Dom Davies
@drdomdavies.bsky.social
Reader in English at City Uni London. The Broken Promise of Infrastructure (2023), Graphic Refuge (2025). Convening Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social
More info: www.drdomdavies.com
More info: www.drdomdavies.com
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Dom Davies
@drdomdavies.bsky.social
· Jul 4
Novara FM: Britain is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It? w/ Dom Davies
Podcast Episode · Novara Media · 04/07/2024 · 1h 1m
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1 year ago today Britain went to the polls & I spoke with Moya for Novara FM about the ways infrastructure had become embroiled in a cultural politics that often passed unnoticed.
We unpacked these in our conversation and I think it still it bears listening to.
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We unpacked these in our conversation and I think it still it bears listening to.
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Rich and detailed review of Graphic Refuge by Nina Mickwitz in @comicsgrid.com open access
New in the journal! Mickwitz, N., (2026) “On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies powered by @openlibhums.org; @janewayolh.bsky.social
On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics
This review of the book Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (2025), co-authored by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, provides an overview of the key conceptual framing and inter...
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February 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Rich and detailed review of Graphic Refuge by Nina Mickwitz in @comicsgrid.com open access
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Had a great time chatting with @drdomdavies.bsky.social about literature, automobiles, infrastructure, and US empire. @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social is a really cool project - well worth checking out.
What makes an American road novel? What does this genre tell us about the imperial ambitions of infrastructure? And all the hopes and broken promises of individualised Automobility?
@drdomdavies.bsky.social sat down with @mykaabramson.bsky.social to find out more
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@drdomdavies.bsky.social sat down with @mykaabramson.bsky.social to find out more
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Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony, with Myka Tucker-Abramson
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January 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Had a great time chatting with @drdomdavies.bsky.social about literature, automobiles, infrastructure, and US empire. @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social is a really cool project - well worth checking out.
This was such a thought provoking and expansive conversation, an excellent demonstration of what literature can reveal about the many affective, cultural, and political lives of infrastructure
Check out our latest podcast episode with @mykaabramson.bsky.social on the American road novel and its uneven journeys across Eastern Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere! What does this genre teach us about the politics of automative infrastructure?!!
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on.soundcloud.com/vX1R6KCX6gTc...
Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony, with Myka Tucker-Abramson
What makes an American road novel? What are the material conditions that caused it to emerge in the mid-twentieth century? Why does it persist, what does it tell us about infrastructure, and why has i
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January 27, 2026 at 11:25 AM
This was such a thought provoking and expansive conversation, an excellent demonstration of what literature can reveal about the many affective, cultural, and political lives of infrastructure
Reposted by Dom Davies
What makes an American road novel? What does this genre tell us about the imperial ambitions of infrastructure? And all the hopes and broken promises of individualised Automobility?
@drdomdavies.bsky.social sat down with @mykaabramson.bsky.social to find out more
open.spotify.com/episode/41YZ...
@drdomdavies.bsky.social sat down with @mykaabramson.bsky.social to find out more
open.spotify.com/episode/41YZ...
Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony, with Myka Tucker-Abramson
open.spotify.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:35 AM
What makes an American road novel? What does this genre tell us about the imperial ambitions of infrastructure? And all the hopes and broken promises of individualised Automobility?
@drdomdavies.bsky.social sat down with @mykaabramson.bsky.social to find out more
open.spotify.com/episode/41YZ...
@drdomdavies.bsky.social sat down with @mykaabramson.bsky.social to find out more
open.spotify.com/episode/41YZ...
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New episode of Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast out now, featuring @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social and @bobbyjewell.bsky.social on the experience of rain in the wet city of Glasgow and how it calls on us to see (and hear) infrastructure differently
on.soundcloud.com/n5QnspCifThX...
on.soundcloud.com/n5QnspCifThX...
Living With Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, with Andrew Hoolachan and Bobby Jewell
How does rain impact how and when people get around, whether on foot, on public transport, or in private vehicles? How does it affect how we use outdoor and public spaces, from parks to streets and sh
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January 6, 2026 at 1:35 PM
New episode of Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast out now, featuring @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social and @bobbyjewell.bsky.social on the experience of rain in the wet city of Glasgow and how it calls on us to see (and hear) infrastructure differently
on.soundcloud.com/n5QnspCifThX...
on.soundcloud.com/n5QnspCifThX...
