Colin McFarlane
@colinmcfarlane.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University
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Please share widely - new editor opportunity at The GJ ⬇️
📢New Editor sought📢
We are seeking to appoint a Physical Geography Editor to The Geographical Journal. The GJ publishes work which engages with public issues and policy-relevant agendas.
🗓️Deadline: 7 January 2026
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We are seeking to appoint a Physical Geography Editor to The Geographical Journal. The GJ publishes work which engages with public issues and policy-relevant agendas.
🗓️Deadline: 7 January 2026
For more information, please see this page: www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
Editor role available at Society journal
Advert for a new Physical Geography Editor for the Geographical Journal.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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A special issue here of the journal Agoriad entitled 'Thinking with fragments: The allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space'.
Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban.
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Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban.
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Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory
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November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A special issue here of the journal Agoriad entitled 'Thinking with fragments: The allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space'.
Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban.
agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org
Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban.
agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org
Nice collection of essays on David Harvey at 90, on the Verso site www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David H...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Nice collection of essays on David Harvey at 90, on the Verso site www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions.
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Some thoughts on what what crisis is doing to the urban imagination - short piece as part of a collection in Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Crisis and the urban imagination - Colin McFarlane, 2025
What are ideas like ‘polycrisis’ doing to how we think and research the urban? How might we ensure that discourses and conditions of polycrises do not erode our...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Some thoughts on what what crisis is doing to the urban imagination - short piece as part of a collection in Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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That’s a wrap on our first panel in Ljubljana 🌍
A clear message from today: Europe’s green transition won’t succeed without strong public infrastructure, long-term investment, and public control of public services.
Public services are the backbone of a fair, sustainable future. 💧⚡️🗑️
A clear message from today: Europe’s green transition won’t succeed without strong public infrastructure, long-term investment, and public control of public services.
Public services are the backbone of a fair, sustainable future. 💧⚡️🗑️
October 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
That’s a wrap on our first panel in Ljubljana 🌍
A clear message from today: Europe’s green transition won’t succeed without strong public infrastructure, long-term investment, and public control of public services.
Public services are the backbone of a fair, sustainable future. 💧⚡️🗑️
A clear message from today: Europe’s green transition won’t succeed without strong public infrastructure, long-term investment, and public control of public services.
Public services are the backbone of a fair, sustainable future. 💧⚡️🗑️
A huge thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis for this award! I was so honoured & grateful opportunity in Seoul to focus attention on the global urban sanitation crisis. Thank you to @versobooks.bsky.social for nominating the book, & to Pattis.
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A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize.
I am huge...
A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize.
I am hugely grate...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A huge thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis for this award! I was so honoured & grateful opportunity in Seoul to focus attention on the global urban sanitation crisis. Thank you to @versobooks.bsky.social for nominating the book, & to Pattis.
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Congrats to Rozy Fredericks and collaborators on this great film on waste in Dakar - trailer available here for 'The Waste Commons'.
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The Waste Commons TRAILER
This is "The Waste Commons TRAILER" by Rosalind Fredericks on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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September 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Congrats to Rozy Fredericks and collaborators on this great film on waste in Dakar - trailer available here for 'The Waste Commons'.
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Last month the latest global data on sanitation was published. I wrote a short blog on it below. Spoiler: for all that there has been very welcome improvements, 1 in 5 people still lack even basic sanitation.
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Safe sanitation targets ‘out of reach’: New global report examines progress and challenges
The first thing most of us do when we wake up in the morning is head for the bathroom. While the humble toilet is taken for granted, almost one in five people globally lack even basic sanitation wh…
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September 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Last month the latest global data on sanitation was published. I wrote a short blog on it below. Spoiler: for all that there has been very welcome improvements, 1 in 5 people still lack even basic sanitation.
cityfragment.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/s... #sanitation
cityfragment.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/s... #sanitation
This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
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September 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
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My review, "An introduction to a non-fascist geography", of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) is now published online first in @dialogueshg.bsky.social Dialogues in Human Geography.
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September 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
My review, "An introduction to a non-fascist geography", of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) is now published online first in @dialogueshg.bsky.social Dialogues in Human Geography.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/3)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/3)
New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social
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INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies
This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical an...
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September 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the release of an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities Warren Magnusson, who passed away earlier this year. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/walter-magnu...
August 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the release of an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities Warren Magnusson, who passed away earlier this year. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/walter-magnu...
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Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.
August 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.
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New article by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly & myself on the relationship of infectious disease and urban peripheries Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability: City: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability
This paper works toward building a theoretical framework to understand the role that extended urbanisation and peripherality played in the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on conceptualisin...
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August 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New article by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly & myself on the relationship of infectious disease and urban peripheries Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability: City: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Chuffed that my book 'Waste and the City' has gone from the longest to the shortlist with two excellent books here, alongside @shakirahh.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield... Many thanks to Metropolis...
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Meet the Finalists of the 2025 Global Cities Book Award | Metropolis
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August 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Chuffed that my book 'Waste and the City' has gone from the longest to the shortlist with two excellent books here, alongside @shakirahh.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield... Many thanks to Metropolis...
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www.metropolis.org/news/meet-fi...
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Very honored that 'Master Plans and Minor Acts' is one of three finalists for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award (Metropolis).
Congratulations to @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield and many thanks to the judging panel!
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Congratulations to @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield and many thanks to the judging panel!
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Meet the Finalists of the 2025 Global Cities Book Award | Metropolis
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August 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Very honored that 'Master Plans and Minor Acts' is one of three finalists for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award (Metropolis).
Congratulations to @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield and many thanks to the judging panel!
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Congratulations to @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield and many thanks to the judging panel!
www.metropolis.org/news/meet-fi...
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Exclusive: Global health research projects halted by latest UK aid cuts.
Winners of UK government grants for global health research have had their funding suspended after ministers decided to cut spending on international development, we can reveal.
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Winners of UK government grants for global health research have had their funding suspended after ministers decided to cut spending on international development, we can reveal.
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Global health research projects halted by latest UK aid cuts - Research Professional News
Exclusive: Applications for HIV research among those impacted by suspension of NIHR schemes
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July 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Exclusive: Global health research projects halted by latest UK aid cuts.
Winners of UK government grants for global health research have had their funding suspended after ministers decided to cut spending on international development, we can reveal.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Winners of UK government grants for global health research have had their funding suspended after ministers decided to cut spending on international development, we can reveal.
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So... here's why I havent posted much. Been writing a book! Thrilled to share The Feminist Art of Walking is out on Pluto October 20th www.plutobooks.com/978074535100... Thanks so much to everyone who has helped make this happen, I am excited and a bit scared for you to read it
July 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
So... here's why I havent posted much. Been writing a book! Thrilled to share The Feminist Art of Walking is out on Pluto October 20th www.plutobooks.com/978074535100... Thanks so much to everyone who has helped make this happen, I am excited and a bit scared for you to read it
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📣 Call for Papers:
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question
ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki
🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025
🏹 Please spread the word!
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question
ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki
🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025
🏹 Please spread the word!
July 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📣 Call for Papers:
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question
ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki
🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025
🏹 Please spread the word!
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question
ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki
🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025
🏹 Please spread the word!
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Our GlobalCORRIDOR paper is out in the latest edition of Urban Studies journal
"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"
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"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"
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July 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Our GlobalCORRIDOR paper is out in the latest edition of Urban Studies journal
"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"
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Special forum in honour of pioneer development, feminist and participatory methods geographer, Janet Townsend, late of Durham University, for Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.
July 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Special forum in honour of pioneer development, feminist and participatory methods geographer, Janet Townsend, late of Durham University, for Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.
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It’s now been out for a while, but this was such a fun project with Vickie! The Promise of Cultural Geography. 86 entries, all between 1-1000 words, focusing on what, for them, is the promise of cultural geography. It’s open access, so please share!
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The promise of cultural geography
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July 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
It’s now been out for a while, but this was such a fun project with Vickie! The Promise of Cultural Geography. 86 entries, all between 1-1000 words, focusing on what, for them, is the promise of cultural geography. It’s open access, so please share!
research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...
research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...
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I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White
We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White
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July 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc fellowship deadline is Oct 1st - if you are interested in applying with us at @geogdurham.bsky.social do get in touch...
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Postdoctoral Fellowships
The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.
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July 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc fellowship deadline is Oct 1st - if you are interested in applying with us at @geogdurham.bsky.social do get in touch...
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