Phil Hubbard
@gypjh2000.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London; Editor Urban Studies. Part-time psychogeographer, landscape punk and walker.
Today I am remembering my former colleague Jo Bullard who has died at just 56. A very supportive, encouraging, assiduous geographer, it is impossible to imagine @lborogeog.bsky.social without her. I know her passing has affected many very deeply, my thoughts with them on day of her funeral. RIP.
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Today I am remembering my former colleague Jo Bullard who has died at just 56. A very supportive, encouraging, assiduous geographer, it is impossible to imagine @lborogeog.bsky.social without her. I know her passing has affected many very deeply, my thoughts with them on day of her funeral. RIP.
Am hearing terrible news about closure of Leics Human Geography degree @ucu.org.uk a proud dept with strong research tradition! www.leicester.news/university-o...
University of Leicester moves forward with plans to cut 150 jobs
A 'large number of staff' across several schools could be impacted
www.leicester.news
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Am hearing terrible news about closure of Leics Human Geography degree @ucu.org.uk a proud dept with strong research tradition! www.leicester.news/university-o...
Im speaking about our small homes research in an UGRG
webinar about housing, gentrification and financialisation of property 31 October 1300-1400. cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Housing #Inequality #Gentrification #planning @rgsibg.bsky.social
webinar about housing, gentrification and financialisation of property 31 October 1300-1400. cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Housing #Inequality #Gentrification #planning @rgsibg.bsky.social
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October 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Im speaking about our small homes research in an UGRG
webinar about housing, gentrification and financialisation of property 31 October 1300-1400. cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Housing #Inequality #Gentrification #planning @rgsibg.bsky.social
webinar about housing, gentrification and financialisation of property 31 October 1300-1400. cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Housing #Inequality #Gentrification #planning @rgsibg.bsky.social
It's now a real thing. Hardback and expensive but hopefully in time floppy and cheap. Join us at the launch on 21st Nov in London - see Eventbrite for free tickets www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-... @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social @claypipemusic.bsky.social @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It's now a real thing. Hardback and expensive but hopefully in time floppy and cheap. Join us at the launch on 21st Nov in London - see Eventbrite for free tickets www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-... @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social @claypipemusic.bsky.social @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social
New open access paper on housing densification and the regulation of the 'shrinking' home in an increasingly neoliberal regulatory environment @kbrickell.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @jreades.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
New open access paper on housing densification and the regulation of the 'shrinking' home in an increasingly neoliberal regulatory environment @kbrickell.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @jreades.bsky.social
New piece here: Making Sense of Multispecies Cities journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @dialogueshg.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
New piece here: Making Sense of Multispecies Cities journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @dialogueshg.bsky.social
I'm cited in here about the role of upscale student accommodation in the crisis of housing affordability in our major cities www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ultra-v... #housing #gentrification www.nospacelikehome.study
‘Ultra-volatile’ enrolments cause ‘turbulence’ in student housing
Developers fear ‘glory days’ of non-stop building over as some areas face over-supply problems while city centre overcrowding intensifies
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October 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I'm cited in here about the role of upscale student accommodation in the crisis of housing affordability in our major cities www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ultra-v... #housing #gentrification www.nospacelikehome.study
Just realised 20 years since this was published: Hubbard, P. (2005). Accommodating otherness: anti‐asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege. Transactions of the institute of British Geographers, 30(1), 52-65.
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Geographers have recently progressed the debate on NIMBYism by demonstrating that opposition to new development is frequently motivated by white residents’ desire to exclude non-white groups. In this...
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September 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Just realised 20 years since this was published: Hubbard, P. (2005). Accommodating otherness: anti‐asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege. Transactions of the institute of British Geographers, 30(1), 52-65.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
In a nation full of bigotry, why should we engage with the work of musicians who are inspired by the English landscape? Is it possible to be critically nostalgic? kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/listening-...
Listening to Landscape: Tuning-in to the Ghosts of England
Contemporary electronic and experimental musicians are using sound to summon landscapes, memories, and ghosts of a disappearing England.
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September 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
In a nation full of bigotry, why should we engage with the work of musicians who are inspired by the English landscape? Is it possible to be critically nostalgic? kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/listening-...
Book Launch for Listening to Landscape, King's College 21 Nov 1900. Hauntology/psychogeography/music: free event with music from The Hardy Tree @claypipemusic.bsky.social & Stonecirclesampler with @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social plus Jim Jupp & Oliver Cherer. Grab tickets from Eventbrite, going fast!
September 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Book Launch for Listening to Landscape, King's College 21 Nov 1900. Hauntology/psychogeography/music: free event with music from The Hardy Tree @claypipemusic.bsky.social & Stonecirclesampler with @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social plus Jim Jupp & Oliver Cherer. Grab tickets from Eventbrite, going fast!
Nice piece from Tim White on the housing crisis. 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 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Nice piece from Tim White on the housing crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The border spectacle. For our education? Amusement? Outrage? Whatever, I'm depressed this is being played out for cameras. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
French police slash inflatable migrant boat heading to UK
Watch BBC footage of French police destroying a boat in the English Channel, a move the UK describes as
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July 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The border spectacle. For our education? Amusement? Outrage? Whatever, I'm depressed this is being played out for cameras. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Some more stuff on fishing, Englishness and identity at the Kent coast here: kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/oysters-ow...
Oysters, Ownership, and Outrage: The Battle for Whitstable’s Shoreline
Once a symbol of Kentish pride and prosperity, oysters are now at the heart of a heated debate along the North Kent coast - igniting cultural, environmental and political tensions.
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June 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Some more stuff on fishing, Englishness and identity at the Kent coast here: kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/oysters-ow...
The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ri...
The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away
Anton Muscatelli, Maria Delgado and Miles Padgett consider the latest REF guidance, and warn of possible unintended consequences in how removing restrictions on output numbers will play out Anton Musc...
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June 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ri...
New paper by Fraser Curry @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @urbanfutures.bsky.social from his masters' dissertation - amazing stuff on property guardianship in urban Senegal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
New paper by Fraser Curry @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @urbanfutures.bsky.social from his masters' dissertation - amazing stuff on property guardianship in urban Senegal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Thu: i'm speaking about hauntology, gentrification and Englishness at this lovely little thing in Plymouth. Previewing some of stuff in my new book on hauntronica and music for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social "Listening to Landscape" (out Nov?) www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/confer....
Annual University of Plymouth Criminology Conference
What's on at the University of Plymouth: Annual University of Plymouth Criminology Conference. Ghosts of futures, pasts and presents: The hauntology of...
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June 17, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Thu: i'm speaking about hauntology, gentrification and Englishness at this lovely little thing in Plymouth. Previewing some of stuff in my new book on hauntronica and music for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social "Listening to Landscape" (out Nov?) www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/confer....
Great to be part of a @legalgeolsa.bsky.social meet up yesterday where we organised, discussed and debated. Lots of great future plans for conferences, workshops and perhaps even a journal for Legal Geography. Watch this space! www.clg.place
CLG Place
The site is a place for the sharing of scholarship in the field of critical legal geography. Through a directory of scholars and information about publications, events and research networks, the site ...
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June 17, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Great to be part of a @legalgeolsa.bsky.social meet up yesterday where we organised, discussed and debated. Lots of great future plans for conferences, workshops and perhaps even a journal for Legal Geography. Watch this space! www.clg.place
Personal stress is not work related says theorist of neoliberal governmentality nation.cymru/news/most-st...
Most stress felt by academics after huge job cuts proposal was personal and not work-related, says Cardiff University Vice Chancellor
Martin Shipton Cardiff University’s embattled Vice Chancellor Wendy Larner has told a Senedd committee that most of the stress endured by the university’s academic staff since the announcement of a ma...
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June 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Personal stress is not work related says theorist of neoliberal governmentality nation.cymru/news/most-st...
@REF2029 shameful. Will @ucu.org.uk act on news that we can sack people and still use their publications in the next REF? At a time of redundancies this is tone deaf at best!
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June 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
@REF2029 shameful. Will @ucu.org.uk act on news that we can sack people and still use their publications in the next REF? At a time of redundancies this is tone deaf at best!
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Im speaking today at the London Boundary conference
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and to celebrate you can buy my book 30% off - all my royalty to Kent Refugee Action Network @_KRAN_
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and to celebrate you can buy my book 30% off - all my royalty to Kent Refugee Action Network @_KRAN_
June 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Im speaking today at the London Boundary conference
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and to celebrate you can buy my book 30% off - all my royalty to Kent Refugee Action Network @_KRAN_
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and to celebrate you can buy my book 30% off - all my royalty to Kent Refugee Action Network @_KRAN_
I'm keynote at 7th London International Boundary Conference, 12/13 June, talking about Borderlands: Identity and Belonging at Edge of England @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social student tx £15 including food/coffee www.londoninternationalboundaryconference.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I'm keynote at 7th London International Boundary Conference, 12/13 June, talking about Borderlands: Identity and Belonging at Edge of England @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social student tx £15 including food/coffee www.londoninternationalboundaryconference.com
Urban Salon event upcoming with @lorettaclees.bsky.social 20 June at LSE with @hyunshin.bsky.social - a must for those interested in gentrification and its displacements!
May 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Urban Salon event upcoming with @lorettaclees.bsky.social 20 June at LSE with @hyunshin.bsky.social - a must for those interested in gentrification and its displacements!
We teach a mix of UK, EU and International students on this masters - why not join us @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social in the dept of geography for this programme which offers critical perspectives on sustainable urbanism? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b4b...
Introducing: MSc Sustainable Cities, King's College London
YouTube video by Global Affairs, King's College London
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May 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
We teach a mix of UK, EU and International students on this masters - why not join us @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social in the dept of geography for this programme which offers critical perspectives on sustainable urbanism? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b4b...
I'll be talkiing to @laurieparsons.bsky.social about his new book Carbon Colonialism in Brighton next month. A great book, as the white admiral that landed on it yesterday can testify! ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/city-...
May 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I'll be talkiing to @laurieparsons.bsky.social about his new book Carbon Colonialism in Brighton next month. A great book, as the white admiral that landed on it yesterday can testify! ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/city-...
One for legal geographers: I flew over the A69 Castres - Toulouse motorway, 45% finished, at w/e. They stopped work on it in Feb when courts ruled the environmental costs outweigh the public interest. Goes to Senate tomorrow. MPs likely to override judicial authority: test case for environmental law
May 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
One for legal geographers: I flew over the A69 Castres - Toulouse motorway, 45% finished, at w/e. They stopped work on it in Feb when courts ruled the environmental costs outweigh the public interest. Goes to Senate tomorrow. MPs likely to override judicial authority: test case for environmental law