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Very much looking forward to today’s event! 🍀 Dom Davies City, University of London

You can basically tell the story of neoliberalism via the shift from 'public works' to 'infrastructure'. So here it is! Spoke to Dom Davies, author of one of my 2024 MUST-READS about the stories we tell about Britain's scaffolding & who gets to use it. novaramedia.com/2024/07/04/nov…

So excited this is out in the world. A book I've recommended to everyone who's had the misfortune to cross my path since I read it. But it's really that fresh and original! pod.link/1001507547/epi…

Check out Dom Davies in conversation with Moya Lothian-McLean for Novara Media about why it feels like nothing works in Britain anymore, following the release of his new book The Broken Promise of Infrastructure. Essential election day listening! novaramedia.com/2024/07/04/nov…

As blue turns to red in Stoke-on-Trent, it's a pleasure to see The Broken Promise of Infrastructure featured in today's post-election issue of The Knot, Good News for Stoke & Staffordshire James @ The Knot theknot.news/p/019-good-new…

Reeves is unapologetic about using state power to free up private capital to undertake major infrastructure and housing projects. It’s a spatial deliverism geared towards national energy independence and a shift, to quote Dom Davies, in popular ‘infrastructures of feeling’. 1/4

As Labour announces its new 'wealth fund' for infrastructure, Dom Davies warns against 'slipping into the same pothole politics that has cultivated the feelings of infrastructural improvement' without providing community empowerment The Conversation bit.ly/3Y40F86

A pleasure to write for This Week, Those Books about the spectacle of infrastructure ahead of the Paris Olympics... thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/paris-goes-f…

48 hours before the #Paris Olympics #thisweekthosebooks has exclusives from authors Stephen Clarke & Dom Davies. Paris-based Clarke on his new novel set at the Games; Davies on his study of infrastructure and can the Games rebuild and reimagine a city. open.substack.com/pub/thisweekth…

Rachel Reeves is cancelling a load of infrastructure projects - but why do politicians seem to prize rhetoric and made up 'fiscal rules' over actually building stuff? Well, I pored over this in an entire podcast ep with Dom Davies recently. Listen: pod.link/1001507547/epi…

Some sadly relevant pages on infrastructure and belonging in the far right imaginary

A recent article of mine. What would happen if, instead of society being geared towards travel and migration, it was designed based on people being able to stay in one place? Thanks to Dom Davies for inspo!

At a time when the demonisation of migrants is fomenting racist riots and the state is reopening detention centres, it is something small to map the counteractive effort of comics documenting migrant stories in an essay for this comprehensive new Routledge Companion.