Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Reena Mahajan @reenamahajan.bsky.social Founder, Studio Divercity & StreetSmart | Helping replace car-centric urban sprawl with people-centred, water-sensitive & nature-positive cities
Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social Scientist/Author/Speaker; Presidential Distinguished Prof/Director Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media, U. Penn; National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Royal Society; Tyler Prize
Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social The real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics. A podcast with Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt.
http://patreon.com/originstorypod
https://linktr.ee/originstorypodcast
Produced by Podmasters
Smart Growth UK @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social
Global Covenant of Mayors @mayors4climate.bsky.social The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy is the largest global alliance of cities transitioning to a climate resilient economy.
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
Streets For All @streetsforall.org Building a transportation revolution in Los Angeles 🚎🚌🚲🛴👩🏻🦽🚶🏾🌳
streetsforall.org
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org Individuals who have lost loved ones or been injured in a crash confronting traffic violence through advocacy and support. #EndTrafficViolence
Campaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social We are the national charity that champions greener, fairer transport.
Find out more at: bettertransport.org.uk
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) @iclei.org ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is a global network working with more than 2,500 local and regional governments committed to sustainable urban development.
Smart Growth America @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social We envision a country where no matter where you live, or who you are, you can enjoy living in a place that is healthy, prosperous, and resilient.
smartgrowthamerica.org
John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social Pedestrian Historian.
Imperialism Syllabus: http://tinyurl.com/ev4psh98
The Anticolonial Front: http://tinyurl.com/33d3exca.
Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/ykp7r5a9.
Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social I ride my bike, get angry at drivers, talk about disability advocacy, eat baked goods, and make sure Gus is well fed. I hail from the best state in New England.
Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him @fivefourpod.bsky.social
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
South/South Movement 🍉 @southsouthmvmt.bsky.social We're an autonomous transnational student-led collective claiming space for academics & activists from & for the global souths in social & political studies.
https://www.southsouthmovement.org/
Siddharth Tripathi @sidtrip.bsky.social
Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social Qualitative Research | Research Ethics | Research involving and impacting marginalised communities and groups
Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social Associate Scientific Editor, Elsevier ||Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (2022-2024) || International Relations || Migration Governance || Feminist Theory || Taxes to the 🇳🇱, Remittances to the 🇵🇭
https://www.libertychee.nl
Shaimaa Abdelkarim @shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social assistant prof. in postcolonial legal theory and critical race studies ☀️
Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social Professor of Global Mental Health and Social Justice, UCL
Scholar activist
Communities
Global Mental Health
Director UCL centre for Global NCDs and Mental Health
folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social Lawyer, academic, writer, and occasional singer and poet.
Author of Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge.
Handle on all socials: folukeifejola
Website: FolukeAfrica.com
https://linktr.ee/folukeifejola
Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE.
History | Political Theory | Race | Colonialism | Resistance | MENA
Teach on Colonialism & Israel-Palestine
Repost/Like usually = bookmark or endorsement
jasminekgani.wordpress.com
Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social Full-time Mum • Writer • Associate Professor @ CUNY (Grad Ctr + Hunter) • PhDJ • out now ⬇️ my book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday). Manhattanite. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/
www.taoleighgoffe.com
Antonio Alcazar III @antonioalcazr.bsky.social Buhi’nən ᜈᜃᜊᜓᜑᜒ — ISRF Fellow writing a book on « Brussels’s burden » a.k.a. 🇪🇺 as a colonial/modern trade power — Visiting Fellow at King’s College London + University of Barcelona — antonioalcazar.eu
@southsouthmvmt.bsky.social —
usual caveats
a black xborg • theory without practice ain't shit @rpaulint.bsky.social visiting fellow LSE Sociology · postdoc Aston University · editor at @philosopher1923.bsky.social · co-convenor @bsarace.bsky.social · he/him/they ·
✍🏾 carcerality, borders, forced displacement, coloniality
share ≠ endorsement
🔗 linktr.ee/rpaulint
Nisha Zadhy @nishazadhy.bsky.social urban refugee studies, humanitarianism, (Im)mobilities, border work.
