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markushesse60.bsky.social
Markus Hesse
@markushesse60.bsky.social
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Geographer and planning theorist at the University of Luxembourg 🇱🇺,interested in spaces & flows. Studying urbanization, financial centres, governance and planning in conflict.

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markushesse60.bsky.social
Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 3d
Anybody wondering about the ‘competitive turn’ in the sciences and HE-policy?

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 3d
Special Economic Zones don’t fail loudly. They fade quietly.
#SEZs in #Africa amplify existing strengths—skills, infrastructure—while exposing weaknesses. The can raise export diversification but slowly, with effects only appearing after a decade or so. doi.org/10.1080/0885...

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Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 4d
Simply mindsets have changed, as the circumstances did. Nevertheless, the differences are astonishing…

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Akira Drake Rodriguez @akirarodriguez.bsky.social · 6d
New Interface on Planning and Nihilism by the Rutgers gang www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Nihilism, Post-Truth and the Moral Future of Planning
Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2026)
www.tandfonline.com

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German Aid to Ukraine @deaidua.org · 7d
More privately funded winter assistance from Germany – The German association Life Bridge Ukraine has delivered 6,000 gas stoves, 30,000 gas cylinders and 7,040 heaters to Kyiv. These were distributed to elderly people over the weekend via the city's social assistance centres.

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Claudia Salowski @claudiasalowski.bsky.social · 8d
Temperaturen von -20 Grad, kein Strom, keine Heizung, kein Wasser, keine Kanalisation.
Ihr könnt weiter für Überlebenskits spenden, alle Details im zitierten Post. 🙏🏻
#SlavaUkraini
Bestätigung Überweisung von 80€ an We Aid gGmbH

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Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 10d
Great case of “how small things can have a big impact!”
natefrey.bsky.social Nate Frey @natefrey.bsky.social · 10d
This Is A Music Thread:

1) Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron Tiny Desk Concert

I know this album, but why didn’t I know about this performance, whoa
Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be

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Nate Frey @natefrey.bsky.social · 10d
This Is A Music Thread:

1) Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron Tiny Desk Concert

I know this album, but why didn’t I know about this performance, whoa
Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be

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Bruce Stiftel @brucestiftel.bsky.social · 12d
Pleased to be part of this important project setting out similarities and differences among planning systems around the world.
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL PLANNING to be published on 30 January 2026. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 13d
New: AAG President @WilliamGMoseley offers an eyewitness perspective from his hometown of Minneapolis-St. Paul, arguing for respect for human rights and international law as the basis for science and society. buff.ly/dlDzIXV
Mass turnout in Minneapolis on Jan 23, 2026. Credit: Bill Moseley

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 14d
Is there a name for this kind of low-rise, high-density type of development that is found in Southeast Los Angeles? So many alleys perpendicular to the main east-west streets
Aerial view of residential neighborhood with long elongated alleys

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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · 14d
Wenn ihr das Geld erübrigen könnt (man kann auch zusammenlegen). Jedes Kit hilft!

Ukraine2Power hat ein Überlebenskit für 80€ (Gaskocher, Heizdecken, Hand/Fusswärmer, Thermoskanne, Powerbank) zusammengestellt.
Konto: We Aid gGmbH
IBAN: DE 52370205000001838801
Kennwort: Ukraine2Power

Danke 🙏

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Hedwig Richter @hedwigrichter.bsky.social · 14d
@rebharms.bsky.social @fuecks.bsky.social u andere organisieren schnelle Hilfe für die Ukraine!
Ukraine2Power hat ein Überlebenskit für 80€ (Gaskocher, Heizdecken, Hand/Fusswärmer, Thermoskanne, Powerbank) zusammengestellt.
Konto: We Aid gGmbH
IBAN: DE 52370205000001838801
Kennwort: Ukraine2Power

markushesse60.bsky.social
Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 14d
Sie haben definitiv nie (!) ins Nichts geschrieben. (Klassische Diskrepanz zwischen Selbst- u Fremdwahrnehmung). Bitte überlegen Sie sich den Rückzug nochmal.

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Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 14d
FZ

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Geography and Environment at Loughborough University @lborogeog.bsky.social · 15d
Professors Peter Kraftl and @profslh.bsky.social have co-edited the new Handbook on Geographies of Education (with Yi’En Cheng and Silvie R. Kučerová) @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

"This first of its kind volume is at once field-defining and boundary-pushing."

www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...
Handbook on Geographies of Education
‘Education happens in spaces and places, and across scales. This Handbook on Geographies of Education offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which policy, practice, and experience not ...
www.e-elgar.com

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Geographical Review @geographicalreview.bsky.social · 15d
Check out this new article in the GR from Conan Millen & Marin Cvitanović that explores the geography of second homes and (re)production of nationalism in Cornwall: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Second Homes and the (Re)production of Cornish Nationalism
The growth of second-home ownership and short-term holiday lettings has intensified housing inequality in regions with high tourism pressure, prompting localized opposition and raising questions ab...
www.tandfonline.com

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 17d
Isabel Feichtner, Susanne Heeg, Anne Klingenmeier, Gesine
Langlotz and Katja Schubel eds., Stadt – Land – Boden: Verbindende Bodenpolitik zwischen Stadt und Land – transcript, August 2025, open access
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Stadt – Land – Boden
Eine Kluft zwischen Stadt und Land? Nicht bei der Bodenpolitik: Herausforderungen und Lösungen für mehr Verteilungsgerechtigkeit in der Bodennutzung.
www.transcript-verlag.de

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Mario Sixtus @sixtus.net · 17d
Deutschland gehört zu den Ländern, die am hartnäckigsten auf dem Hass- und KI-Porno-Portal "X" bleiben; mutmaßlich auch, weil Politik und Medien aus unverständlichen Gründen die Hölle des Hitlergrüßers nur zögerlich verlassen. Sprecht sie darauf an! Holt sie da weg!

