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Dom Davies
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Reader in English at City Uni London. The Broken Promise of Infrastructure (2023), Graphic Refuge (2025). Convening Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Jul 4
1 year ago today Britain went to the polls & I spoke with Moya for Novara FM about the ways infrastructure had become embroiled in a cultural politics that often passed unnoticed.

We unpacked these in our conversation and I think it still it bears listening to.

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Novara FM: Britain is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It? w/ Dom Davies
Podcast Episode · Novara Media · 04/07/2024 · 1h 1m
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Looking forward to presenting along @drdomdavies.bsky.social and @mediocre.bsky.social at the 22nd Annual Historical Materialism conference in our "Comics Against Capitalism" panel on Saturday, 8th 10:00-11:45 GMT. conference.historicalmaterialism.org #ComicsStudies
Historical Materialism Conference
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November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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I just listened to an excellent presentation on comics & infrastructure by Dr Giada Peterle, part of online talks organised by @drdomdavies.bsky.social within @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social. Such a creative, inspiring & generous scholar! (Her drawings on my book from gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...)
Black & white comic by Giada Peterle, within a visual review of J Fall's book "Along the line". The visual commentary uses quotes from the book in dialogue with drawn personal experiences by G Peterle, drawn as a visual response as part of her written commentary. The two panel page shows and assemblage of mobile phone app used to control mobility, feet and bodies moving in the city during covid lockdowns, as a sort of visual dialogue between two experiences of the same pandemic in different places. Same as previous, showing small infrastructure elements of fences and tapes to control the movement of bodies during covid lockdowns.
October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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If you like infrastructure and you like art, and you like thinking about infrastructure through the embodied visual arts, join us for this event!
ttinfranetwork.bsky.social Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 15d
This Wednesday we’ll be talking drawing, walking, and writing infrastructure with Giada Peterle. Join us at lunchtime for this online seminar by registering here www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Excited for this hybrid launch of Graphic Refuge with my co-author @crifkind.bsky.social and colleague @ernestopriego. Join us on 19 Nov for a discussion of the way comics intervene in our anti-migrant visual culture with relations of refuge. And some beautiful pictures of some beautiful comics!
October 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
drdomdavies.bsky.social
It was great fun to record this conversation exploring transformations in the railway imaginary, from Dickens’s Dombey & Son to EM Forster’s Howard’s End and beyond
ttinfranetwork.bsky.social Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 19d
The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live!

In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform!

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October 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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ttinfranetwork.bsky.social
The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live!

In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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ttinfranetwork.bsky.social
And our third and final online event of the term assembles a diverse panel of academics, practitioners, and activists to reflect on what gentrification means today and how we can remake cities without displacing residents. Sign up below.

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October 16, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Looking forward to participating in MCCI's Connect: Graphic Refuge panel event with authors @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social and fellow respondent Mihaela Precup www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... (19 November 2025 5pm) #ComicsStudies
MCCI's Connect: Graphic Refuge panel event | City St George's, University of London
Graphic Refuge is the first in-depth study of comics about refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and detainees by artists from the Global North and South.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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ttinfranetwork.bsky.social
Our second session of the term will explore the global water crisis through discussion of Filippo Menga’s new book, Thirst (Verso 2025), with responses from Naho Mirumachi and Julie Froud

Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
October 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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TTiN’s first event of the new term. Join us online for this lunchtime discussion about infrastructure, art, and autoethnography.
ttinfranetwork.bsky.social Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Oct 6
How can art and storytelling help us to make sense of infrastructures? Join us online at lunchtime on Wed 29 Oct for our first session of the new academic year with visual artist, urban walker, and comics creator Giada Peterle. Sign up below! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
October 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Thanks @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for inviting me and @drdomdavies.bsky.social to talk about our new co-authored book exploring how comics can document & disrupt dominant images of war & forced displacement @wlupress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/graphic-refuge
Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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September 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Also excited to have been accepted to participate in the 22nd Historical Materialism conference, in a panel with colleagues @drdomdavies.bsky.social & @mediocre.bsky.social [6-9 November 2025] www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...
Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Deadline extended to 27 May! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025
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September 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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"The only social space left after the evisceration of society and the undermining of the individual is the family"

The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues @drdomdavies.bsky.social

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Reclaiming inheritance tax as a social good - Red Pepper
The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic Davies
www.redpepper.org.uk
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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My latest for @redpeppermag.bsky.social argues that public opposition to inheritance tax must be understood in the context of Britain’s crumbling infrastructure. The more people lose faith in the state, the more they feel the need to look out for their families.

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Reclaiming inheritance tax as a social good - Red Pepper
The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic Davies
www.redpepper.org.uk
September 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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It’s a privilege to have an essay in this month’s bumper issue of @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on the cultural politics of decline in Britain.

Out this week and available online to subscribers tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...
The Decline Rollercoaster
In response to the harsh reality of national decline, Labour has offered only a ‘theme park politics’ fuelled by the sugar rush of the growth delusion. Might a more substantial, more humane vision of ...
tribunemag.co.uk
August 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Can Refugee Comics Effect Political Change? Discussing Comics Journalism and “Refugeeness” - Ep. 3 of the podcast I did with co-author @drdomdavies.bsky.social is up!
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July 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The first of our 4 part conversation about Graphic Refuge is now out with The Authority File on all good podcast platforms!
July 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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ttinfranetwork.bsky.social
TTiN is now on Apple Podcasts! Check out our talks and conversations from 2024-25 and give us a follow and a rating!

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network
Education Podcast · A network for academics, policy makers, & community organizers who work to understand & address the social, political, & cultural impacts of infrastructure. Follow @TTinfraNetwork
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July 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
drdomdavies.bsky.social
1 year ago today Britain went to the polls & I spoke with Moya for Novara FM about the ways infrastructure had become embroiled in a cultural politics that often passed unnoticed.

We unpacked these in our conversation and I think it still it bears listening to.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Novara FM: Britain is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It? w/ Dom Davies
Podcast Episode · Novara Media · 04/07/2024 · 1h 1m
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July 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM
drdomdavies.bsky.social
Comics & graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms – a glimpse into our book, Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, what it covers & why it matters now.

With @crifkind.bsky.social for @theconversation.com

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Comics and graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms
Refugee comics disrupt a media landscape that tends to reduce migrants to either threats or victims.
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July 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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crifkind.bsky.social
An article in The Conversation be me and @drdomdavies.bsky.social based on our new book, Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics @wlupress.bsky.social @uwinnipeg.bsky.social
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Comics and graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms
Refugee comics disrupt a media landscape that tends to reduce migrants to either threats or victims.
theconversation.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Tomorrow!
ttinfranetwork.bsky.social Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Jun 16
Join us online next week for our lunchtime panel with Alex Tickell (OU) to launch his new book, City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure, Citizenship, in conversation with Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL) and David Johnson (OU).

Register below

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June 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Two senior @ukri.org figures this week have suggested unis could reduce how much research they do

“Concentrating on unique and high contributions & concentrating on less research, has the potential to bring the amount of activity into balance with research funding,” Steven Hill told #ARMA25

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Research England official: universities could do ‘less’ R&D - Research Professional News
Arma 2025: Director of research asks whether system should provide “disincentives for lower-quality research”
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June 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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ttinfranetwork.bsky.social
We’re midway through our “Power Grids” exhibition at @britishacademy.bsky.social where we’re discussing the experience of failing infrastructure, how green energy can empower communities, and the rewards of using comics co-creation as a research method.
June 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Join us online for TTiN's final lunchtime seminar of the academic year

Book Launch with Alex Tickell – City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure Citizenship

12-1pm, Monday 23 June 2025
Register here for Zoom link www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
June 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM