Jean-Paul Addie
@jpaddie.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Urban Studies @ Georgia State University
| Editor of UAA's 'Rights to the City' book series
| Editor of UAA's 'Rights to the City' book series
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New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social
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INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies
This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical an...
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September 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Check out this collection - a great opportunity to dig into the @uaanews.bsky.social archives and explore how scholars from a variety of disciplinary and geographic vantage points have engaged with the right to the city
📣 📚 👉 The Right to the City: a special collection of articles from Journal of Urban Affairs + Journal of Race, Ethnicity & the City www.tandfonline.com/journals/uju...
September 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Check out this collection - a great opportunity to dig into the @uaanews.bsky.social archives and explore how scholars from a variety of disciplinary and geographic vantage points have engaged with the right to the city
How have the @uaanews.bsky.social's Journal of Urban Affairs and Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City debated and advanced the #RightToTheCity? Find out in my editorial review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The right to the city: Prospects and provocations from the journals of the Urban Affairs Association
The “right to the city” is a powerful political slogan with intuitive emotional appeal. Originating from the writing of Henri Lefebvre, the concept has gained both remarkable traction and profound ...
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August 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
How have the @uaanews.bsky.social's Journal of Urban Affairs and Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City debated and advanced the #RightToTheCity? Find out in my editorial review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The political, institutional, and technological limits of infrastructural regionalism on Europe's high-speed rail network: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Timetables, tricky tickets and high prices: the problems with European cross-border rail travel
For all the fanfare over new routes, fast and efficient rail services between major cities remain a rarity
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August 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The political, institutional, and technological limits of infrastructural regionalism on Europe's high-speed rail network: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Cocktail time in the cubicles! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Turn empty London office blocks into ‘late-night party zones’, report suggests
Creative studio says financial districts deserted in working-from-home shift could host revitalised nightlife sector
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July 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Cocktail time in the cubicles! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
"Sometimes big infrastructure is necessary, but at all times it is a threat to democracy. This is why governments should approach it with caution and scepticism. Instead, they act as hucksters for corporate boondoggles."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Overblown infrastructure projects damage lives and imperil democracy. Why is Britain addicted to them? | George Monbiot
The Lower Thames Crossing proves the point. It’s a white elephant plan, sucking money from local projects that could actually improve lives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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June 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"Sometimes big infrastructure is necessary, but at all times it is a threat to democracy. This is why governments should approach it with caution and scepticism. Instead, they act as hucksters for corporate boondoggles."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Pleased to see Infrastructural Times on the bookshelf, especially w/chapters by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social, and Schindler & Kanai exploring temporalities connected to the BRI and Chinese-led global infrastructure development.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...
June 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Pleased to see Infrastructural Times on the bookshelf, especially w/chapters by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social, and Schindler & Kanai exploring temporalities connected to the BRI and Chinese-led global infrastructure development.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...
The politics & temporalities of infrastructure collapse/repair: Don't rush into fixing Germany “because that would fuel inflation but not produce real value or better bridges... analyse where the investment... [& don't] promise more than it’s possible to deliver”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘Rust in peace’: why are Germany’s bridges and schools falling apart?
Bridge collapses caused by underinvestment are being seized on by the far right as evidence of ‘state failure’
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June 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The politics & temporalities of infrastructure collapse/repair: Don't rush into fixing Germany “because that would fuel inflation but not produce real value or better bridges... analyse where the investment... [& don't] promise more than it’s possible to deliver”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Something of a primer for "Extended Mobility and the City as a Commons" by Lucia Capanema and Romulo Orrico - forthcoming in the @uaanews.bsky.social Rights to the City book series:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘Avenue of Death’: the Rio motorway where stray bullets, botched raids and resilience collide
Brazil Avenue was meant to symbolise progress – today it tells the story of a city at war with itself
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May 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Something of a primer for "Extended Mobility and the City as a Commons" by Lucia Capanema and Romulo Orrico - forthcoming in the @uaanews.bsky.social Rights to the City book series:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Check out my reflections on NOIR's session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion at the @regstud.bsky.social annual meeting this month.
cc @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jpaddie.bsky.social
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cc @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jpaddie.bsky.social
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Inclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation: Reflections on NOIR’s contribution to RSA 2025
Jen Nelles (Oxford Brookes University)NOIR had a strong presence at RSA 2025, organizing a session on “Inclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation” (SS23), organized by NOIR co-di...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Check out my reflections on NOIR's session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion at the @regstud.bsky.social annual meeting this month.
cc @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jpaddie.bsky.social
www.noir-rsa.com/post/inclusi...
cc @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jpaddie.bsky.social
www.noir-rsa.com/post/inclusi...
