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Nik Heynen
@nik-heynen.bsky.social
Geographer, University of Georgia | Spelman College | UGA's Cornelia Walker Bailey Program on Land, Sea and Agriculture | Shell to Shore | Birkley Heynen Environmental Foundation

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No effective abolitionist and certainly no enslaved person walked up to a total stranger expressing dismay over the passage of the fugitive slave act to say, “well this is a racist country, what did you expect.” People kept organizing and building hope through collective resistance and rebellion.
July 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The chapter @nikki-luke.bsky.social and I wrote was titled "The case for reparations, urban political ecology, and the Black right to urban life” and was in "Turning Up the Heat" edited by Maria Kaika, Roger Keil (@rkeil.bsky.social), Tait Mandler and Yannis Tzaninis.
Manchester University Press - Turning up the heat
Turning up the heat - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Turning up the heat by Maria Kaika
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM