Julian Brigstocke
@jbrigstocke.bsky.social
Geographer at Cardiff University. 'Non-authoritarian authority'; politics of aesthetics; social, cultural and political theory; cities; materialisms. Lover of plants, piano, cello, walking. Father of two small boys.
Just finished correcting the page proofs for this. Very excited to see it in print shortly 🍾
🔎 Coming soon
Non-Authoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power
by Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social
This book will be free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing and is published in collaboration with @rgsibg.bsky.social
doi.org/10.31389/lse...
Non-Authoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power
by Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social
This book will be free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing and is published in collaboration with @rgsibg.bsky.social
doi.org/10.31389/lse...
January 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Just finished correcting the page proofs for this. Very excited to see it in print shortly 🍾
The web page for my forthcoming book "Nonauthoritarian Authority:
Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power", part of the @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series, is now live:
press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3... It should be out around January 2026 🤞 #geosky #sociology #socialtheory
Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power", part of the @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series, is now live:
press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3... It should be out around January 2026 🤞 #geosky #sociology #socialtheory
Nonauthoritarian Authority | LSE Press
<p><span style="font-weight: 700;">This book is part of the </span><b><a href="https://press.lse.ac.uk/rgs-ibg-series" target="_blank">RGS-IBG Book Series</a><br></b><b>ISSN: Print: </b>2996...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The web page for my forthcoming book "Nonauthoritarian Authority:
Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power", part of the @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series, is now live:
press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3... It should be out around January 2026 🤞 #geosky #sociology #socialtheory
Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power", part of the @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series, is now live:
press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3... It should be out around January 2026 🤞 #geosky #sociology #socialtheory
Great opportunity for UK and international students to apply for PhD funding in Geography at @cardiffuni.bsky.social Applicants from current final-year undergraduates and masters students, as well as from non-traditional academic backgrounds, are welcome. #Geosky www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Great opportunity for UK and international students to apply for PhD funding in Geography at @cardiffuni.bsky.social Applicants from current final-year undergraduates and masters students, as well as from non-traditional academic backgrounds, are welcome. #Geosky www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
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Happy to announce our fall programme! Pleased to be hosting @brdemuth.bsky.social for our annual flagship lecture on Nov 6. We'll also welcome @andrewseaton.bsky.social and @dannydorling.bsky.social on Dec 4 for a discussion of Andrew's new work on coal. For more info, see the web link in our bio.
September 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Happy to announce our fall programme! Pleased to be hosting @brdemuth.bsky.social for our annual flagship lecture on Nov 6. We'll also welcome @andrewseaton.bsky.social and @dannydorling.bsky.social on Dec 4 for a discussion of Andrew's new work on coal. For more info, see the web link in our bio.
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We are delighted to announce the 2025 History and Philosophy of Geography undergraduate dissertation prize winner: Henry Blake, @geogdurham.bsky.social, for his dissertation Foreclosed Futures: Hope, Precarity, and Ambivalence in Contemporary Cornwall. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4jjc4dp6
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News & Events – History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG)
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September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We are delighted to announce the 2025 History and Philosophy of Geography undergraduate dissertation prize winner: Henry Blake, @geogdurham.bsky.social, for his dissertation Foreclosed Futures: Hope, Precarity, and Ambivalence in Contemporary Cornwall. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4jjc4dp6
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Super excited to discuss my new book Spirits of Extraction:Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race with these fantastic people! If you're at RGS_IBG on Friday please join us!
August 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Super excited to discuss my new book Spirits of Extraction:Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race with these fantastic people! If you're at RGS_IBG on Friday please join us!
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Today marks the launch of our edited volume Aesthetics and the City. @amycbarron.bsky.social and I are thrilled to see this in print. We hope it’s of interest! Do let us know what you think. We are hosting a hybrid launch event in early October.
🔗More details: www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a...
🔗More details: www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a...
July 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Today marks the launch of our edited volume Aesthetics and the City. @amycbarron.bsky.social and I are thrilled to see this in print. We hope it’s of interest! Do let us know what you think. We are hosting a hybrid launch event in early October.
🔗More details: www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a...
🔗More details: www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a...
So excited to see Aesthetics and the City in print. Congratulations to editors @joeblakey.bsky.social and @amycbarron.bsky.social.
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July 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
So excited to see Aesthetics and the City in print. Congratulations to editors @joeblakey.bsky.social and @amycbarron.bsky.social.
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You can get 50% off my book "On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration" as part of the @univnebpress.bsky.social's summer sale (if you are based in the USA or Canada). Just use discount code 6SUMM25 on checkout. #geography #exploration
June 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
You can get 50% off my book "On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration" as part of the @univnebpress.bsky.social's summer sale (if you are based in the USA or Canada). Just use discount code 6SUMM25 on checkout. #geography #exploration
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Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...
June 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...
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New in Area:
'The "creative thesis" in the academic "anxiety machine"' by @mutablematter.bsky.social
This paper highlights the possibilities of supporting 'creative' PhD theses within an increasingly challenging institutional environment.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
'The "creative thesis" in the academic "anxiety machine"' by @mutablematter.bsky.social
This paper highlights the possibilities of supporting 'creative' PhD theses within an increasingly challenging institutional environment.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
June 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New in Area:
'The "creative thesis" in the academic "anxiety machine"' by @mutablematter.bsky.social
This paper highlights the possibilities of supporting 'creative' PhD theses within an increasingly challenging institutional environment.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
'The "creative thesis" in the academic "anxiety machine"' by @mutablematter.bsky.social
This paper highlights the possibilities of supporting 'creative' PhD theses within an increasingly challenging institutional environment.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
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Research Fellow @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores how communities in Brazil’s favelas establish forms of everyday community authority in response to the authoritarian violence of police and criminal groups. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @cardiffuni.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Research Fellow @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores how communities in Brazil’s favelas establish forms of everyday community authority in response to the authoritarian violence of police and criminal groups. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @cardiffuni.bsky.social
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We are honored to invite you to our 5th workshop4sudan with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard to discuss Leanne’s new book A Theory of Water. Sign up here and please share widely:
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May 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
We are honored to invite you to our 5th workshop4sudan with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard to discuss Leanne’s new book A Theory of Water. Sign up here and please share widely:
chuffed.org/project/work...
chuffed.org/project/work...
