Gareth
@gfearn.bsky.social
Researching political economy of electricity, urban and environmental planning.
https://garethfearn.com/
https://garethfearn.com/
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🚨NEW #UrbanStudies Volume 62(15) (November 2025)
SPECIAL ISSUE: "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda?"
✍ Editors: G. Özatağan, G. Fearn & A. Eraydin
🔍 Focus on authoritarian neoliberal #urbanism, urban #governance transformation & sociopolitical change.
SPECIAL ISSUE: "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda?"
✍ Editors: G. Özatağan, G. Fearn & A. Eraydin
🔍 Focus on authoritarian neoliberal #urbanism, urban #governance transformation & sociopolitical change.
November 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨NEW #UrbanStudies Volume 62(15) (November 2025)
SPECIAL ISSUE: "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda?"
✍ Editors: G. Özatağan, G. Fearn & A. Eraydin
🔍 Focus on authoritarian neoliberal #urbanism, urban #governance transformation & sociopolitical change.
SPECIAL ISSUE: "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda?"
✍ Editors: G. Özatağan, G. Fearn & A. Eraydin
🔍 Focus on authoritarian neoliberal #urbanism, urban #governance transformation & sociopolitical change.
🚨New paper alert🚨 My analysis of the energy crisis in Britain for @geographers.bsky.social as one of a transition between capitalism based on fossil capital to one based on electrify capital, which calls for a new accumulation regime of higher co-ordination and discipline for capital.
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
🚨New paper alert🚨 My analysis of the energy crisis in Britain for @geographers.bsky.social as one of a transition between capitalism based on fossil capital to one based on electrify capital, which calls for a new accumulation regime of higher co-ordination and discipline for capital.
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"Since when did we become Big Tech's free PR department?"
I'm really pleased to see an article like this pushing back on the uncritical adoption of (gen)AI by our universities. It hits all the major concerns.
I'm really pleased to see an article like this pushing back on the uncritical adoption of (gen)AI by our universities. It hits all the major concerns.
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"Since when did we become Big Tech's free PR department?"
I'm really pleased to see an article like this pushing back on the uncritical adoption of (gen)AI by our universities. It hits all the major concerns.
I'm really pleased to see an article like this pushing back on the uncritical adoption of (gen)AI by our universities. It hits all the major concerns.
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While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty.
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
Transition Security Project
transitionsecurity.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty.
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
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This essay by @sonalidhanpal.bsky.social on the relationship between decolonisation and mass council housing is one of the most exciting works of British urban history I've read in a long, long time. It points the way to a different kind of future for our work. direct.mit.edu/grey/article...
October 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This essay by @sonalidhanpal.bsky.social on the relationship between decolonisation and mass council housing is one of the most exciting works of British urban history I've read in a long, long time. It points the way to a different kind of future for our work. direct.mit.edu/grey/article...
Brilliant, let's do that then!
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Brilliant, let's do that then!
Who was the gaffer messing things up this badly in 1925?
Ange Postecoglou has become the first permanent Nottingham Forest manager for 100 years to fail to win any of his first six games in charge of the club.
[@OptaJoe.com]
[@OptaJoe.com]
October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Who was the gaffer messing things up this badly in 1925?
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Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
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We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:
September 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:
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This is an excellent collection
Very proud to say that our special issue with @urbanstudiesjournal.com is now all up online!
We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s) - Güldem Özatağan, Gareth Fearn, Ayda Eraydin, 2025
This Special Issue presents ‘authoritarian neoliberal urbanism’ as an empirical marker and a concept that signposts the ascendence of a new constellation in whi...
journals.sagepub.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is an excellent collection
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trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism
September 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism
This story is playing out one country after another: declare the only way forward is major deregulation because you dont want to challenge capital, have these claims completely discredited by evidence, tell the public they are going to work anyway...and hope for the best?
The perception that a bureaucratic maze is preventing Canada from building major projects, as PM Mark Carney has argued to support his deregulatory nation-building agenda, doesn’t hold up according to a data analysis of projects already underway. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/15/a...
Carney's red tape narrative doesn't hold up
The perception that a bureaucratic maze is preventing Canada from building major projects, as Prime Minister Mark Carney has argued to support his deregulatory nation-building agenda, doesn’t hold up ...
www.nationalobserver.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This story is playing out one country after another: declare the only way forward is major deregulation because you dont want to challenge capital, have these claims completely discredited by evidence, tell the public they are going to work anyway...and hope for the best?
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The special issue on authoritarian neoliberal urbanism is now out. Happy to be featured in it and thanks to the editors - @gfearn.bsky.social Güldem Özatagan, Ayda Eraydin for this very timely work.
Very proud to say that our special issue with @urbanstudiesjournal.com is now all up online!
We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s) - Güldem Özatağan, Gareth Fearn, Ayda Eraydin, 2025
This Special Issue presents ‘authoritarian neoliberal urbanism’ as an empirical marker and a concept that signposts the ascendence of a new constellation in whi...
journals.sagepub.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The special issue on authoritarian neoliberal urbanism is now out. Happy to be featured in it and thanks to the editors - @gfearn.bsky.social Güldem Özatagan, Ayda Eraydin for this very timely work.
Very proud to say that our special issue with @urbanstudiesjournal.com is now all up online!
We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s) - Güldem Özatağan, Gareth Fearn, Ayda Eraydin, 2025
This Special Issue presents ‘authoritarian neoliberal urbanism’ as an empirical marker and a concept that signposts the ascendence of a new constellation in whi...
journals.sagepub.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Very proud to say that our special issue with @urbanstudiesjournal.com is now all up online!
We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Ezra Klein’s NYT column about Kirk is legitimately disgusting. I don't care if he didn't write the headline, even suggesting that Kirk was a legitimate voice and not an active agent of hatred and intolerance is to throw everyone Kirk vilified to the wolves.
September 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Ezra Klein’s NYT column about Kirk is legitimately disgusting. I don't care if he didn't write the headline, even suggesting that Kirk was a legitimate voice and not an active agent of hatred and intolerance is to throw everyone Kirk vilified to the wolves.
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Everything about this is nuts
www.wsj.com/business/ope...
www.wsj.com/business/ope...
September 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Everything about this is nuts
www.wsj.com/business/ope...
www.wsj.com/business/ope...
Apparently I was shortlisted for the AESOP Best paper award for 2025, which was a very nice surprise! Congrats to Harriet Dunn for winning!
aesop-planning.eu/resources/ne...
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AESOP - AESOP Best Published Paper Award 2025
Association of European Schools of Planning
aesop-planning.eu
July 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Apparently I was shortlisted for the AESOP Best paper award for 2025, which was a very nice surprise! Congrats to Harriet Dunn for winning!
aesop-planning.eu/resources/ne...
aesop-planning.eu/resources/ne...
Think this did a great job of explaining why, very early on
May 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Think this did a great job of explaining why, very early on
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What's the strategy behind the "Climate Realism Initiative"? Many many policy papers later, I can say I think I know what it is—and it's seriously wanting.
Latest on the blog, a critique of this overconfident and hawkish "climate" strategy:
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-bellig...
Latest on the blog, a critique of this overconfident and hawkish "climate" strategy:
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-bellig...
The belligerent idealism of climate realism
Don’t call it “bipartisan” or “pragmatic”; it’s anything but.
advaitcore.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
What's the strategy behind the "Climate Realism Initiative"? Many many policy papers later, I can say I think I know what it is—and it's seriously wanting.
Latest on the blog, a critique of this overconfident and hawkish "climate" strategy:
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-bellig...
Latest on the blog, a critique of this overconfident and hawkish "climate" strategy:
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-bellig...
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The energy crisis.
Devastating for households. A bonanza for energy companies.
The Government and industry worked hand-in-hand to funnel wealth from the public to private companies — just like the financial crisis.
🧵
www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...
Devastating for households. A bonanza for energy companies.
The Government and industry worked hand-in-hand to funnel wealth from the public to private companies — just like the financial crisis.
🧵
www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...
May 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The energy crisis.
Devastating for households. A bonanza for energy companies.
The Government and industry worked hand-in-hand to funnel wealth from the public to private companies — just like the financial crisis.
🧵
www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...
Devastating for households. A bonanza for energy companies.
The Government and industry worked hand-in-hand to funnel wealth from the public to private companies — just like the financial crisis.
🧵
www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...
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Solar power expanding. China leads (40% of global capacity). Most is big solar farms; rooftop solar a close 2nd. Outside the rich world, businesses & well-off households use it to back up unreliable grid electricity. Poorer households left behind. 1/4 peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/r...
Rooftop solar: glints of light in the darkening climate crisis
Part 1 of 2. / Download both parts of this article as a PDF here By Simon Pirani Solar power is expanding rapidly.[1] In 2023, the total capacity of the world’s solar photovoltaic (PV) panels was f…
peopleandnature.wordpress.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Solar power expanding. China leads (40% of global capacity). Most is big solar farms; rooftop solar a close 2nd. Outside the rich world, businesses & well-off households use it to back up unreliable grid electricity. Poorer households left behind. 1/4 peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/r...
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Read our latest Perspectives piece by Gareth Fearn at our website: www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...
Private Power, Public Crisis | Perspectives
On Britain’s energy contradictions
www.common-wealth.org
May 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Read our latest Perspectives piece by Gareth Fearn at our website: www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...
I've written about how badly the UK public lost out during the energy crisis and why this was a feature not a bug of privatised electricity.
The energy crisis.
Devastating for households. A bonanza for energy companies.
The Government and industry worked hand-in-hand to funnel wealth from the public to private companies — just like the financial crisis.
🧵
www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...
Devastating for households. A bonanza for energy companies.
The Government and industry worked hand-in-hand to funnel wealth from the public to private companies — just like the financial crisis.
🧵
www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...
May 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I've written about how badly the UK public lost out during the energy crisis and why this was a feature not a bug of privatised electricity.
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Art of the Deal!!
May 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Art of the Deal!!
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I can’t help but think something has gone wrong in your life if you’re spending your morning off work holding a sign that says “Large Gametes”.
April 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I can’t help but think something has gone wrong in your life if you’re spending your morning off work holding a sign that says “Large Gametes”.