AFFINITY
@affectinthecity.bsky.social
Affect In the City (AFFINITY): The Emotional Dimensions of Urban Justice. Posting updates and resources on philosophy, cities & affect.
MSCA/YUFE4Postdocs EU-funded project (25-28)
📍Antwerp
Views my own: @lopezcantero.bsky.social
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MSCA/YUFE4Postdocs EU-funded project (25-28)
📍Antwerp
Views my own: @lopezcantero.bsky.social
#philsky
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@affectinthecity.bsky.social
· Aug 22
Gentrification, migration, and non-material injustice
Gentrification can harm residents at a personal and emotional level, even when they are not physically displaced. Recognising these non-material harms as a source of wrongful ‘phenomenological disp...
www.tandfonline.com
First publication out! It questions whether people who report loss of community due to gentrification and migration should both be treated as victims of injustice. My view is that we should, although injustice has different grounds in the latter case: the unjust distribution of affective burdens.
This is nice but I wouldn’t have chosen a pic of Antwerp’s public bikes, which have the most disabled/injury unfriendly design I have ever seen for reasons I cannot comprehend. The whole bike needs to be lifted to release and to return, with a rather flimsy anchor. It hurts my wrists every time.
The 30 Most Bicycle-Friendly Cities in the World, Ranked.
momentummag.com/the-30-most-...
momentummag.com/the-30-most-...
The 30 Most Bicycle-Friendly Cities in the World, Ranked
The Copenhagenize Index, the most comprehensive ranking of urban cycling friendliness, evaluates 100 cities on how far they’ve gone to make cycling safe, convenient, and appealing.
momentummag.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is nice but I wouldn’t have chosen a pic of Antwerp’s public bikes, which have the most disabled/injury unfriendly design I have ever seen for reasons I cannot comprehend. The whole bike needs to be lifted to release and to return, with a rather flimsy anchor. It hurts my wrists every time.
This is one of the many reasons why the liberalisation of US-EU vehicle trade can be terrible news for us. This report by the European Transport Security Council explains it well.
December 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This is one of the many reasons why the liberalisation of US-EU vehicle trade can be terrible news for us. This report by the European Transport Security Council explains it well.
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The slogan that Avner de-Shalit and I suggest sums up the idea of what we call a City of Equals is:
“I’m proud of my city and my city is proud of (people like) me.”
“I’m proud of my city and my city is proud of (people like) me.”
Breaking news: President Trump ended a Cabinet meeting with a rant against Somali migrants, blasting Minnesota’s Somali community as “garbage” and using dehumanizing language to attack a group he has increasingly targeted in recent weeks.
Trump rails against Somali migrants: ‘I don’t want them in our country’
The president blasted Minnesota’s Somali community as “garbage” in a rant also attacking Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar.
wapo.st
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The slogan that Avner de-Shalit and I suggest sums up the idea of what we call a City of Equals is:
“I’m proud of my city and my city is proud of (people like) me.”
“I’m proud of my city and my city is proud of (people like) me.”
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Affective Atmospheres
18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow
Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy
In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology.
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
More info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025
18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow
Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy
In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology.
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
More info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Affective Atmospheres
18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow
Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy
In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology.
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
More info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025
18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow
Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy
In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology.
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
More info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025
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🎯Francesco Consiglio (University of Valencia): Urban narratives. Material engagement and scaffolded imagery in the city.
#VLCColloquium
#VLCColloquium
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🎯Francesco Consiglio (University of Valencia): Urban narratives. Material engagement and scaffolded imagery in the city.
#VLCColloquium
#VLCColloquium
Today's pitch to join a citizen science project on litter. Deprived neighbourhoods are often full with litter, and there is a tendency to explain this either through flawed services or the inhabitants' moral fault. But what if littering had to do with wider feelings of social belonging?
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Today's pitch to join a citizen science project on litter. Deprived neighbourhoods are often full with litter, and there is a tendency to explain this either through flawed services or the inhabitants' moral fault. But what if littering had to do with wider feelings of social belonging?
