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It lives! My book 'Subaltern Frontiers' @CUPAcademic is available now online and available everywhere from end of the month cambridge.org/core/books/sub… Thanks again to all who made it possible!
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Tom Cowan retweeted
May 28
🚨 The University of Nottingham is cutting 600 jobs. This includes 1 in 3 #geography lecturers:
"I feel betrayed. I was told I would have certain modules and certain professors, and now I don't even know if the modules I've chosen for next year will run"
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyp…
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Action- the administration says they are making 100% salary reductions in response to our marking and assessment boycott and that all other work from participants during this time is "voluntary."
Response- We strike for two months straight.
westbridgfordwire.com/univer…
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Tom Cowan retweeted
May 11
City building in Addis Ababa, as elsewhere, is not only about economics. It is a moral project, grounded in the belief that new buildings and infrastructure will generate growth and uplift the poor.
In this new @FordhamPress book, I explore why that promise remains elusive
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Tom Cowan retweeted
Apr 27
📢 Call for Papers
Labour, Nature and Technology: Rethinking Capitalist Subsumption
📍 King’s College London (in person, limited hybrid)
📅 18–19 June 2026
A discussion-led doctoral workshop symposium. Thread 👇
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Tom Cowan retweeted
Feb 25
It's finally out, thanks to @minorcomps. Amongst many great contributions, I have a chaprer in here entitled "Differentiated Spatialities of Subsumption and the Social Factory as Phantom Thesis." Available freely, but buy if you can to support radical independent publishing. 👇
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New paper on the geographies of capitalist subsumption —
For those interested in subsumption, domination, Banaji, landed property and uneven development
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Tom Cowan retweeted
Feb 17
New book available for pre-order. It simultaneously spatialises autonomist Marxism and utilises the categories of operaismo for a renewed Marxist urban theory. Read for surveys of class/spatial composition, 'the tendency' and the social factory in the midst of urban revolt.⤵️
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New publication - ‘Geographies of subsumption’ - I draw on heterodox writing on capitalist subsumption to critique and revise Marxist geographers approaches to dispossession, uneven development and racial capitalism.
Reach out for access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Tom Cowan retweeted
Feb 4
IIRC, the allegation that Samuel Corner had assaulted a security guard was widely used as justification for the proscription of Palestine Action. A jury, upon hearing the full story, has now refused to convict him of this. The argument for proscription lies in tatters.
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Hooray for jury trials and the good sense of ordinary people.
Down with Elbit.
Palestine will be free.
Feb 4
BREAKING: jury refuses to convict Palestine activists who smashed up military equipment in Filton trial
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15 Nov 2025
An open letter to the @uniofleicester from the PGRs in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
@GeologyLeics @LeicesterGeog
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Tom Cowan retweeted
29 Oct 2025
New #OpenAccess paper published in TIBG by Thomas Cowan (@UoNGeography) 📢👇
📄 'High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India'
Read the full paper 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/tran.70036
ALT Group of men watching and photographing a small drone flying in a clear blue sky over a rural area with trees and buildings.
ALT Title and abstract for 'High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India' by Thomas Cowan in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
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29 Sep 2025
Welcome to Week 2 of strike action! While there are no picket lines this week, there are still plenty of events taking place.
ALT A photo of people holding picket signs and walking into Trent courtyard
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Tom Cowan retweeted
23 Sep 2025
Let’s get Your Party over the line! 🚩
We launched an open letter last Friday — sign here 👉 ourparty.org.uk
Here’s a thread to explain everything 🧵
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Tom Cowan retweeted
15 Sep 2025
Strike action is ON!!!
Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
ALT A photograph of a picket line filled with UCU signs at the University of Nottingham south entrance.
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Tom Cowan retweeted
22 Sep 2025
A MASSIVE thank you to the multiple members of @leicesterucu for showing up and showing solidarity on the first day! Not to mention the snacks!
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ALT A photograph of a man holding up a fist on the street
ALT A photo of a glittery pink bad
ALT A photo of snacks inside a pick bag.
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