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Roger Keil
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Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus |
Environmental and Urban Change | York University

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 9d
Defund the police. #statesponsoredcorruption

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 13d
Just Asking with Saroja Coelho: The frontlines of protests in Minneapolis. Some of the best radio I’ve ever heard on the CBC! Just Asking with Saroja Coelho: The frontlines of protests in Minneapolis www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15d
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 15d
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The 2026 CITY Institute Graduate Student Symposium: The City in the Age of the Polycrisis - The City Institute at York University (CITY)
Date: February 27, 2026Time: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm ESTLocation: Room 305, Founders College, York University | RSVP HereSubmissions Deadline: January 30, 2026 at 11:59 pm EST EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 6, 2026 |...
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CHOAM Nomsky @samthielman.com · 23d
I just thought everyone should see this
Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Jan 3
USA. Rogue state. The world beware.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Dec 25
Home Depot Introduces New 12-Foot-Tall Baby Jesus Skeleton https://theonion.com/home-depot-introduces-new-12-foot-tall-baby-jesus-skele-1851069460/
Home Depot Introduces New 12-Foot-Tall Baby Jesus Skeleton

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Dec 10
New article on the modalities and politics of crisis urbanism in @dialogueshg.bsky.social by Ross Beveridge, Maryam Lashkari and myself. We point towards a new reparative conjuncture. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The modalities and politics of crisis urbanism: A new reparative conjuncture? - Ross Beveridge, Roger Keil, Maryam Lashkari, 2025
This article argues that the current advance of global crises necessitates new thinking on how the urban intersects with crisis. We develop four overlapping mod...
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Dec 5
Gretzky is technically illiterate.

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Dec 5
There is no fun left.

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Dec 5
It is actually worse than i could have imagined.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · Dec 5
It's enough to make you sick, it really is, but it's a helpful moment to clarify our current moment of global moral collapse

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Dec 5
Future generations will not forgive us for tolerating such travesty.

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Nov 15
One of a set of articles in @upejournal.bsky.social discussing my contributions to urban studies. Endlessly grateful!
remmid.bsky.social Christian Dimmer @remmid.bsky.social · Nov 15
You know that you did well as an academic if these things happen: Excellent open-access article in a special issue of Urban Political Ecology, celebrating the breadth and depth of @rkeil.bsky.social’s scholarship while charting new directions for urban praxis and research inspired by his work.
Governing a sub/urban planet - Jean-Paul D. Addie, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Sean Hertel, Murat Üçoğlu, 2025
This paper evaluates Roger Keil's influence on the fields of urban and regional governance and suburban studies, underscoring his foundational contribution...
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Nov 15
Thank you!

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Christian Dimmer @remmid.bsky.social · Nov 15
You know that you did well as an academic if these things happen: Excellent open-access article in a special issue of Urban Political Ecology, celebrating the breadth and depth of @rkeil.bsky.social’s scholarship while charting new directions for urban praxis and research inspired by his work.
Governing a sub/urban planet - Jean-Paul D. Addie, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Sean Hertel, Murat Üçoğlu, 2025
This paper evaluates Roger Keil's influence on the fields of urban and regional governance and suburban studies, underscoring his foundational contribution...
journals.sagepub.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Nov 13
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 13
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Nov 13
World Cup vibes tonight! #canmnt “Due to the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Exhibition Grounds, there will be road closures and minimal parking available as well as animals moving around the area.”

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Nov 11
A new suburban home.
memoire2cite.bsky.social Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · Nov 11
Quartier neuf 🏗️ cité moderne HLM 🏙️ ... J'ai enfin eu l'appartement... 1969 en Slovaquie

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Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · Nov 11
Quartier neuf 🏗️ cité moderne HLM 🏙️ ... J'ai enfin eu l'appartement... 1969 en Slovaquie

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Nov 11
An overwhelming event! Very grateful.

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Nov 11
York experts call for equity in fight against antimicrobial resistance  www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/1...
York experts call for equity in fight against antimicrobial resistance  - YFile
A new study led by York University urges governments to rethink how antimicrobial resistance is monitored and governed with a focus on inclusive global action.
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Nov 5
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History Is Repeating Itself in the Congo as the World Scrambles for Minerals To ‘Go Green’
Op-ed: The minerals of Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's second-largest city, electrified the world, created atom bombs – and are key to greener energy.
nextcity.org

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Global Strategy Lab @gstrategylab.bsky.social · Nov 5
What would AMR surveillance look like if equity came first?
This new study in Social Science & Medicine uses an Urban Political Ecology (UPE) lens to explore how equity can be built into #AMR surveillance.
🔗 Read: bit.ly/4hMjkgS
🎧Tune in: bit.ly/44NNhrM

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Nov 5
Why should anyone listen to David Frum?

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Nov 1
Happy birthday, David Harvey!
stuartelden.bsky.social Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Oct 31
"David Harvey in Paris: A Tribute for his 90th Birthday" progressivegeographies.com/2025/10/31/d...
@davidharvey.org A short piece about Harvey's writings on Paris, posted to coincide with his birthday.
The covers of Harvey's books Consciousness and the Urban Experience and Paris, Capital of Modernity

Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Joe R. Feagin, Roger Keil

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Oct 31
"David Harvey in Paris: A Tribute for his 90th Birthday" progressivegeographies.com/2025/10/31/d...
@davidharvey.org A short piece about Harvey's writings on Paris, posted to coincide with his birthday.
The covers of Harvey's books Consciousness and the Urban Experience and Paris, Capital of Modernity

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Oct 26
US risks losing more ground to China in EV race as investment tumbles on.ft.com/4qsHm4j
US risks losing more ground to China in EV race as investment tumbles
White House backing for petrol-based cars poses dilemma for many automakers
on.ft.com

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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Oct 24
“Die Innenstadt ist immer menschenleerer, und am Stadtrand werden im Prinzip alle Konflikte ausgetragen, dort stapeln sich die gesellschaftlichen Widersprüche. Wir werden das proaktiv aufnehmen und sagen, genau deswegen sind wir die Partei für den Stadtrand.” www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...
»Die Berliner SPD ist in der Stadtentwicklung rechts«
Seit März ist Linke-Politikerin Katalin Gennburg Bundestagsabgeordnete. Sie erklärt, warum sie den Berliner Senat verklagt hat, was die Herausforderungen linker Baupolitik sind und ob die Linke in Ber...
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Urban Studies & Social Policy @uofgussp.bsky.social · Oct 23
Ross Beveridge of USSP has contributed to an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social special collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities, Warren Magnusson.
Wonderfully edited by @rkeil.bsky.social & Zack Taylor. Link below 👇
The image shows Warren Magnusson sitting in a chair in 1974 looking at a book and making notes.