Simone Tulumello
@simtulum.bsky.social
From Palermo, based in Lisbon. Human geography at ICS-ULisboa. Housing, violence, imaginaries, uneven development, semi-periphery.
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Simone Tulumello
@simtulum.bsky.social
· Sep 17
I'm new here because y'all left Twitter and I'm missing the good old day of scholarly debate there. So I'll be posting some of my works here to hopefully connect with folks with similar interests. 1/
the call for @ISA_RC21 Vienna is up and running. At #95, you'll find the call for the unpretentiously titled session "Still arguing over gentrification? Urban theory for the end of the world (or capitalism)" - chaired by me and Niccolò Cuppini. Go for it! rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts - RC21 Vienna 2026
Call for Abstracts is now open! The sessions for the RC21 Conference are set – now it’s your turn to contribute! See the accepted sessions below Call for Abstracts is now open! See the accepted sessio...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
the call for @ISA_RC21 Vienna is up and running. At #95, you'll find the call for the unpretentiously titled session "Still arguing over gentrification? Urban theory for the end of the world (or capitalism)" - chaired by me and Niccolò Cuppini. Go for it! rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-abs...
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Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter)
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
Professor of History | H-Net Job Guide
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November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter)
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
They had misread the planetary in planetary urbanisation
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
They had misread the planetary in planetary urbanisation
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Cairo road, by Sara Salem. Powerful intervention on street naming and de/colonial futures on @antipodeonline.bsky.social
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
Intervention—“Cairo Road” - Antipode Online
Sara Salem, London School of Economics and Political Science Growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, I distinctly remember Cairo Road, one of Lusaka’s main thoroughfares named after the city my father was from....
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November 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Cairo road, by Sara Salem. Powerful intervention on street naming and de/colonial futures on @antipodeonline.bsky.social
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
Rereading Elizabeth Hinton's From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. Fundamental reading to demify many myths about crime, race and policy (like, that there is fundamental difference between GOP and Dems on crime control)
news.harvard.edu/gazette/book...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/book...
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
A book recommendation by Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
news.harvard.edu
November 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Rereading Elizabeth Hinton's From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. Fundamental reading to demify many myths about crime, race and policy (like, that there is fundamental difference between GOP and Dems on crime control)
news.harvard.edu/gazette/book...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/book...
Outlaw Capital, the poweful book by Jennifer Tucker, reviewed on @antipodeonline.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2025/10/03/o...
Outlaw Capital: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development - Antipode Online
Beverley Mullings (University of Toronto) on Jennifer L. Tucker’s Outlaw Capital: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development Read Review
antipodeonline.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Outlaw Capital, the poweful book by Jennifer Tucker, reviewed on @antipodeonline.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2025/10/03/o...
Genocide is a feminist issue - a very promising special issue of Gender, Place and Culture
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3...
Gender, Place & Culture
Genocide is a feminist issue. Volume 32, Issue 10 of Gender, Place & Culture
www.tandfonline.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Genocide is a feminist issue - a very promising special issue of Gender, Place and Culture
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3...
had this surreal X-spat with a bunch of US liberals+fascists+copbots+(and this is fundamental)cop-scholars on policing, crime - started from the simple affirmation by a liberal activist that the best way to improve public transit in Atlanta is to fill stations with cops... 1/
October 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
had this surreal X-spat with a bunch of US liberals+fascists+copbots+(and this is fundamental)cop-scholars on policing, crime - started from the simple affirmation by a liberal activist that the best way to improve public transit in Atlanta is to fill stations with cops... 1/
the NYTimes is an amazing source to see liberals realising worlds exist and sistematically missing the point. But happy to see in NY someone realised the US South exist AND that it is a bit more complicated than hillibillies vs the "Black middle class": www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o... 1/3
The “Souths” of the “Wests”. Southern critique and comparative housing studies in Southern Europe and USA
Southern urban critique has enriched our understanding of global uneven development, but often ended up constructing a dichotomous understanding of two apparently homogeneous fields: the Global Nor...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
the NYTimes is an amazing source to see liberals realising worlds exist and sistematically missing the point. But happy to see in NY someone realised the US South exist AND that it is a bit more complicated than hillibillies vs the "Black middle class": www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o... 1/3
"it may attempt too much, but it definitely delivers a lot of elements from which good, honest, reflexive urban scholarship is made": my review of Saila Maria's Transgressive City-Making and Governance is out on Housing Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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October 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"it may attempt too much, but it definitely delivers a lot of elements from which good, honest, reflexive urban scholarship is made": my review of Saila Maria's Transgressive City-Making and Governance is out on Housing Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We should literally defund all natural and biological science, not to speak of innovation and tech d development, and spend a few decades only reading poetry
www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/s...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/s...
