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Sally Cawood
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Lecturer in Economic Geography @LancasterEnvironmentCentre working on coloniality, waste and sanitation labour.

More at: https://hazardouslabourgeographies.net/
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December 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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OnlineFirst - "Historicising sanitation work: Value, infrastructural labour and representation in colonial Bengal" by @sallycawood.bsky.social and @pratik752001.bsky.social:

#humanwaste #caste #colonialarchive #value #infrastructurallabour #nightsoil #Bengal

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December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Save Geography at the University of Leicester
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November 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Important work from @amnesty.org on intersection of gender, caste, occupation and climate in Bangladesh: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Climate crisis magnifies discrimination against “invisible” sanitation workers in Bangladesh
Bangladesh cannot build effective resilience to the increasing climate change impacts if it leaves the most neglected groups behind.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Disturbing podcast following exploitation of undocumented Afghan refugees in plastic recycling in Turkey. UK sends plastic waste to Turkey so complicit in this::
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September 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Look forward to reading this - an 'antiracist theory of cleaning' mitpress.mit.edu/978191338039...
Making the World Clean
In Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism, Françoise Vergès examines the racial and gendered politics of wasting l...
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September 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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August 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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PhD position in Economic Geography at Lund: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Doctoral student in Economic Geography
Job assignment: The doctoral candidate program amounts to 240 credits (equivalent to four years of full-time study). It formally ends with the doctoral candidate publicly defending his/her printed doc
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August 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
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July 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate - Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge
Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) is pleased to announce a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position as part of a Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Counterma...
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July 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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An Anti-Caste Counterculture Is Gradually Taking Root in UK Universities
With more Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi students going to the UK for higher education in recent years, they are creating a counterculture on campus, challenging how ‘India’ and ‘South Asia’ are understoo...
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June 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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New paper out in #openaccess on role of infrastructure in territorial stigmatisation Available here: www.ijurr.org/article/infr...
ijurresearch.bsky.social ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · May 27
The stigmas faced by labour migrants in Indian cities gained global attention during the Covid-19 response. This paper shows how such stigmas are long-standing, reinforced and represented through the very urban infrastructures migrants help build

📖 www.ijurr.org/article/infr...
May 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM