From Palermo, based in Lisbon. Human geography at ICS-ULisboa. Housing, violence, imaginaries, uneven development, semi-periphery.https://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mtjyboxqh22k"Race realism" is shorthand for "nazism", y'all20 Aug 2026 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjyboxqh22khttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mtbef2szc22nBloomsbury sales = Urban Violence for a decent price https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-violence-9781793637321/17 Aug 2026 09:13 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbef2szc22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mt4taygtyk2fThe Arab Palestine Sports Federation was originally founded in 1931 - so much for the bullshit that Palestinians weren't Palestinians before the Brits created Israel. One of a ton of facts and anecdotes in Correia's Une histoire populaire du football (here in PT edition).15 Aug 2026 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt4taygtyk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3msvbzkhfas27Faculties of economics are not just places where wrong, ideological theories of economy and society are taught; they are the key place where the capacity to analyse and understand economy and society is actively unlearned. They should be abolished12 Aug 2026 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvbzkhfas27https://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mr32b6g3nc2lThat time of the year when you can by my oldie-but-goldie for a reasonable price https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-43937-220 Jul 2026 10:06 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr32b6g3nc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mqbp52xar22iEnvironmental warfare in Gaza, book review on @antipodeonline.bsky.social https://antipodeonline.org/2026/06/29/environmental-warfare-in-gaza/10 Jul 2026 08:10 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqbp52xar22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mpnkvru23k2dnell'ultimo (e splendido) volume di Tracce Urbane (curato da Riccardo Montanari e Giacomo Pozzi), la mia recensione di Oltre la città creativa (di Stefania Crobe e Chiara Giubilaro) https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/tracce_urbane/article/view/1957502 Jul 2026 08:01 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpnkvru23k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mpikqzgyis25Rent control is coming back. Finally. And with it all the lies by economists that contradict decades of research by the real experts, housing scholars. Abolish economics faculties30 Jun 2026 08:15 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpikqzgyis25https://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mozgoo7uy22bA fine, a tribute, a ransom: Abolish Rent, by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis, explains rent is just that. Found via the @urbanpolitical.bsky.social https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2496-abolish-rent24 Jun 2026 07:52 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mozgoo7uy22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3moq5yqiwc22tOriginally written for a French audience, Victor Pereira's book is an excellent summary of the PREC and its antecedents. Could had been more explicit in associating the rise of the far right in the present with the banalisation of PREC pushed by self defined progressive forces. #bookinatweet20 Jun 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3moq5yqiwc22thttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mlvhmiugik25"People in Barcelona are being evicted by capitalist intermediaries who argue they have to make revenues for poor nurses in California" - Ismael Yrigoy, lecture at Iscte for the PhD in Political Economy15 May 2026 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvhmiugik25https://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mlvhefzpmk25Caminhamos, também nesta academia. A Rede Academica pela Justiça na Palestina está aberta às subscrições rajap.pt15 May 2026 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvhefzpmk25https://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mlqppobqds23Nice rejoinder by @emilymbender.bsky.social on the #stochasticparrots affair https://medium.com/%40emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d1113 May 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqppobqds23https://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mk7tlpjs2c2nSocial scientists cannot and should not control away that which society has stitched together. Desmond and Western (in Wacquant's Invention of the "Underclass")24 Apr 2026 05:53 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7tlpjs2c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mj3izljukk2zTiphaine Samoyault, Translation and Violence, trans. Alexander Hertich, Princeton University Press, September 2026 (via @stuartelden.bsky.social) https://progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/09/tiphaine-samoyault-translation-and-violence-trans-alexander-hertich-princeton-university-press-september-2026/09 Apr 2026 19:08 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3izljukk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mixzse3zpc23o conflito NovaSBE/UNL é a versão mais extrema de algo mais profundo: 90% da economia é ideologia e 90% das faculdades de economia são lugares de (re)produção ideologica. O caso da habitação em Portugal é asb oludamente revelador: https://www.review-rper.com/index.php/rper/article/view/73708 Apr 2026 09:58 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mixzse3zpc23https://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mileej7xl22tIt's nice being rewarded for work that is as fundamental as obscure. Do your reviews (in time) y'all! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Apr 2026 09:02 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mileej7xl22thttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mhsltgse4s2z"autogestion is a path, a perpetual and perpetually reborn struggle. An attempt at autogestion is something essential and fundamental, since it is the control of living conditions". New EN translation of a 1979 interview with Henri Lefebvre https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/a-line-is-followed-a-strategy-is-constructed-an-interview-with-henri-lefebvre-1979/24 Mar 2026 12:39 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhsltgse4s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mhskstzjfc2zVigiando geografias “criticas” e “radicais” / Watching "critical" and "radical" geographies - Federico Ferretti e Guilherme Ribeiro para @antipodeonline.bsky.social https://antipodeonline.org/2026/03/10/vigiando-geografias-criticas-e-radicais-watching-critical-and-radical-geographies/24 Mar 2026 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhskstzjfc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mhg5juigx22f'There is nothing so very alarming in the terrible phrase, "destruction of property"'. From Matthew Costa's masterwork on how rent - not labour, not capital, not entrepreneurship - gave birth to capitalism19 Mar 2026 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhg5juigx22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mhfep3v2o224Neil Gray, Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy – Common Notions, August 2026. Via @stuartelden.bsky.social https://progressivegeographies.com/2026/03/18/neil-gray-take-over-the-city-spatial-composition-in-italian-autonomy-common-notions-august-2026/19 Mar 2026 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhfep3v2o224https://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mgozp5g5522rit took some time, but the book forum on Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere is now out on Dialogues in Urban Research. Thanks to Angeliki Drongiti, Moises Lino e Silva, @mitede.bsky.social and Gabriel Fauveaud for their generous/critical engagement! journals.sagepub.com/toc/dusa/4/1 https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/dusa/4/110 Mar 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgozp5g5522rhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mftgh4qvik2xthe press says Epstein was "infiltrat[ing] America’s Most Prestigious Universities" to earn "prestige and access"; but nobody notices that those prestigious universities have always been free and safe spaces for (white) elites, irrespective of their competences or ethical standing. 1/2 https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/epstein-used-his-fortune-to-infiltrate-americas-most-prestigious-universities-581cf30c27 Feb 2026 09:45 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mftgh4qvik2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3me2l2vx2tc2fIs it just an impression of mine or geog/urban/planning studies are been flooded of handbooks/companions and the like? Wouldn't be surprised of finding out it's just the latest stratagem of legacy publishers to which we all comply04 Feb 2026 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3me2l2vx2tc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mduzrhppbs2kfighting Trump's necropolitics with the political economy of mass deportation is just a complete failure of political imagination. My two cents for @antipodeonline.bsky.social's interventions https://antipodeonline.org/2026/02/02/necropolitics-meets-liberal-economics/02 Feb 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mduzrhppbs2k