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Remaining, returning, remembering: Echo Park Lake Archive Collective of Institute on Inequality & Democracy . Thank you Nick Blomley & Alex Flynn for convening us at the ALPS conference.

dispossessive violence #climatejustice

Sports scholar Jules Boykoff and French activist Paul Alauzy with le revers de la médaille say preparations for the Paris Olympics have resulted in "violent social cleansing" over the last year, including mass expulsions of unhoused people, refugees and other marginalized groups.

cause and effect.... theguardian.com/world/article/…

Absolute dream to co-host this with Ananya Roy. It was a pleasure to show the group LA. Stay tuned for all our reflections in the coming months!

"arrest to dispossess" - This is a common strategy of police and sanitation tag-teaming on sweeps. The goal isn't incarceration, but dispossession. Booking is time-consuming, so if they can simply detain a person and remove them from their property, mission accomplished. 1/3

Who Gets To Partake in The Conversation? - Community-Engaged Research Initiative - Simon Fraser University sfu.ca/ceri/blog/2024…

A clarion call from my brother ⁦Seth Klein⁩ - and maybe the most compelling piece he’s ever written. If you’re committed to advancing climate action, please open yourself to this argument and consider it deeply. nationalobserver.com/2024/08/27/opi…

McGill Law Profs are on strike! I’d rather be heading to Property class to discuss how law structures the distribution of society’s resources, the coercive power of property owner-employers (Morris Cohen, 1927!), and alternative imaginations & collectivities.. but here we are..

Socreds are back #bcpoli

We are happy to announce our first winter school “Explorations in Critical Legal Geographies” (Verona, 22-24 January 2025). Deadline for applications: 30 October. Complete info at: bit.ly/CLGwinterschool

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There are just over three weeks left to apply for a spot in the Critical Legal Geography winter school hosted in Verona, Italy next January. Please share widely with any PhD candidates or emerging academics in your network who you think might be interested in participating.

Oct 30, 2024 Warren Gill Lecture: Belongings Matter with Nick Blomley events.sfu.ca/voce/event/416…

Now that political dust has settled-sort of-can we talk about "supply and demand" for housing? Vancouver tripled housing units/supply since 1970. All of it "infill". No other center city comes close. This level of new supply should have led to lower prices. Nope. Highest in NA.

Liberalism Will Cost Us the Earth In These Times inthesetimes.com/article/libera…

Launch of a report, tracing the colonial story of the lands on which SFU Burnaby sits. Please register for online or in person options: Feb 12, 12:30 eventbrite.ca/e/how-to-steal…

events.sfu.ca/event/43085-ho… 12:30 Vancouver time today - zoom or in-person options available

So long X. I am now at nblomley.bsky.social