Jason Luger
jluger.bsky.social
Jason Luger
@jluger.bsky.social
Urban/cultural/political geographer. Antifascist. And other things. Newcastle via North Carolina. @NUGEOG
Nice to see this in bright pink hard copy.
August 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
It was powerful and profound to be in Hiroshima a few weeks ago. No bombs. No war.
August 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Creative and accessible adaptive retooling of former elevated highway in Seoul. Inviting by day or by night.
July 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Shanghai past, present, future. The Bund by night is an awesome spectacle.
July 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Thank you to @samhalvorsen.bsky.social and Adriana Massidda for joining us yesterday for our Annual Lecture - great capstone to the year's activities.
June 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
We host Dr. Sam Halvorsen (QMUL) and Dr. Adriana Massidda (Sheffield) next Monday (9th June) for our Northumbria Social and Cultural Geographies Research Group Annual Lecture, on 'Strategies of Popular Participation in Buenos Aires'. Welcome to join in person or get in touch for the MS Teams link.
June 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
En route to Exeter to chat about Authoritarian urban space and affects. Always awed by these Victorian train sheds.
May 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Blue skies for some qualitative research in the Lake District with Northumbria Geography first year students.
May 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Lovely day for some place-based assessments on the peri-urban with 2nd year BA students.
May 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Three sessions on "The Critical Urban Lives of Ruins" here at the #AAG tomorrow (Wed) and Thursday am. What work do ruins do? And what might they reveal that's new?
March 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
CFP for the RGS-IBG in Birmingham, for anyone still looking for a session (see attached).

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, as well as a short biography, to Sabina Lawreniuk (sabina.lawreniuk@notttingham.ac.uk) and Jason Luger (jason.luger@northumbria.ac.uk) by Weds 5th March 2025.
February 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Favorite workspace away from home.
December 19, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Making art 🎨 and thinking about art's relationship to the city, it's processes and spatial contestations, Amsterdam Noord.
November 27, 2024 at 3:40 PM
'Encountering Urban Worlds' field trip to Amsterdam, drifting through Leidseplein, global, local, atmospheres, spectacle.
November 24, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Gateshead and Michael Caine.
November 15, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Concrete dreams.
November 14, 2024 at 6:20 PM
It was a long week.
November 9, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Post-politics is Adorno's desk, enclosed In a glass cube on campus quad where activism is not permitted.
June 19, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Democracy takes work, every day (Wien, Hofburg)
May 12, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Social media reminded me that I saw Ed Soja speaking about spatial justice in Asian cities in Singapore back in 2013, one of his last public lectures.
January 23, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Exploring some modernism and #publicspace in Rotterdam
October 19, 2023 at 5:14 PM