Political geographer at Newcastle University. Interested in how we divide up and share the world - and how we can do that in more life-enhancing ways.
Joined March 2018
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isrf.org/blog/notes-towards-… Challenging post from @_ISRF what universities need to become to survive AI neoliberalism
Looking forward to this event with @eshurd Elizabeth Shakman Hurd at St John’s College (Durham) next week.
Some creative pieces on this blog, about finding the geopolitical in unusual places.
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Very excited to finally see the cover for my forthcoming McGill-Queen's University Press book in their 'Outspoken' series edited by Santiago Zabala! It's a think piece on how to make sense of - and do something about - violent borders in our world today.
A letter I wrote to today's Times: we need to be better at living with difference. @Pwebstertimes
What does it mean to 'belong' in a borderland that has been subject to increasing control and division? @RitapriyaNandy provides a superb ethnographic account in this fantastic article about the Bengal borderlands
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To what extent can one person's scholarship influence the subsequent engagement between two countries? In is new article Stuart Horsman tackles this question in relation to UK-Iranian relations tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1…
Graduation is my favourite day of the academic year - this year with the wonderful poet and Chancellor of Newcastle University, Imtiaz Dharker.
Can geography field trips teach students to be hopeful? We think so. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Is religious illiteracy a problem in geographical education? The queston i pose in my new Geography article tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
'Lord Nelson ... Sir Winston Churchill ... Maggie Thatcher ... you boys took one hell of a beating' - 2026 time to rewrite THAT classic Norwegian football commentary 1981 when beating England 2-1? facebook.com/watch/?v=160236…
Nick Megoran retweeted
A big shout out for Jordan Henderson who's been booked and injured in football match that he didn't even play in.
Sensational work.
Military hubris and religious virtue signalling: why Indiana Jones gets it better than Trump and Putin open.substack.com/pub/johnhe…
We can successfully fight back against the neoliberal university managers. Newcastle UCU's success proves it.
@ucu @zenscara @NewcastleUniUCU @lizmorrish
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Let's celebrate the first Central Asian team to make the World Cup (even if the football itself wasn't all we hoped for...)
What happens when borders reopen? In our world of walls and tighter migration controls, Central Asia's experiences offer some hope and sanity.
Our research has just been assigned an issue and page range so no reason not to cite it accurately now :-)
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… Wonderful piece by Almira Tabaeva on decolonising gendered histories of Uzbekistan by paying attention to the way that women make and transmit their own stories and understandings of social change over the generations.
‘UNCLOS’ by Geography Revision Songs is on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/wkO35kLAC7… "UNCLOS! UNCLOS! Raise your hands for UNCLOS!" - fantastic!