Meet the scientists sounding the alarm about the doomsday risks of mirror life | CNN
Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.
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October 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We should literally defund all natural and biological science, not to speak of innovation and tech d development, and spend a few decades only reading poetry
www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/s...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/s...
Best thing of David Harvey's books? It takes usually three or four lines to explain why economists' bullshit is bullshit
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Best thing of David Harvey's books? It takes usually three or four lines to explain why economists' bullshit is bullshit
non-requested advice: if I was whatever Palestinian organisation will have any role in the management of #Gaza in the next few weeks, the very first thing I would do (right after bringing food and water, but right before anything else) would be to build/update the land registry and cadastre. 1/2
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
non-requested advice: if I was whatever Palestinian organisation will have any role in the management of #Gaza in the next few weeks, the very first thing I would do (right after bringing food and water, but right before anything else) would be to build/update the land registry and cadastre. 1/2
I'm about to fly back to Lisbon after two days at this powerful workshop at TU Darmstadt. Having to speak of violence against the urban, couldn't not using Gaza's urbicide and Trump/Blair plan as example. 1/
October 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I'm about to fly back to Lisbon after two days at this powerful workshop at TU Darmstadt. Having to speak of violence against the urban, couldn't not using Gaza's urbicide and Trump/Blair plan as example. 1/
The online lecture series “Cities at War” will start in two days. A truly global series of event, don't miss it
www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/events/onlin...
www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/events/onlin...
Online Lecture Series: Cities at War - Urban Studies Foundation
The online lecture series "Cities at War" is jointly organized by scholars from war-torn cities focusing on how military conflicts and their aftermath have produced and re-produced their cities.
www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org
October 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The online lecture series “Cities at War” will start in two days. A truly global series of event, don't miss it
www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/events/onlin...
www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/events/onlin...
Recently started to read Enlightenment Biopolitics
A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens,
William Max Nelson. Truly great book so far, well written and powerful argument on the paradoxical of "Western" political philosophy
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens,
William Max Nelson. Truly great book so far, well written and powerful argument on the paradoxical of "Western" political philosophy
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Enlightenment Biopolitics
A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the...
press.uchicago.edu
October 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Recently started to read Enlightenment Biopolitics
A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens,
William Max Nelson. Truly great book so far, well written and powerful argument on the paradoxical of "Western" political philosophy
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens,
William Max Nelson. Truly great book so far, well written and powerful argument on the paradoxical of "Western" political philosophy
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
"In tune with their time", what a powerful essay by Nasser Abourahme, came out in Summer 24, still extremely relevant - maybe even more after the Trump ceasefire
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/in-t...
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/in-t...
Nasser Abourahme · In tune with their time (2024)
www.radicalphilosophy.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"In tune with their time", what a powerful essay by Nasser Abourahme, came out in Summer 24, still extremely relevant - maybe even more after the Trump ceasefire
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/in-t...
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/in-t...
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Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera, eds. Space, Affect, Memory: Literary geographies in transnational and transdisciplinary comparison - @uclpress.bsky.social, October 2025 (print and open access)
uclpress.co.uk/book/space-a...
uclpress.co.uk/book/space-a...
Space, Affect, Memory
Space, Affect, Memory highlights the centrality of space in modern and contemporary culture, both as an object of study and as a concept that underpins research and creative practice. In so doing, thi...
uclpress.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera, eds. Space, Affect, Memory: Literary geographies in transnational and transdisciplinary comparison - @uclpress.bsky.social, October 2025 (print and open access)
uclpress.co.uk/book/space-a...
uclpress.co.uk/book/space-a...