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Really glad to be on @drdomdavies.bsky.social fantastic Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast with @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social
We talk about Living With Rain in Glasgow following Andrew's fantastic report & my own responses to rain through sound
Listen here >>> soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
We talk about Living With Rain in Glasgow following Andrew's fantastic report & my own responses to rain through sound
Listen here >>> soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
Living With Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, with Andrew Hoolachan and Bobby Jewell
How does rain impact how and when people get around, whether on foot, on public transport, or in private vehicles? How does it affect how we use outdoor and public spaces, from parks to streets and sh
soundcloud.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Really glad to be on @drdomdavies.bsky.social fantastic Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast with @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social
We talk about Living With Rain in Glasgow following Andrew's fantastic report & my own responses to rain through sound
Listen here >>> soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
We talk about Living With Rain in Glasgow following Andrew's fantastic report & my own responses to rain through sound
Listen here >>> soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
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Our short 2025 in review episode out now on our Soundcloud channel and other podcast platforms, featuring brief excerpts from our discussions with @zackpolanski.bsky.social, the Foundational Economy Collective, @julietjfall.bsky.social and others
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on.soundcloud.com/4TE7ZqvzJaR9...
2025 in Review, with Dom Davies
In this short review episode of the Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast, network convenor Dom Davies looks back at some of TTiN's activities in 2025, including our event with Zack Polanski, our bo
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December 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Our short 2025 in review episode out now on our Soundcloud channel and other podcast platforms, featuring brief excerpts from our discussions with @zackpolanski.bsky.social, the Foundational Economy Collective, @julietjfall.bsky.social and others
on.soundcloud.com/4TE7ZqvzJaR9...
on.soundcloud.com/4TE7ZqvzJaR9...
A short piece in @theconversation.com on Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams and the adaptation currently on Netflix
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Train Dreams on Netflix is a beautiful film – but it misses the magic of the original novella
The film loses the spirit of unsettling indirection that comprises the magic of the original story.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A short piece in @theconversation.com on Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams and the adaptation currently on Netflix
theconversation.com/train-dreams...
theconversation.com/train-dreams...
An interesting selection on this list of “books that got you through your twenties” for @theconversation.com
There was only ever one choice for me: Joe Sacco’s Palestine.
What would yours be?
theconversation.com/twenty-exper...
There was only ever one choice for me: Joe Sacco’s Palestine.
What would yours be?
theconversation.com/twenty-exper...
Twenty experts on the book that got them through their 20s – part one
Many of us turn to literature to guide us through the highs and the lows of this formative time
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December 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
An interesting selection on this list of “books that got you through your twenties” for @theconversation.com
There was only ever one choice for me: Joe Sacco’s Palestine.
What would yours be?
theconversation.com/twenty-exper...
There was only ever one choice for me: Joe Sacco’s Palestine.
What would yours be?
theconversation.com/twenty-exper...
If anybody's watching #TrainDreams on #Netflix and is interested a postcolonial/infrastructural reading of the novel, this essay I wrote a few years ago is available in full here drive.google.com/file/d/1Kydm...
November 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
If anybody's watching #TrainDreams on #Netflix and is interested a postcolonial/infrastructural reading of the novel, this essay I wrote a few years ago is available in full here drive.google.com/file/d/1Kydm...
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What would you say if you had 5 minutes to talk to Matt Damon about the “global water crisis”?
Our conversation with Filippo Menga about Thirst published this year by @versobooks.bsky.social is now available on our Soundcloud channel and most podcast platforms.
on.soundcloud.com/cp29Zt2aTJKK...
Our conversation with Filippo Menga about Thirst published this year by @versobooks.bsky.social is now available on our Soundcloud channel and most podcast platforms.
on.soundcloud.com/cp29Zt2aTJKK...
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
What would you say if you had 5 minutes to talk to Matt Damon about the “global water crisis”?
Our conversation with Filippo Menga about Thirst published this year by @versobooks.bsky.social is now available on our Soundcloud channel and most podcast platforms.
on.soundcloud.com/cp29Zt2aTJKK...
Our conversation with Filippo Menga about Thirst published this year by @versobooks.bsky.social is now available on our Soundcloud channel and most podcast platforms.
on.soundcloud.com/cp29Zt2aTJKK...
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Download the Introduction to Graphic Refuge by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, now Open Access on our website @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Download the Introduction to Graphic Refuge by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, now Open Access on our website @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...
Great to see the intro to Graphic Refuge now available open access from @wlupress.bsky.social !
Download the Introduction to Graphic Refuge by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, now Open Access on our website @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Great to see the intro to Graphic Refuge now available open access from @wlupress.bsky.social !
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It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative.
For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.
m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.
m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall
Stream Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall by Thinking Through Infrastructure Network on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free ...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative.
For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.
m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.
m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
This was such an inspiring discussion highlighting the value of an infrastructural approach to borders but also of alternative methods that bring wide audiences with them through the research process
A great pleasure to chat to @drdomdavies.bsky.social about infrastructure, comics, and why using visual essays changes how we observe, think and write about the world.
The podcast is available to listen to on the link here 👇, as well as on the other usual platforms (spotify, apple podcasts, etc).
The podcast is available to listen to on the link here 👇, as well as on the other usual platforms (spotify, apple podcasts, etc).
It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative.