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En las grandes ciudades, los barrios más ricos suelen tener más árboles, más aves y, en definitiva, más espacios verdes. Este fenómeno, conocido como “efecto lujo", revela una desigualdad ambiental.
https://efeverde.com/efecto-lujo-biodiversidad-ciudades/
https://efeverde.com/efecto-lujo-biodiversidad-ciudades/
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
En las grandes ciudades, los barrios más ricos suelen tener más árboles, más aves y, en definitiva, más espacios verdes. Este fenómeno, conocido como “efecto lujo", revela una desigualdad ambiental.
https://efeverde.com/efecto-lujo-biodiversidad-ciudades/
https://efeverde.com/efecto-lujo-biodiversidad-ciudades/
Psychological backing to the idea that gentrification creates distributive affective injustice: “Gentrification isn’t just about who gets priced out. It also creates deep psychological divides, strengthening belonging for those already well-off while undermining it for the most vulnerable”
Gentrification’s Hidden Psychological Costs | SPSP
Gentrification doesn’t just raise costs—it also has a toll on people’s sense of belonging to their neighborhood.
spsp.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Psychological backing to the idea that gentrification creates distributive affective injustice: “Gentrification isn’t just about who gets priced out. It also creates deep psychological divides, strengthening belonging for those already well-off while undermining it for the most vulnerable”
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Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
nation.cymru
October 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Si la variedad de idiomas es importante en cualquier disciplina, en el estudio de la ciudad es absolutamente imprescindible escuchar a voces locales en su propio idioma. Los países hispanohablantes también tenemos una manera propia de vivir la ciudad en las calles que es interesante a nivel global
30 personas Hispano hablantes en urbanismo innovator
go.bsky.app/MKGx2BY
go.bsky.app/MKGx2BY
October 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Si la variedad de idiomas es importante en cualquier disciplina, en el estudio de la ciudad es absolutamente imprescindible escuchar a voces locales en su propio idioma. Los países hispanohablantes también tenemos una manera propia de vivir la ciudad en las calles que es interesante a nivel global
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What if your ability to vote depended on your transport options? What if your ability to vote also shapes your transport options?🚍🗳️ My new Transport Reviews paper shows how democracy and transport are more connected than we think 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
October 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
What if your ability to vote depended on your transport options? What if your ability to vote also shapes your transport options?🚍🗳️ My new Transport Reviews paper shows how democracy and transport are more connected than we think 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The rather brilliant @stephencollins.bsky.social calling out the mass psychosis of car culture in today's UK @theguardian.com. Love it. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The rather brilliant @stephencollins.bsky.social calling out the mass psychosis of car culture in today's UK @theguardian.com. Love it. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Urbanism evening with the @academyofurbanism.bsky.social. Norman+Fosters’ Spencer de Grey discussed urban interventions across Europe. One of the takeaways is that urban design needs to look beyond the place that is intervened itself, looking also at connections & surroundings + consultations
September 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Urbanism evening with the @academyofurbanism.bsky.social. Norman+Fosters’ Spencer de Grey discussed urban interventions across Europe. One of the takeaways is that urban design needs to look beyond the place that is intervened itself, looking also at connections & surroundings + consultations
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Call for papers: Centre researcher Pablo Fernández Velasco is co-editing. Original research, case studies, and perspectives welcome. Examples: ecological grief, climate anxiety, solastalgia, displacement trauma.
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Frontiers | Advancing Conservation Science at the Interface of Collective Human Trauma and Earth Systems Change
Trauma is an increasingly common feature of the collective human experience, yet science-based discourse on the relationship between collective human trauma,...
www.frontiersin.org
September 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Call for papers: Centre researcher Pablo Fernández Velasco is co-editing. Original research, case studies, and perspectives welcome. Examples: ecological grief, climate anxiety, solastalgia, displacement trauma.
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Today, as part of Antwerp’s Deathcare project, Dr Ural presents on recent the history of burial laws and practices regarding religious minorities, and how the upholding of Muslim traditions in public space in contemporary Europe can function as an “act of citizenship”
September 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Today, as part of Antwerp’s Deathcare project, Dr Ural presents on recent the history of burial laws and practices regarding religious minorities, and how the upholding of Muslim traditions in public space in contemporary Europe can function as an “act of citizenship”
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Good to see @hetanshah.bsky.social highlighting our @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk work on the measurement of social and cultural infrastructure as well as @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social's The Measure of Progress.
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/publications...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/publications...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
September 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Good to see @hetanshah.bsky.social highlighting our @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk work on the measurement of social and cultural infrastructure as well as @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social's The Measure of Progress.
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/publications...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/publications...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The next 10 days:
'Distributive Affective Justice' describes the distribution process for affective goods & burdens (MANCEPT)
'Affective Rights to the City' specifies entitlements to emotional aspects of urban life that must be protected by policymakers (MANCEPT & The Future of Practical Ethics).
