Joseph Pierce @[email protected]

Urban Geographer. Place, housing, mobilities, justice. Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen. Find me on Mastodon (@[email protected]). he/him

[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

Really great group of collabs: Deb Martin, James DeFilippis, @Olivia_R_Will, @UrbanBionomics, Azi Esfahani.

Also, if you don’t have access, don’t hesitate to reach out!

[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

New article out in @urbgeog:

"I don't think anybody’s ever been to scale."

It is about the interaction between organisational and spatial challenges for community nonprofits when they try to scale up, with a case study of Community Land Trusts.

https://t.co/71ycR7RJFg

[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

As always, if you don’t have institutional access to the article link above, please don’t hesitate to reach out for a copy.

[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

New arti! “Walking as a method for epistemic justice in sustainability,” in @Ambio_journal, w/ H Pearsall and L Campbell.
We argue that walking as a method provides an integrative approach to advance epistemic justice in sustainability research.
https://t.co/WEc8UlL6r3
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[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

Some of you might note that I’m not ‘round these parts as often. Occasionally I pop on to take advantage of the metrics-building project (sigh). Most of my mutterings these days are over the hill, though, where I’ve found I enjoy the pace more:
https://t.co/c1n1LMnkrQ
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[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

This kind of crass self-promotion is precisely the sort of thing that would goad me into logging onto Twitter* in these end times; I hope that everyone is staying safe and finding ways to engage in vigourous self care!

[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

A lovely review from Bob Lake!

“How to Think About Cities offers a far-reaching and valuable contribution to both the established urban scholar and the beginning student confronting the complexity, slipperiness, and opaqueness of cities and the urban.”

https://t.co/F39PtTaZnZ

[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

While I’m here for a second let me just say that while she’s a PhD student at @GeographyUGA now, @edgett_kayla first authored this paper with @khankinsster and I while she was an MA student at GSU. She’s a great collaborator (more shared stuff in the pipe) and she’s going places!

[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

I’m not on this platform much these days, but always willing to pitch a new article: “Whitenesses in the city: a history of making place in Little Five Points, Atlanta, USA” with @edgett_kayla and @khankinsster in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City (see tweet below!)

[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

Great article in the guardian on traffic evaporation from low-traffic neighbourhood installation.

https://t.co/GXgEaBmd05

[Polity @politybooks]

Embracing cities as radically plural – as sites of multiplicity – points us toward thinking about the problems they solve in people’s lives, rather than toward some fabled “one-true-theory” of the logic of the city.

Find out more in Deborah Martin & Joe Pierce’s new book OUT NOW

[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

I guess I should link to this arti on the day that E**n decided that his social network shouldn't allow folks to link to social network activity elsewhere.
My use of this platform has been dropping but I'm still sorry to see it. Find me on M*st*d*n, but a link would be deleted...

[nilay patel @reckless]

(welcome to hell) https://t.co/lIaCYPoNRy

[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

pps - IDK how you'll feel but the difference between 240 and 500 character defaults has been *such* a relief. I know I can get a bit blatherly but still, the slightly longer posts fit my scale of thinking-out-loud better.

[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

Considering #Mastodon?
Thoughts:
- network is smaller/lots of faves aren't there yet;
- interaction model is diff/you'll want time to adjust;
- passive use gets less return at this stage;
- worth it!
Follow hashtags like #Geography #BlackMastodon #Photography etc for discovery!

[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

ps - academic geographers can start with a big leg up discovering folks by leveraging efforts of @RobKitchin, JauneBaguette, and Michal Rzeszewski. Browse a list of folks who've started the move over here:
https://t.co/Y4O6javgIw
or get a file to import:
https://t.co/KxwGJC9McI

[South Baltimore Community Land Trust @BaltimoreSouth]

If this explosion doesn't wake up our leadership to the fact that having an open air coal terminal right next to a Rec Center we are about to rebuild is unacceptable...then we need to evaluate what we mean by our commitments to health and environmental justice.

[La Marr Jurelle Bruce - AFROMANTIC.BSKY.SOCIAL @Afromanticist]

JOB: Asst Prof of BLACK ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES at DePaul University

"Expertise in the impacts of ecological crises and environmental racism on areas such as health, housing, food access, transportation, pollution, community safety, or climate change..."

https://t.co/KluczmTUkb

[Joseph Pierce @[email protected] @drjosephpierce]

@amyue Thanks so much for your contribution to the book, Amy! Definitely it was better for it!