Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social Theories of affect, and this conjunctural crisis. New book co-written with Anna Secor: The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915983299/the-politics-of-feeling/
PAT FINUCANE CENTRE @finucanecentre.bsky.social Offices in Derry, Belfast & Armagh. Caseworker in Dublin. Providing legacy advocacy support to bereaved families. Exhibitions available on Legacy of Colonialism (15 pop ups). Also available a mobile video exhibit w/family interviews on Brit state impunity.
South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social We take action for all migrants' rights and against racism.
https://linktr.ee/symaag
Catherine Ruth Craven @catherineruth.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield
Forthcoming book: Diaspora Governance in Practice (Bristol).
ParvatiRaghuram @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social Professor Geography and Migration, Open University
Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network @migrationscholars.bsky.social We are a network of scholars, teachers, students and activists standing in active solidarity with migrants and refugees everywhere.
paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social borders, migration, development
sottovoce
Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester | author: http://bit.ly/3HKURWE | memory, nationalism, post/decoloniality | she/her
Dr Sadia Habib @sadiahabib.bsky.social Senior Lecturer - University of Manchester. Also based at Manchester Museum & Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity. Co-founder of The Riz Test.
#education #museums #cats
Own views
Austin Zeiderman @azeiderman.bsky.social 
Aneta Piekut @anetapiekut.bsky.social Sociologist, migration research, attitudes & prejudice, mixed methods | Sheffield Methods Institute | University of Sheffield 
@natalielangford.bsky.social @natalielangford.bsky.social 
Omar Jabary Salamanca @ojs.bsky.social 
Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social Author: Pollution is Colonialism (2020), Discard Studies (2021)
CLEAR lab at @clear-lab.bsky.social
Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social Interdisciplinary project funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social investigating how colonialism has shaped migration governance around the world. Team includes @mcslaven.bsky.social, @evansmithhist.bsky.social, and others who aren't here yet
Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social Author of "Securing Borders, Securing Power" (Columbia UP, 2022) http://tinyurl.com/yeywvdaa Doing migration politics/policy research, currently @colmigproject.bsky.social. Political speechwriter of yore. Obscure academic in provincial England, AZ guy 🌵
Laurie Parsons @laurieparsons.bsky.social Reader @ Royal Holloway Geography
Climate change in a globalised world // Cambodia
Chair, RGS Climate Change Research Group
Editor at Geo
Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli @patnabuco.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sheffield. Co-Director of the Migration Research Group
Sheffield Migration Research Group @sheffieldmrg.bsky.social Research on global migration and mobility from the Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group
Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social Ungrateful Migrant | Geographer | UoGlasgow Migration, Africa, camp/carceral geographies, fugitivity, coloniality, humanitarianism, abolition. Views=own
Author: 📖 Occupied Refuge (Duke 2026)
Website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/hannobrankamp/
Lorenzo Feltrin @lorenzo-feltrin.bsky.social Marie Curie Fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Labour & political ecology. 
Southall Black Sisters (SBS) @sbsisters.bsky.social 
@isakjee.bsky.social @isakjee.bsky.social 
Dr. Lucy Mayblin @mayblin.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Sociology & Co-Director Migration Research Group, University of Sheffield, UK.
www.lucymayblin.com
www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group
www.Channelcrossings.org
Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social Prof. of Anthropology and African Studies at UofT. Militarization of Borders, Land, Gulf Capital Accumulation, Sudan. Sudan Solidarity Collective. 🌺
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social Writer & sociologist. Gaza & Colonial Aphasia https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251333918
Kavita Ramakrishnan @kavitaurbanist.bsky.social Unruly geographer at the University of East Anglia.
Eviction, resettlement, informality and migration. Currently thinking about embodied experiences of extreme heat.
Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social Oxford prof, writer, experimental geographer. Exploring the radical possibilities of collective city life. Posting in a personal capacity.
