Special economic zones aren’t just trade infrastructure - they’re tools of imperial power & authoritarian control.

🚨New paper from @invisibleworkers.bsky.social

Read on to learn how global production sustains empire & violence.

🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629825001635

New in Area: What happens when academic institutions police solidarity?

Dr Shereen Fernandez explores the disciplining of #Palestine solidarity & the radical potential of #friendship in resistance.

Part of our Dialogues in #Radical Geog SI.

Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

👕Another stark reminder of the human costs of #fastfashion.

🤒In #India’s “castoff capital”, workers are falling ill recycling the world's discarded clothes.

📈Lung disease. Skin infections. Cancer.

Via the The Guardian

theguardian.com/global-devel...

🧵Once the beating heart of #UK manufacturing, #Leicester's garment industry is now on the brink of collapse

❓What went wrong?

👟On the ground, our new Invisible Workers colleague, Dr Evie Gilbert, uncovers a story of systemic neglect

🔗 Read on: www.invisibleworkers.org.uk/journal/leic...

Want to show your solidarity with garment workers this International Workers Day (or any day)? Download our print-ready solidarity poster - made in Bangladesh - by signing up for our mailing list through the link below.
cleanclothes.org/get-your-int...
#InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay #LabourDay

Let workers take you behind the scene's of #Jordan's clothing and footwear industry👕👀

Led by Katharina Grueneisl & our Invisible Workers team

📅Sat May 3rd
⏰4pm UK/6pm Amman
📍Online or in person at MMAGFoundation, Amman
🔗More info and link to register: invisibleworkers.org.uk/events

🚫GEOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORITARIANISM🚫

🌏CfP Royal Geographical Society Conference, Birmingham, 26-29 August 2025

📧Please send abstracts by 5th March 2025

#RGSIBG25

Over 100 people have sent photos to show support for Burmese workers unfairly dismissed by Japan's Honeys. Myo Aye will be reaching Tokyo today to advocate for the workers!

You can sign the petition here or send your photos to show support too! (1/x)

www.change.org/p/japan-s-ho...

"There are enough garments in the world to clothe the next 6 generations!"

A frequently cited claim... yet hard to evidence

I crunched the numbers with BBC Radio 4's More or Less but found a lack of transparency masks the scale of fashion overproduction

Listen here:

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Our @invisibleworkers.bsky.social team is running a creative methods workshop on body mapping next week, led by artist Elizabeth Alster 👩‍🎨🎨

It's open to all staff at #WeAreUoN

More info👉 invisibleworkers.org.uk/events/call-for-papers-a3gzw-ctaej

Spaces are limited! Please get in touch to join 👋

New symposium out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on Depletion through/of Social Reproduction.

It builds on Shirin Rai's foundational work on depletion to replenish geographical thinking on depletion through/of social reproduction. 1/7

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

With negotiations now concluded, COP 29 has been deemed a success by some and a failure by many

But what are the key takeaways?

Is there any hope for the COP process?

And where do we go from here?

To find out all this and more, join our stellar panel -Wednesday @ 2pm

www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Exciting to see the 1st of our Dialogues in
Radical Geography series out in print 🤩🔖

It's a MUST READ w/ crucial thoughts on how we save each other from "unsustainable intensity of work demands" in academic life 😰⌛️

Thank you, @jennypickerill.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.1111/area...

More to follow 👀

On the last day of Business of Fashion's VOICES 2024, a reminder of the message Beto Bina, Abi Sivalogananthan and I delivered:

Rising temperatures impact workers health and productivity
The solution is listening

Where factories act on worker concerns heat stress is 75% lower

Voice is everything

18 months ago, I promised garment workers living through one of Cambodia's worst ever heat waves that I would tell their story to brand leaders

Today at @businessoffashion.com.web.brid.gy VOICES 2024 I finally delivered on that promise

Brands, you've heard what's happening. Now it's time to act.