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Andrew Williams
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Geographer, welfare, racial capitalism, food charity.
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lottelydia.bsky.social
I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.
tabouchadi.bsky.social Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Oct 21
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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privatechand.bsky.social
Jfc. ICE weapons purchases increased 700%. Of the $71,515,762 spent, most was “on guns and armor, but there have also been significant purchases of chemical weapons and “guided missile warheads and explosive components.”

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ICE boosts weapons spending 700%
A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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davidstoreygeog.bsky.social
"The pro-Trump billionaires behind Israel’s war-tech are in prime position to deploy the suite of militarised surveillance and border control technologies of a Trump-brokered peace"
@nafeez.bsky.social
on the 'circular economy of war'
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
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Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza's 'Peace' Deal
Documents show Tony Blair’s Ellison-funded institute designed Gaza’s recovery plan on data-driven lines echoing Oracle-Palantir war systems.
bylinetimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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annamlawrence.bsky.social
Pleased to share the first two RGS-IBG Book Series titles to be published fully open access with @lsepress.bsky.social, available early 2026...

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@jbrigstocke.bsky.social

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A book cover for Julian Brigstocke's forthcoming book 'Non-Authoritarian Authority: Cities, Materially and the Aesthetics of Power' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white aerial photograph of a large crowd in the background. A book cover for Laurie Parson's forthcoming book 'Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white photograph of three people riding on a scooter above a body of water filled with litter.
September 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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antipodeonline.bsky.social
Intervention — "On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada" by Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...
Intervention—“On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada” - Antipode Online
Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) Baba, when will we study astronomy in school? … I want to learn about the moon and stars. (Banias, age 9, quoted ...
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September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
williamsapj.bsky.social
Looking forward to reading this
September 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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ejmccann.bsky.social
New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6
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Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach - Eugene McCann, 2025
This paper addresses the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism and contentious politics. It outlines one way to expand...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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alanlester.bsky.social
Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Forced Free Labour’: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey
This article investigates the connections between emancipation in Britain’s slave colonies and settler colonisation through the policies of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (styled Viscount Howick ...
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September 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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antipodeonline.bsky.social
"Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests" -- Antipode authors @williamsapj.bsky.social and Jon May discuss their published work www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... doi.org/10.1111/anti...
Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests
Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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davidstoreygeog.bsky.social
"The state management of poverty in Britain was inextricably underwritten by slavery-derived wealth and colonial exploitation"
@williamsapj.bsky.social on the 'workhouse-plantation nexus'.
Media coverage of geographic research @antipodeonline.bsky.social
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Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests
Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
williamsapj.bsky.social
Really important piece
friendsjournal.org Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · Aug 4
For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.
Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement
A moral reckoning.
www.friendsjournal.org
August 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
williamsapj.bsky.social
Two Israeli human rights organisations - B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) - accuse Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinian people

www.btselem.org/sites/defaul...

www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...
www.btselem.org
July 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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prospect.org
Alligator Alcatraz and facilities like it have proven to be big business for disaster capitalism. Maureen Tkacik reports on the companies behind the trillion-dollar industry:
https://trib.al/bpQbVcB
Meet the Disaster Capitalists Behind Alligator Alcatraz
Incompetent and militarized ‘emergency response’ is on track to be a trillion-dollar industry by the end of Trump’s second term.
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July 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
A must read, devastating, Report by Francesca Albanese (UN Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967) on the global economic foundations of the Palestinians' genocide: THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE.

Please share!

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A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance edited ve...
This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and...
www.ohchr.org
July 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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drdavebeck.bsky.social
📢Pay what you feel price🚨
Our new book is available to download.

Its nominally 'free', but please consider a contribution.

Thanks to Rachel Morris of @cymruconversations.bsky.social for putting this together (and others for contributing)!

