Liu Cao 曹流
@drliucao.bsky.social
Feminist urban and cultural geographer with interests in urban consumption. Tweeting mostly work and dog. https://scholar.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/persons/liu-cao
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amazing line-up of speakers here, including Yu-Shan Tseng, @uitermark.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @myriageorgiou.bsky.social urbanpolitical.online/96-digital-c...
96 – Digital Cities and Democracy – Urban Political Podcast
urbanpolitical.online
October 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
amazing line-up of speakers here, including Yu-Shan Tseng, @uitermark.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @myriageorgiou.bsky.social urbanpolitical.online/96-digital-c...
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📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism
In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.
@geographers.bsky.social #geosky
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism
In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.
@geographers.bsky.social #geosky
October 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism
In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.
@geographers.bsky.social #geosky
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism
In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.
@geographers.bsky.social #geosky
Put it in my reading list ☑️
New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6
tinyurl.com/88xmursz
tinyurl.com/88xmursz
Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach - Eugene McCann, 2025
This paper addresses the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism and contentious politics. It outlines one way to expand...
tinyurl.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Put it in my reading list ☑️
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Don’t miss out: Through September 30, 2025, AAG and Taylor & Francis are providing free access to journal articles on Black Geographies and racial justice, available for download at the links listed here:
AAG Journal Articles on Black Geographies and Racial Justice - AAG
AAG - AAG Journal Articles on Black Geographies and Racial Justice - All - The following titles reflect vital scholarship on Black Geographies in AAG’s journals in recent years. AAG and Taylor &…
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September 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Don’t miss out: Through September 30, 2025, AAG and Taylor & Francis are providing free access to journal articles on Black Geographies and racial justice, available for download at the links listed here:
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📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣
🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.
🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.
🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
September 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣
🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.
🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.
🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
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Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details:
geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
UBC
geog.ubc.ca
August 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details:
geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
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A fascinating read from The Diplomat today about Nepal and the BRI!
thediplomat.com/2025/06/why-...
thediplomat.com/2025/06/why-...
Why Are BRI Projects in Nepal Stalled?
Geopolitics is at play. New Delhi does not want Nepal to be too close to Beijing and views BRI projects with suspicion.
thediplomat.com
June 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A fascinating read from The Diplomat today about Nepal and the BRI!
thediplomat.com/2025/06/why-...
thediplomat.com/2025/06/why-...
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How does inequality affect our lot in life? Aini Gauhar of @equalitytrust.bsky.social looks at how household wealth shapes children’s health, education and future work prospects. But which countries offer clues to a more equitable way forward? #LSEInequalitiesBlog
Hard work or inherited (mis)fortune? Young people’s future in an unequal world
Renewing analysis from The Spirit Level: how are children and young people’s health, education and employment prospects shaped by household wealth?
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August 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
How does inequality affect our lot in life? Aini Gauhar of @equalitytrust.bsky.social looks at how household wealth shapes children’s health, education and future work prospects. But which countries offer clues to a more equitable way forward? #LSEInequalitiesBlog
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
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It should go without saying, but apparently it needs to be said: if you are peer reviewing a ms for a scholarly press, DO NOT feed that ms into an AI machine to write your reader report for you. DO NOT.
June 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It should go without saying, but apparently it needs to be said: if you are peer reviewing a ms for a scholarly press, DO NOT feed that ms into an AI machine to write your reader report for you. DO NOT.
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Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏
⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025
📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at [email protected]
📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p
⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025
📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at [email protected]
📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p
May 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏
⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025
📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at [email protected]
📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p
⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025
📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at [email protected]
📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p
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📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now!
This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.
Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...
Deadline 16th July 2025
This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.
Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...
Deadline 16th July 2025
April 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now!
This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.
Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...
Deadline 16th July 2025
This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.
Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...