This is a first, for me: received a manuscript to review (leading journal), full of fabricated references, including one of mine. Now I wish reviews weren't blind to ask the authors what they have in their minds (butterflies, I guess)
October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This is a first, for me: received a manuscript to review (leading journal), full of fabricated references, including one of mine. Now I wish reviews weren't blind to ask the authors what they have in their minds (butterflies, I guess)
Reposted by Simone Tulumello
"What is radical planning history?"
The final version of this piece is out in the latest Planning Perspectives (free access). It calls for alternative critical epistemologies in planning history. Really looking forward to the conversations this might spark!
Check it out here: t.ly/m8Erb
The final version of this piece is out in the latest Planning Perspectives (free access). It calls for alternative critical epistemologies in planning history. Really looking forward to the conversations this might spark!
Check it out here: t.ly/m8Erb
September 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"What is radical planning history?"
The final version of this piece is out in the latest Planning Perspectives (free access). It calls for alternative critical epistemologies in planning history. Really looking forward to the conversations this might spark!
Check it out here: t.ly/m8Erb
The final version of this piece is out in the latest Planning Perspectives (free access). It calls for alternative critical epistemologies in planning history. Really looking forward to the conversations this might spark!
Check it out here: t.ly/m8Erb
Reposted by Simone Tulumello
First day of term at Cambridge tomorrow. Here's an excellent book to inspire the teachers of the world for this academic year.
October 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
First day of term at Cambridge tomorrow. Here's an excellent book to inspire the teachers of the world for this academic year.
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Seminário sobre *Contra o comum* com os colegas da Universidade Federal da Bahia. Amanhã, 11h30 (Brasil) / 16h30 (Espanha), aqui:
Debate sobre *Contra lo común* con los compañeros de la Universidad Federal de Bahía. Mañana, 11h30 (Brasil) / 16h30 (España), aquí:
www.youtube.com/live/dS0j06C...
Debate sobre *Contra lo común* con los compañeros de la Universidad Federal de Bahía. Mañana, 11h30 (Brasil) / 16h30 (España), aquí:
www.youtube.com/live/dS0j06C...
Esquenta urbBA[25] Contra o comum: Uma história radical do urbanismo | Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago
YouTube video by Lugar Comum
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October 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Seminário sobre *Contra o comum* com os colegas da Universidade Federal da Bahia. Amanhã, 11h30 (Brasil) / 16h30 (Espanha), aqui:
Debate sobre *Contra lo común* con los compañeros de la Universidad Federal de Bahía. Mañana, 11h30 (Brasil) / 16h30 (España), aquí:
www.youtube.com/live/dS0j06C...
Debate sobre *Contra lo común* con los compañeros de la Universidad Federal de Bahía. Mañana, 11h30 (Brasil) / 16h30 (España), aquí:
www.youtube.com/live/dS0j06C...
For 15 years, Portuguese governments have treated housing as a financial asset. Now, the far right government can only resort to using public assets to line the pockets of the most predatory capitalism in Europe
www.publico.pt/2025/09/30/e...
www.publico.pt/2025/09/30/e...
Imóveis públicos geridos por privados serão arrendados a “preços moderados”
Governo quer entregar a concessão de 14 imóveis a entidades privadas, que, durante prazos alargados, de várias décadas, poderão colocá-los no mercado habitacional, cobrando rendas de até 2300 euros.
www.publico.pt
September 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
For 15 years, Portuguese governments have treated housing as a financial asset. Now, the far right government can only resort to using public assets to line the pockets of the most predatory capitalism in Europe
www.publico.pt/2025/09/30/e...
www.publico.pt/2025/09/30/e...
the dark side of the Third Way is also the ultimate version of the violence of planetary urbanisation: from state-driven gentrification, to genocide-enabled urban renaissance
September 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
the dark side of the Third Way is also the ultimate version of the violence of planetary urbanisation: from state-driven gentrification, to genocide-enabled urban renaissance
the Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union has released its draft report (link below). I mean, not that I expected much from VdL's far right Commission. But I couldn't imagine it would be so bad. In fact, it could not be worse. Mini thread 👇 1/
September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
the Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union has released its draft report (link below). I mean, not that I expected much from VdL's far right Commission. But I couldn't imagine it would be so bad. In fact, it could not be worse. Mini thread 👇 1/