Michele Acuto

🌍📢 Call for Papers!! Urban Studies seeks submissions for a special issue on Climate Urbanism, Resilience & Justice — exploring how cities confront the climate crisis, risk, & inequality. @urbanstudiesjournal.com @acuto.bsky.social
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the release of an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities Warren Magnusson, who passed away earlier this year. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/walter-magnu...

In this episode, you will hear:

Michele Acuto @acuto.bsky.social , Alessio Kolioulis and Andreina Seijas J.

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Decentering our read of cities’ #climatemitigation patterns globally: a pleasure to work with Sombol Mokhles, looking at 800+ cities, & noting city networks’ membership supports #GlobalSouth cities’ sectoral diversity but often does not alter finance models 💰

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it’s #bristolpride and as we wrap up #pridemonth2025🏳️‍🌈 I celebrated by hosting the wonderfully talented Sir Greg Doran, diving in “My Shakespeare”: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/my-shakes...

Much recommended, first folio fans or not, as subtly captivating queer story 📖💕 Now to prep my nails 💅 for Saturday 🏳️‍⚧️

Cities After Dark - Into the Night [episode 1] Connected Cities · Episode

Let me know what you think! It’s a fun and busy space with more and more exciting stuff in it. And that book also has a handy companion podcast miniseries (open.spotify.com/episode/5cBp...) 😇

Economic Power Foundations of Cities in Global Governance This study provides evidence that city government participation in global governance networks is explicable by the larger power hierarchy of cities in the global economy. Extant research on city go...

Our first monthly pick for May is "Economic Power Foundations of Cities in Global Governance" by Benjamin Leffel (@unlv.edu) and @acuto.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social ). Please do give it a read!

#Governance #Cities #Economy #OpenAccess

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Great! The more the merrier! 👏🏼

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The April 2025 issue (Volume 62, Issue 5) of #UrbanStudies is out now featuring articles and reviews by @yeonhwalee.bsky.social @kristianruming.bsky.social @wrayaj.bsky.social @agusmartire.bsky.social @yiminzhao.bsky.social and many more

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Can peer-reviewed podcasts fast-track science? Researchers are experimenting with audio formats, and debating how to handle reviewer feedback.

Can peer-reviewing #podcasts be a way to fast track science? 📻🎧. A treat to have @nature.com spotlight our work to produce a peer reviewed podcast for @urbanstudiesonline.com and push the boundary of recognised urban research media:

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Stay tuned for more!

City leaders are facing unprecedented challenges in connecting across borders: We’ve been tracking #citydiplomacy through a regular international survey since 2017, and the latest edition is now out:

City Diplomacy in Response to Multiple Crises: the 2024 Survey doi.org/10.26188/268...

Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home - Urban Studies Urban Studies book review forum of 'For a Liberatory Politics of Home' with an author response from Michele Lancione.

I am thankful @urbanstudiesonline.com @acuto.bsky.social for the forum on For a Lib Politics of Home @dukepress.bsky.social

Interventions @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social Ash Amin @kbrickell.bsky.social @erinmcel.bsky.social @saanchi.bsky.social

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In a moment of deep geopolitical divisions city diplomacy is more urgent than ever, especially in global health. Thanks to the @cfr.org team at Think Global Health for the chase to make the case for investing in networked #cityleadership 🤝🌏

Amidst all the grimness of these days #graduation 👩‍🎓🧑🏽‍🎓👨‍🎓 always brings up some joy. This time with the huge privilege of celebrations my truly inspirational colleague Gurvin Chopra 🎓, as featured on BBC! What a truly amazing story of resilience and Univeristy leadership

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How do we (ac)count #nightworkers when most of their lives are spent, quite literally, in the dark? 🌃👷🏽‍♀️

Great to see out of Night shift project review of the data behind Australian #nightshifts (with @scotinoz.bsky.social)

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With @acuto.bsky.social at the Christmas social....anyone for an Xmas jumper competition?

Academic Twitter is dead, says Cambridge PhD trolled over thesis Cambridge PhD graduate Ally Louks reflects on ‘baseless’ and ‘outlandish’ hate comments she has received after her selfie went viral

An absolutely brave and profound stance by the fab Dr @allylouks.bsky.social from Cambridge Uni, on why the formerly-bird-platform a pretty much done and dusted bin of insanity for sensible debate. 😡👏🏼

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Hugely helpful thoughts by @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social - I recognise myself the most on the “get out there”’mode of writing by not writing, but also the write lots feels against the tyranny of perfection. Top quality reflections as per usual 🙌🏼

It’s a sad state of affairs that a conservative opposition is the one coming to the “rescue” (because #anti-immigration doesn’t go far enough) of a disastrously conceived labour proposal for #internationalstudent caps in Australia’s #HigherEd:
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Much recommended! - thanks for putting this together @ayonadatta.bsky.social 👏🏼

Yet another starter pack... For all those interested in critical urban geography, broadly defined! go.bsky.app/RgsNWsi

“Urban Transport as a Social Construct” - the first of our Urban Studies journal calls for conceptual advances in urban studies is out! If you’re working on #transportstudies and all things #urbanmobility take a peek and get in touch! 🚨
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The Academy of Social Sciences welcomes 41 leading social scientists to its Fellowship – Academy of Social Sciences

A delight to be introduced as a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences for Architecture & Built Environment in the latest 2024 announcement - great chance to again campaign for the value of the #socialsciences and the need for #urbanstudies 🏙️🔬

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University appoints new Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Engagement The University of Bristol is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Michele Acuto to the post of Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Engagement.

Hugely grateful to Bristol Uni for the chance to contribute to a unique global civic mission, straddling a great city and its planetary civics.
Looking forward to joining the exec team as PVC Global Engagement, working with an amazing cast of civic advocates
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From Montreal to Berlin, Cities Aim to Stay Open 24 Hours Forget last call: In a push to bolster nightlife, cities are changing laws to keep bars, restaurants and transit systems operating round-the-clock.

“cities are changing policies in a bid to stay open 24/7” - great to have a chance yo chip in this CityLab feature on the night time economy along friends from VibeLab & MTL24/24

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Call for papers 'Philanthropy and urban governance' Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, London UK, 27-30 August 2024 Call for papers 'Philanthropy and urban governance'

'Philanthropy and urban governance', a call for papers by my Helsinki University colleague Pablo Fuentenebro and I for RGS_IBG’s annual conference! Get in touch if interested 💸🌇
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A treat to have a chance to listen to Lily Kong at SMU on the responsibility of a city university & Ananya Roy on sanctuary and worlding humanism at NUS, all in a day of 🇸🇬 Singaporean stopover, all very personal and scholarly activist, all hugely inspiring 🙌🏼

Rethinking 24-hour cities: night-time strategies to address urban challenges and thrive Night-time economies in #cities generate billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs. However, unreliable services and safety issues remain an issue. #wef24

"lack of reliable services and safety issues are hampering cities’ ability to take full advantage of the second half of the day." great stuff as usual from Andreina Seijas from the Mastercard 24hourCities Network project

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Michele Acuto Listen to this episode from City Resilience In Melbourne on Spotify. Michele Acuto, Director for the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne, joins host, Lukas Petridis, in the fift...

Great to start the year by reflecting on urban resilience: I loved this no-frills podcast chat with Lukas Petridis for our new @centre4cities.bsky.social “City Resilience in Melbourne” miniseries, chatting pandemics, urban heath & symbolic power
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We don’t talk about “structural waste” enough in urban policy and urban economics of waste. A great example from Ellen MacArthur Foundation work (and “growth within” logics): www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/the-circular...
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