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So much fun today @regstud.bsky.social 2025 co-chairing a NOIR session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion with @mrglassphd.bsky.social featuring some excellent presentations on innovation districts, Auckland, and freight rail in Brazil.
May 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
So much fun today @regstud.bsky.social 2025 co-chairing a NOIR session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion with @mrglassphd.bsky.social featuring some excellent presentations on innovation districts, Auckland, and freight rail in Brazil.
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This spring marks a turning point for us at @yorkuniversity.bsky.social as @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake retire after 30+ yrs shaping critical urban scholarship.
To honour them, we’re launching 2 endowment funds for early scholars💥. If you've been inspired by them: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...
To honour them, we’re launching 2 endowment funds for early scholars💥. If you've been inspired by them: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...
Honouring the work of Roger and Linda - The City Institute at York University (CITY)
Dear all, This spring marks a significant moment for the CITY Institute at York University and for critical urban scholarship. Professors Roger Keil and Linda Peake, two long term forces behind CIT...
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May 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This spring marks a turning point for us at @yorkuniversity.bsky.social as @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake retire after 30+ yrs shaping critical urban scholarship.
To honour them, we’re launching 2 endowment funds for early scholars💥. If you've been inspired by them: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...
To honour them, we’re launching 2 endowment funds for early scholars💥. If you've been inspired by them: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...
Infrastructure out of time www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Polluting’ Silvertown tunnel is already out of date despite just opening, say campaigners
Victoria Rance says the ‘1970s technology’ will cause pollution that will damage health for decades, but London mayor and TfL claim it will reduce congestion
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April 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Infrastructure out of time www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Suburbia as sprawl, apotheosis of neoliberal society&space: "The aesthetic of Trumpism is sprawl–which had already infected the [US] long before the Maga movement ... Perhaps there is something authentic to suburban sprawl... But as everyday life [it's] deadening" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America's unbeautiful suburban sprawl | Alexander Hurst
I drove 2,000 miles with a French friend across my home country – and saw the endless nowhere land that is the crucible of Trumpism, says Guardian Europe correspondent Alexander Hurst
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March 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Suburbia as sprawl, apotheosis of neoliberal society&space: "The aesthetic of Trumpism is sprawl–which had already infected the [US] long before the Maga movement ... Perhaps there is something authentic to suburban sprawl... But as everyday life [it's] deadening" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thanks @fennaimara.bsky.social for the very generous review of Infrastructural Times in Space and Polity!
Paperback version coming soon from @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...
Paperback version coming soon from @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...
February 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Thanks @fennaimara.bsky.social for the very generous review of Infrastructural Times in Space and Polity!
Paperback version coming soon from @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...
Paperback version coming soon from @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...
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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)
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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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Today is bleak, but (via Engels) socialist politics means we (still) live in a rare era of world-historic possibility to abolish poverty & deliver freedom to all. MLK asserted similar w/, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Let's keep fighting.
January 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today is bleak, but (via Engels) socialist politics means we (still) live in a rare era of world-historic possibility to abolish poverty & deliver freedom to all. MLK asserted similar w/, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Let's keep fighting.
"State as Auteur" is an incisive, provocative paper. I had the exciting opportunity to engage @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social's argument in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social and my commentary, "Time and the State in Digital Society", is out now:
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January 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"State as Auteur" is an incisive, provocative paper. I had the exciting opportunity to engage @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social's argument in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social and my commentary, "Time and the State in Digital Society", is out now:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
What a treat from @urbanpolitical.bsky.social Santa!
