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)
Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien @ifswien.bsky.social Das Institut für Soziologie vereinigt die soziologische Forschung und Lehre an der Universität Wien @univie.ac.at
https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/
Newsletter-Anmeldung: https://tinyurl.com/58spas3f
Lucas Pohl @lucaspohl.bsky.social Geographer working at University of Innsbruck. My work revolves around cultural geographies, critical urban studies, political ecology and psychoanalytic theory. https://lucas-pohl.de
Disablement, Free Time & Work Under Capitalism @disprecwork.bsky.social Exploring the politics of disablement, paid & unpaid work under capitalism & 'free time' | @cerasellachis.bsky.social
disability politics | work | precarity | resistance | social security | rest | free time | bread and roses | #book | #PolEcon | sociology
Gaja Maestri (she/her) @gajamaestri.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University researching migration and gender, housing and segregation, migrant solidarity collective action.
PI of ESRC project "The Peripheralisation of Asylum Accommodation"
(name pronounced: Ga-ya)
Committee for Autonomous Social Action - CASA, HGT @casahgt.bsky.social To promote the unity of all workers and their families and to conduct social and political actions designed to strengthen the working class movement. (https://casahgt.org/)
Deden Rukmana @dedenrukmana.bsky.social Professor and Director of the Master of City and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at Arlington
City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social City & Community aims to advances urban sociological theory, promote the highest quality empirical research on communities and urban social life, and encourage sociological perspectives on urban policy. An @asanews.bsky.social journal.
Alternatives to Capitalism Research Network | SASE @alternativesatsase.bsky.social Alternatives to Capitalism Network of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) @sasemeeting.bsky.social
Our call for papers for SASE 2026 is now online (Deadline 16 December):
https://sase.org/networks/i-alternatives-to-capitalism/
Post-Growth Planning @postgrowthplan.bsky.social www.postgrowthplanning.com | Starting from open questions in 2016/17, the exploration of #postgrowthplanning continues…
LISER - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research @liser.lu Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) is an independent research institute addressing societal challenges & providing policy advice.
https://www.liser.lu/
Humangeographie | Human Geography @ Uni Wue @humangeowue.bsky.social Hier bskyt der Lehrstuhl Humangeographie der Universität Würzburg // This is the account of the chair in Human Geography at University of Wuerzburg
Cities are Back in Town @ Sciences Po @citiesabit.bsky.social Cities are Back in Town is a transdisciplinary research group within the Urban School of Sciences Po.
We bring together junior and senior scholars from all Sciences Po's research centres, as well as affiliated researchers from across the globe.
John Mollenkopf @jomoko.bsky.social CUNY Graduate Center political science, sociology, Center for Urban Research. Race, ethnicity, immigration, urban politics, political geography and demography, New York in comparative perspective. Bicyclist, cook, sailor, explorer. Brooklynite.
Global Sociologists for Palestine (GS4P) @gs4p.bsky.social GS4P is a group of members of the International Sociological Association (ISA) who stand in solidarity with Palestine and its people. We believe that sociologists should use our knowledge and voices to work for global social justice.
Space and Polity @spaceandpolity.bsky.social a peer-reviewed international journal featuring critical work on politics and space: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cspp20
Thessaloniki Tenants Union @enoikiasthess.bsky.social Tenants Union of Thessaloniki Metro Area
Urban Research & Practice @journalurp.bsky.social Journal of European Urban Research Association (EURA) | Cross-disciplinary journal with a focus on urban studies | We publish original academic papers along with policy and practice papers
Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social Organising, tenant unions, writing, post-capitalism. Bristol, formerly London. My book Renters Unite is an account of the new wave of tenant organising around the world. No access to DMs. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350011/renters-unite/
Nikos Vrantsis @nikosvrantsis.bsky.social PhD in Human Geo, Institute for Housing and Urban Research.
Labor Geography, Urban Geography, Urban Political Ecology, Operaismo.
Views my own.
Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social Human geographer at Stockholm University. Crisis, capitalism, city, class and climate.🍉
📚 Against the Crisis (Verso 2024) https://www.versobooks.com/products/3130-against-the-crisis
Sociologica - International Journal for Sociological Debate @sociologica.bsky.social International journal for sociological debate. Publishing #OA peer-reviewed articles since 2007. Co-edited by Elena Esposito, Ivana Pais and David Stark.
https://sociologica.unibo.it
Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social An open-access international journal dedicated to radical housing struggles and research | Issue 8.1 is out in June 2026!
