Thanks to everyone who's reposted this. Much appreciated!

A request for help!
If you use 'A Student's Introduction to Geographical Thought' in your teaching, pls let me know? Would be really helpful to know the book's influence/impact. (reply/DM/email all OK). Thanks! 🙏🏼😊
#Geothought
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You're all just works in progress, seeking acceptance..

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There are 32 active conflicts around the world. While bullets & bombs are immediate instruments of destruction, maps play a significant role in shaping conflict & can be twisted into instruments of dehumanisation & manipulation.
#geographer Doug Specht

blog.geographydirections.com/2024/04/23/gaz…

A good reminder of responsibilities for those of us who manage colleagues.

Universities sell “global” experience but are in a shambles when students assert global solidarities or acknowledge the historical and ongoing global inequalities that are manifest in the establishment and maintenance of the university itself. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Been thinking for a while I'd like to read this.

Second year Geography at YSJU students enjoying the sunny sights of Edinburgh. Thankyou Roberto Valiente for the urban green space walking tour ☀️
Pauline Couper School of Humanities

Latest from me: A radical politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Guy Shrubsole Lewis Winks

Why is it a fundamental duty of government to reward hard work? Cant it let us get on with our lives, doing forestry, looking at the stars, playing the banjolele, being a lollipop lady, having rubbish coffee at a motorway service station?

'The companies will try to entice us by saying their seeds are ‘better.’ Then we’ll become dependent on seeds that you can’t replant. Our seeds are from this soil. It’s colonialism to say what seeds we can use and how to use them.” - Faustina Banakwoyem thenation.com/article/world/…

I have been waiting this review paper for a while❤️! Grain size matters! Time to grab a chair and crunch.
doi.org/10.1146/annure…

Research Fellow Job Opportunity at the Institute for Social Justice. Areas of particular interest include participatory and co-productive research; racial justice research; and work with children and young people or disabled and neurodiverse communities. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/043-24

my brilliant ✨ sisters- comrade Dr Rabea M. Khan and Jasmine K Gani wrote an indispensable article on positionality statements. if you feel seen/ singled out: re-read it as a labour of anti-colonial revolutionary feminist love. i learned so much. 🙏🏾✨academic.oup.com/isq/article/68…

A few weeks ago I got a whiteboard on my office wall. This week a student looked up at it, asked for pens, stood up & began writing. As the tutorial ended he took a photo of it: the basics of his dissertation proposal. And that's exactly why I wanted a whiteboard on my wall.

Want to champion the next generation of geographers?

If you know of a year 12 student who has a keen interest in the subject, identifies as Black, Asian, or is from a minority ethnic background, why not encourage them to apply for the Encompass scheme?👉 yorksj.ac.uk/working-with-t…

The RGS-IBG Schools highlighting good practice & support for EDI provided by colleagues & organisations across the #geography community. Inc Decolonising Geography Esri UK & Akama & Geography at YSJU Encompass + more besides

Geographical Association #GAConf24

Thanks for thinking of us RGS-IBG Schools. Humbled being in the company of the others on that slide! Planning for this year's Encompass programme is well underway; activities happening in the coming weeks/months.