Fenna Imara Hoefsloot
@fennaimara.bsky.social
Research fellow at UCL Geography researching the digitising state, urban infrastructure, and data justice. Currently working on Regional Futures and Digitalising Commons in Nairobi, Mumbai, and Guadalajara. (she/her)
www.fennahoefsloot.com
www.fennahoefsloot.com
Looking forward to this session next week, discussing our recently published book 'Informational Peripheries' as part of the @unibas.ch Critical Urbanisms lecture series. Give me a shout if you'd like to join, and I'll share the Zoom link!
October 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Looking forward to this session next week, discussing our recently published book 'Informational Peripheries' as part of the @unibas.ch Critical Urbanisms lecture series. Give me a shout if you'd like to join, and I'll share the Zoom link!
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📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help!
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help!
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
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Congratulations to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Fenna Imara Hoefsloot! Their #OpenAccess book Informational Peripheries published earlier this week. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4 #UrbanTheory #Digitalisation #DataPolitics
Informational Peripheries
Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...
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August 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Congratulations to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Fenna Imara Hoefsloot! Their #OpenAccess book Informational Peripheries published earlier this week. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4 #UrbanTheory #Digitalisation #DataPolitics
Informational Peripheries is out now with @uclpress.bsky.social! It brings together critical perspectives on how information flows (or doesn’t) across the edges of systems: archives, infrastructures, digital divides, and more.
Edited with @ayonadatta.bsky.social 🙌
uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
Edited with @ayonadatta.bsky.social 🙌
uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
Informational Peripheries
Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...
uclpress.co.uk
August 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Informational Peripheries is out now with @uclpress.bsky.social! It brings together critical perspectives on how information flows (or doesn’t) across the edges of systems: archives, infrastructures, digital divides, and more.
Edited with @ayonadatta.bsky.social 🙌
uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
Edited with @ayonadatta.bsky.social 🙌
uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
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Our 'Informational Peripheries' book is now published and out for the world to read in paperback and online free #openaccess.
Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social
It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4
@uclgeography.bsky.social
Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social
It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4
@uclgeography.bsky.social
Informational Peripheries
Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...
bit.ly
August 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Our 'Informational Peripheries' book is now published and out for the world to read in paperback and online free #openaccess.
Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social
It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4
@uclgeography.bsky.social
Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social
It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4
@uclgeography.bsky.social
Happy to share our research on developing an inclusive digital tool for urban planning in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. With Johannes Flacke and Karin Pfeffer @utwente.bsky.social and a fantastic group of co-researchers from Toegankelijk Zwolle
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Redirecting
doi.org
May 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Happy to share our research on developing an inclusive digital tool for urban planning in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. With Johannes Flacke and Karin Pfeffer @utwente.bsky.social and a fantastic group of co-researchers from Toegankelijk Zwolle
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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May 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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uk #geosky - please sign this letter to the RGS, to get them to pushback on anti-trans rhetoric from the Supreme Court and EHRC
🌺 Geographers at any career stage anywhere in the world! Last day to join 330 of us — PhD students to profs — committed to trans inclusion and to pushing back against the discriminatory Supreme Court/EHRC events. Please share.
Closes Wed 30 Apr 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Closes Wed 30 Apr 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...
April 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
uk #geosky - please sign this letter to the RGS, to get them to pushback on anti-trans rhetoric from the Supreme Court and EHRC
Cover reveal! ✨
Our new book, 'Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the Urban in a Digital Age,' will be available this August! Get a first look here: uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
There will also be a digital open access version 🙌
@uclpress.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social
Our new book, 'Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the Urban in a Digital Age,' will be available this August! Get a first look here: uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
There will also be a digital open access version 🙌
@uclpress.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social
Informational Peripheries
Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...
uclpress.co.uk
April 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Cover reveal! ✨
Our new book, 'Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the Urban in a Digital Age,' will be available this August! Get a first look here: uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
There will also be a digital open access version 🙌
@uclpress.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social
Our new book, 'Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the Urban in a Digital Age,' will be available this August! Get a first look here: uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
There will also be a digital open access version 🙌
@uclpress.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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Excited that our research article with commentaries and response is out now in the inaugural issue of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social! Honoured to be amongst so many people I look up to in the launch of this great new journal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
@ayonadatta.bsky.social
@ayonadatta.bsky.social
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April 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Excited that our research article with commentaries and response is out now in the inaugural issue of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social! Honoured to be amongst so many people I look up to in the launch of this great new journal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
@ayonadatta.bsky.social
@ayonadatta.bsky.social
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This. Protect trans kids. Protect trans rights. Gender is a spectrum. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people exist. Inter-sex & DSD people exist. Gender-non-conforming people exist. Transphobia is anti-feminist. Laws are often wrong and unjust. We must fight for a fairer future.