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The Trust's May newsletter is out now! Read about intersectionality and the musical, exploring our future in space, plantation afterlives: landscape change and environmental experience in Guyana, and much more: leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter
May 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The Trust's May newsletter is out now! Read about intersectionality and the musical, exploring our future in space, plantation afterlives: landscape change and environmental experience in Guyana, and much more: leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter
I'm fortunate to have a Leverhulme Fellowship from Sept 2025 to August 2026, on 'Informal Authority, Care and Resistance in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro', developing the concept of 'nonauthoritarian authority' in a detailed empirical setting. Brief summary here: lnkd.in/eww3v5yi
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May 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I'm fortunate to have a Leverhulme Fellowship from Sept 2025 to August 2026, on 'Informal Authority, Care and Resistance in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro', developing the concept of 'nonauthoritarian authority' in a detailed empirical setting. Brief summary here: lnkd.in/eww3v5yi
#geosky
#geosky
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We're HIRING an Editorial Officer to start in August 2025!
📅 Deadline for applications: 8 June 2025.
If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply.
Fully remote position!
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📅 Deadline for applications: 8 June 2025.
If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply.
Fully remote position!
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Editorial Officer (2137) - Birkbeck, University of London
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May 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
We're HIRING an Editorial Officer to start in August 2025!
📅 Deadline for applications: 8 June 2025.
If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply.
Fully remote position!
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...
📅 Deadline for applications: 8 June 2025.
If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply.
Fully remote position!
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...
A highlight of my garden year is always this cobra lily (arisaema) coming into flower:) 🌱GB
May 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A highlight of my garden year is always this cobra lily (arisaema) coming into flower:) 🌱GB
This looks fascinating
Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: a panel discussion of 'Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination,' by Chris Philo. Featuring @milesogborn.bsky.social, @stuartelden.bsky.social, and @feli-k.bsky.social. Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan...
![27 May 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[online only via Zoom]
A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (2025), by Chris Philo (University of Glasgow), involving:
Stuart Elden (University of Warwick)
Felicitas Kübler (Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreidfgf6vasx3pyf25e6ac5k3tovjdteifwa5k7m5tplz7ed7ro74rq@jpeg)
May 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This looks fascinating
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Our @geographicalassoc.bsky.social statement on the crisis impacting UK Higher Education Geography.
We urge universities to maintain their current capacity for geography and to capitalise on its growth in schools and relevance to the workplace and wider economy.
geography.org.uk/ga-higher-ed...
We urge universities to maintain their current capacity for geography and to capitalise on its growth in schools and relevance to the workplace and wider economy.
geography.org.uk/ga-higher-ed...
GA Higher Education geography statement - Geographical Association
As the subject association for geography the Geographical Association is concerned about the funding position of many UK universities...
geography.org.uk
May 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Our @geographicalassoc.bsky.social statement on the crisis impacting UK Higher Education Geography.
We urge universities to maintain their current capacity for geography and to capitalise on its growth in schools and relevance to the workplace and wider economy.
geography.org.uk/ga-higher-ed...
We urge universities to maintain their current capacity for geography and to capitalise on its growth in schools and relevance to the workplace and wider economy.
geography.org.uk/ga-higher-ed...
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New paper out! 📄💥
Loved working with Kate Moles and Jürgen Viet Ahn Höpfel on this —thinking through how UK austerity co-opted the nostalgia + resilience of ex-mining communities to justify neoliberalism.
Out now in Memory Studies' special issue on Communities + Change: tinyurl.com/bdft66fj
Loved working with Kate Moles and Jürgen Viet Ahn Höpfel on this —thinking through how UK austerity co-opted the nostalgia + resilience of ex-mining communities to justify neoliberalism.
Out now in Memory Studies' special issue on Communities + Change: tinyurl.com/bdft66fj
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May 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
New paper out! 📄💥
Loved working with Kate Moles and Jürgen Viet Ahn Höpfel on this —thinking through how UK austerity co-opted the nostalgia + resilience of ex-mining communities to justify neoliberalism.
Out now in Memory Studies' special issue on Communities + Change: tinyurl.com/bdft66fj
Loved working with Kate Moles and Jürgen Viet Ahn Höpfel on this —thinking through how UK austerity co-opted the nostalgia + resilience of ex-mining communities to justify neoliberalism.
Out now in Memory Studies' special issue on Communities + Change: tinyurl.com/bdft66fj
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A beautiful letter - invoking internationalist solidarity against the imperialist, apartheid formation of the US and Israel.
'Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.'
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett...
'Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.'
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett...
Letter from Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana
Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian student activist being faced with deportation, writes from an ICE detention facility: “The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppres...
mondoweiss.net
March 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A beautiful letter - invoking internationalist solidarity against the imperialist, apartheid formation of the US and Israel.
'Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.'
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett...
'Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.'
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett...
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Solidarity to everyone at Cardiff, but especially to the 64 staff in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff in “scope” for redundancy.
I'm afraid that a total of 1,807 colleagues at Cardiff Uni are 'in scope' for the required 400 redundancies. They'll be back next year or the year after that for more. (1/2)
March 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Solidarity to everyone at Cardiff, but especially to the 64 staff in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff in “scope” for redundancy.
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The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance
March 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance