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Luke Bennett @LukeBennett13

Emeritus Fellow at SHU. PhD. MRes. LLB. Former solicitor. Now writing on Legal Geography. Editor of JPPEL. Now here: @lukebennett13.bsky.social

Joined December 2011
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Luke Bennett@LukeBennett13
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Preview and discount code for my ‘In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker’ edited collection… lukebennett13.wordpress.com/…
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Why @realDonaldTrump is wrong that ‘tariff’ is the most beautiful word in the dictionary youtu.be/vyR1fg2fWmA?si=MNl4…
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Very proud of my boy for having made this animated short on the strange history of Esperanto… youtu.be/mcX1OF7fEas?si=92vl…
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Fairy lights, compliant cotton, safe buildings and luminescent cats lukebennett13.wordpress.com/…

‘Please retain all information for future reference’: the challenges of communicating with future...

“All entities are shy retiring octopuses that squirt out a dissembling ink as they withdraw into the ontological shadows”. Timothy Morton (2013) Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End o…

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'Do we know what we need?'- reflections on SHU SPG's 'Perceiving Climate Change #4: Education' online event lukebennett13.wordpress.com/…

‘Do we know what we need?’ – reflections on SHU SPG’s ‘Perceiving Climate Change #4: Education’...

[The figure above is from HM Government (2021) ‘Climate Change and Net Zero: Public awareness and perceptions’ study here ] “While most people recognise that climate change is occurring, only half …

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Abandon post? A Call For Papers for an April 2025 conference on abandoned military buildings, near Paris, France. lukebennett13.wordpress.com/… @YverneauG

Abandon post? A Call For Papers for an April 2025 conference on abandoned military buildings, near...

“the obscene shape of the atom-bomber, laying a trail like a filthy slug upon Constable’s and Gainsborough’s sky. England of the Nissen hut, the ‘pre-fab’, and the electric fence, of the high barbe…

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"Education" - the fourth session in Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group's online series on 'Perceiving Climate Change', 7 November 2024, 7-9.30pm lukebennett13.wordpress.com/…

“Education” – the fourth session in Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group’s online series...

“And what is the point of learning facts within the school system when the most important facts given by the finest science of that same school system clearly mean nothing to our politicians …

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'Rights for Rivers' - a Call for Papers - Journal of Property, Planning & Environmental Law (submission deadline: 12 January 2025) lukebennett13.wordpress.com/…

Rights for Rivers – Call for Papers – Journal of Property, Planning & Environmental Law

“Claiming personhood for non-persons is, accordingly, more than probing and stretching the boundaries of traditional legal categories. It is a continuation of the disruption of the marginalis…

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Fire!: reflections on 'Heat', SHU SPG's third session on 'Perceiving Climate Change' (including session recording) lukebennett13.wordpress.com/…

Fire!: reflections on ‘Heat’, SHU SPG’s third session on ‘Perceiving Climate Change’ (including...

“Fire and heat provide modes of explanation in the most varied domains, because they have been for us the occasion for unforgettable memories, for simple and decisive personal experiences. Fi…

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5 Jun 2024
It was a pleasure to talk to @mariannaspring about all things Conspiracy Land 🌏 !! The world can feel a little uneasy at the moment, but journalists like Marianna are here to keep it all in check. You can read my article for @nowthenmag here: nowthenmagazine.com/articles…

Marianna Spring - "It's only when we take stuff offline that we seem to be able to have a convers...

Speaking before her talk at Festival of Debate 2024, the BBC's Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent told Kathryn Schoon about her new book, Among the Trolls: My Journey to Conspiracyland.

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"Heat" - the third session in Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group's online series on 'Perceiving Climate Change', 13 June 2024, 7-9.30pm lukebennett13.wordpress.com/…

“Heat” – the third session in Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group’s online series on...

“The harshest truth about life on a superheated planet is this: as temperatures rise, a lot of living things will die, and that may include people you know and love.” Jeff Goodell (2023…

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'We are all bodies of water' SHU SPG's 'Water' event recording is now available lukebennett13.wordpress.com/…

“We are all bodies of water” – Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group, Perceiving Climate...

“…An Alchemist as once profoundly wondrous and entirely banal, water guides our bodies from young to old, from here to there, from potentiality to actuality. Translation, transformation…

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Talking about 'Thinking Like A Brick': an online seminar with Luke Bennett for the Australian Association for Research in Education, 8.30am (UK time) Thursday 21 March 2024 lukebennett13.wordpress.com/…

Talking about ‘Thinking Like A Brick’: an online seminar with Luke Bennett for the Australian...

“As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table” Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautréamont), (1869) Les Chants de Maldoror Sewing machines, u…

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Session recording for ‘Perceiving Climate Change #1: Ice’ (SHU Space & Place Group Event, 15-2-24, with Royal Geographical Society Yorkshire & North East Committee) lukebennett13.wordpress.com/…

Session recording for ‘Perceiving Climate Change #1: Ice’ (SHU Space & Place Group Event, 15-2-24,...

“Between 1992 and 2020, Earth’s polar ice sheets lost 7,560 billion tonnes of ice – equivalent to an ice cube that would be 20 kilometres in height. The polar ice sheets have together lost ic…

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Perceiving Climate Change #1: Ice. Registration now open for Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group's next online session, 15 February 2024, 7-9.30pm lukebennett13.wordpress.com/…
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On your bike? Here's the recording of our pre-launch event for Jim Cherrington's (ed) Mountain Biking, Culture & Society (Routledge, 2024) @JCheggs84 lukebennett13.wordpress.com/…

In gear? Reflections on Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group’s Exploring #4: On your...

“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.” Archbishop Desmond Tu…

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'Enthusiastically up, on and under the rocks' - reporting on 'Exploring #2 and #3', Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group's online sessions Oct / Nov 2023 tinyurl.com/r2kaa7dk
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An exciting opportunity to do a PhD investigating how the NHS is evolving it's space-management and wider real estate processes to provide contingency for any future pandemics: findaphd.com/phds/project/me…

Medical Real Estate: planning the built environment for dealing with future infectious diseases...

PhD Project - Medical Real Estate: planning the built environment for dealing with future infectious diseases (Ref: RDF24/EE/ABE/GIBBESON) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Abandoned mines, sewers beneath the city, cavernous caves - all in view in ‘Exploring #2: Going Underground’ - our free online event 7-9.30PM, Thursday 26 Oct. Sign up via the link shu-spg.eventcube.io/events/…

Exploring #2: Going Underground

Since 2012 the Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group has been convening interdisciplinary conversations about the study, experience, management and use of a diverse range of places. Our...

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Exploring #4: On Your Bike - details and booking now open for our online session on 7 December 2023. lukebennett13.wordpress.com/…

Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group: Exploring #4: On Your Bike, online event Thursday,...

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a mot…

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This will be up (down?) your street @subbrit
Luke Bennett@LukeBennett13
22 Sep 2023
'Going Underground!' join the Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group's free online event on 26 October 2023 (7-9.30pm) - details and sign up via here: tinyurl.com/2dvxhcdh
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