🌏 UKRI Future Leader Fellow 🔎 Women's work & organising in global garment production 🔗 www.invisibleworkers.org.uk https://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3m3akxraaq22gA deeply disturbing talk this afternoon from Mark Bo at the London School of Economics on his new book Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds 🔥 A terrifying read on the dark underbelly of the new political economy of labour where coercion, digital capitalism & exploitation converge15 Oct 2025 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3akxraaq22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3m32vhiqhjc2vSpecial economic zones aren’t just trade infrastructure - they’re tools of imperial power & authoritarian control. 🚨New paper from @invisibleworkers.bsky.social Read on to learn how global production sustains empire & violence. 🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096262982500163513 Oct 2025 09:25 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3m32vhiqhjc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3m2qvnmh6gk2fNew in Area: What happens when academic institutions police solidarity? Dr Shereen Fernandez explores the disciplining of #Palestine solidarity & the radical potential of #friendship in resistance. Part of our Dialogues in #Radical Geog SI. Read 👉 https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/area.7005109 Oct 2025 10:02 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2qvnmh6gk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3m2m77oni3k2d👕Another stark reminder of the human costs of #fastfashion. 🤒In #India’s “castoff capital”, workers are falling ill recycling the world's discarded clothes. 📈Lung disease. Skin infections. Cancer. Via the The Guardian https://theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/07/indian-factory-workers-fast-fashion-recycling-panipat-discarded-clothing07 Oct 2025 13:10 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2m77oni3k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3m2jn5kkmz224🧵Once the beating heart of #UK manufacturing, #Leicester's garment industry is now on the brink of collapse ❓What went wrong? 👟On the ground, our new Invisible Workers colleague, Dr Evie Gilbert, uncovers a story of systemic neglect 🔗 Read on: https://www.invisibleworkers.org.uk/journal/leicester-clothes-the-world06 Oct 2025 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2jn5kkmz224https://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3lnxpm7e64k2mLet workers take you behind the scene's of #Jordan's clothing and footwear industry👕👀 Led by Katharina Grueneisl & our Invisible Workers team 📅Sat May 3rd ⏰4pm UK/6pm Amman 📍Online or in person at MMAGFoundation, Amman 🔗More info and link to register: invisibleworkers.org.uk/events29 Apr 2025 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnxpm7e64k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3lij7awi57s2a🚫GEOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORITARIANISM🚫 🌏CfP Royal Geographical Society Conference, Birmingham, 26-29 August 2025 📧Please send abstracts by 5th March 2025 #RGSIBG2519 Feb 2025 06:59 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3lij7awi57s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3lij7awi57s2a🚫GEOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORITARIANISM🚫 🌏CfP Royal Geographical Society Conference, Birmingham, 26-29 August 2025 📧Please send abstracts by 5th March 2025 #RGSIBG2519 Feb 2025 06:59 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3lij7awi57s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3lf2vwrid6c2b"There are enough garments in the world to clothe the next 6 generations!" A frequently cited claim... yet hard to evidence I crunched the numbers with BBC Radio 4's More or Less but found a lack of transparency masks the scale of fashion overproduction Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0k37dhv06 Jan 2025 10:20 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf2vwrid6c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3lf2vwrid6c2b"There are enough garments in the world to clothe the next 6 generations!" A frequently cited claim... yet hard to evidence I crunched the numbers with BBC Radio 4's More or Less but found a lack of transparency masks the scale of fashion overproduction Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0k37dhv06 Jan 2025 10:20 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf2vwrid6c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3lbrq4qgzqc2mOur @invisibleworkers.bsky.social team is running a creative methods workshop on body mapping next week, led by artist Elizabeth Alster 👩‍🎨🎨 It's open to all staff at #WeAreUoN More info👉 invisibleworkers.org.uk/events/call-for-papers-a3gzw-ctaej Spaces are limited! Please get in touch to join 👋25 Nov 2024 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbrq4qgzqc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3lbrq4qgzqc2mOur @invisibleworkers.bsky.social team is running a creative methods workshop on body mapping next week, led by artist Elizabeth Alster 👩‍🎨🎨 It's open to all staff at #WeAreUoN More info👉 invisibleworkers.org.uk/events/call-for-papers-a3gzw-ctaej Spaces are limited! Please get in touch to join 👋25 Nov 2024 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbrq4qgzqc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3lbk7hfq2xk2tExciting to see the 1st of our Dialogues in Radical Geography series out in print 🤩🔖 It's a MUST READ w/ crucial thoughts on how we save each other from "unsustainable intensity of work demands" in academic life 😰⌛️ Thank you, @jennypickerill.bsky.social! https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12981 More to follow 👀22 Nov 2024 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbk7hfq2xk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3lbk7hfq2xk2tExciting to see the 1st of our Dialogues in Radical Geography series out in print 🤩🔖 It's a MUST READ w/ crucial thoughts on how we save each other from "unsustainable intensity of work demands" in academic life 😰⌛️ Thank you, @jennypickerill.bsky.social! https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12981 More to follow 👀22 Nov 2024 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbk7hfq2xk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social/post/3lat7fcmmo22sHey #Cambodia watchers! I've made the move from the other place but miss the local chatter. So I've made a starter pack of people writing in/on/from the Kingdom of Wonder. Please share and follow, and let me know if you want to be added... go.bsky.app/Te5k6z7 [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Nov 2024 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:2tits5z5iesineckbbazqsde/app.bsky.feed.post/3lat7fcmmo22s