Associate professor @UoNGeography // writing on technology, property & bureaucracy //
London
Joined August 2012
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Tom Cowan retweeted
🚨 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…
Tom Cowan retweeted
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…
Tom Cowan retweeted
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
Tom Cowan retweeted
📢 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 👇
Tom Cowan retweeted
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. 👇
Tom Cowan retweeted
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.⤵️
Tom Cowan retweeted
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.
Tom Cowan retweeted
An open letter to the @uniofleicester from the PGRs in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
@GeologyLeics @LeicesterGeog
Tom Cowan retweeted
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
ALT Group of men watching and photographing a small drone flying in a clear blue sky over a rural area with trees and buildings.
ALT Title and abstract for 'High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India' by Thomas Cowan in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
Tom Cowan retweeted
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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Tom Cowan retweeted
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 🧵
Tom Cowan retweeted
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
ALT A photograph of a picket line filled with UCU signs at the University of Nottingham south entrance.
Tom Cowan retweeted
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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ALT A photo of snacks inside a pick bag.
Tom Cowan retweeted
People now collapsing in the street with organ failure and dying in Gaza due to extreme malnutrition because Israel blocks world organizations from delivering food into Gaza.
The group of private contractors Israel permits routinely massacres Gazans in line for tiny rations:
Tom Cowan retweeted
"I operated on an 11yr old girl with a terrible explosive injury to her chest.. she wont be able to eat or drink for weeks.. she is entirely reliant on liquid tube feeding & we are struggling to find any for her.. she will die otherwise"
NHS surgeon @maynard_nick from Gaza
Tom Cowan retweeted
Every morning and every day we wake up to this. We will remember those that obscured the fact that genocide was taking place. We will see those in our institutions who seek to punish people who speak out on complicity. And we do see those who stay silent.
Tom Cowan retweeted
13 children murdered by Israel while queuing for food, with the full, active support of the US, British and EU governments - never forget, never forgive
