Jean-Paul Addie

The 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium is happening 14 May 2026 at Georgia State University. The theme: "Atlanta from the Margins". See the CFP here: atlantastudies.org/2025/12/17/c...

INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical an...

New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social

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Check out this collection - a great opportunity to dig into the @uaanews.bsky.social archives and explore how scholars from a variety of disciplinary and geographic vantage points have engaged with the right to the city

The Right to the City: Prospects and Provocations from the Journals of the Urban Affairs Association Explore the article collection: The Right to the City: Prospects and Provocations from the Journals of the Urban Affairs Association. Published in Journal of Urban Affairs.

...and you can read a curated selection of key articles from Mark Purcell, Yasminah Beebeejaun, Sukari Ivester, Maureen Donaghy, Julie Chamberlain, Stephen Danley and more in this new Journal of Urban Affairs Special Article Collection: www.tandfonline.com/journals/uju...

The right to the city: Prospects and provocations from the journals of the Urban Affairs Association The “right to the city” is a powerful political slogan with intuitive emotional appeal. Originating from the writing of Henri Lefebvre, the concept has gained both remarkable traction and profound ...

How have the @uaanews.bsky.social's Journal of Urban Affairs and Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City debated and advanced the #RightToTheCity? Find out in my editorial review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Timetables, tricky tickets and high prices: the problems with European cross-border rail travel For all the fanfare over new routes, fast and efficient rail services between major cities remain a rarity

The political, institutional, and technological limits of infrastructural regionalism on Europe's high-speed rail network: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Turn empty London office blocks into ‘late-night party zones’, report suggests Creative studio says financial districts deserted in working-from-home shift could host revitalised nightlife sector

Cocktail time in the cubicles! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Overblown infrastructure projects damage lives and imperil democracy. Why is Britain addicted to them? | George Monbiot The Lower Thames Crossing proves the point. It’s a white elephant plan, sucking money from local projects that could actually improve lives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"Sometimes big infrastructure is necessary, but at all times it is a threat to democracy. This is why governments should approach it with caution and scepticism. Instead, they act as hucksters for corporate boondoggles."

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Pleased to see Infrastructural Times on the bookshelf, especially w/chapters by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social, and Schindler & Kanai exploring temporalities connected to the BRI and Chinese-led global infrastructure development.

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@mrglassphd.bsky.social and I have reflected on comparable reverberations from bridge failure in Pittsburgh and the temporal dynamics of infrastructure crises and infrastructure-based futuring here:
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‘Rust in peace’: why are Germany’s bridges and schools falling apart? Bridge collapses caused by underinvestment are being seized on by the far right as evidence of ‘state failure’

The politics & temporalities of infrastructure collapse/repair: Don't rush into fixing Germany “because that would fuel inflation but not produce real value or better bridges... analyse where the investment... [& don't] promise more than it’s possible to deliver”
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Sign the Petition End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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‘Avenue of Death’: the Rio motorway where stray bullets, botched raids and resilience collide Brazil Avenue was meant to symbolise progress – today it tells the story of a city at war with itself

Something of a primer for "Extended Mobility and the City as a Commons" by Lucia Capanema and Romulo Orrico - forthcoming in the @uaanews.bsky.social Rights to the City book series:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Inclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation: Reflections on NOIR’s contribution to RSA 2025 Jen Nelles (Oxford Brookes University)NOIR had a strong presence at RSA 2025, organizing a session on “Inclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation” (SS23), organized by NOIR co-di...

Check out my reflections on NOIR's session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion at the @regstud.bsky.social annual meeting this month.

cc @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jpaddie.bsky.social

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So much fun today @regstud.bsky.social 2025 co-chairing a NOIR session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion with @mrglassphd.bsky.social featuring some excellent presentations on innovation districts, Auckland, and freight rail in Brazil.

Honouring the work of Roger and Linda - The City Institute at York University (CITY) Dear  all, This spring marks a significant moment for the CITY Institute at York University and for critical urban scholarship.   Professors Roger Keil and Linda Peake, two long term forces behind CIT...

This spring marks a turning point for us at @yorkuniversity.bsky.social as @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake retire after 30+ yrs shaping critical urban scholarship.
To honour them, we’re launching 2 endowment funds for early scholars💥. If you've been inspired by them: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...

‘Polluting’ Silvertown tunnel is already out of date despite just opening, say campaigners Victoria Rance says the ‘1970s technology’ will cause pollution that will damage health for decades, but London mayor and TfL claim it will reduce congestion

Infrastructure out of time www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America's unbeautiful suburban sprawl | Alexander Hurst I drove 2,000 miles with a French friend across my home country – and saw the endless nowhere land that is the crucible of Trumpism, says Guardian Europe correspondent Alexander Hurst

Suburbia as sprawl, apotheosis of neoliberal society&space: "The aesthetic of Trumpism is sprawl–which had already infected the [US] long before the Maga movement ... Perhaps there is something authentic to suburban sprawl... But as everyday life [it's] deadening" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks @fennaimara.bsky.social for the very generous review of Infrastructural Times in Space and Polity!

Paperback version coming soon from @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...

Infrastructural times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Delighted to see my review of @jpaddie.bsky.social @mrglassphd.bsky.social & @jen-nelles.bsky.social excellent 'Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds' out. Empirically specific and theoretically expansive, this book deserves to be read! doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Today is bleak, but (via Engels) socialist politics means we (still) live in a rare era of world-historic possibility to abolish poverty & deliver freedom to all. MLK asserted similar w/, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Let's keep fighting.

Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future? Tokyo remains, in the world’s imagination, a place of sophistication and wealth. But with economic revival forever distant, ‘tourism pollution’ seems the only viable plan

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"State as Auteur" is an incisive, provocative paper. I had the exciting opportunity to engage @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social's argument in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social and my commentary, "Time and the State in Digital Society", is out now:
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What a treat from @urbanpolitical.bsky.social Santa!

I had a great conversation about #IntfrastructuralTimes w/ @fennaimara.bsky.social, Himnashu Burte & Hanna Baumann: lots of insights & food for thought.

Check out the podcast & the book, too! @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social

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New - if not first - article in Dialogues on Digital Society: "State as Auteur" by @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social exploring timing - the synchronising of disparate events - as a mechanism of state craft in Kenya's digital transformations. doi.org/10.1177/2976...

We are pleased to announce the 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held May 2nd, 2025 at Morehouse College!

See the link below for more info on our call for proposals, which are due January 24th!

atlantastudies.org/2024/12/09/c...

Call for Abstracts: join us in Porto at #RSA25 for our special session on inclusive infrastructures and the dynamics of regional transformation. Details below...
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I hope he’s going to bring some updated moquette with him.

🚨We're recruiting a new Director of the Urban Studies Institute
at GSU. This is a great opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary urban studies unit in the heart of downtown #Atlanta!

I'm chairing the search so reach out if you have Qs & please share widely:
facultycareers.gsu.edu/postings/5053

‘A road trip like no other’: my epic drive on Kraftwerk’s Autobahn Fifty years ago, the electronic pioneers released a 23-minute song about a road – and changed pop music for ever. Our writer hits the speed-limit-free highways of Düsseldorf and Hamburg in search of i...

"Wir fahren, fahren, fahren auf der Autobahn" - Driving the infrastructural region...
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