Aseela Haque
@aseela.bsky.social
Human Geography, PhD candidate FU Berlin | Interested in mobilities, infrastructure, public space, and more-than-human relations. she/her.
www.aseelahaque.com
www.aseelahaque.com
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💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This was a brutal read. An incisive rendering of the life of ECRs and (false) promise of an academic career:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This was a brutal read. An incisive rendering of the life of ECRs and (false) promise of an academic career:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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New in Area:
'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social
This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social
This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
October 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
New in Area:
'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social
This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social
This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
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🚨CfP: Lexicon for Animacy
Deadline: 1 December 2025
Please find more info in the full call online: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
Deadline: 1 December 2025
Please find more info in the full call online: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
October 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🚨CfP: Lexicon for Animacy
Deadline: 1 December 2025
Please find more info in the full call online: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
Deadline: 1 December 2025
Please find more info in the full call online: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
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Israel is turning Gaza city into an apocalyptic wasteland, and the world watches on.
May the cries of desperation from Palestinians in Gaza forever haunt complicit state leaders who have not only allowed this to happen, but have willingly supported this extermination campaign for the last 2 years.
May the cries of desperation from Palestinians in Gaza forever haunt complicit state leaders who have not only allowed this to happen, but have willingly supported this extermination campaign for the last 2 years.
September 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Israel is turning Gaza city into an apocalyptic wasteland, and the world watches on.
May the cries of desperation from Palestinians in Gaza forever haunt complicit state leaders who have not only allowed this to happen, but have willingly supported this extermination campaign for the last 2 years.
May the cries of desperation from Palestinians in Gaza forever haunt complicit state leaders who have not only allowed this to happen, but have willingly supported this extermination campaign for the last 2 years.
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German arms exports to Israel have been the subject of debate for some time.
But what about Israeli arms exports to Germany?
ALON SAHAR (@alonsahar.bsky.social) and ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social) on the political and legal risks of arms imports from Israel.
verfassungsblog.de/the-other-si...
But what about Israeli arms exports to Germany?
ALON SAHAR (@alonsahar.bsky.social) and ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social) on the political and legal risks of arms imports from Israel.
verfassungsblog.de/the-other-si...
August 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
German arms exports to Israel have been the subject of debate for some time.
But what about Israeli arms exports to Germany?
ALON SAHAR (@alonsahar.bsky.social) and ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social) on the political and legal risks of arms imports from Israel.
verfassungsblog.de/the-other-si...
But what about Israeli arms exports to Germany?
ALON SAHAR (@alonsahar.bsky.social) and ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social) on the political and legal risks of arms imports from Israel.
verfassungsblog.de/the-other-si...
Karachi is flooded. Have not been able to get in touch with my parents at home. They haven’t had electricity for many many hours now.
August 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Karachi is flooded. Have not been able to get in touch with my parents at home. They haven’t had electricity for many many hours now.
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📢 Call for Papers!
Urban Politics in the Global South Conference
November 6-7, 2025 (fully virtual!)
This conference showcases research on urban politics in low- and middle-income countries in different world regions.
Deadline for Submissions: Sept. 5
Link: www.globalsouthurbanpolitics.com
Urban Politics in the Global South Conference
November 6-7, 2025 (fully virtual!)
This conference showcases research on urban politics in low- and middle-income countries in different world regions.
Deadline for Submissions: Sept. 5
Link: www.globalsouthurbanpolitics.com
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Urban Politics in the Global South is an annual virtual conference series that brings together the growing community of social scientists conducting research on urban politics in low- and middle-incom...
www.globalsouthurbanpolitics.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
📢 Call for Papers!
Urban Politics in the Global South Conference
November 6-7, 2025 (fully virtual!)
This conference showcases research on urban politics in low- and middle-income countries in different world regions.
Deadline for Submissions: Sept. 5
Link: www.globalsouthurbanpolitics.com
Urban Politics in the Global South Conference
November 6-7, 2025 (fully virtual!)
