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Joe Blakey
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Lecturer, Geography UoM. Political Geographer interested in environmental knowledge politics, post-foundational political theories and aesthetics. Runner.

Website: https://joeblakey.com
Research: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/joe.blakey
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We're hosting a launch event for our edited book Aesthetics and the City on Wednesday 8th October 2025 at 3pm UK time. We would like to invite you to join us. The event is in-person (message for details) at UoM and online (sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aesthetics... ). Hope to see you there!
Poster for the edited book aesthetics and the city. It contains two QR codes to the registration link present in the post (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aesthetics-and-the-city-book-launch-tickets-1665058728479) and to the book (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003335993), an image of the book, and a brief abstract for the event. There is a kaleidoscope image of a city in the background. These details can all be found in typed form here: http://joeblakey.com/aesthetics
September 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Today marks the launch of our edited volume Aesthetics and the City. @amycbarron.bsky.social and I are thrilled to see this in print. We hope it’s of interest! Do let us know what you think. We are hosting a hybrid launch event in early October.

🔗More details: www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a...
A copy of the aesthetics and the city book against a stone wall with ivy on the left
July 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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🌍 Mark Usher and I are collaborating to bring professionals working on natural capital in Greater Manchester together for a workshop on Tues 22nd July (bringing together Mark's work on natural capital and my own on environmental accounting).

Details below and register here: bit.ly/gmnaturalcap...
An invitation to a Greater Manchester Natural Captital Workshop. Water and aquatic plants are in the background. It details that the event seeks to bring divergent and common perspectives on natural capital accounting frameworks to the fore. It is on Tuesday 22nd June 2025 at the University of Manchester at 10am to 3:30pm. Participants must be a professional in the sector. The registration link is bit.ly/gmnaturalcapital
June 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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📚 @amycbarron.bsky.social and I have an upcoming edited book... Aesthetics and the City explores how aesthetics relates to how cities and urban spaces are perceived, organised, and transformed. There's now a web page which lists the many fascinating contributions… 🔗 bit.ly/aestheticsandthecitybook
An image of the book cover on a city scape viewed through a kaleidoscope. The title of the book Aesthetics and the City is shown along with the editors names (Joe Blakey and Amy Barron). Contributors to the book are listed… Amy Barron, Amr Ibrahim, Beatriz Guijarro Turégano, Friederike Landau-Donnelly, Günter Gassner, Joe Blakey, Josh Widera, Julian Brigstocke, Mónica Degen, Salila Vanka, Sanna Lehtinen, Stefanie Fridrik, Taher Abdel-Ghani & Yara Mohamed
March 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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From Standedge this evening, looking towards Manchester…
People stood in front of a cloud inversion. Water in the foreground. Sunset in the distance. People stood in front of a cloud inversion. Water in the foreground. Sunset in the distance. A cloud inversion. Sunset in the distance. People stood in front of a cloud inversion. Sunset in the distance.
December 26, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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New paper in Political Geography, ‘What Repoliticisation Means and Requires: Creating the Climate for Disagreement’. t.co/hsCpZ8J0s5
November 15, 2024 at 3:01 PM