)
@colinmcfarlane.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University http://cityfragment.wordpress.com DenCity: http://dencity.webspace.durham.ac.uk Durham: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/colin-mcfarlane/
@colinlorne.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Geography & Director of OpenSpace Research Centre at the Open University | Usually talking crises and conjunctures | Jazz, soul, rocksteady | All views my own, etc.
@ctemenos.bsky.social
Reader in Geography @ Manchester & UKRI Future Leader Fellow. Urban Crisis, Cities, Policy Mobilities, Health & Drugs, Climate & Social Justice. Views my own #urban #geography
@rkeil.bsky.social
Distinguished Research Professor | Environmental and Urban Change | York University Cities | Football | Music
@jamiepeck.bsky.social
Geographer at UBC, editor of EPA: Economy & Space; https://blogs.ubc.ca/peck/
@antipodeonline.bsky.social
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, publishing (and funding, through the non-profit Antipode Foundation) the very best radical research
@urbanstudiesfoundation.org
We provide grant funding for innovative research projects that advance the frontiers of urban knowledge. Follow for news & updates. Read more on our website: https://urbanstudiesfoundation.org
@urbanpolitical.bsky.social
Podcast on Urban Theory, Research & Activism Based at Georg-Simmel-Centre for Urban Studies, Berlin @humboldtuni.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social Access our podcasts and further information on our website (or on Spotify) https://urbanpolitical.online
@mattthompson.bsky.social
• 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