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/
Mara Ferreri @maraferreri.bsky.social Senior researcher in Urban & Housing Geography / Editor @radicalhousing.bsky.social / PI 'EnactDECOM' (ERC CoG) / housing decommodification / spatial justice /
CASIE @jagoche.bsky.social Co-editor of Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia. Interested in comparative urban studies, social movements and East Asia. Exploring neighbourhood collective action and community resilience in #Seoul #Singapore #Taipei
casie.splet.arnes.si
Majo Alvarez Rivadulla @majoalriv.bsky.social Profe I Socióloga I Desigualdad I Ciudades I La uruguaya más gallega de Bogotá I Author of Squatters and the Politics of Marginality and Costly Opportunities. Check the latter: https://vimeo.com/922363413
Stijn Oosterlynck @stijnoosterlynck.bsky.social Full Professor in Urban Sociology at University of Antwerp. Interested in poverty and diversity in cities, social innovation, welfare state and civil society.
Abi O'Connor @drabioconnor.bsky.social Urban Sociologist. Leverhulme ECF @ Sheffield University. Hon Fel @ Uni of Liverpool. PhD ✍️ political economy of housing/land, spatial inequality, local gov/politics & stigma. Fullback. Union rep. Organising w Liverpool Residents Action et al. Views my own
@rc20isa.bsky.social @rc20isa.bsky.social
Just Neighbourhoods? @justclp.bsky.social Nuffield Foundation research project exploring social and environmental justice in community-led planning. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the Foundation.
nuffieldfoundation.org/project/under-representation-in-uk-community-led-plan
Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social professor @ michigan state university
editor @ global networks
research: networks 🕸 | R 👨💻 | childfree 🚫
also: wine 🍷 | cats 😺 | travel ✈️
https://www.zacharyneal.com and https://www.thechildfree.org
Estrella Cruz-Mazo @ecruzmazo.bsky.social Doctora en Geografía
PDI Universidad de Sevilla
Investigadora principal de VIVIENDIGNA (Ref. PID2023-151195OA-I00). Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento.
Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, publishing (and funding, through the non-profit Antipode Foundation) the very best radical research
European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social ECPR is an independent, scholarly association with a mission to advance political science ▪ https://ecpr.eu/ ▪ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ecpr/ ▪ @ecprtheloop.bsky.social
The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social 👩🏾💻 A political science blog site from ECPR, the European Consortium for Political Research.
🔲 Showcasing political science at its best. Get your research noticed beyond the academy http://theloop.ecpr.eu
⬛ ...and follow ECPR @ecpr.bsky.social
Mona Harb @monaharb.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
@ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social International Journal of Urban and Regional Research -
The critical edge of research on cities and regions
The Urbanist @theurbanist.org Advocacy journalism for better cities.👩🦽👨🦯🚶🚴♀️ 🚎 ⛴️ 🚊 🚆 🏙️
Based in the Seattle metro area.
Read our coverage on theurbanist.org. 📰
Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social The Urban Institute is a research-to-impact institution founded on one simple idea: To improve lives and strengthen communities, we need practices and policies that work.
Metrópoles @metropoles.com Tudo sobre política, saúde, justiça, comportamento, entretenimento. Confira os fatos relevantes do país e do mundo em tempo real.
www.metropoles.com
Tommaso Vitale, Sciences Po, Urban School, CEE @tommasovitale.bsky.social Sociologist | Dean of Sciences Po Urban School | Researcher at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)
Active in fostering empirical and theoretical research and mentoring emerging scholars in urban sociology and public policy
Sociology Department Uppsala University @uusociologydep.bsky.social The Official Bluesky Account UU Sociology department
https://www.uu.se/en/department/sociology
Housing Studies @housingjournal.bsky.social We are Housing Studies - the international journal providing a forum for theoretical and analytical developments in the housing field.
Prof Michaela Benson @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Professor in #PublicSociology at Lancaster University & Chief Executive of @thesociologicalreview.org
Research: migration and citizenship in EU, Panama 🇵🇦and UK
Brexitbritsabroad.org
migzen.net
#Podcast producer and host https://whodowethinkweare.org
Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable planet.