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Prof David Bailey @dgbailey.bsky.social · 20d
New @rsablog.bsky.social ‘Beyond Agglomeration.’ Time to go beyond agglomeration as an organising principle in industrial strategy & take place seriously. @regionalstudies.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...
Beyond Agglomeration. Towards A Rethinking of Industrial Strategy? - RSA Main
In recent years, industrial strategy has returned to the centre of political and economic debate. Governments across advanced economies are once again asking how they can shape growth, support innovat...
www.regionalstudies.org

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Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social · 21d
Our new paper audits ChatGPT’s place-based judgements using 20 million pairwise comparisons. We find systematic geographic biases in how places are described and evaluated.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (authors: Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham)

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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · 21d
Out now!

I've edited a special issue of New Political Economy on 'Centring exploitation in global political economy'.

Link to the intro:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Other articles (all brilliant!) and a short summary 👇

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Pierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social · 21d
Le Mercosur pose un dilemme essentiel :
- D'un côté, nécessité de nouer de nouvelles alliances avec le Sud, dans un contexte d'érosion de l'axe atlantique.
- De l'autre, un traité qui accélère la destruction du socle écologique.

Comment en sortir ?

www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
Au Brésil, l’accord UE-Mercosur va se traduire par une « avancée de l’agriculture sur des surfaces non exploitées, notamment en Amazonie »
Larissa Mies Bombardi est une géographe brésilienne, actuellement enseignante à l’Université libre de Bruxelles. Cette spécialiste des questions environnementales dans les échanges agricoles dénonce, ...
www.lemonde.fr

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Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · 21d
From your lips to God’s almighty ears.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 26d
Martin Schulze Wessel, The Curse of Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History - trans. Neil Solomon, @politybooks.bsky.social , November 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
The Curse of Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History
The Curse of Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History, Schulze Wessel argues that Russian imperialism was shaped by Russia’s relationship to Poland and Ukraine. Both of these st...
www.politybooks.com

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Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) @bkgbund.bsky.social · 28d
🗺️#KartenundMacht: In der #DDR waren öffentliche Karten, auch Schulkarten, absichtlich falsch: weiße Flecken, verschobene Orte, fehlende Wege. Fluchten sollten so unmöglich werden. Es gab 2 Versionen:
🔒 genaue Karten für den Staat
🤞 verfälschte für die Öffentlichkeit
Ausschnitt einer Landkarte von Berlin. Der Westteil Berlins ist nicht dargestellt - ein weißer Fleck. Davor ein Grenzpfosten der DDR. Darüber die Überschrift: Karten, die lügen Ausschnitt einer Landkarte von Berlin, Ausgabe für die Bevölkerung. Der Westteil Berlins ist nicht dargestellt - ein weißer Fleck. Ausschnitt einer Landkarte von Berlin, Geheime Ausgabe für den Staat. West-Berlin ist korrekt dargestellt. DDR-Schulwandkarte von Berlin. Berlin (West) ist als Grünfläche dargestellt.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 29d
📢 Online lecture | 16 Jan 2026, 11:30 (GMT)

Professor Beth Perry explores urban epistemics and the “epistemic tangles” shaping how cities are known, governed, and contested

Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation."

👉 ow.ly/YbGj50XVfiC
Flyer with USF logo for the event "The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation by Professor Beth Perry " with the text "In this lecture Professor Beth Perry will excavate foundational ideas, lexicons and practices of a new research field around ‘urban epistemics’, before providing some specific examples on how this produces particular “epistemic tangles” of urban inhabitation which shape how people come to know the city, how they are subjected to different processes of epistemic exclusion and knowledge politics; and what this means for researchers in different institutions, in the context of an equally exclusionary knowledge production system. This event is a part of the project ‘Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decenter urban knowledge’." on a light blue background. Flyer with USF logo for the event "The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation by Professor Beth Perry " with the text "In this lecture Professor Beth Perry will excavate foundational ideas, lexicons and practices of a new research field around ‘urban epistemics’, before providing some specific examples on how this produces particular “epistemic tangles” of urban inhabitation which shape how people come to know the city, how they are subjected to different processes of epistemic exclusion and knowledge politics; and what this means for researchers in different institutions, in the context of an equally exclusionary knowledge production system. This event is a part of the project ‘Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decenter urban knowledge’." on a light blue background.

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 29d
Promoting #megacities has become an economic bet.
As I argue in my new @spatialeconomic.bsky.social paper, the promised spillovers of wealth often stop at the #city limits, leaving a fractured map and a slow-burn political #backlash, which is the price of #urban obsession. doi.org/10.1080/1742...

markushesse60.bsky.social
Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social · Jan 8
Ein Text wie eine Kundgebung. Lesebefehl…

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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · Jan 8
Weggehen, um dann eines Tages so einen kritischen Text schreiben zu können

Wallis, Land des Schmerzes und der Schuld www.nzz.ch/schweiz/wall...
Tragödie von Crans-Montana: Der Schmerz und die Schuld des Wallis
Kein anderer Kanton der Schweiz erlebt derart viele Katastrophen wie das Wallis. Doch in kollektiver Trauer hat Einsicht wenig Platz. Das hat mit dem Grössenwahn der Bergler zu tun.
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