Simone Tulumello
@simtulum.bsky.social
From Palermo, based in Lisbon. Human geography at ICS-ULisboa. Housing, violence, imaginaries, uneven development, semi-periphery.
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Simone Tulumello
@simtulum.bsky.social
· Sep 17
I'm new here because y'all left Twitter and I'm missing the good old day of scholarly debate there. So I'll be posting some of my works here to hopefully connect with folks with similar interests. 1/
Economics is fundamentally the practice of making up fake worlds to justify economists' own greed. It should just be abolished (text: Graeber, Debt)
January 15, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Economics is fundamentally the practice of making up fake worlds to justify economists' own greed. It should just be abolished (text: Graeber, Debt)
this monograph on Naples as a touristic city and its "liberated spaces", by Martina Locorotondo, has all the looks of a great book doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Client Challenge
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January 14, 2026 at 12:09 PM
this monograph on Naples as a touristic city and its "liberated spaces", by Martina Locorotondo, has all the looks of a great book doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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Fernand Braudel and the Writing and Teaching of History in Captivity
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Fernand Braudel and the Writing and Teaching of History in Captivity
In a previous pieces in this series I’ve discussed Étienne Wolff’s work on the biology of monsters, some of which was written during his time in Oflag XVII-A during the Second World War. (An Oflag …
progressivegeographies.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Fernand Braudel and the Writing and Teaching of History in Captivity
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progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/04/f...
our article on the representations of discoveries in Lisbon, in between Expos and shopping centres, is now part of Planning Perspective's SI on International Expos, 1851-2025: Planning, modernity and urbanism www.tandfonline.com/toc/rppe20/4...
Planning Perspectives
Special Issue: International Expos, 1851-2025: Planning, modernity and urbanism. Guest Editor: Andrew Smith. Volume 40, Issue 6 of Planning Perspectives
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January 3, 2026 at 3:24 PM
our article on the representations of discoveries in Lisbon, in between Expos and shopping centres, is now part of Planning Perspective's SI on International Expos, 1851-2025: Planning, modernity and urbanism www.tandfonline.com/toc/rppe20/4...
if you are working on that paper that challenges the borders of the theory and geography of financialisation, the special issue of Bitacora Urbano Territorial I am editing with AM Toro and LAS Arreortua is the right place. D/line for full papers: March 20, 2026
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revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bi...
ABIERTA CONVOCATORIA No. 3 Vol. 36 (noviembre de 2026 - febrero de 2027)
| Bitácora Urbano Territorial
revistas.unal.edu.co
January 2, 2026 at 4:18 PM
if you are working on that paper that challenges the borders of the theory and geography of financialisation, the special issue of Bitacora Urbano Territorial I am editing with AM Toro and LAS Arreortua is the right place. D/line for full papers: March 20, 2026
revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bi...
revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bi...
Neurocriminology, creepy shit. Found on @julienlarregue.bsky.social's last book
January 2, 2026 at 5:52 AM
Neurocriminology, creepy shit. Found on @julienlarregue.bsky.social's last book
Important special issue of @scriptanova.bsky.social on the Chicago School of urban sociology, for the 100th anniversary of The Cityhttps://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/ScriptaNova/announcement/view/969
December 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Important special issue of @scriptanova.bsky.social on the Chicago School of urban sociology, for the 100th anniversary of The Cityhttps://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/ScriptaNova/announcement/view/969
'the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, which famously states that “all men are created equal,” many of Jefferson’s writings feature the rationalization of the enslavement, displacement, and killing of Black and Indigenous peoples.' progressivegeographies.com/2025/12/27/m...
Melissa Adler, Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty: Why Thomas Jefferson Matters in Our Information Age – Bloomsbury, January 2026
Melissa Adler, Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty: Why Thomas Jefferson Matters in Our Information Age – Bloomsbury, January 2026 Examines the formation of a surveillance state through a c…
progressivegeographies.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
'the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, which famously states that “all men are created equal,” many of Jefferson’s writings feature the rationalization of the enslavement, displacement, and killing of Black and Indigenous peoples.' progressivegeographies.com/2025/12/27/m...
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By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastructure that a far-right government will not hesitate to exploit.
Labour Is Building Farage’s State
By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastructure that a far-right government will not hesitate to exploit.
tribunemag.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastructure that a far-right government will not hesitate to exploit.
Reading @julienlarregue.bsky.social 's Hereditary (for a project on the role of elite academia in mass incarceration and racist policing). It's a very competent exercise in the history of ideas, erudite but a very easy read. Fantastic book
www.sup.org/books/sociol...
www.sup.org/books/sociol...
Hereditary | Stanford University Press
Since the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to evaluate the responsibility and dangerousness ...
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December 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Reading @julienlarregue.bsky.social 's Hereditary (for a project on the role of elite academia in mass incarceration and racist policing). It's a very competent exercise in the history of ideas, erudite but a very easy read. Fantastic book
www.sup.org/books/sociol...
www.sup.org/books/sociol...
wow, was thinking of publishing in a respectable journal, based on Wiley - typical legacy journal with Gold option. At the submission, hit a request for a 20$ "submission fee", not mentioned on the Wiley website (yes in an external website, lately found out). Like, they desk reject? You paid. WTF
December 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
wow, was thinking of publishing in a respectable journal, based on Wiley - typical legacy journal with Gold option. At the submission, hit a request for a 20$ "submission fee", not mentioned on the Wiley website (yes in an external website, lately found out). Like, they desk reject? You paid. WTF
"With this material grounding established, the question shifts. Once we stop treating Gramsci as a free-floating cultural theorist and recognize him as a communist thinking in chains, we can finally ask what he was actually trying to solve. 1/2
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Capitalism Did Not Float In on the Market: Chibber, Jacobin, and the Political Function of Western Marxism
How Western Marxism Turns Colonial Violence into “History Theory” to Save the Settler OrderBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025When “History Theory” Becomes an Alibi for Em…
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December 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"With this material grounding established, the question shifts. Once we stop treating Gramsci as a free-floating cultural theorist and recognize him as a communist thinking in chains, we can finally ask what he was actually trying to solve. 1/2
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weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/c...