Please share this

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Levelling Down | Austerity in Wales
This is nominally free but ‘pay what you can’. Any kind payments will go towards fees for writers, a Zoom account, and expenses of any get-togethers for the world’s first ‘hublication’. The book may o...
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July 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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ctemenos.bsky.social
Pleased this new progress report on Mobilities & Crisis is out #OpenAccess. I suggest that mobility isn't just about movement but also navigating the temporalities of ongoing hardship, where crisis is part of the lived experience rather than an exceptional event. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Mobilities I: Crisis - Cristina Temenos, 2025
In this report on mobilities, I discuss research published between 2017-present, focussing on how multiple crises intersect with mobilities. I examine how recen...
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July 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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carwynmorris.bsky.social
Two fully funded PhDs with me at SOAS. Within my ERC project; one researching in Paris, the other in Düsseldorf. Exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban space, the cultural industries, and social media. More info here:

drive.google.com/file/d/12srA...

Deadline is 21 July.
2_ Fully Funded PhDs SOAS ENG.pdf
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June 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
williamsapj.bsky.social
Did an open day on Friday and Saturday... really wished other geography departments committed to low carbon field study visits rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The future of geography field course pedagogy in UK higher education
Geography field course pedagogy in UK HE appears increasingly unsustainable and complex for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). We report on a national-level workshop (April 2024) that brought toge...
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June 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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ucu.org.uk
UCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make £140million in cuts and threaten jobs

We're fighting against these reckless proposals

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UCU members on Edinburgh picket line No More Cuts written in chalk UCU members on Edinburgh picket line
June 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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lrb.co.uk
‘For the armchair techno-warriors of Silicon Valley, the barbarians at the gate are a useful solution.’

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the tech companies profiting from war: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Laleh Khalili · Collective Property, Private Control: Defence Tech
The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows...
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June 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
williamsapj.bsky.social
Hope your University management is treating you better than mine. Bittersweet sharing this but it has several years in the making:

Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World

Thanks to editors @antipodeonline.bsky.social

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Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World
This paper re-examines the British workhouse within the framework of racial capitalism and the Atlantic world. Traditionally understood as a domestic mechanism for managing poverty and labour in an e...
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June 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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thegj.bsky.social
📢 New in The GJ! 📢

We've published 12 intervention pieces in a special collection reflecting on Trump's second term in the White House, and how geographers are responding.

All pieces are free to read for the next 3 months - access them here ⬇️

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A blue tile announcing the 'Geographers on Trump' commentary collection published in The Geographical Journal. The GJ and Royal Geographical Society logos are at the top, a waving American flag with an outlined image of Donald Trump are in the centre, and a list of featured authors is on the right hand side: Mark Davidson LaToya E. Eaves Colin Flint Sarah Fogel Banu Gokariksel Cynthia S. Gorman Conor Harrison Peter Hopkins Eden Kinkaid Nick Koenig Solange Munoz Caroline Nagel Elizabeth Olson Danielle Purifoy Pamela Sertzen Wiley Sharp Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles Joel White Bryttani Wooten
June 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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davidjbissell.bsky.social
Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏

⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025

📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at [email protected]

📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p
May 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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historyworkshop.org.uk
Charles McGee was an elderly Jamaican man who swept the crossing at the foot of Ludgate Hill in Regency London.

Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social on the life of McGee and what makes a 'begging place': www.historyworkshop....
Begging Places
How does a public space become a 'begging place'? David Hitchcock on the life of Jamaican street sweeper in Regency London, Charles McGee.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
May 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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tibg.bsky.social
#OpenAccess in TIBG:

'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo

This Intervention introduces the Chair's theme for the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2025, taking place in Birmingham (UK) this summer.

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An extract from the Intervention by Pat Noxolo: 4 CREATIVE GEOGRAPHY I want to end this short article with a question that is big but simple: what is our creative vision for our discipline, in the twenty-first century? The double use of the possessive pronoun, our, is intentional—if geographers think about Geography as something that pertains to us, in all our globalised diversity, if it is a discipline that we can shape, what is the discipline that we want to create? What is Geography's mission?
May 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM