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/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/3mduzrhppbs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mcue3ofds22jthe call for abstract of the 20th Research Conference of @feantsa.bsky.social is up and running, with a list of keynote speakers that includes a quite blatant mistake :D20 Jan 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcue3ofds22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mcgzcvdvos22Economics is fundamentally the practice of making up fake worlds to justify economists' own greed. It should just be abolished (text: Graeber, Debt)15 Jan 2026 07:03 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcgzcvdvos22https://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mcezxm4q2c2fthis monograph on Naples as a touristic city and its "liberated spaces", by Martina Locorotondo, has all the looks of a great book https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-2705-214 Jan 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcezxm4q2c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mbjppq26dk2kour article on the representations of discoveries in Lisbon, in between Expos and shopping centres, is now part of Planning Perspective's SI on International Expos, 1851-2025: Planning, modernity and urbanism https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rppe20/40/603 Jan 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbjppq26dk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mbhcbimyy22uif you are working on that paper that challenges the borders of the theory and geography of financialisation, the special issue of Bitacora Urbano Territorial I am editing with AM Toro and LAS Arreortua is the right place. D/line for full papers: March 20, 2026 https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bitacora/announcement/view/1556 https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bitacora/announcement/view/1556?fbclid=IwdGRzaAPEzt1jbGNrA8TOJWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHvnrqAgtIm2Ub49kihq_ZroKjVaoYqT00sNbVlr4GmmDh4G8jODbMU1M0z8h_aem_WNct1eY9f3opV5f465qdQw&sfnsn=mo02 Jan 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbhcbimyy22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mbg7ctlm4s2aNeurocriminology, creepy shit. Found on @julienlarregue.bsky.social's last book02 Jan 2026 05:52 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbg7ctlm4s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mbbhmdnvj226Important special issue of @scriptanova.bsky.social on the Chicago School of urban sociology, for the 100th anniversary of The Cityhttps://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/ScriptaNova/announcement/view/96931 Dec 2025 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbbhmdnvj226https://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mb2vm77qps2x'the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, which famously states that “all men are created equal,” many of Jefferson’s writings feature the rationalization of the enslavement, displacement, and killing of Black and Indigenous peoples.' https://progressivegeographies.com/2025/12/27/melissa-adler-surveillance-in-the-empire-of-liberty-why-thomas-jefferson-matters-in-our-information-age-bloomsbury-january-2026/28 Dec 2025 17:59 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb2vm77qps2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/simtulum.bsky.social/post/3mb27v76qq22pReading @julienlarregue.bsky.social 's Hereditary (for a project on the role of elite academia in mass incarceration and racist policing). It's a very competent exercise in the history of ideas, erudite but a very easy read. Fantastic book https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/hereditary28 Dec 2025 11:31 +0000at://did:plc:oft3xzftc2pyazxbdrl2tfp2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb27v76qq22p