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Associate professor @UoNGeography // writing on technology, property & bureaucracy //

 London
cambridge.org/core/books/subaltern-frontiers/C7AFB9376F61176080F3CF9B43B72905
Joined August 2012
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It lives! My book 'Subaltern Frontiers' @CUPAcademic is available now online and available everywhere from end of the month cambridge.org/core/books/sub… Thanks again to all who made it possible!
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Thom Davies@ThomDaviesMay 28
🚨 The University of Nottingham is cutting 600+ jobs. This includes 1 in 3 #geography lecturers: "I feel betrayed. I was told I would have certain modules and certain professors, and now I don't even know if the modules I've chosen for next year will run" bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyp…

Students show support for lecturers over university cuts

Students at the University of Nottingham voice support for staff whose jobs are at risk.

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@ucuMay 22
Picket lines are up at University of Nottingham this morning. 2,700 staff have been told they are at risk of redundancy. More than 600 jobs could go. These cuts are a choice. Show your support; reshare, comment or get down to the picket lines.
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Action- the administration says they are making 100% salary reductions in response to our marking and assessment boycott and that all other work from participants during this time is "voluntary." Response- We strike for two months straight. westbridgfordwire.com/univer…
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City building in Addis Ababa, as elsewhere, is not only about economics. It is a moral project, grounded in the belief that new buildings and infrastructure will generate growth and uplift the poor. In this new @FordhamPress book, I explore why that promise remains elusive
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📢 Call for Papers Labour, Nature and Technology: Rethinking Capitalist Subsumption 📍 King’s College London (in person, limited hybrid) 📅 18–19 June 2026 A discussion-led doctoral workshop + symposium. Thread 👇
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Neil Gray@NeilGray00Feb 25
It's finally out, thanks to @minorcomps. Amongst many great contributions, I have a chaprer in here entitled "Differentiated Spatialities of Subsumption and the Social Factory as Phantom Thesis." Available freely, but buy if you can to support radical independent publishing. 👇
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New paper on the geographies of capitalist subsumption — For those interested in subsumption, domination, Banaji, landed property and uneven development journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

Geographies of subsumption - Thomas Cowan, 2026

This article draws on heterodox scholarship on capitalist subsumption to revise core approaches within Marxist and critical geography. The article argues that a...

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We’ve put together a CfP on the Geographies of subsumption at this year’s RGS in London 1-4 September - get in touch if interested in joining!
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Fo anyone interested in the geographies of capitalist subsumption- we’ve put together a CfP for a session at the RGS in London 1-4 September. Get in touch if interested in joining.
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@DrTithi1917 @FeministOnMarx @oikeios @grundrza @PoMoGandhi @IliasAlami @MarionWer @HiteshPotdar @broseph_stalin @sorenmau
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Neil Gray@NeilGray00Feb 17
New book available for pre-order. It simultaneously spatialises autonomist Marxism and utilises the categories of operaismo for a renewed Marxist urban theory. Read for surveys of class/spatial composition, 'the tendency' and the social factory in the midst of urban revolt.⤵️
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New publication - ‘Geographies of subsumption’ - I draw on heterodox writing on capitalist subsumption to critique and revise Marxist geographers approaches to dispossession, uneven development and racial capitalism. Reach out for access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

Geographies of subsumption - Thomas Cowan, 2026

This article draws on heterodox scholarship on capitalist subsumption to revise core approaches within Marxist and critical geography. The article argues that a...

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Adam Ramsay
@AdamRamsayFeb 4
Replying to @schneiderhome
IIRC, the allegation that Samuel Corner had assaulted a security guard was widely used as justification for the proscription of Palestine Action. A jury, upon hearing the full story, has now refused to convict him of this. The argument for proscription lies in tatters.
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Hooray for jury trials and the good sense of ordinary people. Down with Elbit. Palestine will be free.
Adam Ramsay
@AdamRamsayFeb 4
BREAKING: jury refuses to convict Palestine activists who smashed up military equipment in Filton trial
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An open letter to the @uniofleicester from the PGRs in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment @GeologyLeics @LeicesterGeog
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New #OpenAccess paper published in TIBG by Thomas Cowan (@UoNGeography) 📢👇 📄 'High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India' Read the full paper 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/tran.70036
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Title and abstract for 'High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India' by Thomas Cowan in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

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Welcome to Week 2 of strike action! While there are no picket lines this week, there are still plenty of events taking place.
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Let’s get Your Party over the line! 🚩 We launched an open letter last Friday — sign here 👉 ourparty.org.uk Here’s a thread to explain everything 🧵
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Strike action is ON!!! Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices. #StopTheCuts #SaveHE
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A MASSIVE thank you to the multiple members of @leicesterucu for showing up and showing solidarity on the first day! Not to mention the snacks! ✊ ✊ ✊
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