Dr Susanne Soederberg
@soederberg1
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Author of #UrbanDisplacements & #Debtfare States; presenting studying raced & classed spaces of transport infrastructure in urban logistics ecologies
Canada
Joined March 2010
Excited to announce my open-access publication “Towards a radical highway geography: Berlin and the remaking of city logistics in global capitalism”. Available here:
journals.sagepub.com
Highways are vital to global supply chains, enabling the dominant form of circulating goods inland by truck. Within critical economic geography and related disc...
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"Our prosperity is not threatened by migration, but by climate change" Most accurate headline I've read in a long time.
Die Notlage in der Migration ist ein Mythos. Was uns bedroht, ist die Klimakatastrophe. Ganz starker Leitartikel meiner Kollegin @DonatschSereina
https://t.co/1A5oBCqzU4
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Look what just arrived in the post today? Congratulations to @AliBhagat1 on this impressive and timely publication @CornellPress
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Freedom of Speech infringement in Primary and Secondary Schools?
Fascism in Canada: Ontario’s Minister of Education, Stephen Lecce, announces mandatory anti-communism curriculum in schools.
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Smells like #Berufsverbot (= an anti-democratic weapon of the German state) See Gerard Braunthal, "Political Loyalty and Public Service in West Germany," University of Massachusetts Press, 1990 @KaiKodden @rkeil @SilkeTrommer
It is WILD in these German (academic) streets. Absolutely WILD
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Peel Poverty Action Group just released a highly informative and humanizing short video on #homelessness in the Region of Peel (Greater Toronto Area) in 2023. @rkeil @PeelAlliance @soederberg1 @CWP_CSP @ccpa @JimboStanford Worth the 7 minute watch https://t.co/NMiRZi9A3D
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Every scholar should be concerned when UN officials sound an alarm about the state of academic freedom globally when it comes to speaking about Israel and Gaza. Speaking out on Gaza / Israel must be allowed: UN experts
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A big congratulations to @PostitAcademic for writing such a brilliant, multifaceted and thought-provoking book.
This happened! And I am absolutely thrilled. I wish I could go back in time and show this post to the bumbling PhD student who started this work 12 years ago.
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Well said: “Nature is calming for the soul,” he reasoned. “You don’t need a spa for that. You need trees.” #stop_destroying nature for profit @ontarioplace1 @jen_keesmaat @rkeil @envirodefence @soederberg1
https://t.co/bYLC5T781R
thestar.com
Walter Kehm said he could no longer be tied to a project that threatens a decades-old wildlife habitat.
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Nearly 50 years of public policy came together in the Greenbelt. Every step of the way, citizen advocates played a crucial role in shaping the future of our region. Lobbying, advocating, conducting research, disseminating information. Until now. In 1973, Bill Davis protected
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Vienna is doing a better job than most cities with their social housing, but it isn't perfect and it is finite in terms space. As I discussed in my book #Urban Displacements, Vienna housing model has also been based on racial, gendered and class exclusions.
A real model for housing In the Austrian capital Vienna, around 60 per cent of its nearly 2 million residents live in some form of social housing, where they have access to low rents, secure tenure and quality accommodation. https://t.co/Y3P8GJtj0J
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This dark invention of a floating concentration camp is an appalling disgrace. Shame on you UK government. Architects - and all spatial scholars – should flag it as one of the most horrid examples of refugee architecture worldwide https://t.co/QprN9OJ6BH
bbc.co.uk
The barge, set to house 500 asylum seekers, arrives in Portland where it is expected to face protests.
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📚🏆Nominations for the 2023 BISA IPEG Book Prize are now open (for books published in 2022) 📅🕠Deadline is Friday 30 June 📋🗳️Make your nomination here:
docs.google.com
The International Political Economy Group awards a book prize every year for a monograph published in the previous calendar year. The prize is the defining award in IPE, and carries substantial...
🚨📕 Be sure to nominate your favourite IPE book for the 2023 BISA IPEG Book Prize📕🚨 The deadline for nominations is Friday 30 June 2023 at 1700 BST https://t.co/olWOEnFXm8
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Excellent piece on why Ontario (indeed, all) universities need to divest from fossil fuel companies NOW https://t.co/HMZFrzHmPw
@DivestCanada @FacultyDivest @KylaTienhaara @MET_climate @FossilFreeYale
nationalobserver.com
It can leverage its membership in the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance and stop investing in the oil and gas companies that are putting our pensions and our climate at risk.
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A small dent in the "affordable" housing emergency, #Toronto. Re-introduce #rental caps. Build and de-stigmatize #public housing. Finance #co-operative housing. AND, provide affordable/free transit. @davidjmadden @tomslater42 @HelloDouglasY
https://t.co/8OeeIrfp5q
cbc.ca
Toronto councillors endorsed a plan to approve multiplexes across the city, a move some say will help address the city’s growing housing crisis.
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IR Department at Queen's University decolonizing its curriculum and addresses systemic discrimination. Way to go Fikir Haile (not on Twitter) @svhlatky and my awesome IR colleagues!
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