PROMOTE @promotewomen.bsky.social An Initiative that aims to promote gender equality in research!✨
Supporting early-career female researchers. #inspireinclusion
Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
Sociologia II UA @sociologia2ua.bsky.social Departament de Sociologia II Universitat d'Alacant
https://dsoc2.ua.es/es/departamento-de-sociologia-ii.html
Geographical Review @geographicalreview.bsky.social Journal of the American Geographical Society. In publication since 1852, the Geographical Review is the oldest journal in the United States devoted exclusively to geography. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/utgr20
Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social Sociologist, lecturer in pol econ and sustainability, love a community garden/allotment, fervent reader
BCNUEJ @bcnuej.bsky.social BCN Lab for Urban Environmental Justice is a research group at
@ICTA_UAB that develops leading research on #climatejustice #urbanjustice #greengentrification to build healthy, sustainable cities accessible to all.
Irene Lebrusán @irenelebrusan.bsky.social Doctora en Sociología. Las profesiones guays ya estaban cogidas
Belén Fernández Suárez @altoregueirense.bsky.social
@listerborn.bsky.social @listerborn.bsky.social
Jennie Gustafsson @jiegson.bsky.social Bostadsforskare.
Human geographer researching on rental housing, regulation and financialization. Book review ed @housingtheory.bsky.social. Dept. of Urban studies & @iurmalmo.bsky.social, MAU.
https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=x-t1hugAAAAJ&hl=sv
Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social Housing, Theory and Society publishes housing research in regards to wider social, cultural, and economic issues.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/shou20
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/housingtheory/
Nicolás Palacios @nicolaspalacios.bsky.social Platform labour, urban geography and other stuff I care about.
PhD researcher at SPUR ETHZ.
SPUR ETH Zurich @spurethz.bsky.social Research group SPUR at ETH Zurich. We work at the intersection of public policy, urban politics, and spatial planning.
Goldsmiths Sociology @sociology-gold.bsky.social Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London
RC34 Youth @rc34youth.bsky.social We are the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 34 on the sociology of youth, known as RC34.
@rc30sociologywork.bsky.social @rc30sociologywork.bsky.social
RC56 Historical Sociology @rc56.bsky.social RC56 is the International Sociological Association's research committee dedicated to historical sociology.
Noel A. Manzano Gomez @noel-manzano.bsky.social Profesor de urbanismo en la URJC. Arquitecto, sociólogo, doctor en historia urbana. Interesado en la inter- e in- disciplina.
@angelagarciab.bsky.social @angelagarciab.bsky.social
Explorations de l'urbain - Urbain explorations @urbaniana.bsky.social Compte dédié aux explorations de l'urbain et des périphéries en France et ailleurs.
Militante train et transports publics. Secrétaire à Tous Ensemble Pour les Gares dans le Lot (46)
Exploring what's urban - looking at peripheries
RC54 - The Body in the Social Sciences @rc54-isa.bsky.social RC54 has a fundamental role in the promotion of knowledge about the body in the Social Sciences. It is the Research Committee 54 from the International Sociological Association.
Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social feminist sociologist & anthropologist of highered & labour in digital era; social/ist mvts; author of #AlternativeUniversity, own views
Métropolitiques @metropolitiques.bsky.social Revue sur la ville et les territoires : https://metropolitiques.eu/
Talja Blokland @taljab.bsky.social Sociologist / urban inequalities through the lens of motherhood / trust and public space. Former Mecila Fellow, now writing a book with a VW Opus Magnum. Professor on leave from Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Sociology on Local- Global Relations @wg01-local-global.bsky.social
RC09 - Social Transformations and Sociology of Development - ISA @rc09-isa.bsky.social Our objective is to promote research on Social Transformations and the Sociology of Development. RC09 represents sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches, or sociological opinion.
RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements - ISA @rc47isa.bsky.social
Helena Cermeño @hcermeno.bsky.social
Rouba Wehbe Hiriart @roubawehbe.bsky.social PhD in urban studies | associate researcher CERI, Sc PO. research interests: political economy of land and housing, rent theories, rent gap studies, property rights studies, Palestinian refugees, PLO, middle eastern cities.
Ida Borg @idaborg.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Human Geography at Örebro Uni and researcher, Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University. Research on housing, welfare and poverty.
https://www.su.se/english/profiles/idbo6363-1.192694
João Tonucci @joaotonucci.bsky.social Prof. Economia Política da Urbanização
Prof. Urban Political Economy
@Cedeplar-UFMG, Brasil
Terra urbana, cidades informais, política habitacional, economias populares, comuns
Urban property, informal cities, housing policy, popular economies, commons
Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social Social scientist with geographic inclinations
RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social The International Sociological Association's Research Committee 28 (abbreviated RC28) on Social Stratification and Mobility.
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/research-networks/research-committees/rc28-social-stratification/
RC55-Social Indicators @isa-rc55.bsky.social The Research Committee on Social Indicators is an RC within the International Sociological Association.
Established as Working Group in 1988; as Research Committee in 2008.
ISA RC02 @rc02-isa.bsky.social RC02 is the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Economy & Society
Send inquiries to isa-rc02@isa-sociology.org
(mostly automated)
https://www.rc02.org/
ISA-TG12 Social Love and Solidarity @isa-tg12.bsky.social Scholars and researchers from diverse cultural and sociological backgrounds who share a passion for exploring social love as a distinct form of solidarity.
isa-tg12@isa-sociology.org
Sociology of Disasters @isarc39.bsky.social Established in 1986, RC39 aims to provide a forum where academics and practitioners can share information about all aspects of disasters.
International Sociological Association (ISA) @isa-sociology.org Founded in 1949, International Sociological Association represents sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion. Get to know us better at www.isa-sociology.org
Anna-Maria Kutateladze 🇬🇪🇭🇰 @anna-maria-k.bsky.social i do communications at the international sociological association, but other fun stuff too!
sociology is cool & you can’t deny it 🍿 follow @isa-sociology.bsky.social
Haris Tsavdaroglou @tsavdaroglou.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam |
critical geography, autonomy of migration, mobile commons, right to the city
Ersilia Verlinghieri @ersiliav.bsky.social Researching governance of just low-carbon transitions,post-growth and urban transport, transport&health. Learning agroecology and permaculture. She/her https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=m1uhxrAAAAAJ&hl=en
RSA Blog @rsablog.bsky.social Publishing entity with @regstud.bsky.social highlighting cutting-edge research in #regionalstudies for an international audience.🌐
Edited by @lavanyag.bsky.social and on X: @lavanya_G_
Lutfun Nahar Lata @lutfunlata.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Murdoch University, interested in work and employment, future of work, platform work, migration, right to the city & public space. https://researchportal.murdoch.edu.au/esploro/profile/lutfun_nahar_lata/overview
Jose Luis Fdez. Casadevante "Kois" @koiscasadevante.bsky.social Sociólogo, trabajo en la Cooperativa Garúa y desde hace años me dedico a cultivar una ciudad mejor desde el movimiento vecinal madrileño.
Siqi Tu @siqitu.bsky.social Researcher in migration and mobility, diasporic communities, transnational elite education, political economy of global cities, community development, and Global China.
https://siqitu.com/
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Greta Rauleac @gretaraul.bsky.social Anthropologist & Filmmaker | Interested in #urbanstudies #culturalstudies #socialmovements #Italianstudies | Co-founder of Wild Pear Arts | Producer of Breaking The Game | PhD Candidate at CEU
@economyandspace.bsky.social @economyandspace.bsky.social
Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social Teaching and writing university worker. Interested in urban planning, radical democracy, popular movements and what world might be built in neoliberal ruins. Based in Norra Fäladen, Lund, Sweden.
Eduard Ballesté @eballeste12.bsky.social Antropòleg / Investigador a Arts i Humanitats de la UOC
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social Urban Geographer
Postdoctoral Fellow @USForg @GeographyUOM
Feminist Geography • Social Reproduction • Grassroots Infrastructures • Urban Politics •🐈 • she/her
Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social Professor in Sociology of Markets, Edinburgh| sentimental pragmatist following insurance, markets, data centres and BIG SHEDS|
EiC @jcultecon.bsky.social
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics
🎥 @ https://youtube.com/@areweawed8955?si=VuE3d8hM5DJOadhE
Kurt Iveson @kurtiveson.bsky.social Sydney-based urban geographer + unionist