Deadline is 29 Dec 2025. Link: rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-abs...
We highly encourage submissions from joint/co-authored proposals, especially from those writing from precarious academic contexts, and we would like to create space for multiple participants to present their research together.
#CFP #RC21
@aseela.bsky.social & I have a session "Epistemic friendships in/across difference: Rethinking methodologies in urban research" @rc21.bsky.social Vienna 2026
If you're interested in political & epistemological potential of friendships within urban studies/geog, do submit your abstract!
“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”
I love conferences only because I get to meet all my amazing academic friends like @mtslep.bsky.social !
Thank you!
Many congratulations to one of our authors @saanchi.bsky.social on defending her PhD!
You can read Dr Saxena's work in an Area paper published last year: doi.org/10.1111/area...
If you are a PhD student looking for a place to publish, have a look at our author guidelines here tinyurl.com/bddtteey
I'm also now officially in the trenches of job applications so please do share any postdoc opportunities in urban/feminist geography, urban studies, etc.!
Gender, caste, and street vending in Mumbai: a situated intersectional geography
I'm officially a Dr. now!!
Passed my PhD defence cum laude with my thesis on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai.
Thanks to my examiners Tatiana Thieme @snehakrishnan.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Giulia Torino Francesco Chiodelli + my amazing supervisor @michelelancione.bsky.social
Very grateful to receive the Award for New and Emerging Scholars in feminist geography by Gender, Place and Culture!
genderplaceandculture.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/w...
Urban Studies 2025 Annual Lecture advert featuring a photograph of Professor Gautam Bhan.
#UrbanStudies is delighted to announce our 2025 Annual Lecture – ‘New Directions for Southern Urban Praxis’ presented by Prof Gautam Bhan will take place at the #CityDebates conference on 16 April.
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Highlighted quote in a journal article: Additionally, what is currently missing and urgently needed is "a critical, qualitative focus on the experiences of women street vendors, the gendering of vending spaces, and a socio-spatial analysis grounded in the Southern urban context" (Saxena, 2024: 2)
My first ever citation!! My paper on caste-gender & street vending was referenced in this interesting EPC article by Elmond Bandauko & Godwin Arku. Glad to see others also echoing the call for more intersectional perspectives on street geographies!
doi.org/10.1177/2399...
My read: "AI" is a fundamentally anti-worker technology
1) it demands de-skilling of workers for its long-term viability. White collar 'consumers' are asked to lower our standards and accept regurgitated slop as a substitute for the products of careful reading and synthesis.
Wonderful book by Michele, it was a privilege reviewing it!
I found the music video scary as a kid. I used to scream and run from the TV, especially when the guy with long hair would move his hair round and round 😂🙃
