@drnorma
Researcher curious about all things urban and mobilities | Postdoc for FuturMig @ IMIS (Uni Osnabrück) | Interested in citizenship from below, futures, peripheral places, autonomy-building, and place-making
A shameful, heartbreaking betrayal of our duties as a country that is lucky enough to be on the right side of history and on the lucky side of political geography.
How can the politicians who betray our moral duties look themselves in the eye in the mirror I will never know.
[1/5] L’"architecture hostile" ou urbanisme défensif désigne ces aménagements urbains qui segmentent les bancs, hérissent les porches de pics ou inclinent les assises pour empêcher de s’allonger. Elle organise l’espace public et filtre silencieusement ceux qui peuvent y demeurer. #geography
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
#OtD 18 Feb 1934 Audre Lorde, US writer was born of Caribbean parents. Lorde described herself as a "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet", and was also a factory worker, social worker, X-ray technician, civil rights activist, communist and more stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8968...
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Sur visionscarto, Cristina Del Biaggio nous rappelle avec force l'essentiel de l'histoire tragique de Blessing Matthew, et avec elle, les histoires de toutes et tous ses semblables.
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#exil #migrations #migrants #morts_aux_frontières
Fully funded, everybody!
Cartographier les mouvements migratoires
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Cette contribution est une réédition de l’article collectif du même nom paru en 2016 dans la REMI. Partiellement mis à jour, Il explore l’évolution de la cartographie des migrations depuis le début des années 1990.
Great collection of music on social mobility and class coming together here!
Autor*in zur Stadtbild-Debatte: Der böse Traum vom gereinigten Deutschland taz.de/Autorin-zur-...
Ich kotze. „Fragen Sie mal Ihre Töchter“, entgegnet Merz einen Journalisten, der nachfragt, ob eine Entschuldigung angemessen wäre.
Zur Erinnerung: Junge Frauen haben die CDU kaum gewählt. Die Merz-Regierung macht keinerlei Gleichstellungspolitik.
Aber Frauen für Rassismus instrumentalisieren.
Ultimately, our findings nuance the idea that rural areas are less open, less progressive, or less connected to global issues. Instead, they reveal how rural cosmopolitanism can take root in decline and be fragilised by it.
That said, initiatives rooted in ideals of justice don’t just foster social change; they also reshape places, from the reuse of vacant housing to new community practices.
Yet, this cosmopolitanism is shaped — and sometimes constrained — by the social, spatial, and economic realities of these places leading to potential constraints for political action or increased needs for local assistance.
Local solidarity in welcoming refugees in places marked by territorial fragility is both diverse and complementary, with decline contributing to and/or strengthening rural cosmopolitanism in areas not typically associated with this concept: peripheral regions.
Through two case studies in regions marked by territorial fragility in France, we found that:
I teamed up with my friend and colleague Rafik Arfaoui to think and write about rural cosmopolitanism in places often considered 'left behind.' The article that came together along the way just came out in Espaces et sociétés and can be accessed here 👉 shs.cairn.info/tap-aw9lywgj...
Allez, on répète après moi :
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Thanks for writing this! I spent the morning sharing it with my academic friends :)
Here's for friendship in academia! 📚💛
Highly recommend the short piece "Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?" by @smhall.bsky.social if you still look for a Friday afternoon read!
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🟢 Wir laden ein zu unserer Veranstaltung "#Desinformation verstehen: Akteure, Mechanismen, Verantwortung I 📅 Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2025 I 🕕 17.00 – 18.30 Uhr I 📍 Online oder im Livestream 🎬 I Infos & Anmeldung ⬇️ calendar.boell.de/de/event/1-d...
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This looks so, so great, and I am learning about it way too late: any chance to attend some of the sessions online?
Academic friends: I’m teaching a course on Ethnography this fall. I was on sabbatical last year, so I haven’t taught it in 2 years. Do you have any recommendations for recent book length ethnographies I should include?
Many thanks in advance.
🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy."
Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?
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Friends and colleagues heading to Detroit for @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting next week, come find us on Friday morning for a double-session on 'left behind' places and mobilities!
6 semaines.
On en est là.
