excited this is out! I explore the state's role in making land available for privatized development, how tensions between (il)legitimate property claims are fought through evidence, & how competing land claims are recognized & resolved by the state/court. tandfonline.com/eprint/HSRQ8…

So excited about this! If you are around Toronto, come join the discussion!

Thrilled to announce our new SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport & Physical Culture is now available for pre-order; 37 chapters on the politics, philosophies, practices, and sites of inquiry by contributors from more than a dozen countries. Table of Contents can be found at the link below, along with a detailed description. Chapters explore a range of traditional and emerging topics and methodologies, from feminist inquiry and Indigenous methodologies to new materialism and political ecologies, from interviewing and ethnography to arts-based methods and participatory research, and from qualitative research developments in Asia and the Middle East to studies with fan communities and Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Questions of reflexivity, positionality, grant funding, audit culture, and co-production are also examined. We are incredibly proud to see this collection come to press, and so appreciative of all our contributors for making this Handbook a reality! us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the…

📢CFP #AAG2025 **Making the city investable: State, financial infrastructures and technopolitical powers** Organized by: Francesca Governa, @ESciuva, @albertovalzgris and myself Send your abstract to chiara.iacovone@polito.it and alberto.valzgris@polito.it by 18 Oct

Shoutout to @devra_waldman @mara_ferreri @katharinagrneis @ArchitectureFO @KamileBatur

Foremost it was a chance to meet peers struggling with similar questions and puzzles. I can’t overstate the need for more such horizontal spaces of encounter and liberatory scholarship and how we need to expand them and enable them as undercommons.

Last week I had the utmost privilege to attend the lovely summer school organised by @XazaarAdjame @michelelancione and the wonderful @InhabitationLab . It felt like a truly liberatory space with wonderful interventions by @Tatiana_Thieme #RuthWilsonGilmore and AlanaOsbourne

The Beyond @InhabitationLab & UTH Urban School is happening in Turin 23-26th September! 15 selected international postdocs, collective study & fantastic keynotes open to all: @Tatiana_Thieme (23th) Ruth Wilson Gilmore (24th) Alana Osbourne (25th) Reg 👉 beyondinhabitation.org/urban…

Join us online for three keynote lectures by Alana Osbourne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and Tatiana Thieme, as part of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab's inaugural doctoral school, "Inhabiting the Surrounds", Sept 23-26. Registration information here: beyondinhabitation.org/urban…

The Lancet, one of the worlds leading medical journals has estimated the death toll in Gaza at 186,000 people or more, based on calculating the indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence. That's around 8% of Gaza's population. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

In a Delhi heat ward, a lonely battle for life themigrationstory.com/post/i…

Read: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/…

Today in Sheffield at @Urban_Inst with @InhabitationLab we are running a two-day workshop on The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation With scholars from all over UK and EU working on themes of habitation and epistemic justice. I look forward to the conversation & papers.

Don't forget: tomorrow at the Beyond @InhabitationLab at 5pm CET, the wonderful @mona_fawaz from the @BeirutUrbanLab will join us! Register at: polito-it.zoom.us/meeting/re…

So excited to be a part of this. Please join us next week for in depth conversations about the question of inhabitation!

Join us next week, 9th May 5pm CET, for our fifth Spring 2024 seminar We will have the great pleasure of welcoming Dr Irene Peano, with a presentation titled “Made in Italy: Contemporary archaeologies of agribusiness’ encampment archipelago” Register at: polito-it.zoom.us/meeting/re…

LAST CALL to apply for the Beyond @InhabitationLab & Urban Transitions Hub joint summer school in Turin and Lisbon. Keynote instructors: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Alana Osbourne, Tatiana Thieme, AbdouMaliq Simone, and Filip De Boeck. End 30th April 2024 👉 beyondinhabitation.org/urban…

Still amused/bored by constant admonitions to "stop wasting your parents' money" and "go back to class." You go to university to learn about the world and how to act in it - which is what these young people are doing - not merely to pay for a diploma.

The students I have been organising with for months rallied today against a meeting in my University - Ministries speaking of technology & dual use - & were attacked by police If we work with arms dealers & Frontex, we sell the Academy to State violence: this is it. Resistenza!

Weds. April 17, Economic Geography Specialty Group early career keynote with @pnarayan05 and @ErinTorkelson; Vinay Gidwani as discussant. 7:20 am Hawaii: you can watch from bed, AAG in-person people!