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📣Please join us at the Book Launch tomorrow! 📅 Date and Time: Thursday 17 October 2024, 6pm - 7.30pm 📍 Venue: Arts West Building (Building 148), Research Lounge (L5), University of Melbourne Details and registration link 👇 eventbrite.com.au/e/spatial-just… See you there!

All week we are (re)sharing pieces from the most recent double issue of CITY, Vol 28.3-4. Next up is: "The geosemiotics of urban transnationalism: a case study of Vietnamese commercial landscapes in Prague" by Tae-Sik Kim

Join us in person or online tomorrow at the Melbourne Centre for Cities Annual Symposium: Rethinking an Urban Era! We have got a great line of speakers to hear from. Here is the registration link: eventbrite.com.au/e/rethinking-a… #newurbanera #connectedcities #equitablecities #sustainablecities

Looking forward to talking about my research on #platformlabour, #migration and #resistance at the Asia Institute tomorrow. If you are in town, join us at 5pm tomorrow. 📍 Seminar Room, L3, Asia Institute, Sidney Myer Asia Centre (Building  158), The University of Melbourne

Join Professor Dr Caroline Bressey on 30 October for “Behind the Bar: Researching the Lives of Black Victorian Barmaids" a #BlackHistoryMonth event hosted with the UCL Social & Historical Sciences EDI Committee. #ReclaimingNarratives #BlackHistory #UCLGeography ucl.ac.uk/social-histori…

A pleasure and privilege to have spoken this week at York University, Toronto, Canada for an event organised by the awesome Shubhra Gururani and to receive amazing feedback from Waqas Butt ! A very enjoyable event! And Toronto was unusually warm!

WEBINAR TODAY #GenderEquity in the formal & informal sectors can only be achieved with accessible #Childcare services✊ We will look at the models of childcare provision & their effectiveness and suitability for working parents, children & care workers ➡️ bit.ly/4ewoqLL

Vacancy: postdoctoral researcher to develop and analyze innovative approaches to enhance inclusive urban green governance among municipalities, civil society, and local residents. Wageningen University. Deadline: 7 November 2024. wur.nl/en/vacancy/pos… #urban #sociology

Listen 🔊 Podcast from our #UrbanRiches theme Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century, Matthew Soules, UBC, 18 June 2024 sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

🗓️ Excited to announce our upcoming conference, "Doing Ethnography: Notes from the Field," on 18th November, 9 am - 1 pm at the UCL IAS @ucl-ias.bsky.social! Join early-career researchers to share experiences and discuss ethnographic methods. ✨ #Ethnography Tyler Valiquette @SarojiniSapru

Some photos from our ⁦Melbourne Centre for Cities⁩ Annual Symposium yesterday. #newurbanera #equitablecities #leadingcities #sustainablecities #connectedcities

If you're in Melbourne, join Dr Lutfun Nahar Lata's photo exhibition tomorrow. The photo exhibition will also be open on the following dates and times. Thursday Dec 12: 5pm - 9pm Friday Dec 13: 4pm - 9pm Saturday Dec 14: 4pm - 9pm Sunday Dec 15: 4pm - 9pm

Look forward to my book talk today SOAS South Asia Institute at 5pm London time! Join me for an insightful discussion on spatial justice, contested governance, and livelihood challenges in Bangladesh. Register here: soas.ac.uk/about/event/sp…

Very pleased to see our (w Andrew Copolov ) latest paper 'Parasitic platform urbanism in Dhaka and Melbourne' published in Human Geography journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19… #platformeconomy #urbaninfrastructure #regulation #Uber #Pathao #DoorDash #HungryPanda #Australia #Bangladesh

Moritz Kasper and team organizing a fully funded five-day workshop on infrastructure at Université Cheikh Anta Diop (Dakar, Senegal). Primarily, but not exclusively, for ECRs from Africa and Germany. CfA closes 31 March, less than a week left! Apply and share widely.

You can access the preprint version of my 'Twin precarities in the platform economy: An interdisciplinary perspective' paper here 👇

The new issue of Lo Squaderno is out now. It focuses on Alliances and Urban Precarity and it has Tacit Alliances, Not Knowing Togetherness by Lancione And Simone. You can download Lo Squaderno for free here: losquaderno.net/.../2025/03/lo…

Open Call for Photographers to capture the precarious yet rich life of various urban commons, third spaces, and temporary occupations across Europe. Apply by 16/06/2025. welcomin.brussels/news/call-for-… #urban #sociology

This piece—EPISTEMIC JUSTICE AND THE UNIVERSITY—is an offshoot of collective and individual reflections on our experiences as international early career scholars working in/for “world-class neoliberal universities”. Stephanie, Tanzil, Ishita & I began talking about this thinking-

Very pleased to share my latest paper ‘Algorithmic control & resistance in the gig economy’ published in The Sociological Review. This paper explores how Uber drivers in Bangladesh exercise agency through both covert & overt resistance strategies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…