Julian Agyeman
@julianagyeman.bsky.social
Critical urban planning professor @ Tufts UEP. From Yorkshire UK, now living in Cambridge MA. Dad of English choccy Lab, Oso. Desperately seeking #justsustainabilities. Editor-in-Chief of Local Environment. Website: julianagyeman.com
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Julian Agyeman
@julianagyeman.bsky.social
· Jan 23
"Our greatest challenges are not scientific or technological; they are deeper than that—they are spiritual and cultural. Imagine shaping cities as if peoples, lands, and natures were sacred." Open Access. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi....
Incorporating epistemic, restorative, and reparative justice an analytical Infrastructure (in)Justice framework is proposed. The framework further develops the 6 + 1D typology of injustice: Disinvest, Disrespect, Disenfranchise, Dismiss, Distress, and Dispossess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Infrastructure (in)Justice: a multi-scalar framework and review of epistemic, restorative, and reparative justice dimensions
Distributive, recognition, and procedural dimensions of justice in environmental justice frameworks are common starting points for justice-oriented research and practice. Additional dimensions of j...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Incorporating epistemic, restorative, and reparative justice an analytical Infrastructure (in)Justice framework is proposed. The framework further develops the 6 + 1D typology of injustice: Disinvest, Disrespect, Disenfranchise, Dismiss, Distress, and Dispossess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rural women in Uttarakhand are essential in maintaining and adapting ITK in response to climate change, showing the critical role of women’s experiences and traditional knowledge TK in fostering resilient and comprehensive approaches to address climate challenges www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Documentation and validation of indigenous knowledge by rural women for climate change adaptation in the Himalayan ecosystems of Uttarakhand
Indigenous Technical Knowledge (ITK) serves as a reservoir of wisdom passed down through generations, with rural women in Uttarakhand playing a pivotal role in its preservation and adaptation to me...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Rural women in Uttarakhand are essential in maintaining and adapting ITK in response to climate change, showing the critical role of women’s experiences and traditional knowledge TK in fostering resilient and comprehensive approaches to address climate challenges www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The research applies a knowledge co-creation framework to analyse how local actors serve as intermediaries/translators/brokers/innovators, revealing that knowledge isn't merely transferred re-contextualised through embodied practice, metaphor and social learning www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Co-creating climate knowledge: informal networks, local innovation, and ecosystem restoration in coastal Tanzania
This study investigates the role of informal knowledge networks in climate adaptation and ecosystem restoration in coastal Tanzania. Focusing on coral reef and mangrove restoration efforts in Soman...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The research applies a knowledge co-creation framework to analyse how local actors serve as intermediaries/translators/brokers/innovators, revealing that knowledge isn't merely transferred re-contextualised through embodied practice, metaphor and social learning www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The storm hit rural Jamaica hardest – people who are poorest/least protected/historically marginalised. The same communities shaped by slavery, colonial extraction, and racialised policies are now on the frontline of climate disaster….we’re not in theory any more
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Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies
Destruction in Jamaica shows why climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice, campaigners say
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November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The storm hit rural Jamaica hardest – people who are poorest/least protected/historically marginalised. The same communities shaped by slavery, colonial extraction, and racialised policies are now on the frontline of climate disaster….we’re not in theory any more
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
This is why I’ve dedicated 27 years of my life (and counting) to this fantastic community of scholars, activists, practitioners, dreamers and doers.. tufts.box.com/s/j2cj6mddx6...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This is why I’ve dedicated 27 years of my life (and counting) to this fantastic community of scholars, activists, practitioners, dreamers and doers.. tufts.box.com/s/j2cj6mddx6...
Wow! I guess this is as close as Fox gets to acknowledging the huge potential in city owned grocery stores to alleviate hunger. They do mischievously however say 'city run' which is not true! www.foxnews.com/politics/atl...
Atlanta’s city-run grocery sees early success, sparking debate over government’s role
Mayor Andre Dickens says Azalea Fresh Market has served over 20,000 customers in two months, proving strong demand for fresh food options in underserved neighborhoods.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Wow! I guess this is as close as Fox gets to acknowledging the huge potential in city owned grocery stores to alleviate hunger. They do mischievously however say 'city run' which is not true! www.foxnews.com/politics/atl...
By tracing key vocabularies of commoning across diverse contexts, the paper develops a plural understanding of the commons and proposes a tentative framework for connecting different practices without reducing their plurality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Plural commons: translation as a relational practice
The widespread use of the English term commons, rooted in British history, often obscures the diverse ways in which collective life, stewardship, and organising are practiced across different cultu...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
By tracing key vocabularies of commoning across diverse contexts, the paper develops a plural understanding of the commons and proposes a tentative framework for connecting different practices without reducing their plurality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
'The Black Forager' posts about finding/cooking wild plants, mushrooms, and seaweed while sharing the historical connection foraging has to African American and Indigenous food traditions. She has 5M followers, and a 2022 James Beard Award for best social media account. now.tufts.edu/2025/11/04/b...
The ‘Black Forager’ Nibbles the Campus
Alexis Nikole Nelson, known as the “Black Forager” on social media, visited Tufts to share advice for safely eating foods found in the wild.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
'The Black Forager' posts about finding/cooking wild plants, mushrooms, and seaweed while sharing the historical connection foraging has to African American and Indigenous food traditions. She has 5M followers, and a 2022 James Beard Award for best social media account. now.tufts.edu/2025/11/04/b...
The ‘great carbon divide’ has grown over the past 30 years. Since 1990, the share of emissions of the richest 0.1% has increased by 32%, while the share of the poorest 50% has fallen by 3%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
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October 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The ‘great carbon divide’ has grown over the past 30 years. Since 1990, the share of emissions of the richest 0.1% has increased by 32%, while the share of the poorest 50% has fallen by 3%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Join Cities@Tufts as we welcome Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani on Wednesday, 10/29 at noon ET! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cities...
October 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Join Cities@Tufts as we welcome Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani on Wednesday, 10/29 at noon ET! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cities...
From Hull, Hell and Halifax, and being top of The Guardian’s ‘Crap Map’ to Hull-oh! Great to see my home city being appreciated instead of constantly maligned 😎 www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/...
National Geographic names Hull one of the top 25 places to visit in the world — The Hull Story
By Rick Lyon , Co-Editor Hull has been named one of the Top 25 global destinations to visit in 2026 by National Geographic , in its prestigious Best of the World list. The city joins an elit...
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October 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
From Hull, Hell and Halifax, and being top of The Guardian’s ‘Crap Map’ to Hull-oh! Great to see my home city being appreciated instead of constantly maligned 😎 www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/...
Proud to have had a role in this Oral History of the Environmental Movement in the UK: 1970 – 2020, with interviews of 100 carefully selected people involved in protests, policies and practical action since the early 1970s www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
Oral History of the Environmental Movement
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October 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Proud to have had a role in this Oral History of the Environmental Movement in the UK: 1970 – 2020, with interviews of 100 carefully selected people involved in protests, policies and practical action since the early 1970s www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
My students’ and my Opinion piece in today’s Boston Globe. As post Covid food insecurity is deepened by changes to SNAP, around 40,000 Bostonians will face more challenges. It’s time for cities to get creative. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/21/o...
Publicly owned grocery stores could be Boston’s answer to food insecurity - The Boston Globe
City-owned grocery stores prioritize benefits to local communities over corporate profit, enabling lower prices.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
My students’ and my Opinion piece in today’s Boston Globe. As post Covid food insecurity is deepened by changes to SNAP, around 40,000 Bostonians will face more challenges. It’s time for cities to get creative. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/21/o...
We offer recommendations for how municipalities may improve practices and reduce racial/ethnic inequalities in access to affordable water. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The colour of unaffordable household water: racial/ethnic inequalities in bills and shutoffs across local water districts in nine urban areas of the United States
The rapidly rising cost of household water bills is an increasing financial burden and health concern for low-income households in the United States, a nation that offers neither a constitutional r...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
We offer recommendations for how municipalities may improve practices and reduce racial/ethnic inequalities in access to affordable water. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From Mattapan to the North End, BFFC has opened 13 food forests, with the aim of 30 by 2030—a target shared by the Boston as part of its 2030 Climate Action Plan. More than 525 fruit trees/shrubs, with apples and cherries, alongside pawpaws and serviceberries. insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...
Boston’s Food Forests Take Root as a Climate Equity Strategy - Inside Climate News
A decade of organizing has turned trash-strewn lots into edible parks. Now Boston is expanding food forests as part of its climate action plan.
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October 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
From Mattapan to the North End, BFFC has opened 13 food forests, with the aim of 30 by 2030—a target shared by the Boston as part of its 2030 Climate Action Plan. More than 525 fruit trees/shrubs, with apples and cherries, alongside pawpaws and serviceberries. insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...
Publicly-owned grocery stores can be structured to prioritize community benefit over profit, enabling lower prices, better food access, and stronger local sourcing, and may operate independently or in partnership with non-profits, cooperatives, or private operators. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
Could government-owned grocery stores be coming to Boston?
Two Boston City Councilors are proposing a hearing to consider publicly owned grocery stores in Boston.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Publicly-owned grocery stores can be structured to prioritize community benefit over profit, enabling lower prices, better food access, and stronger local sourcing, and may operate independently or in partnership with non-profits, cooperatives, or private operators. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
Just got the beautiful cover design of @alisonhopealkon.bsky.social and my companion to our 2011 'Cultivating Food Justice' published by @mitpress.bsky.social It's due out in February next year. Mark your calendars!
