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Nancy Worth
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Associate Professor, Geography, University of Waterloo
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sklosterkamp.bsky.social
So delighted to see this piece out in @areajournal.bsky.social — a journal I value enormously for its sharp, thoughtful and boundary-pushing work in geography.

The article grows out of my research on eviction hearings and explores how legality is lived, felt and negotiated in court. ⤵️

#geosky
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New in Area:

'Fleshing out law: Embodied encounters and the material geographies of legal space' by @sklosterkamp.bsky.social

This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork in German district courts to explore how legality is produced through embodied encounters in courtrooms.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Sarah Klosterkamp (2025) entitled: 'Fleshing out law: Embodied encounters and the material geographies of legal space' with a black banner at the top. This paper explores how legality is made material, affective and meaningful through the human body. Drawing on courtroom ethnography conducted in German District Courts—particularly in cases of eviction and housing insecurity—it examines how legality emerges not only through texts and rulings but through bodily presence, sensory atmospheres and everyday encounters. Grounded in feminist legal geography and affect theory and building on the concepts of encounter and slow violence, the paper develops a conceptual framework around three interrelated modalities of legal embodiment: appearing, suspending and filtering. These modalities illuminate how bodies both absorb and resist legal authority—not passively, but through subtle acts of endurance, adjustment and refusal. By tracing the mundane yet charged practices of waiting, moving and being seen, this article argues for a more embodied approach to legal geography—one that takes seriously how law is enacted, lived and contested through flesh, posture and breath.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Please sign the petition to save Human Geopgraphy at University of Leicster
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November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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New commentary in TIBG:

'Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention' by @tylerb.bsky.social & @dcockayne.bsky.social

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in TIBG by Tyler Blackman & Daniel Cockayne (2025) entitled: 'Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention' with a red banner at the top. In this commentary, we draw on research on working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada, to expand on Bissell, Crovara, Gorman-Murray and Straughan's (2025) paper ‘What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home’. We corroborate and add to their analysis of attention in relation to working from home in two ways. First, we develop further how their analysis of attention relates to social difference in working from home settings. Second, we consider through additional examples how attention relates to a working from home politics. These points lead us to push for the importance of the multiplicious theory of attention that the authors outline in their paper, against the declension narratives that often accompany solely subtractive theories of attention that they critique in their conclusion. We emphasise a theory of attention that is ambient, bifurcated, open, complex and multifaceted, as well as one that is, under certain circumstances, subtractive. We see these former ideas of attention as more central to notions of presence and better foreground the broad range of subjective experiences of work and working.
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026

Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma

Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
Toronto 2026 | Summer Institute in Economic Geography
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October 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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sklosterkamp.bsky.social
✨ CfP AAG 2026, San Francisco ✨

Tabea Latocha and I are teaming up feminist fabulative futures and we’d love for you to join us.

Our proposed session explores how storytelling, speculation, and fabulation can help us imagine housing otherwise — beyond ownership, extraction, and displacement. 🏡🌿💭
Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco Feminist Fabulative Futures: Imagining Housing Otherwise In the midst of intersecting housing, debt, as well as climate and democracy crises, imagination becomes a political act. Feminist scholars and artists have long turned to the speculative and the fabulative to envision worlds that could be otherwise – worlds where care, interdependence, and collective dwelling replace dispossession, extraction, and foreclosure (McElroy 2023; Thieme 2021; Netzwerk Feministische Wohnforschung 2025). This session invites contributions that take seriously the feminist call to imagine differently in the face of deepening urban precarity. Rather than treating the housing crisis as a failure of politics and finance alone, we approach it as a failure of imagining housing and its politics radically otherwise. Following feminist and decolonial traditions of world-making (e.g. Haraway 2013), we ask: What narratives, aesthetics, and speculative practices can help us re-story housing beyond ownership and enclosure? How can fabulation-as method, theory, or art-expand what we understand as home, property, or repair? And how might feminist engagements with fiction, film, sound, and design open pathways toward inhabiting more just and caring futures? We seek creative, conceptual, and empirical contributions that explore how feminist fabulative thinking reshapes our understanding of housing and urban life – both in theory and in practice.
October 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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selling at the help desk throughout the conference! if you're not in birmingham this week and would like to order a copy, you can order one here - we'll post worldwide for free: forms.gle/dapke5HRDw1m...
August 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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tibg.bsky.social
#OpenAccess in Transactions:

'Living a "shadow life": The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough' by @victoriajejones.bsky.social

This paper contributes to understandings of the lived experiences of furlough and time out of work.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Victoria J. E. Jones (2025) entitled 'Living a "shadow life": The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough' with a red banner at the top.
June 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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jessaloomis.bsky.social
Consumers defer payments on 'Buy Now Pay Later' purchases, suggesting an affordability crunch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

In our new article @dcockayne.bsky.social & I explore how fintech affects relations to payment, wages & debt. Check it out!
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Geographies of Fintech and Everyday Life: Reconfiguring Spaces, Practices, and Scales of Digital Money and Finance
Financial and monetary technologies, understood both through their digital platforms and the materiality of mobile devices, are increasingly pervasive, and now shape the economic practices of individ...
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May 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏

⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025

📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au

📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p
May 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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gleemie.bsky.social
Why are universities pivoting to AI after initial panic about students cheating? @tressiemcphd.bsky.social gives a mini lecture on AI, politics, and inequality building on @dmgreene.bsky.social's work on the "access doctrine" www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...
Tressie McMillan Cottom on Instagram: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems."
3,069 likes, 125 comments - tressiemcphd on October 15, 2024: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems.".
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March 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM