Julian Brigstocke

Thanks! Yes I am probably the same.

I’m seriously considering doing the same. How’s it going for you?

Very sad and angry to hear about this fascist attack at my wonderful local pub

Just finished correcting the page proofs for this. Very excited to see it in print shortly 🍾

The web page for my forthcoming book "Nonauthoritarian Authority:
Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power", part of the @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series, is now live:
press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3... It should be out around January 2026 🤞 #geosky #sociology #socialtheory

Great opportunity for UK and international students to apply for PhD funding in Geography at @cardiffuni.bsky.social Applicants from current final-year undergraduates and masters students, as well as from non-traditional academic backgrounds, are welcome. #Geosky www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Happy to announce our fall programme! Pleased to be hosting @brdemuth.bsky.social for our annual flagship lecture on Nov 6. We'll also welcome @andrewseaton.bsky.social and @dannydorling.bsky.social on Dec 4 for a discussion of Andrew's new work on coal. For more info, see the web link in our bio.

We are delighted to announce the 2025 History and Philosophy of Geography undergraduate dissertation prize winner: Henry Blake, @geogdurham.bsky.social, for his dissertation Foreclosed Futures: Hope, Precarity, and Ambivalence in Contemporary Cornwall. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4jjc4dp6

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Super excited to discuss my new book Spirits of Extraction:Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race with these fantastic people! If you're at RGS_IBG on Friday please join us!

A copy of the aesthetics and the city book against a stone wall with ivy on the left

Today marks the launch of our edited volume Aesthetics and the City. @amycbarron.bsky.social and I are thrilled to see this in print. We hope it’s of interest! Do let us know what you think. We are hosting a hybrid launch event in early October.

🔗More details: www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a...

Feel free to get in touch if you need help accessing a copy.

Aesthetics and the City Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience. Drawing on diverse theories and global case studies, this edited collection examines how aesthetics rela...

I have a chapter in the book on Cities and the Sixth Sense: The Aesthetics of Experimental Urbanism. The chapter looks at experimental architecture/urbanism projects on the US/Mexico border through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s politics of aesthetics. www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a... #geosky

So excited to see Aesthetics and the City in print. Congratulations to editors @joeblakey.bsky.social and @amycbarron.bsky.social.

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You can get 50% off my book "On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration" as part of the @univnebpress.bsky.social's summer sale (if you are based in the USA or Canada). Just use discount code 6SUMM25 on checkout. #geography #exploration

Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Angela Last (2025) entitled 'The "creative thesis" in the academic "anxiety machine"' with a black banner at the top.

New in Area:

'The "creative thesis" in the academic "anxiety machine"' by @mutablematter.bsky.social

This paper highlights the possibilities of supporting 'creative' PhD theses within an increasingly challenging institutional environment.

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Screenshot of newsletter page. Title: Nonauthoritarian authority in stigmatised urban communities. Image: Demonstrators holding banners on a street in a favela, lined with small tin-roofed shops and many overhead electrical cables.

Research Fellow @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores how communities in Brazil’s favelas establish forms of everyday community authority in response to the authoritarian violence of police and criminal groups. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @cardiffuni.bsky.social

We are honored to invite you to our 5th workshop4sudan with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard to discuss Leanne’s new book A Theory of Water. Sign up here and please share widely:

chuffed.org/project/work...

Four dolphins in a row in clear green water, viewed from above.

The Trust's May newsletter is out now! Read about intersectionality and the musical, exploring our future in space, plantation afterlives: landscape change and environmental experience in Guyana, and much more: leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter

The projecrt aims to map and analyse the diversity of authorities that help to coordinate and maintain social life, and challenge dominant power structures, in a context of chronic violence. I will identify, analyse, and relate the many forms of community authority that enable residents to survive.

Photo of protest of police violence in a Brazilian favela. 'Ato Ecumenico pelo Mortos da Maré, Rio de Janeiro'. Credit: MidiaNinja, CC BY-SA.

I'm fortunate to have a Leverhulme Fellowship from Sept 2025 to August 2026, on 'Informal Authority, Care and Resistance in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro', developing the concept of 'nonauthoritarian authority' in a detailed empirical setting. Brief summary here: lnkd.in/eww3v5yi
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We're HIRING an Editorial Officer to start in August 2025!
📅 Deadline for applications: 8 June 2025.
If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply.
Fully remote position!
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

An arisaema (cobra lily) plant against an orange wall. An arisaema: a very exotic tropical-looking plant (actually originating from high in the Chinese mountains), with a black and white flower said to resemble the shape of a cobra's hood

A highlight of my garden year is always this cobra lily (arisaema) coming into flower:) 🌱GB

This looks fascinating

GA Higher Education geography statement - Geographical Association As the subject association for geography the Geographical Association is concerned about the funding position of many UK universities...

Our @geographicalassoc.bsky.social statement on the crisis impacting UK Higher Education Geography.

We urge universities to maintain their current capacity for geography and to capitalise on its growth in schools and relevance to the workplace and wider economy.

geography.org.uk/ga-higher-ed...

New paper out! 📄💥
Loved working with Kate Moles and Jürgen Viet Ahn Höpfel on this —thinking through how UK austerity co-opted the nostalgia + resilience of ex-mining communities to justify neoliberalism.

Out now in Memory Studies' special issue on Communities + Change: tinyurl.com/bdft66fj

UCU announces results of industrial action ballot against the cuts at Cardiff University There's potential for union strike action could disrupt student graduations this summer

thetab.com/2025/03/31/c...

Letter from Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian student activist being faced with deportation, writes from an ICE detention facility: “The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppres...

A beautiful letter - invoking internationalist solidarity against the imperialist, apartheid formation of the US and Israel.

'Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.'

mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett...

Solidarity to everyone at Cardiff, but especially to the 64 staff in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff in “scope” for redundancy.