Jon Silver
@invisiblemapper.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Geography
Urban Institute, Uni of Sheffield
Urban Institute, Uni of Sheffield
Yet again Sheffield University management are forcing sheffielducu.bsky.social members out on strike f/ Monday to protect staff jobs, student educ, + research progress which are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes.
Another university has to be possible!
Another university has to be possible!
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Yet again Sheffield University management are forcing sheffielducu.bsky.social members out on strike f/ Monday to protect staff jobs, student educ, + research progress which are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes.
Another university has to be possible!
Another university has to be possible!
Alongside the report we will also be releasing Zainab Farid's new film ‘Tarakiyati Kaam Jari Hai - Developmental Work in Progress’ exploring the human costs of infrastructure investment in Pakistan
November 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Alongside the report we will also be releasing Zainab Farid's new film ‘Tarakiyati Kaam Jari Hai - Developmental Work in Progress’ exploring the human costs of infrastructure investment in Pakistan
Looking forward to releasing this report with the Karachi Urban Lab, led by Muhammed Toheed + exploring the ways technical standards for a major railway project will shape the urban lives of thousands of people...
Launch event coming up in Karachi soon
Launch event coming up in Karachi soon
November 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Looking forward to releasing this report with the Karachi Urban Lab, led by Muhammed Toheed + exploring the ways technical standards for a major railway project will shape the urban lives of thousands of people...
Launch event coming up in Karachi soon
Launch event coming up in Karachi soon
Glad we have such critical journalism in Manchester
November 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Glad we have such critical journalism in Manchester
A reminder that Sudanese activists inc in Manchester have been calling to boycott the UAE, now even more vital given the UAE backed RSF militia captures El Fasher
War crimes + blood on the hands of Abu Dhabi + the UAE
More info: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
War crimes + blood on the hands of Abu Dhabi + the UAE
More info: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
October 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A reminder that Sudanese activists inc in Manchester have been calling to boycott the UAE, now even more vital given the UAE backed RSF militia captures El Fasher
War crimes + blood on the hands of Abu Dhabi + the UAE
More info: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
War crimes + blood on the hands of Abu Dhabi + the UAE
More info: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Great weekend of radical politics at The World Transformed learning + discussing about imperialism, state violence, red/green alliances, the role of the party. Stand out was the Kids transformed space which was full of fun and care (and crafting!)
October 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Great weekend of radical politics at The World Transformed learning + discussing about imperialism, state violence, red/green alliances, the role of the party. Stand out was the Kids transformed space which was full of fun and care (and crafting!)
Looking forward to The World Transformed Festival of radical politics, art and culture kicking off tomorrow...
I'm involved in two sessions, a panel looking at the power of Abu Dhabi in the UK/MCR + a walking tour of financialised MCR
More info here theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...
I'm involved in two sessions, a panel looking at the power of Abu Dhabi in the UK/MCR + a walking tour of financialised MCR
More info here theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...
October 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Looking forward to The World Transformed Festival of radical politics, art and culture kicking off tomorrow...
I'm involved in two sessions, a panel looking at the power of Abu Dhabi in the UK/MCR + a walking tour of financialised MCR
More info here theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...
I'm involved in two sessions, a panel looking at the power of Abu Dhabi in the UK/MCR + a walking tour of financialised MCR
More info here theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...
My Global Corridor newsletter #5 is out now
This issue features stories, data, opinion + academic work from Pakistani ports to Russia in Sudan to Middle Eastern railways to the longest film ever (on logistics)....
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
This issue features stories, data, opinion + academic work from Pakistani ports to Russia in Sudan to Middle Eastern railways to the longest film ever (on logistics)....
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
October 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
My Global Corridor newsletter #5 is out now
This issue features stories, data, opinion + academic work from Pakistani ports to Russia in Sudan to Middle Eastern railways to the longest film ever (on logistics)....
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
This issue features stories, data, opinion + academic work from Pakistani ports to Russia in Sudan to Middle Eastern railways to the longest film ever (on logistics)....
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
Manchester out today against the genocide in Gaza as it is every week, people who value and cherish the lives of everyone regardless of race and religion
October 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Manchester out today against the genocide in Gaza as it is every week, people who value and cherish the lives of everyone regardless of race and religion
I can’t believe that senior politicians, police + media in the UK are now labelling people protesting against genocide antisemitic.
People have been killed this week and it’s being mobilised in appalling ways. Horrified at the state of our country…
People have been killed this week and it’s being mobilised in appalling ways. Horrified at the state of our country…
October 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I can’t believe that senior politicians, police + media in the UK are now labelling people protesting against genocide antisemitic.
People have been killed this week and it’s being mobilised in appalling ways. Horrified at the state of our country…
People have been killed this week and it’s being mobilised in appalling ways. Horrified at the state of our country…
Excited for our new edited (and OPEN ACCESS) book released on Nov 20th
"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"
with Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng and Alan Wiig
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...
"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"
with Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng and Alan Wiig
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Excited for our new edited (and OPEN ACCESS) book released on Nov 20th
"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"
with Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng and Alan Wiig
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...
"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"
with Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng and Alan Wiig
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...
The whole weekend is 🔥whether you want to get involved in the drama of YourParty or stick to more anti-colonial, anti-capitalist organising, or simply enjoy some amazing cultural programming. See you there!
Tickets here - theworldtransformed.org
Tickets here - theworldtransformed.org
September 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The whole weekend is 🔥whether you want to get involved in the drama of YourParty or stick to more anti-colonial, anti-capitalist organising, or simply enjoy some amazing cultural programming. See you there!
Tickets here - theworldtransformed.org
Tickets here - theworldtransformed.org
Comrades, join us in Hulme, Manchester at The World Transformed for this session...
"Sheikh Mansour my lord?: Capital, Football, Real Estate, and the growing role of Abu Dhabi in Britain"
10 Oct, 12PM – 1:30PM
theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...
"Sheikh Mansour my lord?: Capital, Football, Real Estate, and the growing role of Abu Dhabi in Britain"
10 Oct, 12PM – 1:30PM
theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...
September 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Comrades, join us in Hulme, Manchester at The World Transformed for this session...
"Sheikh Mansour my lord?: Capital, Football, Real Estate, and the growing role of Abu Dhabi in Britain"
10 Oct, 12PM – 1:30PM
theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...
"Sheikh Mansour my lord?: Capital, Football, Real Estate, and the growing role of Abu Dhabi in Britain"
10 Oct, 12PM – 1:30PM
theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...
My third Global Corridor newsletter is out now on Substack
"Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, EU designs (on) Africa's corridors, Genoa's dockworkers threaten blockade, LAPSSET, seeing like a train + radical highway geographies"
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
"Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, EU designs (on) Africa's corridors, Genoa's dockworkers threaten blockade, LAPSSET, seeing like a train + radical highway geographies"
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
September 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
My third Global Corridor newsletter is out now on Substack
"Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, EU designs (on) Africa's corridors, Genoa's dockworkers threaten blockade, LAPSSET, seeing like a train + radical highway geographies"
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
"Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, EU designs (on) Africa's corridors, Genoa's dockworkers threaten blockade, LAPSSET, seeing like a train + radical highway geographies"
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
A glimpse into the everyday life of one of the largest Romani communities in Greece, located in a shanty town called Nea Zoi (New Life). Nea Zoi lies within a vast network of transportation and logistics infrastructures just outside the Greek capital.
September 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
A glimpse into the everyday life of one of the largest Romani communities in Greece, located in a shanty town called Nea Zoi (New Life). Nea Zoi lies within a vast network of transportation and logistics infrastructures just outside the Greek capital.
"The plan for the redevelopment of Gaza can also be understood within this settler colonial logic: an urban idea that, in order to be achieved, necessitates the erasure of all that stood before through the expulsion of the population and urbicide of the built environment."
September 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"The plan for the redevelopment of Gaza can also be understood within this settler colonial logic: an urban idea that, in order to be achieved, necessitates the erasure of all that stood before through the expulsion of the population and urbicide of the built environment."
In 2018 in our 'Homes to Assets' report we set out how the urban development machine would soon spill out beyond the confines of the city-centre. Politicians dismissed these concerns but now people in places such as Hulme and Ardwick face big displacement pressures.
September 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
In 2018 in our 'Homes to Assets' report we set out how the urban development machine would soon spill out beyond the confines of the city-centre. Politicians dismissed these concerns but now people in places such as Hulme and Ardwick face big displacement pressures.
'This is the Manchester city centre set to expand into six new areas as council redraws map'
Gentrification, demolition + surging rents will hit inner city neighbourhoods at speed as the capitalist urban development machine requires more + more land
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
Gentrification, demolition + surging rents will hit inner city neighbourhoods at speed as the capitalist urban development machine requires more + more land
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
September 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
'This is the Manchester city centre set to expand into six new areas as council redraws map'
Gentrification, demolition + surging rents will hit inner city neighbourhoods at speed as the capitalist urban development machine requires more + more land
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
Gentrification, demolition + surging rents will hit inner city neighbourhoods at speed as the capitalist urban development machine requires more + more land
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
"China's African port expansion, the end of the Line? Trump's self-named corridor, CPEC, Not Just Roads and Pakistani gateways."
My second Global Corridor newsletter is now on Substack providing news + views on global infrastructure.
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
My second Global Corridor newsletter is now on Substack providing news + views on global infrastructure.
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
September 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
"China's African port expansion, the end of the Line? Trump's self-named corridor, CPEC, Not Just Roads and Pakistani gateways."
My second Global Corridor newsletter is now on Substack providing news + views on global infrastructure.
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
My second Global Corridor newsletter is now on Substack providing news + views on global infrastructure.
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
I've started a Global Corridor newsletter on Substack providing a round up of some of the most interesting news, stories, data, opinion + academic work on global infrastructure.
Looking forward to sharing more in autumn but for now enjoy the first one
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
Looking forward to sharing more in autumn but for now enjoy the first one
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
July 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I've started a Global Corridor newsletter on Substack providing a round up of some of the most interesting news, stories, data, opinion + academic work on global infrastructure.
Looking forward to sharing more in autumn but for now enjoy the first one
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
Looking forward to sharing more in autumn but for now enjoy the first one
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
A carnival like protest led by a banner declaring,
"Stop the Lies, there's no Genocide in Gaza"
There's no coming back from this depravity, when the rest of the world is watching children starved, shot + bombed to death. Truly sickening to see it on the streets of the UK this weekend
"Stop the Lies, there's no Genocide in Gaza"
There's no coming back from this depravity, when the rest of the world is watching children starved, shot + bombed to death. Truly sickening to see it on the streets of the UK this weekend
July 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A carnival like protest led by a banner declaring,
"Stop the Lies, there's no Genocide in Gaza"
There's no coming back from this depravity, when the rest of the world is watching children starved, shot + bombed to death. Truly sickening to see it on the streets of the UK this weekend
"Stop the Lies, there's no Genocide in Gaza"
There's no coming back from this depravity, when the rest of the world is watching children starved, shot + bombed to death. Truly sickening to see it on the streets of the UK this weekend
Delete your @bookingcom account!
As the protest in Manchester last wk made clear we need to BOYCOTT this company, which profits from Israel’s illegal occupation + apartheid of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem
Info here: www.bdsmovement.net/bookingcom-s...
As the protest in Manchester last wk made clear we need to BOYCOTT this company, which profits from Israel’s illegal occupation + apartheid of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem
Info here: www.bdsmovement.net/bookingcom-s...
July 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Delete your @bookingcom account!
As the protest in Manchester last wk made clear we need to BOYCOTT this company, which profits from Israel’s illegal occupation + apartheid of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem
Info here: www.bdsmovement.net/bookingcom-s...
As the protest in Manchester last wk made clear we need to BOYCOTT this company, which profits from Israel’s illegal occupation + apartheid of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem
Info here: www.bdsmovement.net/bookingcom-s...
Poster now in every Oxfam shop in the UK, on every high street up and down the land. 'Middle England' know's whats going on
UK GOV/Israel supporters think attacking opposition to genocide can happen w/out any repercussions but I think they under-estimate how this will reverberate into the future
UK GOV/Israel supporters think attacking opposition to genocide can happen w/out any repercussions but I think they under-estimate how this will reverberate into the future
July 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Poster now in every Oxfam shop in the UK, on every high street up and down the land. 'Middle England' know's whats going on
UK GOV/Israel supporters think attacking opposition to genocide can happen w/out any repercussions but I think they under-estimate how this will reverberate into the future
UK GOV/Israel supporters think attacking opposition to genocide can happen w/out any repercussions but I think they under-estimate how this will reverberate into the future
Our GlobalCORRIDOR paper is out in the latest edition of Urban Studies journal
"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
July 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Our GlobalCORRIDOR paper is out in the latest edition of Urban Studies journal
"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Again Forensic Architecture provide detailed data/visual understandings of the genocide in Gaza.
This work documents how the militarised system of 'aid' operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) acts to accelerate ethnic cleansing + kill
frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/aid/a-c...
This work documents how the militarised system of 'aid' operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) acts to accelerate ethnic cleansing + kill
frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/aid/a-c...
July 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Again Forensic Architecture provide detailed data/visual understandings of the genocide in Gaza.
This work documents how the militarised system of 'aid' operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) acts to accelerate ethnic cleansing + kill
frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/aid/a-c...
This work documents how the militarised system of 'aid' operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) acts to accelerate ethnic cleansing + kill
frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/aid/a-c...