This conference showcases research on urban politics in low- and middle-income countries in different world regions.
Deadline for Submissions: Sept. 5
Link: www.globalsouthurbanpolitics.com
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For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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“Feminism has in fact offered a diagnosis, steadily, for decades and centuries: that the cause is misogyny and the violence is intended to perpetrate the inequality, exploitation and subordination of women.”
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“Feminism has in fact offered a diagnosis, steadily, for decades and centuries: that the cause is misogyny and the violence is intended to perpetrate the inequality, exploitation and subordination of women.”
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250 signatures by academics in Germany/German academics abroad pledging to boycott Israeli institutions supporting and/or benefiting from military occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Join the growing movement‼️
August 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
250 signatures by academics in Germany/German academics abroad pledging to boycott Israeli institutions supporting and/or benefiting from military occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Join the growing movement‼️
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Just stumbled upon this young, talented woman's project called - Detectly - which is like an ad blocker but for AI content, suitable for Chrome and Firefox.
detectly.xyz
detectly.xyz
Detectly
Detectly
detectly.xyz
August 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Just stumbled upon this young, talented woman's project called - Detectly - which is like an ad blocker but for AI content, suitable for Chrome and Firefox.
detectly.xyz
detectly.xyz
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“Gaza is a turning point that lays bare the full range and cruel depths of the contemporary world’s contradictions ... It exposes what is fundamentally wrong today: a persistent inability to recognize every human being as equal and deserving of dignity and life.”
“Gaza has become a symbol both of Western hypocrisy and its victims’ recourse to human rights as a final forum for collective deliverance—the deliverance of the wretched of the earth, whoever and wherever they may be. The consequences cannot be overstated.” @joelleabirached.bsky.social
Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review
The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.
www.bostonreview.net
August 1, 2025 at 4:23 AM
“Gaza is a turning point that lays bare the full range and cruel depths of the contemporary world’s contradictions ... It exposes what is fundamentally wrong today: a persistent inability to recognize every human being as equal and deserving of dignity and life.”
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Glad to share that the edited volume "Amphibious Anthropologies: Living in Wet Environments" is now officially published! I have a chapter in the book about the Salton Sea.
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
UW Press has a sale thru August 31- WARM25 for 40% off & free shipping. #Geosky #waterscience
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
UW Press has a sale thru August 31- WARM25 for 40% off & free shipping. #Geosky #waterscience
uwapress.uw.edu
July 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Glad to share that the edited volume "Amphibious Anthropologies: Living in Wet Environments" is now officially published! I have a chapter in the book about the Salton Sea.
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
UW Press has a sale thru August 31- WARM25 for 40% off & free shipping. #Geosky #waterscience
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
UW Press has a sale thru August 31- WARM25 for 40% off & free shipping. #Geosky #waterscience
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Try to imagine any other context where a news presenter describes credible reports that soldiers have been shooting huge numbers of teenagers and children *for sport*, for fun, and a politician gives this reaction.
Adil Ray recounts the testimony of a doctor who explains IDF soldiers play a game where each day they decide to shoot Palestinian boys in a different part of their body
Flint: "Israel is a functioning democracy. It is understandable when you have Hamas in control.." #GMB
Flint: "Israel is a functioning democracy. It is understandable when you have Hamas in control.." #GMB
July 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Try to imagine any other context where a news presenter describes credible reports that soldiers have been shooting huge numbers of teenagers and children *for sport*, for fun, and a politician gives this reaction.
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Disturbing footage: Berlin police violently assaulting peaceful protestors for Palestine, today (July 24, 2025.) Credit: Unpublished.de (found on Instagram)
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Disturbing footage: Berlin police violently assaulting peaceful protestors for Palestine, today (July 24, 2025.) Credit: Unpublished.de (found on Instagram)
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Some actual good news: the ICJ have set out the ecological situation clearly and authoritatively, and confirmed that each country has a legal obligation to take effective climate action. Could we get on and do it, please?
www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja...
www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja...
