Marie Gibert-Flutre
@mariegibertflutre.bsky.social
Urban Geographer
Public spaces, Neighborhoods, Platform Urbanism, Markets #Vietnam #HCMC #HongKong #Singapore #China #Southeast-Asia
Public spaces, Neighborhoods, Platform Urbanism, Markets #Vietnam #HCMC #HongKong #Singapore #China #Southeast-Asia
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Monopoly jitters in Indonesia: What might happen if ride-hailing and food delivery rivals Grab and GoTo were to merge their Indonesian operations as reported?
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GoTo-Grab merger plan raises monopoly concerns as Indonesia eyes approval
Ride-hailing giants would hold 90% of the country's market if combined
trib.al
November 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Monopoly jitters in Indonesia: What might happen if ride-hailing and food delivery rivals Grab and GoTo were to merge their Indonesian operations as reported?
trib.al/pBsFIk1
trib.al/pBsFIk1
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For anyone interested in learning more about critical urban/geography scholarship in #EastAsia, this review ("Looking Back on the Trajectory of Critical and Alternative Geography in East Asia") by Prof Byung-Doo Choi will be of interest. Direct link here: www.omu.ac.jp/lit/geo/asse... #EARCAG
November 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
For anyone interested in learning more about critical urban/geography scholarship in #EastAsia, this review ("Looking Back on the Trajectory of Critical and Alternative Geography in East Asia") by Prof Byung-Doo Choi will be of interest. Direct link here: www.omu.ac.jp/lit/geo/asse... #EARCAG
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Small-scale land speculation on Mandalay’s outskirts reveals how everyday actors—not just developers—reshape peri-urban space and contribute to displacement in the global South.
By Francesca Chiu
📖 www.ijurr.org/article/beyo...
By Francesca Chiu
📖 www.ijurr.org/article/beyo...
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Small-scale land speculation on Mandalay’s outskirts reveals how everyday actors—not just developers—reshape peri-urban space and contribute to displacement in the global South.
By Francesca Chiu
📖 www.ijurr.org/article/beyo...
By Francesca Chiu
📖 www.ijurr.org/article/beyo...
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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.
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This is happening this week on 6-Nov at 4 pm at LSE, a book launch seminar for People-led Development in Hanoi (Routledge, 2026). For more details, see below 👇
New LSE Geography seminar with the Urban Salon on 6-Nov, 4pm, featuring Hoai Anh Tran (Malmö University) presenting her new book, "People-led Development" in Hanoi, w/ discussants, Hanh-An Trinh and @maranogueira.bsky.social. Event details and registration on this page: www.lse.ac.uk/events/peopl...
November 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is happening this week on 6-Nov at 4 pm at LSE, a book launch seminar for People-led Development in Hanoi (Routledge, 2026). For more details, see below 👇
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"He must earn 0.5 yuan a minute (about 5p) so as not to run at a loss, which means a delivery every four minutes. The 20 minutes he takes for lunch costs 10 yuan. Urination costs 1 yuan – provided the toilet is free and he only takes two minutes – so he avoids drinking too much water on his shifts."
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review – startling stories of China’s new precarity
The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translation
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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That’s us!
With @mariegibertflutre.bsky.social @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social and others !
Viva multilingual geographies viva!
With @mariegibertflutre.bsky.social @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social and others !
Viva multilingual geographies viva!
New in TIBG:
'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary et al.
This intervention responds to the 'Geography in the World' series, shifting focus to the process of worlding geographies & practices of multilingualism in the academy.
doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo
'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary et al.
This intervention responds to the 'Geography in the World' series, shifting focus to the process of worlding geographies & practices of multilingualism in the academy.
doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
That’s us!
With @mariegibertflutre.bsky.social @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social and others !
Viva multilingual geographies viva!
With @mariegibertflutre.bsky.social @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social and others !
Viva multilingual geographies viva!
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New LSE Geography seminar with the Urban Salon on 6-Nov, 4pm, featuring Hoai Anh Tran (Malmö University) presenting her new book, "People-led Development" in Hanoi, w/ discussants, Hanh-An Trinh and @maranogueira.bsky.social. Event details and registration on this page: www.lse.ac.uk/events/peopl...
October 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New LSE Geography seminar with the Urban Salon on 6-Nov, 4pm, featuring Hoai Anh Tran (Malmö University) presenting her new book, "People-led Development" in Hanoi, w/ discussants, Hanh-An Trinh and @maranogueira.bsky.social. Event details and registration on this page: www.lse.ac.uk/events/peopl...
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🌍 New IJURR Spotlight On: Counting the City 🌆
How are big data and computational methods reshaping urban research?
This collection explores the promises and perils of datafication in understanding cities—bridging ethics, politics, and imagination.
👉 tinyurl.com/yc6333xa
How are big data and computational methods reshaping urban research?
This collection explores the promises and perils of datafication in understanding cities—bridging ethics, politics, and imagination.
👉 tinyurl.com/yc6333xa
October 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🌍 New IJURR Spotlight On: Counting the City 🌆
How are big data and computational methods reshaping urban research?
