Hamish Kallin
@hamishkallin.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Edinburgh. Interested in cities, housing, capitalism. Sometime artist and drummer.
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SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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my band Shinlifter have their EP launch on Saturday and with impeccable timing our Instagram has been hacked so we’ve lost our main channel for promoting it. if anyone wanted to help share this brilliant poster by my pal Grace there, here or elsewhere we’d be very grateful!
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
my band Shinlifter have their EP launch on Saturday and with impeccable timing our Instagram has been hacked so we’ve lost our main channel for promoting it. if anyone wanted to help share this brilliant poster by my pal Grace there, here or elsewhere we’d be very grateful!
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Universities across the world seeing this:
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Universities across the world seeing this:
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
Chakrabortty on fine form: this is economically, politically, and morally bankrupt nonsense from Steve Reed, the new Labour housing minister.
A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty
Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Chakrabortty on fine form: this is economically, politically, and morally bankrupt nonsense from Steve Reed, the new Labour housing minister.
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New commentary in Transactions:
'Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution' by James D. Sidaway
In this commentary, Sidaway responds to @hamishkallin.bsky.social's recent TIBG paper on the reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches in geography.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
'Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution' by James D. Sidaway
In this commentary, Sidaway responds to @hamishkallin.bsky.social's recent TIBG paper on the reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches in geography.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
September 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
New commentary in Transactions:
'Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution' by James D. Sidaway
In this commentary, Sidaway responds to @hamishkallin.bsky.social's recent TIBG paper on the reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches in geography.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
'Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution' by James D. Sidaway
In this commentary, Sidaway responds to @hamishkallin.bsky.social's recent TIBG paper on the reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches in geography.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
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I see we're at the "put Jewish people on a special surveillance list" stage of "combating antisemitism"
UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...
www.sfchronicle.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I see we're at the "put Jewish people on a special surveillance list" stage of "combating antisemitism"
Playing on pickets is always immensely fun, I recommend it.
🔉🎵 Sound Up! Great support for our striking workers from Old College passers-by and Och Vey, a local Klezmer band!
September 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Playing on pickets is always immensely fun, I recommend it.
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We're striking to stop budget cuts and mass redundancies and standing up for the future of our students' education. There is no deficit.
September 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
We're striking to stop budget cuts and mass redundancies and standing up for the future of our students' education. There is no deficit.
Interesting reflection on the removal of the Kirkgate benches by Connor Robertson. What did it signify and why does it matter? "The benches are back, but the battle for the right to the city continues."
Holding the Line: Gentrification and the Dispossession of the Kirkgate Benches
EXCLUSIVE FEATURE
www.discontent.wtf
September 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Interesting reflection on the removal of the Kirkgate benches by Connor Robertson. What did it signify and why does it matter? "The benches are back, but the battle for the right to the city continues."
Lovely show on the life and politics of the anarchist Colin Ward on @resonancefm.bsky.social just now. You can listen via the link below.
Resonance Extra
Resonance Extra is a 24/7 digital broadcasting platform dedicated to global music, sound art and radio art based at Resonance, London's community radio station for the arts.
extra.resonance.fm
August 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Lovely show on the life and politics of the anarchist Colin Ward on @resonancefm.bsky.social just now. You can listen via the link below.
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Israeli forces bulldozed Palestinian seed bank in Al-Khalil/Hebron, home to 22 years of seed collection efforts to preserve heritage varieties and plants with valuable traits: e360.yale.edu/digest/hebro...
Israeli Forces Bulldoze Palestinian Seed Bank
e360.yale.edu
August 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Israeli forces bulldozed Palestinian seed bank in Al-Khalil/Hebron, home to 22 years of seed collection efforts to preserve heritage varieties and plants with valuable traits: e360.yale.edu/digest/hebro...
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There was a time when the government would piss on us and tell us it was raining; now they're pissing on us and telling us it's piss.
Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal trib.al/E59gUNW
August 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
There was a time when the government would piss on us and tell us it was raining; now they're pissing on us and telling us it's piss.
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This is not caused primarily by "screen time".
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This is not caused primarily by "screen time".
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
I watch some football highlights on Youtube, and it recommends I watch these next (on a browser with no cookies or account).
If the internet is now our public space, how do we fight the far right without fighting this algorithmic shepherding?
This feels so urgent and impossible.
If the internet is now our public space, how do we fight the far right without fighting this algorithmic shepherding?
This feels so urgent and impossible.
August 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I watch some football highlights on Youtube, and it recommends I watch these next (on a browser with no cookies or account).
If the internet is now our public space, how do we fight the far right without fighting this algorithmic shepherding?
This feels so urgent and impossible.
If the internet is now our public space, how do we fight the far right without fighting this algorithmic shepherding?
This feels so urgent and impossible.
Additional word on my door as of this morning. I think I'm officially old now.
August 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Additional word on my door as of this morning. I think I'm officially old now.
An important response to the IHRA debate - many Jewish staff at Edinburgh (myself included) believe it must be scrapped.
Many Jewish staff in Scottish universities reject IHRA definition of antisemitism | Letter
Letter: Prof Philip Wadler responds to an article about Edinburgh University reviewing its adoption of the IHRA definition
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
An important response to the IHRA debate - many Jewish staff at Edinburgh (myself included) believe it must be scrapped.
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>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study
Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage
Sign & share ⏬️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage
Sign & share ⏬️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
docs.google.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study
Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage
Sign & share ⏬️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage
Sign & share ⏬️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Any Edinburgh colleagues know anything about this shady group?
A group called ‘Edinburgh University Staff 4 Free Speech’ are being quoted by journalists to discredit Edinburgh’s race report.
They purport to represent ‘more than 100 academics’ but I haven’t seen any evidence that they exist. Who do they represent? Who is their spokesperson?
Anyone know?
They purport to represent ‘more than 100 academics’ but I haven’t seen any evidence that they exist. Who do they represent? Who is their spokesperson?
Anyone know?
July 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Any Edinburgh colleagues know anything about this shady group?
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📣 Call for Papers:
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question
ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki
🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025
🏹 Please spread the word!
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question
ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki
🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025
🏹 Please spread the word!
July 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📣 Call for Papers:
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question
ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki
🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025
🏹 Please spread the word!
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question
ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki
🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025
🏹 Please spread the word!
I realise this isn't the most pressing issue in the world right now, but I find the signage for tickets at Edinburgh Tram stops really irritating.
July 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I realise this isn't the most pressing issue in the world right now, but I find the signage for tickets at Edinburgh Tram stops really irritating.
This story is chilling, and the Police response is profoundly authoritarian. Responsibility for this lies with the Labour Party. It is not a criminal offence to say FREE GAZA.
Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag
Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag
Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation
Armed police threatened a peaceful protester with arrest under the Terrorism Act for holding a Palestinian flag and having signs saying “Free Gaza” and “Israel is committing genocide”, accusing her of supporting a proscribed organisation.
Officers told Laura Murton, 42, that her demonstration in Canterbury, Kent, on Monday evening expressed views supportive of Palestine Action, which was banned under terrorism legislation earlier this month. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This story is chilling, and the Police response is profoundly authoritarian. Responsibility for this lies with the Labour Party. It is not a criminal offence to say FREE GAZA.
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"But as well as inflicting pain and impoverishing academic offerings, a hard-line approach to staff redundancies may eventually cost them more money than they will save in the short term."
Important stuff from my colleague @nickmegoran.bsky.social -
Important stuff from my colleague @nickmegoran.bsky.social -
“Mass redundancies will trash the global reputation of UK universities”
As @nickmegoran.bsky.social
of writes, cuts aren’t just short-sighted they’re self-destructive.
✊ Join UCU and Fight back.
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mass...
As @nickmegoran.bsky.social
of writes, cuts aren’t just short-sighted they’re self-destructive.
✊ Join UCU and Fight back.
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mass...
Mass redundancies will trash the reputation of UK universities
It may be difficult to enter on to a balance sheet but some weaker institutions may struggle to recover from reputational damage, says Nick Megoran
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"But as well as inflicting pain and impoverishing academic offerings, a hard-line approach to staff redundancies may eventually cost them more money than they will save in the short term."
Important stuff from my colleague @nickmegoran.bsky.social -
Important stuff from my colleague @nickmegoran.bsky.social -
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When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...