Professor of Urban Geography | Deputy Director @Urban_Inst |

Joined June 2009
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Jon Silver retweeted
Jeremy Johnson - in 50 years time this will be the only 1.39 minutes of your life you'll be remembered for. It'll be played in genocide museums to sum up the complicity and callous brutality of the British state in the face of the slaughter of the Palestinian people - and the courage of those who opposed it.
Here’s injustice Jeremy Johnson handing down the sentences at today’s disgusting stitched up Palestine Action trial. Any faith I ever had in the fairness of the British justice system is completely is dead.
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Today, four Palestine Action activists were sentenced as terrorists, for destroying over 40 weapons, including Israeli killer drones, inside Elbit's Filton arms facility. Please donate to support those facing terror legislation for disrupting genocide. chuffed.org/project/filton24…
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🚨BREAKING: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists Amnesty opposes the use of terrorism powers in this case. It is completely disproportionate to punish protesters for criminal damage as if they were terrorists, a sentence which stays with you for life. The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them. Today's decision shows how direct action protesters could be treated in the future. The use of terrorism laws against direct action protesters must end. Together we must continue calling out the abuse of power and fighting for our right to protest. Read our position: Criminal Damage, Direct Action, Terrorism: Misuse of counter-terrorism powers in the UK: amn.st/6015B87ZCx
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Jon Silver retweeted
Any COBRA meeting happening anytime soon?
A Muslim woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent me this video claiming that her white neighbour attacked her home with a sledgehammer and threatened to kill her children. When Muslims and ethnic minorities take the necessary measures to defend their homes and families, they will be the ones demonised by the political establishment and media elite.
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🔴The Lebanese Ministry of Heath: 3696 civilians killed and 1,413 wounded in Israeli attacks since March 2nd. Hundreds of children have been killed and more than 130 paramedics. Families are massacred every day. Video is from a drone strike on a vehicle in Saida today. Saida is north of the Litani river.
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New podcast on the geopolitics of corridors, logistics, and circulation. I joined @nitin_bathla, @SarmaJasnea and Louis Cyuzuzo as part of mini-series on 'Cities Geopolitics' by @political_urban w/ @SCWObservatory @urbgeog Do listen here: lnkd.in/eyCEtt-j
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"I can’t judge things of that enormity from where I am as mayor" Not good enough for a future PM Serious claims/evidence f/..International Assoc of Genocide Scholars,UN Independent International Commission, Amnesty, Israeli human rights groups, MSF etc middleeasteye.net/news/andy-…
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This is South Lebanon right now. Israel is dropping bombs on civilian homes in Maarakah, Tyre. American-made, American-supplied bombs. The “ceasefire” is a lie.
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An intra-urban comparison of Kibera and Eastleigh reveals how pandemic-era water experiences were shaped by longstanding infrastructural inequalities and uneven state intervention. By Moritz Kasper, Elizabeth Wamuchiru, Sophie Schramm 📖 ijurr.org/article/experienci…
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Great to see this online after being part of Ebenezer's brilliant viva examination panel last week in Northumberland
OnlineFirst - "Reordering labour, value, and informality in Accra’s e-waste economy: Circuits of persistence and precarity" by Ebenezer Gyampoh Amoah and Michael Osei Asibey: #demolition #displacement #spatialjustice #urbaninformality #Agbogbloshie #Accra journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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I am so thrilled that the GlobalCORRIDOR website is up! I have been working on this project since 2022. The Atlas documents dozens of transnational infrastructure corridors across the world. Check out the website for our research articles, reports, podcasts & documentaries.
We are launching our GlobalCORRIDOR Atlas today, alongside our project website.... This beta version features dozens of corridors, hundreds of infrastructure projects, nearly a trillion dollars of investment. globalcorridor.eu/atlas
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We are launching our GlobalCORRIDOR Atlas today, alongside our project website.... This beta version features dozens of corridors, hundreds of infrastructure projects, nearly a trillion dollars of investment. globalcorridor.eu/atlas
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You can also read in-depth about the design, data collection and visualisation process undertaken as part of making the Atlas in the latest GlobalCORRIDOR Substack newsletter - globalcorridor.substack.com/…
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This has been (and remains) a massive collective effort from a range of brilliant partners, collaborators, researchers, tech/designers others. It has been truly wonderful to work with such a inspiring group of scholars, and shows what proper academic practice looks like.
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This is what Gaza will be like after 70% of its land is confiscated. More than two million people will be forced to live in what remains of it. Just imagine — they will be living among rubble, garbage, rats, rodents, and sewage water. If this situation continues, and political bets on regional changes that may never happen persist, I assure you that the plan for displacement and forced transfer, whether voluntary or by force, will move forward.
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Manchester cafe owner says police tried to recruit him to spy on Palestine Action Exclusive: Shams Sadiq says officers offered financial inducements and to turn a ‘blind eye’ to certain offences theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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I travelled to Qatar and hung out with and around the trilingual Palestinian pop phenomenon Saint Levant. This Guardian long read is about his story, but also the contemporaneous solidarity and policing of Arab culture since 2023. theguardian.com/news/2026/ma…
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Genocide.
Before and after: Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, northwest of the city of Rafah and Rafah refugee camp in Gaza.
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