A great response, by Prince Kapone, to Vivek Chibber's straw men on the capitalism/colonialism nexus. @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social really needs some reflection on the poor quality of certain arguments that go on their pages and frequencies
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weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/c...
Capitalism Did Not Float In on the Market: Chibber, Jacobin, and the Political Function of Western Marxism
How Western Marxism Turns Colonial Violence into “History Theory” to Save the Settler OrderBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025When “History Theory” Becomes an Alibi for Em…
weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A great response, by Prince Kapone, to Vivek Chibber's straw men on the capitalism/colonialism nexus. @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social really needs some reflection on the poor quality of certain arguments that go on their pages and frequencies
weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/c...
weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/c...
"Many alienated intellectuals and cultural workers likewise protest the deadening weight of power relations in the media and in institutions of learning and cultural production that debase the languages of civil discourse, convert knowledge into ceaseless propaganda, ...
December 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Many alienated intellectuals and cultural workers likewise protest the deadening weight of power relations in the media and in institutions of learning and cultural production that debase the languages of civil discourse, convert knowledge into ceaseless propaganda, ...
The latest issue of Oikeus, Finnish legal journal, includes the lectio praecursoria to the defense of Carlo Gatti's PhD, and my opponent's statement. Sneak peak: this is one of the best PhD dissertations I have ever read and a great contribution to critical legal and police studies
oikeus.journal.fi
oikeus.journal.fi
Oikeus-lehti
oikeus.journal.fi
December 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The latest issue of Oikeus, Finnish legal journal, includes the lectio praecursoria to the defense of Carlo Gatti's PhD, and my opponent's statement. Sneak peak: this is one of the best PhD dissertations I have ever read and a great contribution to critical legal and police studies
oikeus.journal.fi
oikeus.journal.fi
El auge del rentismo y la fractura urbana global, an important comparative work (in the context of project Contested Territories) on rent and rentism idrabcn.com/es/wp-conten...
idrabcn.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
El auge del rentismo y la fractura urbana global, an important comparative work (in the context of project Contested Territories) on rent and rentism idrabcn.com/es/wp-conten...
Another mega journal goes down. Honestly hard to understand how millions of scholars accept publishing in papermills. A simple tip: don't publish in a journal where you could not read a year's issue in less than a year
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english.elpais.com/science-tech...
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
english.elpais.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Another mega journal goes down. Honestly hard to understand how millions of scholars accept publishing in papermills. A simple tip: don't publish in a journal where you could not read a year's issue in less than a year
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
this is that time of the year when @plutopress.bsky.social has 50% on all books!
December 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
this is that time of the year when @plutopress.bsky.social has 50% on all books!
plaNext, the journal of the AESOP YAs just turned 10. The Editorial Board invited me and the other founding members to reflect on this decade.
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journals.aesop-planning.eu/index.php/pl...
Vol. 15 (2025): The 10th Anniversary: plaNext and Planning in Transition
| plaNext–Next Generation Planning
plaNext–Next Generation Planning is an international peer-reviewed open access e-journal by the AESOP Young Academics network
journals.aesop-planning.eu
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
plaNext, the journal of the AESOP YAs just turned 10. The Editorial Board invited me and the other founding members to reflect on this decade.
journals.aesop-planning.eu/index.php/pl...
journals.aesop-planning.eu/index.php/pl...
Probably nothing better than this single line to explain why most of the North-American elite in social sciences is, quite simply, racist garbage
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Probably nothing better than this single line to explain why most of the North-American elite in social sciences is, quite simply, racist garbage
Great stuff by @versobooks.bsky.social: Harvey at 90, a series if posts honouring David Harvey's oeuvre in celebration of his 90th birthday.
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Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David H...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Great stuff by @versobooks.bsky.social: Harvey at 90, a series if posts honouring David Harvey's oeuvre in celebration of his 90th birthday.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/h...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/h...
the call for @ISA_RC21 Vienna is up and running. At #95, you'll find the call for the unpretentiously titled session "Still arguing over gentrification? Urban theory for the end of the world (or capitalism)" - chaired by me and Niccolò Cuppini. Go for it! rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts - RC21 Vienna 2026
Call for Abstracts is now open! The sessions for the RC21 Conference are set – now it’s your turn to contribute! See the accepted sessions below Call for Abstracts is now open! See the accepted sessio...
rc21-vienna2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
the call for @ISA_RC21 Vienna is up and running. At #95, you'll find the call for the unpretentiously titled session "Still arguing over gentrification? Urban theory for the end of the world (or capitalism)" - chaired by me and Niccolò Cuppini. Go for it! rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-abs...
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Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter)
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
Professor of History | H-Net Job Guide
jobs.h-net.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter)
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
They had misread the planetary in planetary urbanisation
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
They had misread the planetary in planetary urbanisation
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Cairo road, by Sara Salem. Powerful intervention on street naming and de/colonial futures on @antipodeonline.bsky.social
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Intervention—“Cairo Road” - Antipode Online
Sara Salem, London School of Economics and Political Science Growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, I distinctly remember Cairo Road, one of Lusaka’s main thoroughfares named after the city my father was from....
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November 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Cairo road, by Sara Salem. Powerful intervention on street naming and de/colonial futures on @antipodeonline.bsky.social
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...