This collection explores the promises and perils of datafication in understanding cities—bridging ethics, politics, and imagination.
👉 tinyurl.com/yc6333xa
How are big data and computational methods reshaping urban research?
This collection explores the promises and perils of datafication in understanding cities—bridging ethics, politics, and imagination.
👉 tinyurl.com/yc6333xa
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Parlez-nous de…Guerre, exils intérieurs et extérieurs au Viêt Nam dans la littérature
📅 1er oct. 2025, 17h-19h
📍 La Parenthèse – Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon
Avec la participation de Thuân, Doan Cam Thi & François Guillemot
Rencontre culturelle co-organisée avec la BDL bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social
📅 1er oct. 2025, 17h-19h
📍 La Parenthèse – Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon
Avec la participation de Thuân, Doan Cam Thi & François Guillemot
Rencontre culturelle co-organisée avec la BDL bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Parlez-nous de…Guerre, exils intérieurs et extérieurs au Viêt Nam dans la littérature
📅 1er oct. 2025, 17h-19h
📍 La Parenthèse – Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon
Avec la participation de Thuân, Doan Cam Thi & François Guillemot
Rencontre culturelle co-organisée avec la BDL bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social
📅 1er oct. 2025, 17h-19h
📍 La Parenthèse – Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon
Avec la participation de Thuân, Doan Cam Thi & François Guillemot
Rencontre culturelle co-organisée avec la BDL bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social
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Découvrez le programme du Séminaire de recherche de l’Institut d’Asie Orientale (UMR 5062) pour pour le premier semestre de l’année universitaire 2025-2026.
En visioconférence, inscription en ligne : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio...
Programme détaillé : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio...
En visioconférence, inscription en ligne : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio...
Programme détaillé : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio...
September 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Découvrez le programme du Séminaire de recherche de l’Institut d’Asie Orientale (UMR 5062) pour pour le premier semestre de l’année universitaire 2025-2026.
En visioconférence, inscription en ligne : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio...
Programme détaillé : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio...
En visioconférence, inscription en ligne : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio...
Programme détaillé : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio...
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Ho CHi Minh City's expansion highlights challenge of state reform
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/ho-chi-minh-city-s-expansion-highlights-challenge-of-state-reform
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/ho-chi-minh-city-s-expansion-highlights-challenge-of-state-reform
Ho CHi Minh City's expansion highlights challenge of state reform
Foreign investment grows but megacity struggles to clear land for projects
asia.nikkei.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Ho CHi Minh City's expansion highlights challenge of state reform
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/ho-chi-minh-city-s-expansion-highlights-challenge-of-state-reform
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/ho-chi-minh-city-s-expansion-highlights-challenge-of-state-reform
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New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies
This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical an...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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If you would like a sneak peek at our special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, have a look at some of the commentaries that have come out already in OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/home/DDS
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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August 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
If you would like a sneak peek at our special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, have a look at some of the commentaries that have come out already in OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/home/DDS
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Digital Twins special issue in New Media & Society edited by Christoph Borbach, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Tristan Thielmann. 15 papers including one by Oliver Dawkins & myself. Interdisciplinary exploration of the conceptualisation and practices of digital twinning. journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8
New Media & Society - Volume 27, Number 8
Table of contents for New Media & Society, 27, 8
journals.sagepub.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Digital Twins special issue in New Media & Society edited by Christoph Borbach, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Tristan Thielmann. 15 papers including one by Oliver Dawkins & myself. Interdisciplinary exploration of the conceptualisation and practices of digital twinning. journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8
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Our 'Informational Peripheries' book is now published and out for the world to read in paperback and online free #openaccess.
Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social
It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4
@uclgeography.bsky.social
Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social
It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4
@uclgeography.bsky.social
Informational Peripheries
Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...
bit.ly
August 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Our 'Informational Peripheries' book is now published and out for the world to read in paperback and online free #openaccess.
Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social
It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4
@uclgeography.bsky.social
Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social
It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4
@uclgeography.bsky.social
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#NewReadingMaterial #RPVBooks
I never saw myself as an urban studies scholar until i started studying informal water provision and now I am interested in so much more than that. This book looks like it will be a great read.
I never saw myself as an urban studies scholar until i started studying informal water provision and now I am interested in so much more than that. This book looks like it will be a great read.
July 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#NewReadingMaterial #RPVBooks
I never saw myself as an urban studies scholar until i started studying informal water provision and now I am interested in so much more than that. This book looks like it will be a great read.
I never saw myself as an urban studies scholar until i started studying informal water provision and now I am interested in so much more than that. This book looks like it will be a great read.
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Hanoi becomes new retail battleground as 7-Eleven, GS25 move in
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Retail/Hanoi-becomes-new-retail-battleground-as-7-Eleven-GS25-move-in
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Retail/Hanoi-becomes-new-retail-battleground-as-7-Eleven-GS25-move-in
Hanoi becomes new retail battleground as 7-Eleven, GS25 move in
Convivence store chains step into Vietnamese capital from foothold in Ho Chi Minh City
asia.nikkei.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Hanoi becomes new retail battleground as 7-Eleven, GS25 move in
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Retail/Hanoi-becomes-new-retail-battleground-as-7-Eleven-GS25-move-in
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Retail/Hanoi-becomes-new-retail-battleground-as-7-Eleven-GS25-move-in
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New paper on density - asking how residents experience everyday densities as 'resource', 'threshold', & imaginary of the urban future. Open access. Such a pleasure to work with wonderful colleagues in Dar es Salaam on this.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Density as Threshold and Resource: Urban Life and Futures in Dar-es-Salaam
Cities in sub-Saharan Africa are rapidly urbanizing, producing new geographies of densification and sprawl. Amidst the debate about the current and future patterns of informal urbanization, the way...
www.tandfonline.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
New paper on density - asking how residents experience everyday densities as 'resource', 'threshold', & imaginary of the urban future. Open access. Such a pleasure to work with wonderful colleagues in Dar es Salaam on this.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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L’équipe de Parenthèses et 3 des auteurs de « Quand la Chine parle », venus présenter l’ouvrage au public vendredi dernier pour un moment d’échange passionnant.
July 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
L’équipe de Parenthèses et 3 des auteurs de « Quand la Chine parle », venus présenter l’ouvrage au public vendredi dernier pour un moment d’échange passionnant.
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Tomorrow is a historic day for Vietnam, when 63 provinces/cities will be merged into 34 & the district level of government will be eliminated nationwide. This photo essay shows workers changing signage at gov't buildings & provincial borders to reflect the new names. vnexpress.net/cac-tinh-tha...
vnexpress.net
June 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Tomorrow is a historic day for Vietnam, when 63 provinces/cities will be merged into 34 & the district level of government will be eliminated nationwide. This photo essay shows workers changing signage at gov't buildings & provincial borders to reflect the new names. vnexpress.net/cac-tinh-tha...
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🌍 L’Institut Convergences Migrations accueillera la 22e conférence annuelle de l’IMISCOE. Cette conférence internationale aura pour thème « Décentrer les études sur les migrations ».
📅 Du 1er juillet au 4 juillet
🕣 De 8 h 30 à 14 h 30
📍 Campus Condorcet
En savoir plus👉 swll.to/yq1pB2
📅 Du 1er juillet au 4 juillet
🕣 De 8 h 30 à 14 h 30
📍 Campus Condorcet
En savoir plus👉 swll.to/yq1pB2
L'IC Migrations accueille la 22ème conférence IMISCOE | Recherche à l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
swll.to
June 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🌍 L’Institut Convergences Migrations accueillera la 22e conférence annuelle de l’IMISCOE. Cette conférence internationale aura pour thème « Décentrer les études sur les migrations ».
📅 Du 1er juillet au 4 juillet
🕣 De 8 h 30 à 14 h 30
📍 Campus Condorcet
En savoir plus👉 swll.to/yq1pB2
📅 Du 1er juillet au 4 juillet
🕣 De 8 h 30 à 14 h 30
📍 Campus Condorcet
En savoir plus👉 swll.to/yq1pB2
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Présentation de l'ouvrage "Quand la #Chine parle".
👉 Librairie Parenthèses : le 4 juillet à 18h (parentheses-hk.com/soiree-chine...)
👉 Alliance Française de Jordan : le 5 juillet à 15h (afhongkong.org/community/ev...)
👉 Librairie Parenthèses : le 4 juillet à 18h (parentheses-hk.com/soiree-chine...)
👉 Alliance Française de Jordan : le 5 juillet à 15h (afhongkong.org/community/ev...)
June 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Présentation de l'ouvrage "Quand la #Chine parle".
👉 Librairie Parenthèses : le 4 juillet à 18h (parentheses-hk.com/soiree-chine...)
👉 Alliance Française de Jordan : le 5 juillet à 15h (afhongkong.org/community/ev...)
👉 Librairie Parenthèses : le 4 juillet à 18h (parentheses-hk.com/soiree-chine...)
👉 Alliance Française de Jordan : le 5 juillet à 15h (afhongkong.org/community/ev...)
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Pour notre dernière série de la saison, Cultures Monde va s’intéresser la semaine prochaine à 4 deltas et à leurs enjeux
💥 Delta du Danube : au rythme de la guerre
🏜️ Delta du Nil : la conquête du désert
🛢️ Delta du Niger : infiltrations pétrolières
🌾 Delta du Mékong : la submersion des rizières
💥 Delta du Danube : au rythme de la guerre
🏜️ Delta du Nil : la conquête du désert
🛢️ Delta du Niger : infiltrations pétrolières
🌾 Delta du Mékong : la submersion des rizières
June 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Pour notre dernière série de la saison, Cultures Monde va s’intéresser la semaine prochaine à 4 deltas et à leurs enjeux
💥 Delta du Danube : au rythme de la guerre
🏜️ Delta du Nil : la conquête du désert
🛢️ Delta du Niger : infiltrations pétrolières
🌾 Delta du Mékong : la submersion des rizières
💥 Delta du Danube : au rythme de la guerre
🏜️ Delta du Nil : la conquête du désert
🛢️ Delta du Niger : infiltrations pétrolières
🌾 Delta du Mékong : la submersion des rizières