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Sam Burgum
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urban researcher. author. editor. teacher.

CITY journal. Urban Institute (Sheffield).

urban movements, occupation, squatting, homelessness, roadside travellers, property, trespass, archives, politics of aesthetics.

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Last day at BCU
May 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Quick bit of research in London this week. The #streetlegal project with @streetskitchen.bsky.social “SK Lawless” clinic will look at role of legal knowledge in fighting eviction of rough sleepers & loiterers, and the powers being used to move people along. @bcusociology.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
30/4 - King’s X (7pm)

#squattinglondon book launch at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

Keeping some good company… @potentiaspace.bsky.social @dannydorling.bsky.social Shabna Begum, Isaac Rose, Don Watson…
April 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Talking about #squattinglondon at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk (a university whose dreaming spires were built by squatters from Headington Quarry) @plutopress.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Two book launches this week for #squattinglondon

28/4 Geography, University of Oxford. 4pm.
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

30/4 Housman’s Bookshop, King’s Cross, London. 7pm.
@housmansbookshop.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Book launch this week:

26/3 University of York. 3:30. Law and Sociology building, Hes East.

@cahr-york.bsky.social @uoy-sociology.bsky.social @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Great evening catching up with people at Freedom. One of my favourite spaces. ASS 50 years this year 🔥 An honour to be launching the book here. @freedompress.bsky.social @assquattheworld.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Three book launches this week:

5/3 @ubcgeography.bsky.social (online, 6pm GMT)

6/3 @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social (geography & planning, 12:30)

7/3 @freedompress.bsky.social @assquattheworld.bsky.social (freedom bookshop, 7pm)

@bcusociology.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Off to London town for a @city-journal.bsky.social meeting tomorrow.

📷 Meersbrook, Sheffield. Municipal park since 1887.
February 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
BOOK LAUNCHES (so far)

5/3 - UBC (online, 6pm GMT)

6/3 - Sheff Uni (12:30)

7/3 - Freedom/ASS (7pm)

12/3 - Birmingham City (5pm)

26/3 - York Uni (Law, 3:30)

30/4 - Housmans (7pm)

@assquattheworld.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social @housmansbookshop.bsky.social @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Tonight. I’m at the @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social launch of Isaac Rose’s “The Rentier City - Manchester and the making of the Neoliberal Metropolis”. @repeaterbooks.bsky.social @urbaninstitute.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Great few days at @unileiden.bsky.social thinking creatively, critically, and radically with archives. Great team behind the ERC Artives project www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/...
January 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Presenting in the same room as Einstein… funny how spaces are remembered, rendered significant, and imbued with authority… @unileiden.bsky.social @bcusociology.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Squatting London: the Politics of Property will be out on 20 Dec from @plutopress.bsky.social
November 15, 2024 at 4:46 PM