Matina Kapsali
@matinakapsali.bsky.social
Urban Geographer
Postdoctoral Fellow @USForg @GeographyUOM
Feminist Geography • Social Reproduction • Grassroots Infrastructures • Urban Politics •🐈 • she/her
Postdoctoral Fellow @USForg @GeographyUOM
Feminist Geography • Social Reproduction • Grassroots Infrastructures • Urban Politics •🐈 • she/her
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🌸 My project has a home! 🌸
🔎 Everyday social reproduction, life stories, intimate spaces, relationships and communities.
Read more on the project's aims, methodology and outputs and stay updated on news ⤵️
urbancountertopographies.wordpress.com
🔎 Everyday social reproduction, life stories, intimate spaces, relationships and communities.
Read more on the project's aims, methodology and outputs and stay updated on news ⤵️
urbancountertopographies.wordpress.com
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
Congratulations 🥳 to @urbanstudiesfoundation.org Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Matina Kapsali for receiving Research Staff of the Year award! 👏 👏 👏 @officialuom.bsky.social @matinakapsali.bsky.social
Last week was special. Honored to be awarded Research Staff of the Year for the Faculty of Humanities @officialuom.bsky.social
Grateful that efforts get recognized—and even more grateful for the incredible people beside me.
Special thanks to Sarah @smhall.bsky.social for always being there. 🌸🙏✨
Grateful that efforts get recognized—and even more grateful for the incredible people beside me.
Special thanks to Sarah @smhall.bsky.social for always being there. 🌸🙏✨
September 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Congratulations 🥳 to @urbanstudiesfoundation.org Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Matina Kapsali for receiving Research Staff of the Year award! 👏 👏 👏 @officialuom.bsky.social @matinakapsali.bsky.social
Last week was special. Honored to be awarded Research Staff of the Year for the Faculty of Humanities @officialuom.bsky.social
Grateful that efforts get recognized—and even more grateful for the incredible people beside me.
Special thanks to Sarah @smhall.bsky.social for always being there. 🌸🙏✨
Grateful that efforts get recognized—and even more grateful for the incredible people beside me.
Special thanks to Sarah @smhall.bsky.social for always being there. 🌸🙏✨
September 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Last week was special. Honored to be awarded Research Staff of the Year for the Faculty of Humanities @officialuom.bsky.social
Grateful that efforts get recognized—and even more grateful for the incredible people beside me.
Special thanks to Sarah @smhall.bsky.social for always being there. 🌸🙏✨
Grateful that efforts get recognized—and even more grateful for the incredible people beside me.
Special thanks to Sarah @smhall.bsky.social for always being there. 🌸🙏✨
So happy this is out!! 👩🏽🍳📚🌍✍🏾🍜
Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working with 6 inspiring women of
Heart&Parcel to co-create CuiZine—an online zine exploring “The social lives of food” through a series of collaborative workshops. 🧵
Read and share widely!
#CuiZine #foodstories #zinemaking
Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working with 6 inspiring women of
Heart&Parcel to co-create CuiZine—an online zine exploring “The social lives of food” through a series of collaborative workshops. 🧵
Read and share widely!
#CuiZine #foodstories #zinemaking
August 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
So happy this is out!! 👩🏽🍳📚🌍✍🏾🍜
Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working with 6 inspiring women of
Heart&Parcel to co-create CuiZine—an online zine exploring “The social lives of food” through a series of collaborative workshops. 🧵
Read and share widely!
#CuiZine #foodstories #zinemaking
Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working with 6 inspiring women of
Heart&Parcel to co-create CuiZine—an online zine exploring “The social lives of food” through a series of collaborative workshops. 🧵
Read and share widely!
#CuiZine #foodstories #zinemaking
Last year, Nina Ebner & I ran a workshop on urban social reproduction w/ scholars & community orgs from Greece, Mexico & the UK.
This included a zine-making workshop capturing shared practices & challenges—a rich, collaborative experience! 📚✨
Read more 👇
This included a zine-making workshop capturing shared practices & challenges—a rich, collaborative experience! 📚✨
Read more 👇
🔔 How are grassroots infrastructures reshaping cities from below?
In this guest post, #USFPostdoctoralFellows @matinakapsali.bsky.social and Nina Ebner reflect on their workshop “Grassroots Infrastructures and Urban Social Reproduction”
📖 Read more: ow.ly/Wbzs50Wve57
#UrbanStudies #Infrastructure
In this guest post, #USFPostdoctoralFellows @matinakapsali.bsky.social and Nina Ebner reflect on their workshop “Grassroots Infrastructures and Urban Social Reproduction”
📖 Read more: ow.ly/Wbzs50Wve57
#UrbanStudies #Infrastructure
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July 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Last year, Nina Ebner & I ran a workshop on urban social reproduction w/ scholars & community orgs from Greece, Mexico & the UK.
This included a zine-making workshop capturing shared practices & challenges—a rich, collaborative experience! 📚✨
Read more 👇
This included a zine-making workshop capturing shared practices & challenges—a rich, collaborative experience! 📚✨
Read more 👇
Can’t wait to dive into this edited volume on Aesthetics and the City! Looks like @joeblakey.bsky.social and @amycbarron.bsky.social have done a fantastic job putting it together. 👏📚
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...
🔗More details: www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a...
July 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Can’t wait to dive into this edited volume on Aesthetics and the City! Looks like @joeblakey.bsky.social and @amycbarron.bsky.social have done a fantastic job putting it together. 👏📚
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
Announcing a new research project! In partnership with the University of Manchester’s new PGR Placement scheme, we’ll be welcoming a PhD researcher, Arielle Lawson, to the Working Class Movement Library archives this summer.
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June 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Announcing a new research project! In partnership with the University of Manchester’s new PGR Placement scheme, we’ll be welcoming a PhD researcher, Arielle Lawson, to the Working Class Movement Library archives this summer.
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Yesterday we held the 2nd Collective Care workshop "Transnational solidarities"
Huge thanks to all participants for their beautifully crafted talks. ✨🙏
While this was a closed event to allow for open discussion among participants, our website will be updated soon with reports and details.
Huge thanks to all participants for their beautifully crafted talks. ✨🙏
While this was a closed event to allow for open discussion among participants, our website will be updated soon with reports and details.
July 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Yesterday we held the 2nd Collective Care workshop "Transnational solidarities"
Huge thanks to all participants for their beautifully crafted talks. ✨🙏
While this was a closed event to allow for open discussion among participants, our website will be updated soon with reports and details.
Huge thanks to all participants for their beautifully crafted talks. ✨🙏
While this was a closed event to allow for open discussion among participants, our website will be updated soon with reports and details.
Nov: “Here are your revisions. Submit by July, no rush.”
Me: easy, plenty of time!
Me in July: 🫣 …better get started
Tell me I'm not alone 😅
Me: easy, plenty of time!
Me in July: 🫣 …better get started
Tell me I'm not alone 😅
July 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Nov: “Here are your revisions. Submit by July, no rush.”
Me: easy, plenty of time!
Me in July: 🫣 …better get started
Tell me I'm not alone 😅
Me: easy, plenty of time!
Me in July: 🫣 …better get started
Tell me I'm not alone 😅
📻 🎧Just wrapped a great 2-hour workshop with Athens activists: primary teachers & housing activists!
🎙️ We talked podcasting for collective/activist action, consent, resources (or lack of them) (time, funding), and cool ideas for collective podcasts + how unis/researchers can back them.
🎙️ We talked podcasting for collective/activist action, consent, resources (or lack of them) (time, funding), and cool ideas for collective podcasts + how unis/researchers can back them.
July 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📻 🎧Just wrapped a great 2-hour workshop with Athens activists: primary teachers & housing activists!
🎙️ We talked podcasting for collective/activist action, consent, resources (or lack of them) (time, funding), and cool ideas for collective podcasts + how unis/researchers can back them.
🎙️ We talked podcasting for collective/activist action, consent, resources (or lack of them) (time, funding), and cool ideas for collective podcasts + how unis/researchers can back them.
A busy week ahead with some really exciting events!
🎉 As part of the Collective Care project, we’re hosting two workshops. While both are closed to the public, we’ll be recording, editing, and sharing them on our website soon—along with a new podcast episode.
Stay tuned! ✨
www.collectivecarepr.com
🎉 As part of the Collective Care project, we’re hosting two workshops. While both are closed to the public, we’ll be recording, editing, and sharing them on our website soon—along with a new podcast episode.
Stay tuned! ✨
www.collectivecarepr.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
A busy week ahead with some really exciting events!
🎉 As part of the Collective Care project, we’re hosting two workshops. While both are closed to the public, we’ll be recording, editing, and sharing them on our website soon—along with a new podcast episode.
Stay tuned! ✨
www.collectivecarepr.com
🎉 As part of the Collective Care project, we’re hosting two workshops. While both are closed to the public, we’ll be recording, editing, and sharing them on our website soon—along with a new podcast episode.
Stay tuned! ✨
www.collectivecarepr.com
At the @atgender.bsky.social conference today for our panel.
Very interesting discussions on social infrastructures, abolitionist care, urban commodification and police violence.
Barcelona — it’s been such a pleasure. See you soon! 🤩
Very interesting discussions on social infrastructures, abolitionist care, urban commodification and police violence.
Barcelona — it’s been such a pleasure. See you soon! 🤩
July 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
At the @atgender.bsky.social conference today for our panel.