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This. Protect trans kids. Protect trans rights. Gender is a spectrum. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people exist. Inter-sex & DSD people exist. Gender-non-conforming people exist. Transphobia is anti-feminist. Laws are often wrong and unjust. We must fight for a fairer future.
Join our team!
🚨 Job Alert!
We're hiring a Project Administrative Officer for the Regional Futures project! Join the team and help drive research on digitalisation and urbanisation in the Global South.
Apply by 22 April 2025! 🌍
🔗 tinyurl.com/ucl-rf
#GeographyJobs #UCLCareers #UrbanStudies #Digitalisation
We're hiring a Project Administrative Officer for the Regional Futures project! Join the team and help drive research on digitalisation and urbanisation in the Global South.
Apply by 22 April 2025! 🌍
🔗 tinyurl.com/ucl-rf
#GeographyJobs #UCLCareers #UrbanStudies #Digitalisation
April 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Join our team!
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Today the Dutch senate is debating its budget cuts on higher education. Around 1 billion euros in cuts with jobs and entire programs on the line.
They have a clear choice between investing in the future or going down the drain like the US is currently doing. Let’s hope they make the right choice 🟥
They have a clear choice between investing in the future or going down the drain like the US is currently doing. Let’s hope they make the right choice 🟥
March 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Today the Dutch senate is debating its budget cuts on higher education. Around 1 billion euros in cuts with jobs and entire programs on the line.
They have a clear choice between investing in the future or going down the drain like the US is currently doing. Let’s hope they make the right choice 🟥
They have a clear choice between investing in the future or going down the drain like the US is currently doing. Let’s hope they make the right choice 🟥
Delighted to see my review of @jpaddie.bsky.social @mrglassphd.bsky.social & @jen-nelles.bsky.social excellent 'Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds' out. Empirically specific and theoretically expansive, this book deserves to be read! doi.org/10.1080/1356...
Infrastructural times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds
Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
February 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Delighted to see my review of @jpaddie.bsky.social @mrglassphd.bsky.social & @jen-nelles.bsky.social excellent 'Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds' out. Empirically specific and theoretically expansive, this book deserves to be read! doi.org/10.1080/1356...
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📣 Pleased to announce response paper with @fennaimara.bsky.social out on @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social responding to brilliant commentaries by @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social Nancy Odendaal.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Timing the state - Ayona Datta, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, 2025
We wish to express our gratitude to the interlocutors for their considered and thoughtful commentaries on our article. They invoke new questions around the powe...
journals.sagepub.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
📣 Pleased to announce response paper with @fennaimara.bsky.social out on @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social responding to brilliant commentaries by @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social Nancy Odendaal.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
📣 We're still accepting abstracts! Reach out if you've got an interesting paper on the tensions between creativity and codeability in digital urban governance. We'd love to hear from you!
@ayonadatta.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social
@ayonadatta.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social
👋 CfP for 'Algorithmic refusal: creativity and codeability in digital urban governance' @rgsibg.bsky.social in Birmingham.
Organised with @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes and sponsored by DGRG!
Submit your abstracts by the 21 Feb 2025 ✌️
www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...
Organised with @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes and sponsored by DGRG!
Submit your abstracts by the 21 Feb 2025 ✌️
www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...
'Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance' CfP at the RGS-IBG, Birmingham 2025 — Regional Futures
Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, Birmingham 2025 Sponsored by the Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) Session Organiser...
www.regionalfutures.org
February 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
📣 We're still accepting abstracts! Reach out if you've got an interesting paper on the tensions between creativity and codeability in digital urban governance. We'd love to hear from you!
@ayonadatta.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social
@ayonadatta.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social
🙌 Our research led by Mariana Reyes and in collaboration with Neha Gupta, Dennis Muthama, and Jesus Flores is out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social! We hope it serves others working in international and intercultural research projects. doi.org/10.1111/1468...
NAVIGATING STATE SPACES: Methodological Insights and Reflections from Research in India, Mexico and Kenya
This collaborative essay provides a methodological reflection and a list of recommendations on the opportunities, uncertainties and limitations faced when researching state spaces in India, Mexico an...
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February 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🙌 Our research led by Mariana Reyes and in collaboration with Neha Gupta, Dennis Muthama, and Jesus Flores is out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social! We hope it serves others working in international and intercultural research projects. doi.org/10.1111/1468...
👋 CfP for 'Algorithmic refusal: creativity and codeability in digital urban governance' @rgsibg.bsky.social in Birmingham.