Deadline 16th July 2025
If now we can post photos with filters and multiple edits to create a polished image of the urban (even could be misleading and fake), does that mean there is a new urban aestheticisation process happening in the digital age? @ijurresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
THE POLITICS OF WANGHONG CONSUMPTION: (Re)Making the Place through New Urban Aestheticisation
Why does seemingly innocent wanghong (online celebrity) consumption—recording appreciation for a place and sharing photos of it on social media platforms—cause neighbourhood changes and instigate exc...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
If now we can post photos with filters and multiple edits to create a polished image of the urban (even could be misleading and fake), does that mean there is a new urban aestheticisation process happening in the digital age? @ijurresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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This International Women’s Day, we’re incredibly proud to reveal the cover of our third book, “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation”.
Photo essays from 11 cities around the world, including Paris, Bogotá, Barcelona and Montréal. To be released by RIBA Publishing in October.
Photo essays from 11 cities around the world, including Paris, Bogotá, Barcelona and Montréal. To be released by RIBA Publishing in October.
March 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This International Women’s Day, we’re incredibly proud to reveal the cover of our third book, “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation”.
Photo essays from 11 cities around the world, including Paris, Bogotá, Barcelona and Montréal. To be released by RIBA Publishing in October.
Photo essays from 11 cities around the world, including Paris, Bogotá, Barcelona and Montréal. To be released by RIBA Publishing in October.
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Update: in dialogue with the journal editors now. Thanks to those who stepped up as allies and friends to also raise their concerns.
While I'm disappointed in the research quality, I'm more cut up by the class discrimination. I wouldn't wish "a taste for deprivation" on anyone else.
While I'm disappointed in the research quality, I'm more cut up by the class discrimination. I wouldn't wish "a taste for deprivation" on anyone else.
Does Geography have a (working) class problem?
If you don't already know the answer, this should help;
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ps fwiw, most chippies where I'm from are owned by Greek or Chinese families, but funnily enough this isn't even considered.
If you don't already know the answer, this should help;
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ps fwiw, most chippies where I'm from are owned by Greek or Chinese families, but funnily enough this isn't even considered.
A taste for deprivation? Fish, chips and leaving the European Union
This paper explores the relationship between food culture and political behaviour through the lens of the United Kingdom’s referendum on leaving the E…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Update: in dialogue with the journal editors now. Thanks to those who stepped up as allies and friends to also raise their concerns.
While I'm disappointed in the research quality, I'm more cut up by the class discrimination. I wouldn't wish "a taste for deprivation" on anyone else.
While I'm disappointed in the research quality, I'm more cut up by the class discrimination. I wouldn't wish "a taste for deprivation" on anyone else.
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For those that remain, our jobs are changing rapidly. Many are being ‘restructured’ into new roles, or being merged into new ‘units’. For academics many of us are loosing our disciplinary identity as we get merged into mega-schools of Social Science
March 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
For those that remain, our jobs are changing rapidly. Many are being ‘restructured’ into new roles, or being merged into new ‘units’. For academics many of us are loosing our disciplinary identity as we get merged into mega-schools of Social Science
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The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance
March 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance
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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
voice.cymru
February 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
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Context: today Cardiff University announce proposals for 400 redundancies, including 15 in School of Geography, which will also be merged with school of social sciences...
Back to practicing pouring latté art, just in case…
January 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Context: today Cardiff University announce proposals for 400 redundancies, including 15 in School of Geography, which will also be merged with school of social sciences...
First post at Bluesky 🤩 :
CFP RGS-IBG 2025 Birmingham: Please see this menu me and
@vickiezhang.bsky.social
will organise a session with topics about cultural economy, affects and consumption, please circulate and join us if you are interested and we promise it will a lot of fun 😊
CFP RGS-IBG 2025 Birmingham: Please see this menu me and
@vickiezhang.bsky.social
will organise a session with topics about cultural economy, affects and consumption, please circulate and join us if you are interested and we promise it will a lot of fun 😊
January 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
First post at Bluesky 🤩 :
CFP RGS-IBG 2025 Birmingham: Please see this menu me and
@vickiezhang.bsky.social
will organise a session with topics about cultural economy, affects and consumption, please circulate and join us if you are interested and we promise it will a lot of fun 😊
CFP RGS-IBG 2025 Birmingham: Please see this menu me and
@vickiezhang.bsky.social
will organise a session with topics about cultural economy, affects and consumption, please circulate and join us if you are interested and we promise it will a lot of fun 😊