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Sabina Lawreniuk
@sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social
🌏 UKRI Future Leader Fellow
🔎 Women's work & organising in global garment production
🔗 www.invisibleworkers.org.uk
A deeply disturbing talk this afternoon from Mark Bo
at the London School of Economics on his new book Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds

🔥 A terrifying read on the dark underbelly of the new political economy of labour where coercion, digital capitalism & exploitation converge
October 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Special economic zones aren’t just trade infrastructure - they’re tools of imperial power & authoritarian control.

🚨New paper from @invisibleworkers.bsky.social

Read on to learn how global production sustains empire & violence.

🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629825001635
Governing through extra-territoriality: Jordan's clothing production zones as tools of imperial power and authoritarian rule
Jordan's Export Processing Zones (EPZs) for clothing production form part of political geographies of US imperialism in the Middle East, and have serv…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
New in Area: What happens when academic institutions police solidarity?

Dr Shereen Fernandez explores the disciplining of #Palestine solidarity & the radical potential of #friendship in resistance.

Part of our Dialogues in #Radical Geog SI.

Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
October 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
👕Another stark reminder of the human costs of #fastfashion.

🤒In #India’s “castoff capital”, workers are falling ill recycling the world's discarded clothes.

📈Lung disease. Skin infections. Cancer.

Via the The Guardian

theguardian.com/global-devel...
Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick
Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonnes of textile waste a year
theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🧵Once the beating heart of #UK manufacturing, #Leicester's garment industry is now on the brink of collapse

❓What went wrong?

👟On the ground, our new Invisible Workers colleague, Dr Evie Gilbert, uncovers a story of systemic neglect

🔗 Read on: www.invisibleworkers.org.uk/journal/leic...
Leicester clothes the world? — Invisible workers
Traces of the UK’s clothing and textile manufacturing heritage remain today in places like Leicester, where a shrinking number of suppliers still vie for orders in the competitive global market. Our ...
www.invisibleworkers.org.uk
October 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Let workers take you behind the scene's of #Jordan's clothing and footwear industry👕👀

Led by Katharina Grueneisl & our Invisible Workers team

📅Sat May 3rd
⏰4pm UK/6pm Amman
📍Online or in person at MMAGFoundation, Amman
🔗More info and link to register: invisibleworkers.org.uk/events
April 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Reposted by Sabina Lawreniuk
🚫GEOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORITARIANISM🚫

🌏CfP Royal Geographical Society Conference, Birmingham, 26-29 August 2025

📧Please send abstracts by 5th March 2025

#RGSIBG25
February 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚫GEOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORITARIANISM🚫

🌏CfP Royal Geographical Society Conference, Birmingham, 26-29 August 2025

📧Please send abstracts by 5th March 2025

#RGSIBG25
February 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Reposted by Sabina Lawreniuk
"There are enough garments in the world to clothe the next 6 generations!"

A frequently cited claim... yet hard to evidence

I crunched the numbers with BBC Radio 4's More or Less but found a lack of transparency masks the scale of fashion overproduction

Listen here:

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
More or Less: Behind the Stats - Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations? - BBC Sounds
We delve into the stats on the scale of the fashion industry
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"There are enough garments in the world to clothe the next 6 generations!"

A frequently cited claim... yet hard to evidence

I crunched the numbers with BBC Radio 4's More or Less but found a lack of transparency masks the scale of fashion overproduction

Listen here:

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
More or Less: Behind the Stats - Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations? - BBC Sounds
We delve into the stats on the scale of the fashion industry
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Reposted by Sabina Lawreniuk
Our @invisibleworkers.bsky.social team is running a creative methods workshop on body mapping next week, led by artist Elizabeth Alster 👩‍🎨🎨

It's open to all staff at #WeAreUoN

More info👉 invisibleworkers.org.uk/events/call-for-papers-a3gzw-ctaej

Spaces are limited! Please get in touch to join 👋
November 25, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Our @invisibleworkers.bsky.social team is running a creative methods workshop on body mapping next week, led by artist Elizabeth Alster 👩‍🎨🎨

It's open to all staff at #WeAreUoN

More info👉 invisibleworkers.org.uk/events/call-for-papers-a3gzw-ctaej

Spaces are limited! Please get in touch to join 👋
November 25, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Reposted by Sabina Lawreniuk
Exciting to see the 1st of our Dialogues in
Radical Geography series out in print 🤩🔖

It's a MUST READ w/ crucial thoughts on how we save each other from "unsustainable intensity of work demands" in academic life 😰⌛️

Thank you, @jennypickerill.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.1111/area...

More to follow 👀
November 22, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Exciting to see the 1st of our Dialogues in
Radical Geography series out in print 🤩🔖

It's a MUST READ w/ crucial thoughts on how we save each other from "unsustainable intensity of work demands" in academic life 😰⌛️

Thank you, @jennypickerill.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.1111/area...

More to follow 👀
November 22, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Reposted by Sabina Lawreniuk
Please apply & share widely!

These board appointments are for 2-3 years, and are an excellent way of gaining editorial experience in a really supportive environment, as well as contributing to the strategic direction of Transactions.
📢Join the TIBG team!📢

We are looking for four new mid-career geographers to join our Editorial Board.

We are seeking expertise in environmental, historical and quantitative geography, sustainable development, geopolitics, Africa & Latin America.

Deadline: 4 December

www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
Editorial opportunities at Society journal - RGS
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, one of the Society’s scholarly journals, is looking for four new Editorial Board members.
www.rgs.org
November 13, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Sabina Lawreniuk
📢Join the TIBG team!📢

We are looking for four new mid-career geographers to join our Editorial Board.

We are seeking expertise in environmental, historical and quantitative geography, sustainable development, geopolitics, Africa & Latin America.

Deadline: 4 December

www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
Editorial opportunities at Society journal - RGS
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, one of the Society’s scholarly journals, is looking for four new Editorial Board members.
www.rgs.org
November 13, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Sabina Lawreniuk
November 11, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Hey #Cambodia watchers! I've made the move from the other place but miss the local chatter. So I've made a starter pack of people writing in/on/from the Kingdom of Wonder. Please share and follow, and let me know if you want to be added... go.bsky.app/Te5k6z7
November 13, 2024 at 11:07 AM