📢 Open Calls for RC21 Vienna 2026!

The sessions for the RC21 Conference 2026 are set – now it’s your turn to contribute!

📅 Deadline: 29 Dec 2025
👉Find out more here: rc21-vienna2026.org/call/

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📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky

PROFESSOR / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF URBAN STUDIES at the University of Helsinki. The position will focus on the study of inequality and segregation at the urban and regional levels. Deadline: Sept. 24, 2025. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #urban #sociology

Senior Lecturer in human geography, especially housing and urban geography at the IBF (Institute for Housing and Urban Research), Uppsala University. Deadline to apply: 15 September 2025. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #urban #sociology

Arresting homeless people for sleeping in public spaces doesn't reduce homelessness, according to a professor who studies the issue. It often leads to worse health and makes it harder to find stable housing. buff.ly/Wceth5F By @sprzybylinski.bsky.social @michiganstateu.bsky.social

Full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in one of the following areas: housing, urban sociology, or immigration. Dep. of Sociology at Santa Clara University (USA). Deadline: September 16, 2025. wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui... #urban #sociology

Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way. ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...

It sounds like my book, The Injustice of Property, is up for order! It’s slated to be released July 1, but I hear copies are already shipping from warehouse. If you're interested, follow the link to get a 30% discount.

🚨 I'm recruiting a funded MA + PhD to research poverty alleviation models w/ a leading Greater Manchester organisation!
More than a rough sleeper: Framing & examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation.
Deadline: July 1 | Start: October
UK/home students only www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

90% of writing happens away from the keyboard. In the shower. On a walk. In the car. Wherever you & your thoughts are alone together, that's when writing happens.

If you find yourself stuck, staring at a blinking cursor, unable to find the words, don't be afraid to step away & find somewhere quiet.

My editorial in the newest issue of CITY: Analysis of urban change, theory, action www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Postdoc opportunity! The position is part of a project on digital platforms and cities. I’m looking for someone with programming skills to map the uneven presence of places across platforms like Instagram, Google Maps, and TikTok. I’m happy to answer questions. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Been thinking about the process of writing lately, partly as a result of chats with different people about how they write. So, apropos of nothing, & on the off chance that this may be of use to someone, here’s three quick things I’ve learnt about writing:
cityfragment.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/t...

Call for Papers: International Workshop

“Bringing Contention Back into the Study of Housing”

Montreal, Canada, May 22-23, 2025

Abstracts are due by December 16, 2024.

More info here: www.academia.edu/124583708/In...

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JOB OPPORTUNITY‼️ CITY and the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change at #YorkUniversity in #Toronto are accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellow to work on climate justice and affordable housing. Apply by November 30. Details below: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...

Yet another starter pack... For all those interested in critical urban geography, broadly defined! go.bsky.app/RgsNWsi

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details:
blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...