MSCA Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies
@sspatleeds.bsky.social
Freya Cumberlidge (she/her) @freyacumberlidge.bsky.social Training and Communication Officer - ÖAWI Austrian Agency for Research Integrity | Member - South/South Movement
Sladjana Lazic @sladjanalazic.bsky.social The so-called ‘peace scholar’ | assistant professor | Yugoslawomen+ Collective | queer | she/they | the Balkans | talks loudly & carries a chihuahua |
Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social Queer vegan of colour academic. Committed to decolonial inquiry. Postcolonial, Queer Studies. Université Paris Cité. He, they.
https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/bakshi-sandeep-fr/
http://decolonizingsexualities.org
https://instagram.com/sandeep.bak/
Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social https://www.insurgentthoughts.com
prof toni haastrup @tonihaastrup.bsky.social academic University of Manchester | #regions #security #gender #EUAfrica #FFP | RTs ≠ endorsement | views mine not employer's | Chair #UACES | Editor, Security Dialogue
Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations at Uni of Bristol | Feminist peace scholar | Member of the Yugoslawomen+ Collective | she/таа
samuel @quilombo.eurosky.social 🏝️ isleño. canary islander. international affairs. commons. post/de/anti-colonial. anti-racism. Free Palestine. 🗣️ views are strictly mine.
✍️ Español / English / Français / Português
Q Manivannan MSP @qmanivannan.bsky.social Anthropologist of care 🌸
MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Greens 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🏴
https://linktr.ee/QManivannan
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Marikit 🇵🇭💜 @mataraykween.bsky.social Ph.D. Comparative Literature. Diasporic literature, Filipino literature in English, postmodernism, postcolonialism, gender studies 🌈 Ally. Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines. Married with kids ❤️
https://open.substack.com/pub/taraykween
Diamond Ashiagbor @diamondashiagbor.bsky.social professor of law, University of Birmingham | labour, EU, equality, race & colonialism | editor, European Law Open | FAcSS | fixed-term member, Matrix Chambers | trustee, Black Cultural Archives
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7533-8853
Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social Associate Professor focused on global norms, IHL, and civilians in war | part-time baker | Proud Keralite
Rohit @rohitsarma.bsky.social SJD/PhD Candidate, Central European University
Ulises Figueroa @ulisesfigueroa.bsky.social Él/He. Español/English. Doctorante en Etnomusicología. Masculinidades/Género.
Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social 👨🏼🎓 Asst Prof of Digital Culture at Tilburg University
🌍 Director of Digital South Research Lab shorturl.at/jb5fD
✂️ Associate Editor at Journal of Information Technology & Politics
🪶 #StopAsianHate as Hashtag Activism shorturl.at/Yiiil
Abdulla Moaswes @karakmufti.bsky.social Know a few things about global Palestine in Asia and Africa.
Trying to finish a PhD in our glorious Southwestistan (formerly known as Devonshire).
Contact: Abdullasm@proton.me
Moira Fish @moirapez.bsky.social Prof-Investigadora en Filosofía Práctica. 😌 Prof & researcher in Practical Philosophy. Anticolonial & antifascist 🍉. Directora @polqueer. ella/she/her
Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com #Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com Collective of people-on-the-move interrogating #BorderTech experiments ||🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇵🇸 🇪🇸|| IG: http://migration.tech || press@migrationtechmonitor.com||
Learn more: https://www.migrationtechmonitor.com
Incubated by @refugeelab.ca
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་) @dchungyalpa.bsky.social Env strategist, bridge builder, ecofeminist, Himalayan. Working on inner + community + planetary resilience w/ faith & Indigenous leaders on environmental & climate efforts at @LokaInitiative, UW-Madison. Personal account - views are my own. She/ her.
Maryam Moravvej (she/her) 🕊️🍉 @moravvej.bsky.social Neurodivergent SWANA mother of 2 neurodivergent (AuDHD & ADHD) artistic, beautiful souls | Autism Advocate & Researcher | Passionate about intersectional neurodiversity-affirming research & care | Navigating the world through the lens of social justice
That Deaf Immigrant @annalim.bsky.social Postcolonial FilChi deaf queer femme immigrant linguist. Proponent of deaf liminality. Writing a memoir titled “liminal; liminal; liminal". Investigates cognitive linguistics in heritage Tagalog learning. Likes books, vlogs, oracle cards, animism, & music.