The Autonomous City (New ed. Verso, 2023; Alianza, 2023)
Metropolitan Preoccupations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
Francesca Meloni @francescameloni.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at King's College London
#migration, #citizenship, #racism and #belonging
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/francesca-meloni-2
Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social Part-time Assistant Professor at the Migration Policy Centre and School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute. Migration studies, asylum, citizenship.
George B. Radics @georgeradics.bsky.social Sociologist/Law&Society Scholar. Interested in criminalization at the margins, focusing on race and sexuality. georgebradics.com
Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social World of Work, labour and health ecology, labour and Gender dynamics
New Delhi- Kochi
Currently visiting fellow at Science, Technology and Democracy project@ CSDS, New Delhi
Housmans Bookshop @housmansbookshop.bsky.social Radical booksellers since 1945. Monday to Saturday 11am to 6.30pm. Sunday 12pm to 6pm. Order online at: http://housmans.com/shop
@rafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social 
Migration Mobilities Bristol @mmbuob.bsky.social Faculty Research Centre @universityofbristol 📚 New thinking on people, movement and social justice 🚀 Blogs, podcasts, conversations. Visit us at https://migration.bristol.ac.uk/
Sean Fox @seanurban.bsky.social Cities, global development, political economy, science & miscellanea. Currently writing a book on *How we became an urban species*
All papers freely available here: https://sites.google.com/view/drseanfox/home
Robert Bryant @sheffielddust.bsky.social Earth Observation, Landscape Change, Fire, Air Quality, Geomorphology, Ephemeral Lakes and Dust. @sheffielduni. Dad, husband- Views my own. #guitars #orienteering #FirstGen
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social Professor in Human Geography+UKRI FLF @austerityalters.bsky.social 🍞🌹 Into everyday feminist economic geography, pizza+tap dancing. My views. She/Her
🐕🍕📚🍓🌷
Maria Rusca @mariarusca.bsky.social Scholar @GlobalDevInst I Water politics, climate extremes, disaster justice I Political ecology I Interdisciplinarity I Research-documentary filmmaker
Ayo Ra @irian26.bsky.social PhD International Relations (IR).
Suravee Nayak @suraveenayak.bsky.social 
Megan Denise Smith @megandenisesmith.bsky.social Humanitarian practitioner & independent consultant based in BCN (She/Her) | Posting on borders, migration, gender, violence, and sometimes music 🤘 | Personal account - views not those of any employer or client | RTs≠endorsements | megandenisesmith.com
Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social Politics, economies and governance of the living and material world | ERC #UrbanEcologies | Lecturer, University of Cambridge | #LivelyCities (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), #PlantationWorlds (Duke University Press, 2024) | Views own
Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social Professor of environment & development; Water, sanitation, climate, covid; human rights; displacement; feminist; anti-fascist; Editor @Natureandspace; UK, India, Austria, Norway. Twitter migrant; also on @Lylamehta@mas.to & LinkedIn. Views my own;
brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social NYC-based, Oakland-bred professor at Columbia U. Write books and articles about blackness, gentrification, aesthetics, architecture, capital(ism), and other things.
branditsummers.com
Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University
http://cityfragment.wordpress.com
DenCity: http://dencity.webspace.durham.ac.uk
Durham: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/colin-mcfarlane/
Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social Author | Professor
Global and Postcolonial History
Brand New Nation: Nationalist Dreams and Capitalist Designs in New India (Stanford & Harpers Collins)
Delhi - Copenhagen
https://ravinderkaur.net/
Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net For 20 years, Mondoweiss has covered the powers that sustain Israeli apartheid – and how people resist it, from Palestine to the U.S.