For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.
m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.
m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This was such an inspiring discussion highlighting the value of an infrastructural approach to borders but also of alternative methods that bring wide audiences with them through the research process
Looking forward to this conversation with Filippo (a coauthor of mine on comics and climate change from a few years ago) next week about his new book Thirst: The Quest to Solve the Global Water Crisis, out now with @versobooks.bsky.social. Join us!
Join us next week for a session on global water infrastructure with Filippo Menga & others - online Tuesday 17 Nov at 12pm GMT. Link below
Our second session of the term will explore the global water crisis through discussion of Filippo Menga’s new book, Thirst (Verso 2025), with responses from Naho Mirumachi and Julie Froud
Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Looking forward to this conversation with Filippo (a coauthor of mine on comics and climate change from a few years ago) next week about his new book Thirst: The Quest to Solve the Global Water Crisis, out now with @versobooks.bsky.social. Join us!
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Looking forward to presenting along @drdomdavies.bsky.social and @mediocre.bsky.social at the 22nd Annual Historical Materialism conference in our "Comics Against Capitalism" panel on Saturday, 8th 10:00-11:45 GMT. conference.historicalmaterialism.org #ComicsStudies
Historical Materialism Conference
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November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Looking forward to presenting along @drdomdavies.bsky.social and @mediocre.bsky.social at the 22nd Annual Historical Materialism conference in our "Comics Against Capitalism" panel on Saturday, 8th 10:00-11:45 GMT. conference.historicalmaterialism.org #ComicsStudies
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I just listened to an excellent presentation on comics & infrastructure by Dr Giada Peterle, part of online talks organised by @drdomdavies.bsky.social within @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social. Such a creative, inspiring & generous scholar! (Her drawings on my book from gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...)
October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I just listened to an excellent presentation on comics & infrastructure by Dr Giada Peterle, part of online talks organised by @drdomdavies.bsky.social within @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social. Such a creative, inspiring & generous scholar! (Her drawings on my book from gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...)
If you like infrastructure and you like art, and you like thinking about infrastructure through the embodied visual arts, join us for this event!
This Wednesday we’ll be talking drawing, walking, and writing infrastructure with Giada Peterle. Join us at lunchtime for this online seminar by registering here www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
If you like infrastructure and you like art, and you like thinking about infrastructure through the embodied visual arts, join us for this event!
Excited for this hybrid launch of Graphic Refuge with my co-author @crifkind.bsky.social and colleague @ernestopriego. Join us on 19 Nov for a discussion of the way comics intervene in our anti-migrant visual culture with relations of refuge. And some beautiful pictures of some beautiful comics!
Co-authored by @drdomdavies.bsky.social and @crifkind.bsky.social, Graphic Refuge (@wlupress.bsky.social 2025) explores graphic narratives about a range of refugee experiences. You're invited to a panel event to celebrate the book: www.hcid.city/news/graphic...
Graphic Refuge Panel Event - 19th November
You are invited to the Graphic Refuge panel event with Dr. Dominic Davies and Dr Candida Rifkind
www.hcid.city
October 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Excited for this hybrid launch of Graphic Refuge with my co-author @crifkind.bsky.social and colleague @ernestopriego. Join us on 19 Nov for a discussion of the way comics intervene in our anti-migrant visual culture with relations of refuge. And some beautiful pictures of some beautiful comics!
It was great fun to record this conversation exploring transformations in the railway imaginary, from Dickens’s Dombey & Son to EM Forster’s Howard’s End and beyond
The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live!
In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
October 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
It was great fun to record this conversation exploring transformations in the railway imaginary, from Dickens’s Dombey & Son to EM Forster’s Howard’s End and beyond
Reposted by Dom Davies
The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live!
In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live!
In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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And our third and final online event of the term assembles a diverse panel of academics, practitioners, and activists to reflect on what gentrification means today and how we can remake cities without displacing residents. Sign up below.
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
October 16, 2025 at 4:59 AM
And our third and final online event of the term assembles a diverse panel of academics, practitioners, and activists to reflect on what gentrification means today and how we can remake cities without displacing residents. Sign up below.
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Looking forward to participating in MCCI's Connect: Graphic Refuge panel event with authors @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social and fellow respondent Mihaela Precup www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... (19 November 2025 5pm) #ComicsStudies
MCCI's Connect: Graphic Refuge panel event | City St George's, University of London
Graphic Refuge is the first in-depth study of comics about refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and detainees by artists from the Global North and South.
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Looking forward to participating in MCCI's Connect: Graphic Refuge panel event with authors @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social and fellow respondent Mihaela Precup www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... (19 November 2025 5pm) #ComicsStudies
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Our second session of the term will explore the global water crisis through discussion of Filippo Menga’s new book, Thirst (Verso 2025), with responses from Naho Mirumachi and Julie Froud
Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
October 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Our second session of the term will explore the global water crisis through discussion of Filippo Menga’s new book, Thirst (Verso 2025), with responses from Naho Mirumachi and Julie Froud
Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...