Crispian Fuller

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Out now: new episode of @urbanpolitical.bsky.social on transforming local #statehood. With Harriet Dunn, @crispianfuller.bsky.social and Theo Temple, moderated by Ross Beveridge, hosted by Matthias Naumann and @galanettelbladt.bsky.social
urbanpolitical.online/104-transfor...

Happy to announce this commentary piece in JEG on the firm in economic geography academic.oup.com/joeg/advance...

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#urbandevelopment

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New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Foregrounding agency and deliberative relations in GPN 2.0: insights from Whitehead’s process philosophy Abstract. The Global Production Networks (GPN) 2.0 approach requires greater conceptualization of human actors and deliberative (power) relations. This inc

New paper out! Big thanks to the editor, James Faulconbridge, and three reviewers for all their comments and suggestions.
Foregrounding agency and deliberative relations in GPN 2.0: insights from Whitehead’s process philosophy url: academic.oup.com/joeg/article...

Just finished #Andor 2: suffice to say that it's position at the apex of Star Wars media is totally justified. It is pretty much flawless, and it's message of resistance so sorely needs to be heard (and that it takes a media corporation as evil as Disney to say it, evidences why).

It’s time to stop blaming people for being in debt, academic argues Dr Ryan Davey spent 18 months living in a community where debt problems were commonplace

It's time to stop blaming people for being in debt --

A short summary of my book, which comes out on Friday, on the Cardiff University website:
www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...

and Whitehead’s thinking! Significant overlaps between his atomic ether and causal set theory!

So you’ve been laid off. What now? Thousands of academics and professional services staff are losing their jobs across the UK. What are their chances of finding another position, either in higher education or elsewhere? Tom Williams ta...

Thousands of academics and professional services staff are losing their jobs. What are their chances of finding another position, either in higher education or elsewhere? Tom Williams talks to several people who have been forced to find out, while Alexandra Wilson recounts her own story
#AcademicSky

🌍🎉 We are very proud to share that Geography and Architecture / Built Environment at Cardiff University are among the Top 100 globally in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025!

This achievement reflects the incredible work that takes place here. 🌎✨

I've just resigned from Geoforum editorial board over its decision to allow a paper to be published that is offensive and of incredibly poor scientific quality. I'm not going to mention the paper as it appears the author is delighted that the paper has offended people. We can do better!

Today's university in crisis is Kingston, which is cutting all the departments and subjects below, a savage retrenchment that won't even make them half of the £20m savings they need. Every day will be like this until something is done.

The US is now the enemy of the west Washington has decided to abandon both Ukraine and its postwar role in the world

www.ft.com/content/b46e...

Nigel Farage is surging in Britain’s rust belt — and Labour is panicked The U.K.’s ruling Labour Party has a 103-year winning streak in Wales, but that could end next May. POLITICO talked to officials, politicians and disillusioned steelworkers to track the rapid…

www.politico.eu/article/nige...

EXCLUSIVE: Dundee University negotiating bank loan to fund redundancies Insiders say securing the cash would be "critical" to any recovery from the £30 million deficit.

As you watch the disaster unfolding at Cardiff University (and therefore for Wales as a whole), take a look at the grotesque chaos unfolding at Dundee, which is going to have to get a bank loan to pay for all the redundancies. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

Context: today Cardiff University announce proposals for 400 redundancies, including 15 in School of Geography, which will also be merged with school of social sciences...

New paper on conjunctural analysis and radical municipalism and their affinities as two political methods for intervening in the conjuncture

Written w/ @paul-stubbs.bsky.social, @colinlorne.bsky.social and co.

Just published open access in Environment & Planning F:
doi.org/10.1177/2634...

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Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group British arm of Heartland, which has taken fossil and Republican funding, to be led by ex-Ukip head Lois Perry

1. This is what it’s really about. Farage, Truss and co have no convictions of their own. They are mere channels for the demands of capital. Here they are, supporting a climate science-denying lobby group funded by oil and oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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One in five Britons aged 18-45 prefer unelected leaders to democracy, poll finds Exclusive: Voters overall are downbeat about politics and almost two-thirds think ‘the UK’s best years are behind us’

This is where the end begins!

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The AI We Deserve - Boston Review Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...

How America First will transform the world in 2025 In different ways, the US, Russia and China have all become revisionist powers that are seeking radical change to the status quo

How America First will transform the world in 2025 on.ft.com/40daBwI

‘We need dramatic social and technological changes’: is societal collapse inevitable? Academic Danilo Brozović says studies of failed civilisations all point in one direction – today’s society needs radical transformation to survive For someone who has examined 361 studies and 73 books on societal collapses, Danilo Brozović’s conclusion…

‘We need dramatic social and technological changes’: is societal collapse inevitable?

The world’s leading democracies are struggling to govern Across the G7, the political centre is fracturing and Donald Trump will make the problem worse

The world’s leading democracies are struggling to govern on.ft.com/4gJPiIG

If you’re wondering why this is still the case, Elsa Koleth and I provide some context on gender and UN policymaking spaces in Urban Geography here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... also h/t @anthropam.bsky.social #geosky #urban #COP28

The cost of HS2 could hit £66bn, according to management estimate A paper presented to the project’s board has flagged how the price tag could increase by a further £9bn

Just think of how that £66bn could have been spent on reducing social inequality!

The cost of HS2 could hit £66bn, according to management estimate on.ft.com/3Zx1WE0

Indeed…!

Anyone U.K. academics going to GCEG or AAG, or has austerity bitten?