Sara Fregonese
@sarafregonese.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Geography, University of Birmingham, UK.
Interested in the connections between geopolitics and urban everyday life.
www.atmoct.org
Interested in the connections between geopolitics and urban everyday life.
www.atmoct.org
Some of us at atmoct.org submitted evidence for a report, published today and calling for a overhaul of UK counterterrorism. Its recommendation to revise the UK definition of terrorism is partly based on our research on everyday understandings of terrorism.
binghamcentre.biicl.org/newsitems/18...
binghamcentre.biicl.org/newsitems/18...
Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice publishes its final report
Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice publishes its final report
binghamcentre.biicl.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Some of us at atmoct.org submitted evidence for a report, published today and calling for a overhaul of UK counterterrorism. Its recommendation to revise the UK definition of terrorism is partly based on our research on everyday understandings of terrorism.
binghamcentre.biicl.org/newsitems/18...
binghamcentre.biicl.org/newsitems/18...
Very grateful for the invitation to deliver the closing plenary at the Congresso Geografico Italiano next week in Turin: www.geotune.it/cgi/
August 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Very grateful for the invitation to deliver the closing plenary at the Congresso Geografico Italiano next week in Turin: www.geotune.it/cgi/
August 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
In light of Keir Starmer's remarks on #terrorism after #southport this morning, this piece written by myself and @psimpy.bsky.social encourages a new debate on what terrorism is and how it is perceived in the UK.
Data from www.atmoct.org
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/co...
Data from www.atmoct.org
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/co...
Collective perceptions of security threats: an evidence-based political debate is needed - University of Birmingham
One fifth of the UK public associates terrorism with the use of explosives and more than 70% thinks that explosions are a harbinger of a terrorist attack.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
January 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
In light of Keir Starmer's remarks on #terrorism after #southport this morning, this piece written by myself and @psimpy.bsky.social encourages a new debate on what terrorism is and how it is perceived in the UK.
Data from www.atmoct.org
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/co...
Data from www.atmoct.org
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/co...
📃🖋️ The www.atmoct.org team now have a book contract. Looking forward to more writing until 2027(!)
@psimpy.bsky.social
@psimpy.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 1:43 PM
📃🖋️ The www.atmoct.org team now have a book contract. Looking forward to more writing until 2027(!)
@psimpy.bsky.social
@psimpy.bsky.social
Check out our latest publications here:
atmoct.org/publications/
@proghumgeog.bsky.social
@geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social
More soon...
atmoct.org/publications/
@proghumgeog.bsky.social
@geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social
More soon...
Publications - Atmospheres of (Counter)Terrorism
atmoct.org
December 16, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Check out our latest publications here:
atmoct.org/publications/
@proghumgeog.bsky.social
@geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social
More soon...
atmoct.org/publications/
@proghumgeog.bsky.social
@geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social
More soon...
I submitted the latest manuscript coming out of www.atmoct.org today with @psimpy.bsky.social . Very ready to slow down for Christmas now!
Atmospheres of (Counter)Terrorism
www.atmoct.org
December 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM
I submitted the latest manuscript coming out of www.atmoct.org today with @psimpy.bsky.social . Very ready to slow down for Christmas now!
My current most listened podcast (up there with redhandedpodcast.com/) is Tyranny. Exposes the issue of authoritarianism with geopolitics dicussion, satire, and interesting (sometimes chilling) facts, one tyrant at a time. Episodes on US/CIA/tyrants links are 🔝
open.spotify.com/show/6r4DhTj...
open.spotify.com/show/6r4DhTj...
Tyranny
Podcast · Will Media - Antonio Losito · Chi sono i tiranni? Sono capi di Stato che rapiscono registi di fama per realizzare i propri film, che smerciano droga per mantenere i loro eccessi e che si pre...
open.spotify.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:33 PM
My current most listened podcast (up there with redhandedpodcast.com/) is Tyranny. Exposes the issue of authoritarianism with geopolitics dicussion, satire, and interesting (sometimes chilling) facts, one tyrant at a time. Episodes on US/CIA/tyrants links are 🔝
open.spotify.com/show/6r4DhTj...
open.spotify.com/show/6r4DhTj...
Geographers - for UG students:
2 Masters courses which I've had the pleasure to design, redevelop, and direct.
New: MA Cities, sustainability, & wellbeing: birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Redeveloped: MSc Research in Human Geography:
birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
2 Masters courses which I've had the pleasure to design, redevelop, and direct.
New: MA Cities, sustainability, & wellbeing: birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Redeveloped: MSc Research in Human Geography:
birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Cities, Sustainability, and Wellbeing MA - University of Birmingham
MA in Cities, Sustainability and Wellbeing provides a research-intensive educational approach to address local as well as global sustainability and wellbeing challenges affecting contemporary cities.
birmingham.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Geographers - for UG students:
2 Masters courses which I've had the pleasure to design, redevelop, and direct.
New: MA Cities, sustainability, & wellbeing: birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Redeveloped: MSc Research in Human Geography:
birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
2 Masters courses which I've had the pleasure to design, redevelop, and direct.
New: MA Cities, sustainability, & wellbeing: birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Redeveloped: MSc Research in Human Geography:
birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
We have a new article out in Progress in Human Geography with the amazing team at www.atmoct.org
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism - Sara Fregonese, Paul Simpson, Damien Masson, Simon Runkel, Carrie Ann Benjamin, Samuel Berlin, Katharina Ciax, Angeliki Drongiti, 2024
How are terror threats and counterterrorism measures experienced in everyday urban spaces? We argue that thinking atmospherically about the spaces of urban enco...
journals.sagepub.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:53 PM
We have a new article out in Progress in Human Geography with the amazing team at www.atmoct.org
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....