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John Clayton

@jsclayton.bsky.social

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Human (geographer) at Northumbria University, dad, hatter.

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John Clayton @jsclayton.bsky.social · Jun 20

Indeed

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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · Jun 20

✊🥂Huge congratulations to the whole @newcastleucu.bsky.social membership and team. Compulsory redundancies withdrawn. Sends a message to university management everywhere. Just shows what you can do with organisation, solidarity, and right on your side.

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · Jun 20

I am honoured to be a finalist in the DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) 2025 poster competition!

My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Jun 16

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Constructing citizenship & indigeneity in Jordan: The politics of Bedouin rights & identities in cultural heritage sites' by Taraf Abu Hamdan & @oliviamason.bsky.social

This piece is part of a Special Section entitled 'Glimpses beyond citizenship'.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

A photograph of Little Petra with tourist shops - dark spaces set into brown-yellow rocky cliffs with racks of scarves outside them and stairs cut into the rock leading up to the shops.

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Derek Ruez @derek-ruez.bsky.social · Jun 4

Excited to read Kahina Meziant's new paper, 'Glitches, geopoetics, and the matter of migration: Regrounding beyond citizenship' at @thegj.bsky.social: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper introduces regrounding as a form of poetic justice that challenges national citizenship by centring material and affective practices—like sharing tea, tending soil, and planting seeds—as m...

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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John Clayton @jsclayton.bsky.social · Apr 26

What a club eh?! 🧡

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Luton Town FC @lutontown.co.uk · Apr 26

SHANDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!

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John Clayton @jsclayton.bsky.social · Apr 25

Very short visit to Manchester this week for the #britsoc25 conference sharing our decade long work on ‘hate relationships’. Some great questions and discussion!

John Clayton @jsclayton.bsky.social · Apr 8

Happy to share our latest article on our ‘hate relationships’ research. This one uses geotrauma and haunting as lenses to make sense of the absences and presences involved in hate relationships.

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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · Apr 3

A new paper by my wonderful colleague Joanna Allan and her co-author Moiti Mohamed Azrouk, "Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara," looks fascinating!

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoin....

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Mar 25

Three sessions on "The Critical Urban Lives of Ruins" here at the #AAG tomorrow (Wed) and Thursday am. What work do ruins do? And what might they reveal that's new?

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 21

The latest from our Joint Unions Finance Working Group looks at the 'logic' behind the huge cuts being proposed at the University of Edinburgh

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/tlwewp3...

Reckless downsizing: the “logics” of management’s cuts — UCU Edinburgh

Unpacking the “business model” behind the UoE cuts

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Mar 18

This is what the redundancy wave in British Higher Education currently looks like on the map:

‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...

British University Redundancy Map - Google My Maps

Mapping redundancies from 2023

maps.app.goo.gl

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John Clayton @jsclayton.bsky.social · Feb 14

Love this annual trip to Liverpool as part of our Geographies of race ethnicity and multiculture module and it didn’t disappoint. Thanks to all who contributed and made it so special!

John Clayton @jsclayton.bsky.social · Feb 10

Current vibes

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Taj Ali @tajali1.bsky.social · Feb 5

6 months on from the worst instance of racist riots in living memory, I visited Middlesbrough to speak to Muslims about their experiences. It's clear that the atmosphere of hate that fuelled the violence is far from over.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

Fears, anguish and frustration in a northern UK town hit by racist riots

Middlesbrough, which has witnessed several episodes of discriminatory violence, is far from healed, say residents.

www.aljazeera.com

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · Feb 5

📢 Call for abstracts!

'Creating Carceral Atmospheres: Affect, Embodiment and Enclosure' at the RGS-IBG AC2025.

Please get in touch with any abstracts or questions! 😄

@rgsibg.bsky.social

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Jan 20

Jacob Miller and I wrote a short thing on the violent ruination of Trump's America. @gregseigworth.bsky.social was gracious enough to include it along with many other short pieces in this 'Capacities to: Affect up Against Fascism' collection, which is open access: imbricate.press/book/capacit...

Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism

<p>Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism is a collection of more than forty essays, poems, and visual works that convey myriad approaches for understanding, surviving, and creating counter-movement...

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Jan 20

Wrote this in another place on 6 November and thought it worth sharing here today. Just a note to remember that fascists are scared of you.

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John Clayton @jsclayton.bsky.social · Jan 9

Thanks Rob - maximum respect 🧡

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Taj Ali @tajali1.bsky.social · Dec 16

Vauxhall workers will hold a two-day protest and a rally over the company’s plans to shut its profitable electric van factory.

