Excited to hear Rowland Atkinson's lecture tomorrow as part of our Sheffield Urbanism series
'Dark cities and Oligarchic Formations: Illicit finance and money influence in cities'
You can join online/in person.
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…
'Dark cities and Oligarchic Formations: Illicit finance and money influence in cities'
You can join online/in person.
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…
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Jon Silver retweeted
More than 25 dockworkers’ trade unions in over 110 ports in 22 countries are going on strike on October 30 to demand “an immediate end to the genocide of the Palestinian people and all imperialist wars.”
Here's all you need to know aje.news/vqhdht
Here's all you need to know aje.news/vqhdht
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Jon Silver retweeted
While banning climate activists & critics of genocide from speaking, this Labour government is zealously facilitating racists, Nazis, pseudoscientists, & transphobes being platformed everywhere & anywhere. in the name of academic freedom
It's a truly remarkable travesty.
It's a truly remarkable travesty.
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Jon Silver retweeted
The Home Office has blocked Andreas Malm from entering the UK.
Politicians, academics, writers and artists have condemned the decision.
Full story here: tribunemag.co.uk/2026/10/andrea…
Politicians, academics, writers and artists have condemned the decision.
Full story here: tribunemag.co.uk/2026/10/andrea…
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Great to see our paper on following the corridor out in the latest issue of IJURR w/ @SydneyNsubuga
How do you study a global infrastructure project as it unsettles places? Following the Northern Corridor in eastern Uganda — a railway and a Sino-Ugandan industrial park — through the lens of unsettlement.
By Jonathan Silver & Sydney Nsubuga
📖 ijurr.org/article/everyt…
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Jon Silver retweeted
‘The appointment of Nusseibeh, who has been the face of the UAE’s Sudan strategy, would be a slap in the face to the millions of people suffering the horrors of war, and a dereliction of duty towards those thousands who have already been killed.’
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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We begin today at @InhabitationLab with a series of posts on our research work in the Mediterranean region and beyond.
We start with Chiara Iacovone reflecting on a long-term engagement with architectural form and urban change in Tirana.
beyondinhabitation.org/delegitimising…
Pic: Iacovone
We start with Chiara Iacovone reflecting on a long-term engagement with architectural form and urban change in Tirana.
beyondinhabitation.org/delegitimising…
Pic: Iacovone
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This is not ‘just a football story’ but rather a story of a city-region in northern England aligning its economy into the orbit of an authoritarian state in the Gulf, accused of human rights abuses at home + terrible war crimes in Sudan.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/o…
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/o…
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I spoke to the Guardian this week as part of their investigation into Abu Dhabi presence in Manchester across two interesting pieces
theguardian.com/news/ng-intera…
theguardian.com/news/ng-intera…
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Manchester City Council need to provide more transparency around the deal concerning the Man City stadium. I would argue it's a public asset and therefore the responsibility of the local authority to ensure it's maximising revenue back to the public purse
inews.co.uk/news/man-city-…
inews.co.uk/news/man-city-…
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It's fascinating that the local newspaper terms our academic work on the Abu-Dhabi/MCR deal as 'ideological' but not the partnership between the powerful neoliberal growth regime and an authoritarian Emirate state, let alone its own claims of 'the truth'
manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…
manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…
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Jon Silver retweeted
Burundi, Uganda, & Rwanda have long considered specific parts of eastern DRC "their" economic hinterland. After acts of 'hinterland piracy', in 2021, they each put boots on the ground; Uganda and M23 also rehabilitated roads.
This has turned into a regional trade war.
This has turned into a regional trade war.
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Jon Silver retweeted
"Burnham has staked his reputation on Manchesterism and now we see the compromises that have been involved in that" - Richard Goulding, University of Sheffield
mee.s.gy/8tJCMs
mee.s.gy/8tJCMs
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🚨New Paper in ADP
"New geographies of the special economic zone? Infrastructural bundling and local contingencies on the China-Pakistan economic corridor"
Written w/ Amna Shoaib as part of GlobalCORRIDOR project
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
"New geographies of the special economic zone? Infrastructural bundling and local contingencies on the China-Pakistan economic corridor"
Written w/ Amna Shoaib as part of GlobalCORRIDOR project
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Bad deal for the public? Given most profits flow to Jersey it remains hard to assess but…
Manchester Council has made just under £3m from a deal to share in the so-called "super-profits" from developments built on its land by Manchester City's owners
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Manchester Council has made just under £3m from a deal to share in the so-called "super-profits" from developments built on its land by Manchester City's owners
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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The Warsaw Ghetto was made significantly smaller over time. Established by the Nazis in October 1940 and sealed on November 15, 1940, the ghetto's area was reduced multiple times, while its population density was kept at extreme, inhumane levels
Israel has expanded its military occupation of the Gaza Strip in violation of the ‘ceasefire’, forcing Palestinians into an ever-smaller area of the besieged territory.
Here is how much of Gaza Israel has seized since the ‘ceasefire’ ⤵️
🔗: aje.news/mgquw7
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Final Call for Papers
AAG 2027 // NYC
Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corridor
Alan Wiig + I are excited to bring together a dialogue centring corridors in geographic scholarship + debate.
Deadline is 14th Oct.
See here👇
lnkd.in/e5xvjTJm
AAG 2027 // NYC
Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corridor
Alan Wiig + I are excited to bring together a dialogue centring corridors in geographic scholarship + debate.
Deadline is 14th Oct.
See here👇
lnkd.in/e5xvjTJm
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"Manchester council bound by gagging clauses in City property deals"
Lack of transparency in the Abu Dhabi-Manchester deal was built in. I suggest we need government reform to ensure public accountability of property deals/ 'investments'
In Sunday TImes tinyurl.com/punbssvb
Lack of transparency in the Abu Dhabi-Manchester deal was built in. I suggest we need government reform to ensure public accountability of property deals/ 'investments'
In Sunday TImes tinyurl.com/punbssvb
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