Tom Western
@tomwestern.bsky.social
Writing about circles and circulations and anticolonial futures. Setting up an anti-genocide university
(Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UCL)
https://undercartographies.city/
(Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UCL)
https://undercartographies.city/
We were lucky to have a very brilliant talk last night from the very brilliant @shabna.bsky.social (@runnymedetrust.bsky.social) for our annual Claire Dwyer memorial lecture @uclgeography.bsky.social
(Introduced by the always dapper @rikjaz.bsky.social)
(Introduced by the always dapper @rikjaz.bsky.social)
November 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We were lucky to have a very brilliant talk last night from the very brilliant @shabna.bsky.social (@runnymedetrust.bsky.social) for our annual Claire Dwyer memorial lecture @uclgeography.bsky.social
(Introduced by the always dapper @rikjaz.bsky.social)
(Introduced by the always dapper @rikjaz.bsky.social)
Went back to this and it took me to this and it's all good
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Went back to this and it took me to this and it's all good
Enjoying this analogy of fugue as music of breaking closed structures and creating realities not imaginable before – in the intro to Said on Opera
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Enjoying this analogy of fugue as music of breaking closed structures and creating realities not imaginable before – in the intro to Said on Opera
This term our migration students are writing manifestos for migratory futures, so we're reading Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World for inspiration
October 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This term our migration students are writing manifestos for migratory futures, so we're reading Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World for inspiration
Very lovely anti-genocide university event yesterday on ancestral plants and living futures – with a Palestinian picnic, a guided walk on flora and empire and land justice, and multilayered folkloric storytelling
June 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Very lovely anti-genocide university event yesterday on ancestral plants and living futures – with a Palestinian picnic, a guided walk on flora and empire and land justice, and multilayered folkloric storytelling
We're doing a screening of Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat at our anti-genocide university
With discussion with Congolese Youth Action Platform and Anti-Colonial Film Club
Thursday 1st July, 5pm, UCL Main Campus
With discussion with Congolese Youth Action Platform and Anti-Colonial Film Club
Thursday 1st July, 5pm, UCL Main Campus
June 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We're doing a screening of Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat at our anti-genocide university
With discussion with Congolese Youth Action Platform and Anti-Colonial Film Club
Thursday 1st July, 5pm, UCL Main Campus
With discussion with Congolese Youth Action Platform and Anti-Colonial Film Club
Thursday 1st July, 5pm, UCL Main Campus
Posted today by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
May 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Posted today by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
May 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Very happy that this is out in the world 🔊
May 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Very happy that this is out in the world 🔊
Our anti-genocide university is setting up an Engineering Resistance Room, repurposing the skill sets of STEM people at UCL towards anti-genocidal ends. See alt text for more and email [email protected] if you want to get involved
April 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Our anti-genocide university is setting up an Engineering Resistance Room, repurposing the skill sets of STEM people at UCL towards anti-genocidal ends. See alt text for more and email [email protected] if you want to get involved
Our next anti-genocide university event is on "Future Landscapes", with artist-led walks and storytelling and collective thinking on landscapes after liberation
April 29th, starting at noon – location details to be announced at the end of this week
April 29th, starting at noon – location details to be announced at the end of this week
April 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Our next anti-genocide university event is on "Future Landscapes", with artist-led walks and storytelling and collective thinking on landscapes after liberation
April 29th, starting at noon – location details to be announced at the end of this week
April 29th, starting at noon – location details to be announced at the end of this week
Events for April and May (all open to everyone)
April 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Events for April and May (all open to everyone)
"Genocide prevention has died in Gaza" – from the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
April 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
"Genocide prevention has died in Gaza" – from the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
Had the very big honour of examining Jumana Abboud's beautiful PhD work last week – on Palestinian water sources, inhabited springs, and imaginations against dispossession
March 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Had the very big honour of examining Jumana Abboud's beautiful PhD work last week – on Palestinian water sources, inhabited springs, and imaginations against dispossession
From today's student day of action for Palestine ❤️
February 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
From today's student day of action for Palestine ❤️
National student day of action at UCL tomorrow. Malet Place, 1pm
February 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
National student day of action at UCL tomorrow. Malet Place, 1pm
Students on my module led a beautiful discussion on community research and activist knowledge today 🥰
February 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Students on my module led a beautiful discussion on community research and activist knowledge today 🥰
Really great talk and discussion on Islamophobia and the intensification of racism against Muslim communities in the UK – with Shabna Begum from @runnymedetrust.bsky.social (hosted by the Sarah Parker Remond Centre)
February 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Really great talk and discussion on Islamophobia and the intensification of racism against Muslim communities in the UK – with Shabna Begum from @runnymedetrust.bsky.social (hosted by the Sarah Parker Remond Centre)
January 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Cartoonishly villainous (but also very violent) piece by the VC at my uni – championing a genocide-normalising "Israel-Palestine Initiative" which apparently has money to bring Israeli speakers to campus but no money for Palestinians, and that censors criticism from marginalised students (paywalled)
January 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Cartoonishly villainous (but also very violent) piece by the VC at my uni – championing a genocide-normalising "Israel-Palestine Initiative" which apparently has money to bring Israeli speakers to campus but no money for Palestinians, and that censors criticism from marginalised students (paywalled)
"We Want to Rebuild it with Love" 💚
December 11, 2024 at 12:10 PM
"We Want to Rebuild it with Love" 💚
