This Antipode interview with Martin Arboleda on planetary extraction is three years old, but still very relevant and topical
https://antipodeonline.org/2021/04/20/interview-with-martin-arboleda/

Two lists of #OA journals in #geography, #planning, #UrbanStudies :
- https://simonbatterbury.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/list-of-decent-open-access-journals/
- https://aesop-youngacademics.net/list-of-oa-journals
If there's a #transport & #mobilities list, I would be very interested, else it is on my 2025 to do list!

As @simtulum noted elsewhere:
- shifts towards OA have been made in various languages: ES, PT, FR, ...
- it is mostly journals in English that "resist" this shift, while at the same time still being considered "better" than other journals...
@academicchatter

The only good news is that European lefts will stop telling the fable of a #Portugal that never existed in the first place

The multiplication of scams (fast-track review, hybrid journals, transfers to gold OA journals...) by corporate academic publishers simply shows the system is crumbling down. True "diamond" OA in journals held by uni depts and academic associations is the obvious, fair future

The call for the 4th edition of thr Lisbon Early Career Workshop in Urban Studies is open. Submit abstract+motivation by March 31
https://urbantransitionshub.org/2024/01/30/the-lisbon-early-career-workshop-in-urban-studies-4th-ed-ics-ulisboa-18-20-nov-2024/

#Violence and the production of space - special issue of Justice Spatiale / Spatial Justice I have edited with C Allaverdian and G Fauveaud
https://www.jssj.org/

One of the cool things in taking part in defenses of PhD projects and theses is realising how damn better new generations are compared to, at the very least, mine. Hell, I and my fellow candidates would had never managed to put together a project like those at that time

#airbnb wants more - well, capitalism always wants more. There's a simple solution to the relentless exploitation by platforms: banning for-profit short to medium term rental (true "sharing" happens outside corporate capitalism)
https://www.ft.com/content/4e353e02-c160-480c-a3ea-5fd324a4f850

Novo artigo. Defendo uma economia política da habitação, como instrumento para reconsiderar as trajetórias de longo prazo dos regimes de habitação na Europa do Sul. Afastando-me dos estudos comparativos, centrados na procura dos carateres que diferenciam os vários regimes, centro a atenção sobre a construção relacional dos contextos regionais do ponto de vista do desenvolvimento desigual, com especial atenção às dinâmicas de financeirização da habitação.
https://periodicos.ufrn.br/sociedadeeterritorio/article/view/32084?fbclid=IwAR0vuU-Wk6rQJdeP3exZ7k1ub863uQuuWG814SLtb8CiQ72lmlCnrHRjyh4

Evidence from Sweden, by Defne Kadıoğlu and Ilhan Kellecioğlu, that rental #housing #financialization affects profoundly tenants' quality of life
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anti.12981

"Not #gentrification, not touristification: Short-term rentals as a #housing assetization strategy" - interesting contribution to the discussion on the various layers of urban change (in Southern Europe and beyond) by Javier Gil https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07352166.2023.2242532

@Mattiasdebacker thanks! She's great, definitely better than the parents :)

As we are interested, besides ontology and materiality, on the epistemology of urban violence, we conclude each chapter with a section (Researching Urban Violence) where we exemplify how the conceptual work can be mobilised empirically and analitically. 3/3

By articulating political economy and vital materialism, we argue that urban violence can be framed as a precise category shaped by three interlocking trajectories:
the process of (capitalist) urbanization, the spatio-political project of the urban, and the concrete urban atmospheres in and through which the process and the project materialize, often violently so, in the urban. 2/

We start by arguing that urban violence is under-theorized because long-term theoretical problems with both "urban" and "violence", thereby building on the rich literature on these concepts.
What is the urban in urban violence? And how can ‘urban’ and ‘violence’ be articulated in a way that makes urban violence a category with both analytical and strategic power? These are the problems we engage with through a genealogical work. 1/

Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere, the result of some years of writing with Andrea Pavoni is out. The hardback is crazy expensive, but the paperback should be out in reasonable timing (hit me for a discount flyer for the HB or eBook) https://t.co/NIFl9wlcPM

While digging on the politics of housing financialization, found this excellent special issue on Eastern European cases
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13604813.2023.2229695

Looks like
Routledge has eventually censored the important Sexual Misconduct in Academia. Informing An Ethics of Care in the University (ed by
E Pritchard and D Edwards) because of the cease and desist letter of an anonymous PT lawyer. No information has been provided regarding the law firm and who is it representing (easy imagining where is this coming from). A global firm deciding to pick the side of power against the exposure of sexual misconduct. Shameful
https://malomil.blogspot.com/2023/09/e-nos-calamo-nos.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR3sr0k6s-9hsQYzhzlDfRYLG8rSEeHkUjkAxzcQCxMUmnAEn_sM8k8z18M

today I've finished listening
@evgenymorozov@quitter.se's The Santiago Boys. There would be much to say, especially on the West's pretense of leading the world in innovation and technology. Just listen the podcast, it's great

The @guardian and @lorenzo_tondo@twitterbridge.jannis.rocks having hard time to accept Italy has a powerful pacifist culture, or, when conspiracy theory is also the mainstream's purview
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/31/a-success-for-kremlin-propaganda-how-pro-putin-views-permeate-italian-media