Climate change an ‘existential threat’, UN court says in landmark opinion
ICJ Judge Yuji Iwasawa says greenhouse emissions are ‘unequivocally caused by human activities’ as he delivers opinion.
www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org
July 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Some actual good news: the ICJ have set out the ecological situation clearly and authoritatively, and confirmed that each country has a legal obligation to take effective climate action. Could we get on and do it, please?
www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja...
www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja...
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It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
July 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
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Visit and support Gaza Places (Amākin Ghazza: www.gazaplaces.con) —a community-led digital mapping platform and independent research-action project dedicated to supporting the post-war recovery of Gaza through critical, participatory geography. www.gazaplaces.com #urban #sociology
July 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Visit and support Gaza Places (Amākin Ghazza: www.gazaplaces.con) —a community-led digital mapping platform and independent research-action project dedicated to supporting the post-war recovery of Gaza through critical, participatory geography. www.gazaplaces.com #urban #sociology
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die @spdfraktion.de hat recht: die Bundesregierung sollte diese Erklärung unbedingt unterstützen!
Hier der Wortlaut der Erklärung europäischer Staaten (+ Kanada, EU-Kommission), die die deutsche Regierung nicht unterstützen will.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Occupied Palestinian Territories: joint statement, 21 July 2025
The UK and 28 international partners gave a joint statement on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
www.gov.uk
July 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
die @spdfraktion.de hat recht: die Bundesregierung sollte diese Erklärung unbedingt unterstützen!
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Die @spdfraktion.de handelt - endlich. Werden @cducsubt.bsky.social vor Lobbyisten einknicken oder kommt die Regierungskoalition nun endlich ihren völkerrechtlichen Verpflichtungen nach?
July 23, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Die @spdfraktion.de handelt - endlich. Werden @cducsubt.bsky.social vor Lobbyisten einknicken oder kommt die Regierungskoalition nun endlich ihren völkerrechtlichen Verpflichtungen nach?
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Even the doctors in Gaza are fainting from hunger, as scores of Palestinians are slaughtered by IDF.
And still the European Union facilitates the death, destruction and starvation by doing nothing.
EU leaders are rapidly turning into war criminals.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
And still the European Union facilitates the death, destruction and starvation by doing nothing.
EU leaders are rapidly turning into war criminals.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Israel bombs WHO facilities in Gaza as global outcry grows
Fresh offensive comes as Israel cancels visa of UN’s local humanitarian head
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Even the doctors in Gaza are fainting from hunger, as scores of Palestinians are slaughtered by IDF.
And still the European Union facilitates the death, destruction and starvation by doing nothing.
EU leaders are rapidly turning into war criminals.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
And still the European Union facilitates the death, destruction and starvation by doing nothing.
EU leaders are rapidly turning into war criminals.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Hashem Abushama's nuanced and beautifully written essay on countermapping Palestinian geographies. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/a-m...
a map without guarantees: Stuart Hall and Palestinian geographies - Stuart Hall Foundation
I write a theoretical diary, informed by Stuart Hall’s writings.
www.stuarthallfoundation.org
November 19, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Hashem Abushama's nuanced and beautifully written essay on countermapping Palestinian geographies. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/a-m...
“No matter how I attempt to distract myself—by folding the same shirt again, by translating a familiar line, by stirring salt into boiling water as if that might change it—hunger resurfaces with quiet authority, like smoke seeping through invisible cracks in the floor.”
I woke and as I came to consciousness the words of writer Alaa Alqaisi came to me — the words she wrote as she is being starved to death by Israel. Read them. Use whatever power you have to oppose this @arablit.bsky.social arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
arablit.org
July 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“No matter how I attempt to distract myself—by folding the same shirt again, by translating a familiar line, by stirring salt into boiling water as if that might change it—hunger resurfaces with quiet authority, like smoke seeping through invisible cracks in the floor.”