Jonathan Harris
@jonathanaharris.bsky.social
Political-Historical Geographer researching diaspora diplomacy @dublincityuni.bsky.social | posts: education, geopolitics, decolonisation & francophonie
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Five DCU researchers secure over €3.2 million in Research Ireland Pathways call | Research Office
The Research Ireland funding spans a four-year period and will support researchers and provide resources to establish their careers. Dr Eirini Maniou, Dr Purabi Bhagabati, Dr Ciara Mahon, Dr Jonathan ...
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My research over the next four years at @dublincityuni.bsky.social is generously funded by @researchireland.ie! 🥳🙏😇
‘Diaspora Diplomacy and the Migration-Development Nexus’ will work with #Indian, #Brazilian and #Algerian communities across the island of #Ireland.
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‘Diaspora Diplomacy and the Migration-Development Nexus’ will work with #Indian, #Brazilian and #Algerian communities across the island of #Ireland.
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An excellent way to frame a debate of this kind! I’ve got my hands on the book, to read as I take my almost daily cross-border train… 🤓
⏳ The countdown on!
Join Fintan O’Toole & Sam McBride, Nov 30th @ 7 pm at the National Concert Hall for a live debate on what a united Ireland could really mean.
Prep for the night:
🎧 Listen to the ARINS podcast: bit.ly/4qS7KEM
🎟️ Tickets: bit.ly/3LoU0Bs
Join Fintan O’Toole & Sam McBride, Nov 30th @ 7 pm at the National Concert Hall for a live debate on what a united Ireland could really mean.
Prep for the night:
🎧 Listen to the ARINS podcast: bit.ly/4qS7KEM
🎟️ Tickets: bit.ly/3LoU0Bs
NCH Talks: Fintan O’Toole & Sam McBride: For and against a united Ireland | National Concert Hall
The National Concert Hall is a national cultural institution and the designated home of music in Ireland.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
An excellent way to frame a debate of this kind! I’ve got my hands on the book, to read as I take my almost daily cross-border train… 🤓
Happy Friday 😊 The new issue of Diplomatica (Brill) has been published - with a diverse forum of scholars responding to "Provincializing ‘New’ Diplomatic History: An Interdisciplinary Manifesto", published earlier this year. Chuffed to have been asked to participate!
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November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Happy Friday 😊 The new issue of Diplomatica (Brill) has been published - with a diverse forum of scholars responding to "Provincializing ‘New’ Diplomatic History: An Interdisciplinary Manifesto", published earlier this year. Chuffed to have been asked to participate!
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brill.com/view/journal...
Now there's some product placement I can get behind
So the new and outgoing Presidents of Ireland met yesterday and a certain book was visible on the table...
Thanks @president.ie Michael D. Higgins for your great service to Ireland down the years (and for this little personal surprise).
Here's to the success of President elect Catherine Connolly.
Thanks @president.ie Michael D. Higgins for your great service to Ireland down the years (and for this little personal surprise).
Here's to the success of President elect Catherine Connolly.
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Now there's some product placement I can get behind
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I’m very excited that years of work with Dorry Noyes (@mershoncenter.bsky.social) and a fantastic group of friends and colleagues finally resulted in this, I think, rather beautiful object. The Global Politics of Exemplarity! @normativeorders.bsky.social @prif.org @brisunipress.bsky.social 1/4
November 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I’m very excited that years of work with Dorry Noyes (@mershoncenter.bsky.social) and a fantastic group of friends and colleagues finally resulted in this, I think, rather beautiful object. The Global Politics of Exemplarity! @normativeorders.bsky.social @prif.org @brisunipress.bsky.social 1/4
Yet another example of Brexit Britain forgetting Northern Ireland - and complex border arrangements www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
NI parents caught in UK crackdown lose child benefit after travelling via Dublin
Exclusive: new anti-fraud system fails to account for fact many return to country via airport in Irish capital
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Yet another example of Brexit Britain forgetting Northern Ireland - and complex border arrangements www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Solidarity activists with Timor-Leste (East Timor) during the period of Indonesian military occupation (1975-99) were involved in a form of diplomacy. It was messy and often loud. Yet the movement often proved influential in shaping both government and Timorese actions. New open access book 👇
Everyday Diplomats – Simple Book Publishing
Around the world, movements in support of East Timor (Timor-Leste) during the 24-year Indonesian occupation made a diplomatic difference. This book tells some of their stories.
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October 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Solidarity activists with Timor-Leste (East Timor) during the period of Indonesian military occupation (1975-99) were involved in a form of diplomacy. It was messy and often loud. Yet the movement often proved influential in shaping both government and Timorese actions. New open access book 👇
Late in the day, but Francesco Ventura and I are seeking participants in a paper session on #diaspora #diplomacy for next year's @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2026 in San Francisco. See call for papers here - deadline 28th October:
October 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Late in the day, but Francesco Ventura and I are seeking participants in a paper session on #diaspora #diplomacy for next year's @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2026 in San Francisco. See call for papers here - deadline 28th October:
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Who is most at risk from overcrowding in the UK?