Banner: Palestinian children with a donkey cart on the beach in Gaza before the Israeli genocide.
https://mondoweiss.net
Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social The Stuart Hall Foundation is committed to public education, addressing urgent questions of race and inequality in culture and society through talks and events, and supporting artists and academics.
https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org
Jean-Thomas Martelli @jtmartelli.com Political scientist, geek & curator with a focus on South Asia at Seoul National University | Previously musing at CEU's Democracy Institute, Stanford's Anthropology dep., Sciences Po's CERI, IIAS, CSH Delhi & King's College London | https://jtmartelli.com
Sally Cawood @sallycawood.bsky.social Lecturer in Economic Geography @LancasterEnvironmentCentre working on coloniality, waste and sanitation labour.
More at: https://hazardouslabourgeographies.net/
Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social Lecturer in Geography, @Lborouniversity.bsky.social, author of Sovereign Atonement, #politicalgeography, #borders, #state, #sovereignty, #citizenship, #migration, #refugees, #Finland, #Bangladesh, #UK
Lindsay Sawyer @lindzilia.bsky.social Urbanist | Editor, City @city-journal.bsky.social
Umut Yüksel @umutyuksel.bsky.social Sociology @METU-ODTÜ
Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education).
Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu
Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social One of the best #migrationresearch centres in Europe. We celebrated our 30th birthday in 2023
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social University of California Santa Cruz Prof. Director of Community Studies. Author: The Master’s Tools (Verso) + Dismantling Solidarity (Cornell). Likes: economic democracy, critical social theory, 2x2 tables.
Resisting Empire: A History Podcast @resistingempire.bsky.social A history podcast that explores how people resisted empire all over the world and throughout time.
Aya Musmar @ayamusmar.bsky.social Writer, researcher, and pedagogue of architecture. Refugee camps' scholar. Assistant professor of architectural humanities at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Founder of the Studio of the #Extra_territorial .
Palestine will be free.
Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social losing faith in social media and not here very much
📚 'The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire' (Pluto Press, 2025) | https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350769/the-psychic-lives-of-statues/
💻 https://www.rahulrao.net/
Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social Historian of modern South Asia at Exeter. Diplomatic history/IR at the intersections of migration, caste, and indenture.
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org Educational charity. Peer-reviewed sociology journal, public sociology magazine, podcasts, Connected Sociologies teaching resources, ECR opportunities.
https://www.thesociologicalreview.org
Hannah Lewis @hannahjlewis.bsky.social Freedom and unfreedom in work, leisure and citizenship. People who move & resistance to precarity. Policy & practice responses to 'modern slavery', refugee settlement and migrant youth inclusion. Sociology Senior Lecturer, Uni of Sheffield. 🇪🇭 Sahara Libre
Massimo Paolini @mxmpaolini.bsky.social always on the side of the powerless
architect&urban theorist, radical ecologist, technocritic, critic of psychiatry
dismantling technoindustrial capitalism
@perspanomalas.bsky.social
@reorganizarc.bsky.social
linktr.ee/mxmpaolini
Dr Zana Vathi @zanavathi.bsky.social Adjunct Professor UCC| #migration | #diversity| #inclusion| IEB member
Ethnic and Racial Studies| Associate Editor
Comparative Migration Studies| Northern mind, Southern soul| Own views https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=8sGDVRAAAAAJ&hl=en
Divya P Tolia-Kelly @delightfuldivya.bsky.social Equity and Equality warrior. Anti-Racist, pro-Palestinian, anti-genocide, Professor of Geography and Heritage at Sussex University, teaching Black Lives Matter and geographies of ‘Race’ and ‘Racisms’
Michele Acuto @acuto.bsky.social Pro Vice-Chancellor at University of Bristol & Prof of Urban Resilience • 🏀🏳️🌈 • all views my own, sort of...
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Ben Purvis @benpurvis42.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching in and around the politics and philosophy of sustainability assessment. Some sort of Eco-Marxist. Perpetual Research Associate. Branch Secretary @SheffieldUCU.bsky.social
(they/he) 🏳️⚧️🍉
Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social Updates from the University of Sheffield branch of the University and College Union.