Marine Guéguin @marinegueguin.bsky.social Lecturer in Security Studies and IR at Leeds Beckett Uni | PhD in Security Studies at Uni of Leeds |
Research Interests: Terrorism, Counterterrorism & Decolonial CT, France, Sahel | Co-host and co-creator of Insecure: A Security Podcast
Hizer Mir @hizmir.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology (University of Leeds)- Interested in Critical Muslim Studies, Decoloniality, religion and secularism, Islamophobia, the Far Right and the Manosphere. Podcast host for Radio ReOrient.
Enjoys gaming, anime and GNX
MT @madiha.bsky.social Antifascist. Asst Prof @ Yale. Personal acct. Writing book on digital war, drones, & empire w/ view from the Global South. Former journo & filmmaker. Interests: tech, militarism, anticolonial, anti-imperial praxis, transnatl solidarities.Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
Abdalhadi Alijla @abdalhadi.bsky.social Gazan. Researcher. I write and speak on MENA, Peace and Conflicts. Award-winning researcher. Www.abdalhadi.net
Francisco J. Quintana @fjquintana.com Assistant Professor in Global Law, University of Edinburgh.
International and global law, institutional alternatives, law and political economy, geopolitics, de-dollarisation.
Santosh Anand @santoshanand.bsky.social PhD researcher at City Law School & Teaching Fellow at SOAS Law | international law, historical materialism, Third World | he/him.
London
Camarada Arcoíris @odioaestadosunidos.bsky.social Marxista-Leninista | La caída del imperialismo gringo me deja seguir viviendo | no-binarie | El sol rojo brillará de nuevo
Dr. Yolande Bouka @yolandebouka.bsky.social Asst Prof Africa | Gender and Feminist Theory | Critical & Decolonial IR | Race and IR |
Atieno Mboya @atieno9.bsky.social International Environmental Law & Sustainable Development Researcher. I'm also a world explorer.
@historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social Historian
Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social Jacques Delors Professor in EU Law, University of Oxford/ Somerville College
Jan Üblacker @januebl.bsky.social Sociologist interested in neighborhood change, housing, gentrification & digitalization | Professor for Human-Context Interaction @THWS | Cologne / Würzburg | www.janueblacker.com
Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE). Head of @lsegeography.bsky.social. #UrbanPoliticalEconomy #Gentrification #Housing #SpeculativeUrbanisation #AsianUrbanisms #Megaevents #Megaprojects Personal web: https://urbancommune.net
Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London; Editor Urban Studies. Part-time psychogeographer, landscape punk and walker.
Heavy Metal Hippie @heavymetalhippie.bsky.social
Sharon Cornelissen @sjccorn.bsky.social Loves all things housing. PhD and Director of Housing of Consumer Federation of America. Author of “Last House in the Block,” book on failed gentrification and homeownership in Detroit
Antoine Paccoud @douccap.bsky.social Geographer at LISER, Luxembourg. Works on the libidinal economy of land and housing, buy-to-let gentrification, Badiou, Lacan, Deleuze & Guattari. More words here: https://propertiedperversity.wordpress.com/
Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, Urban Studies
Cities, Affordable/Fair Housing, Urban Policy, Urban Political Economy, Community Development
DET-> CHI->ATL->CHI and a few others in between
Opinions my own.
Colt Pierce @coltpi.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois, urban geography, sonic gentrification, and soundscapes
Leslie Kern @lellyk.bsky.social Author of Feminist City and Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies
Josh Sbicca @joshsbicca.bsky.social Author | Dreamer | Builder
Associate Professor of Sociology | Director of the Prison Agriculture Lab
https://joshuasbicca.com | https://prisonagriculture.com/
Madalina Mezaros @madalinamez.bsky.social PhD Candidate (FNR-AFR) at LISER & University of Luxembourg | Researching housing - gentrification, displacement, fiscal policies - & social change in Luxembourg
Kirsteen Paton @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Class. Working on class, cities, evictions and gentrification. Trade unionist, Living Rent member, part of the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive collective and editor at The Sociological Review
Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Dept of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago.
danielkayhertz.com
Dr. Kenneth A. Gould @enviroprof.bsky.social Environmental sociologist. Climate change. Environmental justice. Sustainable development. Treadmill of Production. Green gentrification.
Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social Urbanist. PhD student at Rutgers University. Researching gentrification in CDMX. Fluent in Spanglish.//
Urbanista, Doctorante en Estudios Urbanos, Chilanga en Brooklyn. Estudio temas de gentrificación en CDMX.
Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social Social scientist with geographic inclinations
John Joe Schlichtman @jjschlichtman.bsky.social getting in where I fit in when it comes to just community development | GENTRIFIER ('17) | SHOWROOM CITY ('22) | Grinding on new book (~26-7) | DePaul University prof | http://urbanistchronicle.com/books/
Anna Viola Sborgi @annaviolasborgi.bsky.social Assistant Lecturer School of Media TU Dublin
housing/gentrification/cities/feminist media
https://mediahomesproject.com/
Robert Vief @robertvief.bsky.social sociologist, Postdoc @goetheuni.bsky.social. Ph.D from @humboldtuni.bsky.social
interested in: educational decisions & stratification, neighborhoods, segregation, spatial data/mapping
CV: https://tinygu.de/RobertVief-CV-en
Andrej Holm @andrejholm.bsky.social Stadtsoziologe, Aktivist, parteilos aber parteiisch für die Interessen der Mieterinnen und Mieter.
Daniel Mullis @daenumullis.bsky.social Demokratie, extreme Rechte, soziale Ungleichheit sowie Flucht & Migration | Dr. phil. | beruflich bei @proasyl.de - hier privat | er/he | 2024 Buch zur „Regression der Mitte“ | Foto: Peter Jülich
Mario @mario22h.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mills College at Northeastern. Author of Bushwick’s Bohemia: Art and Revitalization in Gentrifying Brooklyn
Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social Renter rights & stopping displacement w/ policy & communication action.
Postdoc @curaumn.bsky.social & affiliate at @minnpop.bsky.social & @buoncities.bsky.social
https://www.kentoncard.com/
Moritz Rinn @moritzrinn.bsky.social Kritische Gesellschaftsforschung from below.
Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social Director Boston University Initiative on Cities. Urbanist, Geographer, Public Scholar, Mum. Lives Boston USA and London UK.
Dr Hazel Cowie @hazelcowie.bsky.social Architect, lecturer at Canterbury School of Architecture and Design - housing, gentrification and shit renders.
Cat lady.
https://instagram.com/hazelacowie?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
Brian Doucet @briandoucet.bsky.social Planning Prof at the University of Waterloo studying housing, displacement, transportation & how they are related. Also cycling, curling, baseball & photography
I was born in Toronto, now live in Kitchener & have lived in Scotland & the Netherlands
he/him
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
Wouter van Gent @wvangent.bsky.social Geograaf/ Geographer, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Cities / Housing / Politics / Segregation / Gentrification / Pop Culture
Clara Ruestchmann @clararuestchmann.bsky.social Anthropologue • Laboratoire d'anthropologie politique (EHESS) & ATER à Paris 8
🔍 Anthropologie du travail et des techniques, de l’art et de l’urbain
🏗 Œuvres d'art contemporain pérennes
🚇 Grand Paris, architecture et chantiers
📷 Ethnographie visuelle
Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
Álvaro Mazorra @alvaromazorra.bsky.social Sociólogo urbano. Gentrificación, Desigualdad, Segregación. Análisis de Tendencias y Problemas Sociales en @UNED
Eileen Avery @eileenavery.bsky.social Sociologist. Runner. My dog. Trails. Neighborhood effects; urban and rural community change; health and wellbeing.
Opinions mine.
Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social Urban geography PhD student at King’s College London, researching damp & mouldy housing on regenerating London estates💧🦠 || Member of @radicalhousing.bsky.social Journal editorial collective
Ed Had @ed1900and86.bsky.social Doctoral researcher & VL @ University of Westminster, researching resistance to gentrification, digital media and counterpublics
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com Biking news up Seattle’s hills since 2010.
https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/
#SEAbikes #Seattle