Very interesting discussions on social infrastructures, abolitionist care, urban commodification and police violence.
Barcelona — it’s been such a pleasure. See you soon! 🤩
Very interesting discussions on social infrastructures, abolitionist care, urban commodification and police violence.
Barcelona — it’s been such a pleasure. See you soon! 🤩
A full day in Barcelona today! 📒 💻
It was exciting to meet and speak with colleagues at @bcnuej.bsky.social. The conversations around creative participatory methodologies, political movements, and care will stay with me for a long time.
Thanks so much for the invitation!
It was exciting to meet and speak with colleagues at @bcnuej.bsky.social. The conversations around creative participatory methodologies, political movements, and care will stay with me for a long time.
Thanks so much for the invitation!
July 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A full day in Barcelona today! 📒 💻
It was exciting to meet and speak with colleagues at @bcnuej.bsky.social. The conversations around creative participatory methodologies, political movements, and care will stay with me for a long time.
Thanks so much for the invitation!
It was exciting to meet and speak with colleagues at @bcnuej.bsky.social. The conversations around creative participatory methodologies, political movements, and care will stay with me for a long time.
Thanks so much for the invitation!
a great and much needed piece
New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
Who can “slow down” in the neoliberal academy? Reflections on the politics of time as an early-career feminist geographer in Switzerland
Abstract. Feminist geographers' calls for “slow scholarship” as resistance to the neoliberal university raise poignant questions about who can enact slow scholarship and under what conditions. In this...
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June 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
a great and much needed piece
Planning my trip to Barcelona to attend the 2025 AtGender conference and host a panel on "Political infrastructures of transformative justice" with 4 amazing speakers!
Can't wait! 🤩 🎉
www.atgenderconference.org
More info soon!
Can't wait! 🤩 🎉
www.atgenderconference.org
More info soon!
June 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Planning my trip to Barcelona to attend the 2025 AtGender conference and host a panel on "Political infrastructures of transformative justice" with 4 amazing speakers!
Can't wait! 🤩 🎉
www.atgenderconference.org
More info soon!
Can't wait! 🤩 🎉
www.atgenderconference.org
More info soon!
Excited to be in Barcelona this July and meet the @bcnuej.bsky.social team!
Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification"
💻 In person & online
📆 8 July
@uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification"
💻 In person & online
📆 8 July
@uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
📆📢Coming up, Jul 8‼️ @matinakapsali.bsky.social, postdoc researcher at @officialuom.bsky.social will talk at @icta-uab.bsky.social about the political and spatial dynamics of grassroots, feminist-oriented infrastructures emerging in migrant communities. Join us online!💻🔗 www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
June 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Excited to be in Barcelona this July and meet the @bcnuej.bsky.social team!
Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification"
💻 In person & online
📆 8 July
@uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification"
💻 In person & online
📆 8 July
@uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
Excited to see this happening tomorrow in Athens: International Workshop on Housing Rights in Times of Crises.
I’ve followed this project from the start in various roles—it’s so interesting to see it come together. Can’t wait for the insights & brilliant speakers!
I’ve followed this project from the start in various roles—it’s so interesting to see it come together. Can’t wait for the insights & brilliant speakers!
June 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Excited to see this happening tomorrow in Athens: International Workshop on Housing Rights in Times of Crises.
I’ve followed this project from the start in various roles—it’s so interesting to see it come together. Can’t wait for the insights & brilliant speakers!
I’ve followed this project from the start in various roles—it’s so interesting to see it come together. Can’t wait for the insights & brilliant speakers!
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
New paper out today by @laurajpottinger.bsky.social and me, making the case for more curious, diverse and heterodox economic geographies- and suggestions for how we can do this!
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘Male, Pale and Stale’? For More Curious, Diverse and Heterodox Economic Geographies
With this paper we directly address critiques made of mainstream, self-defined Economic Geography as a ‘male, pale and stale’ subdiscipline, proposing that more constructive conversations require ope....
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June 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
New paper out today by @laurajpottinger.bsky.social and me, making the case for more curious, diverse and heterodox economic geographies- and suggestions for how we can do this!
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
What does building an ethics of care in academia mean?
@bcnuej.bsky.social's "Ethics of Care framework" invites us to reflect on our research spaces—and to adopt or demand healthier, more humane working conditions in an increasingly hostile academic world.
www.bcnuej.org/2025/05/30/n...
@bcnuej.bsky.social's "Ethics of Care framework" invites us to reflect on our research spaces—and to adopt or demand healthier, more humane working conditions in an increasingly hostile academic world.
www.bcnuej.org/2025/05/30/n...
June 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
What does building an ethics of care in academia mean?
@bcnuej.bsky.social's "Ethics of Care framework" invites us to reflect on our research spaces—and to adopt or demand healthier, more humane working conditions in an increasingly hostile academic world.
www.bcnuej.org/2025/05/30/n...
@bcnuej.bsky.social's "Ethics of Care framework" invites us to reflect on our research spaces—and to adopt or demand healthier, more humane working conditions in an increasingly hostile academic world.
www.bcnuej.org/2025/05/30/n...
Amaziiiiiing!
Check out @cosminpopan.bsky.social 's work and consider donating to support his upcoming film!
Check out @cosminpopan.bsky.social 's work and consider donating to support his upcoming film!
The website 4 the upcoming film "Barça Ou Barzakh" is live! barcaoubarzakh.com It features a selection of evocative stills, short introductions to the main characters, as well as the team behind the project. I'm also launching a crowdfunding campaign to support the production stage. Check and share
May 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Amaziiiiiing!
Check out @cosminpopan.bsky.social 's work and consider donating to support his upcoming film!
Check out @cosminpopan.bsky.social 's work and consider donating to support his upcoming film!
Inspiring conversations with Miriam Williams these days on care as a public and political ethics, collective shared responsibility and care-driven urban transformation.
Thanks to @smhall.bsky.social for organising it ✨
Thanks to @smhall.bsky.social for organising it ✨
May 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Inspiring conversations with Miriam Williams these days on care as a public and political ethics, collective shared responsibility and care-driven urban transformation.
Thanks to @smhall.bsky.social for organising it ✨
Thanks to @smhall.bsky.social for organising it ✨
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited
Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social & @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
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Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social & @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
buff.ly/sM4Uta3
May 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited
Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social & @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
buff.ly/sM4Uta3
Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social & @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
buff.ly/sM4Uta3
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
I'm excited to share that SSAHE will be holding a joint book launch for myself and Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson on 5 June at 5pm online, with Umut Erel as discussant!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borderingm....
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borderingm....
Bordering/mothering online book launch
Launching Bordering social reproduction by Rachel Rosen + Eve Dickson, and Borders, Citizenship, + Pregnancy by Gwyneth Lonergan.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'm excited to share that SSAHE will be holding a joint book launch for myself and Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson on 5 June at 5pm online, with Umut Erel as discussant!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borderingm....
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borderingm....
Spent the morning at Gorton’s Community Centre today — cooking, dancing, and learning with some amazing people. What a brilliant experience! If you get the chance, I really recommend volunteering with Heart & Parcel; such inspiring work bringing communities together through food and language. 🌸🌳🌻🥔🥕🌽
May 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Spent the morning at Gorton’s Community Centre today — cooking, dancing, and learning with some amazing people. What a brilliant experience! If you get the chance, I really recommend volunteering with Heart & Parcel; such inspiring work bringing communities together through food and language. 🌸🌳🌻🥔🥕🌽
Reposted by Matina Kapsali
Does Geography have a (working) class problem?
If you don't already know the answer, this should help;
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ps fwiw, most chippies where I'm from are owned by Greek or Chinese families, but funnily enough this isn't even considered.
If you don't already know the answer, this should help;
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ps fwiw, most chippies where I'm from are owned by Greek or Chinese families, but funnily enough this isn't even considered.
A taste for deprivation? Fish, chips and leaving the European Union
This paper explores the relationship between food culture and political behaviour through the lens of the United Kingdom’s referendum on leaving the E…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Does Geography have a (working) class problem?
If you don't already know the answer, this should help;
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ps fwiw, most chippies where I'm from are owned by Greek or Chinese families, but funnily enough this isn't even considered.
If you don't already know the answer, this should help;
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ps fwiw, most chippies where I'm from are owned by Greek or Chinese families, but funnily enough this isn't even considered.
Looking forward to tomorrow's Methods Fair.
I’ll be thinking with this: "What happens when those who are usually researched… become the researchers?" Power shifts, new knowledges, and unexpected insights.
#MethodsFair #ResearchJustice #FeministResearch
@methodsmcr.bsky.social
I’ll be thinking with this: "What happens when those who are usually researched… become the researchers?" Power shifts, new knowledges, and unexpected insights.
#MethodsFair #ResearchJustice #FeministResearch
@methodsmcr.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Looking forward to tomorrow's Methods Fair.
I’ll be thinking with this: "What happens when those who are usually researched… become the researchers?" Power shifts, new knowledges, and unexpected insights.
#MethodsFair #ResearchJustice #FeministResearch
@methodsmcr.bsky.social
I’ll be thinking with this: "What happens when those who are usually researched… become the researchers?" Power shifts, new knowledges, and unexpected insights.
#MethodsFair #ResearchJustice #FeministResearch
@methodsmcr.bsky.social