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Colin McFarlane
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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/

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 5d
A special issue here of the journal Agoriad entitled 'Thinking with fragments: The allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space'.

Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban.

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Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory
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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 18d
Nice collection of essays on David Harvey at 90, on the Verso site www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy.  This month, in honour of David H...
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · Oct 10
New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions.
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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Oct 10
Thanks Christian

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Oct 10
Some thoughts on what what crisis is doing to the urban imagination - short piece as part of a collection in Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Crisis and the urban imagination - Colin McFarlane, 2025
What are ideas like ‘polycrisis’ doing to how we think and research the urban? How might we ensure that discourses and conditions of polycrises do not erode our...
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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · Oct 8
That’s a wrap on our first panel in Ljubljana 🌍

A clear message from today: Europe’s green transition won’t succeed without strong public infrastructure, long-term investment, and public control of public services.

Public services are the backbone of a fair, sustainable future. 💧⚡️🗑️

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Sep 30
A huge thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis for this award! I was so honoured & grateful opportunity in Seoul to focus attention on the global urban sanitation crisis. Thank you to @versobooks.bsky.social for nominating the book, & to Pattis.

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A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize. I am huge...
A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize. I am hugely grate...
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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Sep 19
Congrats to Rozy Fredericks and collaborators on this great film on waste in Dakar - trailer available here for 'The Waste Commons'.

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The Waste Commons TRAILER
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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Sep 18
Last month the latest global data on sanitation was published. I wrote a short blog on it below. Spoiler: for all that there has been very welcome improvements, 1 in 5 people still lack even basic sanitation.

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Safe sanitation targets ‘out of reach’: New global report examines progress and challenges
The first thing most of us do when we wake up in the morning is head for the bathroom. While the humble toilet is taken for granted, almost one in five people globally lack even basic sanitation wh…
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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Sep 12
This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Sep 10
My review, "An introduction to a non-fascist geography", of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) is now published online first in @dialogueshg.bsky.social Dialogues in Human Geography.
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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Sep 5
Thanks @lifehouse.bsky.social. Yes, this is one of the questions we came back to while writing the piece, and partly our hope is that the piece provokes some reflection on that.

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Sep 5
New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social

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INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies
This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical an...
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Zack Taylor @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social · Aug 21
Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the release of an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities Warren Magnusson, who passed away earlier this year. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/walter-magnu...

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Aug 19
Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Aug 18
New article by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly & myself on the relationship of infectious disease and urban peripheries Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability: City: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability
This paper works toward building a theoretical framework to understand the role that extended urbanisation and peripherality played in the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on conceptualisin...
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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Aug 15
Chuffed that my book 'Waste and the City' has gone from the longest to the shortlist with two excellent books here, alongside @shakirahh.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield... Many thanks to Metropolis... 
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Meet the Finalists of the 2025 Global Cities Book Award | Metropolis
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Shakirah Hudani @shakirahh.bsky.social · Aug 4
Very honored that 'Master Plans and Minor Acts' is one of three finalists for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award (Metropolis).
Congratulations to @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social and Stephanie Wakefield and many thanks to the judging panel!
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Meet the Finalists of the 2025 Global Cities Book Award | Metropolis
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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · May 28
Are you considering applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship? At Durham Geography we can offer an excellent research environment and support for your application. To help locate a suitable mentor you can find a list of our staff here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Our people - Durham University
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Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · Jun 6
Great online talk today by @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk)! Such interesting and useful insights around fragments, ways of knowing and the urban www.ucpress.edu/books/fragme...