Organised with @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes and sponsored by DGRG!
Submit your abstracts by the 21 Feb 2025 ✌️
www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...
Organised with @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes and sponsored by DGRG!
Submit your abstracts by the 21 Feb 2025 ✌️
www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...
'Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance' CfP at the RGS-IBG, Birmingham 2025 — Regional Futures
Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, Birmingham 2025 Sponsored by the Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) Session Organiser...
www.regionalfutures.org
February 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
👋 CfP for 'Algorithmic refusal: creativity and codeability in digital urban governance' @rgsibg.bsky.social in Birmingham.
Organised with @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes and sponsored by DGRG!
Submit your abstracts by the 21 Feb 2025 ✌️
www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...
Organised with @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes and sponsored by DGRG!
Submit your abstracts by the 21 Feb 2025 ✌️
www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...
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📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE
@rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham.
Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes
DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇
www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...
@rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham.
Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes
DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇
www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...
'Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance' CfP at the RGS-IBG, Birmingham 2025 — Regional Futures
Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, Birmingham 2025 Session Organisers: Prof Ayona Datta, Dr Fenna Hoefsloot, Dr Mariana Reyes ...
www.regionalfutures.org
February 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE
@rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham.
Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes
DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇
www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...
@rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham.
Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes
DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇
www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...
🙌 Till the 31st to submit an abstract! Please share with anyone who might be interested in joining. We look forward to seeing you in London in September!
📣Two more weeks to submit an abstract to the 'Regional Futures: The Politics of Digitalisation-as-Urbanisation' symposium in London from 1-2 Sep. Join us there! If you have any questions, reach out.
www.regionalfutures.org/all-events-1...
@uclgeography.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social
#geosky
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@uclgeography.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social
#geosky
Regional Futures Conference, UCL, London — Regional Futures
REGIONAL FUTURES: The politics of digitalisation-as-urbanisation 1-3 September, 2025, UCL, London Venue: tbc In the last two decades, an information revolution in the Global South has pro...
www.regionalfutures.org
January 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🙌 Till the 31st to submit an abstract! Please share with anyone who might be interested in joining. We look forward to seeing you in London in September!
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new #datajustice paper from the Global Data Justice project in @robkitchin.bsky.social's new journal:
Who do current #datagovernance models benefit, who has a say in how they work, and what benchmarks could we use if we want justice-oriented #AI governance?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Who do current #datagovernance models benefit, who has a say in how they work, and what benchmarks could we use if we want justice-oriented #AI governance?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Governing artificial intelligence means governing data: (re)setting the agenda for data justice - Linnet Taylor, Siddharth Peter de Souza, Aaron Martin, Joan López Solano, 2025
The field of data justice has been evolving to take into account the role of data in powering the field of artificial intelligence (AI). In this paper we review...
journals.sagepub.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
new #datajustice paper from the Global Data Justice project in @robkitchin.bsky.social's new journal:
Who do current #datagovernance models benefit, who has a say in how they work, and what benchmarks could we use if we want justice-oriented #AI governance?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Who do current #datagovernance models benefit, who has a say in how they work, and what benchmarks could we use if we want justice-oriented #AI governance?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Just before 2024 came to an end, we posted another episode of the Urban Political:
82 - Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times with Jean-Paul Addie, Hanna Baumann, Himanshu Burte and Fenna Hoefsloot.
Listen via Spotify or here:
urbanpolitical.online/episode-82-b...
82 - Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times with Jean-Paul Addie, Hanna Baumann, Himanshu Burte and Fenna Hoefsloot.
Listen via Spotify or here:
urbanpolitical.online/episode-82-b...
82 – Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds – Urban Political Podcast
urbanpolitical.online
January 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Just before 2024 came to an end, we posted another episode of the Urban Political:
82 - Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times with Jean-Paul Addie, Hanna Baumann, Himanshu Burte and Fenna Hoefsloot.
Listen via Spotify or here:
urbanpolitical.online/episode-82-b...
82 - Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times with Jean-Paul Addie, Hanna Baumann, Himanshu Burte and Fenna Hoefsloot.
Listen via Spotify or here:
urbanpolitical.online/episode-82-b...
New paper w/ Neha Gupta, Dennis Mbugua Muthama, and Jesus Flores, in which we follow information flows through different devices, geographies, and people to understand the role of brokerage in the digitalising state. A comparison of Mumbai, Nairobi & Guadalajara www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
New paper w/ Neha Gupta, Dennis Mbugua Muthama, and Jesus Flores, in which we follow information flows through different devices, geographies, and people to understand the role of brokerage in the digitalising state. A comparison of Mumbai, Nairobi & Guadalajara www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...