Associate Prof in the School of Geography, Development & Environment at UArizona. Wanderer of financial borderscapes. Heat, housing and finance. Views my own.https://bsky.app/profile/mtfkear.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mtfkear.bsky.social/post/3mckpmi43ms2oIf you're a member (or occasional member) of the AAG (@geographers.bsky.social), please join the AAG Econ Geog Specialty Group (@econgeog.bsky.social)!16 Jan 2026 18:20 +0000at://did:plc:o2cib44jpvtr2d7kh3646cpg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mckpmi43ms2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/mtfkear.bsky.social/post/3lwewmniwn22zCome work with me and my fantastic colleagues! The School of Geography, Development and Environment is hiring physical geographer at the assistant or associate level. Here are the details: https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/23641?c=arizona&sq=req2364114 Aug 2025 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:o2cib44jpvtr2d7kh3646cpg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwewmniwn22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mtfkear.bsky.social/post/3lnohqlgxak2cAs of today I am tenured. Happy and relieved. I have convinced myself that there is a wide wide gap between the hype and reality of the powers and security that this new status confers, especially in the US/Arizona today. Tell me I'm wrong...how can I best use my new powers for good?26 Apr 2025 00:21 +0000at://did:plc:o2cib44jpvtr2d7kh3646cpg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnohqlgxak2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mtfkear.bsky.social/post/3kdmuhk6ygs2jExcited to share my recent article, “Home thermal security, energy equity and the social production of heat in manufactured housing,” with coauthors Margaret Wilder, Karina Martinez-Molina, Laura McCann and Dugan Meyer in Energy Research & Social Science. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462962300378X07 Nov 2023 21:25 +0000at://did:plc:o2cib44jpvtr2d7kh3646cpg/app.bsky.feed.post/3kdmuhk6ygs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mtfkear.bsky.social/post/3kbl45igahb25Looking forward to sharing a new paper with awesome colleagues just accepted at Energy Research and Social Science: "Home Thermal Security, Energy Equity & the Social Production of Heat in Manufactured Housing"...Will get it on SocArXiv as soon as this asynchronous online course is ready for launch!12 Oct 2023 17:47 +0000at://did:plc:o2cib44jpvtr2d7kh3646cpg/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbl45igahb25https://bsky.app/profile/mtfkear.bsky.social/post/3kbl34aae4e2rLooks so awesome. Adding to adding @carlyschuster.bsky.social / Forecasts to my syllabus. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Oct 2023 17:28 +0000at://did:plc:o2cib44jpvtr2d7kh3646cpg/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbl34aae4e2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mtfkear.bsky.social/post/3kbl2pzw2y52uI use auto-replies. I get them. Can we all just be a little more okay with not getting a reply for a few hours or days? Half the auto replies I get are followed a few minutes later by a non-auto reply anyway. Sorry, this is really just me whinging about the post reply-all chirping of my inbox.12 Oct 2023 17:21 +0000at://did:plc:o2cib44jpvtr2d7kh3646cpg/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbl2pzw2y52uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mtfkear.bsky.social/post/3kapomdsmfs2zThese temperatures are shocking and inhumane. //www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/01/texas-prison-extreme-heat-diary?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other01 Oct 2023 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:o2cib44jpvtr2d7kh3646cpg/app.bsky.feed.post/3kapomdsmfs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mtfkear.bsky.social/post/3ka35vl3kmd2fManuel Aalbers is looking for a PhD candidate to work on a Horizon Europe project. The successful candidate would work on the Financial and Fiscal Influences on Housing Inequality in Europe. Link to job posting below. https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60262945?hl=en&lang=en23 Sep 2023 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:o2cib44jpvtr2d7kh3646cpg/app.bsky.feed.post/3ka35vl3kmd2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mtfkear.bsky.social/post/3k7x7zjvae725Just added a few invites to the list and shared the link to the form with the SGDE grad listserv. Looking forward to welcoming more UArizona geog grads! [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Sep 2023 02:37 +0000at://did:plc:o2cib44jpvtr2d7kh3646cpg/app.bsky.feed.post/3k7x7zjvae725https://bsky.app/profile/mtfkear.bsky.social/post/3k67c4xasun2fWhat are some good sources for global data on aggregate asset values? Trying to make a point about the dominance of real property as a store of wealth and site of investment globally. I have a couple citations that will suffice, but would prefer to do a few calculations myself.30 Aug 2023 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:o2cib44jpvtr2d7kh3646cpg/app.bsky.feed.post/3k67c4xasun2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mtfkear.bsky.social/post/3k4b55vdxkr22Summary: The privileging of real property and mortgage markets produces conditions where constrained housing options, semi-formal financial practices and unique tenure forms combine to create and reproduce intersecting forms of vulnerability in the manufactured housing market https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/24694452.2023.2200507?src=&journalCode=raag2106 Aug 2023 03:32 +0000at://did:plc:o2cib44jpvtr2d7kh3646cpg/app.bsky.feed.post/3k4b55vdxkr22