Rory Coulter (@uclgeography.bsky.social) explores the answers in a new Geography Directions blog post.
Check it out here👇
https://blog.geographydirections.com/2025/10/09/understanding-social-and-spatial-patterns-of-overcrowding-in-england-and-wales/
Rory Coulter (@uclgeography.bsky.social) explores the answers in a new Geography Directions blog post.
Check it out here👇
https://blog.geographydirections.com/2025/10/09/understanding-social-and-spatial-patterns-of-overcrowding-in-england-and-wales/
Understanding social and spatial patterns of overcrowding in England and Wales
By Rory Coulter, University College London One of the few things that Britain’s political parties agree is that the country faces a housing crisis. One sign of this is overcrowding, where people li…
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October 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Who is most at risk from overcrowding in the UK?
Rory Coulter (@uclgeography.bsky.social) explores the answers in a new Geography Directions blog post.
Check it out here👇
https://blog.geographydirections.com/2025/10/09/understanding-social-and-spatial-patterns-of-overcrowding-in-england-and-wales/
Rory Coulter (@uclgeography.bsky.social) explores the answers in a new Geography Directions blog post.
Check it out here👇
https://blog.geographydirections.com/2025/10/09/understanding-social-and-spatial-patterns-of-overcrowding-in-england-and-wales/
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#HouseofGuinness
Who was the real Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness? More than a brewer, he was a major figure in 19th-century Dublin. His funeral, which opens House of Guinness on Netflix, was one of the city’s largest, with 500 employees and 239 private carriages.
Who was the real Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness? More than a brewer, he was a major figure in 19th-century Dublin. His funeral, which opens House of Guinness on Netflix, was one of the city’s largest, with 500 employees and 239 private carriages.
October 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#HouseofGuinness
Who was the real Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness? More than a brewer, he was a major figure in 19th-century Dublin. His funeral, which opens House of Guinness on Netflix, was one of the city’s largest, with 500 employees and 239 private carriages.
Who was the real Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness? More than a brewer, he was a major figure in 19th-century Dublin. His funeral, which opens House of Guinness on Netflix, was one of the city’s largest, with 500 employees and 239 private carriages.
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📣We're pleased to launch this year's PolGRG Book Prize!
The winning book will also be the subject of an Authors meets Critics session at the annual RGS-IBG meeting (2026).
Deadline 19 December. Full details available here:
polgrg.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/c...
#bookprize #polgrg #award
The winning book will also be the subject of an Authors meets Critics session at the annual RGS-IBG meeting (2026).
Deadline 19 December. Full details available here:
polgrg.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/c...
#bookprize #polgrg #award
October 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
📣We're pleased to launch this year's PolGRG Book Prize!
The winning book will also be the subject of an Authors meets Critics session at the annual RGS-IBG meeting (2026).
Deadline 19 December. Full details available here:
polgrg.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/c...
#bookprize #polgrg #award
The winning book will also be the subject of an Authors meets Critics session at the annual RGS-IBG meeting (2026).
Deadline 19 December. Full details available here:
polgrg.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/c...
#bookprize #polgrg #award
Historians (and geographers) of diplomacy: you might be interested in this article (with @drruthcraggs.bsky.social and Fiona McConnell) as part of an Itinerario special issue on 'Late Colonialism'. We explore tensions in training Ghana's first diplomats in 1957.
www.doi.org/10.1017/S0165115325100144
www.doi.org/10.1017/S0165115325100144
Rethinking the late colonial state in Africa through diplomatic training | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
Rethinking the late colonial state in Africa through diplomatic training
www.doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Historians (and geographers) of diplomacy: you might be interested in this article (with @drruthcraggs.bsky.social and Fiona McConnell) as part of an Itinerario special issue on 'Late Colonialism'. We explore tensions in training Ghana's first diplomats in 1957.
www.doi.org/10.1017/S0165115325100144
www.doi.org/10.1017/S0165115325100144
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📣 We’re thrilled to announce that Caleb Tan (UCL) is the winner of the 2025 UG Dissertation Prize for ‘Third space or territorial trap: citizenship and conscription in Singapore’! Congratulations!👏
#PolGRG #prize #education #HE
Read about all the finalists on our website 👇
#PolGRG #prize #education #HE
Read about all the finalists on our website 👇
Announcing the results of the Political Geography Research Group 2025 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize!
Outcome 2025 PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize The panel of the 2025 PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize (Alexander Manby, Anil, Sindhwani, Öznur Yardımcı, Semra Akay, Shawn Bodden) is de…
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September 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
📣 We’re thrilled to announce that Caleb Tan (UCL) is the winner of the 2025 UG Dissertation Prize for ‘Third space or territorial trap: citizenship and conscription in Singapore’! Congratulations!👏
#PolGRG #prize #education #HE
Read about all the finalists on our website 👇
#PolGRG #prize #education #HE
Read about all the finalists on our website 👇
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Prof Claude Raffestin has died. RIP He taught me when I was an undergraduate in Geneva. A formidable force. More info on him here (happy to send pdf): Fall, J. J. (2012). Reading Claude Raffestin: Pathways for a Critical Biography. Env. & Plan. D, 30(1), 173-189.
