Our master's degrees in Global Development and Development and International Business QMUL School of Geography! youtube.com/watch?v=O9QK6o…

If you are interested in the informal economy, you should listen to this great podcast with Surbhi Kesar who shares insights from her ground-breaking research on this topic! SOAS Economics SOAS Development Studies

Just out 'Stories from Smithfield: Markets and the Narration of London' free-to-access paper in the The London Journal by my talented PhD student Jack Hanlon (won the Curriers' Company London Essay Prize) - meat, gender and urban change 19th century to 1990s tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A round up of the wonderful books of my colleagues at CLaSP QMUL School of Business and Management claspblog.org/blogposts/g941…

NEW article out in EPE Environment & Planning: E on the Limits of Circularity, seen from #Tunisia s #Fripe #UsedClothing markets - as Fast-Fashion surplus swamps secondhand markets and curtails valuation work at the back end of the global value chain journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25…

1/6 It was an absolute pleasure to co-edit this special edition of Lumpen journal in collaboration with the Class Work Project. Centred around the theme of the just transition, it features writers from across the Global North and Global South...

BLOG: why write a book on 'post-work'? Why now? It's taken various iterations, over several years, and (Helen Hester and I) felt the need to make a much more significant intervention than a mere primer...🧵 autonomy.work/portfolio/post…

*Event* Save the Date: 27th Feb 2025 In honour of the memory and intellectual legacy of Ethiopia In Theory who left us last year, Queen Mary Politics and IR is hosting a dialogue event on the future of African Epistemologies as inspired by her work. Register here eventbrite.co.uk/e/dialogue-eve…

My latest piece in the The Conversation Africa theconversation.com/6-in-10-young-…

New article that seeks to challenge and extend antiwork thinking through an engagement with postcolonial studies and the radical Black tradition. Open access in Antipode onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Wrote this for British Journal of Sociology on the need for all university workers to get involved in organising esp. w/ redundancies in UK HE. It has easy, practical steps on organising ppl can do & more strategic reflections drawing on mine & others' experience in UCU onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

African cities in the 19th century: cosmopolitan urban spaces between three worlds. africanhistoryextra.com/p/african-citi…

Congrats to QMUL School of Geography student Jack Hanlon who has passed his PhD viva for a thesis: ‘The Place of Meat: Imperial Food Systems, Public Anxieties, and the Narration of London at Smithfield Market, 1868–1993’. And thanks to Profs Lynda Nead and Tim Cresswell for examining!

🚨 Our Global Corridor project has a new report w/ Haki Defenders Foundation “I was evicted and left homeless” - Exploring social and environmental (in)justice along the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project Covered this morning by the Guardian... theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

Announcing the CLaSP end of year event on 'Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology & Inequalities at the Technological Frontier', May 28- 29, QMUL School of Business and Management Ft. Kate Crawford, James Muldoon, Ana Valdivia, Milagros Miceli & Data Workers Inquiry Register: claspblog.org/events/materia…

Thrilled to share that my book "Making a Life: Young Men on Johannesburg’s Urban Margins" is now out with Wits University Press ! Book launch Love Books on 29 May, details to follow. witspress.co.za/page/detail/Ma…

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University - Sign the Petition! change.org/p/end-unnecess… via Change.org UK

i wrote about the collective obsession with productivity and what it means for our leisure and our labour. link in bio:

Frantz Fanon was born 100 years ago today. Over the years, Africa Is a Country has published a wide range of essays thinking with and against him. Some celebrate, others critique. All take him seriously. An inconclusive centenary thread: