Fraser William Curry

PhD candidate @KingsIntDev @KCLgeography

Research housing, property, political ecology, race and capitalism in and beyond London

[Fraser William Curry @FraserWC]

It was such an immense privilege to share the stage with @melnowicki and @K_Brickell presenting @DebtUrbanism research for the Social and Cultural Geog Journal keynote

Huge thank you @davidbissell for being such a wonderful chair

Amazing 3 days at #RGSIBG24

[KCL Urban Futures @KCLUrbanFutures]

Shout out to PhD researcher @FraserWC who took to the #RGSIBG24 stage to give his first keynote - cool as a 🥒!

Thanks @lissdtp for funding his research internship with @DebtUrbanism study, carrying out national policy & FOI analysis of housing allocation rules regarding debt

[Aya Nassar @A_M_Nassar]

As far as labours of love go, this tops almost everything I have written (5 years in the making) and doesn’t do even a half measured justice to its sources of inspiration.
If anything it is, primarily,a homage to the poetic company of @Imanmersal’s work.

https://t.co/WPMnZIaVP6

[King's Global Affairs @Kings_SGA]

🏠 In Dakar, gardiens live in and protect homes under construction, often for the cities diaspora building from abroad.
They’re vital to the city’s rhythm, yet invisible in policy.
🔍 Fraser Curry explores this hidden infrastructure in our latest blog:
👉 https://t.co/N0YjIsBzND

[Rafeef Ziadah @RafeefZiadah]

Just out in @DevandChg — my article "Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’".
It argues that Gaza’s devastation and supposed “reconstruction” plans are not ruptures but part of a long settler-colonial project of erasure.
https://t.co/nwVfUspsoT

[ISA-RC21 @ISA_RC21]

Call for Abstracts – IJURR Symposium on Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question. Deadline: August 22, 2025. Submissions and questions can be sent to: [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]. #urban #sociology

[LSE Geography & Environment @LSEGeography]

👏 Congratulations to MSc Urbanisation and Development alumnus, @FraserWC, on the publication of his paper "Entangled lives: Land, property and guardianship in a changing Dakar", based on his LSE dissertation research.

🔴 https://t.co/jF1CUxOT9d

[Fraser William Curry @FraserWC]

@_umaraf @SocietyandSpace Cheers Umar! Can’t wait to hear what you think!

[Fraser William Curry @FraserWC]

‼️It's out‼️

My new paper on land, property, and guardianship in Dakar, Senegal just published in @SocietyandSpace 🚨

It's my first solo-authored paper and one I've thought about for a long time

So happy to finally share it!

https://t.co/Up4vsiks1C

[Fraser William Curry @FraserWC]

I argue entanglement illuminates different registers of agency and prompts us to reconsider the politics and possibilities of life in the interstices of property.

Thanks to @KCLUrbanFutures for helping me get this over the line!

[Fraser William Curry @FraserWC]

The article follows the lives of three gardiens (property guardians) I came to know, living in the unfinished diaspora-built homes of Ouakam, Dakar

I develop the notion of entanglement to show how gardiens re-work property relations as a means of holding their place in the city

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Today we remember Gurdip Singh Chaggar, an 18-year-old student, stabbed to death in 1976 by racists in Southall.

National Front leader Kingsley Read responded to the murder by saying: ‘One down, a million to go’

Between 1976-1985, there were 35 racist murders in Britain. 🧵

[umar 🇵🇸 @_umaraf]

New article from one of my PhD chapters is now out in @antipodeonline. Here I propose the notion of the ‘spectacular fix’ to describe how Indonesia’s new capital city is mobilised by the state. @kclgeography https://t.co/stbl2pxqnl

[Prof Katherine Brickell @K_Brickell]

📢Launching our new research project "Sensory Lives: Neurodiverse Children and Families in Temporary Accommodation" supported by @LeverhulmeTrust at @KCLUrbanFutures, @KingsCollegeLon with Rosalie Warnock

Check out our website with accessibility plug-in: https://t.co/ErPPhHBY9M

[EALING.NEWS @_EalingNews]

Opinion: Angela Fonso, a parent and @SPBDcampaign Safer Play, Better Day campaign member writes about her concerns over @EalingCouncil Ealing Council’s proposals to close children’s centres in Southall and across the borough.
https://t.co/nQ2wlwmxje

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

Councils spend £1.6bn a year on 'temporary accommodation' for homeless families - which includes some of the worst housing conditions in the country.

But who is getting the money? A joint investigation between me, @Victoria_Spratt and @StephenD_ tried to provide an answer...

[Prof Katherine Brickell @K_Brickell]

Important new paper by @elaraks on housing and mould in Progress in Environmental Geography.

Please share!

Elara is a @KingsCollegeLon @lissdtp doctoral researcher with me and @PhilHubbard1 in Geography

https://t.co/R3XYG8uvno

[Katie Meehan @meehanmonster]

New paper! 📣 We find that household access to running water is getting worse -- not better -- in some of the most affluent and expensive US metros, published today in Nature Cities.

Link to full article:
https://t.co/lRPAMMzocE

[Elara Shurety @elaraks]

So excited to share the first paper from my PhD!

This new #openaccess paper in @progenvgeog examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould

https://t.co/NDXPRhT2Sg

[Tim White @timwhite100]

New special issue on ‘Housing Disruptions’ critically examining the digital transformation of housing and home. Edited by @DallasRogers101, @SophiaMaalsen and myself in Digital Geography and Society. Contributions as follows:

[LSE Geography & Environment @LSEGeography]

New episode | Displacement Urbanism podcast 🎙️

Romola Sanyal & @deensharp talk about how cities & conflicts continuously reshape each other. They talk about the technologies & materials of urban conflict and the consequences for urban displacement.

https://t.co/c2XP2o5f9O

[Nick Bernards @BernardsNick]

The biggest lessons are that fascism is not, in fact, exceptional, but very much a constant presence in mainstream politics in the postcolonial world, and that liberal politics in practice are ill-equipped to deal with any of our many crises, and often every bit as brutal.