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September 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Prof Claude Raffestin has died. RIP He taught me when I was an undergraduate in Geneva. A formidable force. More info on him here (happy to send pdf): Fall, J. J. (2012). Reading Claude Raffestin: Pathways for a Critical Biography. Env. & Plan. D, 30(1), 173-189.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/...
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The defunct railway network - Belfast and County Railway. All but the line between Belfast and Bangor was closed in the 1950s, although some of it has been restored near Downpatrick by a heritage line, the Downpatrick and County Down Railway.
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
#CountyDown
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September 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The defunct railway network - Belfast and County Railway. All but the line between Belfast and Bangor was closed in the 1950s, although some of it has been restored near Downpatrick by a heritage line, the Downpatrick and County Down Railway.
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
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"Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations " a short intervention, part of a set, out and open access in case of use.
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
The aim of this intervention is to respond to the provocation of how different worlds and regions are imagined from the non-west. To do this from the vantage point of Egypt, I start with the specific....
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September 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations " a short intervention, part of a set, out and open access in case of use.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births"
This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"Killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births"
This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Identity, patriotism, symbolism
@domsball.bsky.social placing flags in context
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@domsball.bsky.social placing flags in context
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I’ve researched the politics of flags in Northern Ireland for decades – here’s what England needs to understand
I’ve contributed to at least six reports assessing the tensions around flags.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Identity, patriotism, symbolism
@domsball.bsky.social placing flags in context
@theconversation.com
theconversation.com/ive-research...
@domsball.bsky.social placing flags in context
@theconversation.com
theconversation.com/ive-research...
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🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Specified Purpose, Department of History and the Arts and Humanities Institute | University Vacancies Ireland
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September 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
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Lough Neagh and its system of peripheral waterways on course to record worst year of algal blooms to date.
While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens.
My story in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens.
My story in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK’s largest lake faces environmental crisis as rescue plans stall
Toxic algae cases in Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh have tripled since last year, as local fishers’ incomes plummet
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Lough Neagh and its system of peripheral waterways on course to record worst year of algal blooms to date.
While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens.
My story in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens.
My story in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
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A thoughtful and considered article; worth a read.
For my latest dispatch from Ireland for America Magazine, I talked to 2 bone fide legends, Sr Lena Deevy and Michael O'Sullivan, to investigate how, if you start to scratch, Irish attitudes to immigration aren't that far away from MAGAland. www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...
Migration and Irish identity—in the era of Trump deportations
Just about no one in Ireland would say that Irish citizens living in the U.S. are being treated as badly as immigrant residents from Latin America or Africa. But consternation is on the rise about esc...
www.americamagazine.org
August 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
A thoughtful and considered article; worth a read.
"I have to play it by ear as I have no money. God has always come through, so I'll see what God sets up next"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Donald Trump posted a pic of me by my tent. Then a bulldozer arrived
DC's largest homeless encampment was destroyed after the president called for a crackdown. What happened to its residents?
www.bbc.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"I have to play it by ear as I have no money. God has always come through, so I'll see what God sets up next"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I did this a couple of years ago and really benefitted from it! Great to get feedback but even better to read exciting new work from other ECRs before it’s published… 🤓🥰
Hey @geographers.bsky.social and #geographers please pass this great opportunity on in your networks!
August 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I did this a couple of years ago and really benefitted from it! Great to get feedback but even better to read exciting new work from other ECRs before it’s published… 🤓🥰
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Ah here. Half of Belfast has signs up supporting various proscribed organisations. I can walk out my door and go find some proscribed organisation flags quite handy.
This is about suppressing the right to protest.
BBC News - Woman released after Belfast protest arrest
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This is about suppressing the right to protest.
BBC News - Woman released after Belfast protest arrest
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Woman released after arrest at Belfast protest
The woman was arrested on Linenhall Street in Belfast on Saturday.
www.bbc.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ah here. Half of Belfast has signs up supporting various proscribed organisations. I can walk out my door and go find some proscribed organisation flags quite handy.
This is about suppressing the right to protest.
BBC News - Woman released after Belfast protest arrest
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is about suppressing the right to protest.
BBC News - Woman released after Belfast protest arrest
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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80 years ago today WW2 reached its cataclysmic conclusion in the bombing of Hiroshima. But as I write here, the extraordinary but virtually-unknown story of the Aka island truce is a sliver of hope. Other outcomes are possible. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social
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theconversation.com/when-us-and-...
When US and Japanese troops stopped fighting to talk, eat and pray together
Eighty years ago, this remarkable event showed a rare glimpse of humanity on both sides of a bitter conflict.
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August 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
80 years ago today WW2 reached its cataclysmic conclusion in the bombing of Hiroshima. But as I write here, the extraordinary but virtually-unknown story of the Aka island truce is a sliver of hope. Other outcomes are possible. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social
theconversation.com/when-us-and-...
theconversation.com/when-us-and-...