🗓Tuesday 17 Dec & Wednesday 18 Dec
⏰️ 8am to 4pm
📣 Rally 12 noon on Tue 17 Dec
📍 Gate 1, Vauxhall (IBC Luton), Kimpton Road, Luton, LU2 0JX

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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · Dec 11

We have two NBC PhD studentships advertised for 2025 starts! Projects around working class identity/Sunderland and gender just transitions/food supply chains. Opportunities to work with @jsclayton.bsky.social and @katyjenkins.bsky.social. More info: northernbridge.ac.uk/applyforastu...

Collaborative Doctoral Awards (Staff-led) | Northern Bridge Consortium | Newcastle University

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John Clayton @jsclayton.bsky.social · Nov 27

Street art? Graffiti?
Northumbria BA Geography student getting involved in Amsterdam

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We Are Luton Town @wearelutontown.bsky.social · Nov 26

That’s not good news for Luton.

Thoughts with all those affected.

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John Clayton @jsclayton.bsky.social · Nov 25

Well jel

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Nov 25

📢New Issue of TIBG!📢

This December's Issue is themed around migration, asylum, and ethnic diversity.

It also features @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social & Harriet Bulkeley's collection on climate geographies. Read the papers using the link below ⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661... #geosky

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with the names of papers in a Themed Intervention titled 'Changing climate, Changing geographies?'. The papers are:
1) Changing climate, changing geographies?
Harriet Bulkeley, Colin McFarlane
2) Geography and climate vulnerabilities
Diana Liverman
3) Climate geographies and geographies of knowledge
Susan Owens
4) Governing climate change in a changing world
Linda Westman
5) Skeletons, dragons and the ‘climate war’: Geography's colonial legacy and the uneven landscape of environmental knowledge
Laurie Parsons
6) Unbounding the future: New directions for climate-changed geographies
Savannah Cox

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in the issue.
The papers are:
1) Listening to Europe's migration ‘crisis’: The discursive, affective and imaginative responses of audiences to BBC Radio 4 broadcasts
Alice Watson
2) Intimate liminality in Spain's berry industry
Nora Komposch, Carolin Schurr, Angels Escriva
3) Everyday digital dis/connection: Locating slow violence in (non)encounters with the UK asylum state
Hannah Morgan
4) Devaluing personhood: The framing of migrants in the EU's new pact on migration and asylum
Jouni Häkli, Gintarė Kudžmaitė, Kirsi Pauliina Kallio
5) Racism and the uneven geography of welfare sanctioning in England
Andrew Williams, Brian Webb, Richard Gale
6) Conflicting geographical imaginaries in globalised labour markets: The local valorisation of international education among employers and returned international students
Ran Ren, Yunting Qi
7) Insurgent envelopment: The emergency blanket and scenes of exposure at border zones
Derek McCormack
8) The geoeconomics of protecting profits from migrants in maritime distress
Terence Adam Rudolph
9) ‘Are we invisible?’ Power-geometries of conviviality in a superdiverse London neighbourhood
Katherine Stansfeld

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John Clayton @jsclayton.bsky.social · Nov 24

Let our Amsterdam trip commence…

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Nov 23

Advertising a fully-funded PHD at Northumbria University looking at how Urban Social Infrastructures (USIs) can be better-provided in UK cities to improve (holistic) Gen-Z Mens' Health and Wellbeing. Get in touch if interested, deadline January. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Critically Understanding the Urban Social Infrastructures (USI) Needed for Young Mens’ Health and Wellbeing in UK Cities (IDRT25/EE/UF/LUGER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Critically Understanding the Urban Social Infrastructures (USI) Needed for Young Mens’ Health and Wellbeing in UK Cities (IDRT25/EE/UF/LUGER) at Northumbria University, listed on F...

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Kathryn Cassidy @kathrynlcassidy.bsky.social · Nov 20

If you or someone you know might be interested in doing a PhD or Masters+PhD, you can apply for funded opportunities within the NINE DTP Human Geography & Environment, Climate and Sustainability pathways with colleagues at Northumbria. There is more info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

FindAPhD : ESRC-Funded PhD Studentships in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University (NINE25/EE/GEO/KCKJ) at Northumbria University

Apply for a PhD: ESRC-Funded PhD Studentships in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University (NINE25/EE/GEO/KCKJ) at Northumbria University

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · Nov 16

Overheard comment by passer-bye on Northumberland Street: "there's a hell of a lot you can do with Human Geography". Indeed, kind pedestrian.

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