Swarnabh Ghosh
@swarnabh.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Harvard University; Geography, Political Economy, Planning, Environmental History, and (sometimes) Architecture
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Swarnabh Ghosh
@swarnabh.bsky.social
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New publication! In this paper in Critical Historical Studies, I undertake a detailed methodological engagement with Jairus Banaji’s remarkable scholarship on historical capitalism: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Back from a break to share a new paper (with Neil Brenner) that just came out in Development and Change. An expansive energo-metabolic theorization of the geographies of capitalist urbanization: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation
This article challenges prevailing approaches to urban sustainability by reconceptualizing capitalist urbanization as a planetary process of geometabolic escalation. Hegemonic visions of sustainable ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Back from a break to share a new paper (with Neil Brenner) that just came out in Development and Change. An expansive energo-metabolic theorization of the geographies of capitalist urbanization: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Welcome new followers! I post infrequently, usually about things related to my scholarship, which sits somewhere between geography and history, and deals with capitalism, imperialism, urbanization, infrastructure, and the environment. I also post about Palestine 🇵🇸
March 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Welcome new followers! I post infrequently, usually about things related to my scholarship, which sits somewhere between geography and history, and deals with capitalism, imperialism, urbanization, infrastructure, and the environment. I also post about Palestine 🇵🇸
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WATCH | Palestinians prepare for a large iftar, in Rafah, southern Gaza.
March 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
WATCH | Palestinians prepare for a large iftar, in Rafah, southern Gaza.
The UTL is now on bluesky! Follow for updates on our projects and publications.
We are the Urban Theory Lab. We have just set up this account, having departed from "X" like so many others. We are based at the University of Chicago (under the direction of Neil Brenner); our work involves collaborations with many friends and comrades at other institutions.
Urban Theory Lab
Cargo
urbantheorylab.net
January 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The UTL is now on bluesky! Follow for updates on our projects and publications.
New publication! In this paper in Critical Historical Studies, I undertake a detailed methodological engagement with Jairus Banaji’s remarkable scholarship on historical capitalism: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
December 18, 2024 at 4:18 PM
New publication! In this paper in Critical Historical Studies, I undertake a detailed methodological engagement with Jairus Banaji’s remarkable scholarship on historical capitalism: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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"This is the first university that Palestine Legal is aware of where students have been suspended without a hearing and without having a chance to see any evidence against them before the deadline for filing an appeal."
palestinelegal.org/news/2024/11...
palestinelegal.org/news/2024/11...
Civil Rights Orgs Warn Pomona College Unprecedented Suspensions of Students Are Unlawful, ‘Punishes the Act of Protest Itself’ — Palestine Legal
Five legal organizations including Palestine Legal, the Asian Law Caucus, the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, and the National Lawyers Guild of Los A...
palestinelegal.org
November 17, 2024 at 6:05 PM
"This is the first university that Palestine Legal is aware of where students have been suspended without a hearing and without having a chance to see any evidence against them before the deadline for filing an appeal."
palestinelegal.org/news/2024/11...
palestinelegal.org/news/2024/11...
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So is this just Twitter but no one talks about the pesky genocide?
November 15, 2024 at 1:48 PM
So is this just Twitter but no one talks about the pesky genocide?
Once again, I find myself thinking about this diagram.
November 16, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Once again, I find myself thinking about this diagram.
Due to the unyielding work of Palestinian journalists, Twitter still enables one to witness some of the world historical horrors unfolding in Gaza right now. This—the only reason for being on these apps—seems more or less absent here.
November 15, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Due to the unyielding work of Palestinian journalists, Twitter still enables one to witness some of the world historical horrors unfolding in Gaza right now. This—the only reason for being on these apps—seems more or less absent here.
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This place is like when you show up to a huge party and immediately head to the kitchen and hang out with the 3 other people you know.
November 15, 2024 at 12:58 PM
This place is like when you show up to a huge party and immediately head to the kitchen and hang out with the 3 other people you know.
Weird thing on here is that one both misses and does not miss the ostentatious “lateness” of the other app.
November 15, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Weird thing on here is that one both misses and does not miss the ostentatious “lateness” of the other app.
Slowly moving here
November 12, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Slowly moving here
The grandpère of the American “progressive” movement can’t get himself to utter the word ceasefire. Shame on you for not doing even the bare minimum. And shame on me for having canvassed for you all those times.
October 26, 2023 at 1:04 AM
The grandpère of the American “progressive” movement can’t get himself to utter the word ceasefire. Shame on you for not doing even the bare minimum. And shame on me for having canvassed for you all those times.
This is evil beyond words. I hope my American comrades never forgive Biden and the Democrats for presiding over a genocide in full view of the world.
October 26, 2023 at 1:01 AM
This is evil beyond words. I hope my American comrades never forgive Biden and the Democrats for presiding over a genocide in full view of the world.
A depraved, world historical crime that will be remembered forever.
October 17, 2023 at 7:34 PM
A depraved, world historical crime that will be remembered forever.
I may have just witnessed the most shameful episode in the history of my Union.
October 17, 2023 at 4:17 AM
I may have just witnessed the most shameful episode in the history of my Union.
Words are weak in these times of genocidal brutality but I honestly believe Gabe Winant’s Dissent piece performs an invaluable service: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
On Mourning and Statehood: A Response to Joshua Leifer - Dissent Magazine
How to grieve, what meaning to give those tears, is cruelly a political question whether we like it or not.
www.dissentmagazine.org
October 14, 2023 at 2:24 PM
Words are weak in these times of genocidal brutality but I honestly believe Gabe Winant’s Dissent piece performs an invaluable service: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
The pictures coming out of London :’)
October 14, 2023 at 1:12 PM
The pictures coming out of London :’)
I don’t know how anyone on the “American Left” can ever justify voting for the Democrats again.
October 14, 2023 at 12:54 PM
I don’t know how anyone on the “American Left” can ever justify voting for the Democrats again.
This is insane
Breaking News: Israel told the United Nations that the entire population of northern Gaza — over 1 million people — should relocate within 24 hours.
The U.N. says the Israeli military told it that all of northern Gaza has 24 hours to move south.
A U.N. spokesman said such a movement would turn “what is already a tragedy into a calamitous situation.”
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2023 at 4:41 AM
This is insane
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For @nplusonemag.bsky.social, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways
Have We Learned Nothing? | David Klion
There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days and w...
www.nplusonemag.com
October 11, 2023 at 9:57 PM
For @nplusonemag.bsky.social, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways
From a time when important Harvard professors (including the great Richard Lewontin) stood up against oppression and occupation, and didn’t feed their students to a baying mob.
October 11, 2023 at 11:51 PM
From a time when important Harvard professors (including the great Richard Lewontin) stood up against oppression and occupation, and didn’t feed their students to a baying mob.
It’s 2002-03 again
October 11, 2023 at 3:32 PM
It’s 2002-03 again
And some people thought we’ve transcended the need for old fashioned ideologiekritik
October 10, 2023 at 6:02 PM
And some people thought we’ve transcended the need for old fashioned ideologiekritik