Excited to have a precis of my doctoral thesis published by Gender, Place and Culture. Worth a read if you want a sense of my research about public libraries and contested social infrastructure in Aotearoa, in a succinct form! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“While we underestimated the coalition’s willingness to sacrifice life for profit, we also believe that the government has underestimated how potent a coalition of shared interests to defend Te Tiriti can be.” — Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman.

"A housing market with bits tacked on doesn’t need many (if any) pure scientists"
Government shocks scientists and universities by halving funding for blue-sky research, raising fears it will worsen the brain drain to rest of OECD, which spends double on R&D that spent by NZ

Wow - this is a very grim day for scholarship & society in Aotearoa... Social sciences/humanities funding gone from our primary "blue skies" funder - "not-core" (whatever that is) science also not valued; funds reoriented to economic benefit. No coherent thoughts

www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mars...

After five and a half years, my thesis about the future of the public library in Aotearoa (and social infrastructure, public services and urban politics more broadly) is online and available to read!
It's up here in full: hdl.handle.net/2292/70357

Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens.

Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors.

#menasky, #geosky

palestine.araburbanism.com

Forensic Architecture show new maps demonstrating how ethnic cleansing is unfolding in northern Gaza via an intensification and acceleration of military tactics inc a new corridor aimed at enforcing large-scale displacement from the north.

gaza.forensic-architecture.org