Join us today: join.ucu.org.uk
Website: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uosucu/
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sheffield-ucu-399b5240a
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social Your Party MP for Coventry South 🌹
coventrysouth@parliament.uk
Promoted by Zarah Sultana at CWU South Midlands, Coventry, CV1 3EG
John McDonnell MP @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social Elected Labour Member of Parliament for Hayes & Harlington, former Shadow Chancellor.
Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social Socialist, anthropologist & prof. at UToronto | editor at jamhoor.org | shozabraza.com
Forthcoming: Theory from the Trenches (https://dukeupress.edu/theory-from-the-trenches)
Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social 🌶 Spicing up the left since '94.
🗞️ Our special Green issue: ‘Building Popular Power’ is out 2 Oct.
⤵️ Subscribe today for just £4 a month!
Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social Brooklyn Institute for Social Research extends liberal arts education and research far beyond the boundaries of the traditional university.
Pablo Jiménez Arandia @pjarandia.bsky.social Journalist. Investigative reporter.
Technology, society & power
@pulitzercenter.org AI Accountability fellow
pjimenezarandia@proton.me / Signal: pablojimenez.14
pablojimenezarandia.com/
Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social A magazine for #Sheffield by Opus. Local news and culture. Online only (for now). Got a tip-off or want to write? Get in touch.
👉 nowthenmagazine.com
Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social Father, Green, Pacifist, Nonviolent, Anarchist, Archaeologist, Anti-fascist, Anti-racist, Unionist, Women rights, Gay rights, Trans rights, Refugees welcome, No-borders, Respect the animals, Jazz, Wildlife, Humanity.
Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social Prof of Human Geography, FAcSS, University College London, UK
PI: ERC Adv Grant https://www.regionalfutures.org
Researching #digitalisation #urbanisation #futures #globalsouth
Editor: urbangeography.bsky.social
Web: https://ayonadatta.com
aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social diaspakora
Pratik Mishra @pratikbrick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy UPE & labour geography researcher on Brick kilns
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@pratikbrick on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Gaurav Mittal @gauravmittal.bsky.social Urban Political Geographer | Researcher @tsuoxford.bsky.social | JRF @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social | Early Career Editor @rsa-tpg.bsky.social | Secretary @tgrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social | Research interests: transport governance, just transitions, political economy
SJ Cooper-Knock @thesjck.bsky.social Researching urban justice and inclusion: housing, law, policing, and just transition. Creative methods. Education for Sustainable Development academic lead at the Uni of Sheffield. Dabbles in art and music. 🍉
Hanna A Ruszczyk @hannaruszczyk.bsky.social Feminist urban geographer, Durham University (UK)
http://hannaruszczyk.weebly.com
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/h-a-ruszczyk/
Crises, mutual aid, accountability, humanitarianism
Author of Gender and Resilience in the City
Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social anthropologist researching water, cities, climate justice and infrastructure. www.nikhilanand.info
Mimi Sheller @mimisheller.bsky.social Mobility Justice. Caribbean Studies. Climate Mobilities. Social Theory. Urban Infrastructuring. Mobile Commons. NOAA-CAP Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network https://ccan-upr.org Dean of The Global School @WPI https://www.wpi.edu/people/faculty/Msheller
Yasmeen Abu-Laban @yasmeenabulaban.bsky.social Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair at University of Alberta. Focused on anti-racism, immigration, citizenship and human rights. She/her.
Itzel San Roman @itzelsrp.bsky.social Critical Feminist Geographer @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Co-founder of NWDF | Focused on Grassroots Development in the Global South & Resilience to Climate Change | Enhancing Weather Resilience through FASTA | Ocean lover & swimmer.
Madeleine Pill @pillmad.bsky.social Cities and neighbourhoods and governance and public policy
Geography & Planning, University of Sheffield
Alva Gotby @alvagotby.bsky.social Author of They Call it Love (2023) and Feeling At Home (2025)
versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3212-feeling-at-home