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Potemkin Neoliberalism – new article in print

Potemkin Neoliberalism – new article in print

It’s out in the world! I’m very happy about this paper. While it flows from the same place as my doctoral research, it’s a separate piece that stands on its own. Here, I advance the concept of Potemkin Neoliberalism, exploring various dimensions of superficiality in the articulation of the 2018 Men’s Football World Cup in Russia. Starting from the idea that mega-events are an expression of neoliberal urban entrepreneurialism, I uncover how – unlike many other mega-events – this World…

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The Great Pause, new article in print

The Great Pause, new article in print

So, thanks to the great scholar and my good friend Michael Gentile, I had the opportunity to put some of these pandemic ideas into a quick publication for one my favorite journals: Eurasian Geography and Economics. I’m really happy with this one. It was a quick job with a tight deadline but it was fun to write. And I’m grateful that I was given the chance to use minor theory to try and make sense of these global issues. If…

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Building Urban Studies in Switzerland – GeoAgenda! Done!

Building Urban Studies in Switzerland – GeoAgenda! Done!

It’s out! Please download, read, and share! A pretty massive nationwide effort, all told, and yet we did it! I can’t quite express how grateful I am to all the contributors for getting this done so quickly and so well. It was practically an impossible project, deadline-wise, and yet we did it. So what is this? I contacted (almost) every university in Switzerland in order to solicit short articles, loosely referenced where appropriate, to explain what research on the urban…

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A Publication Project in a Last-Minute Rush

A Publication Project in a Last-Minute Rush

I’m not the kind of person who likes saying no, which I’ve heard is the “most important word in academia.” As I progress on this path, though, I’ve learned to be more judicious about the things I take on, because I don’t want to sacrifice quality in what I do. That’s a tough balance, though, especially at these early career stages where I’m feeling severe pressure to publish a) brilliant stuff, and b) a lot of it… or c) die…

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The Promise and Pitfalls of the 2018 Football World Cup in Russia

The Promise and Pitfalls of the 2018 Football World Cup in Russia

Note: this was originally slated to be a commentary piece for a non peer-reviewed expert journal that shall remain nameless. For reasons I still don’t understand, the editor never wrote me back after commissioning and receiving the piece. I found it again recently during some computer cleanup, and given that it’s over a year past the date they said they would publish – it was aimed for before the 2018 World Cup – I’m going to share the draft here….

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Two exciting developments for urban studies in Switzerland

Two exciting developments for urban studies in Switzerland

I spent the afternoon at the University of Basel at an informal workshop on urban studies pedagogy. The idea of this workshop was to bring together a range of scholars working on the urban in order to exchange ideas about pedagogy. It was a lovely opportunity to meet interesting people and discuss approaches to teaching, which is something that I’d like to concentrate on now that I’ve actually submitted my dissertation. It was organized by the Critical Urbanisms group at…

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