'Distributive Affective Justice' describes the distribution process for affective goods & burdens (MANCEPT)
'Affective Rights to the City' specifies entitlements to emotional aspects of urban life that must be protected by policymakers (MANCEPT & The Future of Practical Ethics).
September 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The next 10 days:
'Distributive Affective Justice' describes the distribution process for affective goods & burdens (MANCEPT)
'Affective Rights to the City' specifies entitlements to emotional aspects of urban life that must be protected by policymakers (MANCEPT & The Future of Practical Ethics).
'Distributive Affective Justice' describes the distribution process for affective goods & burdens (MANCEPT)
'Affective Rights to the City' specifies entitlements to emotional aspects of urban life that must be protected by policymakers (MANCEPT & The Future of Practical Ethics).
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The number of people killed or seriously injured on London borough roads reduced by 34% following the implementation of 20mph speed limits, with the number of children killed falling by 75%
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dear Britain, it’s now clear: 20mph zones save lives and don’t slow traffic. Implement them | Sadiq Khan
There is too much bluff and bluster on this subject. Ordinary people just want safe streets for themselves and those they love, and we can achieve that, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The number of people killed or seriously injured on London borough roads reduced by 34% following the implementation of 20mph speed limits, with the number of children killed falling by 75%
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
First publication out! It questions whether people who report loss of community due to gentrification and migration should both be treated as victims of injustice. My view is that we should, although injustice has different grounds in the latter case: the unjust distribution of affective burdens.
Gentrification, migration, and non-material injustice
Gentrification can harm residents at a personal and emotional level, even when they are not physically displaced. Recognising these non-material harms as a source of wrongful ‘phenomenological disp...
www.tandfonline.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
First publication out! It questions whether people who report loss of community due to gentrification and migration should both be treated as victims of injustice. My view is that we should, although injustice has different grounds in the latter case: the unjust distribution of affective burdens.
Petition: Mandate funding of active travel provision as part of any transport projects
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Mandate funding of active travel provision as part of any transport projects
In light of the Chancellor's recent announcement of funding for transport infrastructure, we call for new legislation mandating funding for active travel provision alongside funding for transport proj...
petition.parliament.uk
August 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Petition: Mandate funding of active travel provision as part of any transport projects
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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My turn for some local body of water posting
August 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My turn for some local body of water posting
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Lovely interview here with the creator of this mural, Anthony Downie, with a nod to neighbourhood play.
“It’s just about daily life, isn’t it? I spent a lot of time as a kid playing in back lanes”
ilovenorthshields.com/elevation-mu...
“It’s just about daily life, isn’t it? I spent a lot of time as a kid playing in back lanes”
ilovenorthshields.com/elevation-mu...
August 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Lovely interview here with the creator of this mural, Anthony Downie, with a nod to neighbourhood play.
“It’s just about daily life, isn’t it? I spent a lot of time as a kid playing in back lanes”
ilovenorthshields.com/elevation-mu...
“It’s just about daily life, isn’t it? I spent a lot of time as a kid playing in back lanes”
ilovenorthshields.com/elevation-mu...
‘As Dave Cook, an anthropologist at UCL, says: “If you go to a place to take advantage of a lower cost of living, you are hacking inequalities, and there will be pushback”.’
'There's an arrogance to the way they move around the city': is it time for digital nomads like me to leave Lisbon?
Like so many others, I moved from London to Portugal’s capital for the sun, lifestyle – and the tax break. But as tensions rise with struggling locals, many of us are beginning to wonder whether we’re...
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
‘As Dave Cook, an anthropologist at UCL, says: “If you go to a place to take advantage of a lower cost of living, you are hacking inequalities, and there will be pushback”.’
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This new article by Daniel Bruckner articulates an attractive view: to be a welfare subject, rather than sentience, you need to be an entity 'that engages in self-production in a way that is adaptive to its environment.' Plants qualify, maybe machines. I think groups, communities, cities do too.
Welfare Subjects and Autopoiesis | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core
Welfare Subjects and Autopoiesis
www.cambridge.org
July 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This new article by Daniel Bruckner articulates an attractive view: to be a welfare subject, rather than sentience, you need to be an entity 'that engages in self-production in a way that is adaptive to its environment.' Plants qualify, maybe machines. I think groups, communities, cities do too.
Very interesting call— hope to be there presenting one of the project’s works in progress!
July 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Very interesting call— hope to be there presenting one of the project’s works in progress!