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Nabeela Ahmed
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Human. Geographer.
Lecturer @ University of Sheffield.
urban margins; labour migration; exclusionary states; postcolony
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Join us for a full day of mobilisation at the University of Sheffield on 11/11/2025 from 11am to 4pm (no need to register)

Programme and more information here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Our panel "Making Space for Protest: Creative approaches to claiming & exploring urban resistance space" stoked so much energy and inspiration thanks to our excellent, generous and generative panellists 👏 at 2025 @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference
August 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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We have organised this exhibition with our students to archive and celebrate the Sheffield encampment that ran for 92 days last year. If you are around Sheffield on 22-23 July, please visit us at Bloc Projects on Eyre Street #FreePalestine
July 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
#AsianDubFoundation still bang on 2 decades on #endborders
May 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
New paper out in #openaccess on role of infrastructure in territorial stigmatisation Available here: www.ijurr.org/article/infr...
The stigmas faced by labour migrants in Indian cities gained global attention during the Covid-19 response. This paper shows how such stigmas are long-standing, reinforced and represented through the very urban infrastructures migrants help build

📖 www.ijurr.org/article/infr...
May 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
May 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Huge rally of staff and students today rejecting cuts at Sheffield 💥
April 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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This is how Israel came into existence and how it has sustained its existence. A country built on war crimes and crimes against humanity all the way down and no amount of liberal Zionist equivocating can erase that fact.
"The soldiers reloaded their magazines and kept shooting even after it was clear that no return fire was coming from the other side – and despite the cries of the aid workers who tried to identify themselves."

From Haaretz.

archive.ph/4vam4
April 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Interested in the role of urban infrastructures in territorial stigma? In IJURR's @ijurresearch.bsky.social latest online issue I draw on case of labour migrants to argue how spatial + social 'taint' interlock in complex, competing ways in Indian cities #urban #infrastructure #migrants #labour
INFRASTRUCTURE AS TERRITORIAL STIGMA: Labour Migrant Exclusions in the Indian City
The city as an exclusionary place for migrants is widely established across global literatures. Global cities—and the infrastructures that animate them—share practices of surveillance and bordering, ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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This isn't Gaza. This is the West Bank which is run by the PA not Hamas. It is being decimated, homes destroyed, over 40,000 Palestinians displaced so far with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Western MSM silence is deafening. Now imagine if this was inside Ukraine.
Th ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues! This is Tulkarem, the West Bank.
March 8, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Very useful set of insights here particularly on broadening and deepening our everyday engagement with UCU beyond ballots on industrial action, with ALL unions representing university staff and - for those of us working on challenging neoliberal violence - practicing what we pr/t-each
February 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
3 days left to submit to our IBG-RGS 2025 Annual Conference Panel on "Making space for protest." We invite submissions exploring creative approaches to claiming and protecting urban space for resistance and focusing on the 'right to city' as a protest space. CfP below👇 #RGS2025 🙏
Working on creative methods around urban protest and resistance from a geography perspective? If so consider submitting to our CfP - "Making space for protest" for #RGS2025. More info 👇 Deadline - 28th February 2025. With Architecture colleagues Goran Vodick and Stany Babu ✊
February 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Working on creative methods around urban protest and resistance from a geography perspective? If so consider submitting to our CfP - "Making space for protest" for #RGS2025. More info 👇 Deadline - 28th February 2025. With Architecture colleagues Goran Vodick and Stany Babu ✊
February 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Sheffield UCU Working Group on Palestine's second session on Workers in Palestine's toolkit is taking place tomorrow 4th Feb at 1pm

Sign up here:
forms.gle/R3QpFAU8YUmP...
Workers in Palestine toolkit discussion
We invite you to join our 2-part participatory online session introducing the ‘Organising toolkit for university workers’ for our University of Sheffield community. In this current climate of shared...
forms.gle
February 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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A scholar of fascism and authoritarianism on Tulsi Gabbard -- She's perfect for Trump's anti-democratic vision.

Notable are the several mentions of Hindu nationalism in this piece. Gabbard is supported by this far-right movement in America. It's dangerous for us all

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...
Opinion | Tulsi Gabbard Fits Right Into Trump’s Vision for America
Perhaps none of President Trump’s picks for his new cabinet embody his worldview better than former Representative Tulsi Gabbard.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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🚨Update from the Palestine coalition

We will assemble at Whitehall at 12 noon on 18 January and march towards the BBC. We call on the Met Police to lift the resterictions they have imposed to allow us to protest at the BBC.

#WeWillMarch

Full statement: palestinecampaign.org/we-will-marc...
January 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Very impressed this was put on by otherwise-disappointing Barbican (See censorshipatthebarbican.com ) 'the imaginary institution of india' on for 2 more days!
📸 Dr Pavan Mano reviews The Imaginary Institution of #India exhibition at the Barbican Centre, which 'reveals both the fundamentally invented nature of the modern nation-state as well as the often violent exclusions that sustain it.'

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Exiles in The Imaginary Institution of India
Dr Pavan Mano, Lecturer in Global Cultures, explores the Barbican
www.kcl.ac.uk
January 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Going to plan a few trips to West Yorkshire this year bradford2025.co.uk/whats-on/
What's on | Bradford 2025
From events to exhibitions, find out what's on during Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.
bradford2025.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM