PhD candidate @KingsIntDev @KCLgeography Research housing, property, political ecology, race and capitalism in and beyond London
London, England
Joined March 2011
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It was such an immense privilege to share the stage with @melnowicki and @K_Brickell presenting @DebtUrbanism research for the Social and Cultural Geog Journal keynote
Huge thank you @davidbissell for being such a wonderful chair
Amazing 3 days at #RGSIBG24
Shout out to PhD researcher @FraserWC who took to the #RGSIBG24 stage to give his first keynote - cool as a 🥒!
Thanks @lissdtp for funding his research internship with @DebtUrbanism study, carrying out national policy & FOI analysis of housing allocation rules regarding debt
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As far as labours of love go, this tops almost everything I have written (5 years in the making) and doesn’t do even a half measured justice to its sources of inspiration.
If anything it is, primarily,a homage to the poetic company of @Imanmersal’s work.
academic.oup.com/isagsq/arti…
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🏠 In Dakar, gardiens live in and protect homes under construction, often for the cities diaspora building from abroad.
They’re vital to the city’s rhythm, yet invisible in policy.
🔍 Fraser Curry explores this hidden infrastructure in our latest blog:
👉 kingsglobalaffairs.substack.…
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Just out in @DevandChg — my article "Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’".
It argues that Gaza’s devastation and supposed “reconstruction” plans are not ruptures but part of a long settler-colonial project of erasure.
doi.org/10.1111/dech.70014
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Call for Abstracts – IJURR Symposium on Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question. Deadline: August 22, 2025. Submissions and questions can be sent to: katherine.brickell@kcl.ac.uk, klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de and mnowicki@brookes.ac.uk. #urban #sociology
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👏 Congratulations to MSc Urbanisation and Development alumnus, @FraserWC, on the publication of his paper "Entangled lives: Land, property and guardianship in a changing Dakar", based on his LSE dissertation research.
🔴 zurl.co/3zulu
‼️It's out‼️
My new paper on land, property, and guardianship in Dakar, Senegal just published in @SocietyandSpace 🚨
It's my first solo-authored paper and one I've thought about for a long time
So happy to finally share it!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
The article follows the lives of three gardiens (property guardians) I came to know, living in the unfinished diaspora-built homes of Ouakam, Dakar
I develop the notion of entanglement to show how gardiens re-work property relations as a means of holding their place in the city
I argue entanglement illuminates different registers of agency and prompts us to reconsider the politics and possibilities of life in the interstices of property.
Thanks to @KCLUrbanFutures for helping me get this over the line!
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Today we remember Gurdip Singh Chaggar, an 18-year-old student, stabbed to death in 1976 by racists in Southall.
National Front leader Kingsley Read responded to the murder by saying: ‘One down, a million to go’
Between 1976-1985, there were 35 racist murders in Britain. 🧵
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New article from one of my PhD chapters is now out in @antipodeonline. Here I propose the notion of the ‘spectacular fix’ to describe how Indonesia’s new capital city is mobilised by the state. @kclgeography onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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📢Launching our new research project "Sensory Lives: Neurodiverse Children and Families in Temporary Accommodation" supported by @LeverhulmeTrust at @KCLUrbanFutures, @KingsCollegeLon with Rosalie Warnock
Check out our website with accessibility plug-in: sensorylivesproject.org
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Opinion: Angela Fonso, a parent and @SPBDcampaign Safer Play, Better Day campaign member writes about her concerns over @EalingCouncil Ealing Council’s proposals to close children’s centres in Southall and across the borough.
ealing.news/news/opinion/opi…
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Councils spend £1.6bn a year on 'temporary accommodation' for homeless families - which includes some of the worst housing conditions in the country.
But who is getting the money? A joint investigation between me, @Victoria_Spratt and @StephenD_ tried to provide an answer...
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Important new paper by @elaraks on housing and mould in Progress in Environmental Geography.
Please share!
Elara is a @KingsCollegeLon @lissdtp doctoral researcher with me and @PhilHubbard1 in Geography
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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New paper! 📣 We find that household access to running water is getting worse -- not better -- in some of the most affluent and expensive US metros, published today in Nature Cities.
Link to full article:
nature.com/articles/s44284-0…
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So excited to share the first paper from my PhD!
This new #openaccess paper in @progenvgeog examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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New special issue on ‘Housing Disruptions’ critically examining the digital transformation of housing and home. Edited by @DallasRogers101, @SophiaMaalsen and myself in Digital Geography and Society. Contributions as follows:
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New episode | Displacement Urbanism podcast 🎙️
Romola Sanyal & @deensharp talk about how cities & conflicts continuously reshape each other. They talk about the technologies & materials of urban conflict and the consequences for urban displacement.
zurl.co/znNa
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The biggest lessons are that fascism is not, in fact, exceptional, but very much a constant presence in mainstream politics in the postcolonial world, and that liberal politics in practice are ill-equipped to deal with any of our many crises, and often every bit as brutal.
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Delighted to share my new paper on contractual geographies with @geog_compass. My thoughts on contracts within legal geographical research methods. #legalgeography
doi.org/10.1111/gec3.70001
