Austin Gage Matheney 🇵🇸

postdoctoral researcher at @icta_uab and @bcnuej

[BCNUEJ @bcnuej]

😓 Our #Rehousin report found that 1 in 4 Spaniards spends 30% of their income on #housing. Coauthored by @GageMatheney @brianrosa and @PKotsila https://t.co/T4qeija6XQ

[elDiario.es @eldiarioes]

Un “esfuerzo excesivo” en la vivienda y pobreza energética: el 40% de hogares destina más del 30% del sueldo al alquiler
https://t.co/l3tF0pAS8y Por @David_Noriega

[BCNUEJ @bcnuej]

📆📢Coming up, Jul 8‼️ @Matina_Kapsali postdoc researcher at @OfficialUoM will talk at @ICTA_UAB about the political and spatial dynamics of grassroots, feminist-oriented infrastructures emerging within migrant communities. Join us online 💻🔗 https://t.co/xoaYN32i03

[Amalia Calderón-Argelich @AmaliaArgelich]

Ahir des del @bcnuej vam visitar l’espai de l’Alzina a Gràcia🌳Un cas de d'(in)justícia ambiental urbana. Les veïnes de l'associació ens van explicar la llarga història de defensa i cura d’aquest jardí i de l’alzina centenària que hi habita.

[Consell Veïnal del Turó de la Rovira @ConsellVeinalTR]

Ara mateix sortim de la reunió amb l'ajuntament sobre el pla estratègic del Park Güell. Les xifres que ens han donat han estat del més insultant que hem sentit en molt de temps, per inverosímils i perverses:

- No hi ha cap mesura per a gestionar el turisme massiu i ordenar-lo.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Just curious to know what the reaction would be if someone bombed virtually every hospital, school and most civilian housing in Israel and then openly planned to implement concentration camps and ethnic cleansing.

Because that’s being done to Gaza and all I hear is… silence.

[Austin Gage Matheney 🇵🇸 @GageMatheney]

my new goal in life is to never propose a concept ever again

[Isabelle Anguelovski @ianguelovski]

Please see our Special Issue call for papers, co-edited with fantastic urban studies colleagues!
https://t.co/0qE4xPny1p

[Austin Gage Matheney 🇵🇸 @GageMatheney]

A few years ago, people seemed to still be intrigued in pursuing a PhD. Now, everyone I talk to says the same thing "why would I take a pay cut to be miserable and precarious and have 0 job security after?" And I gotta say, they are right. Its no way to live a life.

[Isabelle Anguelovski @ianguelovski]

Another transatlantic collaboration on #environmentaljustice. Here we focus on #heatjustice and #heatgentrification, highlighting four pathways that can produce gentrification and displacement in the context of heat resilience planning and investment
https://t.co/kxkTLRIfF0

[Austin Gage Matheney 🇵🇸 @GageMatheney]

as someone once told me, nearly 3 years ago, when I was going to quit my PhD, 'academia is no way to live a life',

[Salvem l'Alzina @SalvemAlzina]

Respecte a les declaracions de la regidora a l'article de Btv, contrastem amb el portal d'informació urbanística de l'Ajuntament: La suposada Plaça de l'Alzina mesuraria ni 1/3 de la plaça de la Virreina o del Diamant

[Manuela Boatcă @ManuelaBoatca]

Join us on Wednesday, 5pm CET for the next lecture in the @DecolonialityN series "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Coloniality & Decoloniality". I'll use lessons from the Caribbean & Transylvania to question & challenge how the nation-state functions as norm of modern statehood.

[PHATT (Plat. d’habitatges afectats dels 3Turons) @Dignitat3Turons]

Avui ens hem trobat amb estudiants del Postgrau en anàlisi i intervenció socioambiental de la UB-UAB per explicar-los les lluites del barri. Hem fet una visita al barri, a la seva història i les resistències històriques i actuals contra el Projecte de Parc dels Tres Turons!❤️‍🔥⛰️

[alberto bougleux @albertobougleux]

The Green Divide, documental sobre injusticia climática en la ciudades verdes de Europa y Norte América se puede ver en @suncinefest y @som3cat , hasta el 23 de noviembre. @bcnuej, @ianguelovski

https://t.co/bRMRLrkoQX
https://t.co/LpEFORPyEt

[Austin Gage Matheney 🇵🇸 @GageMatheney]

Taller a Barcelona organitzat per @bcnuej! Explorarem com les investigacions compromeses poden impulsar la transformació ecosocial. Uneix-te a nosaltres per debatre enfocaments, límits i aliances per al canvi des de baix.
📅 27/11, 19h @AEnciclopedic
🔗 https://t.co/5fxQ529yvi

[Teresa Sanz @te_sanz]

¡Nueva temporada en diciembre!
🔜‘Esta sensación de olvido’, una reflexión sobre la memoria de los pueblos sumergidos en los embalses https://t.co/3EXXLibdAk

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[BCNUEJ @bcnuej]

‼️New study 🔽🧵Understanding how women and non-binary people have used and perceived public green and blue spaces (PGBS) during the pandemic can help identify new types of #gender and environmental #inequalities in #cities⚧️ 🏙️ https://t.co/lGc4oNABVv