I had a great conversation about #IntfrastructuralTimes w/ @fennaimara.bsky.social, Himnashu Burte & Hanna Baumann: lots of insights & food for thought.
Check out the podcast & the book, too! @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social
I had a great conversation about #IntfrastructuralTimes w/ @fennaimara.bsky.social, Himnashu Burte & Hanna Baumann: lots of insights & food for thought.
Check out the podcast & the book, too! @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social
We have a little Christmas present:
'82 – Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban World' is out!
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Thank you all for listening to the Urban Political Podcast this year and Happy Holidays!
'82 – Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban World' is out!
urbanpolitical.online/episode-82-b...
Thank you all for listening to the Urban Political Podcast this year and Happy Holidays!
December 23, 2024 at 5:04 PM
What a treat from @urbanpolitical.bsky.social Santa!
I had a great conversation about #IntfrastructuralTimes w/ @fennaimara.bsky.social, Himnashu Burte & Hanna Baumann: lots of insights & food for thought.
Check out the podcast & the book, too! @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social
I had a great conversation about #IntfrastructuralTimes w/ @fennaimara.bsky.social, Himnashu Burte & Hanna Baumann: lots of insights & food for thought.
Check out the podcast & the book, too! @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social
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New - if not first - article in Dialogues on Digital Society: "State as Auteur" by @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social exploring timing - the synchronising of disparate events - as a mechanism of state craft in Kenya's digital transformations. doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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December 12, 2024 at 3:52 PM
New - if not first - article in Dialogues on Digital Society: "State as Auteur" by @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social exploring timing - the synchronising of disparate events - as a mechanism of state craft in Kenya's digital transformations. doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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We are pleased to announce the 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held May 2nd, 2025 at Morehouse College!
See the link below for more info on our call for proposals, which are due January 24th!
atlantastudies.org/2024/12/09/c...
See the link below for more info on our call for proposals, which are due January 24th!
atlantastudies.org/2024/12/09/c...
December 9, 2024 at 5:40 PM
We are pleased to announce the 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held May 2nd, 2025 at Morehouse College!
See the link below for more info on our call for proposals, which are due January 24th!
atlantastudies.org/2024/12/09/c...
See the link below for more info on our call for proposals, which are due January 24th!
atlantastudies.org/2024/12/09/c...
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Call for Abstracts: join us in Porto at #RSA25 for our special session on inclusive infrastructures and the dynamics of regional transformation. Details below...
@jpaddie.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social @pillnj.bsky.social
@jpaddie.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social @pillnj.bsky.social
SS23: 'Inclusive Infrastructures and the Dynamics of Regional Transformation' @mrglassphd.bsky.social & colleagues would like your input. ℹ️bit.ly/sspto25 #RSA25 @regstud.bsky.social abstracts by: 19 Dec 2024 (4)
December 4, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Call for Abstracts: join us in Porto at #RSA25 for our special session on inclusive infrastructures and the dynamics of regional transformation. Details below...
@jpaddie.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social @pillnj.bsky.social
@jpaddie.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social @pillnj.bsky.social
🚨We're recruiting a new Director of the Urban Studies Institute
at GSU. This is a great opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary urban studies unit in the heart of downtown #Atlanta!
I'm chairing the search so reach out if you have Qs & please share widely:
facultycareers.gsu.edu/postings/5053
at GSU. This is a great opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary urban studies unit in the heart of downtown #Atlanta!
I'm chairing the search so reach out if you have Qs & please share widely:
facultycareers.gsu.edu/postings/5053
Director and Professor of the Urban Studies Institute
Director and Professor -Urban Studies InstituteThe Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University invites applications for the next Director of the Urban Studies Institute (USI). Qu...
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November 26, 2024 at 4:29 PM
🚨We're recruiting a new Director of the Urban Studies Institute
at GSU. This is a great opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary urban studies unit in the heart of downtown #Atlanta!
I'm chairing the search so reach out if you have Qs & please share widely:
facultycareers.gsu.edu/postings/5053
at GSU. This is a great opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary urban studies unit in the heart of downtown #Atlanta!
I'm chairing the search so reach out if you have Qs & please share widely:
facultycareers.gsu.edu/postings/5053