October 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Just got the beautiful cover design of @alisonhopealkon.bsky.social and my companion to our 2011 'Cultivating Food Justice' published by @mitpress.bsky.social It's due out in February next year. Mark your calendars!
Co-production has limits, and can serve to reproduce power structures if emptied of its political, transformatory intent, but we must understand its emancipatory potential as an incremental strategy that has the power to transform urban planning practices. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Co-Production of Knowledge in Action: Emancipatory Strategies for Urban Equality
This open-access book examines the emancipatory potential of knowledge co-production for more equal cities, drawing on experiences from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Published by UCL Press.
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October 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Co-production has limits, and can serve to reproduce power structures if emptied of its political, transformatory intent, but we must understand its emancipatory potential as an incremental strategy that has the power to transform urban planning practices. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
This article offers a new framework to classify internal and external food sharing governance elements into 8 categories: structural factors, regulation, resources, discourses, relations between social actors, participation, knowledge, and internal organisation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Food sharing governance in European cities: insights from a scoping review
Food sharing initiatives (FSI) are rapidly growing in urban areas and present new opportunities to shape more sustainable urban food systems through collaborative efforts. These initiatives operate...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This article offers a new framework to classify internal and external food sharing governance elements into 8 categories: structural factors, regulation, resources, discourses, relations between social actors, participation, knowledge, and internal organisation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cities across the US are prioritizing investments in revitalization/walkability/placemaking. What about public restrooms? If they are well-managed/usable, it signals to visitors and residents alike that the surrounding area is safe/dignified and regularly cared for www.planetizen.com/features/136...
Public Restrooms: The Hidden Infrastructure of Civic Trust
Want to know if a city is thriving? Start with a bathroom break.
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September 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Cities across the US are prioritizing investments in revitalization/walkability/placemaking. What about public restrooms? If they are well-managed/usable, it signals to visitors and residents alike that the surrounding area is safe/dignified and regularly cared for www.planetizen.com/features/136...
Forest transitions are not only ecological but cultural and political processes that negotiate power, identity, and belonging. Urban forest initiatives should prioritise community agency/equity, challenge exclusionary legacies and advance more inclusive frameworks www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Legacies of a “great simple country” forest transitions, urban greening, and the fallacy of trees as a tool of democratisation
This paper examines the evolving values attributed to trees and green spaces in northeastern U.S. cities. Historically framed as antagonists in land use change, cities are sites of forest histories...
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September 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Forest transitions are not only ecological but cultural and political processes that negotiate power, identity, and belonging. Urban forest initiatives should prioritise community agency/equity, challenge exclusionary legacies and advance more inclusive frameworks www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We turn to the theory and practice of co-production as one possible intervention into how the relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous placemakers could be conceived and enacted in the urban environment. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
On belonging and becoming in the settler-colonial city: Co-produced futurities, placemaking, and urban planning in the United States
With a few notable exceptions, settler-colonial theory has not been applied to the study of U.S. cities and urban planning. Settler-colonial theory is a relatively new field of scholarship that int...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We turn to the theory and practice of co-production as one possible intervention into how the relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous placemakers could be conceived and enacted in the urban environment. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Spatial processes play a critical role in creating/shaping/perpetuating inequalities/oppression. We advocate for spatial justice in climate action and offer 8 principles to support a critical perspective on climate change in urban contexts rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Everything about climate change is disproportionate: Principles for spatial justice in urban climate action
The figure illustrates the eight principles for spatial justice in urban climate action proposed in the paper: 1) Account for cumulative effects; 2) Go beyond simplistic demographics; 3) Connect to c...
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September 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Spatial processes play a critical role in creating/shaping/perpetuating inequalities/oppression. We advocate for spatial justice in climate action and offer 8 principles to support a critical perspective on climate change in urban contexts rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Unequal access to renewables, disparate light distribution, and poorly-maintained infrastructure were key concerns. Fears about safety, unreliable energy infrastructure, and risks like fires shaped participants' visions for the future. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Energy equity, transitions, and futures: Photovoice insights from Latinx community members in Boston
Energy equity remains a pressing issue in urban areas, particularly for marginalized communities like Boston's Latinx population. This study examines …
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September 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Unequal access to renewables, disparate light distribution, and poorly-maintained infrastructure were key concerns. Fears about safety, unreliable energy infrastructure, and risks like fires shaped participants' visions for the future. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
My 27th Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP) student Orientation! 70 1st year students aiming to become "Practical Visionaries" - people who dream big, but have their feet firmly on the ground. When I started, we had 1, now we have 4 degrees and we have double the intake!
August 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My 27th Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP) student Orientation! 70 1st year students aiming to become "Practical Visionaries" - people who dream big, but have their feet firmly on the ground. When I started, we had 1, now we have 4 degrees and we have double the intake!